Novels like Calling on the Immortals
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- 101 A Snake's Many Pregnancies 蛇孕连连 My ancestors killed countless snakes, and generations of my family have had snake blood on their hands. A passing Taoist priest said we would have to pay for those blood debts. A fire burned my father to death. As I was collecting his remains, a snake on his body bit me. The village chief said it was a subterranean dragon snake from Hell, come to claim my life, and that I had less than three months to live. I refused to believe it, until one day a handsome young man came and insisted on marrying 79Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 102 The Spirit Medium's Revelation 出马仙启示录 I’m a shamanic practitioner from Northeast China, also known as a great immortal. These days, so many people get scammed and end up buried in debt, then go mad. It really worries me, though I also think they’re foolish. I’ll share my own experiences and stories from fellow practitioners to talk about Northeast China’s shamanic tradition, and warn people not to get scammed. (For special reasons, I can’t be too direct with ordinary readers, so I’ll express things obliquely.) 6Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 103 Bone Flute 骨笛 My grandmother was a famous spirit medium throughout the surrounding villages. I was a child she picked up and brought home. People in the village said that on the night she carried me home, flutes sounded throughout the village until dawn. The next day, every peach tree in the village had withered. They called me an ill omen, but my grandmother always treated me well, and life went on quietly like that, until the day I turned sixteen. Then everything changed. 1.3kReads9.0Score12714d adds
- 104 I Run a Spirit Hall in Henan 我在河南领堂口 I cultivated my character deep in the mountains, then emerged from an ancient cave to make my name across the land. Who says the Hu and Huang spirits never cross the Shanhai Pass? That rule is long gone. When I was in college, the spirits enshrined in my family's ancestral hall sought out my mother. But illness kept her from becoming a spirit medium, so the whole spirit retinue eventually came to me. After enduring countless hardships, I was forced onto the path of a spirit medium. A true accoun 449Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 105 The Hundred-Ghost Storyteller 百诡传人 To solve the mystery of the Seventy-Two Ghost Mounds, Yang Tianming descends the mountain with the Hundred Ghosts Register, ventures into the city, and meets beautiful women. He rescues a Corpse Sister, practices forbidden arts, and guides wandering spirits to the afterlife. With the Soul-Whipping Whip in hand and the Hundred Ghosts Register at his side, when the Dragon Soul returns to his body, he won’t be alone! 74Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 106 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 The Dragon King’s Most Yin Bride 龙王大人的至阴新娘 I was born with an extremely yin nature, and the village shaman found me in a graveyard. I was frail and sickly from childhood. To keep me safe, my grandmother, the shaman, made a blood pact with a fox spirit, but the pact backfired and left her gravely injured because of me. Just as I was at a loss for what to do, a man who could transform into a Azure Dragon appeared. He claimed we had been bound by fate for a long time, and he protected me from disaster, calling me his “little bride,” yet he 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 The Eerie Coffin in Deep Waters 深水诡棺 When I was ten, I fell into a well. Deep in the water was a coffin. After I saw it, I was plagued by nightmares and fell ill. My grandfather gave me a piece of deadwood to protect my life, and I miraculously recovered! From then on, strange and supernatural events followed one after another, and all kinds of mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas came after me! Even stranger, a mysterious neighbor moved in next door. He was fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged, with a mastery 191Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 111 The Fox-Fur Wedding Dress 狐皮嫁衣 “My Husband Is the Wolf King” ❤️ In July 1928, my great-grandfather, driven mad by greed, stole a priceless luminous pearl from the Eastern Qing Tombs. Then, when I was five, a white wolf latched onto me. He gouged out my eyes and stole all my other senses as well... [On Qingqiu Hill there lives a fox, its fur a wondrous sight. Skin it alive, then sew it into a rosy bridal cape. If I wear it, we shall share three lifetimes, never parted from you in any of them.] 208Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 112 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
- 113 My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府 I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble... 48Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 114 The Northern Horse Immortal Venerable 北马仙尊 [Supernatural]+ [Demons]+ [Immortals and Spirits] In Northeast China, there is a group of extraordinary people. Because of their own origins and family ties, they are chosen by spiritual beings cultivating deep in the mountains. From then on, their fates change, and they are destined to follow an extraordinary path. They often walk between the worlds of yin and yang, resolving people's troubles in exchange for nothing more than an honest fee. The world calls them spirit mediums. Those who serve 1.1kReads7.8Score10114d adds
- 115 The Yin Sovereign: The Fox Immortal Arrives 阴天子，狐仙驾到 I was born with an extraordinary destiny, meant to become an emperor. But just after I was born, someone tried to sabotage my fate. To save me, my grandfather gave away the merit accumulated by eighteen generations of our family, and risked his own life to defy the heavens and change my destiny... 5.5kReads7.4Score35114d adds
- 116 Even Evil Spirits Offer Me Cigarettes: I’m a Northeast Chinese Shaman 邪祟见我都递烟，我是东北出马仙 [Supernatural] + [Comedy] + [Ghost Hunting] + [No Female Lead] + [Folk Taboos] + [Not Invincible] + [No Cultivation] No specialist knowledge required; a collection of standalone stories. To support the temperamental Willow Immortal he worships at home, the spirit medium Zhao Dashun has scrubbed people’s backs at a bathhouse and set up a stall on an overpass. After capturing the Cat-Faced Granny, Zhao Dashun makes a name for himself in a single battle and sets out on the straight and narrow path 7.3kReads8.4Score75014d adds
- 117 My Husband Comes Knocking at Midnight 老公夜半来敲门 Out of curiosity, I picked up a banknote in a cemetery where people were paying respects to their ancestors. From then on, strange things began to happen... 52Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 118 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 My Lover Is a Wolf 我的爱人是头狼 On my twentieth birthday, my peaceful life was shattered by the sudden arrival of a mysterious man. My grandmother, who was a spirit medium, tried her hardest to set us up. He was unbelievably handsome, but I couldn’t even figure out whether he was human or a demon… It wasn’t until later that I learned I was the one with the complicated background, neither fully human nor ghost. After enduring one hardship after another, I finally made up my mind: I was going to marry the wolf husband who had si 40Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 120 Don't Mess With Snake Master 蛇爷不好惹 I died at birth because of a difficult delivery, but an ancient spirit snake that had cultivated for a thousand years saved me. I establish a spirit altar and help others cultivate immortality. With the ties between my past and present lives, can I overcome every trial and achieve true fulfillment? In this world of ghosts, demons, and immortals, where fame, fortune, beauty, and desire all hold sway, who will seize ultimate power and set the world to rights? 38Reads6.4Score414d adds
- 121 My Lifelong Devotion to You 倾我一生一世念 “She’s so happy, because the person she loves will love her again in her next life. I’m even happier, because the person I love already fell in love with me in my last life.” “I can wait ten years for you. I don’t mind waiting a hundred, a thousand, even ten thousand years.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 True Stories of Spirit Mediums in Northern Liaoning 辽北出马仙实录 A true story about a man who cultivated his mind and spirit deep in the mountains, then emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. It follows his transformation from an ordinary college student into a bona fide shamanic disciple, and offers some guidance to fellow cultivators still grappling with this destined path. I hope this lamp of mine will light the way ahead for everyone fate has brought here! A true story about shamans from Northeast China. Any resemblance t 578Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 123 The Jealous Snake Lord Is Brutal and Obsessive, Yet He Spoils His Wife Without Limit 醋王蛇君暴戾偏执却宠妻无度 Also known as: The Snake Bride. Devoted couple + sweet romance + light supernatural elements. I was born in a cursed village. The year I was born, my grandfather killed a snake matriarch, and our whole family was relentlessly hounded for revenge. I fled the village with a bracelet passed down through my family. When I returned to the village years later, I met a giant white snake. He was desperate to keep me by his side. To outsiders, he was a vicious demon, but he spoiled me in every way. To ot 301Reads9.1Score10214d adds
- 124 The King of the Underworld's Beloved 地府鬼君的心尖宠 [Sweet romance, 1v1, adored by everyone, supernatural, strong heroine] Also known as “I Run an Inn in the Underworld.” The general manager of the Afterlife Inn is a troublemaker across all three realms, so infamous that even the King of Hell would rather avoid her. She often sends the Underworld gifts like arson and missing-person cases, leaving everyone on edge. One day, the seal on the netherworld weakened. Someone who should have been reduced to ashes a thousand years ago came stumbling out 66Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 125 Nine Serpents Carry the Coffin 九蛇抬棺 When I was born, my father cut off several snakes with a knife. Ever since then, I’ve often dreamed at night of a huge black snake coiling around me, squeezing the breath from my lungs as if it were taking revenge. On my eighteenth birthday, the villagers tied me up and sent me to the mountain behind the village… 86Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 126 Sacrificed to the Mad Underworld King, I Somehow Have to Write Every Day? 被献祭给疯批冥王他竟然每天让我写作？ I Was Sacrificed to a Deranged King of the Underworld, and He Makes Me Write Every Day? 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Is It Too Much for a Fortune Teller Like Me to Know a Little Yin-Yang Magic? 我一个算命的会点阴阳术不过分吧 [Maoshan Arts + Ghost Hunting + Face Reading + Powerful Connections + Walking Between the Yin and Yang Worlds + Team] Zhao Yang's grandfather made him study three books from a young age: the Zhouyi, the Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy, and a third book with no cover, whose contents were handwritten. After his grandfather passed away, Zhao Yang inherited his mantle. But now that cremation was the norm, all he could do was read people's feng shui, barely earning enough to get by. Just as he was thinking 318Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 A Young Northeastern Spirit Medium 东北出马小先生 Gao Yunfei, the protagonist, was born in Changchun, Jilin, in Northeast China. He graduated from Jilin Institute of Physical Education with a degree in traditional ethnic sports. After college, he taught martial arts and mixed martial arts at a boxing gym. Then, by a twist of fate, he took up his family's ancestral incense tradition and became a spirit medium. Able to communicate with spirits, he moves between the realms of yin and yang, becoming a medium from Northeast China who helps people av 152Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 291Reads—Score1014d adds
- 130 My Wife, the King of the Underworld: My Husband Is a Little Crazy 冥王妻：我家夫君有点疯 (Mystery + Supernatural + Sweet romance + Mysterious love story) I’m an actor in a folk performance at a scenic attraction. Every night, my partner and I take part in a parade called “The Underworld King Takes a Bride.” But on one fateful night, the person I married turned out to be the real Underworld King... He’s cold, domineering, and unpredictable. My once peaceful life has been thrown into turmoil ever since he came into it... 489Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 131 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 177Reads9.2Score10214d adds
- 132 The Fox Bride 狐嫁 Ye Zier is a half-yin person, born with a tendency to attract evil spirits. After finally getting married to her boyfriend, she’s kidnapped along the way by a fox spirit who insists on having little foxes with her. What is she supposed to do? 357Reads9.1Score10014d adds
- 133 The Underworld King's Beloved Consort 冥王殿下的宠妃 I went back to my hometown with my boyfriend of one year, never imagining he'd offer me up as a sacrifice. When I opened my eyes again, I had become the wife of the King of the Underworld. This handsome, supreme Lord of the Underworld threatened to strangle me at the drop of a hat. He pressed his thin lips together. “Just obey me, and I'll protect you for the rest of your life.” When I tried to get away from him, I ran into a snow monster while making my escape. Just when I thought I was about t 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 A Thousand-Year Contract: The Underworld King Comes Calling 契约千年：冥王老公找上门 He was born on the day of the Ghost Festival. His parents died when he was young, leaving him to depend on his grandfather. From childhood, Chen Qing'an had a pair of unusual eyes that let him discern yin from yang and see ghosts and monsters. On the day his grandfather died, a red moon hung in the sky. To free themselves from misfortune, the villagers offered him as a sacrifice to the “Ghost King.” But the one they summoned was none other than Jun Xuanxiao, the formidable King of the Underworld 110Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 135 Taboos of the Dead 阴人禁忌 I was born in a graveyard and supposedly caused my birth mother’s death. As soon as I was born, the village’s old fraud of a fortune-teller took me away… 185Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 136 Help! I'm the King of the Underworld's One True Love 救命！我竟是冥王的白月光 [Supernatural mystery, lighthearted comedy] On the night of the Ghost Festival “Y-You... who are you, exactly? Are you human? Or a ghost? Y-You saved me, so you... you must be a good ghost, right?” Xi Zhuo replied in a ghostly voice, “Madam, don’t you remember me?” Chen Nianqiao screamed in terror. “Who’s your wife?! You still haven’t answered my question! Where’s my best friend, Hu Xiaoqian? Did you eat her or something?” Xi Zhuo ignored Nianqiao’s questions. He simply declared, “I am your husb 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 The White Dragon Horse Medium 白龙出马仙 Break through seven trials, meet with sudden disaster, make a blood sacrifice of an infant, refine corpse oil. One by one, long-lost secret arts resurface, and strange, mysterious events begin unfolding throughout my journey... That lantern made of human skin holds captive the youth I can never return to. 1.1kReads9.1Score10014d adds
- 138 My Fox Immortal 我的狐仙大人 I was frail and sickly from childhood. When I was three, someone put a white jade bangle on my wrist. The fortune-teller at the village entrance said that the day it came off would be the day I died. On my twentieth birthday, my mother suddenly called me back to our hometown for some kind of coming-of-age ceremony. At midnight, paper money began drifting outside. A strange man gripped my wrist and said, “It’s time for you to repay your debt.” 572Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 139 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 140 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 355Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 141 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 142 The River God's Bride 河神新娘 A sacrificial rite brings the young girl Chu Xiyan together with the River God, setting in motion a deeply moving love story. They save one another and help each other become whole, enduring the tangled joys and sorrows of love and hate... 171Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 143 After Coming of Age, I Became the Snake Lord’s Most Beloved 成年后，我成了蛇君大人的心头肉 People from Northeast China don’t eat wild animals. The big ones are too strong to beat, and the little ones are all spirits! But my great-great-grandfather refused to believe it and caught a giant snake. From then on, strange things kept happening to the Shen family for generations. Then, when I turned eighteen, I learned firsthand what it meant to pay for his actions… 440Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 144 The Snake-Skin Wedding Dress 蛇皮嫁衣 When I was three, burns covered my body and my life hung by a thread. My grandmother saved me by peeling off a snake’s skin. From then on, I had an invisible ghost husband by my side... He said he had given me my life, and that since I had worn his snakeskin wedding dress, I belonged to him. If I dared so much as interact with another man, he would punish me harshly and kill my entire family. I carefully made it to the age of twenty, but still broke the taboo! An old Taoist priest came to the vi 606Reads8.9Score10214d adds
- 145 The Female Spirit Medium 女出马仙 We read the fortunes of the dead and the living, settle debts with aggrieved spirits, and handle lost souls, hysteria, and demonic possession! If it’s anything out of the ordinary, there’s nothing our shamanic spirit medium, Wu Mei, can’t handle! Jealous colleagues come by to challenge us? No problem. We have powerful connections up above... Lord Tu Tanyue, emperor of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox Clan and so handsome he has no rivals, spoils his wife without limit. His half-fox spirit medium brid 841Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 146 The Yama King's Wife: Living Sacrifice 阎王妻：活祭 Every five years, the village offers a living person as a sacrifice to the gods. It has to be an unmarried young woman who is still pure. The year I turned seventeen, the Heavenly God chose me as the sacrifice... 60Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 147 The Serpent’s Curse 蛇咒 The day I was born, my grandparents were skinned alive. Every branch around us was crawling with writhing, jubilant snakes. They said I would be next. To stay alive, I had no choice but to give myself to him. The secrets of the blood-stained garment and the snake curse became the things I most wanted to uncover. I thought I existed only to help him forge the blood garment, but when life and death hung in the balance, he held me tight. “Song Youyou, you will always be mine!” 134Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 148 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 149 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满：炸翻阴阳界 Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—14d adds
