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- 51 The True Account of a Feng Shui Master 一个玄门风水师的真实记录 Lin Yan comes from a family steeped in metaphysics, whose home holds a vast collection of ancient texts on feng shui, fate reading, physiognomy, exorcism, and more. Growing up surrounded by these traditions, he reads every book in the family collection and watches his grandfather and father analyze situations, adjust feng shui, and deal with evil spirits. Through quiet observation and practice, he gradually masters all kinds of metaphysical techniques. As an adult, he officially ventures out int 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 52 After Coming Down the Mountain, I Used the Dragon Veins to Set the World's Ley Lines Straight 下山后，我靠龙脉整顿全球地脉 The pre-Qin Qi cultivator everyone online is searching for is actually reading feng shui on the streets of Yunzhou? Lin Xuan: Don't ask. The Patriarch is the one putting food on my table. One turn of the compass reveals good and bad fortune, shifts the feng shui, and breaks impossible deadlocks. With a stroke of a talisman, he can suppress evil spirits, send wandering cultivators on their way, and deal with anyone who refuses to behave. Other feng shui masters rely on a quick calculation wit 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Ghost Tamer: From the Start, I'm Haunted by a Stunningly Beautiful Hanged Ghost 御鬼：开局被绝美缢死鬼缠上 [Everyone can command ghosts] + [Lots of female ghosts] + [Summoning and leveling up] + [System] + [Beloved by all slice of life] + [Slow-paced and steady] [Setting similar to an era of global paranormal phenomena] [Original story] [Entirely handcrafted, no AI] [Harem-seekers, stay away] Paranormal entities invaded reality. Humanity resisted for a century, and people awakened their talents to become Ghost Tamers. During the exam to contract his first ghost, Yi Liang was pulled into a deadly 60Reads—Score10814d adds
- 54 Heavenly Master of a Haunted World 诡世天师 Lin Jiu, an ordinary young man from the modern era, unexpectedly transmigrates to the twelfth year of the Republic of China, his soul inhabiting the body of a young Taoist priest who shares his name and has just been claimed by a vengeful ghost. As the last heir of the Maoshan Sect, he inherits his master’s legacy and final words: “The Taoist tradition must not die out, and the human world must not fall.” There is no System, no shortcut, only a timeworn copy of the Sacred Register of Shangqing a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Civil Affairs Bureau: Long-Lived Species 民调局：长生种 My name is Feng Chen. At forty, a troubled marriage left me mired in depression. Just as I was about to take my own life, I met Wu Mian, who gave me an elixir of immortality. From then on, I possessed an undying body. Wu Mian later gave me a seed as well, challenging me to compete with Shen La, who had received a seed a century earlier, to see who could refine it faster. Once the seed entered my body, I opened up my eight extraordinary meridians. In secret, I also used it to create an inner spac 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Soul-Sending Road of Chang'an 长安送魂路 [Mystery and the supernatural + ghost hunting + guiding souls + Taoist arts + face reading + feng shui + fortune-telling] Since I turned eighteen, I've traveled far and wide in search of a way to defy fate and change my destiny. Later, I grew tired and didn't want to live anymore, but one slap from my second uncle brought me back to my senses. My life doesn't belong to me alone. They all want me to keep living. My name is Gu Chang'an. They want me to live a long, peaceful life. I am a soul guide —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 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
- 59 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 2kReads—Score12714d adds
- 60 A Deity Borrowed Me for Two Days 神仙借我当两天 When “what if” and “should” take human form, the heavens and earth change color. I’m both a Buddhist monk and a Taoist priest, and I take sleaziness and loserhood to the extreme. In this modern city, how am I supposed to protect everyone? Exorcising ghosts at an ice rink, a ghostly monk in a temple, spirit mediums in the Northeast, fighting zombies and battling evil spirits. But the most terrifying thing of all is the human heart! Here, you’ll see anything you can imagine, anything you long for 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 I Work as a Medium in a Buddhist Supply Shop 我在佛具店当神棍 Ancient scrolls and Tang Buddhist tales speak of a thousand years; the bewilderment of the mortal world is all intertwined. The many affairs of spirit mediums unfold, as they steadfastly guard a corner of the mountains and seas. If we are to dispel the gloom and uphold the righteous path, let us hear the immortals revealed in this very age!, Dragon-Editing Colonel —Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 62 Maoshan Celestial Master: Commanding Yin and Yang, Suppressing All Evil 茅山天师：执掌阴阳镇万邪 Lin Chen is the last direct disciple of the Maoshan Sect. After his master's ascension, he descends the mountain and enters the mortal world, carrying the thirty-six orthodox Maoshan techniques and seventy-two arts. He excels at talismans, feng shui, face reading, exorcism, soul refinement, and formation-making. Steady and decisive, cold on the outside but warm within, he upholds Maoshan's ancestral precept to “act on Heaven's behalf, slay demons and vanquish evil,” without being rigid. He punis 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Strange Tales from Guangxi: Geomancy Notes with My Partner 桂地异闻实录：与搭档的堪舆笔记 (The author has abandoned this book. Please check out the new book, A Feng Shui Apprentice’s Real-Life Journal: Everything I Tell Is True.) [This story is fictional. Please do not take it as fact!] Practical feng shui field notes + local sights and stories from Guangxi + folk beliefs and taboos + the warmth and harshness of everyday life. This book does not chase the bizarre or play up the terrifying. It records only authentic local customs. As an apprentice, I walk the streets and countryside w 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Orthodox Unity Celestial Master Dao 正一天师道 Zhang Tianfeng, a Celestial Master from Maoshan, descends the mountain after mastering his art. He faces a nest of Yin spirits, the Five Ghosts Devouring the Dragon, the Netherworld Bureau, the Xiangxi Corpse King, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, the evil god Xingtian, the Battle of the Azure Underworld, and the Ghost Emperor of the Great Clarity of the Apocalypse. Zhang Tianfeng was born with the destiny of a Ziwei Celestial Master. Is he also a reincarnated ghost child? From a divine being amon 1.9kReads—Score24814d adds
- 65 Breaking the Deadlock: Inheriting the Feng Shui Arts of a Scruffy Old Man 破局：继承邋遢老头的风水术 On the first day of school, a disheveled old Taoist blocked my way. With a single remark, he revealed the secret of the bronze cauldron my mother had left behind, then warned me to stay away from my roommate, whose birth chart was purely yin. The moment I turned around, I discovered a life-draining thread of yin energy wrapped around my roommate. And the university we attended was nothing less than a geomantic death trap laid two hundred years ago! Born with a purely yang birth chart, I wield a 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 66 Ninefold Mystic Seal: Demon-Slaying Massacre 九玄封魔戮 A thousand years of Taoist tradition, now at its final breath in an age when magic has waned. When Lin Jiuxuan, the last heir of the Tianshu Temple, enters Jiangcheng University as an auditor, all he wants is a few quiet days. Then a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the cafeteria pins down an earthbound spirit, ancient jade at the neck of the cool, aloof goddess of the archaeology department begins to glow, and the Demon-Sealing Talisman dormant in his palm grows searing hot. Only then does he rea 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 My Fox-Wife Protects Me on the Yin-Yang Road 狐妻护我阴阳路 My father once saved a nine-tailed fox immortal who was undergoing tribulation. She would later become my wife. The night I was born, the heavens showed strange signs, and seven-colored auspicious clouds appeared over my home! From childhood, I was raised to be a “child bridegroom”! Because of my unusual fate, by the age of ten I had caused everyone around me in the prince's residence to die. That's because I'm the “Black Qilin,” a once-in-a-thousand-years omen! The embodiment of evil, I could f 310Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 68 I Am Lin Zhengying's Apprentice 我是林正英的徒弟 My name is Feng Yi. Through a twist of fate, I became a zombie. To my utter surprise, I turned out to be a zombie who could cultivate into a Celestial Master, capable of roaming heaven and earth without limits. So, are you scared yet? 378Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 69 My Ghost Bride 我的冥婚新娘 I picked up some money by the roadside, only to unexpectedly be matched into a ghost marriage. A thousand-year-old female ghost is forcing me to marry her. To escape this curse, I sought out an old Taoist priest to drive her away, but only made things worse and signed a life-and-death pact with the ghost. With my life on the line, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From then on, the door to a whole new world opened before me... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 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. 734Reads6.1Score10714d adds
- 71 The Yin-Yang Ghost Master 阴阳鬼师 The young Maoshan Celestial Master Zhao Ziyang ventures into the city. Half a bowl of clear water reveals the workings of heaven and earth; one spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. He walks the Eight Trigrams steps of Maoshan and wields a divine sword to slay evil spirits. From the underworld’s ghostly canals and the six-eyed evil child to the great demon of Black Mountain and the thousand-year-old Blood Corpse King, he takes them all on along the way. There is a female lead. Pure supernatu 24.2kReads6.3Score2k14d adds
- 72 Little Daoist Priest, Please Wait 小道长，且慢请留步 I use our ancestors' methods to deal with the “unscientific” things of the 1990s. I'm just an itinerant Taoist priest, traveling through the towns and countryside of southern and northern China in the 1990s with A Xuan. We don't beg for alms or pray for blessings. We only deal with one “dirty business” after another, things science can't explain. While others head to Shenzhen to strike it rich, I earn my travel money handling uncanny affairs. Everyone says I'm too young to be a master. Then A Xu 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Daoist, What Kind of Immortal Are You Trying to Become? 道爷，你修的哪门子仙？ [The new book, “I Awakened a God-Tier Talent from the Start, But I'm a Calamity,” is ready to binge] [Tales of ghosts and gods] [No female lead] [Otherworldly cultivation arts] [Decisive and ruthless] [Doesn't buckle under pressure] I'm Zhao Huai'an, a young Daoist. I've transmigrated for eighteen years, made countless powerful connections, and mastered all sorts of underhanded techniques. You ask how shady I am? What kind of Daoist gouges out his own eyeballs in a fight? What kind of decent per 1.2kReads8.0Score13114d adds
- 74 The Midnight Funeral Shop 午夜白事铺 A secluded funeral shop, where a single stick of incense can sell for over a thousand yuan. It opens for only three hours a day, yet people still crowd its doorstep. Today, the funeral shop welcomed its first customer. A woman in a red dress, her face deathly pale. As the candlelight flickered, she cast two shadows... 8.2kReads8.1Score49814d adds
- 75 My Shrine Is Full of Jokers and Screw-Ups 我的堂口，全是逗比和坑货 Yang Erlang reincarnated + an ancient tragic love + a cast of screwups + face-slapping comeback The whole village laughs at me for being a useless spirit medium. The immortals at my altar are all lazy screwups, and my uncle, a Qingfeng spirit and master thief, is the most unreliable of them all. I smash the ancestral copper coin and single-handedly conquer the Nine Hells. The underworld's soldiers keep three paces away from me! One sentence from my little aunt, muttered in her sleep, reveals t 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 76 I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士 It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess: 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 55Reads—Score814d adds
- 78 I Don’t Hunt Ghosts, I Save People 我不捉鬼，我只渡人 [Mostly Slice of Life] [No System] [Feng Shui and Face Reading] [Saving People and Ghosts] [Episodic] [Character Growth] [Not a Mindless Power Fantasy] Ghosts aren’t scary. The human heart is. This is a world with ghosts, but the coldest place isn’t the underworld. It’s the hearts of people in the living world. The male lead walks between the realms of the living and the dead, making his living through feng shui and face reading, guided by his conscience: killing the ghosts that deserve to die, 1kReads8.0Score14014d adds
- 79 The Mysteries of Fate 天机诡算 (Supernatural, suspense, horror, urban, multiple female leads) My name is Zhang Xuan. I'm a fortune-teller who walks between the worlds of yin and yang. I inherited from my grandfather the arts of metaphysics and fortune-telling, the Eight Characters and feng shui, and the skills of catching ghosts and subduing demons. My first experience in life began with a shake-to-connect app... 19.4kReads8.0Score1.9k14d adds
- 80 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
- 81 Heir to the Spirit Medium 通灵师传人 Supernatural + ghost marriage + strong female lead power fantasy + horror stories + mystery. There are ghosts in every heart. Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than a ghost? It's not about walking a dark road too often and running into an evil spirit. The deadliest thing isn't knowing that it's a ghost. It's the utterly dark heart hidden beneath that perfect face. Shh... Don't make a sound. She's right behind you. Run. Don't look back. The story is even more terrifying than you ca 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 The Celestial Master Is Here, and I Am the Evil God 天师在此，我为邪神 [Folklore Supernatural + Underdog's Rise + Mystery and Twists + Cool Exterior, Contrasting Side] When I was twelve, my father ran away. Now that I'm seventeen, my sister is close to death. The village's old blind man said someone in the Liu family had died. If I sneaked into their home and stole a carpenter's ink line, I could save my sister. So I went. In the end, I discovered that the thing lying in the coffin wasn't human. After my sister was saved, I thought that surviving a great cala —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The Yin-Yang Master of the Wilderness 山野阴阳先生 [Yinshan + Maoshan + Folk legends + Supernatural + No saintly protagonist + No womanizing] My grandfather from Yinshan protects my life, and my brothers from Maoshan protect my body. As a Yin-Yang Master who walks among the dead, all I carry is an umbrella and a copper bell. Deep in the mountains, I encountered an old shapeshifter gnawing on a living person's hand. In southern Xinjiang, a demonic carpet sucked people's lifeblood in the middle of the night. In western Yunnan, a one-legged ghost 53.5kReads6.7Score2.2k14d adds
- 84 The Corpse Bearer 抬尸人 Have you ever carried a corpse? Can you imagine what it feels like to carry the body of a young, beautiful girl who died only recently? I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. And after carrying that body, I was never the same again. 854Reads6.2Score10014d adds
- 85 Strange Tales from the Countryside 农村里的奇异怪谈 [Traditional supernatural horror + third-person narration + one female lead + no immortal cultivation] In a strange, gloomy bamboo forest, evil forces claim people’s lives. A university graduate has just returned to his village when he becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre events. In the end, he takes a master and learns the Dao. Is the mysterious woman good or evil? What other strange events will the protagonist encounter? Find out in the book. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Evil Dead Pursue: My Master Tried to Possess Me, but I Turned the Tables 猛鬼追魂：师父夺舍被我反噬 After a ghost blinded me, I accidentally knocked over a vase in a porcelain shop. The heartless old boss demanded an outrageous sum, so I had no choice but to agree to work as his shop assistant for three months to pay off the debt. I figured he'd make my life miserable, but the old geezer did a complete about-face. He said we were destined to meet, and not only wanted to take me as his apprentice, but also offered me his ravishing, graceful, one-in-a-million goddaughter as a wife. Could anythin 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Merufa 梅鲁法 In Fenghuang, western Hunan, Chen Lu, a master who practices both Maoshan and Meishan arts, finds a copper coin engraved with the character “Lu” in a fresh grave. The dead person’s soul has been taken, and the coin is an invitation left for him. That same night, a woman named Mei Ruosheng arrives through the rain. Her arms are covered in living patterns, and she carries a lost handwritten text, The Lu-Mei Art. Chen Lu has the same markings on his arm. They are something he sealed away ten years 7Reads—Score114d adds
- 88 My 1990s Field Notes on Folk Ghost Stories 我的90年代民间志怪见闻录 Jia Nanxing, a young man from a mountain village, chance upon a stone statue and has an extraordinary encounter. Facing all kinds of strange events in the world, “zombies, evil spirits, witchcraft”, he braves countless dangers and later meets Jiang Wangyou, a mysterious female classmate. As they cultivate, the two travel around the world dealing with supernatural incidents. The story features transmigration, antique appraisal, and adventure. Supernatural fantasy all in one, along with all kinds 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Yin-Yang Celestial Master: I Stole Your Magic Artifacts, and Now a Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night 阴阳天师：偷我法器，百鬼夜行了 [Celestial Master + invincible + folk-customs mystery + paper effigy maker + supernatural revival + dimensional superiority + comedic face-slapping + wild imagination + System] Wei Ping’an transmigrates into a parallel world where spiritual qi revival is underway, becoming the last Celestial Master of Maoshan’s Yin-Yang paper effigy lineage. He watches over a shabby funeral shop called Three Pure Ones Funeral Services. He had planned to earn merit with the Great Dao Manifestation System and unlo 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Maoshan Ghost-Suppressing Records 茅山镇鬼录 The gates of the underworld shatter, and ten thousand ghosts emerge! Enchanting ghosts steal souls, birth ghosts claim lives, zombies devour people, painted-skin demons steal faces, and water ghosts drag people under... The mortal world has become a living hell. Everyone fears ghosts and monsters. Only the Maoshan priests take up talismans and tread the Big Dipper steps! Talismans subdue the dead, swords cut down vengeful ghosts, incantations slay a hundred evils, and dark spirits are sealed awa 5.6kReads8.4Score48614d adds
- 91 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 115Reads—Score15514d adds
- 92 Bureau 749: I'm the Only One in the World Who's Read the Classic of Mountains and Seas! 749：全世界就我看过山海经！ (The rating will climb as soon as it opens.) [749, investigating the paranormal, the power to extract abilities, your name, stories from ancient mythological texts...] After transmigrating to Blue Star, Zhao Xiang thought he was destined to amount to nothing once again, until he saw the other side of the world. When he read the classified files at 749: [Headless Man: Headless, with eyes on his chest and a mouth at his navel, wielding a shield and an axe, possessing immense strength...] [Many-Tai 17.9kReads7.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 93 My Years as a Yin-Yang Master 我当阴阳先生那些年 In my line of work, I’ve run into all kinds of things: the underworld and its officials, sinister spirits on campus, Taoist priests from Laoshan, bloodsucking vampires... You name it. I’ve also crossed paths with plenty of beautiful fox spirits, seductive female ghosts, and wicked temptresses from demonic cults. A friend once asked me, “You know how to hunt demons, so why not marry one?” One word: broke. Do you really think dating a monster is free? 232Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 94 Unlicensed Celestial Master: Selling Talismans at a Street Stall from the Start 无证天师，开局地摊卖符箓 (Supernatural thrills and comedy early on, wish fulfillment, then Primordial Chaos later) The world is overrun with strange phenomena. After transmigrating here, Zhang Chen unexpectedly gains a Celestial Master System. He thought he was finally on his way to the top, but it turned out Celestial Masters in this world had to pass exams. Full of confidence, Zhang Chen went to take the test, only to fail at the very first hurdle: the written exam. With no other choice, he set up a street stall, but 40Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 95 Feng Shui Master: I Started by Subduing a Peerlessly Beautiful Corpse 风水天师：从收服绝美女尸开始 Supernatural mysteries + feng shui + Taoist arts + corpse seamsters + corpse salvagers + Gu sorcery + Nanyang black magic + folk occult arts + paper effigies A peerlessly beautiful female corpse, a seven-tailed white fox, a living corpse, an inn between yin and yang, a red bellyband, a haunted house, the slaying of an evil god, a drowned ghost, a hanged ghost, a headless ghost, embroidered shoes “Within three months, you must complete five tasks involving the dead, or you’ll be doomed beyond red 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Golden Snake Appears, and the Path to Immortality Is Proven 金蛇现，证道路 [Supernatural][Cultivation][Plot][Single Female Lead][Vast Worldbuilding] Bullied and humiliated throughout his early years, he was fortunate enough to encounter a sliver of opportunity and join the Shenxiao Sect. But the sect has fallen into decline, its halls in ruins. His old grudge remains unsettled, and revenge still lies far off, as distant as a thousand cloud-wreathed mountains. The road ahead is long, and demons and monsters lurk and run rampant along the way. What awaits him is a strang 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 My Grandpa Is a Feng Shui Master 我的爷爷是个风水师 Lin Mo went from rejecting feng shui and questioning superstition to following his grandfather through the rural villages of Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Jiangxi. Together, they dealt with cursed burial sites, malicious feng shui formations in homes, sinister ghost marriages, ancestral grave feng shui, evil spirits in mountain villages, dragon veins beneath ancient tombs, and feng shui fraudsters who used their tricks to fight others. Little by little, Lin Mo uncovered the secrets of hi 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 98 Exorcist Celestial Master: Starting Out as a Red-Robed Ritual Master 镇邪天师：从红衣端公开始 Duan Gong are a distinctive group, their traditions passed down from generation to generation among the people. They worship the gods and entertain the people. They have dealings with spirits year-round, performing the mysterious village rites of “exorcising ghosts, warding off evil, and praying for peace.” They are regarded as intermediaries who communicate with the divine. Duan Gong wear red ritual robes. Red represents vitality and masculine energy, used to suppress evil spirits, while also f 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Mr. Wu Sheng, the Feng Shui Charlatan 风水神棍吴升先生 1. “The formation I set up isn’t a pattern. It’s the missing piece in people’s hearts.” 2. “Feng shui is an ancient love letter to nature. We’ve just forgotten how to read it.” 3. “Gardens let people see beauty. Feng shui makes them believe in it.” 4. “A true formation needs no compass, only reverence.” 5. “Plants and trees may be silent, but they understand the human heart best.” These are all “famous quotes” from Wu Sheng, a feng shui charlatan. After graduating from graduate school and enteri 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 From Street-Side Con Man to the Pinnacle of Fortune-Telling! 从街头神棍，到卦神之巅！ This is a savage land from the Old Stone Age, with no years or calendars, no dynasties or eras. Only the changing cycles of the seasons mark time, while all living things fight desperately to survive. The laws of nature are crude and cruel, and survival of the fittest is the only law of heaven. Ordinary people live short lives, spending half of them eating raw food and drinking blood. Most die from bitter cold, ferocious beasts, famine, or natural disasters. —Reads—Score—14d adds
