Novels like Memoirs of the Kunlun Mountains, 1978
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- 101 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 102 Old Ninth, the Tomb Raider 盗墓老九 [Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure hunting] A centuries-old mystery ordained by Heaven, the fabled ancient kingdom of Loulan, the secrets behind the ancient Silk Road, and even the Black Mountain, where legend says the rocks, plants, rivers, and soil are all black, shrouded year-round in an air of death... I was just an antique dealer in Panjiayuan, but somehow I got swept up in one strange adventure after another. It all began with my grandfather, a eunuch from the previous dynasty... 320Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 103 The Unusual Case Investigation Bureau 异案调查局 In 2008, the body of a drowned woman was discovered in the Kaiyuan Reservoir. Yet every clue in the case pointed to suicide. The officers assigned to investigate began having frequent nightmares, and in the end, each of them drowned. “Bus 303,” “Crying Beneath the Old Grave,” “Hair in the Forbidden City Corridor,” “Chongqing's Headless Taxi Driver.” Zhang Yao, a member of the Anomalous Cases Investigation Bureau, tells you about the inexplicable paranormal cases he personally encountered over th 153Reads5.3Score3814d adds
- 104 Bureau 749, Section 13 749局13科 Bureau 749 is a mysterious department dedicated to handling supernatural phenomena and incidents. Psychics are peculiar, unknown beings with special abilities that defy explanation. To maintain social stability, Bureau 749's main task is to control and monitor psychics and prevent them from committing crimes. But the darkest things in society aren't psychics or criminal acts. They're the human heart, and the incomprehensibly mysterious, unfathomable force known as fate... A top agent forced into 3.2kReads7.7Score39914d adds
- 105 My Days at Bureau 749 我在749局的那些日子 My name is Lin Bai, and I’m a sophomore at Diannan University. I have a secret I’ve kept buried deep inside for a long time. I feel like I might not be an ordinary person, or maybe… I don’t know if I can even be considered human. I can easily do many things ordinary people can’t. At first, I thought it would earn me admiring looks from others. But gradually, I realized it didn’t make me stand out from the crowd. Instead, it made me feel like I didn’t belong in this world. The way they looked at 4.1kReads8.8Score47014d adds
- 106 Twenty-Four Strange Tales 二十四异 A child found by an executioner, a senior member of the Daoist sect, and the godson of a Yellow Immortal lead the way. Joined over time by twenty-four more people with extraordinary abilities, they form an organization in Republican-era China dedicated to dealing with supernatural incidents. 4.4kReads9.2Score60914d adds
- 107 Ancient Tales of the Yellow River: The Heavens Collapse 黄河古事：天崩 [Horror and the supernatural + mysterious culture + suspense and mystery-solving] Yellow River ghost soldiers, Chi You's remains, an ancient tomb beneath the river, corpse-dwelling gu... Unravel the mysterious Eastern culture of the ancient Yellow River region. A prequel to the Ancient Yellow River Tales series! Over 500 million plays! A new work by top male-oriented fiction author Long Fei! The remains return, and the heavens collapse. A mysterious painting of eight sheep shatters the peace alo 4kReads9.2Score41114d adds
- 108 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 The Great Medium 通灵大法师 A mysterious young man gets dragged into one conspiracy after another when he takes on a ritual job. To stay alive and avoid becoming a pawn, he launches an epic battle to defy fate and change his destiny. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 749 Special Incident Investigation Bureau 749特殊事件调查局 [Based on real experiences. Just listen for fun, and I hope you enjoy it.] [No superpowers + first person + in the style of Strange Tales from the Ministry of Culture. If you like Strange Tales from the Ministry of Culture, jump right in.] At last, I have the chance to write a story about this mysterious department. I don't know how many people have heard of Bureau 749, let alone how many know anything about it, but Bureau 749 has always been shrouded in mystery. Its full name is the Bureau of S 7.2kReads7.5Score47614d adds
- 111 The Strange Realm Archives 诡域档案 Six years ago, Comrade Peng Gang, an outstanding investigator in the Ministry of State Security of Huaxia and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, met a strange death while on a mission. Six years later, several investigators go missing one after another. The case they were investigating is deeply strange and has countless connections to the case from six years ago. In response, the mysterious investigation team, Fifth Bureau, Ninth Division, begins looking into a series of cases in the realm 332Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 112 In Taoist Robes: I Counsel Students, Then Spirits 道袍加身：劝完学生劝鬼神 An art teacher unexpectedly becomes a Taoist exorcist. The colors in the classroom give way to the cinnabar of talismans, and one supernatural incident after another, once dismissed as impossible, begins to unfold. All the ghost stories he had heard were never mere fabrications. Beyond the mist where yin and yang meet lies a truth far more terrifying than anything on canvas. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Path to Godslaying Begins with Ghost Blows Out the Light 从鬼吹灯开始的弑神之路 History has been turbulent and magnificent, yet throughout the dynasties, from emperors to local gentry, it seems everyone has kept silent about the gods. It is as though there are no gods in this world. But is that really true? Zhang Yunting, who has arrived in the world of Ghost Blows Out the Light, has no comment. This world really does have gods. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Adventure Journal 探险手札 The Yellow Springs snake demon in a mysterious ancient village; a mirror that wards off evil amid endless dunes; an ancient corpse buried beneath the snowy mountains, untouched by decay... My name is Xu Kaiyang, and I’ll take you on an unprecedented adventure! 7.8kReads8.6Score67014d adds
- 115 Tales of the Northern School's Wandering Taoist 北派散土往事 [Tomb Raiding + Antiquities Appraisal + The Ways of the Underworld + Everyday Life] [Tomb raiding is illegal. Don't try it yourself!] I'm Lu Jiufeng. I never wanted fame; I just wanted to stay alive. What I'm about to tell you is about the dark days I lived through myself. Believe it or not, this is what the underworld is really like. (Lights a cigarette.) Before you come in, understand this: the road through the underworld is long, and once you enter, there's no turning back... 96.2kReads8.8Score8.9k14d adds
- 116 Tomb Raider King: Dragon Hunting at the Demon Pagoda 盗墓王之妖塔寻龙 Five thousand years of history and culture have given rise to countless extraordinary heroes. Since the Western Zhou dynasty, a special group of people has passed down the saying: “Of the thirty-six trades, tomb raiding reigns supreme.” I was an antiques dealer. When I moved my ancestors' graves, I found a fragment of an ancient family manuscript. With my business in decline, I had no choice but to turn to tomb raiding! Leading the heirs of the four great sects across the vast land of China, I u 1.1kReads7.3Score10614d adds
- 117 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Beyond the Pass 关外盗墓笔记 From a “master of antiquing” to the “Divine Eye Beyond the Pass,” one thought is all it takes for Xiao Xu to embark on a dangerous road of no return. In the perilous underground world, friendship and loyalty are cheap, while profit and betrayal are the order of the day. Only by letting go of desire can you make it out unscathed. 1.2kReads8.8Score12614d adds
- 118 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 749 Bureau: Strange Case Investigations 749局：奇案调查 Liu Shui experienced a supernatural event as a child, during which his only family member disappeared without a trace. As an adult, Liu Shui is recruited by Bureau 749, an agency dedicated to investigating supernatural events. Under the guidance of his superior, Han Jiu, he begins investigating a string of mysterious cases. A shadowy figure on the last bus, a vampire attacking a zoo, a master craftsman with a thousand faces who sells bizarre artifacts, an alien creature with extraterrestrial tra 2kReads8.9Score16614d adds
- 120 The Book of Lu Ban 鲁班书 My whole family was cursed with a spell of loathing. My parents attacked each other for no reason, and my grandmother died trying to break up the fight. The next day, my parents were in a car accident. My grandfather told me our family was being targeted, and that we had to leave if we wanted to survive. I was forced to leave home and live under someone else’s roof. But he still wouldn’t leave me alone. All I could do was take up the Luban Book my grandfather left behind and fight my way to surv 2kReads8.0Score22714d adds
- 121 A Century-Old Mystery, a Millennium-Old Secret, and a Fated Legend 百年之疑，千年之秘，传说的宿命 [No System] [Hardcore Exploration] [Mind-Bending Puzzles] [Tightly Woven Logic] Everyone in this book is smart, every mystery gets an answer, and every strange phenomenon has a scientific explanation. If you're tired of mindless power fantasies, welcome to the world of hardcore exploration! To uncover the truth lost among the lines of longitude and latitude, I led my team across forbidden zones around the globe, setting foot in taboo places untouched by sunlight. From Solomon's Temple, silent f 329Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 122 The Maoshan Sect Leader 茅山掌教 The Dao is the foundation of the Way; arts are how it is put to use. Hidden soul-binding talismans, a life of poverty and an early death for initiates, the three Maos’ upper, middle, and lower teachings, and secret arts that leave ghosts and gods in awe! The most mysterious final patriarch of Maoshan leads his disciple Zhang Shouyi across the land, exorcising demons, exploring dangerous places in search of treasures, resolving ancient grudges, and roaming both the realms of yin and yang as he li 1.1kReads6.7Score10014d adds
- 123 Slay Demons, Exorcise Evil: I’m 749’S Double-Flower Red Staff 斩妖，除魔，吾乃749双花红棍 (Invincible) (No female lead, but female supporting characters) (Golden finger) (If I’m reasoning with you, then that’s what counts as reason.) (If you think you can kill me, you’d better actually be able to do it.) Qin Xuan had been in this world for eighteen years. The old man who had found him had passed away just before the New Year. Qin Xuan took over the old man’s line of work and became a funeral ritual specialist. Who could have guessed that his very first job would involve something sin 865Reads7.2Score11114d adds
- 124 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Rhino Island 续盗墓笔记之犀牛岛 The original cast returns, with strange arts, ingenious mechanisms and traps, and first-person exploration. A breathtaking secret lies hidden on an island off the southeastern coast, shaped like a rhinoceros! Come explore all kinds of unknown places! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Rental Notes 出租笔记 A city needs police officers, doctors, nurses, firefighters, sanitation workers, and many others to keep it safe and thriving. But that's only what you see on the surface. There are also people working behind the scenes for the city. They ask for no reward and care nothing for fame; they simply guard the city in silence. Some are injured, some are left disabled, and some die. Those who survive keep going. If it were up to you, would you sacrifice a few people to bring happiness to the majority? 1Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 126 The Enigmatic Files 迷离档案 A psychologist skilled in behavioral analysis is drawn into a series of bizarre murders. Each case seems connected to him. This is a battle of wits, strange and uncanny... But when he finally gets close to the truth, he discovers that everything conceals a shocking mystery. (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.) 825Reads9.0Score10714d adds
- 127 I Have a Book That Suppresses Ghosts 我有一本镇鬼书 [Wild imagination + ghost taming + fighting ghosts] [Punching Japanese Onmyoji in the face + kicking Satanist exorcists] During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the unorthodox Taoist Song Dingbo sealed more than a hundred evil ghosts that plagued the world inside a notebook. After his death, the notebook was buried with him in a grave on Yunwu Mountain. As the years passed, the grave was damaged one day in 2012, releasing all the ghosts. Li San, who happened to be on a mission nearby, was accidentally p 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Years I Spent Locked Up at Xishan Base 我被关在西山基地的那些年 [Xishan Base, Book Two] [Containment fiction, no female lead] From the moment Chen Jiangwen set foot in Xishan Base, he was no longer an ordinary person. He left his mundane life behind, and from then on, he would face the deepest mysteries of the world. Terrifying, uncanny monsters; concepts that kill without a trace; supreme beings from beyond; or rebellion and strife within humanity itself. None of it had anything to do with Chen Jiangwen, because no anomaly could affect him. And yet it all h 2.7kReads7.7Score42214d adds
- 129 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 359Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Tomb Raiding: Yin-Yang Secrets and Ancient Tomb Check-Ins 盗墓：阴阳秘术，打卡古墓 Shu Xing transmigrates into a mysterious and dangerous tomb-raiding world, and enters an ancient tomb from the start. Fortunately, he obtains a System: by performing specific actions inside tombs, he can earn all kinds of rewards. From exploring the tomb of a Jin general to setting fire to Queen Jingjue, and then venturing to the Heavenly Palace in the Clouds, Shu Xing gradually grows into a powerful explorer with the System's help and his own ingenuity. He always holds fast to the belief that “ —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Chronicles of Tianlong's Rivers and Mountains 天龙山河录 In the final years of the Northern Song dynasty, flames of war spread across Yanmen Pass. Qiao Xiaoshi, Duan Yunlan, Murong Wanqing, Yelü Yuan, Master Kongchen, the wanderer Yan Qing... The Ten Heroes of Tianlong assemble in a blaze of passion. They do not head south to escape the chaos. They go north to defend the nation’s gates! There is chivalry, tenderness, love of country, and faith. A Jin Yong-inspired spirit, classic wuxia, and a thrilling ensemble cast. Come join the fight! 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 216Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Tales of Tomb Raiding in Southern China 南派盗墓往事 [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Suspense] In the 1990s, I was just a minor antique dealer who traded in bones. Then I mistakenly bought a burial object, and from that moment on, I embarked on a one-way journey across a thousand years... To find the answers, I had no choice but to wander between the worlds of the living and the dead, crossing mountains and seas and traversing deserts and wastelands. At the very source of it all, I finally uncovered the truth behind the baffling mystery... 1kReads7.3Score13814d adds
- 134 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 528Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 135 The Haunted House Awakens 复苏的恐怖屋 Transmigrating into a haunted house was bad enough, but then it nearly got demolished. Think that's the worst of it? No. The worst part is that the supernatural really exists in this world, and those things have come inside me... 90Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 136 A Miao Village Romance: The Gu Witch Descends the Mountain to Solve a Murder 苗寨情缘：蛊女下山破命案 [Live streaming, Taoist priests, poison sorceresses, spirit mediums, supernatural events and ghosts. Strong female lead, weaker male lead] I’m Fu Qing, a poison sorceress. I learned to raise and practice poisons from my grandmother as a child, and it took a toll on my body. When I was ten, an old man came to our stockade and said we were fated to meet, and that I was born to become a Taoist priest. Was he joking? I practiced poisons. How could I possibly study Taoism? My grandmother was friends 42Reads—Score14914d adds
- 137 I Was Too Invincible in My Past Life, So I Was Forced to Become Everyone's Idol 前世太无敌，我被迫成了全民偶像 [Live Streaming + Mind-Bending Mysteries + Supernatural Suspense + No Heroine + Tomb Raiding + Antiques Appraisal + Spiritual Qi Revival + Not a Power Fantasy] After transmigrating into a parallel world with a severely fractured civilization, Yang Tian became a treasure-hunting streamer. A malicious smear campaign forced him to end his livestreams. At the lowest point of his career, he was saddled with a gambling-addicted younger brother who was a complete liability, and somehow ended up with an 95Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 138 Bureau 749: Classified Files 749局绝密档案 Bureau 749: Do you want to know its secrets? The dead returning to life? Vampiric zombies? Clones? All will be revealed here. 785Reads7.4Score10814d adds
- 139 My Years as a Tomb Raider 我当摸金校尉的那些年 Forty years ago, a great flood exposed an ancient tomb from the Warring States period. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather led me back into the tomb. A ghost village deep in the mountains, black-haired zongzi, yin-yang child servants... My companions and I escaped death again and again, yet still couldn't get out of this cursed land! What caused both groups of tomb raiders to die horrific deaths? And what was it that scared my grandfather out of his mind? Never dig when dang 13kReads8.4Score91514d adds
- 140 Shan Hai Hunter: Hou Yi Possesses Me from the Start, and I Slay the Great Serpent 山海猎人：开局后羿附身斩大蛇 [New book: Shanhai Sequence: My Kunpeng Can Transform, a new story with a new system.] [Classic of Mountains and Seas] + [Forbidden Zones] + [Hunter x Hunter] + [giant beasts] + [Spiritual Qi Revival] + [invincible power fantasy] In June 2013, the head of the Qin family of the Northwest led a group of elite Hunters into the Death Valley forbidden zone in the Kunlun Mountains to stop a Golden-Winged Great Roc from undergoing tribulation. Not one of them made it out alive. In November 2016, rumo 1.2kReads6.3Score10414d adds
- 141 Snatching Immortality 抢仙 [Mystery and adventure + occult battles + a nontraditional path to immortality + ruins around the world] I've practiced Daoism for twenty years and watched my master ascend with my own eyes. Becoming an immortal has become an obsession. But the Heavenly Dao has run out of opportunities for me. I'm just one step away, yet the gap is as vast as heaven and earth. The chance to become an immortal should be somewhere between the highest heavens and the deepest underworld, but I can find it nowhere. I 55Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 142 Global Mutation: My Exclusive Pocket Dimension 异化全球：我的专属空间秘境 [Spiritual Qi Revival] + [Superpowers] + [Infinite Flow] As Earth grows ever larger and demons from another world appear more and more frequently, humanity fights back while searching for the source of it all. As one demon after another is defeated and secret realms are explored, the truth gradually comes to light, but humanity is powerless to change it. For An Yu, the truth about the world doesn’t matter. What matters most is managing his own pocket realm and living well in this world where the 4.7kReads8.5Score21614d adds
- 143 The Nether Mausoleum 幽陵 A fleeting dream, a glance at passing scenes; eight thousand ghosts emerge from this realm. The Dragon Palace's blue waters are the real world; immortals point out the ancient kings of Shu... With nothing but a treasure-hunting verse, the Xiling Divine Manual, Bai Ze accidentally tore through a veil that had concealed secrets for millennia. The ancient age of slash-and-burn farming, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Yanzi creating the heavens, Fuxi making humankind: all seem both real and 556Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 144 The Secret Records of Evil Spirits 邪灵秘录 A healer saves lives, but medicine is divided into “living medicine” and “dead medicine.” A group of young people journey through remote mountain valleys, deserts, and snowy wilderness. They venture along the boundary between life and death, exploring lost techniques. This is a shocking mystery hidden among mountains, rivers, and vast wilderness... 690Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 145 The Heavenly Wolf Feng Shui Master 天狼风水师 “The Heavenly Wolf reborn, feng shui as the blade, medicine as the heart; through the mortal world's purgatory, beauty at his side, he breaks the deadlock and changes fate!” He is a lone star born under the Heavenly Wolf, and humanity’s savior. The night Li Xingfan was born, the Heavenly Wolf star fell into the mortal world. The three elders of Zhongnan declared: “If this child does not learn the secret arts, he will not live past twelve.” At seven, he heads up Zhongnan Mountain. There, he learn 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Dragonbrush's 30th Book: Writing the World 龙笔写天下第30本书 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau: The Sequel 民调局异闻录后传 Twenty-six years ago, when I was born, someone told my fortune and said my fate was tainted by ill luck. So my grandfather gave me a name meant to ward it off: Shen La. Twenty years ago, when I was six, I innocently saw a friend from that other world. Four years ago, when I was still a special forces soldier, I took part in a bizarre incident. Fate led me to an organization called the Bureau of Folk Affairs Investigation and Research, where I became an investigator. From that day on, my nightmar 1kReads9.4Score—14d adds
- 148 Unemployed Right After Graduation? The 749th Bureau Recruited Me at My Door 毕业即失业？我被749上门征召 [Transmigration] [No Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Upright Values] If you don't like it, don't read. After transmigrating to the parallel world of the Great Xia Kingdom, Qin Yi's golden finger turns out to be a cookbook. This cookbook is strange: its main ingredients all come from supernatural creatures, and eating them makes Qin Yi's strength improve by leaps and bounds. [Raw Hound-Wolf Loin: Gain the spell Wolf Charge after eating. Turn qi into a wolf, and sweep all before you.] [Charc 4.8kReads7.6Score35714d adds
- 149 Tomb Raiding: In the Company of a Snake Spirit 盗墓：蛇灵的陪伴 At a convention, Lin Ci became a display prop because of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. But can someone tell me why a convention would turn dangerous, too?! And why did I transmigrate? "Huh? Why does this little boy have a Qilin tattoo?" But why am I a snake? Hey, where's my body? "Help me!" "Wait, something's not right. I'm a guy too, Ah Ling. What are you doing?" 33Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 150 Tales of Feng Shui, Tomb Raiding, and the Supernatural 风水盗墓灵异录 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, tomb raiding, feng shui, the supernatural, tomb exploration, retrieving corpses from water, suspense, pranks, ghost hunting, coffins, ghosts and monsters, the Eight Trigrams and other esoteric arts, dragon seeking and acupoint locating, sorcery, adventure, warding off evil, metaphysics His grandfather left Li Qing an old tomb-raiding journal, a bronze compass, a soul-suppressing staff, and a jade gourd. At midnight, at the bottom of the corpse-filled valley in Yang 42Reads—Score—14d adds
