Novels like Honghuang: Houtu's Disciple Builds a Mythic Underworld
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- 151 I'm Not a God of Theater: Prequel, the Outer-Domain Demon 我不是戏神前传之域外天魔 Wife, do you know that the child in your womb is a reborn Immortal Emperor? I was a mad scholar locked away in a psychiatric hospital, yet I became the final hope of the gods of the Three Realms! The extraterrestrial demon Cthulhu is about to invade, and the civilization of Blue Star is on the brink of destruction. The Jade Emperor and Lady Houtu have personally appeared in my dreams to beg me to emerge from seclusion! But I'm just an ordinary guy who drove himself insane trying to make money b 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Baby Lantern 婴儿灯 When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light... 208Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Warlords' Contest: My Huo Qubing Runs Rampant 领主争霸，我的霍去病杀疯了 [Rebuilding the Underworld + Ruthless and Decisive + Yin Emperor] Lords compete for supremacy, recruit troops, and fight against myriad races. Li Hao takes charge of Fengdu Underworld from the start, wielding the Book of Life and Death. He summons the God of War Huo Qubing, the God of Slaughter Bai Qi, the world’s greatest strategist, Fan Ma Kongzi, the number-one female spy, and the master craftsman Lu Ban. He obtains the unique Ghost troop type. Not only are they immortal, they grow more numer —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Xuanhuan: I Lead Hundreds of Millions of Yin Soldiers to Rebuild the Underworld 玄幻：我率领亿万阴兵，重建地府 Chen Qiye transmigrated into a fantasy world, only to find it crawling with countless vicious ghosts that preyed on people and stole their lives. Fortunately, the most powerful Underworld Emperor System awakened within him. Summon Heibai Wuchang to seize wandering souls and slay evil ghosts! Summon the Yin soldiers and generals, throw open the gates of the underworld, and set a hundred ghosts roaming by night! Summon judges and City Gods to punish evil, uphold good, and keep the mortal realm i 15.7kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 155 What?! The Paper Effigy Shop Owner Is a Feng Shui Master! 惊！纸扎店老板，竟是玄学大佬！ [Strongest female lead + occult expert + satisfying power fantasy + no romance] Xia Bai's master left her a house. She uses it to get a secure civil-service job in the Underworld. From then on, she spends her days taking on every job she can find, all to help build a new Underworld. Substitute ghosts? Off to reincarnation with you! Borrowed lifespans? That's against Underworld regulations. Go downstairs and face your punishment. Anglers? You want to chum the waters on the Bridge of Helplessness? 8.2kReads8.8Score947Shelves
- 156 Ferryman: From the Start, Keeping Watch Over the Campus Beauty at the Crematorium 摆渡人：开局在火葬场给校花守灵 [Urban + campus beauty + college life + supernatural + ferryman + underworld + firearms] Heavenly Funeral Home Hiring Notice: Location: Cremation Room Job: Corpse Handler Pay: Day shift, 800 per day; night shift, 1,200 per day (must work at least seven days!) Requirements: Brave, no high blood pressure, heart disease, mental illness... Netizen 1: "Is anything scarier than being broke? 1,200 for one night? I'd not only carry corpses, I'd chase them down if they ran away." Netizen 2: "1,200 fo 5kReads9.0Score336Shelves
- 157 My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪 I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 A Tujia Daoist by the Wu River 乌江边的土家道士 A graduate of a top university, unable to pass the civil service exam after years of trying and considering his family circumstances, accepts his family’s legacy and becomes a home-based Taoist priest. This Tao is not that Tao: it’s nothing like the Taoist priests we normally imagine. There are no strict rules and taboos, nor any grand mission to save all humanity. Yet this Tao is also that Tao: he wears the same robes, communicates with the realms of yin and yang, and does what he can to help. 844Reads6.5Score104Shelves
- 159 Demons Run Amok, and I’m Reborn as a Sacred Mountain 妖魔乱世，我重生成了一座神山 [Behind-the-scenes protagonist + Management + Ensemble cast + Decisive and ruthless + Character growth] After transmigrating to a fantasy world ravaged by demons, Li Yue is reborn as a mountain. A group of refugees live at its foot. When demons attack, he steps in and saves them. They then revere him as a mountain god and begin worshipping him. The refugees offer him the prey they catch, praying for the mountain god's protection. Li Yue returns their kindness by blessing them and helping them gr 10.6kReads8.6Score690Shelves
- 160 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 24kReads8.9Score2.9kShelves
- 161 The Great Sage Returns 3: Endless Journey 大圣归来3无尽征途 [The Strongest Sun Wukong in History] [Creating a Different Kind of Passionate Xuanhuan Xianxia World] The third installment in the Great Sage Returns series continues the invincible journey of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. "Brother, have you really decided to go in alone?" Before a mysterious vortex, two young men stood shoulder to shoulder. Sun Wukong nodded. "It's time to uncover the secret behind the vortex." Beyond the vortex lies a new journey, and here is hidden the ultimate secret of t 49.3kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
- 162 After Binding the Underworld System, I Had a Blast Taking Down Scumbags 绑了冥府系统后虐渣爽爆了 [Metaphysics, supernatural, mutual healing, strong heroine, sweet romance, satisfying and smart] After Chi Zao is reborn and bound to a System, her daily tasks are to catch ghosts, guide souls, and stop powerful figures from turning evil. Mocked as a scarred beauty with a ruined face? She’ll grab a bottle of scar-removing elixir from the System shop. Born poor, with no power or influence? President Chi, your company has gone public. Feng shui masters chase after her, begging to take her as their 2.4kReads9.2Score521Shelves
- 163 My Sect Has Eleven Graves 我的门派有十一座坟 Fantasy and the supernatural, with a lighthearted, humorous tone and a touch of horror. My name is Zhang Shiyi. I have ten senior brothers, so my name is Zhang Shiyi. But all ten of my senior brothers are dead. They’re lying in the graves outside. What? My master? He’s dead too. The biggest, roundest grave is his. Haha~ Well, congratulations, then~ Get ready to sing: Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you, hey! Congratulations, congratulations to you~ 24.2kReads9.1Score2kShelves
- 164 The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人 I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but 5.5kReads9.0Score476Shelves
- 165 The Living Hell of the Immortal Realm 长生天之人间炼狱 I'm the damn heir to the title of Great Emperor, yet I've been put through hell in the mortal world. When I return to claim my throne, I'll use my blade to wash away every humiliation I've suffered! Demon Emperor, just you wait! Fifteen days in heaven, one hundred and fifty years on earth. That's more than enough time! 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Honghuang: Wholesale Immortal Pills, but You Didn’t Mention the Side Effects 洪荒：仙丹批发商，副作用你不说 After transmigrating into the primordial world, he unexpectedly becomes the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir refined by Taiqing, coveted by every living creature in the land! Fortunately, he becomes Taiqing's disciple and awakens the Good Deeds System. Every elixir he makes becomes ten times more potent. Giving one to someone else earns him a random reward, but could also trigger a random side effect? Xuandu eats an elixir and turns into a little girl? Winged Immortal eats one, his wings grow ten times l 13.6kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
- 167 Xuanhuan: I Simulate Becoming a God While Listening to Music in the Brothel 玄幻：勾栏听曲的我，模拟成神 [Fantasy, simulator, playing it safe, no female lead, exploration and progression; not pure wish fulfillment.] [Important note: In real life, he plays it safe. Most of the story takes place in simulations.] Jiang Yifeng transmigrated as the eldest son of the Jiang Merchant Guild in the Great You Kingdom. He thought this was an ancient society where he could spend his whole life lounging in the pleasure houses, listening to music, and taking it easy. But five years after he transmigrated, a simul 69.8kReads8.4Score8.4kShelves
- 168 Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录 [A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I 6kReads9.1Score579Shelves
- 169 The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师 Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha 30.9kReads8.1Score2.4kShelves
- 170 Strange Phenomena Run Rampant: I Investiture the Gods in Another World 诡异横行：我在异世敕封神明 [No System] [No Female Lead] [Relatively Slow-Burn] [Character Growth] Zhang Xuan is from Jibei Province. According to his grandfather, their family is a direct descendant of the Jiangxi Longhu Mountain lineage. His grandfather named him Zhang Xuan, saying he had the talent to attain the Dao. He hoped Zhang Xuan would become a figure like the Celestial Master Zhang Daoling, and that future generations would call him Zhang Daoxuan. But Zhang Xuan scoffed at the idea and didn’t believe a word of i 20.8kReads8.3Score1.6kShelves
- 171 I Am the Lord of Yama, Leading My Ghost Army to Sweep Across All Races 我，阎罗领主，率鬼军横扫万族 [Transmigration + System + Invincible + Reborn] Under the System’s control, billions of people transmigrate and are reborn on the Creation Continent as lords of their own territories. Every lord receives an initial building for recruiting troops. They can recruit units, grow their forces, plunder resources, and compete against the myriad races. To Xu Ye’s surprise, his initial troop-building structure is actually the Gate of the Underworld! It can summon countless ghosts to fight the myriad race 11.6kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 172 Dumped from the Start, I Awaken the Ten Yama Kings! 开局被分手，我觉醒十殿阎罗！ [SSS-Rank from the Start, Elegant and Unbeatable, Plenty of Trump Cards, No System] Hey, everyone! My girlfriend, the campus belle, dumped me right from the start. But I didn’t panic. As the reincarnation of the Netherworld Emperor, I immediately awakened the SSS-Rank Ten Halls of the Underworld! What? As a transmigrator, I don’t have a System? Still, no need to panic! I have the innate Forbidden Red Paper Umbrella! Let the invading foreign races come, let the myriad realms descend! Draw the swo 61.1kReads8.7Score5.1kShelves
- 173 In the Apocalypse, the Gods Toy with Mortals, but I, Ye Fan, Defy Heaven and Slay the Gods 末世诸神愚戏凡人我叶凡逆天斩神 Synopsis: The whole world is dragged into a deadly deception called the “Faith Game.” Everyone struggles to survive, but I’ve been abandoned by the gods?! When everyone receives a “game notification” and becomes a player under one of the sixteen Primordial Gods, I, Ye Fan, the most devout follower of the God of Fate, am mercilessly shut out! No guidance, no System, no divine favor. I’m like a bug forgotten by the world! What kind of joke is this? The bustling city turns into a blood-soaked pr 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年 Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin 4.8kReads—Score324Shelves
- 175 Uncle Nine: I Copy Traits, and Ren Tingting Begs Me in Tears to Marry Her 九叔，复制词条任婷婷哭着求嫁 [Zombie manipulation, humorous traits, recruiting disciples across film and TV worlds] Lin Fan transmigrates to Renjia Town, becomes Uncle Ninth’s disciple, and awakens the Trait Copying System. He can even combine traits without limit! Five Thunder Spell (Gold), Qimen Dunjia (Red), Zhong Kui Possession (Rainbow) Chrysanthemum Corpse Cultivation (Purple), Corpse King’s Tyrant Body (Red), Soul-Reaping Buddhist Chant (Red) Maoshan Corpse Driving (Purple), Sword Control Through Qi (Supreme), Indest 12.2kReads7.3Score840Shelves
- 176 Chen Buqi, the Little Taoist 小道士陈不欺 Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Buqi. My professions include Taoist priest, locksmith, cook, phone repairman, driver, and tomb-raiding consultant…. I have too many to list them all. I was raised by my master and martial uncle! They were both incredible! I only learned that after coming back from my first year out in the world. Because I liked to play around, I also squandered a lot of techniques that people would have envied! Fortunately, I devoted myself to physiognomy and mastered two special 152.6kReads9.1Score13.6kShelves
- 177 Dream Masters for All: My Dreams Come from China's Ancient Past 全民梦师：我的梦境来自千古华夏 [Chinese Gods + Underworld and Heavenly Court + Dreamweaver + Livestreaming] Giant star beasts descended, and the final battle began. Countless civilizations fell, and a rift opened in the heritage of Chinese civilization! Only those who awakened as one-in-ten-thousand dreamweavers could stand against the star beasts! Su Mu transmigrated to this world. From the start, he awakened an S-rank talent and joined the global dreamweaver entrance exam! First question: Create a dream of a dead world. Whi 24.7kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 178 A Daoist Descends the Mountain to Work in a Noodle Shop 道士下山，面馆打杂 [A Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain + Passionate + Has Brothers + Urban Training + Witty + Wish Fulfillment + Ghost Hunting + Zombie Slaying + Organized Group + Cracking Down on Cultivator Crime + Horror] A hostess at a leisure center is sucking people's blood essence. Get rid of her! People keep jumping into the river? A water ghost is harming people. You still want to help it pass on? It harmed people, so get rid of it! A shoddily built tower is haunted... Huh! The ghost lady has earned mer 5.4kReads9.4Score572Shelves
- 179 Transmigrating into a Spy War: My Codename Is God of Wealth 穿越谍战，我的代号是财神 [Espionage + Political Intrigue + Undercover Agent + Supply Trading + The Ultimate Power Fantasy = A Must-Read] Chen Yang, a disposable agent from the Fuxing Society's military training brigade, is ordered to infiltrate Shanghai and gather intelligence. By chance, he gets into a collaborationist Japanese agency and is put in charge of transportation. To better conceal his identity, Chen Yang puts the art of trading money and sex, perfected in a later era, to good use. He conspires with logist 2.3kReads9.3Score281Shelves
- 180 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.2kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 181 Who Let Him Become a Ghost Constable? 谁让他当鬼差的？ After dying, Su Fan transmigrates into the body of a spirit in the Three Realms and becomes a soul-reaping ghost constable in the Underworld. From then on, the whole culture of the Underworld changes. “First of all, let me make this clear: I’m not the one who corrupted the culture of the Underworld. Ghost constables are supposed to reap souls. I’m just doing my job.” “If you can’t keep up with me, don’t blame me for changing the culture.” With that, Su Fan walks out through the Gate of Hell, car 78.2kReads9.3Score6.1kShelves
- 182 I Play Rock-Paper-Scissors with the Mirror at Midnight, and I Won't Sleep Until I Win 半夜和镜子猜拳，我赢一把就睡 The entire Xie family had a rather spooky air about them. His great-great-grandfather was a mountain wanderer, and his great-great-grandmother sewed up corpses. His great-grandfather was a Maoshan Taoist, and his great-grandmother was a spirit medium from Fengtian. His grandfather made paper offerings, his grandmother prepared bodies for burial, his father drove corpses, and his mother raised poison insects. Some of his ancestors even liked to dig themselves out of their graves… As a result, X 5.8kReads9.0Score578Shelves
- 183 The Maoshan Taoist-Buddhist Master 茅山道释 [Maoshan] + [Supernatural] + [Urban Cultivation] + [Stunning Beauties] The mighty Heavenly Emperor is reborn, only to be driven to the brink by a predatory loan contract?! In my previous life, I was Shiti Huan Yindiluo, the Heavenly Emperor. My merits complete, I should have ascended beyond the heavens, but I was ambushed by petty villains, and my divine soul fell into the mortal world! Fortunately, the power of the Sumeru Realm protected me, and I was reborn alongside a Maoshan Celestial Maste 798Reads—Score102Shelves
- 184 Two Menaces from the Underworld Have the Whole City Eavesdropping on Their Gossip 地府两祸害，惹得全城偷听八卦 [Eavesdropping on Inner Thoughts + Golden Finger + Everyone’s Favorite] Note: There is a male lead! The Underworld has two great nuisances: one is a flower, and the other is a book. After the Book of Life and Death, which governs all things in the world, gained sentience, it took advantage of its innate gifts to gossip all day and do no work. After a thousand years, a Manjusaka flower took human form. The King of Hell saw that she had potential and made an exception, appointing her as Granny Men 35.4kReads9.0Score3.6kShelves
- 185 Divinity: The Awakening of the Military Soul, Mythology Is Bound to Descend 神祇：军魂觉醒，神话终将降临 In a world of deities, transcend dimensions and become a god! The Yellow Springs Road of the Forgotten River, the Flowers of the Other Shore, and the Bridge of Helplessness. With a three-spirit altar of heroic spirits, undead, and gods and demons, rebuild Fengdu’s ghost realm, forge the supreme netherworld, and roam the Myriad Worlds! 29kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 186 I Chose Corpse Driving as My Profession, and the Police Are Losing It 个人职业填赶尸，警察麻了 During summer break, Jiang Bai boldly ventured into the mountains of Xixiang and became a corpse walker. He rings the soul-summoning bell, strikes the ritual gong, and walks between the realms of yin and yang. Even ghosts and gods give way! As Jiang Bai leads corpse after corpse out of the mountains, a passing streamer happens to capture it on camera. The whole internet goes wild! "Holy crap, that's the first time I've seen someone offer a cigarette to a corpse. I'm impressed! Old Liu from Shang 11.4kReads7.6Score1.2kShelves
- 187 Maitreya Heavenly Emperor 弥勒天帝 [Mortal cultivation + creation of the heavens and myriad worlds + fantasy + beauties galore] Citi Tianxing has already reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm, yet he resolutely gives up his position as sovereign over all worlds and ventures toward an even higher, unknown realm. He seeks to question the heavens: What is the meaning of cultivation? What is the purpose of creation? Follow him as he battles across the Myriad Worlds, comprehending the great mysteries of darkness, light, life, 150Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 188 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 EN Primordial Styx: Blood God Avatars Spread Across the World 洪荒冥河之血神分身遍天下 The short drama The Strongest Styx Rewrites the Primordial World is complete. Fellow Daoist fans of short dramas, feel free to click in and check it out. A soul from the future transmigrates to the Primordial World and becomes Minghe. He awakens before anyone else and uses billions of clones to lay down a grand formation that morally coerces the entire Primordial World. He attains the Dao before Hongjun. A golden wheel of Great Dao merit shines across the Primordial World. The Heavenly Dao is so 29.6kReads8.6Score1.9kShelves
- 190 I’m a Ghost Officer, So Why Are You Asking Me to Marry the Campus Beauty? 我一个鬼差，你让我跟校花领证？ [Just Started College, and I Married the Aloof Campus Belle] [I’m a ghost officer. You want me to marry the campus belle?] [College Student Ghost Officer] [Campus Belle Wife] [Marriage Before Love] [Ferryman] … Synopsis: On his first day of college, freshman Cao Ning is forced to marry Xia Shihan, his betrothed, whom he has never met. He thinks it’s just a minor incident, but when he returns to campus to register, he discovers that the beautiful upperclasswoman at the registration desk is the ve 40.6kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 191 Cultivating the Demonic Path, Building My Foundation Through Slaughter 修魔成道，杀生筑基 [Demonic Cultivation] [Cold-Blooded and Ruthless] [Decisive and Merciless] [The Dark Side of Human Nature] [The male lead is an ordinary man. There are women, but no female lead.] Consume treasured elixirs to gather qi and improve your cultivation and spells. Xu Sanyan was born among bandits and knows that human life is as worthless as grass: if you don't kill, you'll be killed. To stay alive, he severs the compassion in his heart and unleashes the evil within. To obtain a cultivation manual 21.3kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves
- 192 Honghuang: A Primordial Yin-Yang Flood Dragon, So There Is No More Golden Flood Dragon Scissors 洪荒：先天阴阳蛟，再无金蛟剪 [No System] [Has a Heroine] [Slow-Burn] [Traditional Style] [Sound Logic] [No Conspiracy Theories] [Creative Liberties] I transmigrated into the Primordial World. The good news: I’m a primordial lifeform, and later generations will remember me as a legendary figure. The bad news: the source of that legendary reputation is the treasure made from my corpse, the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, not me while I’m alive, the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon born of primordial yin and yang energy. The convergence of 53.8kReads8.9Score5kShelves
- 193 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 [If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno 2.3kReads8.3Score268Shelves
- 194 Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记 In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!) 1.2kReads—Score131Shelves
- 195 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼 [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 817Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Honghuang: Starting at Buzhou Mountain, I Became a Substitute 洪荒：开局不周山，我成了替身 A wisp of soul accidentally transmigrated into the Primordial World and awakened inside the body of the hapless Creation Green Lotus, which had been struck by lightning since the day it first emerged. But he failed to possess the lotus. Instead, he caused the original lotus to develop sentience, transforming it into twin lotuses that grew side by side. He had become a stand-in. With no System or cheats, and too embarrassed to call himself a transmigrator, Qingxuan didn’t dare dream of dominati 35.7kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves
- 197 A Thousand Years of Sign-In in the Underworld, Then Reincarnating Makes the Empress Cry 地府签到千年，投胎气哭女帝 After Li Heng died, his soul entered the underworld. He thought he would be reincarnated, but instead he unlocked a sign-in System in the Hall of the King of Hell. And so he became a lowly underworld officer who swept floors, wandering through every corner of the underworld. “Ding! You signed in at the Hall of the King of Hell and received the King of Hell's Sword!” “Ding! You signed in on the Eighteenth Level of Hell and received the Primordial Demon God Spear!” “Ding! You signed in at the Hall 15.1kReads8.6Score68kShelves
- 198 The Age of Terror: I Begin as a Gravekeeper 恐怖时代，从成为守墓人开始 [Reborn] + [Eerie] + [Underworld Official Ranks] + [Ghost Control] + [A Little Farming] + [Tomb Construction] An era of terror descended, and a death game began. This was a world where ghost controllers and the eerie coexisted. In his previous life, Chu Qing had been on the verge of becoming the First-Rank Underworld Official, King Chujiang. He was reborn in the future, back to the very beginning of the eerie era. The old rules were on the verge of collapse. Who would rule the dark dawn? Chu Qin 88.3kReads8.9Score7.8kShelves
- 199 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.4kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
- 200 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 8.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
