Novels like The Strange Old Domain
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- 51 EN Who Left This Last Will Here? 谁把遗言落这了？ [The Great Expedition is a colossal lie! The “Golden Fleece” that created the Twelve Primordial Gods... could it be the umbilical cord of those above?] [The Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs in Heaven shattered thirty thousand years ago... That egg named “Morningstar”... is probably no ladder to ascension!] [Beware the moon! An anomalous signal came from its surface... Its source calls itself the Guanghan Ark... possibly from the lost civilization of Yin Ruins...] [It said... Do not answer!] The Camb 4.4kVotes94.8kRecs773.1kFans
- 52 EN Cultivating Immortality: A Tortoise at My Side 长生修仙，与龟同行 [A top-tier mortal cultivation novel with over 20,000 premium subscribers and an average of 7,000 subscriptions per chapter. Readers can dive in with confidence.] Chen Jianghe's version: Chen Jianghe transmigrated to a cultivation world and became a fisherman in a cultivation family. By chance, he exchanged lifespans with a spirit turtle. Not only did he gain a spirit pet, but his lifespan was also three times that of cultivators at the same realm. So Chen Jianghe spoke and acted with caution, a 588Votes142.6kRecs483.6kFans
- 53 Surging Waves at Sunset 惊涛落日 Wang Yi transmigrated. The moment he looked up, he saw the bright red Rising Sun emblem on a plane passing overhead. The rage in his blood was awakened. He didn't know whose body he had transmigrated into, where he was, or even what kind of cheat ability he had. He only knew he was going to slaughter them all. “You damn bastards can keep your ‘seven lives for the country’ and your Kudan-zaka! I'll blow Kudan-zaka and every toilet on it sky-high!” (“Seven lives for the country” was the Japanese i 0Votes511.5kRecs572.7kFans
- 54 Since the Founding of the Camp: Chronicles of the Roman Khanate 自建帐以来：罗马汗国记 Welcome to the metaverse. After Guo Kang arrived in this world, he gradually discovered that history seemed a little off. In the former lands of the Eastern Roman Empire, a state called the “Roman Khanate” had emerged. His adoptive father, Guo Daxia, one of the Khanate’s most powerful lords, was waging campaigns in every direction for its sake. Across the lands, all kinds of strange “Yuan” regimes had turned the world into a scene of vibrant life and fierce competition. Yet beyond the distant mi 38Votes232.7kRecs133.9kFans
- 55 EN Hound of the Immortal Dynasty 仙朝鹰犬 The Great Yu Immortal Dynasty has endured for a thousand years. A wise ruler sits on the throne, and a court full of powerful ministers serves him. Beneath this age of prosperity, undercurrents swirl. Gods and demons watch from the shadows, while monstrous beings creep through the land. Born into a momentous upheaval unseen in a thousand years, Lianshan Xin enters the game with his own life, rising above the dynasty to hunt emperors and their ministers, and subdue the true dragons of the mortal 3.6kVotes142.4kRecs703.1kFans
- 56 The Zombie Calamity of 1644 尸祸一六四四 In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, a meteor fell over Kaifeng, and the dead began to eat the living. Terrified, the Shun army breached the Majia Kou embankment and flooded Kaifeng, unleashing disaster far and wide. Two years later, Wang Zhiming, a fourteen-year-old eighth-grader, arrived in the chaotic final years of the Ming dynasty, only to discover, to his astonishment, that he had transmigrated into Zhu Cilang and was on his way to Nanjing, accompanied by Mu Hu, a servant of Gao Men 1.5kVotes106.4kRecs365.5kFans
- 57 EN Player of the Uncanny 怪谈玩家 They reshape logic with rules and use reason to describe things beyond reason. This is a bizarre and uncanny game, as well as a continuation of the real world. Until the normal becomes abnormal, and the abnormal becomes the norm. 4Votes87.1kRecs342.3kFans
- 58 EN I Am Not Goblin Slayer 我不是哥布林杀手 [Fantasy world, slow-paced adventure, mages, monster encyclopedia collection] After arriving in a fantastical otherworld, Gauss received an adventurer's handbook that grew more powerful the more monsters he killed and collected. He'd thought he'd embark on a classic adventure: slay dragons, kill devils, and save kingdoms. Instead, he found himself facing goblins that bred like vermin and could never be completely wiped out. As the number of kills and rewards in his monster encyclopedia shot up, 25Votes154.7kRecs557.1kFans
- 59 The 2000 Startup Boom 逆流2000创业时代 “If you miss out on her, you miss out on your entire youth.”, Wang Yan Reborn in the year 2000, Wang Yan has a royal flush in his hand and sets his sights on restaurants, logistics and transportation, the internet, real estate... In this entrepreneurial era, where opportunities are everywhere, he's ready to be the first man to feast on king crab. 0Votes3.4MRecs53.4kFans
- 60 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
- 61 EN Green Mountains 青山 In this age, fame and fortune have stripped the world of nine-tenths of its chivalry. Everyone, this is the story of the last remaining tenth. 9.4kVotes3.5MRecs5.4MFans
- 62 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
- 63 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 19.4kVotes492.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 64 EN The End of the Immortal Path 仙道尽头 A talking ox, me stealing clothes, and a fairy forced into marriage. Looking at all this, Jiang Man, who had just transmigrated, felt that it seemed strangely familiar. 3.4kVotes369kRecs956.2kFans
- 65 Infinite Worlds: Speedrunning Begins 人在无限，开始速通 This is an original fan novel based on the first Infinite Terror. Captain, Captain, your telekinetic, Point-Line Demon Eye build is certainly powerful for speedrunning, but it takes too much skill to use. Any recommendations for a simpler but equally powerful exchange? Sure thing, brother! There are nine more exchanges just as strong as that one, all top-tier 0.5 builds in the Lord God's space. The one among the Nine Jails that masters the highest ceiling: Orthodox Cultivation The one among the 17Votes97.6kRecs380.4kFans
- 66 Literary Giant 1879: Lone in France 文豪1879：独行法兰西 Victor Hugo: “You all call me ‘the conscience of France,’ but right now it’s beating in Lionel’s chest!” Émile Zola: “‘Naturalism’ or ‘Realism’? No, only Lionel’s ‘Modernism’ belongs to the twentieth century!” Gustave Flaubert: “Maupassant is my finest student. Lionel is my kindred spirit.” Guy de Maupassant: “Lionel’s only flaw is that he hasn’t contracted the noble, virile disease of syphilis.” Anton Chekhov: “What else do we need in this life besides sunshine, air, water, and laughter? Why, L 1.1kVotes127.1kRecs337.9kFans
- 67 Venerable of the Turbid World 浊世武尊 In the third year of the Great New Republic, the nation is falling apart. The southern government has just been established, while northern warlords carve up the land and fight among themselves. Western ironclads batter at the gates, and the ghosts of the previous dynasty refuse to fade. This is an era when firearms and physical prowess vie for supremacy, and rebels dance alongside evil spirits. Beneath the undercurrents of revolution, folk cults flourish, alongside martial warriors, demons, str 65Votes113kRecs669.3kFans
- 68 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 9.3kVotes114.4kRecs777.2kFans
- 69 EN In the Name of Divine Abilities 以神通之名 In the lunar year 3230, the Cataclysm erupted. Humanity fell from its position as ruler of the world, and Shenzhou became its last refuge. In 3255, Marquis Lu Zhao was under investigation. “By rights, an extraordinary like you, at your level, has no authority to investigate me.” 11.3kVotes377.1kRecs2.1MFans
- 70 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
- 71 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
- 72 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
- 73 I Really Don’t Want to Be the World Destroyer 我真不想当灭世主 Riel, a psychologist who puts his own interests first, accepts a heartfelt invitation from a game developer and enters a fully immersive consciousness-simulation game called [Surreality]. Thought transmission, brainwashing speeches, self-hypnosis, and the power of oaths: in a game world where social classes are firmly entrenched, Riel awakens as a [Speaker] and embarks on a journey to overturn the established 0Votes42.3kRecs309.7kFans
- 74 I Can Awaken Skills 我能活化技能 “The spiritual qi revival is the world’s last glimmer before its end.” “When another world descends, we’re the other world, descending upon theirs.” “Every chosen one on the opposing side is an extraordinary talent, either invincible in their age or peerless beneath the heavens.” “The roles I get are always either cannon fodder or bit parts.” Wei Lefu has been everything from the third senior brother at a martial arts school, brought out as a sacrificial pawn to inspire the others, to a fallen y 2.5kVotes101.4kRecs381.3kFans
- 75 EN Night Without End 夜无疆 That day, the sun set and never rose again… 25.2kVotes12.7MRecs8.1MFans
- 76 EN I Who Cultivate Immortality Have Arrived in the Wizard World 修仙的我却来到了巫师世界 Jieming discovered that he had transmigrated. His golden finger was the Immortal Cultivation Encyclopedia, the Great Dao Library, but why had he transmigrated into a world of wizards?! The Star Ring Federation, the Deep Crimson Court, the Void Architecture Institute, the Entropy Reversal Alliance... In this age of expansion, wizard civilization waged war on every plane it discovered, ravenous as wolves and tigers. These were the best of times, and the worst of times. Faced with the prospect of b 527Votes134.5kRecs799.6kFans
- 77 A Frail Scholar in the Ancient Apocalypse 古代末世的文弱书生 “He’s a weak scholar, my foot!” “That bastard lied to me!” “Workaholics! Every last one of them!” Hello, the King of Overwork invites you to join the Xinzhou Labor Group. Note: No supernatural abilities, and set in a purely fictional ancient world. Since it involves no real historical dynasties or people, and also contains apocalyptic elements, it isn't classified as historical fiction, so it's been filed under fantasy. 386Votes1.1MRecs257.5kFans
- 78 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
- 79 EN The Fourth Natural Disaster Has No Normals 第四天灾就没有正常的 Yue Buqun sighed deeply. “Even if you’d followed the Sword Sect’s path, that would’ve been fine, but you...” Yu Lianzhou said with profound regret, “If I’d known you’d turn out like this, I would’ve taught you the Tiger Claw Hand.” Qiu Chuji said helplessly, “You wretched scoundrel! You... you... Sigh! I’d better go ask your martial uncle for the Nine Yin Manual.” Uncle Jiu rubbed his forehead and shook his head. “This one is the Corpse Refining Method, and this one is the Lunar Form Refining Ar 473Votes144.3kRecs432.4kFans
- 80 EN The More They Oppose, The More I Know I'm Right 他们越反对，越是说明我做对了 “The more the Church supports me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” “Even when the heretics praise me, it proves I’m right. If they say nothing, that proves my work is beyond reproach!” “If the Church opposes me, that proves they’ve all fallen into heresy. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” In 681, Ansu, the youngest pope in the history of the Church, was crown 42Votes135.6kRecs1.1MFans
- 81 Young Master, Don't Show Off 公子别秀 Lin Xiu wakes up to find the world completely changed. Some can lift mountains and raise massive cauldrons; others can see for thousands of miles at a glance. Some ride the wind and roam freely beneath the heavens, while others vanish without a trace... All you have to do is look good. 1Votes386.6kRecs1MFans
- 82 The Peace Order 太平令 The land has been in turmoil for more than three hundred years. Music and dance never cease in the Central Plains, foreign tribes sharpen their weapons and prepare for war, sword immortals roam the martial world, and famed generals hold the four corners of the realm in check. With five years left until all-under-heaven descends into chaos, young Apothecary Li Guanyi kills a man on a rainy night. At last, he opens his eyes and sees this chaotic human world. Beneath horses' hooves lie heaps of bon 38Votes561.2kRecs2.6MFans
- 83 Great Ming: From the Start, I Asked Zhu Yuanzhang to Abdicate 大明：开局请朱元璋退位 After transmigrating into the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuntong becomes Zhu Biao’s third son. Just as Zhu Biao dies, Zhu Yuanzhang plans to appoint Zhu Yunwen as the Crown Prince’s heir. At this critical moment, Zhu Yuntong has no choice but to step forward. “Grandfather, please issue an edict at once appointing me Crown Prince’s heir, so I can ascend the throne, become emperor, and inherit the empire!” 0Votes22.9kRecs889.9kFans
- 84 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
- 85 EN The Dragon's Cry 鸣龙 “Here’s what happened. I was trapped in a desperate situation when I unexpectedly met a dragon. It insisted I was a martial arts prodigy and promised to show me the road to immortality...” “And that’s why you broke into the Demon God’s tomb and became a servant to monsters?!” “I, Xie Jinhuan, would never accept being beneath anyone. It was the dragon who served me. To be precise, I was serviced by a dragon...” … The author has completed “The Heir Is Fierce,” “The Immortal Maiden Is Fierce,” and 198Votes2MRecs1.7MFans
- 86 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
- 87 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
- 88 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 490Votes143.7kRecs771.2kFans
- 89 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
- 90 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
- 91 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
- 92 EN The Urban Horror Game Designer 怪谈游戏设计师 “Doctor, the game I made seems to have become reality.” “Isn't that a good thing? People are under so much pressure at work these days, yet you can escape all that, play at life, and live the life you've always dreamed of.” “But I'm a horror-game designer. I've devised 126 murder cases and created dozens of killers with different personalities. To find material, I've also watched 95 thriller films, read more than 400 horror comics, and collected over 2,000 urban legends. Now they all seem to hav 80Votes1.1MRecs1.5MFans
- 93 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
- 94 EN Nightmare Assault 噩梦惊袭 Horror, supernatural, infinite-worlds. Focused on the plot, no romance. That's pretty much it. 47Votes163.2kRecs970.1kFans
- 95 EN The Immortal Craftsman's Creation 仙工开物 Deep inside a volcano, an immortal palace of mechanisms left behind by ancient sages awaits its successor. His mother risked her life to obtain its immortal seal, entrusting it to Ning Zhuo with her dying breath. The Buddha’s Heart-Demon Seal! Save yourself and become a Buddha; save others and turn them into demons. With the seal in hand, one can lightly imprint the heart and command mechanisms as easily as feathers. Others grow weary and burdened when controlling them, but Ning Zhuo can command 550Votes3.6MRecs4.4MFans
- 96 EN Simultaneous Transmigration: Inheriting the Legacies of Myriad Worlds 同时穿越：继承万界遗产 A man in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, transmigrating simultaneously across the Myriad Worlds. Talents and comprehension merge, and combat power stacks without limit. With five times the strength of someone at the same level, you say I'm just an ordinary mortal? I won't take issue with that. But when my strength reaches ten thousand times that of someone at the same level, what will you call me? All my selves across the Myriad Worlds, lend me your power! (Includes worlds from novels, anime 2.9kVotes425.4kRecs783.7kFans
- 97 Strange Tales of Northern Qi 北齐怪谈 In the tenth year of Tianbao, Gao Yang, the heroic emperor, began playing a pipa made from a human thigh bone. He sang along to his own accompaniment, and the tune was grotesque, absurd, terrifying, despairing, and agonizing. That year, Liu Taozi, who lived by the Zhang River, caught a few fish, and the story began. 51Votes476.8kRecs942.9kFans
- 98 EN My Avatar is Becoming the Final Boss 我的化身正在成为最终BOSS After living an utterly ordinary life for more than a decade, one night Ji Minghuan awakened a supernatural ability that let him “create game characters” in the real world. Each character came with a unique main quest and a unique skill-tree System. From then on, he couldn't stop. He kept creating new game characters in the real world, developing skill trees, and building character systems... The more famous a character became, the stronger it grew, so he began causing a huge commotion, doing wh 240Votes394.9kRecs1.7MFans
- 99 I Became a Literary Giant in Russia 我在俄国当文豪 (The first foreign-literary-giant novel on Qidian to average over 10,000 monthly subscriptions) Many years later, when Nabokov was teaching Russian literature in America, this was how he did it. In a darkened room, he first switched on a lamp in the corner and said, “Pushkin was the first beacon of Russian literature.” Then he switched on a lamp in the middle of the room and said, “This is Gogol.” He turned on another lamp and declared, “This is Chekhov.” Then he strode to the window, yanked ope 734Votes169.4kRecs430.8kFans
- 100 EN My Name Is Huang Tian: The Blue Heaven Is Dead, What the Heck? 我名黄天，苍天已死什么鬼？ “Doctor, for the past ten days, whenever I’m asleep, I keep vaguely hearing someone call my name.” “Mr. Huang Tian, you’re experiencing auditory hallucinations.” “I’m certain I heard them.” “Then it’s anxiety manifesting physically.” “Anxiety manifesting physically?” “In any case, there’s nothing wrong with you. Don’t worry. Avoid smoking and drinking, go to bed early and get up early, and try to relax. You’ll be fine.” “…” September 5: I went to see a doctor. He said there was nothing wrong wit 1.3kVotes154.7kRecs733.9kFans
