Reading List 2025-04-06

This is what I'm reading the week of 2025-04-06. I only included the ones I've added to my bookshelf to continuous reading.

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**Practice the Dao of MTL to read these novels: **

Attending College at Age 38, I'm classmates with my son and daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  
  (harem maybe, modern China, Urban setting, slice of life, system, comedy)
  
  MC got a "study" system at the age of 38. It grants him money and abilities (such as been smarter, more handsome, stronger, etc. etc.) the more he studies. His son and daughter are three month away from the grueling College Entrance Exam. The system's main mission is for him to ace the exam and attend an ivy level college, and the reward, among other things, is 100 million dollars. So he quits his day job as delivery driver and attended his son and daughter's high school as a student, under the disguise of watching his children closely to make sure they are studying hard. Comedy abound of reactions from his daughter, son, and other parents and students. Probably will turn harem with beautiful teachers and sister-in-laws.....

High Martial World: Ascending from Cultivating Erlang Shen's Divine Gifts ⭐️⭐️⭐️  
(no harem, no romance, progression, heavy stats, Urban, no simp MC, hard grind)

MC transmigrate into a modern urban world that's like the earth except in 1999 space portal opened everywhere and monsters started appearing all over the world and devouring countless lives. Of course with the portal open, origin energy also appears that's kind like LinQi(spirit energy) in that it grants humans the ability to evolve to be faster and stronger, and some can even gain special talents such as fire manipulation. This enabled the humans to fight back against the monsters and control over the space portals. MC just has ordinary talent but with a system that only got to 100% activation when he was around 16 and it grants him a template of the cultivator Erlang (from journey to the west) so he can slowly gain all of Erlang's abilities through hard work and practices. The novel is kind of slow paced, MC didn't become number 2 in his school until chapter 80, and even at chapter 200, he is still not Number 1 in the nation. most of the chapters are just about him grinding his various tech skills and entering different competitions to earn money for his family. There is some face-slapping, but very little, mostly just to keep it interesting. Only read if you like a hard working MC that earned his skills and not just been given by the system. The system helps by granting him abilities at certain break points of the infusion of the templates. But to advance the infusion level, MC has to train very hard. So there is no romance, no harem. It can get boring at times, I just read it for the progression.

Deepseek Translated Qidian Description:

As alien races invade, calamity beasts rampage, and martial arts ascend, a tempest of life's evolution engulfs humanity, pushing it toward apocalyptic peril.
Lin Qi, an ordinary office worker, is thrust into this high-martial world with a mysterious golden tattered banner in hand. After seventeen mundane years, the banner awakens, granting him a divine template: Erlang Shen, Yang Jian—Celestial War God, disciple of the Primordial Celestial Lord, Hunter of Deities, and Sovereign of Rivers. With godlike strength, boundless magic, a third eye, and a saintly physique, Yang Jian’s legacy becomes Lin Qi’s path to supremacy.

The deeper his fusion with the template, the greater his martial talents grow.
Achievements: Shouldering Mountains to Chase the Sun, Conquering Demons Across Peaks, Dragon Subjugation, Serpent-Slaying, Splitting Mountains to Save His Mother…

Years later, beneath the starlit sky, Lin Qi hunts king-class calamity beasts—Hydra Emperors, Titan Apes, Oceanic Leviathans, Earth-Shaking Dragon Mammoths—leaving their corpses as monuments and rivers of blood in his wake.

“Senior Lin Qi, I will surpass you one day.”
When the world trembles anew at his feats, an SSS-ranked prodigy challenges him. Lin Qi smirks:
“Genius is merely the threshold to face me. When you reach the Ninth Realm, you’ll gaze upon me as mayflies do the heavens.”

This is the tale of a peerless talent wielding Erlang Shen’s divine gifts, delivering a transcendent reckoning in a high-martial era.

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