On the Path, I Once Wrote of the Mortal World: A Flute, a Sword, and Kunlun 向道偶题人间世,一笛一剑一昆仑。
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- 1 The Swordstep Court 步剑庭 This is an age when legends grow old: In the north, the Old Dragon King rolls over and the earth shudders. In the west, the peacock lounges amid beauty and has no wish to move. Two old men who wield swords have no grievance against each other, yet must fight to the death. And a poor, miserable scholar tosses aside his books, suddenly draws his blade, and chops apart half the land. This is an age when legends are born anew: The beauty destined to topple kingdoms has yet to learn how to put on mak 2Votes299.2kRecs249.3kFans
- 2 The Path of No Duality 不二大道 The new book, The Creation of Japanese Weird Tales, is officially on sale. [Nearly 6,000 average paid subscriptions] Wei Bu'er thinks that joining Yun Yin Sect will let him pursue the Great Dao, only to discover that he has to start out as a menial worker. And in this unassuming-looking sect, you can trip over a whole crowd of senior brothers and sisters with golden fingers just by kicking a rock. The women of the cultivation world are all gorgeous. Wei Bu'er thinks he'll surely find a good girl 2Votes335.9kRecs291.8kFans
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Spirit Mountain 灵山
Mei Xi, an undergraduate at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, had wandered the world from a young age. After struggling his way into university and reaching his second year, he transmigrated through an extraordinary chance encounter and arrived in the prosperous Tang dynasty. To his surprise, the world he found was not quite like the one described in history books. Things that existed only in myths and legends were right there before his eyes. How should he make his way in this world? Were
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The Yi Cauldron 易鼎
Dragon aura is the fundamental principle of humanity. An accident brought him back to this world, eighteen years in the past, accompanied by a shattered soul. It was a time of breathtaking landscapes and rival heroes, when the vast land awaited the one who would rule it. With the secret art of dragon aura, he breaks through the limits of his destiny and sets out to “change the dynasty.”
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- 5 EN Inner Demons 心魔 The new book, The Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll, is currently being serialized. The print edition has already been published under the title Formless. Perhaps on a cold winter night, you hear someone softly singing on the other side of a wall: A feather-robed heart, as pure as clouds, a zither, a sword, and a brush. Light snow, a red brazier, yellow-sprout wine, reading the Purple Star and Dongting scriptures by night. The lingering melody sounds like mus 4Votes410.7kRecs584.5kFans
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Dao Traverses Nine Heavens 道辟九霄
Literary Version: The Double Ninth Festival lingers, where once I solved the mystery beneath the peach blossoms. My heart opens to the Great Way, and I rise to the ninth heaven. I look back from the ends of the earth, but my three or four old friends are nowhere to be seen. I ascend to immortality and soar away, joining the undying celestial ones. Comedy Version: I transmigrated to a world of immortals with a mysterious dragon scale. The immortal path? The demonic path? This is just a stage pla
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Record of Mortal Cultivation's Demise 灭运图录
Cultivation means discarding the false and preserving the true, seeing one’s own nature clearly. Those who achieve this are called “Perfected Ones.” They attain the Primordial Spirit and transcend life and death. The Record of Fate’s Demise, the Dao Seed of Fate’s Demise? The cultivation story of a transmigrator who happens upon an ancient immortal art and journeys through the Myriad Worlds and countless vast realms. Group numbers: Group One: 213933048 (full)
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- 8 Contending for the Great Dao 大道争锋 … … Let not the heart fall into the cycle of rebirth, but enter the boundless world, Let the heart pass down the Way among humankind. May I raise my sword and slay ten thousand calamities, And trade ruthlessness for a heaven of compassion! … … Regular reader groups: Great Dao Contention (217929481) (old group) Ming Cang Sect (124680866) (old group) … … 270Votes4.3MRecs1.8MFans
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Exorcising Demons 拔魔
The Daoist flame never dies, and the demonic seed is passed down forever. Defy Heaven to cultivate, follow Heaven to forge pills. This is the story of a young man who was infected by a demonic seed, and who grows stronger as he cultivates within the Daoist sect, where demons are regarded as mortal enemies. Branded as “someone who must be watched,” he is destined for a life unlike anyone else's.
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Journey North 知北游
Sixteen years. You have only sixteen years left to live. These were the words the prophetic master Jiaye of Luoyang spoke to Lin Fei the first time he saw him. That year, Lin Fei was sixteen. A whole new, wondrous world opens up before Lin Fei. This is an Eastern fantasy novel about a young man's growth. If I had to describe its contents, it would be clearer to write about what the book seeks to express: the struggle against fate and the defiance of destiny. Know the North and Journey Beyond. Al
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The Eight Wilds of the Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海八荒录
Among the dwindling tribes of the ancient wilderness, a young man quietly inherits a forbidden Zhuyou curse lost for millennia. He joins one of the great houses of the Great Jin and stirs up the winds of change across the Eight Wilds. Make a straw doll and curse your enemy to death. Shed your shell like a golden cicada. Unleash the Flying Immortal Slaying Knife. Buddhists and Daoists vie for supremacy, great houses scheme against one another, sects wage fierce battles, and every race seeks domin
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- 12 Azure Spirit's Heartbreaker 青灵诛心 A short-lived young master stumbles into the world of immortals and discovers that the cultivation world is nothing like he imagined: not every sword can be drawn from its sheath; a sect leader of an entire generation likes to wear a green hat; the most powerful magical treasure is a living person; the most vicious spell can make someone live forever; and King You of Zhou, the most foolish ruler in history, has far too many unspeakable secrets... P.S. The story follows Investiture of the Gods an 0Votes70.9kRecs89.7kFans
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True Immortal of Ten Thousand Treasures 万宝真仙
Blunt version: I’ll take the magic treasures from the game and beat you to death with them.… Literary version: I ride in on a white deer, refining treasures as I seek immortality.… Full version: After transmigrating to the cultivation world for twelve years, Chen Bailu went from joining a major cultivation sect to becoming cannon fodder in a demon invasion. At last, on this day, he awakened his golden finger. Having transmigrated into a xianxia game, he could trade mundane gold for endless cul
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The Path of a Cultivation Sect Leader 修真门派掌门路
Fate is bestowed by Heaven, and one's fellow cultivator walks the path alongside. Together they roam free, chanting the Yellow Court Sutra as one. In this boundless world, cultivation brings together spiritual roots, one's innate destiny, and a companion spirit. The protagonist, Qi Xiu, unexpectedly becomes the sect leader and leads his small, struggling sect in its fight to survive. From a middle-aged man in his thirties at the lowest level of Qi Refining to a wise old man who looks down upon a
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