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- 1 I Have a Wish Pool 我有一个祈愿池 Original stories set across the myriad worlds. Stories set in sensitive eras will include fanfiction elements, so please don't read if that's not your thing. (One-man cultivation + no female lead + normal values) As a transmigrator reborn in another world, Zong Yan's brilliant life plans hadn't even begun before news of his terminal illness brought them to a halt. Luckily, he still had a golden finger to rely on. So, in pursuit of a longer lifespan, he began transmigrating through different plan 0Votes17.4kRecs39.4kFans
- 2 A Portal to History: I Report It to the Nation 传送门通历史，我上报国家 I once sat atop the Himalayas, gazing out at snow-capped peaks while eating spicy hot pot. I’ve also explored ancient historical ruins deep in the Sahara Desert, sipping ice-cold cola as I went. I can leap from a mountaintop without wearing any equipment, then, at the very last second before I hit the ground, open a door to turn my fall into a climb and return to halfway up the mountain. I’ve even dared to sail a canoe across the entire Pacific, charging through wind, rain, and thunder. And now, 0Votes21.5kRecs183.9kFans
- 3 I Just Want to Deliver Packages, So Why Are You Making Me Enlist? 我只想送快递，你非让我入编？ The client's project requirements: a long-endurance, heavy-payload drone, preferably one that can drop parcels right onto customers' heads. Chen Chen brought out a drone with a range of 2,000 kilometers and a payload capacity of 2.8 tons, naming it the Twin-Tailed Scorpion. On the day the project was delivered, the client saw the military standing beside the aircraft with a bucket of paint and stared in confusion. “But this is my delivery drone.” “Right, and we want to use it for deliveries too. 0Votes40.5kRecs270.8kFans
- 4 Writing Myths 编写神话 Before I came, this realm had no immortals, this land had no gods. After I came, myriad immortals paid court, and the gods returned to their places. The River Earl commands his water palace, while mountain spirits ride leopards on patrol; Buddhist disciples brave the mortal world to overcome tribulations, while Daoist masters spread their teachings in a troubled age; Three Azure Birds guard the Kunlun Pillar of Heaven, while the Nine-Plumed Phoenix watches over the immortal gate of Penglai; 0Votes25.7kRecs100.5kFans
- 5 The Holy Church Begins with Bestowal of Blessings 圣堂教会从赐福开始 People cannot live without faith. But here, faith has become a way for the nobility to exploit the commoners, and churches have become places where nobles seize power. Unnameable beings have severed the past from history. Unfathomable mysteries devour souls, while unknown wills twist the will of all living things. Korion came to this world, accompanied only by a mass of light capable of nurturing commandments. His enemies call him a demon who harvests souls in the name of faith. His followers ca 0Votes18.5kRecs77.1kFans
- 6 From the Start, I Had a Photographic Memory and Built a Memory Palace 开局过目不忘，铸造记忆宫殿 Photographic memory → memory palace → spiritual sea of consciousness → inner world... After transmigrating, Wu Wen discovers that he has no special abilities, except for a photographic memory. He uses the memory palace technique to develop this talent in depth. Then, by studying the I Ching, the Eight Trigrams, divination arts, and more, he draws on their logical principles to develop a super-brain, awaken his spiritual sea of consciousness, and build an inner world. As a diviner, he opens his e 0Votes49.6kRecs141kFans
- 7 EN Lurking as the Tree Ancestor in the End-Dharma Blessed Land 苟在末法福地当树祖 New book launch! 1980: Starting Out as a Well-Connected Farmhand Blessed lands nurture immortals; grotto-heavens give rise to true lords. I possess a spiritual root. How could I not seek eternal life? Yu An never imagined that simply returning home to pay respects to his ancestors would transmigrate him to a cultivation world in the Age of Dharma Decline, where he becomes a rare elm tree. Every winter, this world is swept by the Black-Taint Wind Disaster, which destroys everything like the 1Votes49.8kRecs223.9kFans
- 8 I Have a Notebook of Strange Tales 我有怪谈笔记 [This is a notebook that records strange tales] [Anyone who writes anything in this notebook will enter into a contract with it] [The contract will not expire unless the signer dies] [After signing the contract, the signer can use any pen to write a strange tale in the notebook, and whatever they write will come true] [There is only one price for signing the contract: every remaining year of the signer's life] A mysterious notebook, an uncanny tale. Humanity's yearning to explore the unknown wil 0Votes28.8kRecs68.5kFans
- 9 I Become the Cult Leader of the Underworld 我在黄泉当教主 Wu Lang, an ordinary office worker, transmigrated to the prehistoric era of the xianxia game The Underworld's Ghostly Bailiff. In the First Yellow Springs Demon Sect, he had no choice but to pose as a sage to survive. Using the silly, hilarious techniques devised by players in later generations, he educated the masses, took on disciple after disciple, and taught the world cultivation techniques, ushering in a new era. And so, the cultivation world was swept up in a bizarre new trend. 1Votes54kRecs115.9kFans
- 10 Starting as the Female Protagonist in Dragon Raja 从龙族开始的女主之路 I transmigrated, but things seem a little different from what I imagined. Staring at the petite girl in the mirror, Mu Qingzhi fell silent for quite some time. “...System.” [Here.] “Aren’t you going to explain?” [If you can’t be the protagonist, become the heroine. Keep it up, Host.] “...” ...Question: How do you become the heroine in Dragon Raja? [Dragon Raja], [Shakugan no Shana], [Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s (recommend skipping)], [Naruto (ongoing)] 2Votes67.6kRecs221.4kFans
- 11 EN Virtual Empire Begins with a Game 虚拟帝国从游戏开始 What's the biggest obstacle standing between a company on the verge of bankruptcy and greatness? “Regulators, obviously! Where do they get so many regulators?” Xu Meng is close to losing it. “What's wrong with dressing female characters sexily? Game characters have the freedom to choose what they wear!” “The war simulator is a safe gaming peripheral. Players breaking bones is purely an accident, and we even include accidental injury insurance.” “The Dream Machine is a game console, an entertainm 2Votes88.6kRecs352.8kFans
- 12 My Salvation Game Became Reality 我的救世游戏成真了 Shadows quietly fall over the world, and unseen horrors spread among the people. The world seems to be plunging into an abyss. Fang You can only stay cooped up at home to survive, until he gets a game that can save the world. From then on, he recruits Apostles, builds a base, and expands his organization. Then one day, when the world-saving organization, Kindling, emerges into the open... The world is left stunned. The author has completed two acclaimed novels: From Contracting Spirits and My D 0Votes125.7kRecs527.5kFans
- 13 This World Is on the Brink of Collapse 这个世界，危在旦夕 If playing games in front of a computer is all it takes to save the world... Then I can do it too! 0Votes55.4kRecs182.3kFans
- 14 EN Human Brain Ranch 人类大脑牧场 Zhu Zhengwei discovered that he could see other people's dreams. He soon realized that the human brain was as deep and vast as the stars and sea. The shallow layers of the cerebral cortex, the conscious mind, were like a storm: strange, bizarre, and fantastical. The deep mind held the secrets of humanity's ancestral genes, a vast, mysterious treasure trove. So he used human brains as cloud servers, building an enormous dream world within the deep mind and simulating the development of one extrao 0Votes65.9kRecs154.9kFans
- 15 EN Movie Savior 电影救世主 We took the helm during a 2,500-year voyage of wandering across Earth; we piloted mechs in a world invaded by monsters; we saved humanity in a world ravaged by viruses; we rebuilt a sanctuary in a city devastated by a zombie outbreak; we recovered civilization from the wilderness left behind by raging natural disasters... Amid the boundless ocean, Zhang Tianyuan acquired an island and became one of the players in a game of lordship. Looking at his own base, which could open portals to movie worl 1Votes84.9kRecs705.6kFans
- 16 My Hair Can Create a Demon Kingdom 我的头发能创造妖国 Fu Qingjun discovered that countless civilizations could grow from his hair. And so, the myths began. He crossed endless shadows and whispers, lurking among malevolent abominations. He began to transform into the most terrifying evil god in the castle beyond the mist. The knowledge disaster he brought spread across countless dimensions. He often traded people's hairlines for forbidden knowledge... It was an unprecedented natural disaster! The balding were all powerful. Their ancient stories were 0Votes138.9kRecs209.5kFans
- 17 EN I Am the Master Soul in the Soul Banner 我在尊魂幡里当主魂 After transmigrating into the world of immortal cultivation, I was refined by a demonic cultivator into a Soul-Summoning Banner. All I want is to find a reliable banner master and wait for him to take me to immortality. So I strive to improve myself, learn techniques and train my supernatural abilities, doing my duty as the old grandpa in his mind and hoping my banner master can keep his head down long enough to ascend. But in the world of immortal cultivation, nobody can keep their head down fo 0Votes296.6kRecs527.3kFans
- 18 EN God Simulator 神明模拟器 Lu Yao accidentally stumbles into a pixel game in which he plays a deity, only to discover that the game is connected to worlds in different dimensions. The game's [sacrifices] can enter reality, while the [blessings] he grants can also reach the game world. As an apprentice deity, there is not much he can do beyond creating various natural disasters. Until he grits his teeth and revives a supermodel apostle. The rules of the game undergo a slight change... (The new book, "Wasteland Development 15Votes215.3kRecs932.1kFans
- 19 EN This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms 这个地下城长蘑菇了 “A wondrous soul stolen away, a hero’s power, and a classic tragic start as the catalyst!” “And with that, a savior is born... Holy crap, why did a mushroom fall in there!?” Lin Jun somehow transmigrated into a mushroom and found herself trapped from the start in the depths of a dungeon, surrounded by all kinds of monsters. With no hands, feet, or eyes, she survives only thanks to a cheat that lets her break down corpses and steal their skills. She even carved out a mushroom garden in the dunge 397Votes668.8kRecs1.7MFans
- 20 EN Becoming a Weird Tale Counts as Success 成为怪谈就算成功 Urban legends are uncanny things that feed on cognition, wield information as weapons, and use data as currency. They are neither living nor dead, existing in human rumors and dwelling in the shadows of the world. “So this means I’ll become an urban legend?” In ancient times, they were worshipped as gods, growing stronger through faith. “Then I’ll be a god!” In more recent times, they were feared as demons, nourished by fear. “I’ll become the Lord of Urban Legends!” But swept along by the tides 0Votes212.8kRecs675.3kFans
- 21 EN Dying to Replace the Living 死而替生 At the end of his rope, on the brink of death and despair, Le Yu shouted: “If you’ve got the guts, kill me.” His enemy sneered: “I’ve never heard such a strange request.” Le Yu died. Then Le Yu came back to life, inside his enemy’s body. This is the story of a man who possesses whoever kills him. “Why are all the people who kill me cunning, notorious warlords and geniuses, with complicated backgrounds, a million quest lines, and lives that could end at any moment?” “Can’t some honest, down-to-ea 4Votes430.2kRecs409.4kFans
- 22 Creating a Game World 创造游戏世界 He gains the ability to create virtual game worlds. Expanding a game world’s map requires devouring other worlds. And so, worlds across the universe meet the most greedy, cunning, and terrifying beings in their history: players. 0Votes758.6kRecs618.5kFans
- 23 My Autobiography Can't Possibly Be a Tragedy 我写的自传不可能是悲剧 After reading his own autobiography for the first time, Meng Lang let out a long sigh. “My life shouldn’t have turned out like this...” After reading it for the Nth time: “My life is only this?” After reading it for the 100*Nth time: “This world... should be like this!” [A literary young man’s lighthearted daily life as he saves the world] My completed, 2.2-million-word novel Super Mothership is also available. Give it a read! 3Votes453.8kRecs729.8kFans
- 24 I Am God! 我就是神！ Five hundred million years ago. The Cambrian Period. Yin Shen descended upon the most ancient wilderness and primordial oceans. He was the beginning of all things. He created life and intelligence, the Creator of all living beings. As time passed, stories became epics, epics became myths, and in the end, even myths were buried by the ages. Only the divine is eternal. 23Votes2.7MRecs1.7MFans
- 25 A Biologist’s Alchemy Journal 生物炼金手记 A dragon is made of a deer’s antlers, a tiger’s eyes, a horse’s teeth, an ox’s ears, a serpent’s body, carp scales, a tiger’s paws, an eagle’s talons, and a loach’s tail. A qilin is made of a lion’s head, deer antlers, tiger eyes, a moose’s body, dragon scales, and an ox’s tail. A phoenix has a goose’s forehead, fish scales on its back, a serpent’s neck, a fish’s tail, a stork’s throat, a mandarin duck’s thoughts, dragon pa 0Votes140.1kRecs153.5kFans
- 26 Game of the World Tree 世界树的游戏 The most popular NPC in the virtual reality game Elven Kingdom is the avatar of the World Tree, Mother Nature, Goddess of Life, and ruler of the elves: Eve Yggdrasil sits high upon her divine throne, smiling down at the players below. “Welcome to the world of swords and magic.” This is the story of a transmigrator reborn as a true god who joins forces with the Fourth Calamity to build a wonderful life in another world (seriously)... P.S. Not DND, or at least not really. Behind-the-scenes player 8Votes817.3kRecs899.7kFans
- 27 EN Rebirth of the Dominator 重生支配者 He becomes the master of the world and brings about a spiritual qi revival across the entire planet. Using all living beings as pieces on a chessboard, he forges a path to immortality. (Disciples must show their fan status to join. A screenshot is required, and fan status from the author's older books is also accepted.) 0Votes382.8kRecs382.1kFans
- 28 EN I Am the Mastermind Behind the Scenes 我是幕后大佬 Lu Wu, who inherited the legacy of an ancient ancestor from another world, has been feeling troubled lately. Aside from the empty title of Prefect, his ancestor left him nothing. Even his former subordinates betrayed him and divided up the territory that should have been his. In this situation, Lu Wu uses an artifact developed by his ancestor to build a game server, bring players from the mortal world into his realm, and create main quests, dungeons, storylines, NPCs, and more. With the players’ 0Votes448.9kRecs658.2kFans
- 29 Dream Makers of Ten Thousand Worlds 万界圆梦师 Client: “I want to get Bu Jingyun’s Kylin Arm.” Dream Maker: “No problem. Your dream is my mission. Even if it means making the whole world our enemy, we’ll help you make it come true.” Client: “But I don’t want to make the whole world my enemy.” Dream Maker: “We’ll help you…” … Top Dream Maker Li Xiaobai solemnly reminds everyone: Your dreams are more important than your life, so never make a wish lightly. What if it comes true one day? This is the story of an emotionless wishing machine that 25Votes785.2kRecs976.6kFans
- 30 The Mirror Legacy 玄鉴仙族 Lu Jiangxian stayed up all night and died suddenly, but his lingering soul attached itself to a blue-gray bronze mirror covered in cracks. The mirror drifted into a vast, boundless world of immortal cultivation. In the perilous and unpredictable Dali Mountains, beside the Mei Chi River, a small village sat in the shadow of a minor clan. When the clan came across the mirror, it began passing down the path of immortality and teaching its arts, ushering in a magnificent new era. (A family’s cultiva 22.9kVotes7.2MRecs21.2MFans
- 31 EN Raising Humanity 饲养全人类 In the tribal farming age, the world was vast and unknown. As they explored, the ancients made a horrifying discovery: the world was shaped like a dome over a flat earth. Miracles of all kinds descended from the heavens. Towering giants tens of thousands of feet tall appeared, along with mysterious, intelligent behemoths that trampled mountains and shattered the earth. Hundreds of years later, after battling the giant beasts in this perilous world, humanity finally established the splendid civil 18Votes1MRecs1.1MFans
- 32 I’ve Been Put on Autopilot by the System 我被系统托管了 He had a System, but no body. Fang Ning, a chronic procrastinator in the final stages of his condition, began his journey of self-redemption (scraping by to survive). If you have any feedback for the author, please join the group. 0Votes634.3kRecs515.7kFans
- 33 EN This Game Is Too Realistic 这游戏也太真实了 This game is way too realistic! Hauling bricks, running errands, picking up trash, delivering packages... At most, a company can make you experience the hardships of working 996. Here, you can experience 007 on super speed. All right, enough talk. The great Administrator has called me to haul bricks. The Administrator says that as long as we work hard and offer up our livers, next month he can get himself another brand-new set of power armor. Then he’ll take us to explore a whole new map, where 467Votes4.9MRecs9.4MFans
- 34 EN The Infinite Fun of Little Worlds 小世界其乐无穷 The extraordinary shattered the world’s silence, and the course of technological progress took a turn. As humanity searched for a path to evolution in the darkness, I became its pioneer. This is the story of a player messing with the world. Small worlds are endlessly entertaining. 12Votes1.3MRecs1.2MFans
- 35 Reborn in the Wild Era 重生野性时代 Back from 2018 to 1993. In my memory, that summer was scorching hot. 1Votes3.1MRecs1.1MFans
- 36 EN Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
- 37 Back to the Past as a Cat 回到过去变成猫 At the gate of the East Family Housing Compound at Chu Hua University, the gatekeeper uncle answered a phone call, then threw open the window and roared toward the nearby grove in a booming voice: “Black Charcoal, your mom’s calling you home for dinner!” Whoosh! A black cat shot out of the dense grass at the edge of the grove and raced toward one of the buildings, disappearing into the entrance in the blink of an eye. After it, one cat head after another poked up from the grass. It was mealtime: 60Votes1.2MRecs1.1MFans
- 38 EN The Legendary Mechanic 超神机械师 Han Xiao, a veteran power-leveling player in Stellar Sea, was thrown into the transmigration crowd by a mysterious force from the East, or rather, from a certain otaku. With a player interface in tow, he became an NPC and returned to the days before Stellar Sea's open beta. He resolutely chose the highest-difficulty class: Mechanic. Warships sail in formation across the stars, star-powered mechs twist through the heavens like dragons, psychic cannons lay waste to worlds, and an endless mechanica 434Votes9.2MRecs5.5MFans
- 39 Release That Witch 放开那个女巫 Cheng Yan thought he had transmigrated to medieval Europe and become a glorious prince. But this world doesn't seem quite like the one he imagined. Witches really exist, and they actually have magic? A witch-farming story, taking farming all the way. 549Votes7.3MRecs6.2MFans
