Looking for Supernatural Fiction Where the Protagonist Learned Their Skills from Their Grandpa, No Cultivation 求主角的本事都是从爷爷那学灵异文，不要修仙
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- 1 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5kShelves
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The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算
When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master.
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- 3 The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects! 10.8kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
- 4 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
- 5 The Fox Immortal Beauty 狐仙美人 When I was fourteen, I saved a white fox. To save my life, Grandpa actually made me enter into a contract with it? Fox Immortal: “I would gladly shed all my demonic aura and give up a thousand lifetimes of cultivation, all to spend a lifetime with you, from youth to old age!” Ding Ning: “I thought I’d become a Taoist priest who hunted ghosts and vanquished demons, but in the end I became a heretic condemned by everyone...” As I taught myself Taoist arts, secrets and legends began to emerge one a 1.1kReads8.6Score100Shelves
- 6 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score470Shelves
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My Grandfather’s Supernatural Notebook 我爷爷的灵异笔记
[Spirit Medium + Supernatural + Episodic Stories] One eerie incident after another, each like something out of a horror novel. Getting trapped in a ghostly maze in the middle of the night Strange mystical arts and Taoist magic A weasel that can talk A notebook of supernatural cases left behind by my grandfather helped me unlock my Yin-Yang Eyes, sealed for years. From then on, I embarked on an extraordinary everyday life as a ghost hunter!
472Reads9.1Score102Shelves
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The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师
Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha
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Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水
Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa
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- 10 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... 8kReads9.3Score984Shelves
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The Amazing Little Flower Farmer 神奇小花农
An ordinary high school student happens to buy a secondhand book on the Way, and from then on, his life takes a different path. A top-student protagonist, but this isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, an invincible-protagonist novel, or a rebirth novel. It portrays an authentic high school life, with intelligent characters and believable events. There are no advanced martial arts, powerful officials, or influential clans. These are things that could happen to you or me. Blending cultivation element
76.4kReads8.3Score6.6kShelves
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The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子
My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living...
43.8kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves
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749 Bureau: The Forbidden Return 749局之禁忌归来
(Mystery, classic supernatural elements, traditional fantasy, and modern technological civilization) From the day he was born, his destiny was already fated to astonish the world. To protect the everlasting dragon veins of Huaxia, he led members of Bureau 749 across the world, purging evil spirits from beyond the borders and vowing to keep the land secure forever. He is both an honored guest in the ghostly realm of Fengdu and the enigmatic "Mr. Nine" within Bureau 749. Yet the profound, bone-dee
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Supernatural: I Contracted Ten Million Weird Creatures! 灵异：我契约千万诡异！
[Urban Supernatural + No System + Lighthearted Comedy] My name is Gu Chen. I've made contracts with tens of millions of ghosts, but some of them… just can't behave. For example… “Hey, give Tongtong her head back. It's not a soccer ball!” . “And you, put that arm back where it belongs. What kind of grown male ghost goes around with a woman's arm?” . “You over there, sew your stomach back up! You're spraying blood all over my sofa!” . “You, quit hanging yourself there. The chandelier can't take it
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- 15 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 55.1kReads8.9Score8kShelves
- 16 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 480Reads7.3Score100Shelves
- 17 Reviewing Horror Movies on Livestream, and It Turns Out It's All Real? 直播点评鬼片，竟然一切都是真的？ Jiang Yuan wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and discovers that he’s joined the wave of transmigrators, ended up in another world, inherited a shop, and awakened a System! But what gives him a headache is that he awakened a supernatural System! And yet! Just as he’s fretting over it while watching a livestream, his System unexpectedly awakens! With his System awakened, Jiang Yuan becomes a keyboard warrior who pontificates about the world, giving live advice on how to deal with zombies! B 312Reads5.2Score144Shelves
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The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近
[Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts.
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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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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...
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- 21 The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆：我只卖大凶之物 The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still… 30.7kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
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Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺
The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me...
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The World Beneath the Soil: A True Record of Tomb Raiding 土里乾坤之盗墓记实录
My name is Chen Laosan. In 1985, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind only a notebook on feng shui. I was a timid country boy from rural Hebei, forced into the world of tomb raiding. Over fifteen years, I used feng shui to track dragon veins and the Six Lines to divine fortune and misfortune, sharing life-and-death adventures with three brothers. We explored an underwater tomb in the Yellow River, a tomb guarded by wolves in the Qinling Mountains, hanging coffins in
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- 24 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆：从迁坟开始扬名 On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Haunted House Cleanup Crew: The Mystery of My Origins 凶宅清理师之我的身世之谜 The Haunted House Cleaner: The Mystery of My Origins 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Yin Tombs of the Yellow River: A Feng Shui Master of the Qing Nang 黄河阴坟：青囊风水师 The Yellow River Yin Tomb: A Qing Nang Feng Shui Master 81Reads—Score—Shelves
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
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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- 28 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开，青丝缠人拖入柜 The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
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Spirit Realm Courier 灵界快递员
Spirit Realm Courier On the outskirts of a bustling city lives a young man named Lin Yu. He seems ordinary, but he actually possesses supernatural powers. Lin Yu can see spirits invisible to ordinary people, and this strange ability makes his life a constant struggle. Then, by chance, he comes into contact with a mysterious “Spirit Realm Courier Company,” setting off on a fantastical journey.
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- 32 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Northeastern Folk Taboos 东北民间禁忌 The black soil of the Northeast holds too many stories, and hides too many rules. If you hear someone call your name in the middle of the night, never look back. On New Year’s Eve, if a dumpling wrapper breaks, it’s for the “good brothers” to eat. If you meet a woman in red while walking at night, remember to pull your hat down low... These taboos passed down by the older generation are superstition if you don’t believe in them. But if you break them, they become a ghostly gateway that leads str 1.6kReads—Score103Shelves
- 34 My Days Working at a Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆工作的那些事儿 My name is Ling Yu. I work at a funeral home with Big Fatty. One day, a beautiful corpse wearing Chanel arrived at the funeral home. I stole the Chanel outfit and gave it to my girlfriend. Then a string of sinister things began to happen... Deaths kept piling up, closing in on Big Fatty and me step by step. How can we escape Death's pursuit? 2kReads5.9Score106Shelves
- 35 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 717Reads8.2Score100Shelves
- 36 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 50.4kReads9.2Score5kShelves
- 37 Professional Funeral Watcher 职业守灵人 At funerals, there is a ritual called “keeping vigil.” I am a professional vigil keeper. People pay me to keep watch over their dead. Over the course of my career, I have witnessed far too many touching stories and tragic circumstances. But most of all, I have encountered strange and terrifying events. And it all began the first time I saw a ghost while keeping vigil... 194Reads6.9Score137Shelves
- 38 Strange Tales of the Northeast 东北鬼事异闻 A collection of strange tales about ghosts and supernatural happenings in Northeast China. Some are hearsay, while others are terrifying paranormal events that happened right before the storyteller's eyes. A weasel spirit gaining human form, a fox stealing an elixir, a corpse crushed beneath a millstone... 2.2kReads—Score106Shelves
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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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- 40 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—Shelves
- 41 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—Shelves
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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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A Tale of Ghost Hunting in Town and Country 城乡捉鬼奇谭
A string of bizarre murders rocks Tianquan City. The victims’ deaths are so strange that no ordinary person could be responsible. Lin Feng, a college student who has just inherited an antique shop, is accidentally drawn into the turmoil. The family heirloom in his hands, an ancient book, contains secret arts of fortune-telling, ghost-catching, and feng shui. A plea for help from his childhood friend Zhang Long, a criminal investigator, pushes Lin Feng to the edge of the truth. Alongside Li Yue,
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I Moved into Dorm 404 and Uncovered a Deadly Campus Mystery 住进404宿舍，我看破校园凶局
Feng shui, the supernatural, campus life, society: everything you're looking for is here! A story is just a story. Even if someone has experienced something similar in real life, I hope you'll still treat this as just a story! Don't get too caught up in it! Finally, may you, dear reader, stay safe and well!
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