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- 1 A Disciple of the Daoist Sect 道门生 A little Taoist priest who makes a living telling stories dreams of becoming an immortal. Through a series of unlikely twists, he actually uses an “ancestral” cultivation technique to open his spiritual meridians and step onto the path of cultivation. See how he rises step by step to the heavens, walking beneath the blue sky. 0Votes173.4kRecs173.7kFans
- 2 The Eagle of Humble Origins 寒门枭士 Splendor is about to take its final bow, while a poor-born youth quietly rises. Striding across time and space, a brilliant strategist plots for the realm. 0Votes1.1MRecs270.4kFans
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The Splendor of the Tang Dynasty 大唐风华路
After transmigrating, Han Yue becomes Li Shimin's illegitimate son, though he has no idea who he really is. He has a wife, a few acres of farmland, and a habit of inventing things in his spare time. Little by little, he builds up a miserable village. Han Yue thinks this life is pretty good. If no one bothered him, he'd be happy to live this way forever. But every man has to grow up, and even a nobody can gradually become somebody. With every gesture, he seems destined to reach the summit. Time i
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- 4 The Art of Ruling the World 明谋天下 In the twenty-first year of the Wanli era, Zhu Changluo left the imperial palace with his mother. No one cared about the fallen prince! He marches north to Liaodong, south to Jiangnan, pacifies the Mongols, and puts an end to factional strife. In the final golden age of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Changluo arrives with a song on his lips, vowing to make the Han realm endure for ten thousand generations! This realm is mine! No one will take it from me! 0Votes37kRecs68.8kFans
- 5 Engineer in the Late Ming Dynasty 明末工程师 Li Zhi, an industrial designer, transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty. No money? Build a flying-shuttle loom and make a fortune in no time. Can’t stand the filthy conditions of the late Ming? Invent soap and toothpaste to clean up the whole dynasty! Peasant rebellions? Life is cheap in chaotic times? Bastions of concrete will keep you safe! The Manchus are marching south, leaving devastation in their wake? Let’s see who dares say no when they face my rifles! Everything within range of my cannon 11Votes480.1kRecs319.6kFans
- 6 Sunny Great Qin 阳光大秦 When he transmigrated, Shang Yang had yet to begin his reforms, and the Great Qin Empire was still a nobody. To live well and eat well, the knowledge in his head began to explode! 0Votes116.5kRecs109.9kFans
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The Great Tang’s Rebel 大唐顽主
After 228 years, the Tang Empire is battered by internal strife and external threats, teetering on the brink of collapse. Its golden age has passed, and its fortunes are fading. In the sixth year of Huichang, the crown prince, forgotten for eleven years, returns to Chang’an. Amid an invisible game of strategy, he gradually sets out on the path to becoming emperor. He gathers scholars, establishes his military authority, is granted the title Prince You, seizes the succession, pacifies the regiona
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- 8 The Matrilocal Husband 赘婿 In the final years of the Wu Dynasty, the age was turbulent and the realm was in chaos. Jin and Liao faced off against each other, the situation was unstable, and after a century of humiliation, the first faint glimmer of dawn signaling its end had finally appeared. Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wuqimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamuka, Chilawen, Mukhuali, Bo'erhu, Bo'ersu, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, and Zhang Bangchang: loyal ministers and treacherous 438Votes13.5MRecs5.1MFans
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Forty Millennia of Cultivation (The Star Domain: Forty Millennia) 修真四万年(《星域四万年》)
It isn't easy for a little seedling to grow, so it needs the care of all you brothers and sisters. This fresh-faced newcomer, Xiao Niu, asks for your support! I'll be sure to summon the spirit of a newborn calf that fears no tiger, work hard, and do everything I can! “Even if this universe really is a cruel, blood-soaked dark forest, we cultivators will still burn our lives to make a faint spark!
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Disciplining the Song Dynasty 调教大宋
In the sixth year of Qingli, the Zhao Song dynasty was awash in song and dance. Then a madman arrived… He saw with his own eyes the Great Song's splendor, grace, and warmth. At first, Tang Yi just wanted to enjoy this era. The Jingkang Incident, the Mongol cavalry, none of it had anything to do with him. History would follow its own course, no matter how much he meddled. A thousand years later, China would still be China! It couldn't fall! But when an old man, worried for his country and its
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- 11 The Divine Gate 神门 [Super-popular fantasy] This is a strange and mysterious world... Mountains, rivers, stones, flowers, grass, trees, the sun, the moon, and stars... Everything under heaven and earth is a source of power. All the classic books from my previous life exist here, but under a new name: The Dao Canon! So you can gain power just by reading? Fang Zhengzhi is torn. Should he start with the Dao De Jing, Strange Gates and Dunjia, or the Analects... or Dream of the Red Chamber? Using the Dao Canon as his fo 0Votes6.2MRecs707.3kFans
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The Sacred Ruins 圣墟
Rising from ruin, returning from extinction. The seas turn to dust, lightning and thunder fade away, and that wisp of dark mist draws near the earth once more. The shackles of the world are broken, and a brand-new world reveals a mysterious corner of itself...
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