Northeastern Chinese Shamanism, Eerie Legends from the Remote Forests of the Greater Khingan Range 东北出马仙，大兴安岭深山老林的诡异传说。
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The Village Divine Farmer 乡村神农
Also known as: After Returning to the Village, I Have the Time of My Life Every Night Chen Ping, a medical student, is terminally ill. With his illness reaching its final stage, he returns to his village to recuperate. But on his very first night back, a shadow sneaks into his home...
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The Celestial Beauty 仙美人
A giant python is unearthed at a construction site, and a gutsy foreman leads the workers in killing it for meat. That night, his wife dreams the python violates her, and before long, a nest of little snakes appears in their home... There is a folk legend about the “Fox, Weasel, Snake, Hedgehog, and Rat Immortals.” My name is Chen Cheng, and I’m here to uncover the truth about “subduing the Five Immortals” in Northeast China!
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Strange Tales from Northeast China 东北出马怪谈
In Northeast China, tales of spirit mediums have been told for generations, but not just anyone can become one. I lay underground for three years to walk this path. This is a story of dying and being reborn.
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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The Northeast Ma Family 东北“马”家
Do you know what a spirit horse is? Do you know what a spirit hall is? Do you know who the guardian spirits of the Northeast are? Do you know the Four Beams and Eight Pillars? Do you know the Qingfeng spirits? Whether you do or not, this book will lead you through a strange doorway and introduce you to the world of spirit mediums in Northeast China. For the first twenty-five years of my life, I thought I was just an utterly ordinary speck of dust in this little county town. I never imagined that
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A Family of Spirit Mediums 出马仙世家
A small suggestion from Zhang Xin, the 26th-generation heir of a family of spirit mediums: before opening the door when you get home at night, choose one of these three things to do: “Spit three times behind you,” “Flick the hem of your clothes three times,” or “Tap your heels together three times.”
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My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当弟马那些年
I was weak and sickly as a child, so my father asked someone to arrange an engagement for me. When I grew up, I discovered my betrothed was an expert at latching onto rich men!
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Southern Mao, Northern Ma 南茅北马
With one sweep of my staff, I’ll wipe out every demon under heaven! I take life and death in stride, and if you won’t submit, I’ll fight! I’ll prove my Dao through killing, endless yet never extinguished! Yang Wujin is a man with no past life, only this one! The day he was born, the Azure Dragon offered a sacrifice, and a hundred ghosts were put to rout!
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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
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Liu Yuanzhi, the Snake Immortal 蛇仙柳沅芷
This is a supernatural tale centered on the spirit mediums known as Chuma. It follows the immortal Chang Xian Liu Yuanzhi, who is punished in the celestial realm and must undergo three lifetimes of reincarnation before returning to her original family. In her third life, she is born into the Zhang family and later becomes a Chuma disciple. In the end, her immortal body is restored and her immortal soul returns. She becomes the spirit presiding over the altar of her mortal self, joining her in th
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The White Fox Guardian Spirit 白狐保家仙
I was just a mortuary cosmetologist, until I saved a white fox and killed a wolf demon during a camping trip. That unexpected encounter tied me to the immortal families of the Northeast by an unbreakable bond. More and more great demons have since moved into my home. Was it an accident or a long-planned scheme? I have no idea. Grief over his beloved wife turned his hair white overnight. To keep his promise, he willingly gave up his treasured artifact. For the woman he loved, he lived in a state
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺
Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive…
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
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…
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The Haunted Tomb 诡坟
[This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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I Became the First Founding Ancestress of My Husband's Family to Receive Offerings 我成了婆家第一代顶香的祖师奶
Su Can had been frail and sickly since birth. At eighteen, she nearly died from an illness. A great immortal told her she had the fate of a Hua Jie, and only after a substitute effigy was burned was her life spared. From then on, great opportunities came her way. She lost her husband just one day after getting married, and one disaster after another followed. The Hu, Huang, Bai, and Liu spirits, along with the Bei Wang, all came looking for her. As she endured one ordeal after another, involving
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Notes from a Century-Old Spirit Medium’s Hall 百年堂口出马笔记
When I was seven, I accidentally discovered a secret that had been locked away in my grandfather's drawer for decades. From that moment on, my life was never ordinary again. The spirit hall passed down in my family for centuries chose me as its incense-bearing disciple. During those decades of silence, the world outside changed beyond recognition. But the story of me and all the immortals in the hall was only just beginning. How will these once-mighty immortals, with my guidance, accumulate meri
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Daily Yin-Yang Eyes: Memoirs of a Spirit Medium! 天天阴阳眼，出马回忆录！
A childhood blood-brotherhood oath opened the door to a whole new world! I unexpectedly discovered that I had the Yin-Yang Eyes! A jade pendant took a calamity meant for me, then mysteriously shattered! My aunt brought a whole hall of immortals to recruit me as their spirit medium! A nine-tailed fox stayed by my side. Let’s see how I stay true to my original purpose! A collection of eerie tales from my years as a spirit medium!
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The Last Horse-Riding Shaman 最后一个出马仙
A drought demon descends, throwing the mystic arts into chaos. Rumor has it that whoever obtains the Golden Pearl of Nüba can break through to the Celestial Rank and command the world. Before long, turmoil erupts. The five great schools of mystic arts descend on Yulin Village in search of Nüba. Five renowned, revered “hypocrites” from that era end up driving my grandmother to her death. To avenge her, I become the last shaman in the world!
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A Northeast Chinese Spirit Medium 东北一出马仙
Pangu split heaven and earth, dividing yin from yang. Nuwa’s great deeds shook the eight directions. Kuafu chased the sun and transformed the world of men. Gonggong, enraged, rammed into Mount Buzhou. Fuxi devised the Eight Trigrams. Shennong tasted every herb and flower. The Yan Emperor struck stone to make fire. The war god Xingtian brandished his weapons. The Yellow Emperor battled Chiyou, who fell in death. The gods knew of Jingwei, who filled the sea. Houyi drew his divine bow and shot down
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Tales of Spirit Mediums in Northeast China 东北出马往事
My name is Zhang Lei. Grandpa said that on the day I was born, heavy snow fell from the sky. The snow outside the village clinic was covered with huge, twisted snakes. He said I would have a lifelong connection with snakes. As everyone knows, snakes are cold-blooded animals. They certainly wouldn’t come out in winter, much less slither across the snow. I always thought it was just a story Grandpa had made up to amuse me. Then one day, while I was playing in the mountains, I came across a giant s
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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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Tales of a Northeastern Spirit Medium 东北出马仙见闻
Strange things began happening around Li Yaoyao while she was still in school. Later, all sorts of baffling images kept appearing in her life. Had she really seen them with her own eyes, or had she imagined them? Perhaps neither you nor I can tell. It was only after she met her master that everything became clear through her explanations. Yet these so-called truths were only the opening chapter of the story of what happened to her. The road a spirit medium must travel is long, very long. Over th
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The Divine Son-in-Law in Hemp Clothes 麻衣神婿
The day I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. To keep me alive, my grandfather came out of retirement and arranged an engagement to prolong my life. Twenty years later, thanks to the great fortune my grandfather bestowed on her family, my fiancée had become the richest woman in the land, yet her family broke off our engagement. They had badly underestimated my grandfather’s power and my background. Then karma came knocking...
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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!
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Calculating Fate Through Yin 算阴命
My mother was snatched away by a beast when she gave birth to me. Twelve years later, my father brought home a woman. Three days after that, my father died…
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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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The Spirit Medium's Stories: Me and My Clients! 出马儿之我和缘主的那些事儿！
A girl who grew up in a small village experiences all kinds of hardships and amusing encounters with the people who come to her for help! Stories about my spirit-medium work and clients getting scammed. I'm looking for stories to use! Anyone with a good story is welcome to share a true one with me!
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I Run! She Chases! My Yandere Fox Wife Loves Me to Death 我逃！她追！病娇狐妻嗜我如命
[Fox spirit + yandere + 1v1 + tangled love and hate + fate + Daoist arts + supernatural + plainspoken] Before I was born, my grandfather cut off one of a nine-tailed fox’s tails. That was how he offended the Fox Immortal. It began a relentless, unending campaign of revenge. My grandfather died saving me. I swore I’d make the fox demon pay in blood! I kept my strength hidden, devoted myself to studying the Dao, and bided my time as I plotted revenge. But I never imagined that the Fox Immortal I r
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The Celestial Master's Dragon-Seeking Secret 天师寻龙诀
Before she died, Grandma gave me three instructions. The most important one was that, on the night I turned eighteen, I must not open the door for anyone. But that night, my dead grandmother came back...
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My Grandfather’s Supernatural Notebook 我爷爷的灵异笔记
[Spirit Medium + Supernatural + Episodic Stories] One eerie incident after another, each like something out of a horror novel. Getting trapped in a ghostly maze in the middle of the night Strange mystical arts and Taoist magic A weasel that can talk A notebook of supernatural cases left behind by my grandfather helped me unlock my Yin-Yang Eyes, sealed for years. From then on, I embarked on an extraordinary everyday life as a ghost hunter!
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Hunting Notes from the Greater Khingan Range 大兴安岭狩猎笔记
Folk Horror / Period Fiction / Hunting Legend / Supernatural Northeast 1993, deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Snow seals off the mountains, and an endless sea of forest stretches in every direction. This is a blank spot on the map, a forbidden zone beyond the reach of the law. In a world of nothing but black and white, survival depends not on the law, but on the rules. Chen Ye, an abandoned baby raised by wolves, is known as “Wolf Boy.” Ten years ago, on a stormy winter night, the old hunt
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Born with Yin and Yang: I'm Half an Exorcist 天生阴阳：我是半个出马先生
Li Jinyan: “You want me to catch ghosts and demons, ward off disasters, and solve your problems? Give me a break. I’m only half a spirit medium.” Shen He: “What did you find in the restroom? Don’t tell me it was a condom.” Lin Mumu: “You’re the one missing a screw! Your whole family is missing a screw!” A half-fledged spirit medium, a sleazy gynecologist, and a wooden-headed fool... The bizarre, supernatural, and fantastical misadventures of three brothers begin...
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The Banner Bearer of the Black Soil 黑土地上的扛幡人
My Yin Eyes Have Opened! The Pale Bride in the Nighttime Wedding Procession Yang Zheng’s family was so poor they could barely scrape by, and his parents were sickly year-round. To save two yuan on the fare, he took a shortcut through a mass grave at night. Thick fog rolled in, paper money flew everywhere, and a strange procession came toward him. Inside the crimson bridal sedan, a pale bride’s withered hand lifted the curtain. He was rooted to the spot, unable to move, as he watched the withered
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The Secret Treasures of Mountains and Seas 山海秘藏
I have stood atop mountains and descended into the vast seas. I have ventured into every mysterious corner of China! Could a distant ancient kingdom in the Western Regions really be home to a stunning queen who lives forever? Could the vast mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang really conceal the greatest sword under heaven? Did hundreds of people really witness a legendary dragon on a misty island in the North Sea? In a dark old coffin in western Hunan, the King of the Undead stirs restlessly. I venture i
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Tales of the Yin Messengers 阳差诡事录
A yang messenger is a very special kind of person. Whether you're a high-ranking official, a flight attendant, a campus beauty, a mature beauty, or a gorgeous superstar, once your allotted lifespan is up, just one light tap is enough to hook your soul. Of course, there are exceptions, like this policewoman here.
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