Looking for Lovecraftian Stories Like Lord of the Mysteries. Please, Please, Please!!! 克苏鲁风格，诡秘之主那种的，求求求！！！
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I Founded the Church of the Old Ones 我，缔造了旧日教会
The Old Ones have returned. The dawn is gone. Humanity on Blue Star is being slaughtered by the minions of the evil gods. Fang Ying of Earth obtains a System and establishes the Church of the Old Ones. At the Dawn of the Old Ones: The Bell Ringer Guard of the Dusk: The Nightless Collector Sword of Order: The Trembler The Church of the Old Ones, secretive, ancient, and powerful, gradually reveals itself to the world as the Old Ones return. Group: 491644577. Praise be to you all ♥(｡￫v￩｡)♥
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Shadow Hunter of the Abyssal Dream 渊梦猎影
[A comedic-leaning story, not traditional Cthulhu, with plenty of jokes. If it's not your thing, please don't flame me (T_T)] “An Arab once said that the dead do not lie in eternal slumber. In the strange and ancient aeons, even death itself may die.” Yu Yuan has been haunted by so-called hallucinations since birth. Then Hoshino Riko appeared, making them seem even more real. But are his hallucinations really just hallucinations? “I think I’m sick. Really sick...” “No, you’re not sick. You’ve si
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There's Something Strange About My Body 我的身体有诡异
[Alternate Setting] + [Slow Burn] + [Lovecraftian] + [No Romance] A modern city, beneath the neon lights. Have you ever seen something twisted and strange, writhing before your eyes? Have you ever heard those whispers that never cease? Elven ballads, ancient dragons' low growls, a vampire clan's feast, the first shoots of the uncanny... Paranormals, taboo objects, occult arts, curses, demons, lands unknown... Oh, my dear friend. Have you ever heard of the King of a Thousand Faces, the Measure of
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The Dao Hides, the Gods Vanish 道隐神匿
[Cultivation]+ [Cthulhu Mythos]+ [Supernatural Powers and Spells] From the twisted shadows looking down on all living things atop Baiyu Jing, to the bizarre feast of writhing flesh in Kunlun's Jade Pool, to the enormous pupils prowling and spying in the weak waters of the Yellow Springs: when the gilded splendor of Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries fades, and the gods of the heavens no longer heed the prayers of mortals, when the moral codes of the court and the martial world fall away, th
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Awakening as a God: From the Mythic World to Godhood 觉醒神明：从神话世界成为神明
Private detective Lin Tan receives an anonymous package on a rainy night. The bizarre star chart and blood-seeping bronze mirror inside unveil a terrifying mystery spanning a century. A cry for help from his partner, Qu Zhe, is interspersed with inhuman panting and the warning, “Don’t look.” Then Qu Zhe vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a blood-written message: “Huailiu Town.” Seeking the truth, Lin Tan enters the cursed town, only to become embroiled in a thousand-year feud between
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The Apocalypse Is Almost Over 即将结束的末日
[Supernatural powers | Cthulhu | No System | No formulaic tropes | Slow-paced | No saintly protagonist] In this world, everything changed after the gods descended. Immortal monsters, strange incantations bestowed as blessings, and terrifying sacrificial rituals emerged. After a new order was established, Shi Yi awoke amid the ruins. A bizarre set of scales floated before him, but he had forgotten who he was. In the mist-shrouded royal court, amid a twisted and chaotic symphony, the long staircas
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Dream Eater 蚀梦者
We gaze up at the stars with reverence. Small as we are, when faced with the encroachment of higher-dimensional forces, we make different choices amid power and desire. Have you ever had a dream like this? Ghosts and monsters run rampant, the heavens collapse and the earth splits, demons whisper in your ear, and a huge, pitch-black eyeball appears in midair. You ride an elevator higher and higher, until it even flies into the sky. Then you fall from a great height, yet never hit the ground. Per
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Sleeping Through the Night Before Immortality 长眠于不老前一夜
[Not a wish-fulfillment story] [No System] [Not mindless] [Slow-paced] [A touch of ensemble cast] [Cthulhu Mythos deities] [Infinite-flow] [A universe of mysterious relics] [Two male leads] [Main couple: two charming rogues, both formidable] [Everyone is a villain] [A touch of exes-to-lovers] [Little tricks for turning a straight man] This is a bit of a long blurb, so pick a font size that works for you. The author's too lazy to revise it. A female-oriented novel with a male-oriented style!!! Fo
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A Modern Female Rogue Cultivator's Astral Travels 现代女散修的元神漫游记
A female rogue cultivator from the city wanders into a ruined temple and unexpectedly finds a strange book capable of revealing the universe's ultimate secrets. From then on, she can leave her body in spirit form and encounters all kinds of supernatural events in the city. She often befriends the Black and White Impermanence, thinking she is about to ascend, but this wildly imaginative astral adventure through the city has only just begun! It turns out there are all sorts of ways to cultivate bo
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Shadow of the Lord of the Mysteries: A Traveler Beyond Fate 诡秘之影：命运之外的旅人
The bronze mirrors of the Gear Tower reveal a bizarre truth: his memory chip records an era that was never written. The differential engines of the Zaratul Family churn out bloodstained gears, each engraved with a variation of the honorific name “The Fool.” Night-Scented Herb badges burn Sequence corruption into the Blasphemy Slate, while at the end of the steel cables dangling from the Church of Steam and Machinery’s airship, a mechanical eye belonging to a cardinal holds the sleeping stirrings
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Tearing Through the Black Hole 撕裂黑洞
[Light cosmic horror + apocalypse + slightly hard-core + no System + ensemble cast + two male leads + terrifying black-hole worldbuilding] Countless believers propelled it to the peak of its power, and its influence spread everywhere. Humanity’s ignorance brought the Book of World’s End into the mortal realm. In their eyes, humans were lambs waiting to be slaughtered. For the first time, humanity realized just how insignificant it was. Unknown darkness and indescribable terror would destroy the
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What Kind of Immortal? A Blood Immortal Born from Corpse Resurrection 仙是什么仙？尸解血中仙
(This book is gone. This book is gone. This book is gone. Important things should be said three times. If you want to read it, please check out I Ascended to Immortality from a Chaotic and Strange World.) (Your world may have a female lead, or it may not. Well, the early chapters might be a little silly, the middle chapters might be too, and the later chapters probably will be as well. It should be a slow burn, and the numbers might get a little big. Don't worry about that. No angst.) (It's insp
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Something’s Not Quite Right in This Cultivation World 这修仙界有点不太对劲
([Chinese-style horror · eerie cultivation · not for the faint of heart] The immortal world is a lie. Beneath it lies a man-eating hell. If you like stories like Dao of the Bizarre Immortal, come on in. If you're looking for a power-fantasy progression story, this isn't for you.) Li Changsheng has a Heavenly Spiritual Root. He is the personal disciple of the Qingyun Sect's leader, the foremost talent of the younger generation, and everyone's envy: the future Daoist heir. His only flaw is that hi
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The Witcher's Laboratory 猎魔人的实验室
[Sequences] [Potions] [Mystery] While sorting through his father’s belongings, Xiao Ning accidentally discovers a grimoire. It contains methods for hunting all kinds of monsters, along with recipes for potions. At first, he thinks it’s all a joke. Only after finding an alchemy laboratory does he finally understand the secret behind it all. With a humble, desperate plea to live, he drinks the potion that represents death.
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Are You Crazy? You Call Cthulhu a Pet? 疯了吧，你管克苏鲁叫宠物？
The protagonist is unable to perceive his own existence. After transmigrating to another world, Li Er becomes a lord. He owns a vast forest and manor. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have been bound to the identity of the Primordial Beginning, Lord of Chaos.” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have successfully summoned a superior servant: a Hound of Tindalos, a creature from another dimension.” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have successfully summoned an inferior servant: an evil magical cr
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My Little Sister Is Actually Cthulhu 我妹妹竟然是克总
Evil-god cultists, potions, kindred, mutants, dinosaurs, starships, divine seeds. Dark nothingness pants and heaves, the so-called gods feast ravenously, and their followers pray with devout fervor. As seven stars align and five Earths hang in the familiar sky, people suddenly discover that the end of the potion system is slavery to the gods. Will people choose to become slaves to these so-called gods? Take up technology and fight back? Embark on their own path of evolution? Or inherit the legac
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Thriller Game: I Kissed the Ghost Princess from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局强吻鬼公主
[Horror game + ridiculous comedy + mystery + supernatural, not scary.] Even capitalists would weep, and financial tycoons would look at this and cry out that it's a crime. In the horror world, Ye Chen does only two things: make money and flirt with female ghosts. A female ghost tries to pull a honey trap? He takes all her ghost coins. He operates on a male ghost, who refuses to pay extra halfway through? Congratulations, sir. Your wife has one fewer husband from now on, but one more sister. He e
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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Train Survival Begins as My Home Planet Explodes 从母星爆炸开始列车求生
[Supernatural evolution] [Civilization collection] [Theism] Their home planet explodes, and humanity escapes into the depths of space aboard interstellar trains. Chen An becomes a train conductor, carrying passengers through the struggle for survival among the stars and creating a unique civilization of his own: the Fuyao Civilization. Under his direction, the passengers sweep across the stars like locusts. They develop technology, plunder species, destroy empires, and trample civilizations. Cou
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Throne of the Mecha King 机甲王座
In the world of the future, impoverished boy Xia Xingchen is caught in a cave-in while mining. Trapped underground, he stumbles upon an ancient laboratory and discovers a crystal pyramid and the history of the ancient ape people's wars. He learns that gods truly exist in this world, and from then on, this ordinary boy sets out on the path to the pinnacle of power.
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Super Manufacturer 超级制造商
In the Nebula i9 Intelligent Factory System, there’s nothing it can’t manufacture, only things you haven’t thought of. As long as you have the money, it can help you rule the world. Starting with the creation of the first “basic-grade” factory, he watches the beginnings of a vast commercial empire take shape. And this is only the start of the voyage. Spanning different industries, different races, and different worlds, it all comes down to the most fundamental things: trading, manufacturing, and
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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Judge of the Apocalypse 末世裁决者
A vast torrent of energy from heaven and earth floods into Earth, and the apocalypse erupts, plunging everything into darkness. There are no zombies here, but there are even more powerful mutants and creatures from other planes. Here, blood is the prevailing color; slaughter is the norm; and death is the best destination! Chen Zhan is reborn and returns, wanting only to grow stronger, protect his family, and take revenge, both physically and emotionally, on the woman from his previous life who w
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Apocalypse: The Campus Belle Turns Into a Zombie, Yet Confesses Her Love to Me? 末世:校花变丧尸，竟向我表白？
When Zhang Chen woke up, he discovered that billions of people had been transported to a post-apocalyptic world! Surviving became everyone’s shared goal! But Zhang Chen could see hidden information: [Congratulations! This room has no zombies, and it also contains a Level 1 supply crate!] [This mutated fruit looks sweet and delicious, but one bite will kill you!] [The meat of a mutated rat can stave off hunger, and temporarily increase your strength!] While everyone else cautiously explored this
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Beneath Fate: I Somehow Became a Gray Mist Creature 命运之下：我竟成为灰雾生物
Bai Chen, an occult enthusiast, unexpectedly becomes one of the first transmigrators. He arrives in a world teeming with eerie creatures and gray fog. While everyone else is still gaining power through fate, Bai Chen chooses to join the gray fog, found a religion, and gradually become a boss. When his teammates begin fighting back against the gray fog, they find a statue atop an evil altar. Th-that isn't Bai Chen, is it?
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A Bite Out of the Azure Heavens 苍天一蚀
[Bizarre apocalypse + multiple heroines + sanity meter plummeting + facing the gods head-on + socialist values] I, unable to die, watch myself through the world. Before the black hole, I look up and see countless versions of myself arranged one after another along a Mobius strip. Then I’m sucked into the black hole in an instant. The eerie red moonlight holds the power to bring the dead back to life, while the red false sun in the sky drags everyone into a world of death with its tentacles. The
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A Faded World 褪色世界
[Urban Fantasy / Light Sci-Fi / Cthulhu Mythos / Mystery and Growth / Ensemble Cast / Pure Romance] Synopsis: A poker-faced genius high school student with a self-healing cheat ability is swept into the undercurrents of a bloodborne curse, a mysterious record company, and an ancient catastrophe. As he gets beaten down and grows stronger, he is forced to accept that he himself is the one who, in the future, will become the Witch of the Original Land's former... For readers who: Enjoy the vibe o
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The Secrets of the Strange Arts 奇门诡秘
During the Republican era, a once-peaceful village is thrown into turmoil by Xu Jinglou's dreams. The dead shed bloody tears, scaled corpses devour hearts, rats bring money, dogs dig up graves, venomous insects worship their queen, and ten thousand snakes pay homage to their sovereign. Strange and fantastical tales reveal the grudges and passions of the Thirty-Six Folk Traditions. When faced with life-or-death choices, what path will Xu Jinglou take?
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The Web of Sin 罪网
Evil is like a tightly woven web, and I am the one who patiently unravels it, drawing out its threads one by one until the true face of sin is laid bare…
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Horror Phone Game 恐怖手机游戏
When the God of Death decides to make the most entertaining mobile game in the world...
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The Erosion of Immortality 不朽之蚀
[Cthulhu] [Eerie] [No Female Lead] [Apocalypse Descends] When eternal statues of the gods are stripped away and consumed, when insects crawl across immortal divine thrones, can the world still maintain its former order? No one knows. As everything slowly collapses, Cheng Zhiyue, cruelly dealt a hand by fate, finds his soul transported into this world. Using another person’s identity and abilities, all he wants is to return to his own world. But when the flood of the apocalypse arrives, all he ca
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Endless Sea Charts 无尽海图
After witnessing the heat death of the universe with your own eyes, your consciousness leaves the universe you came from and journeys to an unknown world. This is the story of how you discard a vast store of redundant memories, transmigrate to an unknown universe, and begin a new adventure. Curses, treasures, contracts, relics: this is a world shrouded in mist.
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The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书
"The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe
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A Terrifying, Eerie Dream 惊悚诡异梦
He had a strange dream. In it, he experienced bizarre, absurd, and utterly terrifying events. As one horrifying ordeal followed another, he began to uncover the truth behind it all… [This book’s style: supernatural, suspenseful, with comedic elements.] [Urban + suspense + paranormal + deduction + calculating protagonist + endless flow]
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The Steam Age: My Anchor Is a Flood of Gold Pounds 蒸汽纪元：我的锚点是金镑洪流
Life in steam-era Britain, in a mysterious world of sequence potions. As Rain explores this world, he discovers that elves exist here too, and that a nation of Han Chinese lies to the east. To find his way home, Rain uses money to weave a path toward greater heights.
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Transmigrated to a World Full of Containment Objects 穿越到满是收容物的世界
[No System]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Heroine]+ [Mystery]+ [Ensemble Cast] Beneath the red and blue neon lights of the night, pedestrians on the street look like an endless row of bowler hats. In the stillness, it feels as if countless secrets lie hidden. Where did these contained objects come from? Are we keeping watch over them, or are they watching us? Why have I come here, and what is the voice in my mind?
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Eldritch Arts in Another World: The Hero Arrived a Day Late 诡术异世：勇者大人来晚一天
[Otherworldly Western fantasy] You transmigrate here as the prophesied savior, yet someone covets your flesh and blood and plans to offer them to the gods. People revere the gods and give thanks for the magic they have bestowed. But you have glimpsed the unfathomable malice lurking within that magic.
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Exploring the Unknown Entity 探明未知体
Modern urban setting + unsolved mysteries + specialized career system + unknown beings and objects (Cthulhu, SCP Foundation) + collection of grim fairy tales + ensemble cast This is an era in which humans and unknown beings coexist peacefully! Tan Zhen sets out with his childhood friend Wan Kun to investigate the disappearance of their loved ones. After passing the warrior assessment, they are assigned to the Third District Containment Center. Along the way, they search for his older brother,
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The Mysterious God-Slayer 诡秘斩神官
A genre-blending novel that combines mystery and adventure, cultivation fantasy, and elements of Cthulhu mythos. Set in a modern city, the story unfolds beneath the shadow of an indescribable, secret threat. Lu Jianyuan, a folklorist, is drawn into a series of abnormal events by a compass left behind by his missing father. He discovers that he is heir to the bloodline of the “Calamity Bearers,” able to perceive and cleanse “conceptual contamination” originating from otherworldly realms. At a mys
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Journey to the West? Eastward Journey? Wukong Falls into Hard Times, and His Master Leaves the Monastery 西游？东行？悟空落难，师父还俗
Before setting out to fetch the scriptures, whom did Sun Wukong seek out to learn his skills? On the Journey to the West, whom did Sun Wukong fight tooth and nail to protect through all eighty-one tribulations, relying on his steel-hard body and seventy-two transformations? And on the journey east, in whose arms did that spiritual stone rest? Why did the kindhearted Patriarch Bodhi and the shrewd Turtle Immortal stay by his side?
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Demigod 1: Tales of New Shanghai 次神1：新沪怪谈
Praise the Fool, Azathoth | The author promises original ideas and an innovative plot: What you owe isn't money, but “psychic loans” and “existence taxes.” Overdue and unpaid? You automatically become a sacrifice or have your “existence” erased. Debt collector → half-human, half-god “demigod candidate.” New Shanghai → a cyberpunk city infiltrated by the Old Ones.
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Lord of the Mysteries [Original]: The Authority of Fate, Sequence 0 诡秘「原创」·序列0的命运权柄
Lord of the Mysteries: Original Story · The Fate Authority of Sequence 0
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Lord of the Mysteries: Sequence 0, Awakening of the Cocoon, the Fool's First Cry 诡秘：序列0--蚕茧觉醒·愚者初鸣
Lord of the Mysteries: Sequence 0: Awakening from the Cocoon · The Fool’s First Cry
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Lord of the Mysteries [Original]: The Nine Primordial Essences, River of Eternal Darkness 诡秘「原创」：九大源质·永暗之河
Lord of the Mysteries: Original Story: The Nine Sefirot · River of Eternal Darkness
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Lord of the Mysteries [Original]: The Crimson Fortress, Prisoner of the Fourth Pillar 诡秘「原创」：赤红要塞·第四支柱囚徒
Lord of the Mysteries: Original Story: Crimson Fortress · Prisoner of the Fourth Pillar
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The Garden of Sinners: The Magician, Have You Ever Seen Nothingness? 空之境界：魔术师·你见过‘无’吗？
The Garden of Sinners: Magician · Have you ever seen “nothingness”?
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Steel and Sunflower 钢与葵
This is a serious, dark-toned epic fantasy set on an imaginary continent. It features multiple protagonists, intricately interwoven plotlines, and a profound world. Its many elements include historical realism, political intrigue, steampunk, Cthulhu, mystery, and character growth. It is a slow burn, but never drags. Welcome to a world that belongs to no heroes. Here, pure light does not triumph over darkness. Instead, faith and fate clash in a bloody struggle. Supernatural powers are not blessin
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Defying Heaven, Getting by with a Cthulhu Pact 倒反天罡，带着克苏鲁契约混日子
Light mystery + light comedy + Cthulhu Mythos + monster-slaying and leveling up + pet raising + laid-back + minor System elements + transmigration across worlds Global warming has awakened the Old Ones one after another. (All right, the two things aren't necessarily related.) Strange phenomena have appeared in R'lyeh, the city where Cthulhu lies, and it may rise from beneath the sea in the future. The Old Ones' minions have been lurking in the world for a long time, and are itching to make their
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The Black Sword, 1885 漆黑之剑1885
[Cthulhu] At the end of 1345, he arrived in the Imperial Court district, the most prosperous part of Anne City. There, he “coincidentally” met two young women. They brought him to an organization with everything a legendary tale could need: money, adventure, mythical artifacts... and gods. As he completed his first mission, the pieces of a secret scheme began falling into place. In this world where countless things were tangled together, the organization’s members would seek out what lay buried
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The Nine Tripods Shrouded in Dust 九鼎蒙尘
History student Chu Ye inherits his grandfather’s bronze compass, only to brush against the buried secrets of Huaxia: Reflections in mirrors begin devouring the living. A hundred-year-old shamanic corpse, wrapped in chains, crawls from the depths of the Yellow River. Ancient gods stir in Chang’an’s ley lines, fed by the dance of a noble consort. The bloodline ability he is forced to awaken, “Empathic Sense,” is both a key to glimpsing the truth and a curse that drives him toward madness: Each ti
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