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The White Dragon Horse Medium 白龙出马仙
Break through seven trials, meet with sudden disaster, make a blood sacrifice of an infant, refine corpse oil. One by one, long-lost secret arts resurface, and strange, mysterious events begin unfolding throughout my journey... That lantern made of human skin holds captive the youth I can never return to.
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- 2 Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事 “First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had 32.4kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
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Mr. Xiao Wang 小王先生
My mother held on for several extra hours while giving birth to me, just so I wouldn’t be born on the date the fortune-teller had predicted. Haunted by evil spirits! Delivering winter clothes to the dead! Wandering ghosts! Why does everyone come to me for everything? Incense roots? Fate? Five-colored cloth? These mysterious trades all depend on intuition! Granny Bai says I have a spiritual gift and a knack for opening the senses. Aunt Yang says I have all three kinds of affinity. But I never tho
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- 4 The King Wen Drum, the King Wu Whip, and the Five-Dragon Flower Staff Summon the Immortal Elder 文王鼓，武王鞭，五龙花杆请老仙 “Cultivate your character deep in the mountains, then emerge from your cave and make your name known across the land.” A year after I began working as a spirit medium, my life took a completely different course. On the sixth day of the sixth month, I took charge of the altar. The old spirits took their seats, but brought a long-buried case to light. An unremarkable woman was haunted by several infant spirits. In the dead of night, the one who said “Hi” to me was actually a paper doll. An old man 1.9kReads8.8Score194Shelves
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年
He cultivated his character deep in the mountains, then left his secluded cave to make a name for himself across the land. Over twenty years, he broke through countless barriers and witnessed countless things. This is the true story of those twenty years, meant both to introduce this industry to those unfamiliar with it and to share experience with fellow professionals.
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The Yin-Yang Master of the Mountain Village 山村阴阳先生
My brother came back from the dead, and I learned funeral rites to uncover the truth My name is Chen Xiaojun, and I live in a place in Northeast China called Kaoshan Village. One year, my older brother died under mysterious circumstances. His death was gruesome. Though he was only in his twenties, his corpse was as thin as a skeleton, with hair turned white! Even more bizarre, my brother came back to life in the funeral hall! To find out what had happened, I learned a few tricks from an old mast
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Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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- 9 Weasel Spirit! Do I Look Like a Human or a God to You? 黄皮子！你看我像人还是像神？ No specialist knowledge here, just a story. [A little horror + a whole lot of comedy + no female lead, no romance] When I was a kid, I took a nighttime shortcut and saw a weasel worshipping the moon. Remembering a story my grandma had told me, I worried it might ask me to grant it a title, so, on a whim, I shouted at it first: “Weasel! Do I look more like a person or a god to you?” The weasel froze for a moment, then said I looked like a dumbass! But from that day on, I really did become an idio 30.6kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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Not a Daoist Priest, but a Mage 不是道士是法师
Beat the drum and swing the whip. With a shiver, I emerge from the mountains. I open my mouth and speak like a human: I'm the half-mad Li Xiaoxian! Ever since I was born, bad luck has followed me everywhere. I've nearly died time and again. To fight against the fate laid out for me, I believed in the Lord, recited Buddhist scriptures, and even worked at a wholesale market. But Heaven played a cruel joke on me. Misfortune kept piling up until I became completely dazed and unhinged. Desperate to g
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Don't Move! I've Got Connections in the Underworld 别动！姐地府有人
The continuation of Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma: filling in the gaps from before, meeting the people who came afterward, and briefly recording the everyday happenings that followed. It also teaches a few simple things that you can put into practice.
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- 13 The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童 A strange story set in a small town ninety years later. The heroine begins her shamanic calling at thirteen. On the day she was born, all the fox, yellow weasel, white weasel, willow, and rat spirits within a ten-kilometer radius knelt to welcome her. Then came a series of miraculous experiences. 10.6kReads9.5Score947Shelves
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The VIP Heroine’s Soap Opera Life VIP女主的狗血日常
Gou Xue was born with yin-yang eyes and has been able to see what others can't since she was little. She often suffers from sleep paralysis... Our hardworking heroine, who was constantly on the front lines of the supernatural and never dated once in school, is forced to face blind dates and having children after a bolt from the blue. By a twist of fate, she meets Dai Richang, a yin-yang feng shui master... After a chance encounter with the Matchmaking Boy at the Moon God Shrine, she unexpectedly
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True Stories of Spirit Mediums in Northern Liaoning 辽北出马仙实录
A true story about a man who cultivated his mind and spirit deep in the mountains, then emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. It follows his transformation from an ordinary college student into a bona fide shamanic disciple, and offers some guidance to fellow cultivators still grappling with this destined path. I hope this lamp of mine will light the way ahead for everyone fate has brought here! A true story about shamans from Northeast China. Any resemblance t
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Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻
After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path.
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- 18 The Unorthodox Horse-Riding Immortal 不正经的出马仙 Nine out of ten shamanic practitioners are frauds, and the other one is still cultivating. It’s both lucky and unlucky that I’m a shamanic practitioner who doesn’t cultivate immortality. I only like hanging out with my fox spirit companion, and I absolutely refuse to cultivate. 15.6kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 19 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey! 40.5kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 20 Get Up, Nobody Sleep! I'm Holding a Meeting for Ghosts! 起来都别睡，我给鬼开个会！ [Traditional]+ [Supernatural]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No CP]+ [No Cultivation] The animated comic Huang Daxian's Odd Jobs: My Host Is All Talk is now online. When Li Zhengyang was little, he went with his father to visit relatives. They were driving home at midnight when their car inexplicably stalled three times as they passed a graveyard. His relatives had plied him with liquor, but Li Zhengyang was fearless as a newborn calf. He got out of the car and yelled curses at the nearby mounds 6.7kReads8.3Score535Shelves
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This Spirit Medium Is No Ordinary One 这个出马仙不一般
[Paranormal tales from Northeast China, adapted from true stories] A three-foot strip of red cloth bears the names of a hundred or so immortals. Incense smoke curls before it, and the disciple is known as a spirit medium. My name is Jin Laimi. A weasel calling itself the Yellow Immortal once possessed me, and from then on, I became a spirit medium. I opened an agency specializing in feng shui and all kinds of “paranormal” cases. A father who guards his daughter with his spirit even after death;
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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.
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- 23 The Horse-Riding Disciple Still Lives Today 出马弟子今犹在 If you live in Northeast China, you've surely heard tales of the chuma xian. What exactly are the yellow weasels asking for when they beg to be granted a title? Are the Five Great Immortal Families the Fox, Yellow Weasel, Chang, Python, and Qingfeng spirits, or the Fox, Yellow Weasel, White, Willow, and Gray spirits? What can spirit mediums do, and what must they never do? Will the spirits be punished if they do something wrong? As it happens, my older sister is a spirit medium who has establish 6.4kReads9.3Score644Shelves
- 24 The Last Female Mystic 最后一个女玄术师 When Ye Simei was five, a fortune-teller told her she was born with a bewitching beauty and destined to become a canary in some powerful man's cage. Ye Simei: Have the powerful gotten too cocky, or do you think I, Ye Simei, can't wield a blade anymore? 1.9kReads9.0Score263Shelves
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Tales from the Northern Horsemen 北马见闻录
I’m a spirit medium. What do I need brains for? As long as I’m stubborn enough, those weasels can’t get the better of me. This is a story full of blood and heart, and the legend of a spirit medium’s life. Whether it’s life or human nature, the wise will eventually find the answers meant for them. A record of strange encounters, and half the history of the Ma family. Folk legends, chilling mysteries, and uncanny wonders, all within...
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- 26 I'm a Funeral Officiant, So Summoning Immortals Is Only Natural 我个殡葬司仪，会请仙也很正常吧 [One heroine + the author conducted on-site research at funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, striving for realistic details + traditional supernatural tales + professional knowledge of funerals and spirit-medium practices] (The humorous setups and parody scenes in this book, as well as the original Qingfeng spirit-medium altar, where spirits other than ancestors are invited to take up residence, were published with the approval of the author's own guardian spirits. Readers, please believ 38.7kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves
- 27 A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事 As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate! 339Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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Northeastern Immortals: My Tangled Encounters with Spirit Mediums 东北仙家：出马仙与我纠缠的那些
Let me take you into the world of the Chuma immortals. This isn't a power fantasy, just an account told at an unhurried pace of a Chuma immortal's experiences... In the black soil of Northeast China, the depths of the old forests hold many unknown mysteries. People say every mountain has its mountain god, every cave its master, and every willow bank its immortal; pythons can become spirits. On this land, protected by both gods and the wild, there is a kind of person known as a “Chuma immortal”..
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My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年
My name is Chen Jiuyang. I began cultivating under my master as a child, and officially became a spirit medium at eleven, carrying the Five Immortals with me as I wandered the world. With a Seven Kills destiny, a beauty who is but a skeleton, and a demon star bringing chaos to the age, the moment I stepped into the martial world, it was already fated that I would never escape unscathed. Leather-Skinned Ghosts, Resentful Corpse Demons, and White Bone Talisman Immortals: every strange case I encou
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- 30 The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙 When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife... 11.9kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 31 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 19.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa
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- 33 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.5kReads9.1Score217Shelves
- 34 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming 2.5kReads9.1Score236Shelves
- 35 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 2.1kReads8.9Score176Shelves
- 36 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 912Reads8.8Score108Shelves
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The Sinister Way of the Chuma Immortals 诡道出马仙
Twenty-year-old Lu Yuan couldn't find a job after graduating from college, so he returned to his hometown in Northeast China. There, he joined his great-grandfather and grandfather as a spirit medium. As he practiced, he grew both physically and emotionally, gradually learning the many rules of the spirit-medium trade and encountering all kinds of ghosts and bizarre, uncanny events.
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The Fated Demon Bride 天命妖妻
I was born under an unusual fate, and people predicted I wouldn’t live past the age of ten. To save my life, my parents arranged an extraordinary marriage for me. On the wedding night, my family laid out a grand feast, but no one came. I was left alone in the bridal chamber until a pair of cold hands led me inside. Only when the groom lifted my veil did I finally understand: I had married a demon...
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- 39 The Snake Pregnancy in October 十月蛇胎 A serious illness left me pregnant after ten months, and the child's father was a snake: The Northeast Spirit Medium, the true story of a female spirit medium 350Reads8.7Score113Shelves
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True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年
My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con
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The Coffin Bearer 抬棺者
I’m a coffin bearer. After carrying coffins for decades, I’ve seen all kinds of sinister coffins: mother-and-child coffins, coffins without mourners, coffins for those who died violent deaths… And behind these coffins, a shocking secret was hidden…
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- 42 The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘 When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began. 4.7kReads9.0Score333Shelves
- 43 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.7kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
- 44 Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命 When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father... 1.8kReads9.0Score130Shelves
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My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊
A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle?
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Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录
A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand
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- 47 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 117Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 48 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 49Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 49 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 116Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 50 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 401Reads—Score—Shelves
