Horror Novels Like A Taoist Priest Goes Down the Mountain 恐怖小说，类似道士下山那种

1. 51 天 The Celestial Master Police Chief 天师警长 Bamboo Shadows in Pairs竹影成双Mystery369k WordsCompleted (Daoist priest + urban suspense + unconventional + no invincibility + no dumb decisions + not a wish-fulfillment story) Ever since Celestial Master Zhang Daoling ascended to heaven in broad daylight, the Zhang family of Mount Longhu has passed down its lineage for 2,000 years, with cultivating the heart amid the mortal world as its main path of practice. A top law student and collateral descendant of the Zhang family of the Celestial Master’s Mansion, Zhang Shouyi memorized scriptures at three 410Reads6.4Score—14d adds

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   [Celestial Master][Talismans][Cute Pets][Suspense] Zhang Shouyi, a collateral descendant of the Celestial Masters, memorized scriptures at age 3 and drew talismans at age 5. After graduating from university, he joined a rural police station, growing through a series of suspenseful cases. He was later awarded a position at Longhu Mountain, where he uncovered a shocking conspiracy.

2. 52 体 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 Qu Shen去甚Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 7Reads6.4Score—14d adds

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   Here are a few horror/supernatural novels from my bookshelf. The first one features a protagonist who is a descendant of the Yinshan Sect and has lived in a cemetery since childhood. I think some of you have already read the others.

3. 53 凡 The Mortal Comes Down from the Mountain 凡人下山 Cool Radish酷酷的萝卜Urban126k WordsCompleted With Jiuyou in his left hand and a Demon-Slaying Sword in his right, Xiao Fan carries the extraordinary book Great Wilderness Boundless Scripture, left behind by the ancient, primordial powerhouse Chi You. Xiao Fan was orphaned and alone from a young age, and was raised to adulthood by his master. He began cultivating the Dao as a child and achieved mastery in just ten years. Then he came down from the mountain. He can catch ghosts, tell fortunes, and, most importantly, charm the ladies... Follo 18Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Mortals Descending the Mountain is a very good movie.

4. 54 拯 Saving Heaven and Protecting Earth 拯天护地 Autumn Has Come to All Things万物秋时了Mystery162k WordsOngoing Do demons, ghosts, and monsters really exist? One qi transforms into three, and three give rise to all things. The Daoist canon says: The Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things. Whenever the world falls into chaos, the natural order turns and changes, and all under heaven is thrown into turmoil. In the era when I was born, the world began to change, and living things suffered while the people fell into chaos. My grandmother a 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Taoist priests, spirit mediums, and various other extraordinary individuals save the world.

5. 55 雇 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 54Reads—Score—14d adds

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   These days, even security guards need to meet certain requirements; they not only need to be handsome, but they also need to know how to ward off evil spirits.

6. 56 午 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Maple Forest at Dusk枫林晚Mystery804k WordsCompleted Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 373Reads7.4Score—14d adds

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7. 57 恐 The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted Ning Ruoyu is bullied and framed by the people closest to her. To stay alive, she has no choice but to catch ghosts for money. She never expected to become an online sensation with tens of millions of followers... During the new-book period, there will be one update a day until the story reaches 30,000 words, posted at noon. After that, there will be two updates 3.2kReads9.1Score37014d adds
8. 58 蛇 The Serpent’s Curse 蛇咒 Serious About Raising Pigs认真养猪Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted The day I was born, my grandparents were skinned alive. Every branch around us was crawling with writhing, jubilant snakes. They said I would be next. To stay alive, I had no choice but to give myself to him. The secrets of the blood-stained garment and the snake curse became the things I most wanted to uncover. I thought I existed only to help him forge the blood garment, but when life and death hung in the balance, he held me tight. “Song Youyou, you will always be mine!” 134Reads8.6Score—14d adds
9. 59 死 The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆 Luo Xiaoqi罗小琪Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The old folks often say, “Men shouldn’t be born on the first day of the lunar month, and women shouldn’t be born on the fifteenth.” I was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the fate of an iron broom and a destructive bone marrow. The living despise me, and I bring death to my whole family, yet demons and ghosts have their eyes on me! Because of him, I also broke a taboo and became a woman of yin fate... To save me, my mother-in-law taught me the art of applying makeup to th 2.5kReads9.1Score33014d adds
10. 60 阴 The Yin-Yang Umbrella Bearer 阴阳执伞者 Liu Li六鲤Mystery775k WordsCompleted Before Yin Ying's mother died, she left behind an old red umbrella, her only keepsake. Yin Ying never figured out how to open it, until one morning on the Ghost Festival, the umbrella quietly unfurled... From then on, her life was bound up with misfortune. A close friend dead at a crossroads, a missing father, a corpse of a woman in an ancient tower from a former dynasty, a man whose tendons had been torn out and bones stripped bare, and a young man visible only to her, carrying a red umbrella o 388Reads7.4Score10114d adds
11. 61 借 Borrowed Corpse 借尸 Qiao Zixuan乔子轩Mystery801k WordsCompleted She is one of the Ten Evils. Even at the bottom of the list, she is beyond the measure of ordinary people. 17Reads6.8Score—14d adds
12. 62 狐 The Fox Bride 狐嫁 Yin Linglong银玲珑Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Ye Zier is a half-yin person, born with a tendency to attract evil spirits. After finally getting married to her boyfriend, she’s kidnapped along the way by a fox spirit who insists on having little foxes with her. What is she supposed to do? 370Reads9.1Score10014d adds
13. 63 十 The Snake Pregnancy in October 十月蛇胎 Silver Blossom, Fire Tree银花火树Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted 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 342Reads8.7Score11314d adds
14. 64 蛇 Snake's Seduction 蛇诱 Miss Rabbit兔子小姐Mystery929k WordsCompleted I was born deaf and unable to speak. After my parents abandoned me, my grandmother raised me on her own. Strange things often happened wherever I went, and the villagers called me an evil spirit who brought misfortune to others. When I was seven, they locked me in the River God's temple. Eleven years later, they threw me into the river as a sacrifice to the River God. But when those cruel villagers tossed me into the Changyun River, a snake suddenly appeared and saved me. And that was how our ta 3Reads6.9Score—14d adds
15. 65 妖 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 The Rising Leaf奋起的叶子Mystery3.7M WordsCompleted I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 1.5kReads8.9Score23914d adds
16. 66 第 The Greatest Female Fortuneteller 第一女相师 Beginning of the Month月初Modern Romance745k WordsCompleted Qi Nian dies alone on a cold operating table. Before she turns twenty-five, her family exploits her to support her younger brother. After twenty-five, her boyfriend uses her. She struggles for thirty years, yet doesn't own a single decent piece of clothing. Just because she's a woman, anyone can squeeze benefits out of her and take a bite of her flesh. If they don't, they act as though they've lost out. Her whole life was a joke. Back at nineteen, Qi Nian gains a “mystical chat group” and learn 110Reads8.7Score—14d adds
17. 67 蛇 The Snake’s Bride 蛇缠女 Qingqing Wan Yue清清挽月Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Mystery] [Sweet and bittersweet] [Strong heroine] [Supernatural] Ever since I was born, I’ve been cursed as a snake’s daughter and a bringer of misfortune. Eighteen years ago, a great white snake killed my family. Eighteen years later, the snake came to collect its debt and made me its spirit medium to pay it back. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of strange events. Why had the bones in the coffin vanished? And what did the snake totem on the coffin lid mean? When the Seven Fiends A 337Reads8.8Score10214d adds
18. 68 血 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Gu Bingqian古冰倩Mystery442k WordsCompleted Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 951Reads8.6Score11814d adds
19. 69 蛇 Snake Sacrifice 蛇祭 Yang Feifei杨肥肥Mystery385k WordsCompleted Two virgins + Sweet romance + Strong female lead leveling up The Snake Lord is fearsome. A promise made a thousand years ago, a meeting in dreams, a bracelet carved from nine dragons’ bones, protection for his wife, a Soul-Devouring Demon Blade, souls scattered to the winds, old grudges brought to an end... On the night of the Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Old Song carried me back from the village’s Spirit Snake Mountain. Strange changes swept across the sky: ligh 347Reads9.1Score11614d adds
20. 70 空 The Empty Grave 空坟 Red Phantom红幽灵Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Don't mess with the mirror in the house! After my favorite mirror disappeared, I began to fear the light. The doctor said I was allergic to sunlight, and I thought I was just sick. Until one day... I saw... my own grave! 1.1kReads9.0Score10714d adds
21. 71 阴 Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录 Shi San Haitang石三海棠Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is 241Reads8.5Score10214d adds
22. 72 蛇 Snake Scales 蛇纹 Upright Roots, Bright Future根正苗红Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—14d adds
23. 73 所 Solomon's Perjury (Complete in Three Volumes) 所罗门的伪证（全三册） Miyuki Miyabe宫部美雪984k WordsCompleted A timeless classic of Japanese mystery fiction! The wounds hidden by lies will never heal. Only the truth can bring healing. A group of ordinary teenagers face a bizarre death at their school during the summer they turn fourteen. Fearlessly, they challenge the rules of the adult world. In that summer, malice twists human nature, but the truth the teenagers unearth together will ultimately heal their hearts. Part One: The Incident A boy's death is a mirror, reflecting good and evil, falsehood and —Reads8.6Score—14d adds

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    Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles 🙃 I'd like to recommend three detective novels that I personally love. The first is a masterpiece by the famous Japanese author Miyuki Miyabu, it's incredibly good. The second is a masterpiece by the famous Western mystery novelist Tyson Chandler, with tight logic. The third is a masterpiece by the famous Japanese mystery novelist Otsuichi, highly recommended, it's a bit scary.

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