Looking for Traditional Trade Stories, Like Corpse Collectors, Corpse Exorcists, Spirit Healers, or Corpse Drivers. The Protagonist Should Be Cold-Blooded 求传统职业文如捞尸人勾尸人巫医赶尸匠猪脚冷血
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- 251 EN Urban Gu Cultivation: Starting with Raising Gu 都市蛊修:从养蛊开始 Fresh out of high school, Jiang Yiming left the mountains and entered a factory, where he got a brutal taste of life in the working world. He thought that was how he’d spend the rest of his life. Then a System that let him raise Gu appeared out of nowhere, setting him on the path of Gu cultivation. Three-Legged Golden Toads, Eight-Winged Singing Snakes, Emperor Cicadas, Nine-Tailed Earth Scorpions, Seven-Colored Ghost Spiders... These strange and wondrous Gu insects opened his eyes and gradually 3.4kReads8.0Score249Shelves
- 252 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 Twenty years ago, I was adopted into a family of Yellow River corpse retrievers. My adoptive parents passed away one after the other, leaving me as the family’s sole heir. With no way out, I was forced to learn how to retrieve corpses. Whether it was a decades-old corpse, a skeleton from the Republican era, or an ancient body, I had to carry it out from one of the twelve haunted caverns. I had no other choice. This was the only way I could cling to life! 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 253 The Yin-Yang Sect Leader 阴阳掌门人 Corpse retrievers have three rules about bodies they must never retrieve. For the sake of a hundred thousand yuan, my father and I broke all three. As we were pulling a woman's corpse from the water, she suddenly opened her eyes. From then on, she wouldn't leave me alone… 7.7kReads8.6Score739Shelves
- 254 Strange Tales of the Corpse Retrievers 捞尸诡闻 My grandfather was a corpse retriever. When he died, the waters of the river churned all night. In a single night, every chicken in the village died... 16Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 255 Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 I became a corpse retriever to get rich and marry a wife. But before I could make a fortune, I pulled a delicate, stunning beauty out of the Yellow River... 4kReads8.8Score281Shelves
- 256 The Last Corpse Retriever 最后一个捞尸人 My name is Wang Baichuan. My father was gravely ill, so I started retrieving corpses with my maternal cousin... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 257 My Life as a Corpse Retriever 我的捞尸生涯 [Wulin + treasure hunting + adventure] In 2005, driven by poverty, I became a corpse diver. People say that making money off the dead will bring you retribution. Back then, I was young and reckless, and refused to believe it. Looking back now, I know they were right. Over the past decade or so, I’ve come close to passing through the gates of death several times. I’m lucky to have made it out alive, so let me share some of the stories from my life in the underworld. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 258 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 [Supernatural + Suspense + Folk Tales + Urban] The older generation always says there are things beneath the Yellow River that must never be disturbed, or something terrible will happen. I didn't believe them, not until the day I took a crew underwater to hunt for treasure... 541Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 259 The Heaven-Chosen Corpse Retriever 天命捞尸人 A fate bestowed by Heaven: blessed above with three yin qualities, yet cursed below to seek out the Five Flaws. In the world of occult arts and feng shui, there is a peculiar profession: corpse retriever. Corpse retrievers live in places with abundant water. Whenever floods recede, they pull bodies from the water. Water is intensely yin, and those who spend their lives at this work are scarcely different from the dead. My grandfather was a corpse retriever... But his identity seemed far more com 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 260 Twenty Years of Recovering Bodies from the Yellow River 黄河捞尸二十年 When it comes to the forbidden legends of the Yellow River, you’d be better off never asking. The corpse mane of the Yellow River, the ghost millstone, the Dragon Bone Temple, the stairway to the underworld… The old river workers of the Yellow River are the most mysterious people along its ancient course. Their families have guarded the river for generations, but what are they protecting it from? And what earth-shattering secrets lie beneath the ancient river, where hidden currents churn? 9Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 261 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 Grandpa once told me that after I die, the Yellow River will run dry, ghost soldiers will march across the land, and nine flood dragons will pull my coffin... 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 262 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸公 To recover his father’s remains, he resolutely took up his grandfather’s trade and became a corpse collector! He never expected to encounter one bizarre event after another. Behind them all lay a terrifying secret… —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Xuanhuan: I Lead Hundreds of Millions of Yin Soldiers to Rebuild the Underworld 玄幻:我率领亿万阴兵,重建地府
Chen Qiye transmigrated into a fantasy world, only to find it crawling with countless vicious ghosts that preyed on people and stole their lives. Fortunately, the most powerful Underworld Emperor System awakened within him. Summon Heibai Wuchang to seize wandering souls and slay evil ghosts! Summon the Yin soldiers and generals, throw open the gates of the underworld, and set a hundred ghosts roaming by night! Summon judges and City Gods to punish evil, uphold good, and keep the mortal realm i
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The Fated Corpse Chaser 天命赶尸人
On a deserted road in the dead of night, the moon peered through the edge of the clouds, casting a deathly pale light over the ground. A line of white figures moved slowly along the road. At a closer glance, they looked like a group of people. Leading them was an old man dressed in loose robes of pitch-black cloth. In his left hand, he held a pair of copper bells tied with red cords; in his right, he waved a triangular yellow command flag. The bells rang out, and the flag swept through the air.
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The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤
I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty...
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The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠
My ex-girlfriend was murdered in an accident. After I stitched her back together, all kinds of strange things happened. When I woke from a coma, I discovered it had all been just a dream. I went back to my work as a mortuary cosmetologist, and my father, who had been mentally ill for years, finally came home...
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Strange Cultivation: The Ultimate Corpse Searcher 诡异修仙:最强摸尸人
This is a world filled with terrifying demon gods. Ye Chenghuan has barely transmigrated when he witnesses a thousand-foot-tall Arhat hunting humans for food. Bodhisattvas are sinister. Hearing of them twists your nature, chanting their names plants a demonic fetus within you, and seeing one turns you into a demon on the spot. Demons rule the imperial court, while sinister beings keep humans as livestock. Everyone lives in a world where tomorrow is never promised, treated like pigs and dogs. The
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- 268 I Am a Corpse Burner, Keeper of the Book of Life and Death 我是焚尸人,手奉生死录 Fang Cun wakes reborn and becomes a corpse burner in the Imperial City's Funeral Bureau. Every day, he earns rewards for burning corpses: the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, the Celestial Stems and Earthly Branches, the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, the Sea-Calming Divine Needle... He summons temple ghosts, painted-skin demons, drought demons, Jiangshi generals, the Black Mountain Old Demon, the Ten Kings of Hell, and all manner of demons, monsters, ghosts, and jiangshi in the world... In times of chaos, the —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Thriller Game: The Paper Dolls I Make Can Slay Gods 惊悚游戏:我扎的纸人可斩神
[Supernatural Revival + Infinite Flow + A Somewhat Mind-Bending Plot] Supernatural phenomena returned, and plants and animals underwent massive evolution. To train a new generation of superpowered individuals, people in the future created countless horror-game instances, hoping players would awaken their powers between life and death and save the world of the future. Ye Qianfan entered the world of horror after choosing to take revenge. He never expected to awaken a superpower in the game, or
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She Drops into the Trending Topics! The Top-Tier Star’s Flirty Teasing Steals the Show 空降热搜!顶流小撩精秀翻娱乐圈
[Hilariously Unhinged + Metaphysics + Face-Slapping + Everyone's Favorite + Two Powerful Leads + Sweet Romance] From the start, she carried a suona down the mountain to send her whole family on their way. Her scumbag father cursed and schemed against her? She raised the suona and smashed his head open! "You dare call yourself my father? My name isn't even on your household register. How can you prove it? I'm your father!" When her scheming, fake-sweet stepsister made trouble, she retaliated by t
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- 271 Livestreaming a Rain Prayer, I Had the Meteorological Bureau Begging Me to Stop 直播求雨,气象局求我收了神通 After transmigrating, Qin Tian becomes the current Celestial Master of the Shenxiao Sect and unexpectedly obtains the Daoist Revival System. As long as he boosts the prestige of Daoism, he can earn all kinds of rewards. Just then, a drought strikes northern Longguo, with not a drop of rain falling for months. To raise Daoism's prestige, Qin Tian sets up a ritual altar in a livestream and prays for rain. As soon as the stream begins, viewers curse him out, calling him a fraud who is exploiting a 6.3kReads8.3Score334Shelves
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Showbiz: My God-Tier Corpse Driver Was Exposed on Yearning for Life 娱乐:我神级赶尸匠被向往曝光了
[Slice of life] The latest episode of Mushroom House is set to air from western Hunan. As everyone knows, western Hunan is famous for three secret arts: paper effigy making, poison-craft, and corpse driving! And when it comes to terror and notoriety, corpse driving tops the list! The moment this episode of Back to the Countryside premiered, it revealed a corpse driver. In an ancient village lives a young, pale man, revered as the foremost corpse driver. They say his paper effigies can truly be d
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- 273 I Am a Maoshan Corpse Driver 我是茅山赶尸人 Gu Yuan transmigrates into a zombie world overrun by demons and zombies, and accidentally binds himself to a Celestial Master System. Thus begins his journey in another world as an amateur corpse-handler. Uncle Jiu: “Xiao Yuan, you have an excellent build and remarkable talent. Would you like to become my disciple?” Shi Jian: “You can use Lightning and Thunder Fist too? Dare to test your skills against me… Gu Yuan, I was wrong. Please go easy on me.” Gu Yuan: “Miss, would you care to play Pai Go 266Reads6.0Score—Shelves
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The Years I Spent as a Shepherd 我当羊倌那些年
A noodle shop packed with customers uses eels dug out of graves. A scrawny yellow dog is willing to develop gallstones for the sake of its master. A man-eating catfish has a water-swallowing pearl in its belly, while the teeth of an ancient corpse have turned to jade. As an heir to the grave-robbing treasure-seeking trade, I transmigrate through mountains and forests in search of heavenly treasures. People call those of our trade shepherds…
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Speak No Words of the Three Corpses 三尸勿语
When someone dies far from home and a practitioner uses magic to make the corpse rise, it is called corpse-driving. People have three hun and seven po souls; corpses have three corpse spirits and nine worms. To drive a corpse that died unjustly, one must first subdue the spirits of its three corpses. When the dead pass by, the living must keep away!
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Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈
A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me?
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: The Female Ghost Is Anxious About Her Looks 直播算命:女鬼她容貌焦虑了
Also known as: Live Fortune-Telling: Your Dad’s Been Running Around Naked Down There for Three Years [No romance, livestreaming, fortune-telling, episodic stories] Lin Qingwan transmigrates into a book while attending a metaphysics lecture and reading a tearjerker. She becomes the poor, lovesick heroine who loses a kidney, a leg, and her sight, goes bald, yet stubbornly survives to get a happy ending with the male lead. After waking up to find her home completely bare, Lin Qingwan returns to her
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- 278 Forbidden Zone Expedition: From the Start, I Unlocked the Chinese-Style Roleplay Template 禁地探险:开局解锁国风扮演框 [Tomb Raiding + Forbidden Lands + Chinese Style + Roleplay + CP] A car accident awakens a Chinese-style roleplay System in Qin Feng. With his life hanging by a thread, Qin Feng chooses survival over roleplay. Who could have guessed that his very first mission would bring him face to face with Dai Xiaomei, poisoned by corpse miasma, and the treasure-hunting trio? At the critical moment, Qin Feng uses his rescue skills to successfully revive Zhang Qilin. Qin Feng goes viral and becomes the li 578Reads9.2Score101Shelves
- 279 To a Lunatic, What’s a Ghost Anyway? 精神病面前,鬼东西算个球 [Hilarious + mentally ill protagonist + invincible + System] A world where ghostly energy has returned. Chen Zhuo is a patient at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital. The System fails to cure him. System: Let him do whatever he wants. I only provide technical support. Ghost Realm Bounty Board: Chen Zhuo, male, severe mental illness. Whoever takes his life will receive a billionfold increase in ghostly energy, several mansions, and endless luxuries. 4.6kReads9.3Score834Shelves
- 280 Reborn: The Icy Big Shot Wants to Give Me His Life 重生后,冷冰冰的大佬要把命给我 [A heroine who sets off heavenly lightning like fireworks and kicks the Ghost King’s head around like a ball vs. an obsessive, possessive, lovesick hero] Everyone says Third Master Lu is cursed, bringing death to his wives. He’s the living King of Hell, someone the entire capital’s elite circle avoids. Women who get close to him are either struck by bad luck or lose their lives. That is, until a soft, sweet little girl appears at his side, constantly asking for cuddles and following him around l 17kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves
- 281 Here Comes the Blockhead 二货驾到 Chen Xiaoguo is eating spicy hot pot when a soul reaper accidentally drags her to the underworld. To make it up to her, the King of Hell says he can let her be reborn in another world. You think what comes next is the usual transmigration, a strong female lead, and another world? No! No! No! Our unconventional Chen Xiaoguo has decided she's severed her ties to the mortal world, so she stays in the underworld, eating and drinking for free, and gets treated like royalty! Tremble, underworld! 176Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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Corpse-Walking Notes 2: The Myriad Forms Celestial Palace 《赶尸笔记2》万象天宫
Corpses driven along by corpse herders are known in the martial world as "corpses traveling ten thousand miles." It is said that in the Xiangxi region, some people make a living herding corpses. The Corpse Sect is one such group. Qin Shuang runs a funeral business; Brother Jiu has ties to both the underworld and the police; Haozi has just gotten out of prison; Baldy makes his living robbing and relocating tombs; and mute A-Wu is a skilled fighter shrouded in mystery. What kind of extraordinary s
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Celestial Official of the Corpse-Subduing Sect 镇尸天官
The unfathomable mystery of immortality, horrifying strange happenings in a mountain village, a mysterious ancient tomb buried deep beneath the earth, and ancient legends from the barren wilderness... None of it should have had anything to do with me. But after my grandfather's bizarre death, I could no longer escape my fate and was dragged into this endless conspiracy...
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- 284 The Yellow River Demon Suppression Bureau 黄河镇妖司 The mighty Yellow River rolls on without end, nurturing countless civilizations and burying countless secrets. Iron oxen that hold back the river, nine tortoises carrying a snake, corpse bristles from the Yellow River, ghost-bride processions... Beneath the mysterious ancient waterways of the Yellow River, there is so much you don’t know. The legendary Nine Gates of the Yellow River, the vanished Jiuli of Chiyou, the thirty-six sects of Huaxia: a different Yellow River, a different world of mart 2.7kReads8.2Score182Shelves
- 285 The Strange Immortals of Northeast China 东北诡仙录 In the bitterly cold lands of Northeast China, an ancient faith has been passed down since time immemorial. It combines the ancient Chan sect’s traditions with shamanic worship of animal spirits. The animals that cultivate there are known as “Old Immortals,” and their human representatives are called spirit mediums. Among them are a brother and sister who travel the mortal world, punishing evil and upholding justice. Along the way, they encounter a female ghost seeking a husband, a drought demon 2.3kReads9.2Score231Shelves
- 286 The Fated Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 I was born slow-witted, destined to become the village guardian. To defy fate and change my destiny, my grandfather found me a stunning child bride. Unfortunately, she ran away, and my grandfather had little time left to live. Before he died, he told me I must not leave the village for twelve years, or disaster would surely befall me. 4.2kReads6.8Score832Shelves
- 287 I’m Meng Po, So Why Are You Asking Me to Examine a Corpse? 我一个孟婆,你让我验尸? [Forensic investigations + mystery and comedy + protecting the nation's fortune] Because the recipe for Granny Meng's soup was tampered with, souls who had spent seven lifetimes in the animal realm were reborn as humans with their memories intact. Granny Meng was ordered to go to the human world and find them, then erase their memories. Granny Meng seriously suspected that the background check Emperor Fengdu had given her about the mortal world was fake. Even the background check for the fore 4.9kReads8.7Score723Shelves
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The Corpse Examiner 审尸官
[A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Decisive and ruthless, a master of keeping a low profile] After Chen Yang transmigrated, he gained the ability to interrogate the souls of the dead. By touching someone's corpse, he could question their soul. Not only could he read the soul's memories of its life, he could also acquire the cultivation techniques it had learned while alive. Martial arts techniques came easily; immortal cultivation powers were his to claim; even the inheritances of
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- 289 The Corpse Collector 接尸人 Do you know what happens to a corpse in a funeral home? Do you know that cremated remains aren't actually made by burning the body? And do you know why funeral home workers never stay long? I'm a corpse collector at a funeral home. Over the years, I've learned many secrets no one talks about, and handled all kinds of bodies: people who hanged themselves, people hacked to pieces, and people whose bodies were mangled after being hit by cars! But to me, they were nothing more than soulless shells, 1.1kReads7.3Score116Shelves
- 290 The Sinister Haircut 诡剃头 In ancient times, cutting a dead person's hair was called a yin haircut. It was taboo-ridden and required a specialist barber. And I, an amateur barber of no consequence, gave a yin haircut to a living person. 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 291 The Corpse Investigator 探尸人 In the 1980s, a feng shui master was attacked by a zombie in a land of five evils. He lost a leg and an arm, but miraculously survived. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman surnamed Qin sought out the grandson of that master, Sun. She gathered a group of people and went exploring everywhere, capturing zombies to use as ingredients for medicine. Every member of the group was stranger than the last. What secrets were they hiding...? 420Reads—Score—Shelves
- 292 The Folk Corpse Collector 民间收尸人 Where do people go after they die? Of course, they’re buried in the back hills of the Yin family. On the surface, I’m a corpse collector, but in truth, I deal with ghosts. I bury your body, and you work for me... 348Reads6.0Score101Shelves
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You Were Supposed to Salvage Bodies, So What’s with This Nuke? 让你打捞尸体,这核弹什么鬼
Qin Fang transmigrates and gains a Career Experience System, which randomly assigns him a new profession every month. From the start, he becomes a corpse retriever, inheriting the trade and gaining the traits [Innate Strength] (Blue) and [At Home in Water] (Blue). Legend has it corpse retrievers have three rules about what not to retrieve. Rule 1: Don’t retrieve corpses standing upright in the water. Qin Fang doesn’t believe in that superstition and starts by retrieving an upright corpse. He suc
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The Corpse Collection Files 收尸档案
Since ancient times, the dead have been left with their bodies. But few people know that corpses hold many secrets that remain hidden from the world. Cursed corpses, living corpses, bodies left where they fell, vengeful corpses, bisected corpses... Every corpse has a story of its own! My name is He Yongheng, and I collect bodies for a funeral home.
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Monsters Run Rampant, and I, Invincible in This Age, Descend the Mountain to Save the World 妖魔横行,当世无敌的我下山救世
[Overpowered Protagonist] [Feel-Good Story] [Refined and Laid-Back] [Longevity] "There's too much negativity in society these days. The demons and monsters lurking in the cities will grow stronger. The world is already crawling with them, though people don't know it. One day, they'll erupt. On that day, everyone who has lost their faith will take it up again. They'll pray to Buddha, to God, to the immortals, begging them to save..." "Hold it, old man. That's only true if he hasn't come down from
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- 296 Eerie: There's a Female Ghost Inside Me 诡异:我体内有一只女诡 (No System, multiple heroines, eerie atmosphere, slow-burn romance; romance is the main focus) One day, Lin Can had a nightmare. In it, he watched the world change color, the sun and moon reverse, and monsters run rampant. Corpses littered the land, and everything was bizarre and surreal. From that day on, Lin Can had nightmares every night. As they continued, he gradually realized that something seemed wrong with his eyes, too. Walking down the street, he saw towering buildings turn into ruins, 12Reads6.2Score—Shelves
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Supernatural Revival: Traveling the Heavens and Selling Coffins 灵异复苏:行走诸天卖棺材
Liu An is reborn before the supernatural resurgence and activates the Myriad Worlds Coffin-Selling System. He can transmigrate to countless worlds and grow stronger by selling coffins. Mr. Vampire: “This crystal coffin is meant for you. Uncle Jiu, why not try it out?” A Chinese Ghost Story: “Yan Chixia, your forehead looks dark. I'm afraid a bloody disaster is coming. Why not try this coffin? You might need it tonight!” The Legend of the White Snake: “Fahai, look at my coffin. Its quality is far
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- 298 The Qin Dynasty’s Corpse Burier: Coffin-Bearing Ghost Soldiers from the Start 大秦葬尸人,开局阴兵抬棺 The Six Kingdoms fell, and all under heaven was united! Glorious Great Qin, united in virtue by civil and military officials, expanding north and south, celebrated by all beneath the heavens! Beneath this age of prosperity, however, lie millions upon millions of bones. Shadow soldiers crossing the land, nine dragons carrying a coffin, a child born from a corpse, a corpse revived by a gu curse... None of this can be separated from the work of a burial master. Burying people, ghosts, corpses, evil —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 299 EN Achieving Transcendence Through Corpse Burning 我靠焚尸超凡入圣 Since ancient times, people have believed the dead should be buried whole. Cremation is deeply disrespectful to the deceased, and only corpses that have undergone an uncanny transformation are burned. Those who cremate corpses are known as corpse burners. It is an extremely dangerous line of work. At midnight, one room, one corpse burner. Once the doors are shut and locked, if the corpse turns vicious, the corpse burner is as good as dead. Qin He makes his living this way at a canal wharf in the 124.1kReads9.2Score14.9kShelves
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Paranormal Livestream: Please, Stop Telling Stories 灵异直播:求求你别讲了
Lin Xiao, a horror-story streamer, accidentally transmigrates to a world with no supernatural stories. His story about a haunted taxi is met with protests from countless taxi drivers. His story about a human-meat barbecue shop leaves countless barbecue lovers too terrified to go near one. His school ghost story unexpectedly helps the police solve a cold case that has remained unsolved for years. What's more, he discovers that he can inherit a vast collection of Daoist magical artifacts and skill
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