Novels like The Third World You Don't Know
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- 101 A Century of the Supernatural 百年灵异 This is a truly unusual book, recording the supernatural events that took place in a village over the course of a century. These events are unlike traditional tales of ghosts, fox spirits, demons, and immortals. There is none of the vulgar promotion of superstition or idealism found in popular culture. Instead, the book is filled with the world's strangeness and unknowns, leaving readers baffled. After the shock and terror, you can't help but question and imagine what lies beyond, and find yours 8Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 102 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score126Shelves
- 103 Memoirs of the Kunlun Mountains, 1978 1978年昆仑山回忆录 In the autumn of 1978, Professor Zhang Wenli and his party arrived from Beijing in Yingdudaban to carry out a routine site survey lasting fifteen days. As a local assistant, I was honored to work alongside the professors from Beijing. But this ordinary survey was soon plagued by one unexpected incident after another... 5.2kReads8.8Score425Shelves
- 104 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 215Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 105 My Mother-in-Law Used Dark Tricks to Force Me Out of the House, So I Let the Whole Village Hear My Late Husband's Last Words 婆婆放阴逼我让房，我让全村听见亡夫遗言 My mother-in-law used shady tricks to force me out of the house. I made the whole village hear my late husband's final words 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Evil Spirit Auction Game 恶灵拍卖游戏 [Dungeon-focused] + [Brand-new system] + [Feel-good power fantasy] Chu Nan is a student who has just finished his college entrance exams. He and a few close friends sign up together for the “Adventure King” summer camp. Unexpectedly, the journey proves perilous, with classmates disappearing and one mishap following another. His close friends and classmates are all kidnapped by the evil spirit, Teacher Mo. With no other choice, Chu Nan is forced to take part in a terrifying spirit auction game in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 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... 317Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 108 You Fake Taoist, I Didn’t Know You Were the Real Deal! 骗子道士，没想到你是真会啊！ [Ghost stories + hilarious comedy + urban legends] As the supernatural resurges and the world descends into chaos, Lin Yu, a fake Taoist, awakens the Dao Ancestor System. He exorcises ghosts to earn merit, which he uses to draw character cards and take on the forms of Taoist disciples from across the myriad worlds. Faced with all kinds of vicious, uncanny, and sinister ghosts, he transforms into a holy master of myriad realms, the Thunder Lord... Wang Lingguan, the Three-Eyed Deity... becoming e 36.5kReads6.5Score5.7kShelves
- 109 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 3.2kReads7.7Score399Shelves
- 110 The Vein Agreement 矿脉协议 What lies buried deep underground is not ore, but a forbidden secret no living person should ever touch. In the mountains of the middle and lower Yangtze River region, Qingyan Phosphate Mine in Y City, H Province, is a flagship provincial mine owned by one of the area’s pillar industries. It has comprehensive procedures and advanced equipment, and in more than twenty years of operation, it has never had an accident. During the War of Resistance, a Japanese geological survey team entered an old 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Urban: I Have a Demon-Slaying Blade 都市：我有一柄捉妖刀 [No female lead] [Tang sword] [Side characters are hilarious] [Take good advice and you’ll never go hungry. That’s my opinion!] What is a yao? A yao brings chaos! I have a blade that can rid the world of every yao! When the yaos of this world see my blade, they’re all terrified, their courage and wits vanishing! When the yaos of this world see my blade, they’re all horrified, with nowhere to run! The young Wang Ran carries a blade through the world for one reason only: to kill yaos! “Grandpa sai 467Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 112 Special Forces: The Nation's Most Important Asset 特种兵之国之重器 Su Lin is a king among soldiers, feared by military personnel in every country. He is also a member of the shadow unit that stands behind his homeland and protects it with their lives! Brash and domineering, he not only has powerful connections that can cover the sky with one hand, but is also a true genius of his age! If war comes, he will answer the call! Just how will Su Lin, who stops at nothing to achieve his goals, write his own blazing legend...? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 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—Shelves
- 114 The Dream of the True Page Tao: A World Made Real from Illusions 真页道之梦化虚界 The supernatural returns, alongside alchemical arts, thunder magic, talismans, the 749 Bureau, and battles between Chinese and foreign practitioners. This is a secret chronicle of cultivation, ghost slaying, demon-smiting, and god-killing. Mysteries are gradually awakening. Where do ghosts, monsters, spirits, and demons come from? Immortals have attained the Dao, but the gods are hard to summon. The world is mired in desire. How can anyone cross over to safety? With the power of the Dream Realm, 229Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 115 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 4.1kReads9.2Score418Shelves
- 116 Notes from a Folklore Archaeology Team 民俗考古队手记 The true experiences of Lin Ye, a 24-year-old graduate student in folklore. I went to the countryside with my advisor to survey funeral customs. On my first day in the village, I saw five words carved into the stone tablet at the entrance: “Do not enter the village at dusk.” The village elders taught me: If someone calls your name at night, don’t answer. A funeral basin must be smashed in one blow. When you leave the village, don’t look back. I wrote down each rule in my notebook, treating it as 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 107Reads—Score121Shelves
- 118 I Delivered Food to the Dead 23 Times. The 24th Recipient Was Me 我给死人送了23次外卖，第24次收件人是我自己 I Delivered Takeout to the Dead 23 Times. The 24th Recipient Was Me 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 After My Sister Vanished, My Prosthetic Eye Started Sounding the Alarm 妹妹失踪后，我的义眼开始报警 Synopsis [Urban action and adventure + anti-scam survival + suspense] Former special police officer Jiang Che's younger sister, Jiang Yao, was lured by a high-paying job offer to the “Jinlan Federation” in Southeast Asia. He goes undercover alone to Blackstone Valley to search for clues. The tactical lens over his right eye can map the terrain, but it can't stop bullets. At the compound, he meets Cheng Ye, an imprisoned programmer; Wen Xi, an undercover female doctor; and Lao Zhong, an informant 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 As a God, I Expose Every Mystery in the World 身为神的我揭露世间一切神秘 (Mysterious creatures + livestreaming + episodic stories + gore + mild horror) Above countless universes lies the boundless Realm of Void. They say only beings that have broken through the limits of the universe are qualified to enter. Ye Qingchi served as a divine official, maintaining the Realm of Void for 97.14 million years. But disaster struck without warning, and she was wanted by the new city lord. Outmatched, she had no choice but to flee with her best friend Mu Tianrou to a remote unive —Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 121 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 122 The Ancient Tomb Code 古墓密码 I was sentenced to life in prison for tomb raiding. I thought that was bad enough, but then The Dragon Head Maze, the Flying Ancient House, the ghost ship at sea... They all led me to a huge secret. “Open this door. Everything you want to know and everything you want is inside.” 4.9kReads8.1Score758Shelves
- 123 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 240Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Legend of the Investiture of the Gods: Summoning Heroes Across the Ages 封神传奇，召唤万古英烈 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no stupidity, and not a power fantasy. Read with caution if these bother you.) When chaos first divided, Pangu came before the Three Pure Ones; the Taiji, Two Forms, and Four Images hung in the heavens. The first year was Zi, the second Chou, and humanity appeared in Yin; the wise Youchao saved us from the beasts. Suiren found fire, so we no longer ate raw food; Fuxi drew the trigrams before yin and yang. Shennong brought order to the 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Water-Taming Beast 镇水兽 They say a fish couldn't possibly survive for seventy years, yet this one has been wreaking havoc for just as long! What lies beneath the waters of the Mian River, so shocking that it has dragged so many people down to their deaths? The surface of the rivers you see may seem calm, but you might not know that in those terrifying, eerie depths, a water guardian beast could be lurking, striking at lives as fragile as moths before they even know it's there, like a demon on the hunt... 719Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 126 I Told You to Be a Taoist, So Why Did You Strike My Ex-Girlfriend with Lightning? 让你当道士，你却雷劈前女友？ [Folk Horror + Lighthearted Comedy + No Female Lead + Decisive and Ruthless + Packed with Jokes + Slow Start] After my girlfriend broke up with me, she ran off to northern Myanmar to work in sales for someone else. When she came back, she'd turned into an evil ghost who wanted to rip out my kidneys. To save myself, I accidentally became a Taoist priest. I'm not much good at the arts, but I've got a real talent for cursing people out! I learn thunder magic and raise fierce spirit soldiers. I'm a 11.7kReads8.2Score860Shelves
- 127 A Thousand-Year-Old Corpse Immortal Opens His Eyes, and the World Is Free of Ghosts 千年尸仙，睁眼后人间无诡 He lay in his coffin for a thousand years. At dusk, when an archaeological team pried open the lid, Chen Xuan opened his eyes. A sealing formation from the Demon Suppression Division instantly descended. Eighteen golden chains coiled around his limbs, the old professor collapsed in terror, and everyone in the warehouse screamed. But Chen Xuan rose to his feet and shattered the formation with one palm. “When a thousand-year-old corpse opens its eyes, no more monsters will run rampant in the morta 239Reads—Score125Shelves
- 128 Superpowers Erupt, and a Group of Teens Upend the World! 异能爆发，一群少年掀翻世界！ [Urban Supernatural Powers, No System, Plot-Driven, No Angst, Not Brain-Dead, Conceptual Supernatural Abilities] Do you really understand this world? Have you ever suspected that the world has another side? Beneath this city, in its dark corners. “Old Shen! I've discovered the truth about the world!” “This is serious! We'll talk in person!” “Wait! Run!!!” “I can't remember, Old Shen. Why can I suddenly remember everything!” “There's no time! Run! I'll stay behind and hold it off!” “No!!!” “You a 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 A Tomb Raider's Life 盗墓生涯 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, eerie world opened up before my eyes. Beneath a mysterious thousand-year-old tomb, half were tomb raiders, and the other half were... 561Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 130 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—Shelves
- 131 Awakened as a Wordsmith, Can Even My Wild Boasts Come True? 觉醒言灵师，吹牛逼也能实现？ [Parallel Worlds] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Urban Superpowers] Fang Yuan wakes up to find the campus beauty lying beside him. He immediately feels like he has a massive headache. He thinks everything will go back to normal after one night, but the campus beauty ends up clinging to him. And she isn't the only one. After awakening his superpower, Fang Yuan realizes he's surrounded by beautiful women. Years later, Fang Yuan sits on the rooftop, lights a cigarette, and sighs: Life really 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 You Asked Me to Tell Fortunes, but You Turned a Warlord into the Living Yama 让你算命，你把军阀投资成活阎王 In a chaotic Republic-era world, evil spirits run rampant, the Daoist sects are hidebound, and foreign occult forces are invading. After Chen Changsheng, a man blinded in both eyes, unexpectedly unlocks the Republic-era Fortune Venture Capital System, he can glimpse the fortune charts of all things and invest in down-and-out beings at rock-bottom prices. Once they survive their death trials, he reaps tenfold returns in fortune, cultivation, and magical treasures. He rejects the traditional path 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 From the Start, I Became a Ghost Emperor and Turned Myself In to the Nation! 开局成鬼帝，我把自己上交国家！ [The supernatural descends + No System + A national strategic asset + No heroine + Invincible!] What do you do when you transmigrate to a world where the supernatural has descended and discover that you’ve become a ghost? Most people would probably hide, terrified that the authorities might hunt them down! But Jiang Ge has other ideas! As soon as he realizes he’s become a ghost, he turns himself in to the government without hesitation! If I surrender quickly enough, no one can lay a hand on me! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 City Supernatural Shelter: I Balance the Books and Vanquish Ghosts Across the Land 都市收容所：我靠查账平了天下鬼 On the third day after passing the civil service exam and starting my new job, I finally learned that my department was a containment facility specializing in urban anomalies. The section chief slapped a stack of old case files onto my desk. "Xiao Shen, settle the mess this building left behind thirty years ago." I opened the first page. It read: "The last person who investigated these accounts is buried behind the hill." 7Reads6.4Score185Shelves
- 135 749 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 2kReads8.9Score181Shelves
- 136 Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Case Files of the Unusual: New Century 异案调查录2：新世纪 A century marks one hundred years. In this new century, technology and information are advancing at breakneck speed, and all kinds of bizarre cases are springing up everywhere. News of them spreads faster than ever before. A boy who can only walk by hopping, another person's face appearing in the village well, a human shadow appearing on a factory warehouse wall in the middle of the night, and more... Only the Unusual Cases Investigation Bureau can handle this series of bizarre incidents... 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 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—Shelves
- 139 Department of Paranormal Investigations II 神秘事件调查处【贰】 The X-Files Investigation Bureau, Part Two “That's a dragon!” “No, there are no dragons. That's a kite, that's a black plastic bag, that's a bird soaring through a storm. You've read Haiyan, haven't you? Exactly.” In 1968, our country established Institute 507, whose full name was the Institute of Space Medicine and Engineering. Later, as more and more supernatural events were discovered, the institute began handling certain cases. In September 1974, some departments of Institute 507 were split 6.4kReads8.8Score569Shelves
- 140 Hundred Gates 佰门 Introducing the new novel, "From Mortal Flesh to Sainthood". [A slow start] [A male lead who grows over time] [Steady progression] The Hundred Schools of Thought each have their own extraordinary skills. As the apocalypse approaches, heroes vie for supremacy! The School of Diplomacy excels at political maneuvering. The Confucians can make their words come true. The Zhuge clan commands the arts of divination and strategy. The Military School can turn beans into soldiers. The Celestial Star School 689Reads8.5Score107Shelves
- 141 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 469Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 142 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 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 I Died 49 Times in Class Zero of Senior Year 我在高三零班死了四十九次 I Died 49 Times in Senior Year Class Zero 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 As the Whole Village Called Back the Soul of His Missing Son, He Came Home Through the Door 全村替失踪的儿子收魂时，他从门外回来了 As the whole village performs a soul-summoning ritual for their missing son, he comes home through the front door. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 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!! 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Huaxia Bureau for Protecting the Nation from Alien Affairs 华夏外星事务护天局 This book is a prequel to Strange Tales of Chang'an, which will continue to be updated. All ideas come from deep space. I wrote it independently, and it was not generated by AI. Updates whenever inspiration strikes. To the advanced-civilization infiltrators among my readers: please ignore me. I can't see through your light-based disguises, so I don't know who's who. 733Reads8.4Score114Shelves
- 147 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... 1kReads7.3Score141Shelves
- 148 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 529Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 149 The White-Haired Swordsman: The 749 Bureau's Secret Chronicle of the Nine Provinces 白发执剑人749局秘藏九州录 Synopsis "With white hair as my offering, I wield my sword to protect five thousand years of Chinese civilization!" In 2023, Xu Kun, a genius from Qingbei, is forced to awaken. He is the last heir to the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor. His hair turns white strand by strand, and in his hand is a broken fragment of the Xuanyuan Sword, capable of slaying gods and demons. Secret files from Bureau 749 record: A curse left by Xu Fu has surfaced beneath the Yellow River in Zhengzhou. Cutting off th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 The Celestial Tribulation Inspection Bureau 天劫巡检司 Whenever a cultivator in Linchuan City undergoes tribulation, the Heavenly Tribulation Inspection Bureau must survey the area in advance and verify the tribulation order to prevent stray lightning from harming innocent people. On his first solo night patrol, trainee inspector Shen Yan encounters a tribulation that should never have happened. The order calls for three bolts of lightning, but the scene bears seven scorch marks and eight corpses. The dead have no names, the order lists no target, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
