Looking for Supernatural Stories That Don’t Turn Into Cultivation Novels 求灵异小说，千万不要写着写着就成了修仙的

1. 301 我 I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案，晚上地府当差 Mr. Youyong幼庸先生Mystery3.6M WordsCompleted I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha 21.1kReads8.7Score2k14d adds

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2. 302 怪 A Record of Strange Encounters 怪异见闻录 Liao Jianwei廖建威Mystery133k WordsCompleted [Folk horror, Taoist exorcists, spirit mediums banishing evil, no romance, intelligent protagonist] My grandmother is a spirit medium. Just tonight, Uncle Bei from our village came to ask her to perform an exorcism. He said Auntie Liu from the village was actually a ghost? But Auntie Liu only came to my shop yesterday to buy paper money! And so began a series of strange encounters… that turned me from an ordinary person into someone with only three souls and six spirits left! 13Reads—Score—14d adds

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   It's a good story that doesn't involve cultivation, has no system, no female lead, a distinct protagonist, isn't invincible, and the bosses aren't purely evil.

3. 303 道 A Daoist Descends the Mountain to Work in a Noodle Shop 道士下山，面馆打杂 Loves Old-Friend Noodles Best最爱老友粉Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [A Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain + Passionate + Has Brothers + Urban Training + Witty + Wish Fulfillment + Ghost Hunting + Zombie Slaying + Organized Group + Cracking Down on Cultivator Crime + Horror] A hostess at a leisure center is sucking people's blood essence. Get rid of her! People keep jumping into the river? A water ghost is harming people. You still want to help it pass on? It harmed people, so get rid of it! A shoddily built tower is haunted... Huh! The ghost lady has earned mer 5.4kReads9.4Score57214d adds

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   I've never cultivated immortality; I've always been catching ghosts and demons, experiencing life in the city...

4. 304 一 A Billion-Dollar Collection of Horror Stories 一个亿恐怖故事集 Hui Ni辉尼Mystery261k WordsCompleted A Collection of One Hundred Million Horror Stories [Standalone stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + heartfelt emotion + mild horror + timid readers beware] A hundred wildly different tragic fates await. When long-forbidden folk taboos passed down by the ancestors are broken, and eerie legends from the corners of the city quietly come true, the everyday world you know will begin to fall apart on the very next page. Whispers by the pillow, shadows beneath the wa 3Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Unfold a hundred drastically different tragic destinies. When deeply ingrained family taboos are violated, when eerie legends from the city's corners begin to come true—your familiar daily life will begin to crumble from the next page. 🥳🌸

5. 305 验 Verify My Identity: The Customs Office Has a Classic of Mountains and Seas 验明正身：海关有本山海经 Lu Xunyi鹿寻异Urban1.0M WordsCompleted At Zhangzhou Port, a container from Penang declared a load of sixty tons of coir pith, but weighed 190 kilograms over on the scales. When the doors were pulled open, a pig that could curse was sprawled beneath the coir pith. Shiqi squatted down and looked for two seconds. “First grade, mixed stock, worthless.” In this city, every living thing that comes in from the sea has to be inspected, graded, and entered into the System. There are seven grades. Anyone can take away first-grade mixed stock, 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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   The Chaoshan wharf incorporates the setting of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, where monsters smuggle themselves in coconut coir and overseas Chinese goods. The male protagonist has a symbiotic beast that specializes in uncovering the truth in people's hearts. Twenty years ago, sixteen children were redeemed one after another, but he was the only one trapped on the boundary between people and goods.

6. 306 茅 The Maoshan Taoist-Buddhist Master 茅山道释 Heaven and Earth Dream of Butterflies天地梦蝶Urban5.7M WordsOngoing [Maoshan] + [Supernatural] + [Urban Cultivation] + [Stunning Beauties] The mighty Heavenly Emperor is reborn, only to be driven to the brink by a predatory loan contract?! In my previous life, I was Shiti Huan Yindiluo, the Heavenly Emperor. My merits complete, I should have ascended beyond the heavens, but I was ambushed by petty villains, and my divine soul fell into the mortal world! Fortunately, the power of the Sumeru Realm protected me, and I was reborn alongside a Maoshan Celestial Maste 798Reads—Score10214d adds

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   Recommend some fantasy and supernatural novels

7. 307 弥 Maitreya Heavenly Emperor 弥勒天帝 Heaven and Earth Dream of Butterflies天地梦蝶Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation + creation of the heavens and myriad worlds + fantasy + beauties galore] Citi Tianxing has already reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm, yet he resolutely gives up his position as sovereign over all worlds and ventures toward an even higher, unknown realm. He seeks to question the heavens: What is the meaning of cultivation? What is the purpose of creation? Follow him as he battles across the Myriad Worlds, comprehending the great mysteries of darkness, light, life, 139Reads6.2Score—14d adds
8. 308 诡 The Supernatural Descends! A Female Ghost Teaches Me Maoshan Arts 诡异降临！女鬼教我茅山术 Wicked Big Snow Pear邪恶大雪梨Mystery332k WordsOngoing The uncanny descends, and a hundred ghosts roam the night! Li Qiulin was born with his Yin-Yang Eyes fully open. He can see ghosts and gods filling the sky, yet he has pretended to be blind and kept his head down for twenty whole years! That's because he has the rarest constitution of all: pure yang in a body of pure yin. He's the ultimate Yin bait, coveted by every evil spirit. His lifelong dream is to stay home, lie flat, and eat until he dies. But then a bad friend tricks him into exploring a 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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   A supernatural story with an unconventional plot, featuring a timid and adorable protagonist and a cool and aloof female ghost master—you won't be able to stop shipping them!

9. 309 笼 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 North and South Aren't Things, Are They?南北不是东西吧Mystery155k WordsOngoing This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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   This is a lament for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of truth and falsehood. When they realize the cage has been opened, will they choose to wallow in sweet lies or face a painful, awakening destruction in the face of cruel truth? The answer was already decided at the very beginning of the search. 😊👍👍💧👍🎉❤️✨

10. 310 我 100 Strange Tales I Know 我所知道的100个诡故事 An Xin Dui Yang安心对阳Mystery154k WordsCompleted So, what is this book about? Shadow people, red wedding gowns. Green hair, embroidered shoes. Incense offerings, talismans, yin-yang eyes. Ghost marriages, spirit journeys, ancient fox immortals. Old mansions, deserted villages, ancient wells. Curses, vengeful spirits, taboos… Strange tales, bizarre legends, unsolved mysteries beyond belief, and eerie happenings that make your back go cold and your hair stand on end… I've written down the experiences of my family and friends, as well as things I 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Each story is a folk tale, with twists and turns that are chilling upon closer examination; the more frightening it is, the more you want to read.

11. 311 两 The Impermanent of Two Worlds: Beginning with the Ghostly Amusement Park 两界无常：从鬼趣图开始 Lord Qiwu齐物君Mystery117k WordsOngoing [Multiple Heroines] + [Multiple Storylines] + [Supernatural] + [Dual Transmigration] + [Large-Scale Episodic Drama] + [Ensemble Cast] When skewers on an old street meet life-taking funeral wails, an ordinary life plunges into the uncanny underworld in an instant. Xie Bi’an and Fan Wujiu, two ordinary working brothers, never imagined that a routine late-night barbecue would become the starting point of a life turned upside down. A terrifying funeral procession in ancient dress, with ghastly makeu 4Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This won't turn into a cultivation story, so please feel free to consume it.

12. 312 藏 The Gate of Tibet: Forbidden Ground of Sky Burials 藏地之门：天葬禁域 Old Playful Bear老顽熊Mystery103k WordsCompleted The black nightmare in Yunnan may have come to an end, but for Hou Zirui, Niu Chenyang, and Cheng Tianshun, an even more terrifying journey is just beginning. When all three are drawn into the same bizarre dream one after another, they finally realize they have never truly escaped the strange forces that have been haunting them. In the dream, dark clouds blanket the sky as vultures circle like a black vortex above a sky-burial platform drenched in blood, where broken corpses lie piled like mount 13Reads—Score—14d adds

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    If you enjoy supernatural tomb raiding stories, you might want to give this a try. The protagonist, from a family of archaeologists and a seasoned veteran of Panjiayuan, explores a thousand-year-old mystery with his two best friends, venturing deep into Tibet, where danger lurks everywhere and eeriness abounds. [Top Post]

13. 313 叔 Uncle, You’re Missing Me in Your Destiny 叔，你命中缺我 A Bun Running Naked裸奔的馒头Modern Romance2.5M WordsCompleted “Uncle, your forehead looks dark to me. You'll suffer a bloody calamity today, so you shouldn't travel far.” Su Keke grins, showing a row of pearly white teeth. Qin Mochen turns down the blind date arranged by his elders. “Uncle, your eyes are watery, your cheeks are rosy, and the corners of your mouth keep turning up. Looks like romance is in your future!” Qin Mochen fixes his gaze on the little girl, his eyes inscrutable. Later, Su Keke rides on his back, beaming. “Uncle, I did the math, and g 441Reads9.3Score18514d adds

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    👀Look at this book. The author is quite something at this point; one of her quick transmigration novels features a supernatural world.🌿 I don't even dare to read it at night. It's just so well-written, I don't even know what to say. [Facepalm] Recommended rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

14. 314 茅 Thirty Years on Maoshan 茅山三十年 September Stone九月石Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing ♥ Don’t let the rating fool you, my book is top-notch! A feel-good story about a Taoist priest who descends the mountain to catch ghosts and drive out evil. No romance, no saintly do-gooder. Traveling far and wide to vanquish demons and uphold the Dao. No padding, no rambling, no romance. 9.3kReads8.8Score75714d adds

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    I recommend you check out this one. It's also a supernatural ghost-catching story, very down-to-earth and doesn't stray from the main theme.

15. 315 开 From the Start, I Devour Ten Thousand Weapons and Command an Army of a Million Weapon Spirits 开局吞噬万器，我有百万器灵大军 Stargazing for Dreams星陨寻梦Eastern Fantasy349k WordsOngoing Reborn + Cultivation + Ruthless and Decisive + Traditional Fantasy To save the one he loved, he used a forbidden technique to reverse time and space. Carrying three thousand years of a grandmaster’s memories, he was reborn in the body of a sixteen-year-old servant! In his previous life, he could only watch as the woman he loved was erased by the Heavenly Dao. In this life, he possesses the supreme treasure, the Myriad Artifacts Return to the Origin Pagoda, and vows to trample the heavens and e 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Absolutely fantastic! You can read the latest chapter in one go, without skipping a single word.

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