Looking for Mystery and Supernatural Novels About Collecting National Treasure Seals, Like The Old Tales of the Yellow Springs 跪求收集国宝印记，悬疑灵异小说如《黄泉旧事》
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Republican-Era Turmoil Beneath the Tomb's Shadow 墓影下的民国风云
Cao Feng is a gifted descendant of the gold-seeking officers. In the early years of the Republic of China, with warlords dividing the country amid chaos, he explores mysterious ancient tombs to resolve historical mysteries passed down through his family, clashing with various factions along the way.
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- 2 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 229.5kReads9.6Score66.4kShelves
- 3 National Treasure 国家宝藏 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I 38.6kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
- 4 Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册） The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by 37.4kReads9.6Score5.8kShelves
- 5 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 957.1kReads9.6Score121.4kShelves
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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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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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- 8 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 52.2kReads9.4Score6kShelves
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Dragon Slayer 斩龙
At the end of science lies theology, At the end of theology lies geography. Feng shui was never superstition. Geography is! Believe in science! Reject superstition!
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The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录
[Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th
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The Art of the Steal 捡漏
One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p
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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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- 13 The Age of Text: The Ghost Festival Begins, and the Gates of Hell Swing Wide 文字时代：开局中元，大开鬼门 Bai Ye transmigrates to a world where the written word carries the Way. Here, written characters can channel divine power. Some awaken the character “Fire,” unleashing flames that soar to the heavens and rival the blazing sun. Some awaken the character “Ice,” freezing a thousand miles with a single breath, ice that won’t melt for a hundred years. Others awaken the character “God,” transforming into ancient deities who stride across the Eight Wastes, reach the heavens, and shake the sun, moon, an 729Reads8.8Score103Shelves
- 14 EN Bloodline Showdown: Who in Huaxia Doesn't Have a Legendary Ancestor? 比血统？华夏谁没个牛掰祖宗 In a parallel world, ancestral symbols descended upon the earth. Anyone who awakened a symbol could inherit their ancestor’s legacy. That ancestor’s descendants could also awaken their bloodline and gain supernatural powers. The Western royal family, the Sakura Warring States clans, and descendants of the Silla royal family all awakened their bloodlines, transforming the balance of power across the world. But in Huaxia, a break in the historical record meant that ancestral symbols remained dorma 3.8kReads8.9Score408Shelves
- 15 I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落 [The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha 31.8kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves
- 16 Spiritual Qi Revival: My Martial Soul Is the Village Tyrant 灵气复苏：我的武魂是村霸 [Female-oriented urban spiritual qi revival + strong female lead, no romance + genius with three martial souls + school + heartwarming everyday family and friendship] [The heroine is always strong among her peers, but she isn’t invincible. She keeps growing, so this isn’t a pure power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.] Cao Xiaohua has finally turned five after being reborn in a parallel world!!! She rubs her hands together in excitement. At long last, the martial soul she’s been dreaming o 964Reads9.2Score144Shelves
- 17 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 ‘ 71.7kReads9.2Score7.8kShelves
- 18 I Am a God in the Spirit Realm 我在灵界当神灵 The Spirit Realm is born, and the living beings of Blue Star go wild with excitement. Even a beggar on the roadside might stumble upon the authority of a god of the Spirit Realm and ascend to its divine throne. But after the celebration comes the lucky ones' doom. Some have their thrones toppled by beings from countless worlds; some are assimilated by their divine rank and become new gods; others are abandoned by their followers and fall into the abyss. As the saying goes, those unworthy of thei 2.6kReads8.9Score158Shelves
- 19 EN After Dying a Hundred Thousand Times, I Bribed the River of Time and Space 死亡十万次，我直接买通时空长河 [Future Setting] [One Female Lead or No Female Lead] The Shijing appeared, strange beings invaded, and the Chosen Ones charged with fighting them were on the brink of defeat. So the most determined among the Chosen Ones began searching for a way to save the world. “Ten years later, the basic body-tempering method appeared, and the first martial artists were born.” “A hundred years later, spiritual martial arts burst onto the scene, and the martial arts community officially took shape.” “A thousa 174kReads9.4Score25.9kShelves
- 20 Unrivaled Card Master 卡师无双 During the Great Zhou era, the invasion of extraterrestrial demons brought cataclysmic changes to heaven and earth, and the supernatural returned. At just the right moment, Luo Gong arrived in this age of upheaval, a world of steam, cards, supernatural powers, and natural disasters. 2.4kReads8.3Score162Shelves
- 21 EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.1kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves
- 22 Cultivation Simulation: Everyone Else Farms National Fortune, I Farm Talent 修仙模拟：别人刷国运，我刷天赋 [Simulator + cultivation + national destiny] A cultivation realm descends upon Blue Star. The Heavenly Dao will select one lucky person from every country to travel to the cultivation world, and livestream their entire cultivation journey. Each country’s representative will have part of their cultivation level shared with the entire population! The people of Huaxia are thrilled. We know cultivation inside out! The rest of the world is miserable. They’ll have to learn those deadly Chinese charact 10.5kReads8.6Score946Shelves
- 23 The Era of Dream Beasts: I Have a Twelve-Winged Angel Pig 梦兽时代:我有一只十二翼天使猪 [Beast Companions + Growth + Laid-Back + Fusion + Invincible + Daily Life + Guild Adventures + One Heroine + A Mostly Useless System for Everyone Appears Around Chapter 200] Dreamstar, a world where dream beasts reign supreme. But one day, many years later, Dreamstar gave birth to a consciousness called Dream. Dream thought its world was far too boring, so it granted the humans living at the bottom of society the power to form contracts with dream beasts. It also bestowed a fated beast, a dream 7.4kReads9.2Score700Shelves
- 24 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 25 Livestream: Healing the Underworld Day by Day, I'm the White Impermanence 直播：阴间治愈日常，我是白无常 [Live streaming from the underworld + ghost officer + heartwarming everyday life] Jiang Lin is a White Impermanence, guiding the dead to the afterlife and delivering messages in dreams. One day, he obtains an Underworld Live-Streaming System. He can earn rewards by promoting the culture of the Netherworld. From then on, a miraculous livestream appears in the human world, connecting the realms of the living and the dead. A typical day in the livestream: “Ghost: Stay away from me!” “This really is 22.1kReads9.6Score2.6kShelves
- 26 I’m a Paragon of the Righteous Path, Yet I’m Bound to a Blackmail System 我，正道楷模！身负勒索系统 Li Dao transmigrated to another world and became a famous good Samaritan. He also awakened a Super Blackmail System. Its only function was to strengthen anything he extorted! [Ding! Extortion successful. Southern Bright Li Fire has been upgraded to Southern Bright Divine Fire.] … And so, Li Dao extorted prodigies while maintaining his image as a paragon of righteousness. The Saintess came to break off their engagement? She'd better watch her step on the way back. The Holy Son came to provoke hi 7.1kReads8.8Score551Shelves
- 27 Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺 At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen. 14.5kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 28 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.1kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
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Acheron: We'll Meet Again at the End of the Void 黄泉：于虚无的尽头再会
If nothing in this life has any meaning, if all our efforts are in vain, if the end of fate is nothing but eternal emptiness, then, you who walk this path of self-destruction, how will you save it all? The ferryman who sends the dead from this world to the other shore: how many have you witnessed whispering their dying regrets beneath the Yellow Springs? Burying friends, burying family, burying one's fellow countrymen, burying oneself… Weep for the dead, tears falling like rain. Yet cold te
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- 30 The Underworld Bureau of the Yellow Springs 黄泉阴司 When I was a kid, I went to the back hill of the village to play and pick up human bones. There I stumbled upon a ghost opera and nearly lost my life. Luckily, a green snake saved me, but the snake also began a strange, shadowy romance. Ghost operas, spirit summoning, yellow-skin spirits' yin graves, peachwood seals against evil: the bizarre folk customs of southern Guizhou and chilling, uncanny tales of the worlds of yin and yang are coming your way. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!! 5.8kReads8.4Score586Shelves
- 31 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop 黄泉当铺 Here, you can get anything you want, whether it’s power, money, or status. If you can imagine it, you can trade for it. But you must pay the appropriate price. That price might be your limbs, your emotions, your senses... or even your soul! 324Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 32 Yellow Springs Dumpling House 黄泉饺子馆 I could not have made a worse mistake than opening the door to that dumpling shop. From then on, I saw the hidden side of this world, an ancient and eerie side that science cannot explain. Paper effigies, Miaojiang venomous magic, the living turned into evil spirits, thousand-year-old drought demons, coats made of human skin. They say that midnight to four in the morning is when spirits and demons roam. At a crossroads leading to the underworld stands a dumpling shop that serves the dead. It is 74Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 33 Underworld Agent 黄泉代理人 An unjust death is one that does not come at the end of a natural lifespan, but through suicide, disaster, war, accident, or murder. Those who die with grievances in such ways are said to have died unjustly. After death, they remain attached to the mortal world and cannot go to the underworld. There have been hundreds of millions of such souls over the millennia. If ghosts, gods, and demons truly exist in this world, what will ultimately become of those who died unjustly? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Asked You to Scavenge, and You Found a Nuclear Bomb? 让你捡破烂，你捡出来核弹？
[Feel-good] [Comedy] [Livestream] [No Romance] [Lighthearted] Su Yun transmigrates into a parallel world and joins the show The Strongest Challenger, where he draws the job of “scrap collector.” From the moment he finds a Type 38 rifle, things start getting weird. Police: “You’re just a scrap collector, so why are you always running into corpses?” Online viewers: “I told you to collect scrap, not solve crimes!” Military: “Holy crap! A pilgrimage of beasts! The Imperial Seal! The tomb of a Qin dy
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- 35 I Handed Over the System, and the Nation Is Clearing Every Route for Me! 上交系统，国家替我攻略全图鉴！ What should you do when you transmigrate into the cannon-fodder character of an apocalypse story and get bound to a romance System? Wooing men? Romance? Is that how you escape your doomed fate? No, no, no! Yuan Chu immediately chooses to hand the System over to the government! The government: Good girl. We will never betray the people's trust! Unfortunately, the System can only bind itself to her. So, to complete its tasks, the prodigies from the original story, who were aloof and had nothing to 1.1kReads8.9Score101Shelves
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Return to the Old Home 故园归
[Mystery + Everyday Mysteries + Deduction + Ancient Setting + Espionage + Adventure + Serial Murders + Perfect Partners] Decapitation, curses, national treasures, imperial tombs, locked rooms, secret agents... A raging undercurrent on the road home. Two boys meet over a bizarre murder case. As they travel together, they repeatedly encounter strange cases: a bride decapitated on her wedding night, a legend of murders in the Eighteenth Level of Hell, a murder at a Chan monastery, a stolen national
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- 37 Nurture an Yin Bone, Marry a Snake Immortal 养阴骨，嫁蛇仙 [Feng shui, fortune-telling, ghost marriage, adventure, tomb raiding, devoted to each other] I slept inside a clay statue of the Bodhisattva from childhood, growing up on the incense offerings. But the Bodhisattva at home began to look more and more like me. Grandfather said I had to cultivate into a living Bodhisattva, transform into a prostitute, and save all living beings before I could wash away my sins. Then one night, a strange man arrived with a pair of spirits, one dressed in red and one 4.3kReads9.3Score689Shelves
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Global Horror: A Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears from the Start 全民恐怖：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球
[Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng + Chinese gods + Chinese-style horror + no saintly protagonist + no heroine + exhilarating, unstoppable power fantasy.] The world's mythological systems have collapsed. Western mythology now dominates, while Eastern mythology has been forgotten and mocked, and Chinese civilization has become a laughingstock. Wang Feng transmigrates with the entire Chinese pantheon... The Sakura Country and American Eagle mock China for having no gods! The people of China cry out in desp
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The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼
The Blind Girl's Wedding
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- 40 The Secret of the Buddha Mother 佛母的秘密 The Buddha Mother's Secret 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂 Terror at the Grand Estate 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁 There isn't just one system of power in the world! Flying cars, lightsabers, talismans, virtual reality, artificial intelligence... Is it science or fantasy? A top game developer transmigrates to another world just to lie flat and take a job as a cleaner?! Is it a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality...? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？
[Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com
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- 44 The Teacher's Birthday Banquet 老师的生日宴 The Teacher’s Birthday Banquet 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Esports: Even a Genius Prodigy Works Hard 电竞：天才少年也很努力 Esports: Even the Genius Prodigy Works Hard 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 A Night of Terror at the Rest Stop 休息站惊魂夜 A Terrifying Night at the Rest Stop 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Her Graduation Thesis Is Filled with My Name 她的毕业论文，写满了我的名字 Her Graduation Thesis Was Filled with My Name 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 A Shadow in the Mirror, Murder Lurking Within 镜中之影，暗藏杀机 A Shadow in the Mirror, Hiding Deadly Intent 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Hour Has Come. 时辰已到。 The time has come. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 A Single Dad’s Little Secret 单亲爸爸的小秘密 A Single Dad’s Little Secret 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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