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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
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From the Start as a Little Demon? I Smash the Hall of King Yama to Defy Fate 开局成小妖？怒砸阎王殿逆天改命
A mildly terrifying journey through branching timelines. Are you ready? “Inside the bridal shop, the once-cozy pink walls began to writhe. Plump mold worms wriggled out through the cracks, one after another. The clerk's smile never changed. It was like a frozen mask, sending chills down your spine. She reached out to grab me. ‘Let... me... help you... shed... your skin.’” [CULT + branching timelines + mild horror + no saintly protagonist + slow start + supernatural + dreamcore + SAN loss + inf
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The Haunted Playground 诡蜮乐园
[Not a power fantasy + light supernatural elements + infinite worlds + comedy] A world beyond reality, the secrets of higher dimensions laid bare, the sails of miracles unfurled. A mysterious letter opens the way to a strange new world. Heartbeats, blood, fear... They spread out from the Paradise World, sending ripples through the peaceful main world. Welcome to the Strange Realm Paradise! [This is a long story... Be patient and read on, everyone. Let's wait and see.]
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Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录
Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game..
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I Was Surgically Transformed into a Pig 我被整容成了一头猪
I Was Made to Look Like a Pig Through Plastic Surgery
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A Corrupted Heart 糜烂之心
Deep inside the Luocheng Police Department, a metal filing cabinet labeled “Bloodstained Files” holds dozens of long-unsolved, grisly cases. Each one once shocked the nation with its bizarre deaths, but limited forensic technology at the time meant they were ultimately filed away as “unsolved.” In 2025, advances in forensic science prompted the department to launch the “Bloodstained Files Resolution Project.” The first case to be reopened was the most controversial of them all: the “Terrifying P
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Are There No Gods or Ghosts in China? Chinese Horror Terrifies the World 华夏无鬼神？中式恐怖吓哭全球
[National-Destiny Livestream + Horror and Terror + Designing Scenarios] Bai Lang, a fanatical horror-culture enthusiast, transmigrated to a world similar to the one he had known in his previous life. The only difference was that the Dragon Kingdom had never developed its own Chinese-style horror culture. Instead, Western horror legends had captured the public imagination, with figures like chainsaw-wielding maniacs, man-eating sharks, and zombies. When the horror national-destiny arena descended
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After Death, My Wife Preserved My Corpse, and I Evolved from a Zombie 死后被妻子养尸，我从僵尸进化
[Zombies + Corpse-Raising + Corpse-Driving + Body Retrieval + Folk Customs + Romance + Ancient Mythology + Classic of Mountains and Seas] (Volumes 1–7: After I died, my wife raised my corpse, transforming me from a zombie into the Ancestral Corpse.) (Volume 8: After my wife died, I raised her corpse, transforming her from a zombie into a female drought demon.) In my previous life, my wife was the Yellow Emperor's daughter. She died after being sacrificed to the gods, and I raised her corpse unti
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I Command Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Return as the Strongest in the World 身具万千厉鬼，我归来即人间最强
[Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe
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Supernatural: I Have a Copy of Journey to the West 灵异：我有一本西游记
[Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost
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Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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Ashtray 烟灰缸
[Mild horror + affair + twists] A stunning woman from the south, a knock at midnight, a silent delivery guy, someone crouching beneath the bed... Qin Song’s life is plunged into a living hell by an affair.
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An Old Story, a New Twist 老故事，新玩法
An Old Story, A New Twist
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The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳：哄完活人斗厉鬼
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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The Girl Is Spoiled Rotten by Her Weird Boy Group in a Rules-Based Horror World 女孩在规则怪谈里被男团诡异狂宠
Completed [No CP + mystery and deduction + a wealthy young woman uses her incredible brain to solve puzzles] The Queen’s level is too high. The eerie beings are crying and trying to force-quit. When the eerie beings descended, a mysterious organization began buying up coins at exorbitant prices, making them almost impossible to find. A one-yuan coin could buy a three-million-yuan house, or be used to contract an eerie being to serve you for life. After a high-IQ girl transmigrates into a book ca
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Dark Alley in Ghost City: Cat in the Womb 鬼城暗巷·猫胎
Ghost City Back Alley: The Cat in the Womb
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Dark Alley in Ghost City: Voices in the Walls 鬼城暗巷·墙语
Ghost City Back Alley: Voices in the Wall
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Ghost City Back Alley: The Yin Shop 鬼城暗巷·阴铺
Ghost City: Dark Alley, Yin Shop
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Dark Alley in Ghost City: The Eighteenth Floor 鬼城暗巷·十八层
Ghost City Back Alley: The Eighteenth Floor
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Madman in the Haunted House 凶宅疯探
Alternate title: Sign-In at the Haunted House: I, the Evil Spirit Lord, Have You My name is Chen Wang. I was born with seventy-three lingering spirits inside me, half human and half evil spirit, with a fate marked by calamity. Others live in homes. I live in haunted houses. Others protect their lives. I gamble with mine. Blood streams from the Buddha's head in an ancient temple. A withered monk blocks the road and offers a sacrifice. Gu worms blot out the sky in southern Yunnan. A great general
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Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命
When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father...
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The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师
I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts
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Underworld Agent 地府经纪人
I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around.
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生
[Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis
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This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷
My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that
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I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村
My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore
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The Haunted Grave 诡坟
I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she
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There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡
They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb
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The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录
[Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th
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The Art of Fortune-Telling by Chinese Characters 测字有术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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Moonlit Schemes in the Coffin 棺中月策
“After the century-old Blood Coffin upheaval, the Yin-Yang Token, fought over by both the living and the dead, is actually inside the bronze coffin carried by a woman? As the Nine Houses surrounded Su Tan, she laughed like a madwoman. They wanted rules? Then she would become the rules! The sword of a cultivator in the Profound Mansion Realm could not pierce her coffin, and the soul-binding chains of the Hall of Yama could not restrain her. Only when she climbed to the heart of the game over the
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A Horror Game Has Arrived? I Hear It's Terrifying! 惊悚游戏降临？听说好可怕啊！
Horror Comedy + Supernatural + Infinite Worlds + No Female Lead + Internship System + Light Power Fantasy While Qin Feng was working diligently, a coworker told him that the horrifying game that had descended a few days earlier actually had a livestream. Was it really that scary? "Have you heard? The game is full of vicious ghosts." "Have you heard? The ghosts are ranked by level." "What levels?" "Scary, terrifying, dangerous, horrifying, nightmare, and hell." "That's all?" "What, there's more?"
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The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月
My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI
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A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Corpse Keeper 守尸人
The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien
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I Was a Detective in the Republic of China 我在民国当侦探
[Republican-era investigations + Anthology stories + Male leads + Strong leads + Folk customs] Gao Ren has been having an awful run of luck lately. He accidentally offended a rich young master and nearly got thrown in jail! Luckily, while making his escape, he ran into a gullible little Taoist priest. The little priest wasn’t just good-looking, he was also willing to be Gao Ren’s money tree! He could perform rituals and solve baffling cold cases, too! Gao Ren stuck close to the little priest, se
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Dark Tales 5: The Power Game 恶谭5：权势局
[Mystery + Criminal investigation + Deduction + Case-by-case mysteries + The depths of human nature + No romance + Focused on solving cases] [Beneath the power, there is nothing but desire] A dismembered body is found in an alley, its bones and flesh mixed with pork. The brutal method of killing is appalling, and the victim’s wife has vanished without a trace! A popular young star dies mysteriously in a luxury hotel. The crime scene is covered in blood, but a malfunctioning surveillance system l
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Dark Tales 4: Tides of the Sea of Hate 恶谭4：恨海潮
[Mystery + Criminal investigation + Deduction + Case-by-case mysteries + The depths of human nature + No romance + Focused on solving cases] [Love and hate are poison. In excess, they consume flesh and blood and devour the soul.] A student at a foreign studies university carries explosives into a classroom, causing a tragedy that shocks the entire city! A wealthy boy vanishes on a rainy night, and his body surfaces in the river the next day. But the circumstances of his drowning are riddled with
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Dark Tales 3: The Abyss of Desire 恶谭3：欲望渊
[Mystery + criminal investigation + deduction + episodic cases + the depths of human nature + no romance + solving cases] [Desire is a wildfire, hard to contain once it spreads. It burns away reason, leaving only ashes behind.] Young Jiang Tingxu was presumed to have died by suicide, but years later he suddenly reappears and mercilessly kills the family members he once knew. A bizarre family history begins to come to light... The shocking discovery of several skeletons brings Longxue Village, a
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Dark Tales 2: The Fame and Fortune Circuit 恶谭2：名利场
[Mind-bending mystery + criminal investigation + deduction + episodic stories + the depths of human nature + stunning twists + hard-core sleuthing] “Where fame and fortune reign, disputes are sure to arise.” A woman's corpse hidden inside a Buddha statue in an ancient temple, a mysterious online celebrity, and a group of suspects with tangled connections: Tan Zheng takes on a baffling murder case. As the investigation deepens, he discovers that the case is far more complicated than it first appe
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Record of the Spirit Seekers 2: Farewell to the Mortal World 访灵笔录2：入世辞
[Mystery + supernatural + powerful partners + lively humor + episodic stories + ghostly tales + an ensemble cast hunting ghosts] “Nothing brings greater joy than meeting a new friend; nothing brings greater sorrow than parting from a loved one.” A chance encounter with a beauty on Ghost Wasteland Mountain turns out to be a deadly ghost's attempt to claim a soul! Karmic ties from a past life and entanglements in this one: whose mistake is it, and whose fate? Quan Ning and Yin Cangyi are accidenta
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The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途
(This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into
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I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙
A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap
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A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories from Northeast China 东北民间鬼故事集
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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Shattered Yin-Yang Jade 阴阳玉碎
[Supernatural + horror + suspense + first person + no idiots in the story + clever protagonist + a touch of angst] "I'm turning eighteen soon. I should die, too." Yu Yue and I are twin sisters, born eighteen years ago on Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller gave us each a jade pendant and said that on our eighteenth birthday, whoever's pendant broke would die. We're seventeen now, and suddenly both pendants have shattered. How can we possibly survive?
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Cowards, Keep Out: A Courier Battles Sadako 胆小鬼勿进：快递员大战女鬼贞子
Cowards Keep Out: The Courier vs. Sadako, the Ghost
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The Haunted House: The Midnight Wind Chime Murders 凶宅之午夜风铃杀人事件
The Haunted House: The Midnight Wind Chime Murders
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A Taoist Priest Enters the World 道士入世记
[Professional Taoist + slow burn + folk customs + the supernatural + mild horror + realism + gradual development + no wish fulfillment] (The central theme of this second novel: people and their relationships.) The Taoist's Journey into the Mortal World is a continuation of The Little Taoist of Qingshan. New readers can enjoy it on its own, while returning readers will find it an even richer experience. Do you want to learn about folk spiritual mediums? Curious about spirit mediums? Want to know
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The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士
[Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill
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