Sup guys, I've read probably 500-1000 LN'S during QUARANTINE time and have ran out of content to sate my appetite... I hope you can hit me with a few solid reads that are similar to what I put below! Looking for novels with a few main elements 1- MC who is not a p**sy. He is not a blockhead that is dense as a 20 Kilo piece of LEAD. Cunning, but doesnt scheme for everything. 2- OP, whether it is from the beginning or over time thru training/tempering 3- Fantasy (Swords and Magic), Cultivation Based, or Level System Fantasy - Level based strength (adventurers etc) (Apocalypse/evolution type novels work aswell, those are enjoyable if written correctly!) 4- MC transmigrates/goes back into the past/ lives another life/ rebirth that helps him in some way 5- Starts out in small village/orphan/rural wildlands/ poor AF and has to hunt in the wild for food etc 6- Mc uses a sword or focuses on tyrannical badassery as his main way of fighting EXTRA ELEMENTS PREFERRED BUT NOT NEEDED 1- MC is extremely ruthless, is not afraid to commit murder etc. 2- MC has a harem, and doesn't shy away from beauties. "Immortal Fairy... Come give Big Brother a hug.... It helps develop your spiritual sense." 3- Main Character has REALM skipping battle prowess, meaning he can skip realms and fight stronger people due to bloodline, culitvation arts, etc... 4- Protagonist has plot armor, finding treasures, cultivation arts, something to put him ahead of everyone else etc. 5- Novel is mature - Depicts brutal beheadings, or does not shy away from blood and killing from the MC. These are novels that I have already read, these writings each have something that makes them worth reading in my opinion. (Graded on a 'F-SS' Scale)- but i am going to put mostly good reads Perfect World (SS) (Small boy grows into #1 Under Heaven) End of Magic Era (SS) (Goes back 30,000 years to the past with knowledge of 30,000 years before him Desolate Era (SS) (Starts off in Small Clan, Becomes #1 Under Heaven, Good Chinese Lore) Chronicles of Primordial Wars (B) (Small Village boy, interesting, comparable to Perfect World but worse) Realms in The Firnament (S) (Rebirth of an experts soul, recultivates and goes beyond to higher realms) Against the Gods (SS) (If you havent read this up to the updates... you are missing out) The Lord's Empire (A) (Tyrannical, face slapping, after 2k chapters gets dull tho, good overall) The Beginning After The End (S) (Rebirth of a King, very interesting, only downside is that you have to pay for the current chapters) The Amber Sword (B) (Goes into a game, has knowledge of what is going to happen, uses it well) Colossus Hunter (B) (I wont spoil this one, only rated a B due to the fact the translation stopped) Armipotent (B) (Great read if you have some time, Apocalypse + Brutal Thug = Good read) Legend of Randidly Ghosthound (A) (1300+ chaps so far and it is still very interesting, worth a read) Great Demon King (S) (MC uses UNO reverse card and takes over demonic cultivators soul/memories, cultivates to #1 under heaven with his beauties) Divine Brilliance (S) (Comes back with future knowledge, uses it to cultivate and becomes a king etc) Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian (S) (Dies once, goes back in time, plays game, #1 with beauties) Castle of Black Iron (SS) (Poor kid/oprhan finds a treasure, has his own space like AST, but 10x better) The World Online (S) (Earth is fucked, so everyone gets on a spaceship to goto another planet, but the catch is the planet has terrible beasts that wiped out everyone else that went there. So they make a game to play on the spaceship to prepare the humans for colonizing a beastial planet + super interesting chinese history/lore) God and Devil World (S) (Apocalypse, becomes badass with a skeleton and skills, has beauties, the whole package essentially) Epoch of Twillight (B) (Pretty much the same thing as God and Devil World, besides the fact it is a bit more sci-fi(ey)) King of the Battlefield (A) (Back in time, assassin, paradox of memories, oh yeah he also becomes OP AF with his memories) Heavenly Jewel Change (A) (Dude was a trash, then finds a treasure... blah blah you get the point ) Ancient Strengthening Technique (B) (Gets that little space inside of himself with time dilation, the fucking cultivation system/skill system and strenght is by far one of the most confusing things i have ever read in a cultivation novel) World Defying Dan God (B) (Finds two beauties to help him cultivate to a high enough level to save him, good for a few hundred chapters until it becomes retarded) Realm of Myths and Legend (B) (Eh, you get the point if i dont tell ya ) Shura's Wrath (S) (Game that is real life? But is also a game. Very interesting story, not too long and is an overall good read. Paradise of Demonic Gods (S) (Sacrifices his lifespan for heaven rending sword talents for revenge. Watch his path to the top etc etc etc. Good read) King of Gods (A) (Finds magical god eye that literally is beyond plot armor, pretty much just falls from heaven on him lol... Then proceeds to become OP af since it gives him all the goods from the ancient god eye.. ya know.) Game of Divine Thrones (A) (Bro goes back in time, resets it all to claim a divine throne, this one is Korean so its pretty whack but still a decent read) Arifureta (S) (Top class Isekai, literal just top class... Keeps ya hooked for a long time, even the arks when they return from the ISEKAI world are interesting. A good example of a great writer.) I am the Monarch (A) (Goes back in time from being a scrub to ascending to kingship and carrying his people on his back.) Last Wish System (C) (Great concept but extremely low grade plot and writing, good for a read if you are bored) Unbound (D) (Great concept but the author makes it low grade trash)
i believe you will like Reincarnation Paradise. has elements 1,2,3,4,6 and 1,3,5. read it on comrade mao. also Reverend Insanity, Birth of the Demonic Sword, Nightmare's Call, Sage Monarch, Renegade Immortal
I have read Reverend Insanity and Renegade Immortal, but the rest are unfamiliar, thanks for the suggestions ill check them out
also Carefree Path of Dreams, Supreme Uprising, The Legendary Mechanic, Soaring of Galaxia are some others
Grasping Evil it just misses the 5 out of everything in the list, but i reccomend it anyway, yes the rebirth is a thing but you only understand that one much later in the novel
Reaper of the Martial World. - Cunning, but not to the point of refusing direct actions: MC is highly intelligent, and uses his intelligence well, but doesn't back down from a fight overly well. He also refuses to believe that he doesn't have an opportunity to win, a belief that was eventually stated in the story to have prevented him from gaining access to a powerful "instinct"-like technique that some opponents have. - OP: MC's soul is insanely powerful, to the point of being overwhelming. Shame the soul has almost no direct combat capabilities, and the MC starts out being unable to cultivate spirit energy, and body cultivation takes a significant amount of time. Less than soul, typically, but the MC's soul is already brokenly powerful to the point of "why isn't he dead from being overwhelmed by his own soul"? - Obvious Growth Based Strength: Cultivation Novel. Body, Soul & Energy type cultivations, with Energy Type being the main for most people. One grows in Energy Type Cultivation by absorbing energy for their rank and filling out their meridians, before seeking to view and absorb energy of the next level of cultivation, triggering the Heavenly Tribulation. - Transmigrates/Regresses/Reincarnates: Travels. MC was born into the Mortal World, an area filled with Humans who, for some reason, cannot cultivate, but has technology similar to our own. From there he enters Cultivation School due to being successful in some competition that nobody had ever been successful in before, designed to give mortals who know about cultivation hope, but put up a solid barrier to entry between Cultivator's and Mortals. - Rural Hunter to Major Authority: Father was a Mortal General, but the actions of Mortals is considered insignificant to most cultivators, so MC ends up developing from "Peasant Nobody" to "Intimidating Powerhouse". But, no, he doesn't hunt down wild animals for food while a mortal. - Sword/Badassery Fighting Style: Eh... his weapon constantly changes throughout the series, but he does seem to have a fairly brutal fighting style, typically. Either that, or he's commanding an army in ways most don't understand. - Ruthless (Murder OK): MC's more than willing to fight, kill, and ignore orders from the family authorities to "stop" just before landing the killing blow. Harem: MC gains wives throughout the story, but the harem grows fairly slowly. - Combat Realm Skipper: MC regularly fights opponents above his rank, though he usually gets to prepare or has to take advantage of some nearby situation if the rank disparity is too significant. And it has been too significant a few times throughout the series. - Plot Armour: LOTS. Hell, some of it was recently shown and explained in story. - Mature (Blood, Guts & Slavery OK) Plot: While not every fight is a war, in fact they're fairly infrequent, there are a fair few wars throughout the story. MC also murders, frees slave-prisoners intended to become supporting material for the souls of some of the stronger practitioners, and more. Re: Direction The Peak (Cultivation Tale) - Cunning, but not to the point of refusing direct actions: MC is... not the most knowledgeable of individuals. Nor the most patient. When he starts cultivating, he has difficulty in directing Spirit Energy into himself, so he accidentally stumbles upon an ancient, easier, method to absorb spirit energy that is rarely used because the "standard" method gives additional training in self discipline. Due to lacking this training, he goes looking for a technique that would help him, finds one, and forcefully utilises it, even as it makes him bleed profusely (mostly because he's a rank 0 cultivator trying to use a technique far beyond his realm). - OP: MC is powerful and skilled for his rank, but not OP in the story so far. At the latest chapter, MC has, due to external reasons, kept the same rank for a longer period of time than most would at his rank, but is highly powerful & skilled for his small rank. - Obvious Growth Based Strength: Cultivation Novel, ranks are set things, and are recognised by developing a certain technique instinctively awakened by reaching that rank, as well as a requirement to absorb at least one treasure of sufficient age. - Transmigrates/Regresses/Reincarnates: Reincarnated. Grew up on Earth as a Fighting Otaku, and commits suicide after becoming the strongest close-combat fighter in the world due to his power meaning nothing in the modern world. - Rural Hunter to Major Authority: At the start of the story, the MC is born into a rural farming town. He secretly leaves after informing his parents that he would become a cultivator, and walks from one sect's town to another until he finds one that the locals say is the strongest sect. Then he joins the entry competition for the sect and joins it. - Sword/Badassery Fighting Style: MC's primary weapons are his body and spear, though that develops over the course of the story. - Ruthless (Murder OK): MC killed on Earth, and is more than willing to kill during the entry competition for the sect. - Harem: No relationships for the MC so far in the story. - Combat Realm Skipper: The technique the MC uses to allow him to direct will, and thus cultivate, is manifesting will as an object, something gained by developing to the 3rd realm of cultivation, possibly ignoring foundation building, and not even necessarily usable by those in that realm. That said, MC fought, defeated and killed cultivators in Foundation building while still a complete mortal due to his higher combat skill & experience. Also, MC could not even witness a competition between third rank fighters while in early foundation building, and has his ass handed to him on a platter by a cultivator near the peak who was supressing themselves to be near at the MC's level. - Plot Armour: Some, but it varies in significance throughout the story, and is typically reasonable things. - Mature (Blood, Guts & Slavery OK) Plot: MC is more than willing to murder, and is accepting of the fact that slavery is a thing that just happens in the world he's in.
Appreciate the In-depth response, I have read Direction to the Peak before but dont remember most of it, i might as well try them again. Thanks ill forshure let ya know if they are good
Ill try out Soaring of Galaxia and Carefree Path of Dreams, the other two i have read before Thanks for the recommendations
You have? It's three months old and currently 202 chapters, so it's entirely possible that you left it alone before the MC went on a training expedition outside of the sect. It's a fairly slow story, though. As in, it's been 202 chapters and the MC hasn't passed the first major hurdle of cultivation. Though, again, MC has external reasons to have kept his current rank for longer than normal.
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/versatile-mage/ https://www.novelupdates.com/series/nine-star-hegemon-body-art/ https://www.novelupdates.com/series/battle-frenzy/ https://www.novelupdates.com/series/monster-paradise/ https://www.novelupdates.com/series/worlds-apocalypse-online/ https://www.novelupdates.com/series/let-me-game-in-peace/ the only good cn novels that i can remember, try them i listed them in order which i liked em
I have read Vertsatile Mage Nine Star Hegemon Body Art (Which isnt that bad) Battle Frenzy (Too slow paced/not very good) Monster Paradise (cool but boring) Worlds Apocalypse Online (Caught up to translation) Let me Game In Peace (MC is kinda brainless)