Novels like The Netherworld Skin-Painting Scroll
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- 1 Shatang 莎棠 A lowly cultivator and a transmigration failure chance upon the Shatang Sword, then swear two contradictory oaths. Ascend to immortality?! Or meet an inevitable downfall?! “...All I ask is to settle every score, root out every enemy, and wipe out the entire clan of anyone who dares offend me!” “...All I ask is to have a clear conscience and never do to others what I would not want done to myself... 0Votes9.9kRecs0Fans
- 2 A Hellish World, My Body Attains Sainthood 人间如狱，我肉身成圣 The gods and Buddhas of the myriad worlds never imagined… After scheming at every turn and spilling rivers of blood, they ended up letting a reckless brute have his way. Some grumbled that the age had no heroes, so a mere brat had made a name for himself. Others were convinced, saying that Wang Wendi’s achievements were worthy of all the convictions he had held to. But Wang Wen himself said he really had only wanted to enjoy himself at first! P.S. My previous completed novel, A Cup of Wine in th 0Votes39.1kRecs176.5kFans
- 3 A Gazetteer of the Land 江山风物志 This world is overrun with demons. Amid the conflicts between nations, he was born different, with gifts beyond those of ordinary people. He should have become a hero of his age, but instead he was branded a heretic and hunted as prey. Then he would fight back... 0Votes76.5kRecs128.6kFans
- 4 Tales of the Strange from the Southern Dynasties 南朝玄怪录 This is a world where humans and ghosts and gods live side by side, strange and bizarre, yet incomparably real. There are mountain spirits and ghosts, village gods and City Gods; fox immortals and yellow immortals, demons and monsters; There are Taoist priests and shamans, immortals and Buddhas; emperors, generals, nobles, and aristocratic clans; There are peerless heroes and famous white-robed generals; marshland heroes, common folk, and the people who toil like oxen and horses; Do you know wha 0Votes114.9kRecs131.9kFans
- 5 I'm a Wizard, Not an Evil God 是巫师不是邪神 All the gods of the old world had died. People cautiously concealed every trace of the gods' former existence, placing magic and science upon the throne of truth because they feared that the former rulers might return. But happiness was brief and fragile. Outsider gods coveted this pristine world; the followers of the old gods prayed for the return of faith. The fragile world was like a perfectly ripened apple, and 0Votes8.3kRecs49.2kFans
- 6 The Blast-Focused Bookmaking Master 轰杀系制书大师 Turn life into books, freezing existence in place. Record great deeds on paper, allowing legends to be passed down. Add footnotes to miracles, stripping away their veil of mystery. Sometimes, on a whim, don a fabricated guise and continue stories that were never completed. This was Zhu Wen's daily life as a superpowered individual: "peaceful," interesting, and tinged with a few minor surprises. 1Votes9.1kRecs33.3kFans
- 7 EN Uchiha: The Beginning of the End of the Shinobi World 宇智波，从毁灭忍界开始 On the night his clan was massacred, Uchiha Yuan's Mangekyo ability awakened. At that moment, the prologue to the destruction of the ninja world began. 4Votes14kRecs77.4kFans
- 8 The Curious Travels of Scholar Helo 学者赫洛的奇幻游学事件簿 Scholar Helo Elverson's quiet, ordinary life is shattered by a single notice. Born in the City of Scholars, he is about to have his status revoked and lose his secure job. He has no choice but to set out on a journey, searching for one last chance to keep himself off the streets. Unfortunately, his first scholarly expedition ends in disaster before it even begins. But never mind. A tremendous storm is brewing in the vast and uncanny Twin Realms, and it is about to push his coffin around the worl 6Votes18.6kRecs31.7kFans
- 9 The War Drums Sound, and the Song Dynasty Falls 鼙鼓揭天破宋来 Save the people, and I’ll bear the blame. Zhang Xun had already decided to play the role of Zhang Xun, the man who chose to sacrifice the innocent. He didn’t much care if he went down in infamy for all eternity. But while bearing Zhang Xun’s famous name, he had ended up in the eighth year of the Xianchun era of the Southern Song. He’d heard that Bayan was marching south of the Yangtze and wouldn’t kill the common people, but the elders and locals of this commandery all turned to look at him. Do 0Votes69.6kRecs62.6kFans
- 10 Wizard: The Blighted Moon, Scarlet, and Germs 巫师：腐月，猩红与病菌 A flower of scarlet rot blooms in a frontier kingdom, and the holiest, purest white witch becomes the new Lord of Corruption. Ancient blue blood flows beneath the undercurrents, while a great and radiant duke plots to overturn the music of order. Unknown secret histories fade into oblivion, while a mage who has crossed through time and space yearns to pierce the world’s delirium. As for me? I don’t care. I will erect four pillars, guide four philosophers, and orchestrate an absurd farce of a 118Votes10.3kRecs44.9kFans
- 11 What? They Actually Exist?! 什么？她们都是真实存在的？ (The author used to write everyday romance, so this book also leans toward daily life. The male lead is gentle and open-minded, with sound values. If that’s not for you, please don’t read.) Spiritual qi revives on Blue Star, and the world undergoes a dramatic transformation. Chen Jiang accidentally binds himself to the mysterious item [Faceless Mask], gaining the ability to enter all kinds of ‘instance worlds.’ As long as he completes the missions, he earns rewards. First, he becomes a cowherd i 23Votes14.7kRecs213kFans
- 12 Planeswalker: The War of My Plane 旅法师之我的位面战争 This is the story of a planeswalker... 0Votes44kRecs29.3kFans
- 13 Madness 迷狂 Southeast Asia, 1996. The steamy little town was packed with torn-open souls. Using their wounds as eyes, they saw the divine madness lurking behind the world. A strange being in a yellow raincoat wanted to become human, so it blended in among them. The monsters received their correspondence cooking courses and wrote on the back of a videotape: “Please don't let Doudou find out our brains make better jam.” 92Votes74.1kRecs93.2kFans
- 14 Come at Me, You Wicked Witch! 妖女看招 When he was six, Su Zhen, frail and frequently ill, adopted the village’s old banyan tree as his godmother and prayed for her protection. The next day, the tree, which had lived from the Qing dynasty to the present, mysteriously withered and died. “How do you know about that?” Ten years later, Su Zhen, now a high school student, hears someone recount the strange incident. “I’m your godmother.” The ghostly young woman smiles at him. In October 2000, unprecedented torrential rain sweeps across 39Votes111.9kRecs171.4kFans
- 15 The Raven of Naples 那不勒斯之鸦 Return to the past and become a crow. Naples in the 1960s: the Mafia runs rampant. Amid the spring breeze of the “economic miracle,” the ancient trade welcomes change. Vendettas, revenge, rebellion, conspiracies; alliances, sieges, threats, reprisals. “Zarathustra, come back and eat your pizza!” The black crow beats its wings and dives into the house. Many people in Naples know that the Rundle family keeps an iconic crow. However, many years later, the people of the Rundle family would rather ca 0Votes17.6kRecs82.4kFans
- 16 The Age of Anomalies 异常纪元 The laws of physics are dying, and the world is becoming a draft gone mad. Everything we know as common sense is slowly failing. Sudden cancer, a whale carcass on a mountaintop, snake eyes on the highway… As reality falls apart, can reason lead us to the end? 6Votes27kRecs98.7kFans
- 17 Sequence: Eight Paths Run Amok 序列：八道横行 [Chinese-style sequence novel] [The author’s previous book, "Sequence of the Ming Dynasty", averaged over 10,000 subscriptions. Quality guaranteed.] The earth has southeast, northwest, and eight regions spread across it. People are divided into five immortals and five vermin, together known as the Ten Kinds. Heaven, earth, humans, gods, and ghosts; scaled, furred, naked, feathered, and shelled. The divine path is wicked, the human path thieving, the scaled path lascivious, and the furred path ev 544Votes115.3kRecs348.3kFans
- 18 The Edge That Sweeps the World 拂世锋 After drinking his fill, he sits cross-legged with his hair loose, a brocade belt hanging carelessly, his Wu hook at his side. He has the skill to slay dragons and stab tigers; his blue eyes are clear as autumn water. Alas, he has little patience for examinations. How could a hero be imprisoned by lines of verse? The Central Plains are trapped in endless strife; autumn leaves fall on the river, and the cold stretches on. Mighty Great Xia, a murky and troubled age. Heroes of a hundred creeds stan 0Votes25.1kRecs36.4kFans
- 19 I Really Need to Keep You in Check 我真得狠狠控制你了 “Ever since I woke up that day, there’s been a voice in my ear. It keeps saying all sorts of strange things.” “Save points, side quests, clearing question marks on the map... Good heavens, I can’t understand a word of it.” “Then it started controlling my body and making me do all kinds of things, from assassinating the emperor, digging up the founder of alchemy’s grave, and desecrating the cult, to stealing a little kid’s balloon. In short, it made me do all sorts of lawless things.” “So I’m inn 0Votes17.6kRecs146.3kFans
- 20 A Song of Breaking Formations in the Distant Mountains 远山破阵曲 I want to be a loyal son of a distant land, and a fleeting lover of the material world. I want to become a candle, lighting the darkness far away. If you see a flame in the dark, oh, that's me. 46Votes345.4kRecs231.3kFans
- 21 The Eve of Ascension 升格前夜 The year is 2042. Ammonia City, a wondrous metropolis brimming with desire and prosperity. Led by Shenwei Technologies, the revolution in cognitive networks and avatar bodies is reshaping every aspect of human life and ushering the world into an unprecedented new era. Yet behind all this glory, dissociative illness is quietly spreading in the shadows, poised to strike. Avatar assassins, ascension technology, the Shepherd Project, the Immortality Program... Are they blessings, or traps? This city 0Votes31.3kRecs73kFans
- 22 A Mage's Tale: The False Dragon Lives Forever 法师故事：假龙永生 When Els Lipp came to his senses, his first thought was that he must never die a second time. Since magic could grant immortality in this world, that became his foremost goal. There were many paths to immortality. He didn't want to be a servant of the gods, a puppet of the undead, or a spirit lingering from the past... He wanted to enjoy the pleasures of life as the mightiest creature alive. He wanted to become an immortal true dragon. No such dragon existed, so he would have to create one for h 0Votes28.1kRecs25.8kFans
- 23 The Secret Records of the Beichen Sword Sect’s Sect Leader 北辰剑宗掌门秘录 He razed the Demon Palace, wiped out the Demon Cult, slaughtered the demon lairs, and swept through the demon realms. He ruled the heavens and earth, dominated the Three Realms, became the Supreme of the Mystic Sect, Lord of the Nine Yin, and the seventeenth sect leader of the Beichen Sword Sect. He was the Lone Star of Calamity, the Supreme Sword Soul, and the Grand Ancestor of the Supreme Limitless Mystic Heaven Wish-Granting Great Sword... The unofficial history of the man who killed, killed, 362Votes222.3kRecs212.5kFans
- 24 The Night and Day Wanderers 日夜游神 An ancient Buddha’s head was stolen by a goat-headed, human-bodied monster. A strange ghost buried an eye in a Buddhist temple, and from that moment on, the fires of the world went out and darkness shrouded the continent. To fight off the strange ghosts’ invasion, the Day and Night Spirits were born between heaven and earth. This is the tale passed down by storytellers from generation to generation. What was the truth about the ancient Buddhas, the strange ghosts, and the Day and Night Spirits o 0Votes60.2kRecs273.3kFans
- 25 A Mere Eight Billion Wretched Civilians 区区八十亿刁民 Only eight billion commoners. Surely they can't turn the world upside down, can they? 0Votes9.3kRecs124.3kFans
- 26 Path to Immortality, Beginning with the Life-Prolonging Lamp 从延命灯开始的长生路 In the southern lands lives a Taoist who keeps ghosts and commands spirits. His fame resounds across the four corners of the realm, and his footsteps tread the imperial capital. I stumbled upon the path of ghost immortality, my heart bound by resentment to the Impermanence. Ask not about the ways of the immortals: they brook no constraints. I am no child of the immortals, only an ordinary man! A son of a respectable family in the prefecture, he forged a marriage pact in the underworld. Between t 5Votes44.2kRecs82.2kFans
- 27 EN Dharma Boat 法舟 The vast, turbulent world is as boundless as a sea of smoke. He refines magic into a boat and struggles across the waves in pursuit of immortality. This is the story of Liu Dongqing, who blunders into a demonic sect and witnesses a realm of eerie horrors, beautiful women who are skeletons beneath the skin, bizarre arts and occult techniques, treacherous twists and turns, and schemes spun from cause and effect. Yet he never stops gazing toward the path to immortality, yearning t 214Votes60.4kRecs202.3kFans
- 28 The Azure Immortal Seeks the Dao 青仙问道 Xu Qing is reborn and, with the help of a bronze mirror, rides the ups and downs of the mortal world, avoiding misfortune, seeking good fortune, and pursuing immortality and the Dao! 0Votes45.8kRecs202.1kFans
- 29 The Patriarch Is Useless! 老祖无能！ The arduous path of cultivation and the pursuit of truth undertaken by Li Yuan, a Qi Refining cultivator from the Guangyuan Mountains: While at the Qi Refining stage, he nearly had his throat slit by a mortal swordsman. In the late Qi Refining stage, he was defeated in three moves by a junior sect brother ten years his junior, becoming a laughingstock. After finally and luckily reaching Foundation Establishment, he was badly wounded by a junior Qi Refining cultivator wielding a true treasure, wh 5Votes62.1kRecs170.7kFans
- 30 EN The Wizard Log of a Kobold 狗头人的巫师日志 Rugg was feeling down. He’d noticed that he’d been shedding a little lately. But that wasn’t important. The door to the supernatural world was opening before him. He would become a powerful wizard, then grow scales all over, just like that annoying, terrifying, twenty-eight-clawed burrowing dragon. In his spare time, he often dreamed that he would no longer have a dog’s face, but would become the clean-cut human he used to be. He also often thought about growing the slender, twisted, curved horn 555Votes153kRecs324.3kFans
- 31 There Are Ghosts 有诡 When humanity still lived by slash-and-burn farming, the thunderbolt that split the sky was both a chance natural phenomenon and the wrath of ghosts and gods. After an old man passed away, the creaking rocking chair on the balcony was both a gust of wind passing through and... his return. The bizarre scenes seen by the mentally ill are illusions turned upside down and warped in the eyes of ordinary people. But turn those illusions right side up, and they are just as real. The woman upstairs bric 0Votes288.4kRecs342.3kFans
- 32 The Werewolf Hunting Code 狼人狩猎法则 Three hundred years later, the dark side of the world has stirred once more. The legendary monsters have returned to this world. They’re right there among us. (The protagonist isn’t human. His bloodlust and inhuman traits grow as the story progresses, and he isn’t a good person in the conventional sense.) (This book focuses on nonhumans, not furries. Please take note.) 85Votes109.7kRecs153.4kFans
- 33 Cyber Yokai Record 赛博百鬼录 When technology reaches the singularity, the gods descend. Beneath their radiance, demons and ghosts lurk like shadows. But fox spirits don't drain people's life force, and evil spirits have no desire to devour flesh and blood. You are being consumed without even realizing it. How will you protect what's left of your body? 0Votes29.3kRecs104.2kFans
- 34 Alchemist! 方士！ Deep in the mountains, true cultivators can hardly hide their ugly forms. In a secluded chamber, a fragrant beauty suddenly turns tender. He would use ten thousand years of life from the Immortal Dynasty of Longevity to become a true immortal in the Immortal’s Cave. The Immortal Dynasty of Longevity was named to mean “May the realm enjoy eternal life.” Ten thousand years was the nation’s allotted lifespan; “eternal” meant its borders would stretch without end. Now, ten thousand years have pa 358Votes48.6kRecs302.2kFans
- 35 The Unorthodox Way of Ten Thousand Laws, I Am the Spirit Sovereign 万法诡道，我为灵尊 The gods ended their war long ago, scattering divine paths across the mortal world and opening the way beyond the ranks. Under the protection of the five orthodox divine religions, humanity moved from the Warring States era into the Three Kingdoms era. When the three kingdoms of Qian, Li, and Jing were first established, Fuxi, the Divine Artificer, arrived from beyond the realm. A new age of steam and wonders swept across the world: the Twelve Golden Men, flesh-and-blood laboratories, mechanical 0Votes63kRecs201.2kFans
- 36 EN Bone Dragon Heavy Industries 骨龙重工 Other people are sent crashing into another world. Engineer Su Ming, however, is sitting in a Dayun heavy truck, and he takes both himself and the truck with him as he crashes into someone else. He crushes a necromancer from the start, only to land and find himself cornered inside a white-bone tower. Outside the tower is an army from the temple. Inside is a scholar who calls herself a “helpful passerby”: Miss Baigu. The bad news: he has become a heretic. The worse news: he really can use necroma 226Votes96.5kRecs373.1kFans
- 37 EN Ascension Through Eternal Tribulation 永劫飞升 In the Great Cavern, a giant whale seizes an elephant; in the Divine Chamber, a giant cicada lies silent through the night. Those who merely scrape by are bound to lack a hero’s spirit! Those who seek immortality are bound to tread upon heaps of bones. After transmigrating, Li Fuchan was about to become nothing more than a skeleton in a demon’s cave. Fortunately, calamity had befallen him, granting him the ability to use calamity energy to deduce the future and inherit what his future self left 941Votes29.9kRecs126.6kFans
- 38 The Immortals 仙家 I am the ghost fire lad of the mountains, taught by Heaven to be lazy, careless, and half-mad. I once corrected memorials to the heavens, then stumbled drunkenly into the underworld to borrow spirit money. Ten thousand arts, a thousand methods, and when have I ever bothered to look up at Yama? Summon ghosts and lure monsters without returning, then burn immortals and feast upon the moonlight. A story of nourishing the spirit, feeding ghosts, refining through water and fire, and immortals compet 0Votes68.7kRecs216.9kFans
- 39 Sent Back to the Dragon Clan After Winning the Resurrection Match 打赢复活赛后被遣返龙族 Also known as: Lu Mingfei's Return from a Cthulhu Mythos World Lu Mingfei: In my previous life, I was a mage pursuing greatness, but I was betrayed and killed by a treacherous villain (god). My followers turned against me, my subordinates drove me out, and even the entire world collapsed along with me. Now that I've been reborn, I'm going to restart the summoning plan, borrow divine power from even stronger evil gods, and become the strongest evil god myself! Hastur summoning spell, Cthugha summ 22Votes25.9kRecs115.9kFans
- 40 EN I'm Not a Lord 我不是领主 New novel: Is Farming Honestly Really That Boring? [Medieval era, lords, pirates, foreign tribes...] As the leader of a bandit gang, Lin En had no obligation to change the times he lived in. But by chance, he obtained a baron's commission and became a lord in name only. Farming, building roads, mining, smelting steel, recruiting followers... He would build a territory and a powerful army that surpassed their era! Sorry, I'm not a lord. I'm here to crush this ignorant, backward age of lords. 0Votes44.5kRecs172.3kFans
- 41 Devouring Calamity 食灾 Chen Qi woke up to find that the world had changed. His mother held up a string of eyeballs: “I just bought these grapes this morning. Try some, they’re really fresh!” His father came home from work with two bloodstained sanitary pads: “I brought you your favorite sesame flatbread.” The noodle shop owner fished a bowl of tapeworms out of a pot of thick, pus-like soup: “Your wide noodles.” The doctor brought over a fried chicken drumstick covered in cauliflower-like growths: “Go on, eat up, and y 0Votes29.6kRecs120.8kFans
- 42 The Star Spy Family 星谍世家 He is a spy, and every man and woman in his family is a spy too. The trade has been passed down for generations. Their daily fare is power and money, their drink is loyalty and betrayal, their game is glances and words, and their pleasure lies in riddles and cracking codes. Their enemies are always another band of spies. Even the stars and the void between them cannot keep the two sides from scheming and struggling against each other. 2Votes416.4kRecs252.8kFans
- 43 EN The Path to Longevity Begins with Inheriting a Qi Refining Sect 长生从继承练气宗门开始 From 200 first-month subscriptions to over 10,000 peak subscriptions, from earning 400 yuan in my first month to writing four million characters. This old bookworm's first novel, and I'm not dropping it. I lost my job in middle age, and I'm too timid to gamble on it. [Business Management] [Farming] [Ensemble Cast] A lone goose on the road to immortality, a thousand thunders in the trials of the mortal world. An ordinary man is reborn in a chaotic immortal realm, where danger is everywhere and ev 341Votes184.9kRecs235.8kFans
- 44 The Carefree Mountain Lord 逍遥山君 Study books and learn to read, cultivate virtue and nurture the spirit, claim a mountain as king, and refine qi into spirit. This is not a traditional monster-slaying, level-up story. There is no clearly defined cultivation system, and the focus is more on everyday life. 0Votes27.1kRecs65.7kFans
- 45 Forbidden Nightmare 禁忌梦魇 [Infinite Flow] [Soulslike Dungeons] [Cyberpunk Wasteland] Steam airships that rule the skies rain countless bombs, erasing the whispers murmuring in the depths beneath the sea. Space stations in synchronous orbit break apart as they fall, crushing the evil mutations lurking in the darkness. People kneel in repentance before twisted idols, licking their bloodied wounds as they purge the wicked miracles born of suffering. I roam between illusion and reality, becoming the nightmare the world fears 0Votes22.4kRecs93.3kFans
- 46 Warhammer: Stars and Ants 战锤：群星与蝼蚁 "Loyal! To the Emperor! I really am loyal! The most loyal there is!" Zeruo, Primarch No. 11 "Emperor! Your sword is too dull, your heart too soft! If I'm going to save humanity, then let Chaos and the Imperium burn together!!!" Zeruo, the Traitor Primarch During the Horus Heresy, Zeruo still remembered the day he fought his way into the Imperial Palace on Terra. A semi-ensemble story with a native-born protagonist, blending humorous moments with a serious tone. My completed 100,000-w 1.7kVotes59.1kRecs169.3kFans
- 47 The Treasure-Hunting Ship of the Steam World 蒸汽世界的猎宝船 [April 11: Successfully hunted and dissected a Windwing Serpent. Perception +1] [May 17: Successfully explored an abandoned floating island and evacuated. Acquired a “miniature differential engine,” which can activate a Level 3 specialty.] [July 23: Failed to explore the “Abandoned Construct Factory.” Lost 37 armor-piercing rounds. Unlocked a new route, “Passage to the Depths of the Fog Tide,” now added to the atlas.] … The Fog Tide swallows the land. Airships patrol the skies, humanity retreats 226Votes32.5kRecs172.9kFans
- 48 Love and All-Nighters: Hack Through the Wasteland 爱和爆肝，砍翻废土 Lu Meng: “You’ll never know how terrifying a disciplined player can be in the wasteland.” Here’s my daily schedule: [00:00: Get up right on time. Have you ever seen two moons at midnight? 1:00–2:00: Practice stealth and moonlight as a locksmith for a good cause. 3:00–4:00: Scavenge. 5:00–6:00: Practice assassination, then scavenge for things nobody wants. 7:00–8:00: March under a heavy load, run a free market stall, and boost the city’s economy. 9:00: Get spotted by the guards, then join them fo 1Votes55.3kRecs191.9kFans
- 49 Infinite Combat 无限格斗 [Limit]: You have a limit space where you can store the essence of your own combat skills and release it for use whenever needed. You can also combine a certain number of combat skill essences of the same level into a complete combat skill crystal, or an even higher-level one. … After Zhang Ji transmigrated into this fighting game world, the most valuable lesson he learned was that the only way to get everything you want is to fight for it. 0Votes52.9kRecs149.8kFans
- 50 Knights and Magic Wands 骑士与魔杖 [Traditional fantasy, knights, sword and sorcery (no power-leveling), everyday life in a fief (not farming), slow-paced] Order crumbles amid the chaos that has come, while thundering hooves bring calamities from the old days. A soul that does not belong to this age opens its eyes once more: castles, towers, blades and magic, desire and disaster. The Cards of Neti awaken an ancient destiny, and the end draws silently near… 3Votes166.4kRecs470kFans
