Paper Effigies, Corpse Driving, Strange Arts, and Hidden Techniques 扎纸，赶尸，奇门，遁甲

1. 1 修EN Immortal Cultivation: This Is How the Unorthodox Do It 修仙：旁门左道就是这样的 Fire Cloud Pillar火云柱Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsOngoing [Classical-style cultivation] [No System] [Growth] [The clash between new and old cultivation methods] [The passage of time] [Some farming and management] [No level suppression] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fellow Daoist, rent a set of internal organs and a brain to help you cultivate!] [When you practice the Golden Core, you can dig up your ancestors and have them help you cultivate] [My family has a lineage stretching back ten thousand years, with the bones of a hundred thousand grandmaster martia 146.7kReads8.5Score12.8kShelves

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   This book is excellent; missing it would be a loss.

2. 2 天EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 Light of the Dao道之光Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [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. 694.2kReads9.6Score146.3kShelves

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   These are the best I've ever seen.

3. 3 豫 Strange Tales from Western Henan 豫西诡事 X Half-ImmortalX半仙Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted 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… 28.7kReads8.4Score3.6kShelves

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   The main focus is on authenticity. The author himself is a legitimate Taoist priest, and the book is full of his real experiences handling various situations in the common people over the years.

4. 4 跟 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Ding Xingxing521丁星星521Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted 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 34.8kReads8.8Score3.1kShelves

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   It's finished and I'm giving it to you.

5. 5 湘 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 Star Moon Wonderstone煋月奇石Mystery301k WordsOngoing A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 240Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I've read over ten chapters, and this book is great. It's probably the best I've read about the Xiangxi corpse-transporting genre. Highly recommended! [Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

6. 6 最 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra 16.7kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves

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   Yin Ba Men, those interested can take a look.

7. 7 阴 The Yin Eight Sects: I Subdue Ghosts and Gods in the Mortal World 阴八门：我在阳间镇鬼神 cw120Mystery413k WordsOngoing Li Piezizi, a scrap collector, raised me for ten years. To repay his kindness and save his life, I was ready to risk my own. But an unexpected incident pulled me into a bizarre and chilling supernatural affair. That was when I discovered that beyond the three hundred and sixty-five recognized trades, there are the Yin Eight Guilds, whose members specialize in dealing with the dead. My name is Li Wujin, and I had no choice but to step into this mire. I never imagined one uncanny event would fo 5Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 最 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Emperor Carrot帝萝卜Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 132Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 道 Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友，你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊？ He An Is Simple贺安很简单Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted 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! 81.3kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves
10. 10 茅 Maoshan Arts: Learning Master Simu's Spirit-Summoning Technique 茅山术：得传四目道长请神术 Little Flying Pig Reaching for the Sky向天的小飞猪Mystery118k WordsOngoing Winter Solstice, 1998. Tianjia Village in the Qinba Mountains. After a night of difficult labor, the second son of the Tian family’s wife gave birth to a baby boy with a pair of eerie eyes: the left was lifeless and murky, while dark gold swirled in the right. That night, the century-old locust tree swayed without a breeze, the village dogs fell deathly silent, and the kerosene lamp went out and relit three times. Old Tian, the temple keeper, counted on his fingers, and his face changed drama —Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 11 天 A Celestial Master Takes a Job at the Crematorium, Who Would Dare Fake Their Own Death? 天师入职火葬场，这谁敢诈尸啊？ Holy Crab厚礼蟹特Urban753k WordsCompleted Zhang Jiusheng is reborn in a parallel world as the only direct disciple of the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain. He thought he had it made and could live off incense offerings until he died. Who could have guessed that Taoism in this world had fallen into decline over the centuries? Now it's so poor, it can't even afford a bowl of pork trotter rice! He'll have to take on some side jobs! Just then, a group of government officials showed up at the mountain. The National Crematorium is hiring! 1.4kReads7.4Score247Shelves
12. 12 扎 Paper Effigy Maker: From the Start, I Bring Paper Effigies to Life, and a Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night 扎纸匠，开局扎纸点睛，百鬼夜行 Chengcheng and Niumalun城城与牛马伦Urban346k WordsOngoing [Supernatural + folk customs + paper figures + paper effigy maker + City God Temple + yin-yang taboos] Never dot a paper figure’s eyes, never work after midnight, and never ask a client’s birth date. These are the three great taboos of paper effigy makers. Chen Mo, only six years old and born with the ability to communicate with the spirit world, became a paper effigy maker to survive. In this old mountain town... —Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 捉 Ghost Hunting Is My Hobby, Funeral Work Is My Profession 捉鬼我是业余的，白事儿才是专业的 Yun Yu云羽Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted Su San was an ordinary nobody until his grandfather’s unexpected death dragged him into a series of eerie events. He comes back to life inside a coffin, but has only ten years of life left. His parents and relatives vanish mysteriously overnight, too. Bearing the legacy of a Divine Burial Master, he travels between the worlds of yin and yang to uncover the truth, never suspecting that the mastermind is the very person he trusts most. 79Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 14 纸 I Hide People in Paper and Subdue Yin Spirits: I Am the God of Death in the Mortal World 纸藏人，镇阴魂，我是阳间太岁神 Eight Cups of Wine八杯酒Mystery387k WordsCompleted Bamboo is split into strips, and yellow paper is cut into people. Our family’s paper effigy shop stands at the end of the town’s most haunted alley. For a thousand years, our trade has been the same: making furnishings for the dead. After inheriting my grandfather’s craft and vowing to change the fate that had weighed on our family for a thousand years, I found myself beset by one bizarre, uncanny event after another. A grave for mother and child buried deep in the mountains, figures moving th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 15 东 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Happy God乐乐神Mystery4.2M WordsCompleted Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 400Reads6.8Score111Shelves
16. 16 爷 Grandpa, I Was Reborn, I Swear I'm Not Possessed 爷爷，我是重生，真不是鬼上身 Bincheng Lao San滨城老三Mystery3.6M WordsOngoing [Traditional Mystery and Supernatural Fiction] [One Female Lead] [Period Novel] [A Funeral Master’s True Accounts] [Northeastern Chinese Funeral Customs] [Rural Life] Adapted into the short drama Eighties Funeral Master (Disclaimer: The folk techniques in this book, including Zhuyou healing rituals, are entirely fictional. Please do not imitate them. The author bears no responsibility for any problems that may arise.) Good grief, I’ve been reborn in 1986, and from the start Grandpa thinks I’m a 59.4kReads9.3Score5kShelves
17. 17 阴 Ghostly Tales: I'm a Corpse Driver from Xiangxi 阴鬼怪诞：我是湘西赶尸人 Pillow Stream枕流Mystery817k WordsOngoing In the south, Maoshan; in the north, hanging horses. Go up the mountain to drive corpses, come down to descend into the underworld. My name is Chu Bai. I'm an atheist, yet I make my living arranging funerals and driving corpses for people. I used to think there was nothing strange or supernatural in this world. But one unexpected funeral showed me what lay beneath this vast world: a shadowy realm crawling with demons and monsters, where ghosts prey on the living. To stay alive, I had no choice b 22Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 18 茅 Thirty Years on Maoshan 茅山三十年 September Stone九月石Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing ♥ Don’t let the rating fool you, my book is top-notch! A feel-good story about a Taoist priest who descends the mountain to catch ghosts and drive out evil. No romance, no saintly do-gooder. Traveling far and wide to vanquish demons and uphold the Dao. No padding, no rambling, no romance. 9.4kReads8.8Score750Shelves
19. 19 从 I Became Haunted by Evil Spirits After Starting Out as a Corpse Burner 从当烧尸匠开始恶鬼缠身 Midnight Mirror午夜镜子Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted To escape an arranged marriage, I took a job burning corpses at a funeral home. Old Li, who handled the bodies, actually brought a prostitute to the funeral home. That woman later died, leaving a red high heel at the entrance... The next day, Old Li died. A red high heel had pierced through the center of his forehead... With my father's help, I learned that before she died, the woman had been pregnant. Someone had cut the baby out of her and turned them into a Mother-Child Demon. After that, t 5.7kReads8.3Score483Shelves
20. 20 纸 Paper Effigies Carry the Coffin as a Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night 纸人抬棺，百鬼夜行 Ma Bu Stopping Hooves马卜停蹄子Urban381k WordsCompleted Jiang Bai was a young man who barely made ends meet with his paper-crafting skills. In this age of concrete and steel, no one believed in these old crafts anymore. Then, on the Ghost Festival, the gates of an underground palace opened and Yin energy flooded the world. The city was dragged into a revel of a hundred ghosts roaming the night. Modern weapons were useless against the ghosts, practitioners were forced back at every turn, and the human world was on the verge of falling. At the brink of 111Reads5.9Score—Shelves
21. 21 失 Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈 Jun Nanchao峻难超Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L 4.2kReads—Score366Shelves
22. 22 猛 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 140Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This author is probably the best horror writer on the entire Tomato website. The first three were a collection of chilling short horror stories, and the fourth was a suspenseful, funny, and slightly borderline supernatural long novel [awkward laugh].

23. 23 午 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 121Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 24 o Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳6k WordsCompleted There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 91Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 25 重 Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳Mystery605k WordsOngoing 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—Shelves
26. 26 天 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此，奇门风水震天下 Big Eggplant大茄子Mystery6.3M WordsCompleted [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves

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    Actually, the order should be reversed. Read the third book first, and then go back to read the first and second books after you have learned some basic knowledge and professional terminology.

27. 27 民 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 Gray Matter灰白质Mystery399k WordsCompleted The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 39Reads—Score—Shelves

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28. 28 来 Come Listen to a Ghost Story! 来听诡故事！ Gray Matter灰白质Mystery270k WordsCompleted The chime of midnight is the switch that starts each story. Hidden here are 365 eerie legends from every corner of the world. Maybe it's the strange sobbing in the night-shift office during overtime, a stranger's long hair beside your pillow in an old residential complex, or a passenger in a white dress who vanishes in front of a cemetery. One short ghost story every night, tearing through the everyday facade to reveal the chilling truth beneath. Do you dare open this collection of midnight tale 34Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 29 僵 Jiangshi World: From the Start, I Become the Disciple of the Thunderbolt Taoist 僵尸世界：开局拜师雷电法王 Crane Dream Song鹤梦辞Urban781k WordsOngoing Lin Bei was reborn in the Republic of China and spent fifteen years there, always thinking it was an ordinary world. Then he saw a Taoist conjure lightning with his bare hands and blast a zombie into a charred corpse. Lin Bei immediately dropped to his knees. The Taoist couldn't get rid of him, so he had no choice but to take him as a disciple. “I am Shi Jian, eldest senior disciple of the inner sect of the Maoshan Sect.” Lin Bei was dumbfounded. Shi Jian? The Thunder Lord from "Mr. Vampire"? Un 80.1kReads7.6Score6.1kShelves

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    Keep up the good work, author! It's great, I love it!

30. 30 职 Career Entries: Starting Out as a Rickshaw Puller in the Demon Martial Republic of China 职业词条：从妖武民国拉黄包车始 No Deification in the Primordial Era洪荒不许封神Urban2.6M WordsOngoing [Republican-era martial arts, demons and martial monsters run rampant, supernatural horrors abound, hard-edged martial arts, diligence pays off, decisive and ruthless, overwhelming strength, defeating stronger foes from below.] A world of demonic martial arts, a chaotic age of supernatural horrors. The Three Teachings and Nine Schools fought in the shadows, while the poor and powerless struggled to survive in the streets. Warlords carved up the land, foreign battleships pounded at the gates, and 63.4kReads7.9Score7kShelves

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    It's from the Republic of China era; I don't know if I'd like it.

31. 31 阴 Chronicles of the Yin Trade: I'm an Embalmer at a Funeral Home 阴行录：我在殡仪馆当入殓师 Handsome San Shi帅三石Mystery135k WordsOngoing Shen Xun is an embalmer with Yin-Yang Eyes. By day, he performs autopsies; by night, he guides the dead to rest. Only when he has “fixed” a corpse can its aggrieved spirit finally close its eyes. 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Recommending books to read! They've saved me from a reading slump!

32. 32 寻 The Corpse-Seeking Captain 寻尸校尉 A Broken Branch, Half a Section Empty一支半节空Mystery85k WordsOngoing My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 33 三 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Luo Xiaoyang洛小阳Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves

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    The book provides detailed descriptions of various folk taboos and funeral rituals, including elements such as ghost chickens, ghost cats, paper money, and coffins, vividly creating a Chinese atmosphere of horror. The author also cleverly incorporates Sichuan and Chongqing dialect, making the writing feel familiar and down-to-earth, enhancing the reader's immersion. While reading, you feel as if you are in that small village filled with eerie legends, experiencing a series of thrilling adventures alongside the protagonist.

34. 34 我 I Have 36,524 Folk Horror Stories 我有36524个民间恐怖故事 Nalan Xi纳兰惜Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted [Standalone stories] [Supernatural suspense] [Folk horror] [Mountain spirits and monsters] [Adapted from real cases] [Rural legends] There is no main storyline. Each chapter is a self-contained story adapted from folk rumors, with eerie, gripping plots. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as entertainment. 4.2kReads8.8Score217Shelves

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    I'm too scared to go to the toilet at night.

35. 35 民 Folk Tales: One Chapter, One Horror Story 民间怪谈一章一个恐怖故事 Alone Through the Cold Autumn独过寒秋Mystery845k WordsCompleted [Anthology of stories] [Folklore horror] [Supernatural horror] [Village legends] [Chinese-style horror] [Old-time storytelling] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story adapted from folk tales, with eerie, unsettling plots that grow more terrifying the more you think about them. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as a bit of fun. 26.1kReads7.5Score1.2kShelves
36. 36 风 Feng Shui Mysticism: The Five Ghosts Pull Out the Nail 风水奇门，五鬼拔钉 Wahaha That Never Comes等不到的娃哈哈Mystery176k WordsOngoing “The heavenly stems return to their places, the earthly branches fix the formation. Yin and yang reverse, the Nine Palaces take shape!” A funnel drains the yin pool, a drought demon strikes the sky-point. A coffin made from raw wood is thrust headfirst into the earth, stuffed with graveyard ash and black dog blood! To prolong his grandson's life, Jiangzhou's richest man spent twenty years laying the Nine Yin Heaven-Stealing Formation. He turned the baleful energy of nine people who died violent 7.1kReads—Score456Shelves

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    "Eastern Jia and Yi wood, Southern Bing and Ding fire, Western Geng and Xin metal, Northern Ren and Gui water, Central Wu and Ji earth!" "Five Ghost Emperors, by my decree! Borrowing the power of the Nine Netherworlds, we act on behalf of Heaven!" "Five Ghosts, heed my command! Rise!" "Five Ghosts, burn the corpse!"

37. 37 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T 277kReads9.4Score23.7kShelves

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    Highly recommended!!! I can't find a better alternative. Since ancient times, there has been a mysterious pawnshop that only opens at midnight, with a sign at the door saying "Living people need not enter." It doesn't accept gold or silver jewelry, but specializes in evil items, such as money used to seal the mouths of the dead, executioner's knives, and mushrooms from graves. Through the pawnshop's hands, these evil items can be transformed into treasures, helping people get promoted, become wealthy, and avert disasters. The protagonist embarks on a journey to collect these evil items in order to inherit his grandfather's pawnshop. Each episode revolves around a different evil item, such as a human bone necklace and money used to seal the mouths of the dead. While solving paranormal events, the protagonist exposes the wickedness of the human heart and discovers the secrets and powers hidden behind these evil items.

38. 38 爷 Grandpa’s Bones Aren’t Even Cold, and Eight Women Have Come to Break Off Their Engagements 爷爷尸骨未寒，八女上门退婚 Light and Faith光与信仰Urban686k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Shou. My grandfather was Qin the Half-Immortal, renowned across three regions, and spent his life doing good deeds. Before his body had even turned cold and while the incense in the mourning hall still burned, eight luxury cars arrived one after another. Eight stunning fiancées came to the door together, tore up their engagement contracts in front of everyone, and humiliated me without restraint. “You’re not good enough for us!” Every taunt cut to the bone. I inherited my grandfat 3.3kReads6.4Score192Shelves

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    Feng shui can kill without a trace; feng shui novels reveal the wickedness of the human heart.

39. 39 巡 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Feiyi匪夷Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 8.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves

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    Feng shui, physiognomy, and Qimen Dunjia [eating melon emoji]

40. 40 唯 The One and Only Origami Talent: I Can Fold Anything 唯一折纸天赋，我能折出一切 Su Fifteen宿十五Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsCompleted (Apocalypse + Transmigration + No Saintly Savior + No Romance + Leveling + Playing It Safe + Superpowers + Gets Even Better Later) Zhuang Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the safest wood-type superpower in the apocalypse. His future career is supposed to be farming in a safe zone. Other people grow potatoes with a soft, fluffy texture. His potatoes are as big as soccer balls and rock-hard. Other people grow crisp, juicy, sweet cabbages. His cabbages reach five feet tall and are r 27.2kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves

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    When he was destitute, he was adopted by the owner of a paper-crafting shop. Through a fortuitous encounter, he inherited the art of paper-crafting and was able to create paper crafts.

41. 41 诡 Weird Tales: From the Start, I Beat the Eight-Foot-Tall Woman to a Pulp 诡异，开局锤爆八尺夫人 Xu Moqing徐墨卿Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted The world of the uncanny was chaotic and lawless. Mountain demons, evil ghosts, phantoms, jiangshi, zombies, slit-mouthed women, Sadako, eight-foot-tall women, Bloody Mary… Every uncanny being once thought to exist only in the imagination was real in this world. Xu Changqing, a martial arts enthusiast, had ended up here by accident. He’d only wanted to scrape by and wait for death, but from the start, he was attacked by an F-rank entity from Sakura Country: the Eight-Foot-Tall Woman. To stay ali 11.3kReads8.7Score981Shelves
42. 42 扎 Paper Effigy Maker: I Craft Yin Soldiers by Hand, and That's Perfectly Reasonable 扎纸匠：手搓阴兵，这很合理吧 Zou Meng, Who Loves Tree Pipits喜欢树鹨的邹萌Eastern Fantasy611k WordsCompleted This is a world where cultivation and pollution coexist. Spiritual energy is toxic, and the Daoist arts are twisted. In their pursuit of immortality, cultivators willingly mutate their flesh and regard ordinary people as resources. Gu Changsheng transmigrates here and becomes a humble paper effigy maker at a funeral shop. From the start, he’s being watched by his evil master and thinks he’s about to die on arrival. Luckily, he awakens a [Proficiency Panel]. Effort always pays off, and skills hav 562Reads6.2Score101Shelves
43. 43 诡 Eerie: A Divine Hint from the Start, and I've Seen Through Everything 诡异：开局神提示，我已看透一切 Panda Who Loves Goji Berries爱喝枸杞的熊猫Mystery2.5M WordsOngoing [Ghosts Fighting for His Affection + Passionate Nights + Horror + Livestream + Survival + Fast-Paced + Power Fantasy] While everyone else scrapes by for survival in the dungeons, Ji Feng uses his ability to know everything to fall into a sweet romance with a female ghost. A bizarre game begins. Players die, and ghost realms descend. Ji Feng is chosen as a player, and from the start he picks the most ferocious female ghost of all: the Ghost Bride! A chill wind howls, red candles flicker, and bene 27kReads8.4Score2.9kShelves
44. 44 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves

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45. 45 与 Walking with the Dead 与尸同行 Nie Xiaoyang聂小杨Mystery265k WordsCompleted Chen Duo, an undertaker haunted by the bloody deaths of his closest family; Li Xiaoxin, a forensic pathologist with a devil hidden in her heart; Wang Feifei, a boxer drifting through life; and Zhang Ting, a businessman teetering on the edge of hell. These four people, each hiding a secret, search for the final truth about every corpse's life. As they work alongside the dead and uncover the murky veil surrounding each crime, they must also confront their own pasts. Between the living and the dead 244Reads9.2Score—Shelves
46. 46 我 I'm Really, Really Terrifying After I Die 我死后真的真的巨凶 One in a Million此人万里挑一Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [The protagonist is a ghost] [Slightly dark] Chen Xi confessed his feelings to the class beauty and was rejected. Then someone murdered him, but she assumed he had killed himself over her. Fortunately, the supernatural revival had just begun, and Chen Xi transformed straight into a vengeful ghost. Who could have guessed that the class beauty would come to his home, take his things without permission, and even damage his mother's keepsake? At last, Chen Xi couldn't hold back any longer and struck 13.1kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves
47. 47 捡 I Found a Manual for Evil Cultivation, and Now I Draw Talismans and Refine Corpse Puppets in the City 捡到邪修手册，我在都市画符炼尸 Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds千钧四两Mystery1.9M WordsOngoing [Raising Corpses and Ghosts] [Urban Cultivation] [Unorthodox Cultivator] [Ordinary Protagonist] [Read It as Cultivation, Not the Supernatural] Dissect a ghost mother, use forbidden arts to seek wealth! Down on his luck, Feng Jie taught himself forbidden arts using a notebook left behind by an unorthodox cultivator. After capturing a "ghost mother" alive, he became a ghost dissector! He used ghost blood to draw a wealth-attracting talisman, but accidentally stumbled into a ghost market and embark 34.7kReads8.0Score3.9kShelves
48. 48 僵 The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契 Floating0Life浮0生Mystery329k WordsOngoing Jiang Si, who was there to watch the show, nearly gets crushed to death. On the brink of life and death, he is sucked into the core of the Nine Dragons Feng Shui Formation and accidentally gains a pair of all-seeing eyes... Before he can even celebrate, a drought demon sets its sights on him... Luckily, at the crucial moment, he is summoned to a bizarre world by an ancient zombie patriarch who has lived for a thousand years... After being welcomed back into the family, he hears, "What! You want 7.5kReads8.3Score908Shelves

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49. 49 到 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves

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    Little Exorcist Master Who Catches Ghosts, Fights Zombies, and Exorcises Evil

50. 50 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing 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 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves

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