Recommend Lots of Taoist History, Esoteric Classics, Mythology, and Unofficial Histories 道家史实玄门真经神话野史，多多推荐
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The Great Scripture of the Mystic Truth 玄真大道经
Li Xuanxin was abandoned at birth on Mount Zhongnan, but fortunately, the reclusive Daoist master Qingxu took him in. He thought he could devote himself to cultivation in peace, far from worldly affairs. But then the funeral bells of Yongjia rang. The Five Barbarians’ cavalry trampled across the Central Plains, Luoyang fell, and bones lay exposed in the wilderness. Before ascending, his master left him a prophecy: “Heaven and Earth are sealed, and the laws are incomplete. To seek the Great Way,
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- 152 The Age of Declining Dharma: I Fought My Way from the White Mountains and Black Waters to Ascension 末法时代：我从白山黑水杀到飞升 In an age when spiritual energy has run dry and the era of cultivation is ending, I became the last cultivator in the world. My parents were stained with blood in Songhe Town, and my sister’s fate was unknown. At thirteen, I fled into the deepest part of Baishan, carrying a damaged Daoist scripture passed down through my family. 51Reads—Score—Shelves
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Two Souls, One Body: Magic in My Left Hand, Taoist Arts in My Right 双魂一体：左手魔法右手道术
[Two Souls in One Body + Fusion of Two Systems + No System + Mysterious Magic + Profound Daoist Arts + Not Invincible + Takes Off from Chapter 50] Read at your own risk! Warning: This book contains a large number of spells and talismans. Don't try them if you don't have a mana bar, or you'll bear the consequences! Story: A bolt of lightning on a dry day sends the soul of Zhang Shangyang, a modern young Taoist, transmigrating to another world. There, he ends up sharing a body with Alec, the good-
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Immortal’s Hand on My Crown: I Break Through Even While Lying Down 仙人抚顶：我躺着都能突破
Does the path to immortality mean you have to sever all attachments and give up love? Does cultivation mean you have to let the whole world down? After Lin Feiyu was hit by a dump truck, a mysterious stroke of fortune chose him and sent him to the final era of the cultivation world. He didn’t need to cultivate: simply staying alive raised his realm, though the time required to break through doubled with each advancement. He thought fate had granted him a priceless opportunity, but he had no idea
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- 155 The Bizarre Art of Cultivation 怪诞修仙学 (No heroine, Eastern cosmic horror, no System, not invincible, grotesque aesthetics, not a rules-based horror, science and cultivation) The old man once said that cultivators, demons, and evil spirits turn into a pile of ash when they die. This is called tainted ash. Tainted ash contains all the energy they accumulated in life. Eat it, and you can kindle your life lamp and extend your lifespan. Leave it alone, and it will give rise to a tainted-soil resurrection! But there is one exception: bein 47.7kReads9.1Score7.3kShelves
- 156 First Rate! 第一流！ [No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De 39.7kReads8.5Score3.5kShelves
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I Can Only Fight Monsters, and That Lets Me Cultivate? What Is This, Liaozhai? 只会打怪，就能修仙？什么聊斋！
From the start, he accidentally eats a dragon's egg, gets chased by the dragon, and stumbles into the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Kill the monsters, keep the pretty spirits! Then he discovers that killing ghosts and monsters lets him gain their abilities! Magical treasures, cultivation techniques, buried riches? Wait, can he also score treasures and techniques by taking in spirits? Any way of recruiting them works~
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The Maoshan Daoist: Quest for the Tripod Across the Nine Provinces 茅山道士，九州寻鼎记
It is only natural for Maoshan to have Daoist priests, and it is easy enough to accept that ghosts and monsters exist in the world. But a Dragon Palace in Weishan Lake? Does that surprise you? Chen Gangdan, whose ancestors belonged to the imperial family, was blessed in misfortune as a child when he was taught Maoshan magic. But he unexpectedly discovered that his bloodline was deeply afflicted by a curse. The same curse had also befallen two other people. What secret do they share? How can the
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- 159 The South Sea of Cangming 沧溟南海 A new story is here! Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what drives me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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Poisonous Humanity: 1945 人毒：1945
After his wife was killed by Japanese invaders, Wudang disciple Lu Li was swept into the tide of resistance against Japan, transforming from a wandering doctor into a knight-errant physician in a time of chaos. Alongside Jiang Qi, a Miaojiang witch, he wielded silver needles as swords and used poisonous parasites as shields, navigating the forces of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and Japan. From a secret cave on Wudang Mountain to a nuclear blast on Mount Fuji, and from forbidden technique
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- 161 Me, a Prodigy? 我，妖孽也 There are two kinds of cultivators in this world. One follows a proper, orthodox lineage, whether practicing the righteous arts or demonic cultivation. Either way, they have a master. The other studies from books and practices blindly on their own. These are commonly known as self-taught outsiders, or fox-spirits practicing Zen. An Lin belongs to neither the orthodox sort nor those self-taught outsiders who blindly follow books. By observing the “phenomena” within himself, he grasps the true mea 267Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Baopuzi's Record of Transforming the Dao and Suppressing Demons 抱朴子化道镇魔录 Baopuzi's Record of Transforming the Dao and Suppressing Demons —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Survival Code of Ancient China: Decoding the Nine Classes of Society 古代生存密码：解密三教九流
Confucianism: The state religion through the ages, assisting the Son of Heaven in educating the people... Confucianism takes Confucian thought as its supreme belief and honors Confucius as its founding teacher. To distinguish it from Taoism, which venerates the thought of Laozi, Zhuangzi, and other Daoists, later generations began calling it Confucianism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Thus, Confucius is also revered as the holy founder of Confucianism. The Dao: The way of heaven and
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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 六祖法宝坛经
Opening Verse The supreme, profound, wondrous Dharma is rarely encountered, even in a hundred million kalpas. Now that I can see, hear, receive, and uphold it, may I understand the Tathagata's true meaning. The true nature of the universe: those who hear this true Dharma can awaken and be reborn, break free from the illusory cycle of reincarnation, and attain liberation and freedom!
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- 165 The True Awakening of the Supreme Old Lord's Daoist Heart 太上老君道心启真 Take the void and the natural way as its guiding principle; take clarity, purity, inaction, and non-interference as its substance. Act without intention or attachment; unite with the One, and all things are accomplished. The Supreme Lord Lao, the foremost teacher of the Dao, embodies profound virtue that flows far and wide. His every word and deed contains the ultimate principles of the Great Dao. The Lord Lao often presents himself with a calm and peaceful bearing, every gesture displaying comp 1.8kReads6.8Score355Shelves
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The Book of Fortune-Telling 算命簿
I am a fortune-teller in real life. I was 83 years old when I wrote this book. No one knows what sort of writing an 83-year-old man might produce, and neither do I. I just want to write a book while I still have time, and finally put one matter to rest... Synopsis: A wandering fortune-teller speaks of hidden mysteries, yet has a past unknown to all. This forbidden volume records a century's worth of secrets about practitioners of the occult. In the instant when dark arts clash with fate, the mys
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The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: My Love in the Mortal World 小道士下山之我的红尘情缘
[Fortune-telling + urban life + multiple heroines + martial arts] The day Zhang Qingfeng was born, his maternal grandfather took him away and abandoned him. His master later brought him back to a Taoist temple, where he learned martial arts and a little fortune-telling and character analysis. At seventeen, his master sent him down the mountain to resolve his own entanglements in the mortal world.
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- 168 The Great Path of Cultivation 修行大道 Hello, all those who are destined to cross paths with me! I am Mr. Qian Kun. I write The Way of Cultivation to promote the ancient cultivation culture of China. Those who feel a connection are welcome to follow along and cultivate together. 996Reads6.7Score130Shelves
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The Journey to Win Your Heart 撷君行
Time’s wheels roll ever onward into the mid-Tang era. On this land shrouded by evil spirits, the people suffer while no one comes to their aid. Only Sun A Shi, the Medicine King, leads his disciples in searching for the secret to driving the evil spirits away. Three couples among the Medicine King’s disciples, Jiang Ze and Jiegeng, Gancao and Guizhi, and Doukou and Didi, hold fast to their faith in battle and never give up in the face of hardship. Like dancers, they weave love and hate into a ma
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The Void Dream of the Dao Source 道源虚梦
They seek the Heavenly Dao and trace everything back to its source. Is it all an illusion, or does it truly exist? The humans living in the world today are so weak. They have no control over birth, aging, sickness, or death. Mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas are impassable barriers, and they need outside tools just to travel. Yet who could have imagined that humans were not native to Blue Star? It is almost impossible to believe... In the Primordial Era, humans crossed countless starfields to a
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The Battle of Heaven and Earth in the Three Kingdoms 三国天地斗
Beloved, familiar heroes take the stage one after another! Unmatched martial prowess, endless supernatural abilities, mysteries beyond imagination, and plot twists you’ll never see coming! This is a Three Kingdoms fantasy novel with an outrageously creative premise! Do you believe in the existence of dragon veins? The dragon veins aren’t dragon veins at all! While searching for them, the ordinary man Liu Bei encounters genuine masters, demonic Taoists, and immortals. He witnesses incredible art
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Jade Radiance of the Immortal Path 仙道玲珑
(Xianxia novel, no System, no brainless power-ups) (Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Illumination Realm, Heartbeat Realm, and Immortal Realm) Everyone says the path to immortality means refining qi, building a foundation, forming a golden core, reaching illumination, stirring the heart, and entering the immortal realm! But my master told me that these so-called cultivation stages are nothing but a scam invented by self-proclaimed cultivators to inflate thei
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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
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
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The Record of Laozi’s Westward Journey and the Passing of the Lamp 老君西行传灯录
In ancient China, at the end of the Zhou dynasty, royal authority was waning, the lords were at war with one another, and the realm had fallen into chaos. At this time, a wise man quietly appeared: the founder of Daoism, the Supreme Lord Lao. Seeing the turmoil in the world, Lao decided to travel west and spread the Dao, hoping to ease humanity’s suffering and strife. Along the way, Lao rode a green ox, crossing towering mountains and enduring countless hardships and dangers. At Hangu Pass, he
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- 175 The Daoist Record of Crown Prince Xuanyuan 玄元太子修道录 The Crown Prince Xuanyuan is the Great Emperor Zhenwu. He was once a prince of a kingdom, but his devotion to the Dao led him onto the path of cultivation. Born to the royal house, his heart yearned for the Dao; he left his splendid estate for the mountains and springs. By lamplight, he studied the scrolls and sought the true covenant; amid purple mists, he tended the altar and refined cinnabar and lead. He cast off the trappings of the world and turned toward Wudang, dwelling among the cliffs a 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 The Record of Wen Shi’s Attainment of the Dao 文始证道录 The Record of Attaining the Dao through the Way of Wen Shi uses the shifting stars as its guide to tell the story of Yin Xi. After natural and human-made disasters strike Hangu Pass, he follows the stars’ guidance and leads the people in rebuilding their homes. From the Ji star bringing warmth and erasing the scars of an earthquake, to the Shen star shining brightly as the new city walls are built; from the Dipper’s handle pointing west to herald a bountiful harvest, to the Zhen star gleaming a 34Reads—Score—Shelves
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Chronicle of All Laws Returning to the Void 万法归墟录3
This book gathers an extraordinary range of wondrous techniques from across the world. At one end are ancient immortal arts from primordial secret realms, revered as legends, whose every move seems to contain the immense power to create heaven and earth. At the other are unique secret arts passed down through generations by hidden martial sects, each carrying the blood, sweat, and wisdom of countless cultivators. It covers everything in detail: external cultivation methods renowned for their fie
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The Record of the Dark Window 玄牗录
[No invincible protagonist + no harem + no sanctimonious saint + traditional fantasy + urban setting] Can old age and illness be cured? Are there immortals and demons? Are there mysterious spirits between heaven and earth? Is national fortune real? Can martial arts dispel confusion? Everything is waiting for us to explore. The people, immortals, and demons described in legends and books may never have disappeared at all. They may simply exist somewhere you don’t know about, perhaps right beside
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- 179 A Little Taoist in the Tang Dynasty 大唐一个小道士 [A timid scholar who seeks enlightenment through snark × a crew of gods who constantly trip each other up but always have one another's backs] [A late-Tang cultivation journey that makes you laugh through your tears, where the Dao lies among the people and the human world itself is the Dao] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 After the Divorce, He Knelt in the Rain and Begged Me to Come Back 离婚后，他跪在雨中求我回头 After the Divorce, He Knelt in the Rain, Begging Me to Come Back —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 The Pregnancy Test Was Fake, but the Agreement You Signed Was Real 孕检单是假的，你签的协议是真的 The Pregnancy Test Was Fake, but the Agreement You Signed Was Real —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 A Letter from Spring on a Winter Night 在冬夜寄一封春日来信 Sending a Letter from Spring on a Winter’s Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 The Marriage Switch 婚姻的开关 The Switch of Marriage —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 I Pay Thirty Thousand a Month, and You Won't Fix the Leak? I Bought the Entire Complex 每月交三万，漏水你不管？我反手收购了小区 I Pay 30,000 a Month, and You Won’t Even Fix the Leak? I Bought the Whole Complex Instead —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 His Gun Is Her Fortress 他的枪，是她的城 His Gun Is Her Fortress —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Unmarried at Forty, I Became a Rich Man's Wife 四十不嫁，我在豪门当太太 Unmarried at Forty, I Became a Rich Family’s Wife —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 The Yinshan School: From Ghost-Hunting Jobs to Founding a Daoist Sect 阴山法脉：从接单捉鬼到称宗道祖 (Thriller) + (Supernatural) + (Mystery) + (Horror) + (Ghost Hunting) + (Exorcism) + (Feng Shui) + (Showing Off in Public) The sole heir of the Yinshan Sect's 37th generation! He inherits a dilapidated Taoist temple. Armed with half a ghost seal and three pages of a fragmentary manual, his cultivation is mediocre at best, yet he relies on the Yinshan Sect's secret arts to hunt ghosts and exorcise evil! Is orthodox Taoism hostile to him? Are Southeast Asian sorcerers causing trouble? Do vengeful s 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Hong Kong Crossover: I Started Cultivating from the Start, and Every Female Ghost Wants to Marry Me 港综：开局修仙，女鬼都想嫁给我 Sadako crawls out of The Ring and hands him a love letter. “Sir, I would be honored to cook for you.” A red-clad female ghost from a funeral home clings to him, her eyes sparkling. “Master, why not take me on as your little sidekick?” Even the wrongfully killed heiress of a wealthy family and a fox spirit who has cultivated for a thousand years come knocking, all hoping to marry him! Faced with a parade of stunning female ghosts desperately pursuing him, Lin Chen rubs his forehead helplessly. “ 185Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Mad for the Martial Way: Eat People to Get Stronger, That’s Too Xuanhuan 武道疯魔：吃人就变强，太玄幻了 (Fantasy) + (Martial Arts Training) + (Wild Imagination) + (Cthulhu) + (Cannibalism) + (Martial Dao) + (Decisive and Ruthless) Martial arts are inferior to cultivation? Body tempering and opening meridians are impossibly difficult? Thanks for asking. I just finished eating an Old God. Now bring me a cultivator for dessert. A secret realm is crawling with tentacled horrors? Take one bite in a desperate moment and refine it directly into the source of martial power! Devour the bizarre and level up 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 Hong Kong Crossover: From the Start, I Have $100 Million and Take Hong Kong by Storm 港综：开局1亿美刀，横扫香江 After transmigrating to 1980s Hong Kong, Lin Chen inherits a hundred million dollars as soon as he reaches adulthood. Armed with five times peak human physical ability, he makes a stunning entrance into Hong Kong’s cinematic universe, where gangs run rampant and cops and criminals collide! All swagger and sharp-tongued bravado, he overwhelms gang enforcers and elite police officers with sheer strength. From the streets of Mong Kok to the heights of Central, from the underworld feuds of A Better 2.2kReads—Score100Shelves
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Ye Fashan: Defending the Tang Dynasty with Daoism and Crushing Western Heresies 叶法善：以道镇唐，力挫西域异教
[Transmigration + No System + Tang Dynasty + Immortal Cultivation + Ancient History + Fantasy + Xianxia + Xuanhuan] A modern history graduate student unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Ye Fashan, a Taoist priest in the early Tang Dynasty. Carrying the memories of two lifetimes, he must inherit the talismanic arts and divine abilities of this legendary figure from Taoist history, while viewing an era of coexisting Buddhist and Taoist traditions and the undercurrents of foreign religions
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You Can Cultivate Immortality While You Lie Flat 躺平也可以修仙
These are my personal insights and experiences in cultivating the Dao and refining qi, woven into a novel that creates a strange and eerie supernatural world through both dreams and reality. If you enjoy supernatural mysteries and immortal cultivation, give it a read. It’s unlike anything else, and the opportunity is rare. When this old man achieves a perfected Golden Core, you’ll all be disciples of my Qingfeng Sect.
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- 193 Xuanyuan’s Great War Against Chiyou 轩辕大战蚩尤 [No System, no harem, no clichés, not a wish-fulfillment story, not for beginners] The legacy of Daoist learning, the turbulent world of mountains and seas, and the ancient struggle for supremacy: this is an epic retelling of the legendary battles between the Chinese ancestors Huangdi, Yandi, and the Great Emperor Chiyou for control of Zhuolu. Based on the Classic of Mountains and Seas and grounded in the Hetu and Luoshu, this novel unravels the origins of yin and yang, the five elements, and th 84Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in Daiyu's Body: The Beauties of the Red Chamber Cultivate Immortality 魂穿黛玉：红楼金钗尽修仙
A Chinese medicine doctoral student who loves reading web novels falls off a cliff while gathering herbs and transmigrates into Lin Daiyu just as she first enters the Jia household. Using her knowledge to change her fate, she leads the Twelve Beauties of Jinling onto the path of cultivation.
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- 195 Repairing the Dragon Vein: Starting by Digging for Dragons in the Three Gorges 修龙脉：从三峡挖龙开始 Mending dragon veins is not tomb raiding. You cannot simply charge in, swinging a pickaxe and digging straight down. Tomb raiding is destruction and plunder, seizing the lifeless grave goods. Mending dragon veins, by contrast, is soothing and awakening, restoring vitality to the mountains and rivers. It is an elegant and sacred art. Like a physician taking a pulse, your fingertips must feel the heartbeat of the earth. Like a painter guiding a brush, you must regulate the subtle flow of earth 76Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Ghost Hunter's Troubles 猎鬼师的烦恼
The Zhengying Sect started with just two Taoist priests and eventually grew to only six. It is a sect known for having very few Taoists. Its ghost hunters are successors to Uncle Nine, tasked with cultivating the Dao and hunting ghosts. Lu Yiming comes from a martial arts sect, and his martial uncle is the president of the National Taoist Association. His wife is a disciple of the Shenxiao Sect, skilled in thunder magic. Both Lu Yiming and his master, Master Ma, are from Northeast China. The sto
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Earth Unsealed: Forging a Blade on the Journey to the West 解封地球之西游锻刀
If the blade is born to kill, why not abandon it in its sheath? If murderous intent springs from the five fingers, why not cast aside the blade and fight barehanded? If abandoning the blade makes one a Buddha, does that not mean bowing one’s head and accepting slaughter? If bowing one’s head is all it takes to survive, why not be reborn as a dog? If the blade may be sheathed only when? When every enemy and barbarian invader has been slain. If there is a true way within the blade, it lies in shea
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The Mysteries of Earth Veins 地脉奇门
This fantasy novel incorporates feng shui, the arts of Qimen Dunjia, character divination, burial texts, and other elements. The male protagonist is drawn into a geomantic conspiracy within a conspiracy that has lasted a thousand years. In the end, he grows from a postgraduate archaeology student into a ruthless figure capable of defying fate...
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Duoqu Gebu 朵曲格布
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The Ink Master 掌墨师
A stern warning!!!! All the yang-meridian techniques in this novel come from a handwritten folk copy of the Lu Ban Book, an ancient text that truly exists. Do not try them lightly!!! It all began with my grandfather… He was an old carpenter, now well over eighty. By chance, I happened to open this long-forgotten copy of the Lu Ban Book. It was handwritten, and my first reaction after reading it was confusion, because I couldn’t understand it at all. So I studied it carefully. It recorded many t
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