Novels like The Eerie Spirit
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- 51 Ling Cage Wasteland: Get Stronger with Every Sign-In! 灵笼废土：签到就强！ A clash of blood and fire, a collision between human nature and rules. Crimson spreads, and Mana descends! After transmigrating here, Ye Chen has finally unlocked his sign-in golden finger after waiting ten years. “Ding! Sign in at the Wasteland Reclaimer training grounds. Reward: Gun Kata MAX.” “Ding! Sign in in the City Lord's office. Reward: +100 Prestige.” “Ding! Sign in at the Dawn Hall. Reward: ten boxes of ‘Won't Leak, For Real.’” Inside the Dawn Hall, Ye Chen glances at Ran Bing beside h 17Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 52 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop 黄泉典当行 The Underworld Pawnshop has existed since time immemorial, with a long and storied history. It can travel between the worlds of the living and the dead, reaching the far shores of the Yellow Springs to trade with ghosts and gods. It stands somewhere in the modern city. Find the Underworld Pawnshop, and any wish can be granted, but only at an equal price. You can pawn anything you own: organs, years of your life, ancestral treasures, even your soul. In exchange, you can get whatever you desire: m 123Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 53 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 107Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 54 The Young Physician 少郎中 All things in this world have their causes and consequences. Good deeds bring blessings, while evil deeds breed sin. Children are too young to know better, so they cannot be the cause. When ill-fated bonds arise, it is usually because their parents have done wrong. We, the Young Doctors, are here to free these innocent children from their suffering… 381Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 55 My Embalming Notes with the Agent 我和代行者的入殓手记 [Thrills + Heartwarming Moments + Redemption + Past and Present Lives] Do you believe someone could wait a hundred years for you? Bai Yan doesn’t. She’s just a junior makeup artist at a funeral home. Her only real skill is pretending she can’t see ghosts. But one early morning, she personally transfers a man’s seal onto herself. He lived to be 129, owes a life, and demands she repay him by doing ten things. This isn’t an evil spirit haunting her. It’s a madman who waited a hundred years for the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Supernatural Revival: Assembling the Ultimate Ghost 灵异复苏：拼凑最强鬼体 [Ruthless Protagonist + Supernatural Resurgence + No Female Lead + No System] A long night shrouds all life, while unknown vengeful ghosts roam the mortal world. Su Ye, reborn through supernatural power, relies on the ghost inside him to survive one terrifying incident after another. Simply staying alive is his greatest hope. In a silent room, he plays rock-paper-scissors with his reflection in the mirror. Who do you think wins? In a village deep in the wilderness, he searches for the sixth fing 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3k14d adds
- 58 Eerie Fishing 诡异垂钓 {No melodrama + no System + no harem} "Have you ever seen a ghost? You might not believe me, but I've seen plenty!" "My name is Lin Zhao. My world has undergone a massive change, and all kinds of evil spirits and strange creatures are coming back to life." "Humanity has been pushed to the brink. To survive, I have no choice but to hunt ghosts with a fishing rod and grow stronger..." This is a world where spiritual qi has revived, and a world full of the bizarre! 798Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 59 The Feng Shui Master of Qingwu 青乌风水师 My grandfather tells the fortunes of the living. I tell the fortunes of the dead. One day, my grandfather forced me to read his fortune... 1.2kReads8.8Score13214d adds
- 60 Who Let Him Cultivate to Immortality?! 谁让他修仙！ [Comedy] + [System] + [Cultivation] + [Ensemble cast] Who let him cultivate?! Song Shuhang: I'm Tyrant Blade Song Yi. Don't call me the Great Demon Song. To be honest, I've never killed anyone in my life! I haven't even stepped on an ant while walking. How can you call me that? Demonic cultivators: I think you're more demonic than we are. We just kill people, but you torture them. Cultivators: Who let this guy cultivate? He's led the whole cultivation world astray! The day Song Shuhang becomes a 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 EN Stranger Danger 这个世界很危险 The uncanny is full of guile; the bizarre is strange and otherworldly! In this world, uncanny creatures can transform in countless ways, seize stars, and snatch the moon. Martial artists can shoulder mountains and rivers, their fists suppressing the deepest hells. Qi cultivators live on wind and dew, their swords shaking the heavens. Scholars summon thunder with their words and command the wind and rain. Emperors stride across the universe, their pride and ambition spanning ten thousand miles. W 205Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 62 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 147Reads7.9Score24114d adds
- 63 I Have a Book of the Yellow Springs 我有一本黄泉书 [Decisive and Ruthless + Violent Ghost Exorcism + Kill, Never Save + No Goody-Two-Shoes] The most terrifying thing in this world is often not ghosts, but people, especially ruthless men like me, who kill instead of saving souls. Chanting sutras to send the dead to a better afterlife, saving all sentient beings? None of that exists where I’m concerned. In this age of underworld officials, vengeful ghosts, and supernatural monsters, I seek only one thing: exorcising ghosts. I kill them. I don’t sa 536Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 64 Having a Son Is Like Having the King of Hell 生个儿子是阎王 Five years ago, I gave birth to a child. Everyone who saw what the child looked like died. Five years later, I met a man who told me he was the child's father. 16.4kReads8.9Score36314d adds
- 65 Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 I became a corpse retriever to get rich and marry a wife. But before I could make a fortune, I pulled a delicate, stunning beauty out of the Yellow River... 3.5kReads8.8Score25714d adds
- 66 My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯 After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme. 2.9kReads8.4Score24614d adds
- 67 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 68 The Horror Face Mask 恐怖面膜 Never buy cosmetics from social-media resellers without thinking twice. Some of them can cost you your life! Soap made from human fat, face masks made from human skin: let me expose the horrors lurking among online resellers... 68Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 69 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score10214d adds
- 70 The Thirteenth Eye 第十三只眼 As a kid, I was a mischievous little brat, and I once caused a whole lot of trouble. As a result, I hit the jackpot and ended up with three shadows. One black, one red, and one blue. I bragged about them plenty, even though I was the only one who could see them. One night, the red shadow slipped away from beneath my feet and sprinted into the darkness... I panicked and chased after it! If you run off, what am I supposed to brag about? You've been with me this long. The least you could do is say 36Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 71 Anomaly Containment: Why Am I Already on the Containment List? 异常收容：怎么我先上收容名单了 [Supernatural + military. No clichés, no invincibility, no System, no transmigration, no face-slapping.] Midnight square dancing, ghost monks offering living sacrifices, corpse puppets performing ghost operas... This world is full of anomalies! My name is Xu Fei, and I've had an exceptionally stable mind since childhood. A pack of cigarettes gave me the ability to block evil spirits from sensing me. With the nation and my teammates at my back, I do everything I can to uncover the truth behind th 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 The Ghost Physiognomist in Hemp Robes 麻衣鬼相 Some say it's difficult to understand another person, but to a face reader, understanding someone is easy. Others say you can't judge a person by appearances. I think it depends on who's doing the judging. My grandfather was a famous face reader of ghosts. He could read disaster and fortune, life and death, heaven and earth, and even uncover a person's past lives and future incarnations. When I was little, egged on by a group of friends, I kicked over the mound of an old grave. Luckily, my grand 1.4kReads8.5Score17714d adds
- 73 Divine Inheritance 神传 My mother went up the mountain for three days, and when she came back down, I was born. Ever since then, she has gone up the mountain once every month, on the third. I thought she was going to see my father, until one day I followed her... 1.4kReads8.7Score17414d adds
- 74 Just Because You Can't See It Doesn't Mean It Doesn't Exist 你看不见不代表不存在 There are many strange events involving spirits, ghosts, and monsters in this world. To most ordinary people, they're just jokes or stories. Science explains them as changes caused by magnetic fields. But science ends where the occult begins. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ji Shisan grows from a novice who has just entered the spirit world into a powerful figure who shapes it. Alongside his companions, he safeguards order throughout China, gathers ancient div 2Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 75 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 331Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Demons of the Northern Mountain 北山有妖 When I was twenty, someone killed me. My killer dumped my body at Beishan, a thousand miles away… 2kReads7.5Score24314d adds
- 77 My Martial Arts Reach the Divine, and I Smash Every Monster and Demon 我武道通神，锤爆一切妖魔鬼怪 Monsters and demons have returned, and the world has changed dramatically! The terrifying Life-Taking Ghost, the ghost bus bound for hell, eyes peering through cracks in doors, a mysterious ancient village sealed away for a hundred years... Wang Xun transmigrated into this world where monsters and demons were returning, and had planned to risk his life fighting fate. He never expected to activate a sign-in System. “Sign-in successful! Obtained the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths God-Slaying, World-D 737Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 78 The Fatal Rule 致命法则 A rich guy in the group chat sent out a red envelope and said the person who got the most money had to play a game with him. The game turned out to involve the class belle... 319Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 79 Upholding Justice in Heaven's Name 替天行道 Yin cannot thrive alone, and yang cannot exist by itself. I grew up in the countryside, left behind by my parents and raised by my grandfather. All his life, Grandpa was either helping widows and orphaned girls or on his way to help them. So, for as long as I can remember, I heard the villagers cursing him behind his back. Then one day, a stranger in a burial shroud asked me a question. A tree without bark but with a soul is bound to die. What happens to a person with skin but no soul? The relat 3kReads8.9Score24714d adds
- 80 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 May you be blessed with wealth and long life, and travel safely in and out. I’m the heir to a special kind of embroidery, commonly known as “tattooing.” You’d think this craft would be quite profitable in a modern city, but before my master died, he forbade me from using it to make money. I always did as he said, but recently, something happened, and I had no choice but to go against his dying words. From then on, all kinds of strange things began happening around me. 951Reads8.8Score12114d adds
- 81 Dragon-Seeking Feng Shui Master 寻龙风水师 My mother was offered as a living sacrifice to the river god. To everyone's surprise, ten months later, she crawled out of the river. Dragons eat their illegitimate children. As the Dragon King's bastard son, I was supposed to be eaten at birth. Luckily, my master saved me and used eighteen phoenix maidens to deceive the heavens, helping me escape the Dragon King's pursuit. But eighteen years later, the people who had built their fortunes on my dragon blood turned against me. They looked down on 920Reads8.5Score26814d adds
- 82 Taking a Fox as My Wife 养狐为妻 When I was eighteen, I accidentally injured a fox. To my shock, my master forced me to marry her... 1.3kReads8.6Score10214d adds
- 83 A Female Teacher’s Everyday Ghostbusting 女先生的捉鬼日常 The world is vast, and strange things abound. There are countless crafts and trades, and none is unique. Good and evil, righteousness and wickedness coexist. Mu Qing is just the owner of a little paper effigy shop, yet she finds herself drawn into one predicament after another. Who is it, throwing her world into chaos? 18Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 84 Horror Descends: I Bind Myself to a Red-Clad Female Ghost from the Start 恐怖降临：开局绑定红衣女鬼 [Supernatural] + [System] + [Single female lead] A year ago, terror descended upon the world, reducing the global population by 90 percent. Only China, protected by its dragon veins, avoided complete collapse. The Maoshan Celestial Master set out to exorcise demons and uphold the Dao, taking his disciples down the mountain to slay monsters and demons. They never returned. By then, Lin Tian had spent ten years sweeping the grounds of Maoshan and had been signing in for ten years straight. “Ding! 1.7kReads7.7Score12914d adds
- 85 The Yin Deliverer 送阴人 A burial master, also known as one who sends the dead into the shadows. When Li Mazi from my village died suddenly, I was drawn into the affair. I thought it was an accident, but later I learned it had been plotted for a long time. To stay alive, I began studying the Burial Scripture my grandfather left behind. The Burial Scripture has three volumes: one on burying people, one on burying ghosts, and a third whose whereabouts are unknown. Blood corpses in the Southern Ridges, ancient monsters in 668Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 86 The Fox Immortal Beauty 狐仙美人 When I was fourteen, I saved a white fox. To save my life, Grandpa actually made me enter into a contract with it? Fox Immortal: “I would gladly shed all my demonic aura and give up a thousand lifetimes of cultivation, all to spend a lifetime with you, from youth to old age!” Ding Ning: “I thought I’d become a Taoist priest who hunted ghosts and vanquished demons, but in the end I became a heretic condemned by everyone...” As I taught myself Taoist arts, secrets and legends began to emerge one a 1.1kReads8.6Score10014d adds
- 87 Mystery Revival: The World of Planes 神秘复苏：位面世界 [Eerie Revival] + [Entirely handmade, no AI] + [A huge cast of original evil ghosts] + [No female lead] + [Slow pacing] + [Multiple twists] The three laws of evil ghosts. First: Evil ghosts cannot be killed. Second: Every evil ghost has a rule that governs its killings. Find the rule, and even ordinary people can survive. Third: Only ghosts can fight ghosts. Fierce evil ghosts still haunt the worlds, and exorcists still exist, generation after generation, to fight them. The crumbling order, the 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 The Corpse Leaps Over the Wall 尸跳墙 I’ve been blind since childhood, so I work as a massage therapist for the blind. Then one day, I met a terrifying woman who said she could restore my sight. The price was... 140Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 90 I Am a Feng Shui Master 我是风水师 I thought I would follow the three instructions my parents left in their will, but everything changed after I rescued a female classmate… 8.9kReads7.4Score65414d adds
- 91 The Linen-Clad Daoist Patriarch 麻衣道祖 Demonic energy invades his body, and Chen Yishan is on the brink of death. His ancestors answer his prayers and send a cold, aloof immortal maiden to save him. But she is helpless and has a terrible temper. She abducts Chen Yishan, beats him up, and tosses him into a cave to reflect on his own. Reflecting is out of the question. Enraged, Chen Yishan punches the statue of the Holy Land’s founder to pieces, and suddenly, it all clicks... From then on, dressed in snowy robes and carrying a moonlike 1.8kReads8.2Score24314d adds
- 92 I Have a Mysterious Cemetery 我有一座神秘墓园 (I've been on the front lines of the pandemic, so updates have been suspended for a while. I'm sorry.) As spiritual qi revives, evil spirit incidents break out everywhere: Demons commit murder, Ghost Buddha, the Origin Virus, Strange Threads, terrifying puppets... Yet science is the end point of every mystery. This is where the dead find rest. It is forbidden ground for the living, and it is also a treasure trove. Chen Shu is a fallen genius with a terrifying demon imprisoned inside his body, so 1.6kReads7.7Score21314d adds
- 93 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.3kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 94 What Do You Mean the Corpses I Sew Together Are All Cursed? 什么叫我缝的尸体都是大凶之物？ [Chinese folk customs] [Corpse seamster] [Traditional supernatural horror] [A clever protagonist who isn’t an idiot] My name is Chen Yang. I’m a mortician, or rather... a corpse seamster. I can sew up corpses no one else can. I can take jobs no one else dares to accept. I’ve handled all sorts of bizarre cases: people who jumped from buildings in red clothes, corpses missing arms and legs, and even one person who was holding their own head... Everyone says the corpses I sew up are all terribly un 219.6kReads9.1Score29.1k14d adds
- 95 The Fox King's Betrothed: A Girl Born to the Yin 狐王聘，阴生女 On the night of Jiang Yuening's eighteenth birthday, she saw ghosts drifting through her village. After that night, a little red fox came to her in her dreams every night. Its magnetic, bewitching voice had already been etched into her memory. Who is this little fox? How will the wheels of fate turn? The secrets hidden deep in the darkness will eventually bloom like flowers beneath the sunlight… 13Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 96 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 97 Huang Daxian 黄大仙儿 The Huang Daxian of Northeast China, also known as the Huangpizi, are weasels that have cultivated into spirits. This is a terrifying story about the shamanic traditions of Northeast China, told in the region’s authentic style. A supernatural tale rooted in the everyday life of Northeast China. 3.1kReads8.6Score33714d adds
- 98 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 99 The Uncanny One 邪门儿 In the old days, bandit gangs had four pillars and eight posts. The foremost pillar was called the Heaven-Supporting Pillar, and its holder served as the gang's strategist. Since strategists tattooed goshawks on their chests, they were also known as Mountain-Circling Eagles. A Mountain-Circling Eagle is neither monk nor Daoist, yet can discern yin and yang, communicate with spirits, and foretell fortune and misfortune. Neither immortal nor shaman, yet can cast talismans, drive out evil spirits, 1.4kReads8.6Score15414d adds
- 100 War Against Demons: Snow Encounter 战妖：雪遇 Born on a snowy night and surrounded by monsters, he was saved in his hour of peril by a kind cultivator. This gave him an unusually powerful spirit from birth. His elders were leaders in an organization dedicated to suppressing demons, and his family had its own legacy, but it was too obscure to be of much use. So he joined the reclusive sect where his elders' comrades served, starting out as an unofficial disciple to gain experience. Thus began his journey of following his elders, master, and 45Reads8.2Score—14d adds
