Novels like The Earth Master
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- 1 Streaming a Corpse-Driving Ritual, the Whole Internet Begs Me to Stop Scaring Them 直播赶尸，全网求我别吓人 I scored 153 on the college entrance exam, and my classmates laughed that I was going to Guizhou's east to raise the dead. They had no idea I had bound myself to a God-Tier Corpse-Wrangling System. A year later, the apocalypse arrived, and I was the only one who could guide the dead home. The first time I rang the purple-gold bell, nine ancient cavalrymen who had fallen in battle stood in perfect formation behind me. My class group chat was in hysterics: “Cosplay? A murder-mystery game?” Until 4Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 2 The Evil Spirit Child 邪气儿 In the old days, the second of the eight pillars in a bandit stronghold was called the Sky-Pillar. He was the toughest bandit in the gang, the best fighter and the sharpest shot. Since the Sky-Pillar had a dragon tattoo, he was also known as the Mountain-Rolling Dragon. A true Mountain-Rolling Dragon did more than rob the living. He would even snatch the possessions of the dead, daring to challenge powerful spirits for their territory with nothing but a knife, and pry money from the hands of cor 220Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 3 The Corpse Collector 收尸人 I invite you into a story that is humorous yet still terrifying… 322Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Yun Che: Paper Effigy Maker 云澈：扎纸匠 Yun Che: The Paper Effigy Maker 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Curious Tales 奇闻杂记 Have you heard of beds that make you bow your head, ghosts in the mirror, faces hidden by hair, blasting hills apart, ghostly sleep paralysis, coffin shops, casting curses and planting ghosts, glamorous tales of corpse-driving, snake demons appearing, the Eight Diagrams and mystical arts, or physiognomy from the Book of Ma Yi? Traveling far and wide through mountains, rivers, foreign lands, bustling cities, and remote villages, I visit strange places, record my findings, and bring them together. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I'm a Tailor Who Can Sew Anything 我是个裁缝，什么都缝 [Ensemble cast + expansive worldbuilding + mind-bending twists + folk customs + breaking the fourth wall] Have you ever doubted, even for a moment, whether this world is real? If one day you discovered the truth about this world, what would you choose to do? Qin Yu made his choice. Once a Yin Courier who spent his days sewing clothes and his nights stitching corpses in a small two-story house, he embarked on a one-way journey bearing the fate of humanity on his shoulders. It all began with the T 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Dragon-Locking Coffin 锁龙棺 I have all five yin aspects, yet my allotted years are cut short. Every day, I wear burial clothes. The moment I take them off, one strange and eerie thing after another begins to happen... 133Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 8 The Ghost Gate Pass 诡门关 Among those who deal with ghosts, there is a group known as the Miscellaneous Arts. They follow an unorthodox path, dabbling in fortune-telling, divination, feng shui, talismans, and spirit-medium rituals, but mastering none of them. They have no school behind them and no helpers beneath them, and everyone looks down on them. 77Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 9 Let Me Tell You a Little Story. It’s Not Scary at All: Season One 我讲个小故事，一点儿都不吓人·第一季 Fear should lie buried in the subconscious, fading without a trace, yet it always leaves signs in everyday life. The alley where the sunset hides, the corner turned away from the neon lights, the wealthy woman sitting outside a cafe and giving passersby a malicious sidelong glance: all these traces show that when people enter the darkness beyond the reach of sunlight, fear instantly swells like a shadow and engulfs them. Come, step into my stories and experience fears that grow more terrifying t —Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 10 Grandpa's Ghost-Hunting Tales 爷爷的抓鬼往事 The older generation always had plenty of taboos. They would rather chat about anything else than talk about ghosts and spirits, for fear of inviting trouble and shortening their lives. This was all the more true in the rural villages of western Gansu, where the elderly held such beliefs as sacred rules, engraved in their bones and woven into their every word and deed. When my grandfather was young, he crossed between the worlds of yin and yang and subdued evil spirits. No one in the surrounding 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Coffin Shop on West Street 西街棺材铺 The world is vast, and full of wonders. Chinese culture is profound and rich. How many of those bizarre, spine-chilling tales have you heard? In a small town in Guizhou, there is a coffin shop known as the West Street Coffin Shop. Its owner is a young man who couldn't even get into college. But how much do you know about this coffin-shop owner who couldn't even get into college? 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Rejected When I Proposed, I Can No Longer Hide That I’m a Corpse Retriever 提亲被拒，捞尸人身份藏不住了 My family has made its living retrieving corpses for generations. I was born with a rare boy's fate said to come once in a hundred years, and I wouldn't live past six. To save me, my grandfather arranged an engagement to extend my life. Sixteen years later, I went to ask for my bride's hand, but they refused. They thought the matter would be over once my grandfather died, but they had no idea that retribution was just around the corner... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节，我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Mythic Forbidden Zone 神话禁区 Beneath the firmament, divine treasures lie hidden and ghosts lie in wait. I stumbled upon the secrets behind the legends. I crossed the lands between the three rivers and six banks, stained the snowy plains of towering peaks with blood, and endured countless brushes with death as I fought against fate for my life. I survived, yet the world has no trace of me. 203Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 15 The Shroud Tailor Shop: I Can Bridge the Worlds of the Living and the Dead, Past and Present 缝尸寿衣店：我能连通古今阴阳 The day Zhang Ye's body temperature dropped to thirty-four degrees, he fainted while selling blood at an unlicensed clinic. In his pocket, he found a business card that had appeared from nowhere: [Zhang's Funeral Clothes Shop · Tailor Zhang]. Written in blood were the words: Report for work within three days. Anyone who shows up late is no longer human. He pushed open the door. The owner was dead, and ninety-nine funeral robes hung on the walls. Each one had been made from a failure. He was forc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Xuanhuan: Why Do I Keep Running into Weird Things?! 玄幻：我也不想碰见怪事啊！ [Transmigration + sweet romance + modern cultivation + the uncanny + farming] Young master Rong Jinghe, who was just an ordinary classmate, suddenly transmigrates with Qiao Chuchu and is told she has to be his girlfriend? The tragedy of the Deng family is shrouded in mystery. Must this unlucky girl, Qiao Chuchu, be the one to deal with every family’s troubles? The ghosts that have haunted this place for years can’t be driven away by the exorcists you’ve hired all this time, so now a young girl l —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Corpse-Driving Chronicles of the Taihang Mountains 太行山赶尸录 Corpse-driving is divided into northern and southern schools: the Xiangxi school in the south and the Taihang Mountains school in the north. Lu Shanzong is the last heir of the Taihang Mountains tradition. Through the story of his life, he reveals the ultimate secret of the corpse-drivers of the Taihang Mountains. What they drive is not actually corpses. No one knows the truth hidden behind the practice. 362Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 18 I Was Surgically Transformed into a Pig 我被整容成了一头猪 I Was Made to Look Like a Pig Through Plastic Surgery 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The 444th Horror Story 第444个恐怖故事 Every chapter is a standalone horror story. [Modern Mystery] [The More You Think About It, the More Terrifying It Gets] [Folk Horror] [Rule Horror] [Monstrous Thrills] It's all here. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Ghost-Eyed Fixer 鬼眼话事人 Chen Cheng was born with ghost eyes, able to see what ordinary people cannot. A Daoist master recognized his gift and took him on as his final disciple. He sought justice for ghosts and drove demons from the mortal world. After his master left, he took over as the new keeper of the ghost eyes, hunting thousand-year-old vengeful spirits, battling zombies, luring vampires to their deaths, and investigating haunted tunnels, ghost villages, and phantom ships... He will carry on the Daoist tradition 969Reads7.3Score10014d adds
- 21 I Have Yin-Yang Eyes 我有一双阴阳眼 Born with yin-yang eyes, Su Mingye was frail and sickly as a child, easily assailed by ghosts. When he was fifteen, the seal on his yin-yang eyes broke, and a hundred ghosts surrounded his home to steal them. With his life hanging by a thread, he was saved by a practitioner of yin-yang arts. He later became the practitioner’s disciple, learning the arts to protect himself. With his yin-yang eyes open, he can discern the worlds of yin and yang, destroy evil spirits, recognize demons and monsters 105Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 22 Shadows of Terror by the Sea 临海凶影 In modern society, talk of ghosts and gods is met with ridicule, yet strange phenomena are occurring one after another in Linhai City, Shandong. Vampires emerge at night, zombies rise from their graves, and vengeful ghosts haunt people and claim their lives. All kinds of evil spirits are appearing one after another, while humanity is utterly powerless before them. In this age when spiritual cultivation has declined, a group of guardians hidden among ordinary people quietly steps forward. Using s 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 23 Telling Horror Stories at Midnight 半夜讲恐怖故事 Telling Ghost Stories at Midnight 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 I Suppress Ten Thousand Evil Spirits with My Own Body 吾以吾身镇万诡 Zhao Xingzhou grew up in a funeral home. He is steeped in yin energy and has seen all kinds of strange and bizarre things, because the Zhao family are the legendary wardens of the funeral home. Only later does Zhao Xingzhou learn that he isn't the only warden there. The old man at the gate, the crematorium shift supervisor, the hearse driver, and even the director are all extraordinary in their own ways. The entire funeral home is shrouded in mystery, with everyone showing off their own unique a 1.5kReads7.9Score17914d adds
- 25 My Paper Effigy Shop Is a Hit in the Underworld 我的纸扎店在阴间爆火了 An Ran returns to his hometown to sweep his ancestors’ graves, only to discover that the paper phone he burned can connect the worlds of the living and the dead! A deceased old friend messages him to place an order: “Bro, burn me some roast chicken. I’m starving down here!” Who would have thought the underworld was a trillion-yuan blue ocean market? This business as a middleman between the living and the dead has to take off. And so, Nanshan Village’s bamboo-weaving workshop becomes a bamboo-pro 3.6kReads8.7Score43414d adds
- 26 My Undying-Bone Ancestor Is Neither Good nor Evil 我的不死骨老祖宗亦正亦邪 My Undying-Bone Ancestor Is Both Righteous and Evil Phoenix blood, the soul of a qilin, an undying bone, the Art of Immortality... A thousand-year-old conspiracy stirs once more, sending the world into turmoil. See how young Master Feng meets every move with a counter of his own! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 There's a Little Ghost at the Bottom of the River, and He Calls Me Dad 江底有个小鬼，他喊我爸爸 Blurb One: The corpse retrievers of Cangjiang have one rule: never look back. That day, I broke the rule and turned to look at the river. A child stood beneath the water, his face deathly pale as he smiled at me. That night, he crouched beside my bed and timidly called me “Uncle.” I didn’t think much of it until he told me, “You look like my dad.” Only later did I learn that this little ghost was the corpse I had pulled from the river with my own hands three years earlier. He called me Dad for t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 107Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 29 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 My name is Zhao ?, and I’m a corpse retriever on the banks of the Yellow River. In our line of work, there are rules that must never be broken. Cross the line, and you won’t even find peace in death. The rules of the Zhao family are: First, never retrieve the corpse of the River Dragon King. Second, if you see a Bodhisattva, don’t look back. Third, avoid the corpses of young women. Fourth, stay away from ghost ships on the riverbed. I’ve always strictly observed these four ironclad taboos. Unfor 459Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Paper Effigy Craftsman 纸扎匠 Paper effigies connect the worlds of yin and yang, reaching across all three realms! When I was a child, I found the book my master had hidden away: The True Scripture of Paper Effigies. By day, I made paper figures, opera stages, and houses at the funeral supply shop. But beyond what ordinary people could see, I crafted divine artifacts, summoned deities, and communicated between the worlds of yin and yang. All the sects bowed before me! Little did I know that someone else had already arranged 139Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Haunted House Salesman 凶宅推销员 My name is Wang Hao, and I work at a real estate agency that only opens late at night. The boss is beautiful, but she's rarely around. My coworker is a creepy Taoist who drags me out every night at 2:30 to spy on the apartment across the street. There's also a little girl with purple hair who keeps throwing pink slippers at me. My job is to inspect haunted houses, because I can see those "things." I only wanted to save up enough to put my younger sister through school. That was until a thousa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Movie That Never Ends 放不完的电影 Movies Without End —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 You Were Supposed to Tell the Fortune-Teller’s Fortune, Not Calculate Her into a Coffin 让你给女神算命，你把她算进棺材 [Horror] [Hilarious] [Exorcism by Physical Force] [Occult Prayers] Our peaceful world hides strange, terrifying things that few people know about. At the request of his lovesick buddy, Feng Zi “accidentally” runs into a beautiful fortune-teller on an overpass, only to get slapped silly by the murderous aura rushing off her. “We were never meant to meet. It’s all because you paid extra.” After the goddess lavishly showers him with money, he takes his first-generation weapon, “Big Baby,” and charg —Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 35 This Is the Age of Ghosts 这是鬼的时代 I'm a complete newcomer, so please be kind! This is a special shop in a special world. And this special shop has a special owner. This is the story of the owner's life in a very special line of work. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Heir to the Ghostly Way 鬼道传人 The art of ghostcraft bridges the worlds of yin and yang, drawing upon every school of magic. Lin Ziqin was born with a short-lived fate and had a knack for attracting ghosts from childhood. Fortunately, a master saved him, and he became an heir to the art of ghostcraft. After completing his training, he returns to capture vengeful spirits and banish evil. With beautiful women by his side, he roams the campus and the city, crossing between the realms of the living and the dead, all to defy fate 711Reads5.6Score11014d adds
- 37 The Ultimate Supernatural Horror: The Ghost Card Train 终极灵异：鬼牌列车 [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [No Female Lead] + [No Sanctimonious Hero] + [No Mindless Decisions] Ghosts cannot be killed. Every ghost has its own unique rules for killing. Every card represents a vengeful ghost. Find a way to control the ghosts and escape the supernatural incidents. An old, eerie train stained with blood runs toward a terrifying supernatural realm. Where is the train’s final stop? No one knows. Or rather, no one has ever made it to the final stop. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 528Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 41 The Eerie Coffin Bearers 诡抬棺 Nine peaks, a sea of blood, mountains of bones... Murderous danger lurks everywhere. Every step is fraught with peril, and I never know how much longer I'll survive. It wasn't until I deciphered the nursery rhyme I'd heard when I became someone's disciple that I uncovered a shocking secret... 63Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 42 Usurping Heaven's Mandate 篡天命 The arts of the Dao often say, “Fate can be known, but not changed; calamities can be calculated, but not avoided.” Yet when my grandpa passed down three ghost coins to me, he told me there was another kind of person in this world, someone who could toy with destiny as if it were in the palm of their hand. I’m one of those people who gamble with life: I gamble with other people’s lives, and with my own. But if you want to gamble with Heaven, you have to find a coffin first... 534Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 43 The Maoshan Taoist 茅山道士 There are many things in this world that are unknown to most people. Five hundred years ago, hordes of ghosts and monsters roamed near the Kunlun Mountains. They fed on the spiritual qi generated by the Kunlun Dragon Vein and grew powerful enough to wreak havoc on the human world. For reasons unknown, the Nine Hells shattered, leaving the souls of humans and other living beings with nowhere to go after death. They gathered at the Kunlun Mountains, where they absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven a 20Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 44 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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, 1.5kReads8.6Score15614d adds
- 46 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村奇闻怪谈录 In remote villages, there are countless stories unknown to the outside world. My name is Li Yan, and I was born in a secluded rural village. I grew up by my grandmother’s side. She was the village’s famous spirit medium, and from childhood I heard all sorts of strange tales and strange happenings from her. I’m sharing them with everyone here. 6.7kReads8.7Score14814d adds
- 47 I Sign Contracts with Demonic Beasts to Extend Their Lives in Strange Cases 我在诡案里签妖兽续命 [Unsolved Mysteries + Demonic Beasts + Mild Horror + Episodic Stories + No Romance] When I was on the brink of death after a car accident, I unexpectedly activated the Demon Beast-Seeking System. To stay alive, I was forced to travel around making contracts with demonic beasts. From then on, I could see the lingering memories of the dead, as well as the [qi] surrounding the living. Police officers were wreathed in gray qi around the chest, while black qi churned above celebrities' brows... I kep 348Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 48 The Heaven-Chosen Paper Effigy Maker 天命扎纸人 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate virtue, and fifth, study. Sixth, choose a spouse; seventh, choose a career; eighth, make friends with people of influence; ninth, practice good health. Those who work with yin and yang make their living by reading fate, but they are doomed to three deficiencies and five afflictions, with life and death impossible to predict. With nothing but the craft of making paper effigies, they guide countless wandering souls and spirits to t 349Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Rule Horror: I'm an NPC, and I'm Going Crazy Again Today 规则怪谈：我NPC，今天也发疯 Others enter Rule Horror scenarios to survive. I got sucked in as an NPC, and the System even forces me to go crazy. If I don’t, I die. Fine, then I’ll go crazy for everyone to see. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Tales of Western Hunan 湘西往事录 Strike the gong to announce the spirits, ring the bell to summon their souls. Dressed in Taoist robes, the corpse driver of western Hunan. The dead are on the move. The living, stand aside. A crescent moon shines on blue robes, a river of stars stretches across the low sky. The mournful gong clears the way, ghostly shadows speak of western Hunan. Silver bells softly summon souls, coins pave the road and drive the spirits away. Every household shuts its doors tight, the living keep away as deathl 4Reads—Score—14d adds
