Novels like The Misty Ailao Mountains
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- 101 Strange Tales from the South 南方灵异事 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 749 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 7.5kReads7.5Score493Shelves
- 103 You Call That a Rule? And You’re Using It? 这是你规则吗你就用 Paranormal phenomena, rules, transferring rule punishments Who can relate? One moment, overworked office drone Lin Ze opened his eyes, and the next he had fallen straight into a rule-based horror apartment! Open the door at midnight and die? Something paranormal pounds on the door, shouting, “Open up!” Lin Ze activates his talent in response: “Transfer Punishment! Let this thing find out what it feels like!” The next second, a bloodcurdling scream comes from outside, and the paranormal thing dro 5Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 104 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Supernatural Revival: From the Start, I Bet on a Livestream from a Psychiatric Hospital 灵异复苏开局对赌直播精神病院 Haunted House Livestream: Three Million to Save a Life. The People of Longguo Never Bow Their Heads [Supernatural revival + No System + No saintly protagonist + Fresh plot + Escape + Exploration + Crime solving + Not dark] Chen Feng opens his eyes in a foot massage parlor to find himself three million in debt and his younger sister on the brink of death! A mysterious creditor offers him a deal: livestream three trips into deadly places, and the money and your life are yours. The first stop is 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Yin-Yang Taboos 阴阳禁忌 My family told me that on the night I was born, an old beggar woman came to my grandfather's house. The moment she saw me, she said nothing and grabbed me by the throat... It wasn't until my grandfather was murdered that I learned the truth. I swore to fulfill every last one of his wishes! 1.5kReads8.4Score123Shelves
- 107 The Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生 I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang. 3.6kReads—Score110Shelves
- 108 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
- 109 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
- 110 Treasure Hunting in the Deep Mountains: A Thrilling Journey on the Brink of Death 深山寻宝，生死边缘的惊险之旅 Treasure Hunting Deep in the Mountains: A Perilous Journey on the Edge of Life and Death 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 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
- 112 Searching for the Herb of Immortality: I Nearly Became a Walking Corpse 为寻不死草：差点变行尸 [Tibetan legends + folk tales of the uncanny + suspenseful exploration + tomb raiding, no beauties, not a power fantasy, no formulaic tropes] Legend has it that Tibet is home to an herb of immortality, which comes in yin and yang varieties. If the living eat the yang herb, they can live forever; if the dead consume it, they can be resurrected. But anyone who eats the yin herb turns into a walking corpse. The herb of immortality is said to grow thousands of meters underground, in a place that T 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆 My name is Zhang Shaobai. Behind our village stands an ancient pagoda that has been guarded for generations. Everyone in the village says it’s cursed. But outsiders refuse to believe it, and for money, I took them to the pagoda. From then on, strange things kept happening around me. It all began with that livestream one night... 220Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 115 Yellow Springs Medical Hall 黄泉医馆 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, ghosts roam at night and the living must keep away. Yet on Linjiang Road, an unremarkable clinic stands with all four doors wide open, inviting every kind of visitor. Above the eaves hangs a gilded plaque bearing four large characters: “Yellow Springs Clinic.” 534Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 116 The Maoshan Heavenly Master 茅山天师 My grandmother’s death indirectly set me on a path completely unlike that of ordinary people. From then on, my fate began to change. The farther I traveled along this road, the more strange things I experienced: underworld messengers, the Eight-Gate Corpse Fiend, the Spirit Rock Ghost Realm, the Kunlun Demon Droughtfiend, and more. Then I suddenly realized that all these events seemed to point toward a conspiracy, one powerful enough to turn the world upside down... 1.6kReads7.5Score107Shelves
- 117 Secrets of the Qinling Mountains 秦岭秘事 A wild imagination, an infinite-flow adventure, people with special abilities, and thrilling journeys. All things return to their origin. My father found me deep in the Qinling Mountains and raised me. When I was twelve, I discovered I had an innate supernatural ability. In my senior year of high school, I fell gravely ill after encountering ghostly flames. To cure me, my father sent me deep into the Qinling Mountains to study under a Daoist cultivator. That was when my transmigration journey be 60.6kReads8.4Score4.4kShelves
- 118 Corpse Veins 尸脉 [No exaggeration, no System, a heartwarming story with a bit of a slow start.] Just a series of exciting adventures and a touching father-daughter bond. I live by one saying: “As a Maoshan disciple, if you see someone die and do nothing, Heaven will strike you down.” 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Stranded in Lop Nur 2 罗布泊绝境余生2 Synopsis Drawn by the lure of Gobi jade and meteorites, Qin Feng, Lin Yue, and ten others drive into the “Sea of Death,” Lop Nor. But the merciless no-man’s-land traps them, and the struggle to survive begins. Sandstorms wreck their vehicles and supplies run out. As they face the desperate prospect of having neither food nor water, former companions become one another’s “competitors”: some betray their teammates by hiding water, some seize food just to stay alive, and others choose to sacrifice 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 The Kunlun Ice Vein 昆仑冰脉 Disclaimer This book is a work of fictional literature. All characters, plots, settings, institutions, and other elements are the author’s artistic creations and have no direct connection to real people, events, or organizations. Any similarities or coincidental overlaps in the plot are purely accidental. Do not assume they refer to anyone in particular or read too much into them. The views expressed in this book represent only the author’s personal opinions and do not reflect the position of an 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Stranded 3: The Abyss of Black Rock 绝境余生3黑岩深渊 Synopsis: A strange recording and a fragmentary map reveal the terrifying secrets of the Black Rock Rift. In search of her missing mentor, Lin Yue ventures into an abyss millions of years old and persuades the trauma-ridden Qin Feng to lead the expedition. Sandstorms in the no-man’s-land and strange lights in the rift are only the beginning. Deep underground, the ruins of a prehistoric civilization emerge, marked with blood-red patterns. Mutated creatures hunt them one after another, while geolo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Martian Era: Humanity's Interstellar Long March 火星纪元：人类的星际长征 Synopsis: As humanity’s dream of exploring Mars becomes reality, Qin Feng steps forward as a fearless pioneer. He builds a production system run entirely by robots, using cutting-edge technology to blast through ice and release oxygen and water, bringing Mars its first source of life. Following ecological principles, he introduces species in stages, from microorganisms to plants and animals, gradually building a complete ecosystem. After years of hard work, the red desert becomes a green landsca 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Phoenix Commands the Dragon's Chart 凤御龙图 Disclaimer This book is a work of fiction. All characters, plots, settings, institutions, and other elements are artistic creations of the author and are not directly connected to any people, events, or organizations in the real world. Any coincidental similarities in plot or content are purely accidental. Please do not assume they refer to real people or read too much into them. The views expressed in this book are solely the author’s personal opinions and do not represent the stance of any org —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 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 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Forbidden Zone Exploration: I’m the Toughest Streamer in History! 禁地探秘：我！史上最硬核主播 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Qin Feng binds himself to the [God-Tier Exploration Livestream System] and begins exploring forbidden zones. This parallel world is nothing like Blue Star. Could prehistoric creatures really exist in the East African Rift? Is the Jade Pool of the Queen Mother of the West really in the Kunlun Mountains? Were the zombie attacks once reported in Bear Country actually real? Is Neon Country really haunted? Large numbers of miners once died there, and a major 2.4kReads7.5Score151Shelves
- 127 Haunted House Mysteries 鬼宅诡事 Haunted House Mysteries 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score102Shelves
- 129 The Paranormal Master of Xuan Zong Feng Shui 玄宗风水术师之灵异先生 City life, celestial masters, the supernatural, feng shui, talismans, witchcraft, dark arts, ghost hunting, exorcisms, monster slaying, evil-spirit banishment, demon subjugation, battling zombies, living with a policewoman. No cultivation. 764Reads6.1Score107Shelves
- 130 Fallen from Grace 坠落失格 Psychological suspense | High-IQ battle of wits | The boundary between reality and illusion collapses | Criminal profiling “My name is Chi Xiaochuan. I’m 26 years old, a hyperthymesia patient, and a full-time writer. Years from now, when I write this book, I’ll still remember that rainy night ten years ago. When the creator becomes the one to solve the puzzle, will the words on the page bring salvation, or lead to an even deeper trap? I’m not a profiler. I’m just someone who writes stories. I do 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Survival on a Lonely Island: Together Against All Odds 孤屿求生：绝境同行 Synopsis After a passenger plane crashes, Qin Feng and Lin Yue are stranded on a remote, uninhabited island, trapped in a desperate fight for survival. With no supplies, no rescue, and no way out, they build shelter with their bare hands, hunt for food and find water, and battle natural disasters and ferocious beasts as they struggle on the brink of death. From wary distance to relying on each other for their lives, from despair to holding on to hope, the two stand side by side and break free of 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Bizarre Case Investigator 诡案惊探 [Mystery]+ [Supernatural]+ [Deduction]+ [Crime Solving]+ [Male lead versed in both Yin and Yang] After his girlfriend vanishes under bizarre circumstances and every effort to find her comes to nothing for two years, Qin Zhong loses heart and takes a job as a police officer at a remote township station. One day, he suddenly receives a bizarre case. The entire village of Niewa has vanished. As the investigation deepens, one strange Supernatural incident after another unfolds. Along the way, his pa 1.6kReads8.4Score186Shelves
- 134 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 114Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 135 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Paranormal Investigation Bureau: Blackthorn Security Company 诡异调查局：黑荆棘安保公司 [Bizarre plot] + [mild horror] + [749] + [coherent story, no convoluted loops] + [high-stakes mind games] + [no female lead] When I was very young, I witnessed those things. They took away the happy childhood I should have had. As time passed, I gradually began to realize that my past might have come from some kind of [recovered object]. [It] fabricated the false past I remembered. Years later, I finally became a Level One investigator at the Bureau of Paranormal Investigations. I recovered one 1.3kReads8.7Score202Shelves
- 138 Daoist Bai Mei, Matchmaker of the Dead 白媒道长 Welcome to the works of Pangtou Yu! The author will do their best to bring you exciting stories. Thank you for your support and for sharing your criticism. Wishing all readers the best of luck. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 448Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 140 Break the Deadlock with Secret Arts 秘术破局 Zeng Jie, the down-on-his-luck owner of a small cold-drink shop, is the direct disciple of Master Zeng the Seventh, one of the finest feng shui masters of the age. Guided by a mysterious Plum Blossom Key, he embarks on the path of a feng shui practitioner. Uncle Lu, whom he has not seen in over twenty years, shows up at his door to curry favor. Donkey Brother, a joker who loves to crack wise, pledges his life to him, while a strange yin spirit protects him at close quarters. There are also prete 1.6kReads9.2Score294Shelves
- 141 After Losing My Memory, One Terrifying Ghostly Incident After Another 失忆后恐怖鬼事接连不断 (An alternate world. No tired tropes, no invincible protagonist, no plagiarism, entirely original. Any similarities will be changed immediately. Comedy, deadpan humor, no official pairing, a touch of horror, and characters with sound values.) Accidentally drawn into a paranormal incident: a girl whose mouth has been sealed shut, the walking dead with no eyes to see, monsters covered in tumors that crawl along the ground... Is the world turned upside down, or is this an elaborate hoax carefully s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 One Goal: Stay Alive 唯一目标：活着 (Survival + high intelligence + deduction + no saintly protagonist + mild horror. Read with caution if you’re sensitive to these elements.) A stream of fire pierced the atmosphere and struck the ground. In an instant, the world was plunged into chaotic darkness, and the buildings of civilization people had once taken pride in became lifeless ruins. Yet among the ruins, one building alone remained standing, like a watchtower surveying all the darkness. Beneath the apocalypse, strange phenomena we 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 486Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 144 Live: Exploring the World 直播之探索全球 A single outdoor livestream earns Jiang Le the Global Exploration System. Bear Grylls' survival skills, an extreme athlete's physique, an adventurer's experience... Treasure maps to the Mayan hoard, the tomb of the First Qin Emperor, and ancient Egypt... He unearths one lost site after another, bringing them back into the light of day. Archaeologists and exploration teams around the world regard him as the God of Adventure. This is the age of Jiang Le. 46Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 145 Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针 [Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Horror Supply Shop 恐怖用品店 An adult shop in a cemetery, and a brick-thick guide to running an adult shop. I started running a bizarre little store. My very first customer wanted to buy my human skin... 272Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 147 Prophecy Is No Crime 预言无罪 [Criminal investigations] + [No System, no brainless characters] Ten years ago, a psychopathic killer called Blackface escaped capture. Ten years later, Blackface is back. If I tell you who the killer is, can you figure out how the crimes were committed? Who deserves to die, and who doesn’t? The White Witch’s daughter awakens from the darkness. Faced with the trials of human nature and the law, what will she choose? A series of major cases, each intricately connected. Just how powerful can Black 3kReads8.8Score339Shelves
- 148 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Stele Seals Ten Thousand Crafts: I Cultivate the Miscellaneous Dao and Defy Fate 碑锁万匠：我修杂家破天命 [No transmigration] + [No cheat powers] + [No brainless plot] How could an ordinary blacksmith comprehend the Dao by sleeping in a coffin, or glimpse hidden truths by staring at a pepper grinder? For three hundred years, the Heavenly Craftsman Stele has ruled the world's order. It assigns trades, determines status, and decides each person's craft and future through the act of “bestowing a calling.” Yet this ancient stele, which no one dares question, judged Wang Cheng to be a jack-of-all-trades —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Adventure Livestream: From the Start, I Feed a Giant Snake with a Client 直播冒险，开局拿客户投喂巨蛇 [Animated series now underway] After Fang Jiu activates the “Gold Medal Tour Guide System,” the face of tourism around the world changes. His livestream becomes the boundary between reality and fantasy. In the Amazon rainforest, he takes his clients on a “life-or-death rafting trip,” livestreaming from atop a forty-meter giant snake’s head; Beneath the pyramids of Egypt, he digs through thousand-year-old stone walls with his bare hands and negotiates a cut of the profits with a resurrected phara 15.1kReads7.0Score1.3kShelves
