Novels like The Azure Immortal Seeks the Dao
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- 1 After Wrap, I Awakened Superpowers 杀青后，我觉醒了超能力 A savior who can’t act is no good superhuman. If I bankroll a production and rewrite the script, does that make me a scene-stealer? That’s just a father’s love~ After refusing to play along with the entertainment industry’s unspoken rules, Sheng Yixia could no longer find work. He was about to be forced home to inherit a fortune worth billions when, after breaking up with his girlfriend, he awakened a System that let him “draw superpower cards for a role after filming wraps.” From then on, he to 0Votes114.9kRecs292.6kFans
- 2 A Solo Game in the Northern and Southern Dynasties 单机南北朝 In the first year of the Shen Gui era of Northern Wei, twenty years after Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang. Later generations know only that “the Southern Dynasties had four hundred and eighty temples,” but few realize that Luoyang, the divine capital of the Northern Dynasties, was also filled with the sound of Buddhist chants and temples at every turn. Su Ze transmigrated into a Han Chinese soldier in the Imperial Guard and awakened a single-player System. He knew that behind Luoyan 0Votes51.7kRecs147kFans
- 3 A Vast Immortal Realm 仙寥 The quest for the Dao burns like a flame, and life is its fuel. One's nature is the kindling, never to be extinguished. A treatise titled The Master of Nurturing Life brings Zhou Qing into a fantastical world of immortals and chivalry. From then on, he seeks only to escape the Three Realms and the Five Elements, becoming a being free from every shackle. 0Votes75.6kRecs540.8kFans
- 4 The Abyssal Park Doesn't Keep Idlers 深渊乐园不养闲人 One day, Su Qi suddenly discovered that he could see Easter eggs. Not only could he obtain information, he could also earn hidden rewards by performing special actions. While everyone else was dodging a vengeful ghost, Su Qi had already set up a candlelit dinner and was chatting with her like an old friend. [Obtained her husband's hat. When thrown, it automatically targets enemies and deals psychic damage] When zombies flooded the streets and everyone else was still holding axes and kitchen kniv 0Votes66.7kRecs516kFans
- 5 Curses of the Mountains and Seas 咒禁山海 In the twenty-eighth year of Zhizheng, the emperor ascended the throne and issued an edict: No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! In the fourth year of Xiaokang, a ghost coffin in the Zhuo River leaped up the Dragon Gate, taking every corpse diver in the river with it. In the eighth year of Xuande, the treasure fleet returned to Liujiagang, but not a single person was aboard... Open the history books, and the waterways of the world, along with the vast eas 6Votes120.2kRecs297.7kFans
- 6 EN Lazing Through the Heavens to Become an Emperor 人在诸天，摆烂成帝 A temporal displacement. Lin Xian, who was supposed to go to the world of The Outcast, is taken by the System to the universe of Shrouding the Heavens. Faced with the vast gulf in power between the two worlds, low-level System 10086 is utterly despairing. Lin Xian gives a mysterious smile and asks, “Want to slack off together and fleece the main System?” System 10086 jolts, then says solemnly, “Tell me more.” Lin Xian points at Ye Fan and says meaningfully, “Stick with Master Ye and we’re guaran 5Votes171.5kRecs703.7kFans
- 7 EN Wasteland of the Otherworld 异度荒尘 In this otherworld, the top of the food chain is nowhere to be seen. People are no more than grains of sand in a desert. 3Votes320.1kRecs677.5kFans
- 8 A Hundred Years of Leatherworking Made Me a Demon Sect Magnate 制皮百年，我成了魔门巨头 Reborn in an immortal-and-demonic world where the righteous and demonic paths vie for supremacy, Song Yan was abducted into the Puppet Sect of the Demon Sect. Because of his lack of talent, he was assigned to be a leatherworking servant. The Way of Puppetry is broad and profound: shadow puppets, paper puppets, blood-corpse puppets. Song Yan must follow the formal disciples’ requirements and create suitable shadow-puppet people, shadow-puppet beasts, and even shadow-puppet buildings. While workin 2Votes112.8kRecs615.9kFans
- 9 Picking the Day to Become Famous 择日走红 From 375 first-month sales to over 10,000 average monthly subscriptions! - He transmigrates into the body of a washed-up idol who debuted at just fifteen, and is still a high school senior. His unscrupulous agent forces him to quit the entertainment industry. No work means no income. His most pressing task after transmigrating is, unexpectedly, to figure out how to feed himself. But without a System or a golden finger, how can he recreate a miracle with nothing but his own limited memories? No b 0Votes297.2kRecs669.7kFans
- 10 I Have to Get Lucky Right Now 我必须立刻撞大运 My name is Feng Xue. I transmigrated, there's writing over my head, and I have sixty days left to live... At first, I didn't panic. Every effect must have a cause, and if my life was short, there had to be a way to extend it. I went online to look, but nothing was spelled out directly. Crookedly and slantwise, every page seemed to say “slice-of-life world.” I tossed and turned, unable to sleep. After staring at it all night, I finally read between the lines: the whole thing was screaming two wor 0Votes168.9kRecs280.4kFans
- 11 Reborn in 2008: The Gear-Type God of War 重生08：装备系男神 Zhai Da is reborn in 2008, back at a high school in a small town, and awakens the [Life Equipment System]. Powerful emotions, obsessions, and states of mind can seep into objects. Zhai Da can imbue special items with life and turn them into equipment for his own use. Best of all, equipment can be combined over and over again! Its rarity can be increased, and eventually he can even collect a [Set]. [Old Man's Television]: The shows it plays are addictive? Zhai Da whips out study materials instead 0Votes269.9kRecs477.3kFans
- 12 EN I Am a Puddle of Demonic Cultivation 我是一摊魔修 Tan Shuchang had always considered himself a scion of a scholarly family. Having passed the imperial examinations at a young age, he was a bona fide member of the bloodsucking elite class, someone who should have held immense local power, received more gifts than he could accept, spent more money than he could use, celebrated more New Years than he could count, and taken more concubines than he could accommodate. How had he somehow ended up becoming a demonic cultivator? After thinking about it 0Votes42.3kRecs411.4kFans
- 13 EN Martial Saint! 武圣！ Mysteries and the supernatural have never left this world. Those who break the shackles of life with bodies tempered through a thousand trials and an indomitable will, pursuing the limits of humanity in modern cities, are known as martial artists! Beneath neon lights, blades clash. Atop towering skyscrapers, fists meet in friendship. Across the great mountains, heroes debate the Dao. Here, martial arts masters who have broken the “seven limits of the human body” carve out names like those of god 27Votes278.4kRecs927.5kFans
- 14 The Lawful Tyrant 守序暴君 “I stand at the pinnacle of the universe thanks entirely to my own immense willpower and wisdom!” “How does that not count? How can you say it doesn’t?” “I’m just enjoying the results of cultivation first and making up for the process afterward. How is that not relying on myself?” … Beneath the boundless starry universe, countless races fought without end, and the flames of war never died down. He had risen from humble beginnings, with no exceptional talent. He could simply borrow against the r 0Votes142.7kRecs787.4kFans
- 15 EN Shrouding the Heavens: Beginning Dao Proving from the Ancient Era 遮天：从太古证道开始 Chen Zhao transmigrated to the Primordial Era of Shrouding the Heavens, an age when the Primordial Myriad Races were rising. With the defiant Chaos Body, he sought to prove the Dao, rose to power, and shook the Primordial Era. I’m in Shrouding the Heavens, and I’ve just survived a tribulation. The Carefree Heavenly Venerate has reappeared and wants to possess me and take my place. Help! 0Votes93.5kRecs335.3kFans
- 16 The Netherworld Skin-Painting Scroll 幽冥画皮卷 The print edition has been published. It is titled Formless and available from platforms such as Qidian and JD.com. Generally speaking, Li Wuxiang gives himself a little maintenance every six months or every five thousand li. The main jobs are tending to his outer layer and renovating his internal organs, with a little fatty fluid added if necessary. When applying a new skin, he has to be careful with the materials. Otherwise, in extreme weather, it might peel or de 171Votes229.8kRecs401.3kFans
- 17 EN Dimension Paradise: I Am the Summoning Apostle 维度乐园，我是召唤系使徒 “The Dimensional Paradise is kind and generous. Its punishments are gentle as water, while erasure and forced execution are rare.” “But here's the bad news: the opposing factions are full of high-pressure lunatics teetering on the brink of death.” “As a summoner, it's only reasonable for me to sell everything I own to raise a few big daddies to protect me.” Chu Danqing thinks that apart from being so broke his pockets are cleaner than his face, he's actually doing pretty well. … Walking through 80Votes212.2kRecs442.5kFans
- 18 Literary Genius: This Kid Was Born Smart 文豪：这孩子打小就聪明 [Campus novel about literary copying plus a lighthearted daily life] "You fail math, physics, and chemistry, so getting into college will be difficult. Look at the kid next door, Xiao Lu. He was smart from childhood. His math, physics, and chemistry were poor too, yet he still got into Peking University after taking some Beipei Cup recommendation exam. Why don't you give it a try?" "Mom, Gu Lu is a famous author. He wrote all those bestselling books, like Flatland, The Miracles of the Namiya Gen 3Votes156.4kRecs562kFans
- 19 The All-Around Painter 全能大画家 “He is the highest-paid illustrator of all time, and the reason children fall in love with art!”, The New York Times. “East and West in perfect harmony, drawing on the strengths of many traditions. He is the most brilliant graduate in the two-century history of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.”, President Martin Köttering. “We have seen countless artists become overnight sensations here... Tonight, another newcomer will join the ranks of these great names.”, Venice International Art Biennale 12Votes213kRecs278.3kFans
- 20 EN Super-Dimensional Player 超维度玩家 [Capturing a Human Avatar] [Infiltrating the reality universe...] [Infringing upon the root laws of the world!... Detecting higher-dimensional life forms!... No life forms from other dimensions detected...] [Loading human avatar!] You are a player who can transmigrate beyond all dimensions, wielding authority almost like God's illegitimate child. You have countless identities: beggar, lowborn, pirate, gladiator, ranger, northern dragon, infernal executioner, interstellar wanderer, monster hunter 3Votes295.6kRecs705.7kFans
- 21 EN Starry Sky Professionals 星空职业者 In Year One of the Starry Sky Calendar, humanity entered the interstellar age. Space migration, starships, alien races, outer gods… They arrived one after another. In Year 717 of the Starry Sky Calendar, Fang Xing gazed at the dense army of alien races beneath the cosmic backdrop. “Whatever you’ve got, alien armies, cultivators, tentacles, cults, outer gods, I’ll cow you all with my supreme talent and smash you to pieces with my iron fists, dammit…” Well, actually, it’s a story about a transmigr 2Votes806.5kRecs1.5MFans
- 22 EN Desperate Dark Night 绝境黑夜 There are monsters and ghostly shadows everywhere outside. I’m so scared. I just want to stay in my safe house until the end of time... The ghostly shadows can’t be killed, and the monsters are endless. Yu Hong came here with a mysterious black seal. Using its power to strengthen anything, he slowly built an absolutely safe zone of his own inside his safe house. As everyone voted, this book is a fusion of eerie cultivation and extreme-path cultivation. Lao Gun keeps his word. 27Votes861kRecs1.7MFans
- 23 A Taoist's Nighttime Sword 道士夜仗剑 Travel far to attend a wondrous feast in the mortal world, and behold the splendor of the red dust! … Wielding a sword and walking alone, I shall meet the ghosts and gods of the world! 0Votes343.8kRecs758.3kFans
- 24 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 25 EN The Book of Strange Tales 志怪书 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. The pine wind scatters the tea smoke. Amidst piles of white clouds, immortals sleep. A dream of the past rises without warning: beneath the village entrance tree, an old man tells tales. The stories of immortals, ghosts, fox spirits, and mountain monsters that once left children wide-eyed are neither wholly true nor wholly unreal, both eerie and romantic, and still as marvelous as ever. How many have dreamed of traveli 86Votes1MRecs1.3MFans
- 26 EN Doomsday: My Keyword is One More Than Everyone Else's 末世：我的关键词比别人多一个 Brave, cowardly, kind, cunning, generous, greedy, elegant, cruel, cheerful, perverse, upright, a shameless hypocrite... In this apocalyptic world, resources can only be obtained by winning on alien battlefields, ensuring the survival of civilization. Every warrior entering an alien battlefield is randomly assigned a keyword of their own. When their words and actions match that keyword, their attributes grow rapidly and they gain superhuman abilities. But if they break character, their abilities 11Votes285.2kRecs854.6kFans
- 27 EN Celestial Being's Codex 天人图谱 If human life could grow ever stronger without limit, then one day we would reach the heavens! 465Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
- 28 You’re Forcing Me to Be Reborn 逼我重生是吧 Young and successful, Cheng Zhu came across a question online: “If you had the chance to go back in time and be reborn, would you take it?” Known around his circle for being the biggest show-off, Cheng Zhu saw thousands of people in the comments saying they wanted to be reborn. He couldn’t resist showing off, replied “No,” and attached a screenshot of his impressive bank balance. But the very next moment… He was reborn! … Also known as "Don’t Let Down Good Girls, Don’t Waste Bad Girls", "W 58Votes953.8kRecs5MFans
- 29 EN Goblin: Severely Dependent 哥布林重度依赖 “Bro, why did we become adventurers?” “A goblin’s bounty is three silver coins.” “No, you’ve got me wrong, mate. I mean, what’s the ultimate goal of this line of work? We toil away all day long, but what’s it all for?” “One goblin. Three silver coins.” “…” “Three silver coins.” “All right, there’s a job to clear out a goblin nest. You…” “I’m in!” Elements: [down-and-out adventurers], [mash-up setting], [DND-inspired] 1.8kVotes631.9kRecs1.3MFans
- 30 Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角 New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 31 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 32 EN The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 People know that ghosts are terrifying, but ghosts know how cruel the human heart can be. This is a traditional supernatural novel. 6.3kVotes7MRecs21.2MFans
- 33 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 34 EN Lord of Pro 普罗之主 His name is Li Banfeng. Feng as in mountain peak, not as in going crazy. His doctor has told him he isn’t insane. To save a friend’s life, he went to Platform 96, boarded Steam Train 1160, and arrived in Puluo Province, where the world had been stuck in the age of steam. He met a confidante in an old gramophone, peerless beauties on calendar posters, a swaying lady in an antique clock, and a worldly master in a wine gourd. Here, food cultivators grow stronger the more they eat, smoking cultivato 145Votes729.7kRecs2MFans
- 35 EN Cultivating in the Demonic Sect as a Talent 苟在初圣魔门当人材 Lyu Yang transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, only to become a disciple of the First Sacred Sect, a demonic sect. Fortunately, he obtains a wondrous treasure, the Book of a Hundred Lives. When he dies, he can begin a new life and start all over again, while bringing back treasures, cultivation, and even lifespan from his previous life. He can even awaken special talents. Unfortunately, his chances are limited. He is not truly immortal. With chaos about to engulf the cultivation worl 577Votes1.8MRecs4.7MFans
- 36 EN Becoming a God, Starting as a Water Monkey 从水猴子开始成神 [A completed, high-quality novel with an average of over 7,000 paid subscribers. Quality guaranteed, so read with confidence.] Choosing the right path matters more than hard work! Martial masters fight tooth and nail over terrestrial treasure trees, while deepwater divine herbs are ignored. After transmigrating as a fisherman, Liang Qu gains the Cauldron of the Waters. He refines the [Water Monkey] talent, commands aquatic beasts, reaps rewards at every turn, and rises to the top! [Water Monkey] 2kVotes2MRecs3.1MFans
- 37 EN Dawn of a New Era 曙光纪元 With the spiritual qi revival, martial arts rise, and passages connecting to other dimensions appear across Earth. Countless extraordinary beings enter Earth. Gods invade, laws descend, and strange creatures reappear. Humanity enters an age of evolution. A young man makes the Book of Knowledge his master. He derives martial arts techniques, optimizes secret manuals, gains a third-person perspective and attribute-based powers, and embarks on an extraordinary journey. 19Votes1.3MRecs569.9kFans
