daoism novels

7 books

Please Don't Undergo Tribulation During the College Entrance Exam

Demons, ghosts, monsters, and cultivators hide in modern society, enjoying the conveniences brought by technology. A thousand-year-old tree demon impersonates a precious ancient tree and collects a government subsidy every month; an eight-hundred-year-old fox demon livestreams, posing coquettishly and absorbing people's vital essence; a five-hundred-year-old literary cultivator secludes himself for a hundred years to painstakingly study the eight-legged essay, only to emerge and find the imperial examinations abolished; a three-hundred-year-old tiger demon eats and drinks well in a wildlife park, observing the humans in their cars; a hundred-year-old zombie, his kind having dwindled drastically, opposes cremation and supports burial; a sixty-year-old sect leader leads his sect down the mountain to start a company and enter the secular world, only to be arrested for embezzlement and bribery; a thirty-year-old cultivator is filmed flying on his sword and hires paid commenters to flood the comments claiming it's AI; seventeen-year-old Zhou You is busy saving the world.

75 chapters

Cultivation & Xianxia

Scripture of Days Past

Thinking he had simply transmigrated to ancient times, Chu Qiguang was pondering how to make a fortune... when he suddenly discovered that a corpse mutation case had occurred in the neighboring county, Daoist priests in the temple were exorcising demons, and even the stray cat in the village had started speaking. Just as he was wondering whether he should start slaying demons, he realized that, without noticing, he was becoming the most terrifying great demon of all.

89 chapters

Cultivation & Xianxia

The Mirror Legacy

Lu Jiangxian died suddenly after staying up late, but his remnant soul attached itself to a cracked, greenish-gray bronze mirror, drifting down into a vast and boundless world of cultivation. Amidst the perilous and unpredictable Mount Dali, in a tiny village beside the Meichi River, a humble clan came across this mirror. From then on, the immortal dao was imparted, immortal arts were taught, and a magnificent new era unfolded. (Clan cultivation, pragmatic characters, clan-building, no system, ensemble cast)

1058 chapters

Cultivation & Xianxia

This Evil Cultivator Is Way Too Felonious!

Ten years of hard work on the righteous path, yet evil cultivation brings instant mastery. Evil isn't bad—evil is fast! Zhou Wuji awakens past-life wisdom, unburdened by destiny and karma. From then on, fate holds no terror, and ancestral dogmas hold no sway. Among the myriad Great Daos, I will walk the fastest one! What's with all that meditating, circulating qi, popping pills, and refining the spirit? Go tell it to my Book of Celestial Execution of the Northern Emperor! Now that I've reached the peak of the Great Dao and become a Heavenly Venerable, why have you all gone quiet? Wait, why are you all kneeling down?! The vast cosmic breath sweeps through all heavens, and my Dao prospers by the day. All deities pledge allegiance, bowing their heads in reverence to the Heavenly Venerable.

145 chapters

Cultivation & Xianxia

Gateway of Immortality

A mortal youth stumbles onto the immortal path by accident and struggles forward on his quest for immortality. The immortal path is harder than ascending to heaven, yet faced with endless perils, his pursuit of the Dao remains undiminished. Looking back, the green hills stand as ever, while the friends of old have all turned to white bones.

1817 chapters

Cultivation & Xianxia

Primordial Laws

The “Dao City” in the starry sky, “Zuzhou,” the ancestral land where cultivation first sprouted, “Shecang Ancient Marsh,” the origin of the waters of the vast universe, and the forbidden zone of the dark void, the “Battle Axe Void.” There is also the Heavenly Realm, hidden in the macroscopic world, and the shadowy netherworld, hidden in the microscopic one. The microscopic world of Earth… Under the microscope—a Buddha relic the size of a bean, like a pale-red planet, its towering mountains and dried-up ancient riverbeds densely covering it—desolate and vast, magnificent to behold. Filled with awe, the researchers observed this microscopic world closely. Before long, they made a stunning discovery. An ancient bronze warship, its form long out of date and its appearance bizarre, lay moored in the dried-up ocean of this pale-red planet, rusted all over, its masts and canvas still clearly discernible; how many years it had lain stranded there, no one could say. Zooming in, they saw that the ship was strewn with bones—skeletons of humans clad in armor, phoenix corpses, python skeletons—and vast grave-fields and stele forests covered much of its deck. Though it was only 460 nanometers long, it was so magnificent and mysterious.

87 chapters

Cultivation & Xianxia

Dragon Canon

Wei Yuan originally harbored no grand ambitions, but swept up in the torrential currents of the era, he had no choice but to embark on a path of conquering all quarters and expanding frontiers, traversing every mountain pass before his hair ever turned gray.\n\nInformal Synopsis 1: Even immortals fear industrialization! This is the story of an industrial revolution taking place in a fantasy world.

1544 chapters