Novels like Summoning the Immortals
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- 151 Supernatural Tales: Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 灵异怪谈：出马二十年 The Great Immortal takes his place, and sinister forces lurk in haunted lands! When I was 19, my parents laid out a banquet for ghosts, inviting a living corpse and the Eight Great Immortal Clans. For the next twenty years, I relied on my craft of raising ghosts and posing as a Great Immortal to make my way in the spirit-medium trade. I kept company with ghosts and monsters, consorted with wild immortals, and crossed blades with strange and dangerous people, always with my life on the line. 83Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 152 She Can Suppress a Hundred Ghosts on Her Own, and You Still Dare to Act Arrogant? 她一人便镇压百鬼，你还敢猖狂？ [No Romance + Horror Mystery + Paranormal + Ghost Hunting + Yin-Yang Eyes + No Saintly Heroine + Always Gets Revenge] [Hundred Ghosts Hotel] [Death Amusement Park] [Mother-and-Son Evil Spirits] [Human-Faced Spider] [Snake Head, Human Body] [Blood Coffin Maze] Late at night, in a pitch-black dormitory, the sound of a ball repeatedly bouncing against the door came from outside. It was sticky and distinct, making everyone’s scalp prickle. Everyone in the room trembled with fear. Li Youqing told Fu 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 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 6.7kReads8.3Score53514d adds
- 154 The Spirit Medium: My Days with the Immortals 出马仙：与仙家那些日子 (Slow-paced + light humor) A disciple of the Ma Xian tradition takes you into the mysterious world of Northeast China’s spirit mediums. Just an ordinary person, yet bound by an unbreakable connection to the spirits. Everyday mishaps that make you laugh and cry, thrilling battles of magic, and tender protection. See how an ordinary person and the spirits weave a legend together. 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 155 The Spirit Medium of the Three Realms 三界通灵人 From spirit medium to spiritual cultivator to primordial spirit, I slowly unveil the mystery. Born with an extraordinary destiny, I endured trial after trial. A strip of red cloth, three chi and three cun long; the elders of the clan and the old spirits of the mountain. My grandmother was a famous village shaman, and the Fox, Yellow Weasel, Porcupine, and Python spirits accompanied me, making me a medium between yin and yang. I roam the Three Realms, helping people avert disaster and driving out 292Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 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… 849Reads8.6Score15214d adds
- 157 The Northeast Spirit Medium 东北出马仙 [Rural life + folk legends + strange tales + horror + Northeastern China + adventure + crime and deduction + solving cases] [A police officer with a special constitution × a shaman grandmother: an ensemble mystery-solving tale as they team up to uncover the secrets of spirit mediums!] Northeastern China is the birthplace of shamanism and a thriving home to spirit mediums, including the Fox, Weasel, Hedgehog, Snake, and Rat spirits. Since ancient times, it has been full of people with extraordina 3kReads9.3Score15014d adds
- 158 Night Shift Rules for Nurses 护士夜班守则 Night Shift Rules for Nurses 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 I Write Horror Novels on Tomato Novel 我在番茄写恐怖小说 A friendly heads-up: [This story is wildly imaginative] This novel brings together over a hundred stories, with elements of the uncanny, fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror. Unlike other novels, it has no long, tedious passages. Every story is full of eerie, fresh surprises. 99Reads—Score12714d adds
- 160 The Heavens Tremble, the Earth Shakes 天惶惶地惶惶 “Just as you’ve spent all this time studying apes, I’ve spent all this time studying your kind: your traits, your intelligence, and the things that make up human nature. On this planet, I chose one person, and that person was you. Through you, I came to understand humanity completely. Why do I seem so familiar to you? Because I’ve been following you for more than twenty years. On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, a woman appeared beside you. The weather was beautiful that day, 658Reads8.9Score12814d adds
- 161 Blue Flowers in Full Bloom 蓝花花儿朵朵 Young master, you must leave the Miao frontier. The Miao frontier’s Holy Maiden cannot leave. Young master, go. Take my Gu with you! Hua Li was an orphan who grew up with her grandparents in the mountains of the Miao frontier. She had an extraordinary gift for Miao embroidery, and was one of only twenty people nationwide selected as a young inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. After the plane she was on crashed on the way to an event in Beijing, she was lucky enough to survive, but was reb 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 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. 3.1kReads8.6Score33714d adds
- 163 My Years as a Spirit Medium 出马出道的那些年 Over the course of this book, I’ll take you into a true world of the occult. Southern Maoshan and Northern spirit mediums, Miao poison arts in western Hunan, pulse reading and tracing ailments to their source, healing with silver needles, Qimen Dunjia, finding burial sites and exploring tombs… These are stories that are strange yet true. In this book, I’ll share in detail the journey of an absolute beginner who knew nothing and learned step by step. The book will gradually introduce all kinds of 34Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 164 The Record of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子进行录 A very real, purely personal account of life as a spirit medium! I’m a real spirit-medium disciple myself! This book has no fantasy elements or cultivation-power fantasies, just true experiences and information! I hope you’ll enjoy it! wlt52121 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 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
- 166 Immortal Bones of Fengtian: The Biography of Li Jinglin 奉天仙骨：李景林传 Thunder crashes, the black earth crowns a legend! For a hundred years, the Northeastern mystic sects have produced no young prodigy like him, a master of talismans who can subdue heaven and earth. He slays demons with his sword and protects all living beings with his life! At ten, he took up his brush and drew talismans that summoned thunder from the heavens. At fifteen, he roamed across mountains and rivers, glimpsing the dragon veins at a glance. At twenty, his talisman magic reached the divin 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Twin Fates of Yin and Yang 阴阳命双生 [A defiant, fight-first demon girl heroine VS a henpecked, scheming, dark-hearted, grudge-holding male lead who seems sweet as a glutinous rice ball on the outside] [Career first, romance second] The rating just opened, so it'll go up [The heroine has two fathers. This isn't a BL story, and the two fathers aren't close; there are scenes where they try to kill each other. They are not a couple. The father who gave birth to the heroine only did so after returning to life in another body, acting ou 2.3kReads7.5Score23414d adds
- 168 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Folk Taboos: I Cultivate Merit in the Mortal World 民间禁忌：我在人间修功德 Everyone knows the barber, but few realize that the earliest barbers were actually executioners, and strange adepts who mastered esoteric arts. They walk between life and death, needing only a barber's razor to read the secrets of Heaven and travel between yin and yang. They shave the living, and they shave the dead. Even today, folk wisdom warns: never offend the barbers who roam the land with their poles and packs. 168Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 171 Tales of a Little Spirit Medium 出马仙之小小传 Everyone wants to get their spiritual powers quickly, but no one knows how hard the trials are to endure. If you haven't experienced anything strange, if you haven't suffered through the kind of misery that's hard to explain, why would the immortals choose you? 203Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 173 The Fated Demon Bride 天命妖妻 I was born under an unusual fate, and people predicted I wouldn’t live past the age of ten. To save my life, my parents arranged an extraordinary marriage for me. On the wedding night, my family laid out a grand feast, but no one came. I was left alone in the bridal chamber until a pair of cold hands led me inside. Only when the groom lifted my veil did I finally understand: I had married a demon... 62Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 174 The Corpse Collector's Diary 收尸人日志 Fog Harbor City is a futuristic metropolis governed by the central System of Deep Blue Life Group. Lu Chen, a forensic data analyst, has one job: to write the final digital epitaphs for the unidentified dead. That is, until he discovers the same unusual fluctuations in the data for a series of “natural deaths.” In the last three months of their lives, every victim’s biological indicators followed an exactly identical decline curve, as if they had been given a preset countdown. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Not a Daoist Priest, but a Mage 不是道士是法师 Beat the drum and swing the whip. With a shiver, I emerge from the mountains. I open my mouth and speak like a human: I'm the half-mad Li Xiaoxian! Ever since I was born, bad luck has followed me everywhere. I've nearly died time and again. To fight against the fate laid out for me, I believed in the Lord, recited Buddhist scriptures, and even worked at a wholesale market. But Heaven played a cruel joke on me. Misfortune kept piling up until I became completely dazed and unhinged. Desperate to g 396Reads9.5Score—14d adds
- 176 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—14d adds
- 177 The Hall of the Living: A Spirit Medium's Extraordinary Experiences 堂口人间：一个出马仙的神奇经历 A chip is sent from the future to 1970. Recipient: Wang Cuifang, a woman in her early twenties, recently divorced and from a rural village in Northeast China. She has no idea what’s going on: suddenly, something extra is in her mind. She can investigate, defend herself, and attack. With her eyes closed, she can “see” what’s happening across the surrounding villages, and when danger strikes, her body retaliates automatically. But the System’s supernatural abilities must remain secret. She needs a 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 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! 5.4kReads8.6Score37914d adds
- 179 They Call Me the Great Master 他们叫我大先生 You surely know about the shamanic horsemen beyond the passes, but have you heard of the Four Great Houses within the passes? In the 1990s, Yang Wanli was born in a village in northern China. A fortune-teller said he was the reincarnation of an evil ghost and was destined to stir up trouble. By a twist of fate, he became a disciple of the Daoist school and got entangled with the Four Great Houses. Strange and sinister things kept happening around him. A fallen dragon, an immortal who has shed th 756Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 180 I Cultivate the True Five Thunder Method and Crush the Evil Ghosts of the Spirit Realm 我修五雷正法，力压鬼界恶鬼 Xu Fan was born different. His natural Yin-Yang Eyes could suppress every evil spirit and demon. After Old Xu died, Xu Fan inherited the family’s ancestral spirit hall and became a shamanic medium. He battles Japanese invaders and evil spirits! Beats up the island nation’s Yin-Yang masters! Bullies the shikigami You Chizi! And marries a thousand-year-old White Snake Immortal! 615Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 181 The Outcast: Summoning Tu Shan Honghong, I Punch My Way to the Heavens 一人：请仙涂山红红，拳开通天路 Su Chen transmigrates into the world of The Outcast. He has spent twenty years asleep on Mount Longhu as the Old Celestial Master's third disciple. After binding to a cross-world summoning immortals System, he wakes up and immediately summons Tushan Honghong. [Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the demon empress's demonic power, accumulated over twenty years.] [Host has learned the Absolute Hands.] [Host has caught Tushan Yaya's attention.] [Item acquired: Endless Wine Gourd.] [Cui Yuling 424Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 182 Living Human Pillar 活人桩 Bridge and road construction inevitably disrupts the local feng shui. If a malign force is encountered, an expert must be called in to counter evil with evil at the site of the incident, driving two living human stakes into the ground. 664Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 183 The House Immortal Affairs Office 家仙办事处 Chen Ping'an, a graduate student in folklore, has never believed in ghosts or gods. That is, until he inherited his old family home and caught a fox spirit sitting on his sofa in the middle of the night, playing Honor of Kings. Then it tossed him an employment contract from the “Household Spirits Affairs Office.” From then on, his materialist worldview completely fell apart: Huang Xian works as a delivery driver, gathering intelligence. Bai Xian runs a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and sec 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? 你让我去抓鬼？ My name is Lin Fan. I'm twenty-two, and I graduated with a college diploma in marketing. While other graduates had job offers in hand and were charging ahead, I graduated straight into a pit of misery. I was two months behind on rent, my pockets were emptier than my face was clean, and my only possession was a beat-up electric scooter that clanked at the slightest touch and looked ready to fall apart at any moment. Five yuan per delivery. I raced around in the wind and sun, but I couldn't plug t 41Reads—Score21514d adds
- 185 Northeastern Immortals: My Tangled Encounters with Spirit Mediums 东北仙家：出马仙与我纠缠的那些 Let me take you into the world of the Chuma immortals. This isn't a power fantasy, just an account told at an unhurried pace of a Chuma immortal's experiences... In the black soil of Northeast China, the depths of the old forests hold many unknown mysteries. People say every mountain has its mountain god, every cave its master, and every willow bank its immortal; pythons can become spirits. On this land, protected by both gods and the wild, there is a kind of person known as a “Chuma immortal”.. 2.4kReads8.6Score13314d adds
- 186 This Spirit Medium Is No Ordinary One 这个出马仙不一般 [Paranormal tales from Northeast China, adapted from true stories] A three-foot strip of red cloth bears the names of a hundred or so immortals. Incense smoke curls before it, and the disciple is known as a spirit medium. My name is Jin Laimi. A weasel calling itself the Yellow Immortal once possessed me, and from then on, I became a spirit medium. I opened an agency specializing in feng shui and all kinds of “paranormal” cases. A father who guards his daughter with his spirit even after death; 382Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 187 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Gu Gu Fang: Settling the Karma of Antiquities 缚古坊：了断古物因果 An antique shop on Funeral Street settles the worldly karma of spiritual artifacts. Using their special powers, it helps those destined for them advance their official careers. Azure Dragon God, Swollen-Belly Ox, Chicken Spirit Protector, Nine-Tailed Fox Who Changes Fate, Azure Sky Serpent... They say a new owner has arrived at Fugufang, and a god is always at their side... 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Enter at Midnight: Clear the Dungeons to Survive (Season 7) 午夜入场，副本通关才能活下去(第七季) Enter at Midnight: Clear the Instance to Survive (Season 7) 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 I Became the First Founding Ancestress of My Husband's Family to Receive Offerings 我成了婆家第一代顶香的祖师奶 Su Can had been frail and sickly since birth. At eighteen, she nearly died from an illness. A great immortal told her she had the fate of a Hua Jie, and only after a substitute effigy was burned was her life spared. From then on, great opportunities came her way. She lost her husband just one day after getting married, and one disaster after another followed. The Hu, Huang, Bai, and Liu spirits, along with the Bei Wang, all came looking for her. As she endured one ordeal after another, involving 4.7kReads9.3Score34914d adds
- 191 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 32.9kReads8.8Score2.9k14d adds
- 192 Shop No. 4 on Yellow Springs Street 黄泉街4号店 [No romance] My name is Su Jingze, and I run a peculiar shop on a street lined with funeral businesses. My biggest secret is that I can see things ordinary people can't. A fortune-teller said my fate was too fragile for me to survive, but my parents refused to believe in fate. I didn’t believe in it either, so I made a deal with them... 793Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 193 The Day I Was Born, the Heavenly Coffin Bestowed Blessings, and Nine Dragons Suppressed Evil 我出生那天，天棺赐福，九龙镇煞 The day I was born, the Nine Dragons wailed, and a divine coffin appeared in the sky. Feng shui lore says that when the Nine Dragons bow before a coffin, it becomes a Heavenly Coffin. Whatever lies inside will bring either immense fortune or great calamity. I was never meant to live in this world. My grandmother stole my life from a dragon-bone Heavenly Coffin. When I turned eighteen, she told me a great secret about the Heavenly Coffin… 3.8kReads7.6Score32114d adds
- 194 Bai Wuji: The Taboos of a Hundred Ghosts 百无忌之百鬼禁忌 A haunted bus, a murder game in a WeChat group, a celebrity who raises a ghost child, a murder case involving the black magic of Southeast Asia, a young woman tormented by her ghost husband, a European murderous-spirit game passed down for hundreds of years, a century-old haunted house where nothing grows... Bai Wuji wants nothing to do with any of this for the rest of his life. But if they insist on coming after him, he won't be blamed for beating them until their souls are scattered to the win 481Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 195 Usurping Heaven's Mandate 篡天命 The arts of the Dao often say, “Fate can be known, but not changed; calamities can be calculated, but not avoided.” Yet when my grandpa passed down three ghost coins to me, he told me there was another kind of person in this world, someone who could toy with destiny as if it were in the palm of their hand. I’m one of those people who gamble with life: I gamble with other people’s lives, and with my own. But if you want to gamble with Heaven, you have to find a coffin first... 534Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 196 The Eerie-Faced Female Oracle 诡面女相师 Use characters to divine fortune and misfortune, and facial features to unravel life and death. Three times defying Heaven: will I change my fate, or die in accordance with Heaven's will? Though Heaven may decide life and death, all things go through cycles of rebirth. Banish inner demons and break the spirits of the dead. This time, watch me analyze the characters, interpret their meaning, and tell ghosts from omens of doom! 421Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 197 The Haunted House: The Evil God Descends 诡舍：邪神降临 [A Strange House fanfiction + horror + survival + infinite loop] Ning Qiushui sealed the Gray Sun, bringing the calamity of the old world to an end. But the Heavenly Dao demands balance between yin and yang. With the old evil destroyed, an even more powerful evil god was born. After lying dormant for ages, the Strange House's blood-red door appeared once more. The blood-red door swung open. Yin and yang were reversed, the underworld fell, and the six paths were severed. A new generation of S 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 The Spirit Medium Beyond the Pass 关外出马仙 Have you ever wondered whether the Great Wall, built over generation after generation, was meant to keep out enemies or something else that cannot be spoken of? Shanhaiguan Pass in the Ming dynasty was built to keep out the Manchus beyond the pass. Why, after the Qing army entered through the pass, did they still station heavy troops at Shanhaiguan? What were they guarding against? After the Qing took control of the Central Plains, why did they keep the lands beyond the pass sealed off for over 24Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 199 A Ghost Lurks in My Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Old Building's Brick Wall 右眼栖鬼：老楼砖墙藏十年命案 A Ghost Dwells in Her Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Bricks of an Old Building 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 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 3.8kReads9.2Score38114d adds
