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I quite enjoyed Legend of the Northern Blade recently, which is now a complete story front to back. My one real criticism is the fact that the ending gets a bit rushed because of the author's poor health. Let me try and put together a list by browsing what's popular and picking out what I've read.
>1. Legend of the Northern Blade
Talked about it above a little. The baseline concept is pretty straight forward as a tale of violent revenge. It's not representative of the average Murim at all as it has a much better understanding of the narrative it wanted to portray and remixes the standardized Murim setting commonly used by these stories in order to serve it.
>2. Murim Login
It's a very strange Frankenstein of a story mixing Portal Invasion and Murim Genres while keeping them entirely distinct. Guy gets in a junk training capsule and finds himself living a double life in an apparently simulated Murim Reality while keeping the system and abilities acquired there whenever he goes back to the modern world as a hunter there. This is likely gonna be a common recommendation but personally I think it's a bit slow and much prefer the Murim side to the Portal Hunter side even though I tend to read stories of both genres.
>3. Infinite Level Up in Murim
A soldier that lived a hard life dies in a war against a transcendental martial artist ravaging the central plains, only to wake back up as a kid with a strange quest system and the ability to right everything that went wrong using its help and his past memories. This operates with more familiar themes compared to the above two stories, but is fairly high quality and does some pretty fun stuff along the way. I quite like this one.
>4. Reaper of the Drifting Moon
A boy is kidnapped and inducted into an assassination sect, trained to be an absolute menace, makes enemies with literally everybody as a result of missions he was forced to undertake, and so many people fucking die. Being straight with you it's not really my cup of tea and I dropped it after getting quite a ways in, but if you're down with edge you'd be so down with this.
>5. Absolute Sword Sense
Haven't caught up with it in quite some time, but I remember it being quite good. A man lead a shit life after being forcibly inducted into the Blood Cult at a young age, eventually working his way up as a spy. He was later betrayed while trying to leave the cult in a deal gone wrong, and woke up in his younger body with peculiar new powers allowing him to commune with the spirits of swords. Unfortunately for him, he woke back up during the original incident where he was being kidnapped, forcing him to fight to survive in the Blood Cult all over again.
>6. Chronicles of the Demon Faction.
I remember it being okay. Predominantly centers around the Heavenly Demon Cult in one of their more benign representations. The protagonist was a once legendary assassin, now reincarnated into the body of the shittiest young master apprenticed under the Heavenly Demon. It's a fight for survival against rivals for the position of leadership as well as external enemies.
>7. Heavenly Demon Cultivation Simulation
This one was really good and recently started back up again. Low tier shitter of the Demon Cult gets a video game system one day - has no idea what a video game is because of course - and has to idly experiment with it to figure out what the fuck to do with it. Unlike the average story in this genre, the protagonist doesn't just become god tier and put in a position to worm his way out of his problems using foreknowledge now that they have their cheat. There's saving and extra lives involved in this one with the protagonist frequently dying and at times sacrificing progress and power to go backwards after realizing they've set themselves up for failure. It doesn't feel like the average story in the genre at all.
>8. A Modern Man Who Got Transmigrated Into the Murim World
This is a fairly popular one with a decent chapter count to keep you busy, and it has some fun interpretations on certain ideas common to the genre, but I personally didn't really like it. It heavily emphasizes a modern man taking his pretty decent education and seeking mercantile success in a Murim setting. Later in the story he gets a god tier power up after finding the Sword Paths of another person that had once transmigrated here like he did, and starts steamrolling opposition a bit while continuing to be a greedy merchant.
>9. Poison Dragon: The Legend of an Asura
Been a long time since I caught up with this, but quite enjoyable. It's a revenge story about a guy whose clan was slain and his leg crippled learning poison arts to seek out revenge. The first few arcs of the story are filled with him taking out his enemies by poisoning them in clever ways that are fun to see play out, while later sections have him learning martial arts, making allies, changing as a person, and becoming a public enemy.
>10. Path of the Shaman
The Heavenly Demon is dying of old age, but his most devout disciple comes back just in time to give him a supposed herb of immortality. Soon after he passes away, but finds himself in the body of a shitty young Taoist disciple. He's now attempting to reclaim his position as the top of the martial world, though along the way starts to learn about previously unknown forces, and the fate of the Demonic Cult after his passing. It's generally more lighthearted than some of the other 'darker' stories mentioned above.
>11. Peerless Dad
Very good, very different from other Murim stories. Man endured harsh training in his youth trying to make a name for himself, fell in love with a woman, settled down, attempted to have a family, but she died during childbirth giving him triplets to raise by himself. Now he's gotta do what he can to put food on the table and provide for them as a single father. He doesn't have any other skills except fighting though, so he does work as a guard, and a mercenary, but the Murim is beginning to go through turbulent times and the strong stand out. Very different from standard fair.
There's others in the top listing that I just didn't mention. There's a lot of newer stories with a lower chapter count that I enjoy but didn't wanna recommend since I couldn't say if they'd definitely continue or not. I think this is a decent enough list for you to sift through in case you like anything there though, and from there it should be easy enough to branch out.