Novels like The Heaven-Chosen Paper Effigy Maker
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- 151 Eerie: After Dying a Hundred Times, I Turn the Tables and Sacrifice My Ghostly Wife 诡异：连死百次，反手献祭鬼娇妻 The author’s new novel: “Reincarnation and Immortality: My Lifespan Limit Doubles with Every Life” [Supernatural Resurgence + System + Ghost Bride + One Heroine!] (A motion-comic adaptation of this book is now available.) After being killed by something hurled from a heavy truck that swerved to save someone on the road, he transmigrates, only to find a blood-clad vengeful ghost invading his dreams. What should he do? Looking at the abilities in his System, Jiang Wuyang sees “Dream Corridor” + “M 1.5kReads8.6Score12114d adds
- 152 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
- 153 Married Off While Driving Corpses 赶尸上嫁 Marrying into a Corpse-Chasing Family 8Reads—Score314d adds
- 154 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 2.8kReads6.8Score45414d adds
- 155 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
- 156 [Borrowing Evil Bones, I Become a Ghost Immortal and Break the Yin-Yang Divide] 【借邪骨，我以鬼仙破阴阳】 [Supernatural + Revenge + Magical Duels + Folk Horror + Feng Shui + One Heroine] I was born stillborn, but my grandfather brought me back to life with a fiend god's sinister bone! Yet my resurrection turned me into a freak who constantly attracted calamity, bringing about the deaths of my entire family. Only after I became a corpse collector did my fate take a dramatic turn! With a fiend god on my back, I will roam freely between the worlds of yin and yang, fearing no taboo. I bear the corpse co 7.3kReads7.6Score99914d adds
- 157 Cangshan Ashes: The Dao-Demon Chronicle 苍山烬，道魔启世录 [Steady updates, and it will never be abandoned!] “Master, weren't we here to catch ghosts?” “Today is inauspicious. We shouldn't make a move!” “Master, you just can't beat them, can you?” “Don't talk nonsense. Demons and ghosts have their place in life.” “Disciple, don't go around exorcising demons and slaying monsters at the drop of a hat.” “Cultivating the Dao means cultivating the heart. We should be kind.” “Remember, all things under heaven have life, and life comes first. If we run into so 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Strange Path to Immortality: Cultivating Begins with Selling Paintings on the Street 诡道长生：从街头卖画开始修仙 Gu Changsheng transmigrates to another world, the Great Shang Dynasty, where the Heavenly Dao has fallen into decline, demons run rampant, and cultivation techniques are perilous and uncanny. Fortunately, he awakens the ability to recreate portraits. Painting a portrait of a living being lets him acquire their techniques and skills, while also extending his lifespan. In Yinshan City, he paints a portrait of the Black Mountain Old Demon and comprehends a Heaven-tier cultivation art: the Yuan Moun 3.6kReads8.4Score22614d adds
- 159 The Yin Son of Heaven: From the Start, I Summon Black and White Impermanence 阴天子：开局召唤黑白无常 [System + passionate action + feel-good power fantasy + invincible protagonist + Underworld + Yin Heavenly Son + adventure + wild imagination] Shen Lian transmigrates to a fantasy continent and awakens the Yin Heavenly Son System. He slays vengeful ghosts, eradicates demons and evils, revives myths, and descends upon the mortal world. He obtains the Black and White Impermanence: vengeful ghosts are seized by the soul, and the Impermanence spirits claim their lives. He obtains the City God’s divi 2.7kReads7.6Score21014d adds
- 160 Horror Revival: I Am Bai Wuchang 恐怖复苏：我是白无常 Reborn into a world overrun by horror, a female ghost is scratching at the floor beneath the bed. Without a System, Su Yi is panicking. Ding! Congratulations, you've awakened the Underworld Judge System. Rewards: a mourning staff, a judge's robe, and a soul-catching chain. No more hiding it. I'm White Impermanence, and I'm coming clean. A little ghost girl sobbed, “This is so unfair! You beat me up, fine, but then you made me wear a cute little girl's outfit and sweep the floor!” The hanging gho 1.1kReads7.8Score10714d adds
- 161 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
- 162 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 13.5kReads9.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 163 The Wife’s Coffin Smoke 妻棺烟 The Wife's Coffin Smoke 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 164 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
- 165 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
- 166 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 7Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 167 Tang Corpse, Song Rush 唐尸宋弛 The Corpse of Tang, the Slackers of Song 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 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 2.2kReads8.8Score20514d adds
- 169 Lu Ban's Secret Art of Feng Shui 鲁班风水秘术 Carpenters revere Lu Ban as their patriarch. He left behind the Lu Ban Book, divided into two parts. The first contains carpentry techniques, while the second is a collection of secret spells, never to be shared with outsiders. The patriarch also left a curse: anyone who learns the spells in the second part must suffer one of the fates of being widowed, orphaned, childless, or disabled. That is why later generations called the second part of the Lu Ban Book the “Missing One.” In the old days, mo 5.9kReads9.1Score83214d adds
- 170 Born to Fail at Corpse Stitching 生不缝尸 Born Without the Skills to Stitch Corpses 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.8kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 172 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 936Reads8.0Score14014d adds
- 173 The Mountain Wanderer 走山人 Three years after I died, I climbed out of my grave. I set out on the path of a spirit medium and made my name roaming the mountains. Grandpa said I was half-dead, with no taboos to hold me back! 2.2kReads8.7Score19514d adds
- 174 The Demon Hunter’s Journal 猎魔手记 Have you ever seen a white dog wearing clothes, or a mouse eating a cat? Have you heard of paper effigies putting on an opera, or flying stiff corpses sucking blood? Come, let me tell you... 1kReads8.5Score10214d adds
- 175 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 There are many things in this world that you and I have never encountered. Just because we've never encountered them doesn't mean they don't exist. Legends are often more than mere legends. And traditions must have an unknown reason for becoming traditions. 632Reads9.0Score11414d adds
- 176 The Vengeful Spirit Notebook 凶灵笔记 I've slept in a coffin since I was little. It wasn't until the woman in red appeared that I learned the truth. I was born on Ghost Festival. I don't want to die. 1.3kReads8.7Score22314d adds
- 177 Records of the Tang Dynasty Zombies 大唐丧尸录 The Tang Dynasty Zombie Chronicles 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Horror Resurges: I Have a Ghost Bus 恐怖复苏，我有一辆鬼大巴 “My name is Jiang Yan. If you don’t want to die, get in my car.” On the way back to his village for a holiday, Jiang Yan successfully took control of a ghost bus and became a ghost-handler. What secrets lie hidden in the eerie village? What terror is sealed inside the pitch-black coffin? In a torrential downpour, ghosts roam the amusement park. Is this the beginning of everything, or the end? As a blood mist invades and the entire city is sealed off, despair closes in. Face death and fight t 6.8kReads7.5Score50814d adds
- 179 Eerie: A Divine Hint from the Start, and I've Seen Through Everything 诡异：开局神提示，我已看透一切 [Ghosts Fighting for His Affection + Passionate Nights + Horror + Livestream + Survival + Fast-Paced + Power Fantasy] While everyone else scrapes by for survival in the dungeons, Ji Feng uses his ability to know everything to fall into a sweet romance with a female ghost. A bizarre game begins. Players die, and ghost realms descend. Ji Feng is chosen as a player, and from the start he picks the most ferocious female ghost of all: the Ghost Bride! A chill wind howls, red candles flicker, and bene 26.7kReads8.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 180 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
- 181 Tales of My Best Friend's Haunting 闺蜜诡事录 Tales of Strange Events Among Best Friends 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Supernatural Hong Kong Crossover: I Grinded Paper Control into Immortal Arts 诡异港综：从控纸术开始肝成仙术 [Multiple Series Crossover] [Folklore] [Nostalgic Hong Kong Films] [No Harem] After being hit and sent flying by an unlicensed dump truck, Tang Ning transmigrates to a vast world where multiple film and television universes have merged. Here, zombies and red-clad female ghosts are real, and beneath the shadows, cults are plotting to summon evil gods! Fortunately, Tang Ning awakens a transmigrator's cheat package. Not only can he control paper figures, he can also use his lifespan to simulate cul 7.7kReads8.3Score45714d adds
- 183 Strange Tales from Republican-Era Sanjiang 民国三江诡事集 Whenever Eunuch Li from the teahouse downstairs told stories about the many strange and uncanny things he had encountered in his youth, a crowd would always gather around him. Whenever I was bored as a child, I would run over to listen. A corpse that had been dead for days was pulled from the Yangtze River, yet bled when its relatives came to see it. The owner of Second Brother’s restaurant had a brother who was a sworn brother of the underworld. One night, he followed the gang’s leader to an ab 123Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 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
- 185 Horror Revival: It Started When I Flirted with a Female Ghost 恐怖复苏：从撩了女鬼开始 The Three Paths of Impermanence are in turmoil, yin and yang are out of balance, terror returns, and demons and ghosts wreak havoc. Xue Yan obtains a ghost-flirting System. A ghost from the Republic of China era: “What's with this guy? He's not afraid of me, and he's even flirting with me!” A stumbling ghost: “I've finally met someone more twisted than I am.” A hanging ghost: “He actually told me to step on his AJ sneakers?” While the masters of the martial world are scared witless by terrifying 675Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 186 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!!! 5.8kReads8.4Score58614d adds
- 187 Old Tales of Jiangyang: The Evil Dragon of Sanjiang 江阳旧事之三江孽龙 Luzhou, in central Sichuan, was known in ancient times as Jiangyang Commandery and is also called the City of Liquor. The Yangtze, Tuo, and Chishui rivers surround the city, which also borders Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, making it an important transportation hub for the three provinces since ancient times. The constant streams of mule caravans within the city, cargo boats on the rivers, and merchants lining the streets, along with the local brotherhood halls where sworn brothers trained with f 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Urban Astrologer 都市星相师 [Physiognomy + Fortune-Telling + Feng Shui + Celestial Master + No Livestreams + No System + Cultivation + Immortality] My name is Ling Xiao, and I'm an astrologer making my way in the city! You might not know much about astrologers, but I'll name a few of my fellow disciples and you'll get the idea! Zhuge Liang, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, Liu Bowen... They're all senior members of my school! Astrologers are skilled at observing the stars, allowing them to discern the past and future, as well a 4kReads9.3Score29414d adds
- 189 The Secret Notes of a Feng Shui Master 风水师秘记 My grandfather left me a handwritten ancient manuscript. When I turned eighteen, a dream of mine shook the entire world of feng shui... Liu Bowen severing dragon veins, feng shui guiding a celestial dragon, paper figures controlling one's fortune, plum-blossom tattoos, the dead seeking justice... Everyone knew Yang Qingtian was a legend, but no one knew that I was him! 3.7kReads8.2Score39614d adds
- 190 Don’t You Feel Guilty Making a Living Selling Ghosts? 你当鬼贩子良心不会痛吗 [Ghost peddler + no female lead + bluffing + ghost summoner] Ghostly energy surges, and terror descends. Lu Jing inherits the funeral goods shop his grandfather left behind and becomes the best business partner the Spirit Guard Bureau could ask for. “Captain Fang, 30,000 for this B-rank evil spirit. That's fair, right?” “Fair enough...” “Captain Fang, 500,000 for this A-rank evil spirit. That's fair, right?” “Fair enough...” “Captain Fang, this Ghost King...” Watching Lu Jing remove 5.2kReads8.9Score35814d adds
- 191 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人 The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra 16.7kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 192 I Bring the Underworld into the World 我，让地府降临 [Alternate world] [Behind-the-scenes style] [No heroine] A blood moon hangs in the sky, and daylight suddenly breaks! The world changes, and spiritual energy surges forth! Beneath the daylight and blood moon, blood rains down without warning. Living beings wail, demons emerge, and ghosts run rampant. Deep Blue Star has become utterly unfamiliar to Meng Zhou. I, Meng Zhou, hold the Jade Edict of the Son of Heaven! I command ten thousand ghosts! I shall be lord of monsters and demons, ruler of the 7.7kReads7.9Score74114d adds
- 193 When the Supernatural Arrives, I Summon Black and White Impermanence from the Start 诡异降临我开局召唤黑白无常 [Supernatural Revival + Decisive Killing + Summoning + Behind-the-Scenes Manipulation + Invincibility + No Female Lead] Ye Yu transmigrates into a world where the supernatural has revived and ghosts roam everywhere. He thinks he is as good as dead, but then he binds to the Underworld Summoning System and becomes the Underworld's supreme ruler, the Yin Emperor. He summons Black and White Impermanence to slaughter their way through a mass grave. He summons the Ox-Head and Horse-Face to pacify the 18.7kReads8.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 194 The Six-Fingered Exorcist 六指诡医 Born with six fingers on his left hand, he was called a jinx by his family. His father died the day he was born, and misfortune followed him everywhere as he grew up. He endured discrimination and contempt. When he turned eighteen and suffered his third half-cycle tribulation, even his beloved grandparents died. From then on, the protagonist was forced to wander. While struggling to stay alive, he investigated the truth behind the mysteries. Caught in an endless struggle between life and death, 4.7kReads9.2Score82014d adds
- 195 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 116Reads8.5Score1014d adds
- 196 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
- 197 I Became Uncle Jiu’s Disciple from the Start 开局拜师九叔 This is a novel set in Uncle Nine's world. It has Uncle Nine, gods, ghosts, and monsters, as well as witchcraft, poison magic, and tomb raiding. There are also ancient legacies. What's more, there is no heroine in the early part of the book, and Ren Tingting definitely isn't the heroine. That's that... Also, if you want to see characters flying through the sky and burrowing underground right from the start, you won't find that here... If you want to see someone become a Buddha or a ruler from th 2.8kReads8.8Score14114d adds
- 198 The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙 When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife... 12.1kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 199 Everyone Tames Ghosts: From the Start, I Get an S-Rank Ghost King 全民御鬼：开局获得S级鬼王 [One of the hottest supernatural novels of 2024] [No saintly protagonist] [No heroine or one heroine] [Satisfying power fantasy] After transmigrating to a parallel world where the supernatural has returned, Ye Chen finds it overrun with beasts and rampaging ghosts. Cities have fallen, and life is filled with despair. After more than a century of struggle, people have learned to use ghosts to fight ghosts. But before Ye Chen has even adjusted to his new surroundings, a female ghost sets her sight 1.3kReads6.3Score13714d adds
- 200 A Collection of Folk Feng Shui Records 民间风水集录 Also known as The Dragon-Seeking Secret: The Five Masters of Jingmen. Main characters: Tao Duoyu and Ren Shiyu; The Five Masters of Zhongzhou: Xiong Lei of the Northeast, Zheng Xuan of western Hunan, and Su Mei of Jiangnan; My name is Tao Duoyu. My master is Tao the Blind, the foremost of the Five Masters of Zhongzhou. Twenty-four years ago, he saved me when I was at death’s door, snatching fate from the heavens to extend my life by more than twenty years. Twenty-four years later, my master myst 2.5kReads9.1Score38914d adds
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