Books About the Underworld Grounded in Chinese Traditional Culture, Not Made-Up Nonsense 关于地府的书，有各种中国传统文化支撑，不乱写的
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The Little Fool’s Demon-Hunting Chronicles 瓜娃儿捉妖记
[Mystery and Supernatural] + [Folk Customs] + [Legends] + [Strange Tales] This really is a mystery and supernatural novel about catching demons and ghosts. The author begs the officials who review the categories to show mercy and stop changing this book’s category at random. Could you please? During the Xianfeng era, Gua Wa’er is sent to learn magic from Taoist Li at the Wengong Shrine, having incurred a debt of gratitude for changing his father Niu Yuansheng’s fate. He joins the wondrous Yunmen
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Crow Tales 乌鸦怪谈
“Tell me, what is the sin of deicide compared with creating a god?” On September 25, 2015, I witnessed a bizarre murder at Fuchengmen subway station. Oh, and that was also the first time I successfully transmigrated to the [Day of the End]. I am the Crow, a crow that travels through time. I’m not very stable, so please keep an eye on my [Dissociation Level]. Each time I wake up in a stranger’s body, I have to deal with bizarre, deranged gods, resurgent supernatural powers, shattered memories, an
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I'm Interviewing Ghosts in the Human World! 我在人间面试鬼！
I Interview Ghosts in the Human World!
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Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事
At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno
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- 156 A Day Job or Burning Incense? I Choose to Open a Taoist Temple 上班和上香，我选择开道观 [Taoist priest + urban cultivation + mystery + no harem + no System] After grinding himself into the ground for five years, Li Mu had saved 800,000 yuan, enough to buy a ticket to Tilanqiao and a body on the verge of collapse! Just as he was preparing to move to Hegang, a call came in: “There’s an inheritance waiting for you.” He rushed back to his hometown... only to discover that what he’d inherited was a dilapidated ancestral Taoist temple. Li Mu saw the light: why keep grinding when he could —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Passengers at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆的乘客
Passengers at the Funeral Home
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Folk Customs Record: Chen the Paper Effigy Maker 民俗录：纸扎陈
There's an old saying in western Hunan: “Better to walk through a mass grave at night than cross the Paper Effigy Chen family.” When Chen Ming woke up, he found himself lying in a thin-walled coffin. Paper figures all around the room were smiling at him. He was the last living member of the Paper Effigy Chen family. For three generations, his ancestors had made paper effigies for a living, but the Chen family didn't just make paper people and horses... They shaped souls. They shaped rules. They
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- 159 Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记 In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!) 1.2kReads—Score13114d adds
- 160 The Soul of Tang Returns to the Righteous Cause 归义唐魂 To the west, he allied with his uncle’s Yutian Kingdom; to the east, he reclaimed eleven prefectures of Helong. He drove the Uyghurs north and secured the Tianshan Mountains; looking south toward Chang’an, he reclaimed the old frontiers. Gunpowder shattered the Tibetan ranks; iron cavalry trampled the Khitan camps. The Three Stars Banner swept across Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the Han realm’s sky was opened anew beneath the sun and moon. 1.7kReads—Score14414d adds
- 161 The Heavenly Kingdom: The Rise of an Imperial Dynasty 天国王朝：帝朝崛起 This is the legendary life of God's agent, entrusted with shepherding His flock! From a modern transmigrator to a medieval infant, he relied on the Mount & Blade System and his own strategic brilliance to break free from constraints, defend the Holy City, establish an empire, and change the course of history for both the Crusaders and the Islamic world. (Early game: using Mount & Blade to break through; mid-game: political scheming; late game: cyberpunk space opera) 79Reads—Score10614d adds
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The Underworld Hired Me to Restore Artifacts, and the King of Hell Begged Me to Stop Taking His Place 地府聘我修文物，阎王跪求别拆台
I’m an archaeologist with social anxiety, hired by the Underworld to restore cultural relics. On my first day, the King of Hell gave me 72 hours to repair the shattered Mirror of Sin. I quietly picked up my tool kit. Social anxiety may be an illness, but even ghosts and gods have to kneel before my craftsmanship. I repaired Meng Po’s ladle and discovered that the soup of forgetfulness had been tampered with; I repaired the Judge’s brush and discovered that the Heavenly Dao was controlling the
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I Can Only Fight Monsters, and That Lets Me Cultivate? What Is This, Liaozhai? 只会打怪，就能修仙？什么聊斋！
From the start, he accidentally eats a dragon's egg, gets chased by the dragon, and stumbles into the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Kill the monsters, keep the pretty spirits! Then he discovers that killing ghosts and monsters lets him gain their abilities! Magical treasures, cultivation techniques, buried riches? Wait, can he also score treasures and techniques by taking in spirits? Any way of recruiting them works~
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The Yin Within the Coffin 棺中太阴
When he woke up inside the coffin, the thing pressing down on its lid was poking its head over to sniff him. The spiritual energy in this world had been depleted for eight hundred years, and the Celestial Court and underworld had long since become legends. In their place stood a set of rules, cold to the core: The register is heaven's decree: every cultivator's rank, the prices in the ghost market, and the incense masters' standings in the White Lotus Sect are all recorded in an invisible ledger
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- 165 Mount & Blade: Kingdom of Heaven 骑砍：天国王朝 When he opens his eyes, he has become a two-year-old boy: Elias of Anjou, the youngest son of Fulk V, Count of Anjou. In this era, French castles are built of stone, winters are cold enough to leave your fingers stiff, and noble lords fight in the mud wearing chain mail. His elder brother Geoffrey, the historical Duke of Normandy and father of the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty, is the heir to Anjou. The good news is that he has a golden finger: the Mount & Blade: Bannerlord System. Troops, 1.9kReads—Score24114d adds
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The Coffin Debt 棺债
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] At midnight, a bronze bell rings, luring seven living corpses into a funeral home that never closes... A black coffin carved with human faces hangs in the morgue. Every seven days, it drags them into the underworld: Sing a death song for ghosts in a hanging-corpse theater, Ferry ninety-nine corpses across the Yellow Springs crossing, Bury your own grave in an evil temple teeming with razor-toothed horrors... When Jiang Hui clutches the n
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My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪
I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d
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- 168 Among the Otherworldly 我在异人间 I am descended from the Sage Yangming. When I was born, countless bolts of heavenly thunder circled our old family home and crashed down. Could it be because the last dragon and phoenix in the world died right outside my house, and now they want me to pay with my life? 17Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 169 Day 49: The Whole Internet Watches Me Tear Through the Horse-Shaman World 第49天，全网看我杀穿出马仙 [The first novel online to tackle the “spirit-medium” genre from an opposing perspective] Before my dad died, he left me a blood curse: “If you meet a god, beat it. If you see an immortal, kill it.” Now the whole village is made up of spirit mediums, and I'm the only ordinary person left. They livestream “catching an old immortal,” so I report them and get their accounts banned. They stage “the Tragic King being killed,” so I expose their tricks on the spot. Then I rescue a snow-white fox, and i 15Reads—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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The Apothecary Only Wants to Slacken Off Every Day 药师每天只想摸鱼
The Apothecary Only Wants to Slack Off Every Day
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- 172 Classmate, Let Me Judge You! (1) 同学，就让我来审判你吧！（1） Classmate, Let Me Pass Judgment on You! (1) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 The Prince Is Late for Court Again 王爷又不早朝了 The Prince Is Skipping Morning Court Again —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Genius Little One Leads the Family to the Pinnacle of Glory 天才萌娃带娃走向辉煌巅峰 A Genius Little Cutie Leads the Family to a Glorious Peak —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 One Million to Be Your Wife for a Week (Part 1) 一百万当你一个星期老婆（上） One Million to Be Your Wife for a Week (Part 1) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 A Top 985 University Graduate Possesses a Disgraced Actor and Makes a Perfect Comeback 985高材生附身劣迹演员完美洗白 A Top 985 University Graduate Possesses a Disgraced Actor and Clears His Name Perfectly —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Love in a Deadly Game 生死局中的相爱 Love Amid a Life-or-Death Showdown —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 The Baby Makes Gold Bars Appear 小宝宝变出金条 The Baby Makes Gold Bars Appear —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 A Love in Sync at the Library 图书馆里同频共振的爱 A Love in Sync at the Library —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 It's All Flirting Between Us 我们之间要多暧昧有多暧昧 Things between us are as flirtatious as they can be. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 I Transmigrated Through the Wall to Change You 从墙里穿越而来改变你 Transmigrated Through the Wall to Change You —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Kissing Every Inch of Your Skin 吻过每一寸你的肌肤 Kissing Every Inch of Your Skin 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Dream Realm 《梦界之境》 Realm of Dreams —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Above the Galaxy, I Nestle with You 《星河之上，与你同栖》 Above the Starry River, I Make My Home with You 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Beautiful Master I Caught Up With 追上的我的美女师傅 My Beautiful Master Whom I Caught Up With 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 I Love You So Much Because You're My Only Light 很爱你因为你是我唯一的光 I Love You So Much Because You're My Only Light 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Domineering CEO’s Love in Captivity 霸道总裁的囚笼之爱 The Tyrant CEO’s Love in a Cage 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Two Foxes of Qingya: Love Across the Mortal Realm 青崖双狐：情渡尘寰 The Two Foxes of Qingya: Love Across the Mortal World —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 The Convenience Store's Warm Light Illuminates Our Love 便利店的暖光，照亮我们的爱情 The Warm Light of the Convenience Store Illuminates Our Love —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Soundwave Lover: Resonance Between Sound and Love 《声波恋人》——声与爱的共鸣 Soundwave Lovers: The Resonance of Sound and Love —Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Night Watchman’s Record of the Underworld 阴差守夜人实录
"Is that... Master Qi?" I asked tentatively. "Master Qi, Xie Bi'an. The White Impermanence, and also... your ancestor." Chen Jiu nodded. Ancestor? What was that supposed to mean? I stared at Chen Jiu, my mind completely blank. Xie Bi'an was my ancestor? How the hell had I suddenly acquired an ancestor from the Underworld? "Ninth Master, you... you're not joking, are you?" My voice trembled. I didn't know what to say. "I'm just an unemployed young man with barely a thousand yuan to my name, and y
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The Yin-Yang Fate Borrower 阴阳借命师
[Traditional Supernatural Horror]+ [Feng Shui and Mysticism]+ [Suspense and Deduction] On my seventeenth birthday, I watched my best classmate die horribly right in front of me. That was when I learned someone had stolen my fate! A mysterious old man told me I was one of the Seven Wise and offered to take me as his disciple. If I refused, I wouldn’t live past thirty. When I was twenty-five, my master ventured alone into the underworld to negotiate with the King of Hell and extend my life. He ult
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Marked for the King of Hell, My Grandpa Gets a Female Ghost to Break My Fever 命犯阎王，爷爷找女鬼给我退烧
[Folklore + feng shui + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + lighthearted comedy] My father is a heretical cultivator, my mother is a nine-tailed fox, and I was born with a pure-yang constitution. I often suffer from fevers that won't break, so every year I have to visit a cemetery to cool down with a female ghost. The Daoist community considers me a monster... The King of Hell wants to take me, the Daoists want to destroy me, and every sort of evil spirit has its eye on me. To stay alive, I'll lea
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 阴司叫我小先生
From the day he was born, he was unlike ordinary people. He could pass freely between the worlds of the living and the dead. Whenever Hei Bai Wuchang encountered him, they would bow and step aside, respectfully addressing him as Young Master. Others said he was born with the ability to communicate with the underworld and blessed with an extraordinary fate. Only the gods of the underworld knew that behind their respect lay an unmistakable wariness. As the years passed, the events sealed away for
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Tales of the Supernatural: Ghost-Hunting Venerable 怪谈之捉鬼天尊
Eight severed-head mountains form a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, imprisoning Song An’s first eight incarnations. To ensure that Song An can grow up safely in his ninth life, a mysterious eminent monk comes to the mortal world. Unfortunately, this time Song An is born on the night of the Ghost Festival, and is also a child of extreme yin, with all eight characters of his birth chart belonging to yin. Even stranger, nine days and nine nights of blood rain fall before Song An’s birth. For
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Shadows on Campus: A World in Crisis 校园谜影之世界危机
In ancient times, he had a name, a taboo that made gods and demons tremble across the heavens. Even when the laws of heaven and earth collapsed, none dared speak it. After ten thousand years of reincarnation, he became Jiang Jiunan, an apparently ordinary college student. At the country's most secretive agency, Bureau 749, he was the ultimate trump card codenamed “Zero,” handling supernatural incidents beyond the understanding of ordinary agents. He had hoped to bury his past and enjoy a hard-wo
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Stirring Up Trouble in Soul Ferry 我在灵魂摆渡里搅风搅雨
[A Soul Ferry Fanfiction + Transmigration Across Film and TV Worlds + Comedy + Healing + Warmth + Everyday Life + Episodic Story + Power Ceiling] A Zhen appears to be an ordinary clerk at Convenience Store No. 444, but he is actually an ancient true god who has lost his memories. After an ancient calamity shattered his divine soul and scattered its fragments across three thousand small worlds, he can only transmigrate through them in mortal form, searching for each fragment one by one. Every tim
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Mask of Murder 杀戮面具
This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental! Lin Yi is a wage earner from a humble background, and today he's been laid off again. Mocked by his ex-girlfriend and sneered at by his former supervisor, this little nobody can only choose the cheapest way to vent his anger. He heads under the overpass to beat a straw effigy. Fifty yuan a pop, and this is his ninety-ninth visit. Even the owner can't bear to look at how miserable he is, so he hands
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Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异
A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read!
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The Mortician’s Job in the Underworld 入殓师地府编制
My name is Shen Du. I’m twenty-eight, a mortician at a funeral home, and I specialize in dealing with the unresolved obsessions of restless spirits. By day, I wear white gloves and arrange burial clothes, giving every deceased person a dignified farewell. By night, I serve in the underworld and wield the authority of an imperial censor, judging cause and effect between the living and the dead and guiding lost souls onward. The funeral trade, which others avoid at all costs, is how I make my livi
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