Books like A Snake Lies Waiting
Guo Jing and Lotus Huang's adventures carry on across the martial world, as Guo Jing seeks the blessing of Lotus's father, the formidable master of Peach Blossom Island.
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Thousand Autumns
Shen Qiao, head of the Xuandu Mountain sect, loses a duel, falls from a cliff and loses his memory, and is taken in by Yan Wushi, the amoral head of a demonic sect, who wants to see whether a good man can be corrupted.
Journey to the West
The monk Tripitaka travels from Tang China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures, guarded by Monkey, a rebellious immortal who once made war on heaven, along with Pigsy and Sandy.
Jade City
On the island of Kekon, two clans of jade-wielding warriors control the city of Janloon and its trade in magical jade, and when a new drug lets anyone use jade, a gang war begins.
His Majesty's Dragon
During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy captain Will Laurence captures a French ship carrying a dragon egg, and when it hatches and the dragon chooses him, he must leave the sea for Britain's aerial corps.
I Shall Seal the Heavens
Meng Hao, a failed scholar, is kidnapped by a cultivation sect and becomes a cultivator, a ruthless and resourceful one.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Balsa, a thirty-year-old spear-wielding bodyguard, saves the young prince Chagum from drowning and is hired to protect him from his own father's assassins, who believe the spirit egg the boy carries must be destroyed.
Tai-Pan
A ruthless trader builds a dynasty in nineteenth-century Hong Kong, clawing power from the chaos of the opium wars and the birth of the colony.
Heaven Official's Blessing
Xie Lian, a crown prince who became a god and was twice cast down from heaven, ascends for the third time as the laughing stock of the heavens, and meets a mysterious young man called San Lang.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A French professor and two companions become the prisoners and guests of Captain Nemo aboard his submarine, the Nautilus, on a voyage through the wonders and terrors of the world's oceans.
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Tress, a practical girl who collects cups from sailors on a rock in an ocean of deadly spores, sets out to rescue the young man she loves from the Sorceress, in a story told by a wry, meddling narrator.
With Fire and Sword
In 1647, as the Cossack rising of Bohdan Khmelnytsky breaks over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the young knight Jan Skrzetuski falls for Helena and has to fight his way across a burning Ukraine to keep her.
Unsouled
A boy born without the ability to use his world's magic system sets out to prove that willpower can overcome any limitation.