Novels like Devouring Calamity
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- 1 The Entrepreneurial Tycoon: I’m Going to Support a Million Employees! 创业系神豪：我要供养百万员工！ A year after graduating, Su Yang was constantly working overtime for a meager income. He felt completely lost, unable to find his direction in the big city. Then, by chance, he acquired the Big Entrepreneur System. As long as he started a company, the System would return to him whatever amount he paid his employees in wages. He also gained a business simulation skill that could predict his company's profits for the coming year. And so, a tycoon who made his fortune through entrepreneurship emerg 121Votes76.9kRecs186.5kFans
- 2 The Mage Returns: Speedrunning Earth! 法师归来，速通地球！ Only I Can Use Magic + Cutting-Edge Technology + Corporate Giants + No Dumbed-Down Characters Conquer Silicon Valley in three months, plant the flag in Southeast Asia in three years, and in thirty years send humanity’s fleet toward the planet Kepler-452b. All of it happened simply because Chen Xi returned from studying abroad in a world of mages. 627Votes30.6kRecs168.1kFans
- 3 EN The Crown Prince of France 我在法兰西当王太子 Welcome to check out the completed novel, My Lady, Please Stay! [Over 16,000 top-tier subscribers] [An alternate-history power fantasy, with the setting kept as close to the original timeline as possible] I’m in France, just arrived at Versailles, and I’m the crown prince. The only problem is that my father is Louis XVI, and he’ll be executed in a few years... Since neither my father nor the ministers can be relied on, I’ll just have to set France in order myself! First, I’ll make a little money 134Votes125.4kRecs257.2kFans
- 4 A Tianjin Native Never Loses SAN 天津人永不掉SAN You have your unspeakable horrors; I have my storytelling, jokes, and singing. In a steam-powered civilization surrounded by all manner of ancient and outer gods, ordinary people are twisted into madness by the slightest contact with ancient knowledge. Liu Yonglu, a young crosstalk performer from Tianjin, transmigrates into this world. Face to face with the old gods and their kin, he stays perfectly calm, picks up the clappers at hand, and launches into a routine. “Clap these bamboo boards toget 9Votes87.7kRecs194.9kFans
- 5 The Dawn Protocol 拂晓协议 The global consensus: Measure the world's resources and win Huang Ye's favor. Hello, everyone. My name is Huang Ye. 407Votes47.3kRecs153.7kFans
- 6 EN Master of Fangcun 方寸道主 In this world, there is an emperor whose every word becomes the law of the land, a peerless general whose sword alone can face a million soldiers, a Confucian sage whose single volume of Spring and Autumn establishes the moral order, a Daoist Venerable whose finger can bring forth life and shape creation, and strategists whose schemes can turn the tides of the world… Li Shun transmigrated here with nothing but a mysterious pocket dimension. No matter how astonishing your talent, once you are cap 261Votes157.1kRecs606.4kFans
- 7 I Haven't Been Caught, So How Can You Call Me Guilty? 我没落网，凭什么说我有罪！ “You’re saying that for the past twenty years, ever since you were born, you’ve been able to control your dreams and do whatever you want in them?” “Yes. I’ve been an outlaw, flown planes at breakneck speed, gone parkour-running, and fought gun battles in the streets... I’ve done those things countless times.” “To put it bluntly, the crimes I’ve committed in my dreams would be enough to get every police officer in a whole region promoted!” “But later, I went straight.” “Why?” “Because...” At the 0Votes91.5kRecs520.2kFans
- 8 Our Apartment Complex Transmigrated… Again 我们小区又穿越了 [Homesteading, survival, gathering, evolution, development] Overnight, an entire residential complex was transmigrated to a primeval wilderness where life had gone haywire. Survival became the first hurdle. Food, water, disease, ferocious beasts, mutated creatures... Once the residents had struggled to adapt, they discovered in despair that this was only the beginning. After surviving for a certain amount of time, the complex would transmigrate again, this time to an even more dangerous region. 5Votes78.7kRecs298.4kFans
- 9 1997: Crime Chasers 1997：罪案追凶 Summer 1997. Torrential rain! A dismembered body! A murderer! Yang Jinwen is reborn in 1997. Faced with the torrential rain and the dismembered body of a woman in the reed marshes from more than twenty years ago, he is determined to catch the killer! 2kVotes202.5kRecs550.8kFans
- 10 EN Starting from Imitating All Demons to Become a True Immortal 从效法万妖开始成就真仙 Fierce demons sit enthroned on high, enjoying the incense and offerings of countless households. They call themselves immortals, rule over heaven and earth, and send scrolls of immortal arts down into the mortal world. Lin Shu wants to embark on the path of cultivation, so he diligently studies the immortal arts. But no matter how he searches the books, he cannot find the path to prove his Dao and become an immortal. Every word and sentence describes how to cultivate his flesh until it is delici 1.1kVotes200kRecs462.6kFans
- 11 The Strange Old Domain 旧域怪诞 As time passed, Zhang Wenda increasingly felt that things in his memories had grown abstract. He couldn’t tell whether they really had, or whether his memories had distorted them. But when he suddenly came face to face with those things again, he realized that something was wrong with this world. 139Votes398.1kRecs608.3kFans
- 12 EN Sister, Do I Have to Be a Maid Too? 姐姐，我也要一起当女仆吗？ [Romantic Daily Life] [All Characters Are Adults] The premium version costs 60,000, with 27,000 average subscriptions. Enjoy with peace of mind! On his first day collecting rent, Jiang Yubai ran into twin sisters pleading desperately with their landlord because they couldn't afford to pay. Lin Jianxia: Let's make this clear beforehand. Once we've paid off the back rent, we're even! Lin Jianxia: I'm only cleaning and cooking. There's no way I'm putting on a maid outfit! After graduation. Lin Jian 9.9kVotes261.9kRecs1MFans
- 13 EN Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn 奥特曼任意键：启明 [Ten Thousand Subscriptions] [Illustrations Throughout] [No Torturing the Protagonist] [No Distorting the Original Characters] In this world, the Defense Force is made up of all kinds of heavyweight members: The director is deep and calculating, and loves to micromanage: Yu Tsuchibashi The strategists are impatient for results, bold and reckless: He Zhi and Gondo The captain is physically disabled but determined, and speaks his mind: Dan Moroboshi The deputy captain hates evil and is stubbornly 84Votes291.1kRecs395.4kFans
- 14 This Is the End of the World 这很末世 I opened my eyes to find myself in the apocalypse. Bai Xiao hated all zombies. Especially the one that had bitten him. Also known as The Zombies’ Final Journey A fictional world, purely imaginary #Apocalypse #Disaster #Survival #Healing# 15Votes118.8kRecs283.1kFans
- 15 EN World of Monsters 怪物世界 The highly anticipated virtual masterpiece The Dark Lands, ten years in development, has officially entered open beta, but its expensive barrier to entry stopped countless eager players. At the same time, a strange cracked-version link began circulating online. Qi Sheng: Free and genuine. Click here to download the complete version of The Dark Lands. The instant they clicked the link, Earth's players were dragged into a real battlefield of civilizations. This is a world of monsters. The players 70Votes256.7kRecs859.6kFans
- 16 Empire of Shadows 阴影帝国 Most people are born ordinary, but some, even if they start out ordinary, aspire to greatness. From an exploited, undocumented odd-job worker to a godfather in the dark; From a rule-abiding member of society’s underclass to the emperor behind the scenes who makes the rules; When the sun shines, this country belongs to the Federation. When night falls, it belongs to me! “Sometimes, shadows can be as large as the light, or even swallow it whole!” “We never extort anyone. We can sleep with a clear 67Votes389.4kRecs508.1kFans
- 17 EN My Life in America: My Uncle Don Quixote 人在美利坚：我的叔叔堂吉诃德 [Successfully completed, read with confidence] [Over 10,000 first-month paid subscribers, 38,000 average subscribers, 150,000 peak subscribers: the highest first-month and average subscriber counts for an American-set novel] My name is Li Wei. After my parents passed away and left me saddled with a huge debt, I was taken in by a distant uncle in America and went to live with him in New York. Wait, what is this medieval adventure System? Why does it think my uncle is a mad knight? Why is the Uppe 1.2kVotes209.3kRecs1.4MFans
- 18 EN No Heavenly Tribulations During the College Entrance Exam, Please! 请勿高考时渡劫 Demons, spirits, and cultivators hide in modern society, enjoying the conveniences technology has to offer. A thousand-year-old tree spirit passes itself off as a prized ancient tree and collects government subsidies every month; An eight-hundred-year-old fox spirit livestreams herself posing seductively, sucking the life force from her viewers; A five-hundred-year-old Confucian cultivator shuts himself away for a century to study the Eight-Legged Essay, only to discover upon emerging that the i 25.7kVotes506.3kRecs1.6MFans
- 19 EN The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I 系统很抽象，还好我也是 [Mission One: You've just entered the world of cultivation and obtained a Foundation Establishment technique. Try killing the “Undying Divine Dragon”!] “System bro, never mind the fact that the beginner mission is to kill a dragon. I've got a little problem: I haven't transmigrated.” [Mission Two: The apocalypse has arrived. After awakening an E-rank ability, it's time to show what you can do. Try challenging the “Zombie King” to a duel!] “Bro, never mind that I'm still in the modern world. By y 73Votes260.7kRecs981.9kFans
- 20 EN I Can't Repay My Student Loans, So I Hunt Demons on the Side 还不起学贷的我只好兼职猎魔 [Averaging 20,000 paid subscriptions, so read with confidence!] [The most lighthearted and delightful fantasy light novel!] Gordon transmigrates to Londinium, in an age of steam and the supernatural, and becomes a poor student at the Royal Academy of Natural Sciences. No noble birth, no family fortune, just a hundred pounds of student debt. And a pair of eyes that can see the truth of Source Matter! To everyone else: waste, pollutants, trash. But Gordon sees: [The radiant Source Matter "Unbroken 10.5kVotes117.4kRecs792.2kFans
- 21 EN Hell Game: Starting in Metropolis 地狱游戏：从大都会开始 Welcome to the Hell Game. [Entering instance: Bloody Restaurant] [Your position: Delivery Driver] [Your customers include: a fat shut-in reeking of corpses, a maid who explodes at the slightest provocation...] [Your coworkers include: a beautiful boss who doesn’t look human, a literal ox working like a horse, a man-eating tree who swears like a Frenchman...] Faced with this motley crew of oddballs, Liu Zheng wanted to live like a decent person. So he had no choice but to stop being one. 279Votes165.5kRecs648.6kFans
- 22 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
- 23 EN Myth: The Devraj Isn't Working Today 神话：天帝今天不上班 In Indian mythology, the Trimurti reign supreme over the world. The many sages curse the gods. The Asuras practice austerities for thousands of years, and every time they receive a boon, they attack the heavens and beat up the Emperor of Heaven. “Austerities, boons, beating up the Emperor of Heaven... Why does every Indian myth follow this same pattern? I'm the one who gets beaten and suffers every time. I'm done with this!” Indra, who has transmigrated into the Emperor of Heaven, is furious. An 4Votes88.4kRecs274.8kFans
- 24 EN Wasteland Border Inspector 废土边境检查官 After transmigrating to a wasteland plagued by infected creatures and endless disasters, Cheng Ye becomes a border inspector in Happiness City. Every survivor hoping to join the city must undergo careful questioning and inspection to prevent any infected creatures from slipping inside. But Cheng Ye soon discovers that these creatures are nothing like he imagined! There are Whispering Tentacles, which can bring the dead back to life and survive through sheer obsession. There are Death Dandelions, 1.2kVotes331.5kRecs1.1MFans
- 25 EN 1984: Starting with a Sichuan Restaurant 1984：从川菜馆开始 Also known as Sichuan Flavors, Human Life [Period piece, food, everyday life, farming] Food blogger Zhou Yan is reborn in 1984. From the start, he takes over a bankrupt Sichuan restaurant. In this era of scarce supplies, he'll give diners a taste of truly exceptional food! Qiaojiao beef, couple's lung slices, mapo tofu, Dongpo pork knuckle, rabbit cooked in boiling water... Stir-fried, seared, braised, steamed, deep-fried, boiled, marinated, smoked... Sichuan cuisine has a hundred flavors, with 11.3kVotes718.8kRecs1MFans
- 26 Reborn in 2008: Diagnosed as a Medical Authority 重生08，我被确诊为医学泰斗 [A career-focused novel with one heroine, averaging 30,000 paid subscriptions] Reborn in 2008, Jiang He holds medical technology twenty years ahead of its time. That year, the medical community was still helpless against the King of Cancer. Minimally invasive surgery was still considered off-limits in oncology, while genetic screening remained a barren wasteland... From revolutionizing the Whipple procedure and stunning the medical world to developing broad-spectrum anticancer drugs ahead of sch 630Votes144kRecs772.2kFans
- 27 EN I Loaded the Occult System 我加载了神秘学面板 The Age of Steam, where reason and mysticism exist side by side. The more you know, the closer you come to madness. That is the consensus behind the Veil. Li Cha doesn't believe it. Or rather, that rule doesn't apply to him. His skill panel lets him dabble in many fields and master them all, like a steam engine that never needs to shut down. [Breathing Lv.3 · Healing: Chronic ailments vanish, old afflictions are completely cured] [Knowledge Lv.3 · Erudition: Every book you lay eyes on leaves 2.1kVotes200.7kRecs994.1kFans
- 28 EN Reigning Supreme Across Eternity, Starting as a Magical Girl 从魔法少女开始独断万古 A ten-year veteran reader of online fiction, Jiang Si is different from everyone else. He has always firmly believed that he, too, could forge a path to cultivation. Taking the great online-fiction heroes of the past as his goal, he constantly searches for a way to set foot on the path of cultivation. Qigong, genetic locks, magic, superpowers, zombie outbreaks... anything will do. As long as supernatural powers exist, there must be a way to pursue the Dao. All powers ultimately lead to cultivati 1.2kVotes321.1kRecs933kFans
- 29 EN Journey to the West: The Roadblock! 西游：拦路人！ Transmigrating into Journey to the West, he awakens the Roadblocker System. As long as he stops Tang Sanzang and his disciples from continuing their pilgrimage at each trial, he can receive rewards. Block them for three days, reward: the Art of Moving Mountains Block them for seven days, reward: Six-Turn Golden Elixir Block them for half a month, reward: True Dragon Pearl Block them for one month, reward: Acquired Spirit Treasure: Five-Flame Divine Fan Block them for one season, reward: Divine A 424Votes179kRecs861.5kFans
- 30 Winter Returns 冬日重现 Zhang Shutong once had two female classmates: One was a proud heiress from a wealthy family. The other was a cool, aloof girl who served as a temple keeper in the mountains. One was murdered eight years ago. The other died eight years later. Zhang Shutong also had a secret he could tell no one: He could return to the past. But after going to all that trouble to save them, why are they fighting each other? Deep mountains, a great lake, an ancient temple, shadows beneath the water, a strin 3.1kVotes509.6kRecs1.4MFans
- 31 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
- 32 A Very Unusual Food Novel 非正常美食文 [Player name: Qin Huai Atlas unlocked: 0/12 Skills: Dough proofing (Intermediate): Your dough-proofing skills have beaten 99% of breakfast shop chefs nationwide. (0/10000) Filling preparation (Advanced): Your filling preparation skills have beaten 100% of breakfast shop chefs nationwide. (0/100000) Rating: A rookie just starting out] The moment he stepped into the cafeteria, the protagonist of a food novel got his System up and running. Qin Huai: A food novel? You should’ve said so earlier. 63Votes1.1MRecs682kFans
- 33 EN Are We Destroying the World Today? 今天毁灭世界了吗？ “So you're saying the world is about to end, and that's why you want to steal a rocket?” “This is a first. I've arrested people for robbing jewelry stores and banks. I've even arrested someone for hijacking a train, but never anyone trying to steal a rocket.” “What were you thinking? Even if you actually managed to steal it, could you fly it?” Lin Xu slowly nodded from across the table. “I can.” “Really. I've flown it countless times already.” “Also, you really need to hurry. I'm out of time.” “ 64Votes261.1kRecs951.9kFans
- 34 EN The God Mimic 神的模仿犯 Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them. 2.1kVotes523.9kRecs1.4MFans
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 EN The Otherworldly Inn 异度旅社 Beneath the everyday, at the limits of reason, beyond the world you know, lies a landscape you have never imagined. When Yu Sheng opened that door for the first time, the familiar world around him came crashing down. And the “truth” at the very root of the world came rushing toward him. 9.4kVotes5MRecs2.8MFans
- 38 EN Cultivation? Ain't Got No Money For That! 没钱修什么仙？ The old man asked, “You want revenge?” The boy replied, “I’ve been humiliated again and again by the powerful, and my master considers me trash. How could I not want revenge?” The old man patted the boy’s head and sighed. “Good boy, let me pass my cultivation power on to you.” The boy exclaimed, “Senior! How could I accept that?” The old man held out his hand. “Give me your phone.” Watching the changes on his phone, the boy cried out in shock, “Senior! Where did all this hundred-year cultivation 17.7kVotes4MRecs7.2MFans
- 39 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
- 40 EN Mysterious Revival 神秘复苏 “My name is Yang Jian. By the time you read this, I'll already be dead...” A strange sheepskin scroll, an eye peering into the darkness: this is the story of someone who lived to tell the tale. 4kVotes4.4MRecs10MFans
