Any Suspense Novels About a Taoist Priest Gradually Rising Through the Ranks? 有没有道士一层一层成长起来的.悬疑
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- 51 The Mystic Records 衍玄录 Those who cultivate the Dao in this world are destined to suffer from five afflictions and three deficiencies. Jing Yun was born into a family of Yin-Yang practitioners, a lineage passed down for generations. But his father, unwilling to let his son suffer the curse of five afflictions and three deficiencies, hid all his skills away in his heart. He thought this would let his son live a peaceful life, but fate had other plans. What was meant to come would come. Everything changed drastically aft 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Special Operations Bureau 特事行动科
One thousand three hundred and ninety years ago, under the emperor’s direction, human adepts gained control of the “Void” and used it to create the “Wall,” which separated the real world from the anomalous one. After more than six centuries of effort by adepts from various schools, the anomalous remnants in the real world were finally purged, leaving humanity with a world of its own. Anomalous creatures became demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters in tales of the strange. As time passed, the adepts
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The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师
Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan...
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The Master Diviner 一品神卜
“Master, my surname is Jiang, and my wife’s surname is Bao. Can you give my son a name people will remember right away?” Zhang Chu: “Jiang Zhe Hu Bao You!” “Master, my husband repairs lights. He’s been sleeping in the kitchen for two days and won’t get up. What should I do?” Zhang Chu: “That’s a good thing! You can start planning the funeral banquet.” “Master, I earn thirty thousand a month and give it all to my wife. My father is sick, but she won’t give me a cent. What should I do?” Zhang
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- 55 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆：我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score80414d adds
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Breaking Calamity 破厄
“Blasphemy! What an outrage! How dare a mere mortal like you gaze upon a god!” Take another look at the god you speak of. Where is its compassion? If it really is a god, why won’t it let the people behold its glory? Instead, it hides behind you all. If you ask me, it’s nothing but an evil spirit that beguiles people. “It can deliver us from our suffering!” “Perhaps it’s the source of that suffering. Let this Daoist priest help you cut it off at the root!” Everyone, just watch and see how Chen Gu
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The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师
My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise…
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- 58 EN Heavenly Calamity 劫天运 I was schemed against before I was even born. I was born with all five yin traits and naturally attracted vicious ghosts. A knowledgeable fortune-teller said I wouldn’t live past seven, and that after I died, someone would turn me into a blood-clothed child ghost to harm others. To save me, my grandmother arranged for me to marry a child bride, and I was able to live in peace... I’d been scraping by since childhood, and had long since grown used to enduring whatever came my way. But my grandmoth 12.4kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 59 Tales from the Folkways of Northeast China 东北民间轶事录 [The new book, The Northeast Folk Tales: An Account of Zhong Kui, is now being serialized] [Ensemble cast + folk legends + the customs and character of Northeast China] The land and skies of the Northeast; its folk customs and its people Set in the rural Northeast of the 1990s, this book is adapted from remarkable folk legends and true events widely told across the vast lands of Northeast China. It recounts the hardships protagonist Xu Liang faced in his youth, along with the many legendary expe 3.4kReads8.8Score40314d adds
- 60 Peerless Secret Words: The Spirit Heavens Chronicle 绝世密言：灵天记 Through fantastical stories, this book explores the mysteries of the universe and explains the principles of life, helping readers understand why people live. In doing so, it can help them put their worries aside and embrace life's experiences with greater optimism and energy! 913Reads9.4Score12714d adds
- 61 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score78314d adds
- 62 The Scripture of the Dead 死人经 I accidentally drank ghostly wine from a grave and held a wedding ceremony with a ghost. 2.7kReads6.5Score31914d adds
- 63 A Notebook of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌笔记 I was born with a pair of snake eyes, and everyone at the forest farm said I was a demon child born of a snake. The night I was born, thunder crashed again and again. The next day, a huge, gold-scaled python was found dead from a lightning strike outside Laolingou. Something was squirming inside its belly. Master Sang sliced open the python with a single stroke and carried out a blood-soaked baby. He named me Lin Shisan. From that moment on, my fate was bound to Master Sang’s for life… 19.5kReads9.3Score1.5k14d adds
- 64 The Demon King and the Celestial Master 妖王天师 Have you ever heard of a sinister art that can turn a living person into a human-skin paper effigy overnight? Have you ever seen the bizarre sight of a lifelike human face growing out of a tree trunk? And surely you've never heard of a five-year-old child killing a wolfdog that feeds exclusively on corpses. Yes, there are far too many inexplicable things in this world. I may be young, but the things I've been through are things you may never have heard of. That's right. I'm Luo Tian, a Celestial 3.7kReads8.8Score34914d adds
- 65 Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传 This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. In every corner of history, he left his name behind. To some, he was a nightmare. To others, he awakened them from the nightmares that haunted them. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. By the end, his name was Invincible. 22.5kReads9.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 66 A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Reveal My Purple-Robed Celestial Master's True Form 黄皮子讨封，我亮出紫袍天师法身 Humorous and hilarious + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium rituals + no System Zhang Tiezhu staggers home drunk one night. He runs into a tailless weasel that asks him for a blessing. The weasel asks, “Do I look more like a human or a god to you?” “Heh... You look like your grandma’s leg!” The weasel says, “...Brother Zhang, cut it out. Give me a proper answer!” Zhang Tiezhu says, “Weasel, let me tell you: these days, you have to believe in science!” The weasel says, “I’m a Yello 55.1kReads8.9Score8k14d adds
- 67 Mr. Xiao Wang 小王先生 My mother held on for several extra hours while giving birth to me, just so I wouldn’t be born on the date the fortune-teller had predicted. Haunted by evil spirits! Delivering winter clothes to the dead! Wandering ghosts! Why does everyone come to me for everything? Incense roots? Fate? Five-colored cloth? These mysterious trades all depend on intuition! Granny Bai says I have a spiritual gift and a knack for opening the senses. Aunt Yang says I have all three kinds of affinity. But I never tho 13.5kReads9.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 68 You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end... 62.6kReads9.4Score2.3k14d adds
- 69 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年 After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘ 72kReads9.2Score7.8k14d adds
- 70 Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录 [A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I 6kReads9.1Score57914d adds
- 71 The Feng Shui Diviner 风水神相 [The short drama and comic adaptation are now available] First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate good karma; fifth, study; sixth, choose a name; seventh, read faces; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, make friends with benefactors; tenth, maintain your health. Eighteen years ago, an old Daoist priest found an abandoned baby in the mountains. Eighteen years later, a young feng shui master left his temple and came down from the mountain. Over the years, Jiang Chen learned all m 10.9kReads9.0Score1k14d adds
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In Taoist Robes: I Counsel Students, Then Spirits 道袍加身：劝完学生劝鬼神
An art teacher unexpectedly becomes a Taoist exorcist. The colors in the classroom give way to the cinnabar of talismans, and one supernatural incident after another, once dismissed as impossible, begins to unfold. All the ghost stories he had heard were never mere fabrications. Beyond the mist where yin and yang meet lies a truth far more terrifying than anything on canvas.
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The Last Daoist Lord 最后的道君
Ever since my mother got pregnant with me, strange things kept happening at home. First, a hedgehog came into the house, a long snake coiled around the beams, and a weasel dug a burrow in the vegetable patch out back. Then foxes from the mountains joined in, showing up at our doorstep every few days to peer inside. Now the five immortals were all gathered: Hu, Huang, Liu, Bai, and Hui. Anyone in the know would recognize this as the Five Immortals entering a home. Any one of the five entering
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- 74 The Little One Who Crawled Out of the Mass Grave Is Beloved by All the Ghosts 乱葬岗爬出的小奶团是百鬼团宠 The short drama of the same name, The Little One Who Crawled Out of the Mass Grave Is Doted on by All the Ghosts, is now streaming~ [Three and a half years old + yin-yang eyes + lighthearted comedy + cozy family affection + adored by all the ghosts] Lin Wanyue, a modern feng shui master and fortune-teller, was transported by a car accident to a dynasty absent from the history books. She became a three-year-old toddler abandoned in a mass grave. The Lin family had produced nothing but boys for ni 1.4kReads9.1Score22914d adds
- 75 The Beloved Little Darling of a Farming Family 团宠农家小奶包 Everyone in Xixiang Village knows that the Zhao family recently found a little girl. She’s three years old, chubby and fair-skinned. Everyone says a girl is a burden, but the Zhao family treasures the little one. Later, Zhao Heng, who had been blind, regained his sight. Zhao Xuan, who had been poisoned, was cured. And the Zhao family, nearly ruined by the cost of medical treatment, became a wealthy household. Some people grew envious and snuck over to the Zhao home at midnight to eavesdrop, hopi 8.8kReads9.3Score81514d adds
- 76 The Dao God Among Mortals 道神在人间 Since the rise of humanity, the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Paths have stood side by side. The Heavenly Path sets the rules and restrains all living beings; the Earthly Path governs reincarnation and judges right and wrong, good and evil; while the Human Path takes the form of a Dao God, traveling through the mortal world to slay ghosts, monsters, and demons. But sometimes, the human heart is more terrifying than ghosts and demons... What does it mean to cultivate the Dao? It isn't about the de 2.9kReads9.0Score16914d adds
- 77 Supreme Taoist: A Calamity of Bloodshed 道门太上：血光之灾 Offer blood to Heaven, and slay every evil thing. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. All the great paths beneath Heaven come from Taishang. The Taishang lineage belongs to my Li family alone. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, makes a solemn vow to eradicate every evil demon beneath Heaven: he will never ascend, but remain in the mortal world for thousands of years. 10.7kReads9.4Score87614d adds
- 78 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... 1.8kReads9.0Score13014d adds
- 79 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 53kReads9.2Score5.1k14d adds
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Born with an Evil Bone, the Yin-Calling Girl from the Northeast Is Forced to Become a Medium 天生邪骨，东北招阴女被迫出马
Have you ever eaten the ashes left after burning paper offerings for the dead? Do you love the smell of paper offerings burning? Are you like me, never finding the smoke irritating whenever you catch the smell of burning paper? Instead, I find an indescribable charred fragrance hidden in the burnt paper money, mixed with the earthy smell of soil. Then the night breeze carries it past… Whenever I come across that scent, I can’t help taking a few extra sniffs. In fact, every time I smell it, I fee
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- 81 Incense Ashes: I'm a Yin-Yang Medium 香灰：我是阴阳女先生 If someone asks to borrow money from you in a dream, promise me you won’t lend it. Because what you’re lending isn’t money, it’s your life. … Grandma called me a debt-collecting demon, and Mom called me a bringer of bad luck. All because, when I was born, a fire broke out at home for no apparent reason, and the villagers rushed over to help put it out. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t extinguish the flames. The fire only slowly died down after half the village had burned to the ground. 6.9kReads9.1Score82514d adds
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After Eighteen Years of Foolishness, I Became a Yin-Walker 痴傻十八年后我成为了走阴人
Every ancient village has a mysterious legend passed down through the generations: the Village Guardian. They bear a secret duty, using their broken bodies to ward off disasters and misfortune for the village, shouldering every calamity alone. People say they have come to the mortal world to endure hardship, and that their suffering in this life will bring blessings in the next. Yet fate treats them cruelly. Most die young, grow old alone, and endure endless mockery and cold stares. And I am one
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A Tujia Daoist by the Wu River 乌江边的土家道士
A graduate of a top university, unable to pass the civil service exam after years of trying and considering his family circumstances, accepts his family’s legacy and becomes a home-based Taoist priest. This Tao is not that Tao: it’s nothing like the Taoist priests we normally imagine. There are no strict rules and taboos, nor any grand mission to save all humanity. Yet this Tao is also that Tao: he wears the same robes, communicates with the realms of yin and yang, and does what he can to help.
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The Great Medium 通灵大法师
A mysterious young man gets dragged into one conspiracy after another when he takes on a ritual job. To stay alive and avoid becoming a pawn, he launches an epic battle to defy fate and change his destiny.
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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The Yinshan School: From Ghost-Hunting Jobs to Founding a Daoist Sect 阴山法脉：从接单捉鬼到称宗道祖
(Thriller) + (Supernatural) + (Mystery) + (Horror) + (Ghost Hunting) + (Exorcism) + (Feng Shui) + (Showing Off in Public) The sole heir of the Yinshan Sect's 37th generation! He inherits a dilapidated Taoist temple. Armed with half a ghost seal and three pages of a fragmentary manual, his cultivation is mediocre at best, yet he relies on the Yinshan Sect's secret arts to hunt ghosts and exorcise evil! Is orthodox Taoism hostile to him? Are Southeast Asian sorcerers causing trouble? Do vengeful s
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- 87 Hong Kong Crossover: I Started Cultivating from the Start, and Every Female Ghost Wants to Marry Me 港综：开局修仙，女鬼都想嫁给我 Sadako crawls out of The Ring and hands him a love letter. “Sir, I would be honored to cook for you.” A red-clad female ghost from a funeral home clings to him, her eyes sparkling. “Master, why not take me on as your little sidekick?” Even the wrongfully killed heiress of a wealthy family and a fox spirit who has cultivated for a thousand years come knocking, all hoping to marry him! Faced with a parade of stunning female ghosts desperately pursuing him, Lin Chen rubs his forehead helplessly. “ 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Mad for the Martial Way: Eat People to Get Stronger, That’s Too Xuanhuan 武道疯魔：吃人就变强，太玄幻了 (Fantasy) + (Martial Arts Training) + (Wild Imagination) + (Cthulhu) + (Cannibalism) + (Martial Dao) + (Decisive and Ruthless) Martial arts are inferior to cultivation? Body tempering and opening meridians are impossibly difficult? Thanks for asking. I just finished eating an Old God. Now bring me a cultivator for dessert. A secret realm is crawling with tentacled horrors? Take one bite in a desperate moment and refine it directly into the source of martial power! Devour the bizarre and level up 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: My Love in the Mortal World 小道士下山之我的红尘情缘
[Fortune-telling + urban life + multiple heroines + martial arts] The day Zhang Qingfeng was born, his maternal grandfather took him away and abandoned him. His master later brought him back to a Taoist temple, where he learned martial arts and a little fortune-telling and character analysis. At seventeen, his master sent him down the mountain to resolve his own entanglements in the mortal world.
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My Emotions Can Confer Godhood 我的情绪能封神
[Strong female lead + growth-focused + Cthulhu horror + ship any couple you like] I’m Xu Quan, the only BUG left after reality’s folds invaded. My System sounds the alarm every day, either because an S-rank obsession has formed or because the real world is collapsing. I’m so sick of it. All I want is to quietly collect my obsession encyclopedia. The head of the Stability Bureau can’t stand me? [Ding! Their permissions have been changed to “backyard husky.”] A green-tea rival shows up to stir up
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The Strongest Outsiders of the Martial World 最强江湖外八行
When the Qianmen rise in anger, the jianghu falls into chaos. Without conflict, there can be no Qianmen. If conflict rises again, the Qianmen will surely take the helm of the jianghu, restore order, and put an end to the fighting! When I was little, my grandfather read my fortune and said I was destined to “ride the wind to success.” After he died, I inherited his hardware store. Only when a beautiful woman came knocking did I learn that I was the heir to the Qianmen, a legendary jianghu school
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The Way-Seeking Formula 寻道决
Do immortals really exist? Why aren't animals allowed to become spirits after the founding of the country? How did the Age of Dharma Decline come about? Where did the immortals and gods come from, and where did they go? Could they still be among us? Follow the protagonist, Jin, as he embarks on the path of seeking the Dao and searches for answers.
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The Celestial Master Police Chief 天师警长
(Daoist priest + urban suspense + unconventional + no invincibility + no dumb decisions + not a wish-fulfillment story) Ever since Celestial Master Zhang Daoling ascended to heaven in broad daylight, the Zhang family of Mount Longhu has passed down its lineage for 2,000 years, with cultivating the heart amid the mortal world as its main path of practice. A top law student and collateral descendant of the Zhang family of the Celestial Master’s Mansion, Zhang Shouyi memorized scriptures at three
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My Years as a Demon Hunter in Supernatural 我在邪恶力量当猎魔人的那些年
I ended up in the great ol’ USA and inherited a fortune. I thought I could lie flat from then on. When Sam appeared, I reassured myself it was just a coincidence! No way! I wasn’t that unlucky! Then Dean showed up, and my heart shattered~
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A Fool by Day, a Taoist Priest by Night 白天当傻子，夜晚当道士
Who says a Taoist priest has to hunt ghosts? Can’t he flirt with girls? Can’t he be a tomb raider?
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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There Were No Immortals in This World, Until Too Many People Feared Death 世上本无仙，怕死的多了也就有了
Everyone else seeks immortality with their lives, but I think cultivating immortality is less appealing than dipping ingredients in hot pot. Eternal life? Just an obsession of a bunch of lunatics. Why seek immortality? It'd be more realistic to just ask not to go bald. This is a colossal lie: immortals don't exist. They're all just frauds pretending to have supernatural powers!
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Urban Ghost-Hunting Livestream: I Slay a Ghost and Become Famous Online from the Start 都市直播捉鬼：开局斩鬼全网封神
Under the gaze of countless people, he slays every demon and fiend. With chaos engulfing the world, he alone stands guard over humanity! In an age crawling with sinister spirits and where yin and yang have fallen into disorder, the protagonist shoulders the burden of saving the world with nothing but his courage! Ghost weddings, snakes coiled around graves, paper effigy makers, corpses weeping bloody tears, red robes claiming lives, rotting corpses devouring hearts, poisonous insects paying homa
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- 99 Traveling Across the Myriad Worlds, Starting with Soul Ferry 从灵魂摆渡开始穿梭诸天万界 [Soul Ferry + supernatural horror + travel across the heavens + supernatural films + System + divine beasts + ghosts + TV dramas + crossover] Starting at the boundary between yin and yang in Soul Ferry, he unlocks the ability to travel between worlds, and steps into the worlds of one classic supernatural horror film after another. From vengeful spirits hunting people in a gloomy haunted house to secret tales of the underworld in an abandoned village temple, he navigates the realm between ghosts 278Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Mysteries of Earth Veins 地脉奇门
This fantasy novel incorporates feng shui, the arts of Qimen Dunjia, character divination, burial texts, and other elements. The male protagonist is drawn into a geomantic conspiracy within a conspiracy that has lasted a thousand years. In the end, he grows from a postgraduate archaeology student into a ruthless figure capable of defying fate...
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