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The Waning Moon and the Parasol Tree 缺月梧桐
What is faith? What is loyalty? What is authority? What is right? A place that does not believe in hell is hell itself. Everyone will fall, and no one can escape.
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- 2 The Library of Heaven's Path 天道图书馆 [The hottest fantasy novel of 2017, ranked first in both overseas recommendations and votes] Zhang Xuan transmigrates to another world and becomes an honorable teacher. A mysterious library appears in his mind. Anything he sees, whether a person or an object, automatically becomes a book that records all kinds of its flaws. And that makes him incredibly powerful! He teaches students, takes disciples, gives lectures, nurtures the strongest, and teaches the world. “Great Emperor Zhuoyang, could yo 19Votes6.2MRecs2.7MFans
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Tales of Herding Gods 牧神记
The ancestral rule of the Great Ruins says: When night falls, do not go outside. The old, weak, sick, and disabled residents of the Great Ruins’ Remnant Village find a baby by the river and name him Qin Mu. They raise him with painstaking care. One day, night falls and darkness engulfs the Great Ruins. Qin Mu steps out of his home… Be a villain who revels in the spring breeze! That’s what the blind man tells him. Qin Mu’s rise as a villain is just beginning!
128Votes15.5MRecs7.6MFans
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Soaring Through the Heavens 飞天
Beneath the heavens, the world is harsh and cold; demons and ghosts cannot withstand the warmth of human kindness! Delicate hands, beauties like jade, yet sword energy blazes like a rainbow between heaven and earth! Vast starry skies, the seven emotions and six desires, greed, anger, and delusion, Buddhist truths and the Tathagata: your magic may be boundless! The teeming masses offered their heartfelt prayers, only to be met with a sea of blood! Ghosts wail and gods howl, the sea of blood stret
42Votes2.9MRecs958.1kFans
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The Demon of the Great Ming 大明妖孽
If gods exist in heaven, why are demons running rampant in the world? If there are no gods in heaven, why is the heart filled with so many doubts? During the Chenghua era of the Ming dynasty, a group of Embroidered Uniform Guard officers known as "fox-born and ghost-raised" are ordered to seek the true gods in a godless world and search for the path to immortality within their brief lives.
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- 6 The Child Emperor 孺子帝 Three emperors died one after another, and a prince whom no one had ever paid any attention to inexplicably ascended the throne, finding himself surrounded by danger. The Empress Dowager disliked him and was always looking for a younger, more obedient boy to install as the new emperor. His half-brothers disliked him, believing he had stolen the throne that belonged to them. The eunuchs and palace maids disliked him too, thinking he didn’t seem like a real emperor… The Young Emperor could only sa 18Votes972.1kRecs607.7kFans
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Legends of a Jianghu Detective 江湖探案传奇
This is a world of intrigue and conflict. Wherever there are people of the jianghu, strange tales abound, and wherever there are unsolved mysteries, he is sure to appear. Su Zhuo is a young man who has just entered the jianghu. Relying on his own wit, he cracks one baffling case after another, yet finds himself unwillingly drawn into the schemes of the mysterious Prince of Yueyang. He is willing to sacrifice himself to bring this opponent down, only to suddenly discover that the Prince of Yueyan
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- 8 Demon’s Diary 魔天记 A young fugitive raised among countless hardened criminals escapes from captivity and, by a twist of fate, assumes a new identity and enters a cultivation sect. An unimaginable vast world opens its doors to him, but through a series of misfortunes, he must also face the mortal danger of losing his mind at any moment and transforming into a terrifying demon... 19Votes4.2MRecs938.8kFans
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Scripture of the Dead 死人经
A book of the dead, half a scripture without the Dao. I have severed a thousand heads and devoured the bones of a hundred bodies.
155Votes381.2kRecs1MFans
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