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The Laid-Back Little Temple Keeper: My Gods Are Way Too Ambitious! 躺平小庙祝：我家神明太卷了！
[Two male leads (romance) + cultivation + slow burn + not a power fantasy + no System] What exactly is a shrine keeper's job? Shu Yang wasn't sure. But he knew that if he didn't come down the mountain to find food soon, he'd starve to death. After all, the general's statue in the General's Temple didn't need food or water; a couple of incense sticks were enough to get by. But that wouldn't work for him. After praying for more visitors, he planned to go to bed early and head down the mountain to
1.7kReads8.9Score317Shelves
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From the Start, I Was a Wild Mountain God. I’ll Prove My Divinity Through Incense 开局野山神，我靠香火证道真神
[Worship-based cultivation + System + no grinding or spending + righteous to the extreme + farming and management + ensemble cast + hot-blooded youth] Gui Longyuan transmigrated into a world where people ate each other alive and right and wrong were indistinguishable, a world of deranged immortals and uncanny gods. Ghosts ran rampant, wicked arts flourished, and demonic heretics even refined humans into pills. The people of the realm were treated like straw dogs, and ordinary folk lived in const
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The Abnormal Female Celestial Master 非正常女天师
Everyone says foreigners are superstitious. If they bully you, all you have to do is mutter strange things and wave your hands at them, and you can scare them off. After Wan Sui was set up by her own family and stranded abroad, she faced a gang of thugs. She copied Uncle Jiu from the movies and made a few hand seals. To her surprise, they really did run away in terror. Someone looking for a bit of excitement recorded the scene and posted it back home. Wan Sui became an overnight sensation online
16.7kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
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The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬
In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h
27.4kReads9.3Score3kShelves
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions
246.7kReads9.4Score19.9kShelves
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Li Xuanzhen of Zhongnan Mountain 终南山李玄真
On Mount Zhongnan, beneath Green Ox Cliff, a herb gatherer's path to enlightenment. Li Xuanzhen was an ordinary herb gatherer at the foot of Mount Zhongnan, but his innate spiritual perception let him see things from both the yin and yang realms. While gathering herbs one day, he accidentally stumbled into an ancient grotto-heaven at Green Ox Cliff and discovered a fragment of the Scripture of Yin Talisman. From then on, he embarked on the path of Daoist cultivation. A fragmentary Daoist scriptu
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Fox Maiden 狐女
My name is Tu Sang. Grandpa said I was a gift from the Fox Immortal. I was barely alive when he found me, as good as dead. So he sought out the village shaman and traded his life for mine, keeping me alive until I turned eighteen. But before my eighteenth birthday, he passed away, and overnight I became an orphan again. To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a ghost below. Who knew he would be a ten-thousand-year-old Ghost Immortal? But our connection goes far beyond that...
11.8kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
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The Taoist Returns to His Village and Begins His Revenge as a Street Vendor 道士回村，从摆摊开始复仇
[Taoist priest + feng shui + talismans + ghost hunting + demon slaying + folk customs + no System + no livestreaming + no cultivation] When his grandfather was young, he gathered herbs in the mountains and once saved a young Taoist priest who had been badly injured. To repay him for saving his life, the young Taoist chose a feng shui site known as “Golden Rooster Brooding Over an Egg” and told his grandfather to build the family home there. Once the house was complete, the Lin family grew rich a
18.8kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
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The Yin-Yang Demon Suppression Bureau 阴阳镇魔司
He walks between the worlds of yin and yang, slays vengeful ghosts, subdues evil demons, battles zombies, and stands up for the weak against the strong. He even becomes sworn brothers with the Black and White Impermanence and Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
1.4kReads6.7Score236Shelves
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King of Feng Shui 风水之王
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人
I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but
5.6kReads9.0Score622Shelves
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Notes of a Taoist Priest in the World of the Living 阳间道士笔记
A recent college graduate ends up working odd jobs at Fuyuantang after an accident. He becomes an apprentice, learns the craft, kills ghosts, and subdues demons. From the locust tree spirit in Xiangcheng to the Mountain Goddess of Jinling, from evil Taoist cultivators in western Hunan to master Gu-raisers in Miaojiang, the Taoist sects under heaven are in turmoil. Watch Li Yang take up his sword and roam the world!
12.6kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
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It Began with a Death Trip to Northern Myanmar 从缅北死亡之行开始
[No System + Not a do-gooder + Decisive and ruthless + Sharp-minded + Exposes human nature + Escape from Northern Myanmar] To save my brother, I went alone into Northern Myanmar. This is a hell where human life is treated as worthless! I’ve seen fugitives stoned to death; I’ve seen women turned into human pillars and put on display; The banana groves are full of burial mounds, all holding the remains of Chinese people who never escaped!
429Reads5.8Score101Shelves
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The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避
Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today.
3.3kReads8.9Score359Shelves
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A Ghost Placed a Food Delivery Order, and I Accepted It in a Flash! 鬼下的外卖订单，我秒接！
That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey!
57.9kReads9.2Score5.7kShelves
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The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘
That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared.
44kReads9.5Score6.3kShelves
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The Gu Lady 蛊娘
I was born in a village cursed by witchcraft, the only girl born there in hundreds of years. Everyone saw me as an ill omen destined to bring disaster upon the world. Refusing to believe or spread rumors, I worked hard to prove I wasn't a harbinger of calamity. In the end, I became the last female gu master in the mortal realm. I raised Golden Silkworm Gu, ancient divine beasts, and fierce ghosts from the Nine Hells... and eventually, a husband whom everyone adored. He told me, “Bai Wu, if this
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Selling Burial Clothes, Sewing Up Corpses, and Raising a Ghost Wife 卖寿衣，缝尸体，养鬼妻
[Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang
64.9kReads9.2Score9kShelves
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A Farmer’s Wife Has It Tough 村妇难活
[A realistic, everyday story of rural life in the Period, portraying the lives of village women as they truly were.] 1993, Shangou Village. Li Xiulan has already given birth to two sons, and now she’s pregnant with a third child. From then on, her life begins to change in profound ways…
38.7kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
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Flash Marriage to a Tycoon: The Uncle Dotes on His Young Wife 闪婚财阀：大叔强宠小娇妻
Everyone says that Kyoto's great demon king, Fu Qingshen, hates women. That is, until one day, the old master forced him into a flash marriage with a little girl. Everyone was waiting for the great demon king to fly into a rage, eager to see Wen Ruanyu make a fool of herself. But they had no idea what went on in the Fu household. “Wife, I can't cook.” “Wife, I'm sorry. I messed up the wardrobe.” “Wife, I can't do anything. I can't live without you.” Wen Ruanyu had no choice but to keep looking a
27.1kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
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