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- 1 I Told Them I Cultivate Immortality, and My Group Chat Called Me Crazy 我说我修仙，群友骂我癫 [Wish-fulfillment | Slow burn | No System | Many hidden plotlines | Ensemble cast] Xia Yun: I hid in the mountains to build a temple and cultivate. The spiritual qi revival happened just as I was there, so I cultivated the Dao, became an immortal, and rose to the heavens step by step. “Brothers, I'm cultivating immortality!” Group chat members: “@Xia Yun I'm warning you, don't go nuts.” Xu Ruming: No matter how the world changes, I just want to stay alive and watch my little sister grow up. “Saf 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Maoshan Taoist Who Appeared Out of Nowhere 一个横空出世的茅山道士 A boy with his organs ripped out, a teenager possessed by a lecherous ghost, a woman’s corpse buried alive inside a wall... Thick white smoke billows across silent streets. A red bridal sedan chair, pallbearers in white carrying a coffin... These are only the beginning... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Young Ghost-Catching Taoist 少年捉鬼道长 Hunt evil ghosts, fight zombies, and no harem. Chu Renmei, Kayako, and Sadako all make their appearances one by one. A painted immortal, the legacy of Zhuge Liang, battles against various sects. Invincible, satisfying, and with a touch of horror. 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Don't Mess With Me, My Master Is the Purple-Robed Celestial Master 别惹我，我师父是紫袍老天师 [Urban Fantasy + Unraveling Ancient Mysteries + Feel-Good, No Angst + Suspense and Supernatural + Tomb Raiding] In ancient Huaxia, many strange events have taken place that defy explanation. For instance, did the First Emperor really die? Do demons and spirits truly exist in this world? How are drought demons born? Why did the Shatuo people, who had existed for centuries, vanish overnight? Does the desert death worm really exist? What is the monster with a human face and a cow’s body in the no-m 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Taoist Corpse Slayer 道门斩尸人 When I was eighteen, everyone in my village died. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and some people said I had a yin fate. I didn’t believe in ghosts either, until strange events began happening to me. Corpse drivers, paper figures makers, corpse retrievers, curse casters, gu masters, and all kinds of zombies, vengeful ghosts, mountain spirits, and monsters. By chance, I learned various Taoist arts, and together with many friends, set out to uncover why Jiangjia Village 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Help! Since When Did the Translator Moonlight as a Ghost Hunter? 救命！翻译员什么时候兼职抓鬼了 Something extraordinary happened to Ye Luning when she turned twenty-four: she found she could see ghosts, and one of them even latched onto her. With no other choice, Ye Luning, a translator, was forced to take the ghost back to its homeland so it could be laid to rest. While searching for the ghost's family, she unexpectedly met a man. From then on, the two became a very odd pair. She catches ghosts, he lays them to rest. To the head of the Ji family: “Oh, did you pee yourself?” To the crippl 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Cultivating Yin and Yang Beyond the Six Paths 六道之外修阴阳 Do you think forgetting is easy? It isn’t. For some people, it is an unattainable wish and a disaster no one else can understand... There is an indescribable being, neither demon, god, nor ghost. He does not know how to describe himself. He wears a human shell, yet is not human... He must live alone for an extraordinarily long time, so long that even fate cannot make plans for him. His ageless body bears an endless weight of heart-rending grief. His life is utterly meaningless, even cruel: every 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Seven Disciples of the Daoist Sect 道门七子 Do you believe that other spaces and dimensions exist beyond the world we know? Do you believe that among the people we encounter every day, there may be extraordinary individuals with extraordinary skills, unknown to the rest of us? Here, we tell stories about people and events in this world that ordinary people never hear about. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Max-Level Palm Thunder from the Start, Then I Run Into a Ghost-Playing Streamer 开局满级掌心雷，就碰到扮鬼主播 [Simulation, urban setting, cultivation, lighthearted, satisfying!] After transmigrating into a modern city where ghosts and monsters have returned, Lin Chen is immediately targeted by a pale, bloated female ghost, who drains his life essence for seven straight days! With his kidneys getting weaker by the day and him nearly becoming a total wreck, Lin Chen is lucky enough to obtain a Life Simulator and gets max-level Palm Thunder from the start! When the female ghost comes knocking, Lin Chen h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Urban: The Strongest Cultivator 都市：最强修仙者 [Revenge]+ [Cultivation]+ [Power fantasy]+ [No goody-two-shoes]+ [Decisive and ruthless] Ten years ago, the first family of Demon City was brutally wiped out. Ten years later, Su Yu returns with peerless skills and roars defiantly at heaven and earth: “Who else?” 134Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Venerable One of the Ruins 墟元异尊 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Maoshan Chronicles 茅山录 Pure supernatural horror, no cultivation, Maoshan Taoists, ghost hunting Maoshan Celestial Master Liu Xiangyu: Qianyuan breaks curses and sweeps away demon stars. He strides through the Nine Palaces, summoning thunder; his sword divides the Eight Trigrams and subdues the netherworld. The Three Pure Ones’ edicts destroy evil spirits; the Five Emperors’ talismans subdue ghost fiends. The Taiyi Golden Light incantation appears. He walks between yin and yang, proving his devotion to the Dao. Born wi 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Great Tang: Conquering the Dynasty with the Art of Qimen 大唐：奇门之术闯大唐 Wang Xiu learned the arts of the strange gates from his grandfather, including a range of divination techniques for predicting fortune and misfortune, and clear or rainy weather. While searching through his grandfather's room, he found a fragment of the Qimen Dunjia manual. When he opened it, he unexpectedly entered the Tang Dynasty and became the young lord of the Eighteen Riders of Yan Yun. 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Only Want to Solve Cases, Not Catch Ghosts 我只想破案，不想去捉鬼啊 [Fortune-telling and ghost hunting] + [Mystery-solving and crime investigation] + [No female lead] Li Caichen is a disciple of the Maoshan Taoist sect. One day, while telling fortunes at his stall, he predicts that Lu Chao will suffer a bloody misfortune that night. As a police officer, Lu Chao naturally doesn't believe him. But that evening, he receives an emergency call from a dead man and unexpectedly discovers a world of paranormal investigations. By chance, he joins Bureau 749, and from 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Exorcisms and Face Reading, Guaranteed! 直播算命：驱邪看相妥妥的！ [System + supernatural + wild imagination] On the first day of his livestream, Du Jie gets a call from a popular female streamer. A feng shui problem? Easy! The cases that follow are much trickier, and each one is more bizarre than the last! A ghost baby? A paper effigy? The strange illness in Xiangyang Village, the Five Elements fortune-borrowing ritual... Are all these bizarre events testing my cultivation? Forget it. I'd better call on the Grandmaster! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Ferry Souls in the Mortal World 我在人间摆渡灵魂 Some people call me Master, others call me a charlatan. Some even respectfully address me as Grandmaster or Celestial Master. But really, I’m just an “ordinary” guide for the dead. Jiang Cheng, an unremarkable funeral master, awakens a mysterious ability after one particular funeral. He can actually see souls, or ghosts!!! (This story has only one supernatural character, the protagonist. It’s more of an everyday-life story with tearjerking moments, not a horror novel.) 51Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 17 The Whole City Put Me on Trial as a Demon, So I Turned Around and Saved the World 全城审判我为邪魔，我反手救世了 When cultivation clans and megacorporations turn the Steel City into a blood-soaked slaughterhouse, keeping ordinary people at the bottom of society as “living batteries” to drain of their life force, Han Feng, the “Great Evil Fiend” in the eyes of the world, sits in an underground server room, coldly counting down with a black sandalwood folding fan carved with dragon patterns in hand. With a single hack, all thirty thousand outdoor screens across the city and the terminals of millions of citiz —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Fox Immortal Seeks a Title: I Said You Look Like My Future Wife 狐仙讨封：我说你像我未来的老婆 The white fox who once snuggled under the covers with me came to ask me to grant her a human form. I said: “You look like my future wife: a tempting face and figure, a slender waist, soft breasts, peach-round hips, fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. You're even more beautiful than a nine-tailed fox spirit descended to the mortal world.” 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Guardian of Qin Shi Huang's Tomb 秦陵守墓人 A college student driven by financial hardship unexpectedly steps into the world of night shifts at a funeral home. From then on, he begins a legendary life out in the world, carrying the bloodline of the Qin Mausoleum's guardians. 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 400Reads6.8Score111Shelves
- 21 Money Over Life: From the Start, I Kidnap a Red-Clad Vengeful Ghost 要钱不要命，开局拐卖红衣厉鬼 Ding! Thank you for contributing to the overhaul of the Underworld. The red-clad vengeful ghost has been accepted by the Underworld's coal mining department. Monthly income: 20,000 yuan. The System will deposit it into the Host's account regularly. The ghost child has been accepted by the Underworld's circus. Monthly income: 5,000 yuan. The System will deposit it into the Host's account regularly. The lecherous ghost has been accepted by the Underworld's obscenity review department. Monthly inco 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Tales of the Supernatural in the City 都市灵异传 “The living must not wander into the mass grave, and the dead must not disturb Mr. Chen.” This old saying has been passed down in Chenjia Town for decades. Chen Hui is Mr. Chen’s grandson, but he scoffs at his grandfather’s arts of yin and yang and wants nothing more than to be an ordinary college student. That is, until zombies attack the village at night. Forced to take up a peachwood sword and open the ancient book titled The Dao, he wields the family’s ancestral divine weapon, the Heaven-and 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Coffin Shop on West Street 西街棺材铺 The world is vast, and full of wonders. Chinese culture is profound and rich. How many of those bizarre, spine-chilling tales have you heard? In a small town in Guizhou, there is a coffin shop known as the West Street Coffin Shop. Its owner is a young man who couldn't even get into college. But how much do you know about this coffin-shop owner who couldn't even get into college? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 After a Hundred Years in the Coffin, the Nation Asked Me to Slay a Dragon in the Yangtze! 百年出棺，国家请我下江斩龙！ [Supernatural]+ [The Resurgence of the Paranormal] A hundred years ago, Lin Yejiu and Xiao Ge founded the Bureau of Celestial Surveillance, a state agency dedicated to dealing with feng shui and paranormal incidents! For some reason, Lin Yejiu was buried deep underground for a hundred years! A century later, Xiao Ge led a unit to dig him out! Together, the two brought the country's special agencies under one command to deal with the paranormal resurgence! When a flash flood struck and a giant py 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 25 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.2kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 26 Stranded in a Supernatural World, I Have No Choice but to Summon a God to Fight for Me 身处灵异世界，我只好请神代打了 Li Changfeng has just transmigrated when a life-taking ghost latches onto him. No big deal. Toss it into the merit box and let Buddha duke it out with him. What? There are no temples or Taoist shrines?! Don’t panic. No big deal... Wait, this is a huge problem!!! “Ding! The Merit-for-Hire System has been bound. You pay merit, and I’ll call in someone to fight for you...” Li Changfeng: [Clear skies above, sacred earth below, I burn incense and call upon Master Lin. With a peachwood sword, he slays 112Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 27 The Four Beauties Broke Off Our Engagements? I Crawled Out of an Ancient Tomb to Wipe Out Their Clans 四大美女悔婚？我爬出古墓灭族 My four fiancées mocked me as a low-rent kept man. On the day they broke off our engagements, I commanded tens of thousands of venomous snakes to trample their entire clan. Now she weeps with regret, kneeling and begging to marry me. Too late. You’re all going to die! 259Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 28 At Bureau 749, I Predict the Apocalypse 我在749局，预言末日 Urban fantasy + wild imagination + horror + the supernatural + Superpowers + Doomsday + no saintly hero. Lin Yi is a descendant of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng! Born with the ability to foresee the future and glimpse the scenes of people's deaths! Whenever danger approaches, he receives a "Reaper's Secret Message"! It's his talisman for staying alive! Now, the world has changed dramatically, and a bizarre apocalypse has arrived. The 749 Bureau has come knocking. "Lin Yi, we're out of options!" 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Can Join the Paranormal Investigation Bureau Too 我也能加入神秘调查局 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Evil at Pawnshop No. 4! 肆号当铺邪！ Xi Fan, a pure-hearted person through three lifetimes, died while trying to save someone. As his soul arrived in the underworld to be reincarnated, the King of Hell, cherishing the purity he had maintained through three lifetimes, sent Xi Fan back to the mortal world to take charge of Pawnshop No. 4. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Taoist Descends the Mountain: Signing In at the Funeral Home to Judge Yin Spirits 道士下山：我在殡仪馆签到审阴灵 [Fantasy Supernatural Mystery]+ [Funeral Home]+ [Comedy]+ [Subversion of Tropes] My name is Su Jiu. When I was ten, my master packed up and ran off, leaving behind nothing but a notebook that completely baffled me. I look lively and well, but my true soul has long since vanished. Even I can’t tell whether I count as a living person or a little ghost wandering the mortal world. I went down the mountain to look for my master and picked up Chen Liu along the way. The two of us ended up at Old Man’s 124Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Haunted Clinic: I Use My Snake Wife to Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 恐怖医馆：我以蛇妻镇百鬼 I grew up in a gloomy, ruined temple, where I unexpectedly met a white snake. When I turned eighteen, the white snake became the love of my life. For its sake, I also became a rising star in the underworld of occult practitioners... 413Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 33 The Carefree Way of the Heavenly Master 逍遥天师道 Born to be a calamity, with a pure Yin body, Qiyue was coveted by evil spirits from the moment he was born, like the fabled monk Tang Sanzang. Fortunately, a Celestial Master from Longhu Mountain used the Golden Light Mantra to seal away a hundred ghosts and defy fate on his behalf. Eighteen years later, he is no longer a baby in need of protection. His mastery of thunder magic is taking shape, and he descends the mountain with a peachwood sword in hand, heir to the Orthodox Celestial Masters. 1Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 34 A Taoist Priest’s Guide to Exorcising Evil in the City 道士之都市驱邪 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 I Open a Paper Effigy Shop in the City 我在都市开纸扎店 Li Xiaofan, the owner of a joss-paper shop in Jiangzhou, appears to be an ordinary young man, but is actually a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Age of the Decline of the Dharma. Hidden among the common people, he crafts paper offerings to guide the dead into the afterlife. But after a bizarre incident at a funeral home, where a paper figure swallowed someone's heart, he draws the attention of the secret government agency Dragon Hidden. Dragon Hidden is a mysterious organization that has existed —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 I Have a Fox Immortal Wife 我有一个狐仙老婆 As the old saying goes, when a fox comes asking for your hand, it’s either deeply in love or out to harm you. When Gu Ning was five, a white fox with magical powers tricked him into a wedding ceremony, making him take the heavenly tribulation in her place. To stay alive, Gu Ning opens a café that only operates after midnight and caters exclusively to wandering spirits... 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 37 Chronicles of the Five Spirits 五灵云志 [No System, no harem, one female lead, urban cultivation, ready to fight when challenged, an ordinary mortal's rise] In a modern metropolis thousands of years in the future, a mysterious cultivation sect lies hidden in the Kunlun Mountains. It is called the Penglai Immortal Pavilion. Chen Xian never dreamed he would one day find himself in such a dramatic situation: his girlfriend was stolen away, and the moment they broke up, torrential rain began to fall. Nor did he ever imagine that he would 4Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 38 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Taoist Priest Took Me Ghost Hunting 道士带我抓鬼啦 [Folk mysteries + Taoist ghost hunting + urban paranormal + supernatural tales] The headless little ghost at the amusement park The eerie singing in the morgue An elevator leading to a paranormal dimension... Are these bizarre events mere coincidence, or were they destined to happen? 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 I Failed the College Entrance Exam, So I Enrolled at a Paranormal Vocational College 高考落榜，我上灵异职业技术学院 After failing the college entrance exam, Su Xing gets a beating from both parents and, worked up, threatens to jump into a river. Ding! The System sets Su Xing up with a school: the Paranormal Vocational and Technical College. The school doesn't teach math, Chinese, or English. It only teaches ghost-catching, demon-subduing, spirit investigation, and more... Su Xing complains to the System, “Even with a System, you won't let me go to a proper university? Why a vocational college?” “Guaranteed to 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 2.2kReads—Score137Shelves
- 43 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Secretly Slay Monsters and Level Up 灵气复苏：我悄悄杀怪升级 [System + Spiritual Qi Revival + Kill Monsters to Level Up + ...] After transmigrating to a world experiencing spiritual qi revival, Lin Mo quietly set out on his path of killing monsters and leveling up. Lin Mo: As long as I make even the slightest effort, I’ve already reached this world’s limit. Monsters: Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)... 207Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 44 China’s Special Operations Group 华夏特别行动组 Beneath the prosperity of a flourishing age, strange incidents occur one after another. All kinds of hidden, inhuman beings roam the streets, disrupting people's peaceful lives and threatening national security. There is a group of people whose identities are unknown to the public. Yet they are constantly battling the forces of darkness, protecting peace in the world and defending their country's honor with their lives. By chance, Chen Jie, an ordinary young man, awakens a superpower and is recr 360Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 45 Bureau 749: I Crush All Evil with Thunder 749局：我以雷霆镇万邪 Lin Leichen was an ordinary young man until he awakened an ancient bloodline that gave him control over thunder and made him the natural nemesis of all evil spirits and monsters. He was recruited into the nation’s most secretive force, Bureau 749, which handled the paranormal cases beyond the understanding of ordinary law enforcement. From vengeful spirits that devoured souls through mirrors to elegant, deadly vampires beneath the night sky; from aloof sword immortals flying in from Mount Shu to 679Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Copy Unlimited Powers: Who Says Mortals Can’t Slay Gods? 复制无限异能，谁说凡人不能斩神 [Smart protagonist + not a wish-fulfillment novel + no System + ruthless and decisive + no reckless stupidity + no heroine + slays gods later on] [Let me emphasize this again: this is not a wish-fulfillment novel! It’s a slow burn! Read at your own risk!] Years ago, mythology made a comeback. Ancient gods, mysterious urban legends, incredible superpowers… Things that had existed only in people’s imaginations began to awaken. When every country in the world had fallen, and only Huaxia was struggl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Ghost Valley Corpse Scripture 鬼谷尸经 A corpse the police can't move, and a farewell letter no ordinary person can understand. These two seemingly unrelated things lead to a secret that has driven occult practitioners mad throughout history. The five magical arts of western Hunan, Daoist yin-yang divination, feng shui formations, and the long-lost art of reading the veins of mountains and rivers... Keep reading, and you may find it hard to believe, yet everything fits together perfectly. Remember: Heaven sees all, and fate is p 21Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 48 I Cultivate the Ghost Path in the City 我在都市修鬼道 When Shi Yaoyang opened the secret door in his ancestral home, the bronze demon mask swallowed the last ray of sunlight. The boy whom the girls jokingly called a “bad-boy heartthrob” was now pressing a bloodstained peachwood sword to his own throat. A fierce ghost leered from the mirror, his childhood sweetheart Teng Shiyun lay unconscious in the middle of a blood-red talisman array, and the faint sobs of twin sisters drifted from the shadows. The neon lights of the modern city collided with a t 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 I Make Thunder Magic by Hand on Livestream, and the Nation Asks Me to Exterminate Evil 直播手搓雷法，国家请我诛邪 [Fast-paced] [Invincible] [Decisive and ruthless] [Supreme Taoist Master] “Guys, see the photo on the wall behind me? That’s the fifty-second-generation Celestial Master in purple robes from the Celestial Master’s Mansion on Mount Longhu, the ancestral home of Taoism!” “I’m Zhang Daoxuan, the personal disciple of the Celestial Master in purple robes!” “Send just ten Cloud-Piercing Arrows, and you’ll see me 1.8kReads8.1Score110Shelves
- 50 The Last Celestial Master: The Dragon Burial in the Yellow River 末代天师：黄河葬龙 Lin Feng, an inheritor of Orthodox Unity Taoist traditions, vows to slay every demon and monster in the world, even if it means his Taoist arts will never be needed. His disciple Allen, who came from England, swears to carry his master for another ninety-nine thousand li, proving his devotion and praying that they can be master and disciple again in their next lives. 31Reads6.1Score—Shelves
