Budding Novels I'm Following: Mostly Niche, but All Hidden Gems 关注幼苗的书,虽然大多数比较小众,但都是些仙草
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The Mountain Storm Dragon 山雨蛟
The path of cultivation may look glorious, but in truth it is like walking on thin ice. Only those who tread it know the hardships. A black snake of humble origins, with no one to rely on, wanders alone through wind and rain, living on the fringes of the human world. It cannot escape the fires of heavenly tribulation. It struggles desperately, with no idea what lies ahead... A record of the past, seven parts truth and three parts lies.
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Cultivating in the Demonic Sect as a Talent 苟在初圣魔门当人材
Lyu Yang transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, only to become a disciple of the First Sacred Sect, a demonic sect. Fortunately, he obtains a wondrous treasure, the Book of a Hundred Lives. When he dies, he can begin a new life and start all over again, while bringing back treasures, cultivation, and even lifespan from his previous life. He can even awaken special talents. Unfortunately, his chances are limited. He is not truly immortal. With chaos about to engulf the cultivation worl
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Becoming a God, Starting as a Water Monkey 从水猴子开始成神
[A completed, high-quality novel with an average of over 7,000 paid subscribers. Quality guaranteed, so read with confidence.] Choosing the right path matters more than hard work! Martial masters fight tooth and nail over terrestrial treasure trees, while deepwater divine herbs are ignored. After transmigrating as a fisherman, Liang Qu gains the Cauldron of the Waters. He refines the [Water Monkey] talent, commands aquatic beasts, reaps rewards at every turn, and rises to the top! [Water Monkey]
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Late Bloomer in the Immortal Cultivation World 我在修仙界大器晚成
Mountains and rivers change, and the world grows old. Wei Tu transmigrated to a world of immortals and awakened the Destiny Trait [Late Bloomer]. [Destiny Trait: Late Bloomer.] [Attribute: Persevere without faltering, and you are sure to succeed.] Seeing this Destiny Trait, Wei Tu, whose rough edges had long been worn away, finally felt hope kindle in his heart. But he still didn't know whether he could rise from humble beginnings to become an immortal patriarch. All he could do was seize the pr
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A Taoist's Nighttime Sword 道士夜仗剑
Travel far to attend a wondrous feast in the mortal world, and behold the splendor of the red dust! … Wielding a sword and walking alone, I shall meet the ghosts and gods of the world!
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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
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Cultivating Immortality in Twilight Years: I Become the Longevity Dao Venerable 暮年修仙,我成长寿道尊
[Immortal spirit and heroic valor, worldly wisdom, immortal cultivation and longevity. A top-tier xianxia novel with 50,000 premium subscribers, well worth a read] Forever I’ll remember the rivers and lakes, returning with hair turned white; I long to turn back the world and sail away in a small boat. Chen Dengming stepped into a chaotic world of martial arts. Only in old age did he reach the Innate Realm, but martial arts mastery was not the end of the jianghu he dreamed of. Cultivating immorta
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After the Immortals Vanished 仙人消失之后
Entirely original, written and polished without AI. Plot-driven storytelling, no System. +++++ Three thousand years ago, the Heavenly Demon descended. The immortals intervened and drove it away after winning the battle. Then cataclysmic changes weakened the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the immortals vanished. The Heavenly Demon, however, took on the guise of a god and began infiltrating the mortal world once more. More than 160 years ago, a divine relic descended. The fertile Chipa
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The Starrealm Ant Tribe 星界蚁族
The universe is born and dies; time has an end. The light of the stars will eventually fade. The flame of civilization will never go out. With you and me, life will never be lonely. (Insect farming story, farming, farming, farming)
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The Immortal Cage 仙笼
In these forests of Phoenix Pools and Dragon Pavilions, I once dreamed the millet dream and had my fill of five thousand years of rise and fall. That Rotten Peach Mountain does not bear the surname Sun. Pigs squeal in Fuling Cave, while owls roost in the ginseng fruit trees. The sun sets over the western mountains. Oxen, horses, snakes, and spirits roam, while a young man becomes addicted to chanting and spins one bizarre tale after another about immortality. A story of cultivating th
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The Immortal Path of Knowing the Law 识法仙途
[Mortal cultivation] [Farming and leveling up] In a small martial arts sect in Qinghe County, a trainee is studying medical texts the hard way: by beating up the figures inside the book. Once he masters the medical texts and becomes an herb-gathering apprentice, he'll be able to eat meat every day!
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This Psychopath Is Too Strong 这个精神病人太强了
The abyss whispers, and the uncanny lurks. In this cruel and uncanny world, humanity had long since been utterly defeated, until that man arrived... This is the story of a severely mentally ill patient who pursues immortality in an uncanny world, establishes an immortal sect, and completely transforms the abyss's ecological chain. This book is also known as “Forced Cultivation in an Uncanny World,” “The Devil (Protagonist) Descends into the Abyss,” and “The Nightmare of All Races.” The protagoni
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Surviving in a Supernatural World 苟在神诡世界
They say there are immortals in this world! Chen Li: Maybe, but there are a lot more monsters and demons! Transmigrated here in a single day, with nothing but confusion ahead; I toil and bustle just to put food on the table. Everyone says cultivating immortality is wonderful, but who has seen bones scattered by the roadside? [The author has a work with over 10,000 average subscriptions, Dawn Era, and a premium work, Giant Serpent of the Deep Forest. Quality guaranteed.]
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Giant Lizard of the Deep Forest 重林巨蜥
An adventure about a lizard growing into a mighty dragon, and a chronicle of war between fantasy and technological civilizations. Through the eyes of a dragon, let us experience the grandeur of warfare among the stars.
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The Bug That Evolves Like Crazy 疯狂进化的虫子
This is the story of a butterfly larva growing into the ruler of the insect race. A knight who was level 420 in life enters the Heavenly Domain once more after death, only to discover that he has become a butterfly larva. And so the story begins…
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The World Enters the Age of Myth 全球迈入神话时代
In the midst of an ordinary life, Lu Yiming suddenly gained superpowers. He had thought he was about to reach the pinnacle of success, only to discover that the whole world had undergone a drastic transformation! Ancient legends became reality, mysterious prophecies were repeatedly proven true, and all kinds of supernatural phenomena appeared before the public one after another: martial arts, magic, cultivation, demons, ghosts, and monsters. The old order collapsed, and humanity was about to ent
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The Chronicles of the Primitive Era 原始战记
"One day, we will return to our homeland. Our glory still shines, and the Flame of the Yan Clan will never go out."
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The Mysterious Inland Sea 诡秘地海
Beneath a pitch-black, uncanny underground sea lie mysterious islands and horrifying, deformed monsters. Humanity is not the protagonist in this godforsaken place. Madness and death are. Praying humbly to the things beneath the sea will only let the poor wretches linger in the dark, slowly becoming more twisted. If they want to reclaim humanity’s former glory, their only choice is to steer a steamship int
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Fearsome Farmer 农夫凶猛
Transmigrate into the body of a farmer? No problem. Heroes come from all walks of life, after all. Besides, I can see my stat panel, and having a golden finger from the start feels amazing. But wait, something seems a little off. What’s that the lord just brought out? A flash of white light, and another farmer appears, standing there dumbfounded with a hoe over his shoulder…
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Starting in 1983 从1983开始
A story with a touch of nostalgia. The old reader group is full.
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The Forty-Six Billion-Year Symphony of Evolution 进化的四十六亿重奏
Starting from the birth of life on a single planet, witness the rise and fall of countless civilizations, and the birth and extinction of species. Amid endless natural and geological catastrophes, nothing stays the same forever. Only by constantly adapting and evolving through adversity can one achieve perfect victory. The story begins with a tiny cell...
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The Swarm Principle 虫群法则
Systerm, a transliteration of System, translated into Chinese as System. After waking up, he, having forgotten his own name, became a little grasshopper named Systerm, the kind that could leap several meters in a single bound. A dozen or so days later, just as he had adapted to life as a grasshopper and was happily hopping around, he suddenly noticed a withered yellow leaf falling from the sky. Autumn had arrived. This is the story of a grassho
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Dawn of a New Era 曙光纪元
With the spiritual qi revival, martial arts rise, and passages connecting to other dimensions appear across Earth. Countless extraordinary beings enter Earth. Gods invade, laws descend, and strange creatures reappear. Humanity enters an age of evolution. A young man makes the Book of Knowledge his master. He derives martial arts techniques, optimizes secret manuals, gains a third-person perspective and attribute-based powers, and embarks on an extraordinary journey.
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Divine Pet Evolution 神宠进化
P.S. This book is also known as Pet Evolution. A new era dawned, and heaven and earth underwent a cataclysmic change. The native plants and animals of Earth mutated and reverted to their ancestral forms, while species from other worlds were stranded on Earth. In the end, humanity of the new era gave rise to an entirely new profession: Beast Tamer. Capturing monsters, raising monsters, training monsters: that was the life of a Beast Tamer. A dream-filled young man was dragged, dazed and confused,
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Soul of Negary 奈格里之魂
Listen to my summons! Dragon of Eternal Sin, Calamity of Progress, Forerunner, Land of Eternal Peace, Flame That Scorches Souls, Dweller in the Soul's Deep, Voice of the Origin, First Cause of All Things, Law of the Circle... Great Negris, your servant summons you! In the darkness, someone murmured an incantation. He smiled, knowing that one day he would become one with God. And it all began with a remnant soul that was tricked into another world and lost its protagonist aura. My new book, Mirro
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Way of the Devil 极道天魔
New book: Dark Night of Desperation, I Alone Am an Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you’re interested. Demons and monsters run rampant, and the people suffer. Divine weapons and demonic blades shine over the land. A game modifier on Lu Sheng’s phone accidentally became a supernatural ability in his mind. It also became his only lifeline in this dark, chaotic age.
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The Great Dragon Has Fallen 大龙挂了
[One of the Top Ten Authors of 2018] There’s a dragon that can produce metal, a fairy who grows crops and flowers, and a country baron who dreams of riding a dragon. Fantasy farming, a lord’s rise to power! Bai Yuhan’s labor of love for 2018. Enjoy!
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