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- 51 I’m a Corpse-Driving Empress from the Start, and the School Belle Found Out 开局赶尸女帝，被校花发现了 Chen Tianxiu transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has been revived for a thousand years. Everyone in this world can cultivate and become a warrior. The strongest can even fly through the skies, tunnel beneath the earth, move mountains, and overturn seas, becoming like gods! Then he awakens the Divine Corpse-Wrangling System. Every successful corpse-wrangling earns him various rewards. He can even abandon martial arts and pursue immortality! His first target is the Empress Qianqiu, who v 3.3kReads8.7Score23614d adds
- 52 A Corpse Driver Seeks Justice for the Dead, Then Gets Exposed by a Streamer! 赶尸人为亡者申冤！被主播曝光！ Zuo Qian becomes a corpse driver and takes on commissioned jobs “Thirty years ago, a magnitude-nine earthquake struck Zhongnan City. Aid poured in from every direction! But the supply truck driven by volunteer Zeng Xiao vanished without a trace!” The livestream camera focuses on an elderly couple. Reporter: “What do you think about your son selling off life-saving supplies?” The old man says angrily, “He didn't! He never sold them!” The reporter sneers, “Really? Then let's hear it from him i 397Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 53 A Cross-Dressing Corpse Driver Exposed on Xiaomei’s Livestream! 女装赶尸，被呆小妹直播曝光了！ [Exposure-style + Dai Xiaomei fan fiction + corpse-driving + campus + comedy + plot twists] A string of bizarre murders occurs in the girls' restroom at school. The victims strangle themselves or drown in washbasins! The corpses weigh as much as mountains and cannot be moved. Then Su Xu unexpectedly gets the Corpse-Driving System, triggering a mission that requires him to drive corpses while dressed as a woman! “Three hun and seven po, return to your senses and reverse the infant soul. Three hun 265Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 54 I Am a Maoshan Corpse Driver 我是茅山赶尸人 Gu Yuan transmigrates into a zombie world overrun by demons and zombies, and accidentally binds himself to a Celestial Master System. Thus begins his journey in another world as an amateur corpse-handler. Uncle Jiu: “Xiao Yuan, you have an excellent build and remarkable talent. Would you like to become my disciple?” Shi Jian: “You can use Lightning and Thunder Fist too? Dare to test your skills against me… Gu Yuan, I was wrong. Please go easy on me.” Gu Yuan: “Miss, would you care to play Pai Go 274Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 55 Tomb Raiding: I Became a Corpse-Driving Master 盗墓：我成了赶尸匠 Ye Yun discovers that he has been chosen by the Corpse-Driving System. He starts out at an ancestral hall in western Hunan, travels through one world after another, and wins great renown for the corpse-driving tradition. “The six-winged centipede in western Hunan? I already killed it, and now its corpse is my mount!” “I’ve already opened the Bronze Gate. The ultimate secret is about to be revealed.” “These nine dragon corpses, and that bronze coffin: once I claim them, I should become even stron 23Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 56 I Visited the Wrong Grave, and Now the Female Ghost Wants to Come Home with Me 上错坟，女鬼竟要跟着我回家 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 57 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 712Reads8.3Score10314d adds
- 58 I Study Music, So Why Am I Making Funeral Music? 我学音乐，让我搞阴乐 (System + supernatural + eerie + no romantic pairing) (Many settings in this story are fictional. Please don't connect them to real life. This is not a pure power fantasy.) Jiang Chen was a music student who couldn't find a job after graduating. Hoping to make money through livestreaming, he streamed for half a year without gaining any traction. One day, his mother suddenly dragged him to a funeral to play the suona for someone, and he unexpectedly activated the Yin-Yang System. At the funeral, 2.6kReads8.6Score19714d adds
- 59 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
- 60 Paper Effigy Maker: From the Start, I Summoned a Hundred Ghosts! 扎纸匠：开局扎出百鬼夜行！ Su Changsheng transmigrates to Blue Star, where horror is on the rise, inherits a funeral shop, and obtains a divine paper effigy System. With only an illustrated guide, Su Changsheng can craft the corresponding ghosts and gods of the underworld. Craft ghost soldiers and ghost generals: a procession of a hundred ghosts, ghost troops crossing the land! Craft Black and White Impermanence: seize souls and punish evil spirits! Craft the Ten Great Judges: distinguish good from evil and decide who liv 8Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 61 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Twenty-three years ago, his father died under mysterious circumstances. His skin was hung from the old locust tree at the entrance to the village. Twenty-three years later, the eldest brother who had been given away as a child returned. His banner read: Corpse Retriever. 3.2kReads8.3Score48014d adds
- 62 I Couldn't Afford College, So I Inherited My Grandpa's Underworld 没钱上大学的我，继承了爷爷的地府 Ghostly energy returns, and evil spirits rule the land! Chen Qing transmigrates into this world, studies hard, and hopes knowledge will change his fate. But just when he finally gets into a top university, his grandfather tells him the family has run out of money. With no other choice, he has to inherit the family business. Who would have thought that the family business his grandfather mentioned was an underworld government? Left with no choice, he gradually unseals the underworld. He oversees 598Reads8.1Score10214d adds
- 63 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, and Dango Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被团子曝光了 Shh, the corpse is rising! Keep quiet. The dead are on the move, so the living must stay clear! In ancient Xixiang, strange and terrifying things happen whenever night falls: white coffins, thousand-year-old corpses, and more! Under the moonlight, Jiang Chen shakes a soul-snaring bell in his left hand and holds a talisman to suppress evil in his right, controlling a stiff figure that hops along... 1.2kReads8.3Score10514d adds
- 64 Live Streaming Spirit Summoning: Beauty, Your Dad Wants to See You 直播招魂：美女你爸想见你 (No heroine, no System, no face-slapping, no showing off. A fellow reader put it well: Enjoy the wine while it’s here, and keep going despite every bump in the road.) “Do you have any regrets about your late husband? Is there something you never got to tell him?” “I want to tell him I’m sorry. The child wasn’t his.” “Anything else?” “What’s the PIN for the bank card? And where did you put the house deeds?” “Your late husband heard you. He says you can get lost.” 286Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 65 The Heavenly Master of Reverse Fortune 逆运天师 [Originally titled The Reversed-Fate Celestial Master and Those Years of Helping Ghosts Harm People] [Multiple Female Leads] [Supernatural Evil Cultivation] [Controlling Paper Dolls, Consecrating Yin Compasses, Refining Copper-Coin Ghost Treasures, Making Corpse Puppets, Raising Ghosts, Practicing Yin Fiend Arts] [Cultivation Ranks: New Ghost - High-Grade Ghost - Yin Soldier (Yin Soldier Ghost Path) - Ghost King (Ghost King Evil Path) - Ghost General (Netherworld Ghost General) - Great Demon - F 2.5kReads8.1Score20314d adds
- 66 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score91514d adds
- 67 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 714Reads7.4Score10114d adds
- 68 Six-Year-Old Corpse Driver Wanders Onto a Show Set and Makes Boss Yang Cry 六岁赶尸误入节目组，吓哭杨老板 The new season of The Life We Long For premieres in a small border town in western Hunan. By the time the guests arrive, dusk has fallen. Yang Mi and the others sit leisurely in the courtyard, enjoying the evening breeze, while the regular guests, including Teacher Huang, are busy making dinner. Everything is so peaceful, until a sudden burst of ringing bells shatters the calm. As the livestream camera turns, the millions of viewers in the chat are stunned. “Holy crap!! Corpse-driving in western 2.7kReads6.8Score42914d adds
- 69 All You Goofballs, Stand Up and Pay Your Respects to the Daoist Master 全体逗比起立，拜见道长 Goofy + hilarious + absurd + System Yang Yi activated the Daoist Master System. He could earn rewards by developing his sect. But the disciples he recruited were all goofy gamers from Earth. And so, the whole world took on a different vibe! Uncle Jiu: “What? Yang Yi's disciples ascended to immortality when they were only at the Qi Refining stage?” Taoist Master Simu: “I can only invite our founding master to possess me, but Yang Yi's disciples can summon Thanos!” A demonic cultivator big shot: “ 225Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 70 I'm So Scary, I Make Vengeful Ghosts Cry 长得太凶，我把厉鬼吓哭了 Yang Xuan transmigrates into a world where demons and monsters have returned, and awakens the [Ultimate Ruthless Hero System]. Ding! You scared a brat so badly he wet himself. Ruthlessness +1! Ding! You reformed an evil spirit and led it to mend its ways. Ruthlessness +10! Ding! You unlocked the title “Demonically Ferocious”... Like a fiend god, he makes everyone flee and silences crying children wherever he goes! Then, in the middle of the night, he gets a phone call. The streamer girl downstai 332Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 71 Ferryman of the Underworld 黄泉摆渡客 My sister was abused to death by her husband. Even after she died, her resentment kept her from resting in peace. To help her find peace, I became a ferryman traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead. From then on, I strode between yin and yang as if walking atop a hanging coffin. The strong live, the weak die. I will be the one to decide who lives and who dies! 885Reads8.6Score11714d adds
- 72 The Maoshan Coffin-Sealer 茅山镇棺人 (Coffin sealing, corpse driving, tomb raiding, zombies, the supernatural) One sword and one talisman to slay evil, a Celestial Master's command to seal the coffin keeper! Zombies roam the remote wilderness, and deadly feng shui formations lurk in peril. Lin Xiaofeng, a Maoshan Celestial Master, descends the mountain and ultimately wins the heart of a beauty! 27kReads8.7Score1.5k14d adds
- 73 Spiritual Qi Revival: The Brawny Night Watchman 灵气复苏：莽夫打更人 A blood moon appeared a thousand years ago, and the gates of the underworld swung open. Martial artists, sword cultivators, imperial censors, and Taoist priests rushed into battle, one after another. With humanity on the brink, the Watchmen, who cultivated only their souls, descended the mountain, wielding soul-suppressing gongs in their left hands and soul-suppressing hammers in their right to pacify the chaotic age. At the end of the great war, billions of alien races offered themselves in sac 2kReads8.8Score18114d adds
- 74 I Keep Showing Up at Murder Scenes 我总出现在命案现场 [Shanghai's most shameless man + Underworld Judge + KPI + the Netherworld + supernatural events] I almost ended up in an incinerator, you know? When I came to, I somehow became a Judge of the Underworld in charge of guiding souls. From then on, I was saddled with an enormous burden of performance targets! So I was forced to go to all kinds of murder scenes to collect souls. That's why the public sees me as an omen of death, the police see me as a godsend, and the King of Hell sees me as a model 972Reads8.0Score14114d adds
- 75 The Campus Belle Robbed My Concubine's Tomb, So I Chose to Guard It! 校花盗我妃子墓，我选择守陵！ Over summer vacation, the world discovers the tomb of the Queen of Jingjue. To keep the secret of his immortality from being exposed, Qin Tian resolutely decides to guard the tomb during summer break. But this archaeological expedition is controlled by the Nine Gates, with the school beauty Huo Binglan leading the team! So the Mountain Movers, Ridge Unloaders, Nine Gates, Gold-Touchers, and ancient sects all enter the fray! Qin Tian: Rob the Queen of Jingjue's tomb? Wouldn't that expose my secre 1.1kReads6.6Score13314d adds
- 76 The Red Moon Returns: Sewing Up Corpses Makes Me Stronger 红月复苏：缝尸就变强 (The hottest feel-good power fantasy of 2022) (A brand-new profession: Corpse Stitcher) Ghosts roam the night beneath a blood-red moon; Each shattered corpse Is a resource that makes the Corpse Stitcher stronger. Three incense sticks burn, and the Rebirth Mantra ends; The human-bone abacus rings, and corpse stitching brings rewards. One day, a corpse speaks: “I’m calling your name. Do you dare answer?” Two streams of bloody tears run from Ying Ji’s eyes... Stitch human corpses, stitch ghost corp 2.8kReads8.8Score29714d adds
- 77 My Mom Died, and I Just Want to Go Home for a Meal 我妈死了，就想回家吃顿饭 My mom died, and all I wanted was to go home and have a meal. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Chronicles of the Kings 王者战纪 See how Wang Ze, an amnesiac, down-on-his-luck prince transmigrated to another world, saves the apocalypse, and becomes the strongest king. Manchester is a metropolis that can hold several hundred million people. With such a huge population density, it's only natural that there are buildings everywhere. It's a city with a staggering five hundred floors above ground and a hundred below. As for transportation, there are plenty of options: flying cars, airships, subways, brooms, all kinds of flying 1Reads—Score914d adds
- 79 The Sacred Emperor of War 斗战圣帝 A young man who can't find a job after graduating transmigrates to another world by chance. He has no golden finger, but by gathering cultivation resources from the droppings of exotic beasts, he makes a successful comeback and becomes a martial artist. In this other world, where everyone values martial prowess, he relies on his grit and social savvy to fight his way through every obstacle, eventually becoming a great emperor: the Battle Saint Emperor. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Me, Uncle Jiu's Junior Disciple: Divine Paper Figure Maker 我，九叔师弟：神级扎纸匠 Han Li transmigrates to a zombie world and joins Maoshan, only to nearly be killed by evil spirits. Just as he is on the brink of death, he awakens the Supreme Merit System and opens the beginner's gift pack, obtaining divine paper-figure crafting skills! From then on, he embarks on the supreme path of a Celestial Master, slaying demons and vanquishing ghosts! 6kReads7.7Score37114d adds
- 81 Xuanhuan: All My Ghost Wardens Are Players from Earth 玄幻：我的鬼差全是地球玩家 [Lord of the Underworld + underworld enforcers + Fourth Calamity + System + comedy + wild imagination] Zhang Muzhi transmigrates to a fantasy world and, from the start, awakens the Underworld System: an underworld with not a single ghost in it. Can't summon people in a fantasy world? No problem. I'll recruit players from Earth to work for me as underworld enforcers. At that moment, the players, known as the Fourth Calamity for being immortal and indestructible, descend en masse upon the fantasy 161Reads7.1Score4614d adds
- 82 The Wife’s Coffin Smoke 妻棺烟 The Wife's Coffin Smoke 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 83 I Brought the Underworld into the World of the Living 我带着冥界，降临现实 Zhang Shuo transmigrated to a parallel world and obtained a Netherworld System. As long as he made other people feel afraid, he could earn Fear Points. He could use Fear Points to exchange for all kinds of ghosts and monsters, Ghost Kings, the King of Hell, and even the Great Emperor of the Netherworld! You want to play the pen fairy game? Fine, I'll make your wish come true. You want to ride a haunted bus? Fine, I'll show you what a ghost looks like. You want to go to the abandoned factory? I'd 402Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 84 The Corpse-Driving Inn: Taking the Iron Triangle on a Corpse-Driving Run 赶尸客栈，带着铁三角去赶尸 Qin Feng transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world, intending to explore tombs, but accidentally activates the Corpse-Driving Inn System. Just as the ten-year agreement comes to an end, the Iron Triangle reunites. Qin Feng decides to take the Iron Triangle corpse-driving! Fatty: "Hey, Third Master? Got a tomb job? Forget that, why raid tombs when driving corpses is so much better?" Wu Xie: "Making paper effigies is an art, especially when you're making women!" Xiao Ge: "I don't know those guys. I 1.8kReads8.5Score23214d adds
- 85 I Went on a Blind Date, and My Identity as a Yellow River Corpse Retriever Was Exposed 去相亲，黄河捞尸人身份曝光了 Lin Yan was a corpse retriever. In his previous life, he violated the three taboos of the trade and was consumed by baleful energy, only to be reborn by accident. After binding to the Corpse Retriever System, he returns to his old profession and becomes the last corpse retriever in a parallel world! This time, he swears he won't repeat the mistakes of his past life! But unexpectedly, he ends up trending online. UC: “Shocking! Celebrity W 2.1kReads7.8Score26914d adds
- 86 Endless Killing Intent: At Midnight, the God of Death Passes Judgment 无尽杀机：午夜12点，死神断罪 [Do-gooders, stay away] [Does not join any organization] [No female lead] [Ruler of the myriad worlds] A mysterious Reaper's Judgment System can drag evil people into illusory worlds and make them face terrifying trials and judgment! “At midnight, the Reaper judges. Justice and fairness prevail. Life and death are left to fate!” [Within China's borders, evil will find no quarter] Whoever you are, don't commit evil, or you'll be the next to face judgment! Illusory worlds: Buried, Wrong Turn, Saw. 1.1kReads8.7Score10214d adds
- 87 Married Off While Driving Corpses 赶尸上嫁 Marrying into a Corpse-Chasing Family 8Reads—Score314d adds
- 88 At Midnight, My Best Friend Asked Me to Go Fishing 半夜十二点，闺蜜喊我去钓鱼 At Midnight, My Best Friend Asked Me to Go Fishing 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 The Ghost Way, Midway Through Life 半路鬼道 Smart male lead + one heroine On the night of the Ghost Festival, the living send off the dead, burn incense, make offerings, and burn joss paper. But that night, I heard a ghost calling for a soul… The gong sounds, the night grows dark, and the road to the Yellow Springs is hard to travel… With talismans to guide the way and the departed to show the path, summon the gods and command the ghosts: only then can one master the Ghost Path between Yin and Yang! 6.8kReads8.9Score49114d adds
- 90 I'm a Doctor in the Horror World 我在惊悚世界当医生 In a world of horror, ghosts run rampant. Su Yun is stunned to discover that he's the only living person around! Everyone else is a ghost. How is he supposed to play this? Is this the worst start ever? Oh, no! He's awakened a System! As long as he makes ghosts feel fear, he can earn Horror Points! None of the ghosts know I'm alive. I'm a doctor at Yinshan Hospital now! I have to treat ghosts, and Su Yun breaks into a maniacal grin. Many-Eyed Monster: "My eyes hurt!" No problem. Just pluck them o 543Reads8.9Score10514d adds
- 91 The Underworld Bureau of the Yellow Springs 黄泉阴司 When I was a kid, I went to the back hill of the village to play and pick up human bones. There I stumbled upon a ghost opera and nearly lost my life. Luckily, a green snake saved me, but the snake also began a strange, shadowy romance. Ghost operas, spirit summoning, yellow-skin spirits' yin graves, peachwood seals against evil: the bizarre folk customs of southern Guizhou and chilling, uncanny tales of the worlds of yin and yang are coming your way. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!! 5.8kReads8.4Score58214d adds
- 92 Tang Corpse, Song Rush 唐尸宋弛 The Corpse of Tang, the Slackers of Song 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁 There isn't just one system of power in the world! Flying cars, lightsabers, talismans, virtual reality, artificial intelligence... Is it science or fantasy? A top game developer transmigrates to another world just to lie flat and take a job as a cleaner?! Is it a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality...? 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 94 Born to Fail at Corpse Stitching 生不缝尸 Born Without the Skills to Stitch Corpses 22Reads—Score114d adds
- 95 The Underworld Is Real: I Became a Viral Ghostbuster Through Livestreaming 地府有人，我靠直播驱鬼火遍全网 [Live Streaming + Ghost Hunting + Horror + No Female Lead] After being killed by a ghost, Zhou Yu meets his father in the underworld, where the old man is a senior ghost officer. Since he has connections down there, it looks like he can do whatever he wants without worrying about dying again. There’s a condition for coming back to life: he has to help his father send evil ghosts and vengeful spirits to the underworld. To make ends meet, Zhou Yu starts livestreaming his ghost hunts, and unexpecte 6.5kReads9.3Score70714d adds
- 96 Records of the Tang Dynasty Zombies 大唐丧尸录 The Tang Dynasty Zombie Chronicles 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Tales of My Best Friend's Haunting 闺蜜诡事录 Tales of Strange Events Among Best Friends 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 3.8kReads9.1Score45914d adds
- 99 Night Fishing, When a Weasel Begs for a Title and Says She Looks Like a Beast-Eared Girl 夜钓遇黄皮子讨封，说她像兽耳娘 Fishing enthusiast Wang Kun transmigrates to a parallel world and decides to become a fishing streamer. Who could have guessed that supernatural forces would be returning in this world? On a night-fishing trip, he runs into a spirit: a weasel seeking a divine title. Weasel: “Hey, you there. Do I look more like a person or a god?” For the sake of his own happiness, Wang Kun replies, “You look like a golden-haired, beast-eared beauty who’ll do whatever I say, has boundless magical powers, and is s 14.4kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 100 The Years I Spent Raising Corpses and Nurturing Ghosts in the Graveyard 我在坟场种尸养诡的那些年 Lin Feng wakes up as a tomb keeper in a world plagued by natural disasters and sinister calamities. The slightest mistake could cost him his life. Fortunately, he can plant corpses to raise ghosts, sowing dead bodies to reap all kinds of skills and ghosts. The Opera Ghost plays the Monkey King, bringing the seventy-two transformations to life and sweeping through the turmoil of the mortal world. The Embroidery Ghost mends everything under the sun, weaving a tragic song of a troubled age and craf 13.9kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
