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- 101 Born with an Evil Bone, the Yin-Calling Girl from the Northeast Is Forced to Become a Medium 天生邪骨，东北招阴女被迫出马 Have you ever eaten the ashes left after burning paper offerings for the dead? Do you love the smell of paper offerings burning? Are you like me, never finding the smoke irritating whenever you catch the smell of burning paper? Instead, I find an indescribable charred fragrance hidden in the burnt paper money, mixed with the earthy smell of soil. Then the night breeze carries it past… Whenever I come across that scent, I can’t help taking a few extra sniffs. In fact, every time I smell it, I fee 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Spirit Medium’s Journal: Strange Encounters on the Job 出马实录：我出马遇到的邪乎事儿 [Feng Shui and the Eight Trigrams + folk arcane arts + sorcery + Qimen Dunjia] I was born in a small county in Northeast China. My ancestors hunted fox spirits, killed yellow spirits, and soaked snakes in liquor. Our family also had a whole spirit retinue, so I was born destined to make my living this way. It was fate, so I went along with it and became a spiritual medium. Along the way, I encountered all kinds of bizarre, horrifying, and downright eerie events. [This story is adapted from real 32.4kReads8.8Score2.8kShelves
- 103 The Years of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子的时光 Everything that happens in this book is based on my own real experiences, with a touch of fantasy added! There's some popular science in here, too! I hope you enjoy it! 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 The Yin Fourth Gate 阴四门 [One heroine + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium] (Adapted into an audio IP) Prequel to "A One-Stop Funeral Service, with Cyber Immortals by My Side" (It’s perfectly normal for a funeral officiant like me to summon immortals, right?). The Yin Four Trades: an occupation that lives entirely off the dead. What would happen if the strongest spirit medium within thousands of miles joined one of the Yin Four Trades… 824Reads8.6Score150Shelves
- 105 Come In and Knock: The Parasitic Spirit Arc 进来敲门——寄生灵篇 Come In and Knock: The Parasite Spirit Arc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 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 844Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 107 The Horse-Riding Disciple Still Lives Today 出马弟子今犹在 If you live in Northeast China, you've surely heard tales of the chuma xian. What exactly are the yellow weasels asking for when they beg to be granted a title? Are the Five Great Immortal Families the Fox, Yellow Weasel, Chang, Python, and Qingfeng spirits, or the Fox, Yellow Weasel, White, Willow, and Gray spirits? What can spirit mediums do, and what must they never do? Will the spirits be punished if they do something wrong? As it happens, my older sister is a spirit medium who has establish 6.4kReads9.3Score644Shelves
- 108 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 793Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 109 The Spirit Medium's Road: My Adventures with the Old Immortal 出马仙，我跟老仙的江湖路 A disciple of the spirit mediums of Ghost Street, in his tenth year practicing the art. His greatest wish at first was to become the biggest local thug. He never expected to become a spirit medium, and only after taking it up did he discover that people in this line of work are worse than gangsters. What kind of person you are determines what kind of spirit you get, and the spirits follow their hosts. Zhao Zhengyang’s spirit companions are all like slick socialites in leather shoes. Then he runs 3.4kReads8.2Score392Shelves
- 110 Get Up, Nobody Sleep! I'm Holding a Meeting for Ghosts! 起来都别睡，我给鬼开个会！ [Traditional]+ [Supernatural]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No CP]+ [No Cultivation] The animated comic Huang Daxian's Odd Jobs: My Host Is All Talk is now online. When Li Zhengyang was little, he went with his father to visit relatives. They were driving home at midnight when their car inexplicably stalled three times as they passed a graveyard. His relatives had plied him with liquor, but Li Zhengyang was fearless as a newborn calf. He got out of the car and yelled curses at the nearby mounds 6.7kReads8.3Score535Shelves
- 111 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 I Take the Immortals to Another World 我带仙家闯异界 You know about the spirit mediums of Northeast China, but have you ever heard of one from another world? I’m Li Jiuxuan. I don’t know what day I was born, because I have no parents. Granny Li, the village’s spirit medium, found me and raised me... 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Life of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 顶香出马弟子的人生 The life of a spirit-medium disciple, recounting how I established my altar and became a spirit medium, as well as how I took a Taoist priest as my master! Everything is based on real experiences and factual explanations, with no fantasy or cultivation elements whatsoever! 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 My Years as a Spirit Medium's Apprentice 我当出马弟子那几年 Hello, everyone. I'm a spirit medium from Shandong. The main reason I'm writing this book is, first, to record my experiences. Whether it becomes popular or not, I want to preserve my memories and my life story! Second, I hope the book will help people understand spirit mediumship. In recent years, certain people with bad intentions have given it a terrible reputation. So I'm writing about my own experiences to help clear its name! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 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
- 116 The Spirit Medium Qing Xuan 出马仙清玄 A strip of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people and horses, the old hall's immortal. Whip the horse down the mountain, and make your name known throughout the land. I was born in 1990 in an ordinary village in a northeastern province. When I was three, a great deity said I would one day take up the incense and become a spirit medium. I didn't believe in fate, but in the end, I did become one. Over the years, I've worked as a chef, served as a leader, and entered the 1.1kReads7.2Score103Shelves
- 117 My Wife Is the Asura King 我的老婆是修罗王 Enter a ghost marriage, command a hundred ghosts, recruit ten thousand immortals, return to Yuxu... A new disciple’s “Madman’s Diary” 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Memoirs of a Spirit-Medium Taoist 出马道士回忆录 First establish a spirit-medium altar, then head to Bayu to study the ritual arts. A Qingwei disciple, holding the rank of Dujiao, with a white crane in his cave. A book of real experiences, true stories, and popular science! Everything in this book comes from my own real experiences and true stories! This book only covers things that really happened. It contains no fantasy or cultivation tales! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Summoning the Immortals 招仙 A successor to the Corpse-Measuring tradition, the Ma Immortals return! The Ma family’s disciples can divine fortune and misfortune and ward off evil. Wave the spirit-summoning banner, and the immortals will gather; lower the Immortal-Suppressing Seal, and every demon will be destroyed! I died for three days, then came back to life. From that moment on, I experienced a series of untold stories... 747Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 120 The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童 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
- 121 My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年 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
- 122 Celestial Official of the Corpse-Subduing Sect 镇尸天官 The unfathomable mystery of immortality, horrifying strange happenings in a mountain village, a mysterious ancient tomb buried deep beneath the earth, and ancient legends from the barren wilderness... None of it should have had anything to do with me. But after my grandfather's bizarre death, I could no longer escape my fate and was dragged into this endless conspiracy... 461Reads7.3Score102Shelves
- 123 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 107Reads—Score121Shelves
- 124 Records of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子记实录 I’ll share little bits of knowledge and general-interest facts from time to time, along with some experience for anyone who’s unsure or feeling lost. Updates are irregular. Use your own judgment, and trust in science! 5.5kReads8.6Score374Shelves
- 125 The Fox's Seduction 狐诱 Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone! 617Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 126 The Life of a Spirit Medium’s Disciple 出马弟子的人生 A novel about real experiences and nothing but facts, centered on the real practice of spirit-mediumship! I hope you enjoy it! No fantasy power trips or immortal cultivation: every bit of it is based on real experiences! 271Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 127 The Rise of Spirit Mediums in Northeast China 东北顶香风云 [No heroine + occasional humor + supernatural + xuanhuan + brotherhood + sisterhood] There sure are plenty of weird things in the Northeast! Let me tell you about it. I, Xue Lin, traveled far and wide with the spirit immortals. I helped a coal mine owner find missing miners and battled vengeful ghosts in a burial ground. I broke a formation for the richest man in Wende and stuffed a troublemaking fox spirit into a gourd. I've seen how hard it is to fathom people's hearts, faced ghosts claiming l 706Reads8.0Score106Shelves
- 128 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 633Reads8.1Score136Shelves
- 129 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 243Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 130 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. 3.1kReads8.6Score337Shelves
- 131 Raising a Fox as My Wife II 养狐为妻Ⅱ I am a jinx, born under an ill omen. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged an extraordinary betrothal for me when I was a child… 293Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 132 My Years Running a Spirit Hall in Liaoning 我在辽宁领堂口的那些年 When I was three, a Huang spirit knocked my soul loose, and by chance I became sworn brothers with another Huang spirit. A Ghost King let something slip by accident, and following the clues, I learned that this Huang spirit was actually a golden-armored deity. It was only when the Living Buddha of Haitang Mountain appeared that I discovered I had two souls in one body. The arrival of my wife from a past life gradually awakened my sealed memories. Atop Mount Tai, the majestic and magnificent scen 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Shamanic Tales: Strange Folk Stories and Supernatural Tales from Northeast China 出马仙之民间诡事，东北灵异故事 [Traditional supernatural horror] Some strange happenings my second uncle experienced when he was sent to the countryside as a young man Which is truly more terrifying, ghosts and gods or the human heart? A night spent seeking shelter at a temple brings vengeful spirits to the door. A son gathers herbs to cure his father, only to cause his death. Children from the same clan die one after another under bizarre circumstances. The Snake Immortal storms into the hall with a blade in hand, seeking on 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we 1kReads9.1Score170Shelves
- 135 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 215Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 136 Entering the Dao with Immortal Guidance 带着仙家入道 I started out as a disciple of a top incense master, then met a wise teacher and became a young Taoist disciple. This book consists entirely of popular science and real-life experiences, and it also contains plenty of tips on how to avoid scams! Nothing is made up, and this is not a power fantasy about cultivating immortality. Your support is greatly appreciated! 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Mr. Xiao Wang 小王先生 My mother held on for several extra hours while giving birth to me, just so I wouldn’t be born on the date the fortune-teller had predicted. Haunted by evil spirits! Delivering winter clothes to the dead! Wandering ghosts! Why does everyone come to me for everything? Incense roots? Fate? Five-colored cloth? These mysterious trades all depend on intuition! Granny Bai says I have a spiritual gift and a knack for opening the senses. Aunt Yang says I have all three kinds of affinity. But I never tho 13.5kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
- 138 That Guy Is Both a Northern Shaman and a Southern Taoist 那家伙既是北马又是南茅 Join the Old Immortal in gathering merit and spreading blessings across the land! Anyone with a “little circle” on them is there to help others. This is a little master who is both rather laid-back and a bit of a slacker, “part Taoist, part Marxist,” and specializes in helping people solve their problems and helping the Old Immortal accumulate merit! He’s also an expert at exposing fakes! Ha, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that! 725Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 139 My Spirit Fox Immortal Wife 灵狐仙妻 [Spirit Fox + Immortal Lord Mentor + Spirit Medium + Sweet Romance] [This novel is complete] The day I was born, the sky was thick with dark clouds, and lightning flashed and thunder roared, but not a drop of rain fell. The moment I came into the world, a blood-red moon suddenly appeared in the sky. When the blood moon rises, monsters are born! From then on, my family treated me as a monster. Years later, after I started working, I learned that Grandma didn’t have long to live. Before she died, 162Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 140 Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻 After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path. 11.3kReads8.5Score2kShelves
- 141 The Dragon King’s Embryo 龙王胎 In 1934, my grandmother witnessed a strange dragon-fall incident with her own eyes... Many years later, scales began to grow on my body. Worse still, I somehow became pregnant with a monster! I lead troops, run an incense hall, and carry out the rituals. I'm a female shaman, and my husband is the Dragon King! 328Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 142 Yellow Springs Medical Hall 黄泉医馆 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, ghosts roam at night and the living must keep away. Yet on Linjiang Road, an unremarkable clinic stands with all four doors wide open, inviting every kind of visitor. Above the eaves hangs a gilded plaque bearing four large characters: “Yellow Springs Clinic.” 534Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 143 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 80Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 144 From the Start: My Extreme Yin Sacred Body Awakens, Shocking Everyone 开局：极阴圣体启动，震惊所有人 [Plot twists + one heroine + suspense and horror + decisive killing + brotherhood] My name is Jiang Daotian. I was born on Ghost Festival, and I’ve been frail and sickly since childhood. When I was five, I became seriously ill, and major hospitals issued notices that I was in critical condition. My parents had plenty of connections and sought out many Taoist priests and immortal masters. But after looking at my birth details and fate, every one of them furrowed their brows and reached the same c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊 A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle? 298Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 146 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master: I Wield the Art of Qimen Dunjia 斩龙天师：我身怀奇门遁甲术 On the day I was born, a dragon skeleton was unearthed beneath our ancestral home. My grandfather said I was the dragon reincarnated, and that I would live no longer than twenty years. To stay alive, I became the last Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master in the world. 3.1kReads8.8Score234Shelves
- 148 My Tsundere Fox Wife 傲娇狐妻 My uncle told me that if I raised a fox well, I'd have no trouble finding a good wife. But before I could even make my fortune, a long-tailed bride came knocking at my door... 216Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 149 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生！ I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I 8.8kReads9.4Score692Shelves
- 150 Don't Move! I've Got Connections in the Underworld 别动！姐地府有人 The continuation of Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma: filling in the gaps from before, meeting the people who came afterward, and briefly recording the everyday happenings that followed. It also teaches a few simple things that you can put into practice. 745Reads8.9Score101Shelves
