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- 1 I Attained Immortality in the Real World 我在现实世界得道成仙 Heaven and earth shift and change; the five elements turn upside down. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors came first, then the mysterious ways of the Shang and Zhou. Qin and Han rose, the Two Jin fell into chaos. Tang and Song forged new paths, while Ming and Qing severed the dragon veins and cut off the road to heaven. Who wields the axe to cleave the Five Sacred Mountains? Crimson, black, white, azure, and great yellow skies. The road to immortality ends, the mortal world is stained; the m 1Votes26.7kRecs132.8kFans
- 2 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 3 The Han Dynasty's Great Endeavor 汉家功业 The young emperor is tiny, surrounded by eunuchs, powerful ministers, and great clans! The young emperor is enormous, so enormous that the entire Han Empire cannot contain him! This book is also known as Cao Cao Is No Match for Me, You Are All Still My Subjects, and Your Majesty, You Absolutely Mustn't. Transmigrating into the body of Liu Bian, the young emperor at the end of the Han dynasty, he turns this splendid, tumultuous age upside down! 0Votes18.1kRecs165kFans
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Bright One 明尊
Great is the primal origin: all things receive their beginning from it, and through it the heavens are governed. Supreme and exalted Lord, at times riding the Six Dragons, never straying from the path. This is the story of a transmigrator's old man awakening in a world with a native protagonist, and the golden finger gaining a mind of its own. I've made it this far, Qian Chen, relying on no one but myself! Great Lord Taishang, save me!
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- 5 EN Trapped in the Cube 我被困在方块之中 Upon waking, Mo Ling finds himself trapped inside a sealed cube. With one cubic meter of room to move, an indestructible metal shell, and no food or water, it is like waiting to die inside a coffin. At the critical moment, however, Mo Ling discovers that his perception has undergone a strange change, extending continuously through the walls and outward. The outside world is filled with danger, but he cannot move. He can only hide inside the cube and influence this bizarre world. Faced with the i 5Votes75kRecs279.5kFans
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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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- 7 Reborn as a Cat: Are You My Human? 重生猫咪:你是我的铲屎官吗? A programmer works himself to death, then wakes up as a little orange cat with awakened talents. One: You stand at the pinnacle of feline cuteness; Two: Sage Aura; Three: Nine Lives; Four: Lucky Aura; Well, time to find an owner and freeload off them. Potential owners: A Better Tomorrow's Ah Zu, New Police Story's Ah Zu, Gao Yao from The Myth, Jiang Yuyan from Handsome Siblings, Guo Jing from The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Zhou Zhiruo from The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Murong Fu from Demi 0Votes94.2kRecs169.8kFans
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Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Disaster: Starting from the Celestial Master Mansion 趋吉避凶,从天师府开始
[He transmigrated and began cultivating at the Daoist holy site, the Celestial Masters' Mansion.] Lei Jun: "Not a bad start." [He started late, began cultivation late, has mediocre natural talent, and makes slow progress.] Lei Jun: "That's not so good." [Seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. Your fortune slips foretell the future, and your choices decide your life.] Lei Jun: "My golden finger is pretty powerful." [Good fortune: ...Gain a fifth-grade opportunity. Act discreetly, with no worries
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Pillow Blade 枕刀
Resting my head on a blade outside the woodcutter’s gate, listening to cicadas in the evening breeze... It was nothing but a dream of the martial world! (A Gu Long fanfic, set after The Sentimental Swordsman.)
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- 10 My Simulated Path to Immortality 我的模拟长生路 How difficult is the path to immortality! And all the more so in this cultivation world, utterly transformed by a plague! Mortals carry disease. If immortals come into contact with them, their cultivation may decline in mild cases, or they may return to the heavens in severe ones. Thus mortals and immortals are forever divided. Immortals cannot cultivate together, and the entire cultivation world has become one vast dark forest. Li Fan transmigrated into this world with soaring ambitions, ye 508Votes975.7kRecs2.9MFans
- 11 The Chief Grand Secretary 首辅 “At first, all I wanted was to be an honest little county magistrate, ruling my own small patch of land, throwing my weight around, and taking it easy.” “But the officialdom is like rowing upstream: stand still, and you fall behind. To stay alive and protect my wife and children, I had no choice but to climb the ranks. Who knew I would keep rising higher and higher?” “Until one day, they all called me...” “Grand Secretary!” 0Votes32.7kRecs212.1kFans
- 12 The Goose's Three Kingdoms 鹅的三国 At the end of the second month of the seventh year of Jian’an, the White Goose Bandits rose in Mengze. At the time, Cao Gong was stationed in Chenliu, while the bandits fled far away, crossing the region and killing the magistrate of Xiayi. Several thousand bandits surrounded Xiao County, but could not breach its sturdy walls. With the commandery and state troops yet to arrive, they eventually fled toward the Si River. The year was 404 of the Han dynasty, or the seventh year of Jian’an. And so t 0Votes33.1kRecs38.9kFans
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Playing the Brute in a Wuxia Text Game 在武侠文字游戏里当莽夫
"What's the most important secret behind your success?" Every spotlight shone on Chu Junhui, etching his calm expression into the monument of history. "Go all in! How can you play a martial arts game without going all in?" Two text-based games project extraordinary powers into reality, turning Blue Star upside down. One is a cultivation game, where players live by one rule: stay cautious, stay aloof, and keep your word. The other is a martial arts game, where players live by one rule: go all
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- 14 The Origin of Mythology 神话起源 A thousand years from now, we will be history. Ten thousand years from now, we will be myth. 5Votes106kRecs141.3kFans
- 15 The World’s Top Movie Star 全球影帝 "He's the iron-blooded hero in Fist King." "He's also the lonely old man in A Century of Love." "He's the debauched financial tycoon in Stock Market Tycoon." "And he's the crazed, ruthless, cold-blooded killer in Atonement." "He came from humble beginnings, and he's an internationally acclaimed master of modern method acting." "But once he steps off the screen, he's just an ordinary man who enjoys a drink or two." "Even someone from humble beginnings can make it onto the big screen. This is a st 10Votes1.4MRecs889.7kFans
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