Urban Ghost-Hunting Novels About Taoist Priests, Just the Supernatural Stuff, None of That Random Nonsense 道士都市捉鬼只要灵异的乱七八糟的不要
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A Celestial Master from the Future, Drifting Around the Entertainment Industry Until I Lose Contact 未来天师,人在华娱飘到失联
(A semi-alternate-universe entertainment-industry story + multiple heroines + feng shui geomancy and yin-yang mystic arts) My name is Chen Tianfan, a handsome fortune-teller who runs a photo studio by the entrance to Beijing Film Academy. I know a little kung fu, and I’m best at performing rituals and inscribing charms for female celebrities in the entertainment circle, improving their feng shui and luck, and solving all kinds of difficult ailments. People call me Chen Mayi, or Old Chen the Sixt
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- 2 Paranormal Livestream: I Have Infinite Revives 探灵直播:我有无限复活 [Livestreaming + Comedy + Absurdity + Livestreaming + Ghost Hunting + Wild Imagination + Folk Customs] Ghosts? What are those? A scientist will tell you they’re neutrinos, radio waves, or 21 grams… A philosopher will tell you they’re spiritual entities that retain self-awareness after leaving the body… It took Chen Mo a series of ghost-hunting livestreams to find out. What people call ghosts are really those they long for day and night, but can never see again… Chen Mo, known as Chen the Daring, 59kReads8.3Score6.7k14d adds
- 3 Ghosts While Night Fishing: I Become a Modern-Day Celestial Master! 夜钓遇鬼,我成当代天师! [The rating has only just appeared. It'll go up later.] Red strings and glutinous rice still remain, recalling Daoist Lin of old. Hundreds of years ago, monsters and evil spirits ran rampant, and the human world was in turmoil. After the new nation was founded, the human world and the monsters and evil spirits made a pact lasting a hundred years. For a hundred years, spirits and monsters could not take form, and evil spirits could not harm people. From then on, the human world enjoyed peace. Peo 75.5kReads6.3Score9.2k14d adds
- 4 After Encountering the Black and White Impermanence, I Became a Spirit Walker 撞见黑白无常后,我成了走阴人 Everyone fears General Xie Fan's temple, but Lin Che isn't afraid. Not only is he unafraid, he even went into the temple and gave the statue a spa treatment! That night, Black and White Impermanence appeared in his dream: "Young man, fate has bound you to us." Lin Che: "Bro, I just want a few hundred more yuan in my account right now." Black and White Impermanence: "Have some ambition! We'll make sure you earn a million yuan a year!" From that day on, Lin Che officially became a spirit walker. H 733.8kReads8.6Score99.8k14d adds
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What If the Campus Belle Turns Into a Zombie? No Worries, I'm the Perfect Person for the Job 校花尸变咋办?不怕!我专业对口
[Supernatural + horror + urban legends + ghost stories + invincible protagonist + one heroine] What should you do if your school-beauty deskmate turns into a corpse during class? She’s probably faking it. Just give her a kiss. Huh? She’s not faking it??? Lu Jiuyang was utterly baffled. One moment, he was the last Celestial Master of Maoshan, battling a tide of countless ghosts and sealing the demons with his own body. The next, he had been reborn as an ordinary high school freshman. This
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Strange Tales from Western Henan 豫西诡事
You may think I’m telling a story, but these are things I’ve experienced firsthand over the past ten-odd years. You don’t have to believe me, but are you sure everyone you’ve met was human? Science can’t explain everything…
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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Urban Legends: Who Let This Taoist Priest In Here? 怪谈:谁放这个道士进这里的?
This book has a short drama adaptation. Rules of Terror: This Taoist Priest Is Acting Strange. Now streaming [No Female Lead] [Hilarious] [Hotheaded Hero] [Supernatural] [National Destiny] Rules of Terror descend upon the world, and the Dragon Nation loses five rounds in a row. For the sixth round, Chen Yang is chosen to represent his country. Just as the nation assumes he is an ordinary nobody, Chen Yang takes off his jacket, revealing the yellow robe underneath. Chen Yang: "Yee-hee-hee! Ever s
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My Years Learning to Catch Ghosts 我学捉鬼的那些年
People can get away with all sorts of things, but greed is one thing they must avoid, especially when it comes to things inside a coffin. And greed was exactly where I went wrong. If you covet money, it can cost you your life! They dug a red-lacquered coffin out of a construction site, and I thought I'd found a priceless antique. If I'd known what would happen afterward, I wouldn't have gone anywhere near it even if they killed me...
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- 10 Horror Descends: A Yandere Female Corpse Forces Me Into a Ghost Marriage 惊悚降临:被病娇女尸强绑阴亲 (The rating just came in, and it will definitely go up! I promise!) [Mind control + both leads are chaste + intensely possessive love + yandere + 1v1 + a touch of supernatural horror] [Yandere, gloomy female ghost × intelligent, reincarnating female lead] Never seek shelter in a remote village's mourning hall on a stormy night. If you do, don't get curious and look at the thin-skinned coffin behind the white curtain. In a village deep in the mountains of western Hunan, there is a rule passed dow 30.7kReads7.4Score6.1k14d adds
- 11 A Female Ghost Shows Up Pregnant, and You Say You're a Proper Daoist? 女鬼怀孕上门你说你是正经道士? [Mystery Solving] [Ghost Stories] [Chinese Folk Traditions] Su Yun is an heir to the Yin-Yang School, one of the pre-Qin traditions. Introduced by an acquaintance, he went on a blind date and met his girlfriend. After they broke up, Su Yun prepared to turn her into a zombie. Just as the process was nearly complete on the seventh day, a policewoman burst in and arrested him for murder. Su Yun: “I'm innocent! My ex-girlfriend was a flight attendant, fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged. Why wo 220.5kReads9.1Score23.8k14d adds
- 12 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 28.8kReads9.4Score4.1k14d adds
- 13 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.2kReads9.2Score3.4k14d adds
- 14 Horror Invasion: From the Start, I Ate the Starving Ghost 恐怖入侵,开局吃掉饿死鬼 A simple-minded village guardian, yet born with the nature of a ghost. Chen Huang knows who treats him well, but he doesn't understand himself or the world around him. He doesn't realize that, in this world where terror has returned, people can die at any moment. In the little village, man-eating evil spirits feast in the darkness of despair. In the town, layers of ghostly shadows leave almost everyone with no way out. In the psychiatric hospital, eerie human skins wander the halls at night. Aga 95.8kReads8.1Score8.8k14d adds
- 15 EN The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临?我先降临! [The print edition of I'm a Supplier of Survival Plans for the End Times is now available on major platforms] [Character growth · Multi-theme stages · Ensemble cast · Occasional brutal takedowns · No cookie-cutter plot · No mindless wish fulfillment] After facing repeated layoffs and betrayals, Su Jin was at the lowest point of his life when he was accidentally hired by a mysterious company. Countless worlds are on the brink of destruction. Only by saving their clients can the sparks of civiliza 401.1kReads9.2Score33.6k14d adds
- 16 EN Highway Survival: My Cheat Is a Donkey 公路序列求生:我的金手指是头驴 [Road Survival] [Wild Imagination] [Transcendent Sequences] [Ordinary Person's Journey] [No Saintly Hero] [Apocalypse Survival] [The Strange Descends] The worlds of Ming and Jing collided and merged. The Tidecall descended, bringing countless horrors and monsters. Cities became ruins, and civilization teetered on the brink of destruction. People could only rely on the abilities of the Awakened to migrate from place to place, clinging to life by a thread. Chen Mo was an ordinary man, struggling a 125.1kReads8.2Score10.4k14d adds
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Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友,你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊?
Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity!
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- 18 I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼 [The printed edition of Strange Tales Forum is in production] [The short drama adaptation of Strange Tales Forum is in production] Gao Shen joined a strange tales forum by chance. The forum often posts eerie stories, describing every detail so vividly that they seem to have really happened. Users who reply seriously analyze the source of each incident and discuss how to deal with it. They even address each other as Heavenly Masters, Soul Tamer 49.9kReads8.7Score6.4k14d adds
- 19 Horror Game: From the Start, the Skin Bride's Bones Terrified the World! 恐怖游戏:开局皮嫁骨吓哭全球! [Handcrafted with Traditional Techniques, No AI] [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] The horror game has arrived! Lin Ye transmigrated here and was selected to take part in designing a global horror game. He had planned to bring out the "Ghost Bride" to save Daxia, only to discover that its culture hadn't been lost at all! Traditional Daxia ghost stories had been used to death, and the whole nation was in despair! Daxia had suffered ten straight losses. The supernatural was invading, and the land was 1MReads8.7Score216.8k14d adds
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Supernatural: Starting Work at the Funeral Home 灵异:从殡仪馆上班开始
A person who received nine years of compulsory education finds themself caught up in a series of utterly bizarre events because of a job posting and a job... The synopsis doesn't do it justice. Read the story and see for yourself.
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The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列
The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series
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- 22 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 121Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师:我的娃娃真能显灵
[Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe
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- 24 Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 91Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂 Three bizarre murder cases, each victim wearing a strange smile. Through deep psychological profiling, forensic pathologist Song Ci discovers that each victim’s final actions imitated a tiny habitual gesture their long-deceased relative used to make. Bai Ye’s technical analysis confirms that traces of brain waves that could not belong to the living, already “formatted,” remain at the crime scenes... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Last Movie Star in the World of Cinema 电影世界最后一个影帝
[A multiverse story focused on supernatural, sci-fi, and fantasy films, with a few other genres mixed in.] [Not a monster-grinding, level-up story. There is no clear power system; the focus is on storytelling.] [Not a conventional wish-fulfillment novel. It touches on traditional thought and culture, including but not limited to the Hundred Schools of Thought and Wang Yangming's School of Mind.] [The protagonist is a bleeding heart, funny, and righteous, with no showing off and face-slapping, an
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- 27 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score96014d adds
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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 ‘
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- 29 Seven Days of the Dead 七日亡魂 My grandfather used to say that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to claim. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost opera. I went to play backstage, never realizing that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam behind me. 1.1kReads8.2Score10114d adds
- 30 Who Told You to Ask Him for a Fortune? He's Morally Deficient in Every Way! 谁让你找他算命的,他五行缺德! Chen Changsheng transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a barefoot Taoist who sets up a stall to tell fortunes. Once he accumulates enough merit points, he can return to his original world and attain the Dao on the spot. To earn more merit points, Chen Changsheng decides to start livestreaming and build an audience. He thinks he can rack up a fortune in merit points by reading people's fortunes and interpreting their lots. But gradually, the atmosphere in Chen Changsheng's livestream 20.8kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 31 One Divination a Day: A Heavenly Master's Trainee 每日一卦,天师练习生 [Urban Cultivation] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Supernatural Ghosts] [Folk Customs] [Cautious Cultivation] [System Farming] [Multiple female leads ahead: policewoman, ghost, catgirl, foxgirl] Other Taoist priests heading down the mountain: slay demons, uphold justice, and fight evil in Heaven's name! Jiang, radiating the air of an immortal, flicked his sleeve. “Boundless Heavenly Venerable, vanquishing demons is my duty… That'll be one hundred thousand in incense money. WeChat or Alipay?” A college g 162.1kReads8.5Score19.6k14d adds
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My Yin-Yang Eyes Only Work on Haunted Houses 我的阴阳眼只刷凶宅
[Ratings have just opened, so they're a little low. They'll rise soon] [A protagonist who grows over time] Lu Li has yin-yang eyes, and his gray pupils can see ghosts. His life motto is simple: staying alive comes first, making money second! Unfortunately, those cursed eyes always make him witness suffering that others can't see. A ghost woman with hair bristling with resentment, a ghost bride with blood dripping from her red veil, a ghost baby wailing at midnight, even a sinister-looking ghost
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A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥
(Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn.
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The Judge’s Brush: I Use Daoist Arts to Subdue Yin and Yang 判官执笔:我以道法镇阴阳
One case, one solution. Episodic stories, fast pacing, easy to get into. Wang Zhen was born with a fate tied to the Underworld, and holds the Judge’s Brush in his hand. He can see through the boundary between yin and yang, judge wicked spirits, and draw talismans with a fingertip. His strokes make them come alive. Curses that steal lives, girls in red at school, ghostly shadows in hospitals... One eerie, bizarre case after another, one vengeful spirit after another claiming lives. While others g
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- 35 Siheyuan: With a Zombie-Slaying Daoist Master Around, No One Dares Cause Trouble 四合院:僵尸道长在,没人敢作怪 After fighting evil spirits, Mao Xiaofang, his two apprentices, Black Rose, and Shrimp were planning to return to Gantian Town. But a temporal rift swept them away, and they crash-landed in a Beijing courtyard house in the 1960s. The moment they arrived, the entire courtyard was in chaos. Looking at the disorderly place, Mao Xiaofang sighed. “Never mind. We’ll stay here for now.” He had hoped to keep a low profile, but evil spirits kept causing trouble. So the three brothers, including Silly 279Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Taoist Temple Goes Bankrupt! The Little Taoist Heads Down the Mountain to Seek His Childhood Friend 道观破产!小道士下山投奔竹马
[This story is entirely fictional. The setting is imaginary, so please don’t take it seriously!] Master said Jian Xi was born to make a living from the occult! Of the Five Afflictions and Three Deprivations, Jian Xi had two! Of widowhood, spinsterhood, orphanhood, and disability, she had orphanhood! That’s right, she was an orphan, taken in as a child! Of the Three Deprivations, she had poverty! That’s right, she could never save money, and she wasn’t allowed to have any! Sure enough, Master tra
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Why Do Zombies Go Out of Their Way to Avoid Me? 僵尸见我绕道走,为啥
Lin Xiaojiu was granted reincarnation by the will of Heaven. In his previous life, he was Maoshan's greatest Celestial Master, who had reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao. Reborn in this life to cultivate anew, he's invincible from the start! Others go weak in the knees at the sight of ghosts. When he shows up, zombies turn and run, while evil spirits kneel and beg for mercy. “Zombie bros, don't run! I haven't exorcised you yet!” “Are there no evil spirits in this generation who can put up a
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- 38 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1k14d adds
- 39 Mystic of the Haunted Realm: Beginning with the Awakening of Yin-Yang Arts 诡界神棍:从觉醒阴阳术开始 Lin Yan, a low-level charlatan in the Spirit Realm, awakens Yin-Yang arts and unlocks fantastical powers before returning to the human world. He plans to get rich with his fortune-telling skills, but the next thing he knows, vengeful spirits in the Spirit Realm are begging to be recruited, an elven saintess offers to share his bed, and the King of the Inner Earth sobs as he presents him with a priceless treasure. Powerful figures from every corner even visit his dreams, begging him to break thei 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Midnight Fortune-Teller: Humans Keep Away, Ghosts Come Forward 午夜算命师:人回避,鬼上前 Everyone knows about fortune-telling, but have you ever heard of telling fortunes for ghosts? Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you ever come across a fortune-telling shop with its doors still open in the middle of the night, don't go looking for excitement. Because the people waiting in line might not be people… 35.4kReads9.0Score2.6k14d adds
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I Have a Fox Immortal Wife 我有一个狐仙老婆
As the old saying goes, when a fox comes asking for your hand, it’s either deeply in love or out to harm you. When Gu Ning was five, a white fox with magical powers tricked him into a wedding ceremony, making him take the heavenly tribulation in her place. To stay alive, Gu Ning opens a café that only operates after midnight and caters exclusively to wandering spirits...
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- 42 I'm the Top Supporter of the Gods (Season One) 我给神明当榜一(第一季) I Become the Top Supporter for the Gods (Season One) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 I Used Code to Modify the Primordial World 我用代码修改了洪荒 Programmer Chen Mo drops dead from overwork and is reincarnated as a blade of grass in the Primordial World. Unable to move or speak, he watches as someone is about to trample him to death. “Ding! Chaotic spiritual energy detected. Would you like to set up a Wi-Fi hotspot?” From then on, everything goes off the rails. He starts livestreaming and recruiting users, and in three months builds the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals into a force of forty thousand. Sages gather to watch, Kunpeng gets —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 On the Day I Was Reborn, I Sent My Ex-Husband, the Movie Emperor, Out to Pick Up Trash 重生当天,我让影帝前夫去捡垃圾 On the day I was reborn, I sent my actor ex-husband out to scavenge for trash —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Celestial Master: Carve Talismans on Guns, Use Vermilion Sand on Bullets 天师:枪上刻符箓,子弹点朱砂
[Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain] + [The Times Have Changed] + [Five Thunders Technique] + [Decisive and Ruthless]! Zhang Qingxiao transmigrates to a parallel world, inherits the Longhu Sword Seal, and becomes the 99th Purple-Robed Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain. He thought that being a Celestial Master meant he could spend his days drinking tea, staying healthy, and taking it easy up on the mountain. Who knew that on his very first day, zombies would start causing trouble at the foot o
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Strange Tales from the Start? But I’m Yang Jian! 开局聊斋?但我是杨戬啊
[No System + Chinese-Style Horror + Time-Limited Transformation + Yang Jian + Extreme Contrast and Thrills] After transmigrating into the demon-infested world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Yang Jian runs straight into a century-old Painted-Skin Ghost that specializes in tearing out human hearts. There is nowhere to run! No System chiming in. No old master living in a ring. His only trump card is the Holy Erlang True Lord sleeping inside him, whose name sounds just like his own: Yang Ji
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The Bell Pavilion 铃铛阁
An operation unexpectedly opened my yin-yang eyes. The string of uncanny encounters that followed completely overturned everything I thought I knew. The Four Yin Marshals of the Underworld, Zhong Kui, and the Ten Yama Kings all made their appearances. In the end, I uncovered the mystery of my own origins. I never imagined that in my previous life, I had been...
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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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- 49 Ghost Catcher of the Underworld 阴司鬼差 The ninety-nine ghost officials appointed by Qin Shi Huang have passed their positions down through the generations. Somehow, this generation’s post has come down to me. This isn’t myth or legend. It’s all real, and it’s happening right now... 674Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 50 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 672.6kReads9.6Score138.4k14d adds

















































