Supernatural, Spirit Mediums, Shamans, and Temple-Breaking Rituals: The Supreme Sage, Zhenjun Saweng 灵异+出马+乩童+破庙伐坛，一元无上萨翁真君

1. 1 只 He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！ Midsummer Is Coming仲夏将至Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot 116.6kReads9.2Score9.7kShelves

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   The first book I saw on Douyin during Chinese New Year was "The Wandering God," and I was incredibly drawn in. It gave me chills; I recommend reading it during the day. 👀

2. 2 爷 Grandpa, I Was Reborn, I Swear I'm Not Possessed 爷爷，我是重生，真不是鬼上身 Bincheng Lao San滨城老三Mystery3.6M WordsOngoing [Traditional Mystery and Supernatural Fiction] [One Female Lead] [Period Novel] [A Funeral Master’s True Accounts] [Northeastern Chinese Funeral Customs] [Rural Life] Adapted into the short drama Eighties Funeral Master (Disclaimer: The folk techniques in this book, including Zhuyou healing rituals, are entirely fictional. Please do not imitate them. The author bears no responsibility for any problems that may arise.) Good grief, I’ve been reborn in 1986, and from the start Grandpa thinks I’m a 59.4kReads9.3Score5kShelves
3. 3 北 The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童 Northeastern Old Snow Beer东北老雪花Mystery344k WordsCompleted A strange story set in a small town ninety years later. The heroine begins her shamanic calling at thirteen. On the day she was born, all the fox, yellow weasel, white weasel, willow, and rat spirits within a ten-kilometer radius knelt to welcome her. Then came a series of miraculous experiences. 10.6kReads9.5Score947Shelves
4. 4 我 My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年 Wu Nianjing吾念静Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted My name is Chen Jiuyang. I began cultivating under my master as a child, and officially became a spirit medium at eleven, carrying the Five Immortals with me as I wandered the world. With a Seven Kills destiny, a beauty who is but a skeleton, and a demon star bringing chaos to the age, the moment I stepped into the martial world, it was already fated that I would never escape unscathed. Leather-Skinned Ghosts, Resentful Corpse Demons, and White Bone Talisman Immortals: every strange case I encou 3.8kReads9.2Score381Shelves
5. 5 师 After My Master Left, the Funeral Shop Became Connected to the Underworld 师父走后，白事店连通了地府 Big Courtyard大院子Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Completed story + supernatural horror + funeral customs + no female lead] After my master passed away, I took over the funeral shop’s business. Only then did I realize that my master had tricked me. This funeral shop was actually connected to the underworld. It didn’t just handle business from the living world; it also had to take care of all kinds of requests from the dead. Wayward children, heartless parents, sinister relatives... The living are hard to deal with, and the dead are even harder 9.3kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
6. 6 鬼 Grim Reaper: Why Is Smoke Rising from the Ancestral Grave? 鬼差：上个祖坟，怎么还冒青烟了 That Fish in the Sky天上那条鱼Mystery112k WordsCompleted “Hello? Hello! Is this 119?” “So, um... my... family’s ancestral graves are smoking!” “No, wait, they’re already on fire!” Lu An stared at the family graves in the distance, where ever-thickening plumes of green smoke were rising. His face filled with bewilderment. “???” “Sir, what did you say? You’re not joking, are you? Making a false fire report is a crime...” The dispatcher on the other end of the phone sounded dazed too, clearly struggling to believe what Lu An had said. “No, I’m not joking 70Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 7 收 The Corpse Collection Files 收尸档案 Zhang Wuren张无忍Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Since ancient times, the dead have been left with their bodies. But few people know that corpses hold many secrets that remain hidden from the world. Cursed corpses, living corpses, bodies left where they fell, vengeful corpses, bisected corpses... Every corpse has a story of its own! My name is He Yongheng, and I collect bodies for a funeral home. 3.8kReads9.0Score367Shelves
8. 8 黄 Weasel Spirit! Do I Look Like a Human or a God to You? 黄皮子！你看我像人还是像神？ China's Famous Double Standard中国驰名双标Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted No specialist knowledge here, just a story. [A little horror + a whole lot of comedy + no female lead, no romance] When I was a kid, I took a nighttime shortcut and saw a weasel worshipping the moon. Remembering a story my grandma had told me, I worried it might ask me to grant it a title, so, on a whim, I shouted at it first: “Weasel! Do I look more like a person or a god to you?” The weasel froze for a moment, then said I looked like a dumbass! But from that day on, I really did become an idio 30.6kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
9. 9 出 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 Four Happiness Pavilion四喜阁Mystery3.1M WordsOngoing My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 86.4kReads9.6Score8.2kShelves

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   Humorous language, coherent plot

10. 10 我 I'm a Funeral Officiant, So Summoning Immortals Is Only Natural 我个殡葬司仪，会请仙也很正常吧 Dragon-Taming Pool御龙潭Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [One heroine + the author conducted on-site research at funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, striving for realistic details + traditional supernatural tales + professional knowledge of funerals and spirit-medium practices] (The humorous setups and parody scenes in this book, as well as the original Qingfeng spirit-medium altar, where spirits other than ancestors are invited to take up residence, were published with the approval of the author's own guardian spirits. Readers, please believ 38.7kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves

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    There are shamans from Northeast China and supernatural old masters.

11. 11 灵 Supernatural: The Monk Who Gets Stronger by Exorcising Ghosts 灵异：贫僧渡鬼就变强 Little Crayon小小蜡笔Urban1.0M WordsCompleted The supernatural world is resurging. A hundred ghosts roam by night, while demons and monsters run rampant. Black Corpse King: “After a thousand years of cultivation, I have become a thousand-year-old corpse, immortal and indestructible... Monk, let’s talk this over! Put away that forty-meter sword, it’s terrifying!” A handsome young monk dressed in white presses his palms together and smiles. “Amitabha!” “Buddhists cherish compassion!” “Benefactor, stop struggling. Let this humble monk gui 288Reads6.8Score—Shelves
12. 12 妖 Demons and Monsters: From the Start, I Unlocked the Old Celestial Master 妖魔：开局解锁老天师 Little Bean, Strong Enough to Lift a Mountain力拔山兮小豆丁Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Monsters + Everyday Life + Lighthearted + No Single Female Lead] Lin Fan transmigrates into a world overrun by monsters and finds himself in danger from the start. Just as disaster strikes, a voice rings out: “Ding! Character Template System successfully bound!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You’ve drawn a character template: Zhang Zhiwei, the sixty-fifth Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, ‘An Ordinary Mortal’!” And so... Bathed in golden light and lightning, Lin Fan stands atop a heap of mon 2.5kReads7.2Score145Shelves
13. 13 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
14. 14 我 My Sect Has Eleven Graves 我的门派有十一座坟 Ten Lifetimes, This Life十世今生Mystery997k WordsCompleted Fantasy and the supernatural, with a lighthearted, humorous tone and a touch of horror. My name is Zhang Shiyi. I have ten senior brothers, so my name is Zhang Shiyi. But all ten of my senior brothers are dead. They’re lying in the graves outside. What? My master? He’s dead too. The biggest, roundest grave is his. Haha~ Well, congratulations, then~ Get ready to sing: Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you, hey! Congratulations, congratulations to you~ 24.6kReads9.1Score2kShelves
15. 15 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves

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    If you meet the above conditions, you can watch with confidence.

16. 16 天 Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsOngoing Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist 84.8kReads9.1Score6.1kShelves
17. 17 出 Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事 Cloud Road Faraway云路遥Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted “First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had 32.4kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
18. 18 东 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 Rabbit Lord Changxi兔爷长喜Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 19.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves

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    🌸My name is Zhou Tie, and this book will tell the true story of my ten years as a spirit medium establishing a shrine. At birth, the entire courtyard was filled with snakes that died mysteriously. At seven, a mysterious woman stopped me and gave me a name. At eighteen, I established my shrine, but it was different from others; it was filled with ghosts. The tombstone was actually my grandfather's sister who died of madness. A man was killed by a flying coffin lid, a water ghost sought revenge, a weasel tried to exchange lives…

19. 19 这 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ Wu the Half-Immortal吴半仙Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 148.7kReads9.7Score13.6kShelves
20. 20 全 Everyone Is an Evil Immortal!!! 全员恶仙！！！ There Are Mountains Beyond the Heavens天外有山Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsOngoing Also known as The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals and The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals: I Have a Temple for Cultivating Immortals [No Angst] [Unhinged] [High Stakes from Start to Finish] There is a rumor of a temple somewhere in the world, with a patch of magical soil inside. Just treat a person as a "seed" and plant them in the soil, and they can become an immortal. Li Shiwu has spent ten years seeking immortality. At last, he finds the temple and plants himself in the soil, but he never expecte 207.6kReads9.0Score19.6kShelves
21. 21 天 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves

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    "Taoist Master and Disciple Sweep Away Urban Ghosts" - A city plagued by ghosts? An old Taoist priest and his two eccentric disciples slaughter all evil spirits! With a vertical pupil in his left eye, he can discern countless ghosts; with a handful of black fire, he can extinguish malevolent forces. This Taoist master and disciple specialize in dealing with all kinds of urban ghost stories!

22. 22 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves

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    1. He's a funeral home emcee, handling all aspects of funeral services with a 98% customer satisfaction rate. He's also a shaman, able to summon modern spirits using electronic and smart technologies—pretty normal, right? 2. Strange events frequently occur in this ancient and remote place, all revolving around Hua Jiu's ordeal. Even more bizarrely, he himself is part of the events—he's a corpse-born child, called "Little Master" by the underworld. 3. Zhang Shiyi's ghost-catching life is a blend of fantasy and the supernatural, lighthearted yet slightly terrifying. He's named after his ten senior brothers, but they and their master are all deceased, their graves just outside. His hilarious ghost-catching routine begins. 4. Bai Zhou is murdered on the night she returns home to inherit a funeral shop, but after being resurrected, she becomes involved in several bizarre cases: a dead woman walking through the mourning hall, a ghost seeking a substitute, etc. She learns the five arts of Taoism, surviving amidst the mystery. 5. Mystic Jiang Jue, as a consultant for the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, assists in investigating strange cases. While investigating her master's death, she unexpectedly uncovers the mystery of her own past. Caught between good and evil, and torn between family ties, what choice will she make? Hey, forensic doctor, your wife's off hunting ghosts again.

23. 23 在 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 17.9kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
24. 24 何 Dr. He, Your Wife Has Gone Ghost Hunting Again 何法医，你老婆又去抓鬼了 21 Ya21吖Mystery266k WordsCompleted Jiang Jue is a young occultist of exceptional talent. As a special consultant for the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, she is stationed at the Xishi Public Security Bureau, where she helps solve abnormal cases. One case leads her to question the truth behind her master’s death. As she investigates, she unexpectedly uncovers the mystery of her own origins. With good and evil at odds and family ties entangled in the conflict, what choice will Jiang Jue make? 484Reads9.1Score124Shelves
25. 25 三 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Luo Xiaoyang洛小阳Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing 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… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves

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    It's very good, not boring at all and quite engaging. Watching it at night is a bit scary and funny at the same time.

26. 26 黄 A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Reveal My Purple-Robed Celestial Master's True Form 黄皮子讨封，我亮出紫袍天师法身 Horse-Herder Immortal出马仙Mystery4.8M WordsCompleted Humorous and hilarious + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium rituals + no System Zhang Tiezhu staggers home drunk one night. He runs into a tailless weasel that asks him for a blessing. The weasel asks, “Do I look more like a human or a god to you?” “Heh... You look like your grandma’s leg!” The weasel says, “...Brother Zhang, cut it out. Give me a proper answer!” Zhang Tiezhu says, “Weasel, let me tell you: these days, you have to believe in science!” The weasel says, “I’m a Yello 52.9kReads8.9Score8kShelves
27. 27 最 The Last Daoist Lord 最后的道君 Dancing Lone Spirit舞独魂灵Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Ever since my mother got pregnant with me, strange things kept happening at home. First, a hedgehog came into the house, a long snake coiled around the beams, and a weasel dug a burrow in the vegetable patch out back. Then foxes from the mountains joined in, showing up at our doorstep every few days to peer inside. Now the five immortals were all gathered: Hu, Huang, Liu, Bai, and Hui. Anyone in the know would recognize this as the Five Immortals entering a home. Any one of the five entering 10.9kReads9.1Score1kShelves
28. 28 戏 A Performer Is Weak? The White Crane Boy Scares the Black Mother of the Great Buddha Out of Her Wits 戏子弱？白鹤童子，吓尿大黑佛母 Leaning Snow's Reflection倾然映雪Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Guan Jiang Shou] [Black and White Impermanence] [Erlang Shen] [Black Myth: Nezha] [Sun Wukong] [Folk Deity Processions] In an era when everyone changes jobs, Wang Qingyuan awakens the [God of Drama Path] class from the start. People think he’s nothing but a performer who can sing opera. But he also awakens the [Deity Possession System]. By impersonating gods, he can summon them to possess him and fight on his behalf, while gaining their spells and magical treasures! Guan Jiang Shou: “I tread th 604Reads8.2Score166Shelves
29. 29 天 The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙 Wu the Half-Immortal吴半仙Mystery2.6M WordsCompleted When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife... 11.9kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
30. 30 灵 Supernatural: I Contracted Ten Million Weird Creatures! 灵异：我契约千万诡异！ Helpless Hemu无奈的禾木Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [Urban Supernatural + No System + Lighthearted Comedy] My name is Gu Chen. I've made contracts with tens of millions of ghosts, but some of them… just can't behave. For example… “Hey, give Tongtong her head back. It's not a soccer ball!” . “And you, put that arm back where it belongs. What kind of grown male ghost goes around with a woman's arm?” . “You over there, sew your stomach back up! You're spraying blood all over my sofa!” . “You, quit hanging yourself there. The chandelier can't take it 7.9kReads7.4Score608Shelves

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    A supernatural thriller!! The author writes very well 🤤🤤🤤

31. 31 当 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 Qingyuan Vocational High School Prodigy庆元职高小天才Mystery2.5M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa 390.6kReads9.3Score43.5kShelves
32. 32 女 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ Sunlight on the Mountain Forest日照山林Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing 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! 40.5kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
33. 33 灵 Supernatural Revival: I Control a Ghostly Chain from the Start 灵异复苏：开局驾驭鬼锁链 Xian Lin弦临Urban570k WordsCompleted [Supernatural resurgence + not a wish-fulfillment story + no heroine + slow-paced + ruthless + no bleeding-heart protagonist + doesn't suck up to headquarters + no System] A camping trip during summer vacation became a one-way road to hell. Lin Yi was haunted by an indescribable “thing.” It defied all reason, and every heartbeat tolled the knell of death. In his frantic flight, he stumbled into a decrepit ancient temple, where the cold pierced to the bone. In the darkness lay a rusty chain, glow 2.3kReads5.6Score189Shelves

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