Novels like The Ghostly Qi
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- 51 My Phone Can Unlock Ancient Martial Arts Legacies 我的手机能解锁古武传承 My Phone Can Unlock Ancient Martial Arts Legacies 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Devour the Uncanny and Cultivate Immortality: The Great Powers Kneel and Sing of Surrender 吞噬诡异修仙，列强跪着唱征服 [A collision between Western horrors and Eastern immortal cultivation, with a somewhat humorous style. Dark and oppressive content is limited, so it's an easy read] Hell's seal has cracked, and horrors have resurfaced across the globe. The third son of the Zhang family from Northeast China during the Republic of China era had planned to flee to Europe to escape his pursuers, but he couldn't avoid one bizarre incident after another. Zhang Xuewei's ancient bloodline as an Emperor awakens within h 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 From the Start, a Butcher, with a Butcher's Talent to Match! 开局屠夫，天赋也是屠夫！ [Wuxia + hard work + kill when necessary + female lead] [An animated adaptation is available. Go check it out.] Chen Jing transmigrated into a chaotic age and became a butcher. After he followed Butcher Zhang's instructions and finished slaughtering his first pig, he suddenly heard an inspiring voice: [Heaven rewards the diligent. Success is inevitable.] [Pig-Slaying Saber Technique: Beginner]... 393.7kReads8.6Score59.5kShelves
- 54 Saintess, Your Cultivation Partner Has Gone Off to Farm Again! 圣女大人，你的炉鼎又去种田啦！ Lin Mu transmigrates to the Tianyang Continent and binds himself to the “Farming with Tags System”! He also gains the heaven-defying tag [Heaven Rewards Diligence]. [Heaven Rewards Diligence: Your hard work is guaranteed to pay off. Whenever you devote yourself wholeheartedly to farming-related labor, every hour of work permanently boosts you by 0.1% in every aspect.] He plans to find somewhere quiet and farm in peace, but a passing demoness discovers that he has a special constitution. To survi 52.3kReads7.6Score7kShelves
- 55 The Young Madam’s Art of Taming Her Husband 少夫人的驭夫之术 The Young Madam's Art of Taming Her Husband 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Peach Spring Romance 桃源韵事 Jiang Chuan was the village fool. When he tried to protect his sister-in-law, Li Taohua, Wang Laohu beat him savagely and threw him into the depths of Bibo Pool. Unexpectedly, he was rescued by a distressed female emperor from the Immortal Realm. To enlist Jiang Chuan’s help in returning to the Heavenly Court, the female emperor even passed on every last bit of her lifelong cultivation to him. After this stroke of good fortune, Jiang Chuan’s life took a remarkable turn. He went from an ordinary 7.7kReads7.3Score662Shelves
- 57 Rule Horror: Something Is Wrong with My Old Family Home 规则怪谈：我家老宅有问题 Rule Horror: There's Something Wrong with My Family's Old House —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Uncle, Your Little Darling Has Grown Up. Please Take Care of Me for the Rest of My Life 大叔你的小可怜长大了余生请多指教 Uncle, Your Little One Has Grown Up. Please Guide Me for the Rest of My Life 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Making a Wish to a Ghost 向鬼许愿 A school where everyone has vanished. A company that serves ghosts. A city crawling with vengeful spirits. A mountain of weeping where yin and yang are turned upside down. … In an age when paranormal phenomena run rampant, Gu Shan possesses a terrifying wish-granting machine that can crush any supernatural incident. But each wish also carves an even deeper despair. “After you make your tenth wish, we’ll meet again in a world without pain.” (The original title of this book was The Tenth Wish.) 4.9kReads7.9Score468Shelves
- 60 The Fate of an Orphan Girl 孤女的命运 This is a sad story. Lin Jiang had an affair, and Shi Qiaosi endured it for three years before suddenly coming to her senses and decisively divorcing him. After the divorce, she secretly gave birth to a daughter of her own, Shixu. The disasters brought upon three generations of a family by an unfaithful man and a scheming woman eager to take his wife’s place. See how an elderly grandmother schemes for her granddaughter, building a bridge through time with her own life so that Shixu can return to 18.6kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
- 61 My Brother Is Calling for Help, but Grandpa Says Never to Look Back 弟弟在求救，祖父却说千万别回头 My younger brother was calling for help, but Grandfather said, "Whatever you do, don't look back." 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.1kReads8.9Score199Shelves
- 63 I Earn Merit by Reporting Cultivation Powerhouses 我靠举报修仙大佬攒功德 The Heavenly Dao has undergone a transformation, and a cultivation civilization has invaded reality. While everyone else begs powerful cultivators to take them as disciples, Lin Mo obtains a strange System: reporting cultivators who violate the rules earns him merit points. The senior showing off on the athletic field, the hunting group stealing people’s spiritual energy, and the underground forces offering a bounty for his assassination are all just experience packs for him. Until one day, the 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Five Years of Cultivation in a Cave, Now I'm Invincible 山洞修仙五年，下山已无敌 Urban cultivation + immortal cultivation + genius + invincible + face-slapping + satisfying power fantasy Li Kai is barely over a year old. After wicked men murder both his parents, he is left an orphan, shivering in a cold and merciless world. But the wheels of fate quietly begin to turn. An old cultivator wandering the world discovers Li Kai on the verge of death. After carrying him to a secluded cave, the old man is shocked to find that the child possesses a “Heavenly Spirit Root,” a gift u 11.2kReads8.4Score987Shelves
- 65 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀，不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 My Father Pretended to Be Mute, and My Boyfriend Lied to Me 装哑的父亲和骗我的男友 A father who pretends to be mute and a boyfriend who deceives me 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Overlord Refuses to Surrender 霸王不认输 [Face-recognition slaughter, the target isn't the soldiers, it's their courage!] By the Guangling River, the sunset was red as blood. Guan Yu sat astride his horse with his blade in hand, five hundred blue-robed cavalrymen arrayed along the riverbank. What he held aloft was not a battle flag, but a portrait. The man in it was Fan Kuai, vanguard commander of the Han army. "Once you recognize a face, you can't take its life." One slash split Fan Kuai's long blade and shattered the courage of t 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 50.4kReads9.2Score5kShelves
- 69 Uh-Oh, I've Turned a Creepy Game into Reality 坏了，玩到真的诡异养成游戏了 Have you ever played a truly eerie creature-raising game? Have you ever had a heart-pounding life experience? “Red wedding dress, paper shoes for the dead, a ghost in the mirror...” Which of these ghosts would you choose to raise? When Wu Wen clicked the place button and saw the red-clad figure appear before him, only one thought remained in his mind. “Crap, I've actually started playing a real supernatural creature-raising game!” The game Ghost Encounter has been making games for twenty years. 3.8kReads8.6Score313Shelves
- 70 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Nationwide High Martial Arts: Only I Cultivate Immortality by the Book 全民高武：只有我在一板一眼修仙 Everyone else practices martial arts while I cultivate immortality. They all laugh and say I'm crazy. Wang Jie transmigrated into an era where everyone practiced superhuman martial arts. From the start, he unlocked [Steadfast and Methodical]. As long as he diligently cultivated immortality, his path to immortality would have no bottlenecks, and his lifespan would have no limit! From then on, while everyone else trained in fist arts, he cultivated immortality, steadily climbing to the summit. By 104.1kReads7.8Score10.3kShelves
- 72 My Will, My Way 意志贯彻我心 [Readers decide whether there’s a heroine; fantasy, imaginative fantasy, decisive action, clear lines between love and hate, scheming, everyday life, comedy, ensemble cast] “What did you say? You’re not interested in women?” “I may be lecherous, but that’s all it is. It’s not the same as being interested in women. A real man walks between heaven and earth. How could I let a pretty face hold me back? We cultivators should travel the four seas, help the world and its people, punish evil and promot 799Reads—Score110Shelves
- 73 Half Sugar, Half Sword, Half Immortal Journey 半糖半剑半仙途 [Slice of life] [Lighthearted] [Combat] [Slow-paced] After transmigrating to a world of immortal cultivation, Zhang Niansi gets a hellish script. No System, no golden finger, no connections. He’s also an abandoned baby cast out by his family. Other people start out with an old master to teach them. He can’t even afford tomorrow’s meal. Other people forge a weapon on their first try. He forges three, and two of them run away because they think his aptitude is too poor. Then comes the third: a sil 3Reads—Score116Shelves
- 74 I Only Wanted a Comfortable Life, but Ended Up Ruling the World 本想小富即安，结果权倾天下 [Alternate History] [Poetry and Prose] [Business and Farming] [Court Intrigue] [Multiple Heroines] An Ran transmigrates into the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Fuyang’s household in the Great Jin dynasty. Bullied by his stepmother and abused by his legitimate elder brother, he plans to start a small business, leave the marquis’s household, and live a carefree life. But after accidentally saving the Sixth Prince at a royal banquet, he is drawn into the struggle at court and gradually rises to 334Reads—Score121Shelves
- 75 Overpowering the Heavens, Starting as the First Emperor of the Desolate Era 横推诸天从荒古第一帝开始 [The rating just came in, and it’ll rise later] The Primordial Era has been hailed as the greatest of all eras, and Jiang Hao made an indelible contribution to it. Because he became an Emperor! After the Primordial Era passes and the Primordial God War ends, a golden age arrives. Jiang Hao transmigrates to the early days of the Desolate Era, ready from the start to undergo the Great Emperor’s tribulation, become the first emperor of the Desolate Era, and usher in the Heavenly Emperor Calendar! F 49.6kReads8.2Score2.3kShelves
- 76 Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈 A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L 4.2kReads—Score369Shelves
- 77 Top-Tier Gynecologist: From the Start, I Discover a Socialite Is Pregnant with Her Foreign Tutor's Child 顶级妇医：开局查出名媛怀外教种 Extreme Contrast + How to Spot a Toxic Woman + Save the Big Shot and Make a Fortune + Connections Among the Powerful Lin Feng was a surgical genius, but was maliciously assigned to obstetrics and gynecology. Although he was an associate chief physician, he was constantly suppressed. On top of that, he was a man, so his clinic was deserted and nobody wanted him to perform surgery. All he could do was suffer through night shifts year after year. That was until he awakened the Cause and Effect Reck 278kReads8.9Score31kShelves
- 78 I Failed My Tribulation and Became a Top-Tier Star's Cat 渡劫失败，我成了顶流男星的猫 [Just got a rating, it’ll go up later] [Cool and powerful heroine x stoic and loyal guard dog x abstinent master] After failing my tribulation, I was reborn as a black cat and adopted by a top-tier star from the entertainment industry. He thought I was an ordinary pet, until I took human form in the production crew’s camper and blew my cover right there. So I had no choice but to share a room with him, sleeping in the same bed. The heat of his body grew more intense, and his gaze on me became in 28Reads6.7Score132Shelves
- 79 The Black Lotus of Great Ming 大明黑莲花 [Female con artist × hypocrite] The year the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of the Ming Dynasty, Magellan's fleet completed its circumnavigation of the globe. It was only decades later, along the eastern coast of Zhejiang, where the sea ban was in force, that a country woman happened to hear the Western theory that “the world is round.” Suddenly, she realized: If all four seas are round, then wherever you stand, you can be the center of the world. But when she looked around, women had no pa 5.9kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
- 80 The Yin-Yang Sect Leader 阴阳掌门人 Corpse retrievers have three rules about bodies they must never retrieve. For the sake of a hundred thousand yuan, my father and I broke all three. As we were pulling a woman's corpse from the water, she suddenly opened her eyes. From then on, she wouldn't leave me alone… 7.7kReads8.6Score748Shelves
- 81 Record of Raising an Otherworldly Supreme 异界至尊养成记录 In another world, with cards that blot out the sky, speak my true name and my magic knows no bounds. This is the story of a young man from Blue Star who transmigrates to another world, using summoning cards to earn money, raise a child, and stir up all kinds of trouble. 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Re:Zero: I Walked Out of a Convenience Store and Straight into the Sage's Tower RE0：刚出便利店就是贤者之塔 [Re:Zero Fanfic] [Same Protagonist] [Shaula as the Heroine] Homebody extraordinaire Subaru Natsuki had just stepped out of a convenience store, and the snacks in his hands were still warm when he came to his senses again and found himself inside a tower called the Pleiades Watchtower. “Could this be the legendary... summoning to another world?!” Full of hope, Subaru Natsuki began his life in another world, starting from zero. [This novel is also known as Death Rewind + Hell Sniper’s Moment to Sh 37.1kReads9.5Score2.8kShelves
- 83 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 46.7kReads8.5Score4.4kShelves
- 84 Tales of the Vast Sea 沧海演义 [Wuxia] [Xianxia] [Historical] [Adventure] [Military] A narrative epic of the jianghu and the imperial court, seen through the growth of an ordinary person, where individual heroism and romanticism intertwine with realism! 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 A Rogue of the Mortal World 俗世妖人 Xiu Xu from Bazhong is in the mountain city, where he owns an offline murder mystery game shop. He was once a top-tier Werewolf player, comes from a family of feng shui masters, and is suffering from end-stage pancreatic cancer. When his grandfather died, he left behind a peerless beauty with no sign of life. To stay alive, Xiu Xu had no choice but to bring his whole family along, leading a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled relatives as they punched their way through the South Heaven Ga 6.8kReads8.7Score666Shelves
- 86 When I Saw the Comments, My First Love Returned to the Country 看见弹幕时白月光回国了 (The animated series is now available. Fans who only want the heroine’s perspective, readers who want exceptionally chaste characters, and highly sensitive readers, please don’t read. Multiple POVs, fast-paced romance.) A scheming, obsessive, dark second male lead VS a gentle, idealized first love Wen Yining had always been the moon in everyone’s eyes: gentle, beautiful, and considerate. In high school, countless students crowded into the hallway after class just to catch a distant glimpse of he 35.1kReads9.2Score29.4kShelves
- 87 Who Dragged the Underworld's Soul Reaper into a Horror Instance? 谁把地府勾魂使拉进诡异副本的？ [Creepy Dungeons] [Comedy] [Power Fantasy] [Global Livestream] As medical care improves, the human mortality rate has dropped significantly. This has caused the Underworld’s Soul-Reaping Bureau’s performance to decline year after year, driving the soul reapers into a vicious rat race for better numbers. Lin Feng is an utterly ordinary soul reaper with no power or connections. To meet his KPI, he can only work overtime like crazy, yet he still comes in last every month. Then one day, he’s une 56.4kReads8.3Score4.9kShelves
- 88 Ghost Hand Chen: The Eight-Gate Lockdown 鬼手陈：八门锁局 Every gambler has three defining traits: First, they’re lazy and gluttonous, dreaming of getting rich overnight. Second, they think they’re clever and see everyone else as an idiot. Third, they’re missing a screw and never consider the consequences. Third Master Chen makes a living fleecing people like that... 23.9kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
- 89 EN I Am the Sea Calming Pearl, and the Six Sages Were Stunned After I Kidnapped Humanity 我定海神珠，拐走人族后六圣懵了 [Primordial World + Multiple-Choice Questions + Protecting Humanity + No Conspiracy-Theory Schemes] Lin Cang cosplayed a speed bump on a highway and transmigrated to the Primordial World, where he became a Sea-Calming Pearl. Legend says there are thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls, and when assembled, they rival an innate supreme treasure! Lin Cang took human form as a Sea-Calming Pearl, and Heaven and Earth bestowed on him the name Cangyuan! Just then, the “Fateful Choice” System awakened. As long a 69.8kReads8.2Score6.6kShelves
- 90 I Moved into Dorm 404 and Uncovered a Deadly Campus Mystery 住进404宿舍，我看破校园凶局 Feng shui, the supernatural, campus life, society: everything you're looking for is here! A story is just a story. Even if someone has experienced something similar in real life, I hope you'll still treat this as just a story! Don't get too caught up in it! Finally, may you, dear reader, stay safe and well! 33Reads—Score104Shelves
- 91 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5kReads8.6Score373Shelves
- 92 EN I Just Want to Cut You All Down—or Die by Your Blades 我只想砍死各位，或者被各位砍死 [Single Female Lead + Ruthless and Decisive + Rivers of Blood + Too Lazy to Explain, Just Listen] I'm a lunatic who has fallen deep into a life of slaughter. But if I want to avoid becoming the enemy of the righteous and standing against the whole world, there's only one path left: Prey on the wicked! "Senior Brother, my demonic body went berserk and attacked our fellow disciples. I'm a victim too. Setting the facts aside, isn't the world itself at fault?" "What gibberish are you spouting? G 84.5kReads8.6Score7.6kShelves
- 93 The Little Country Doctor 乡村小神医 Ma Xiaojian’s older brother, Ma Dazhuang, was tricked into going to Southeast Asia. For three years, there was no word from him. When news finally came, he had been detained at a casino and couldn’t get away. When his sister-in-law, Hu Guilan, heard what had happened, she became so distressed that she fainted on a field path. In desperation, Ma Xiaojian used the “Nine Heavenly Physician Needles” taught to him by an old master doctor and did everything he could to revive her. With his family i 5.3kReads9.2Score724Shelves
- 94 The Righteous Sect's Leader Slacks Off, and the Female Demon Comes Knocking 正道第一宗摆烂，女魔头找上门了 [Defying the master and seducing the disciple + multiple heroines + a touch of yandere + System + daydream simulations + angst and sweetness, but overwhelmingly sweet] [Also known as: Daydream Simulation: Why Are the Fairies Showing Up at My Door?] My name is Xie Ci. I was raised by a beautiful master and grew up in the foremost sect of the righteous path. But my talent is mediocre. Okay, it's terrible. After eighteen years of cultivation, I'm only at the ninth level of Qi Refining and just can' 28Reads—Score211Shelves
- 95 Strange Tales from the Bureau: The Final Chapter 民调局异闻录之最终篇章 A strange past, a mysterious department, an eccentric white-haired man, and a fat man who can see through everything: the final chapter in the history of the Folk Affairs Investigation and Research Bureau. 16.6kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
- 96 The Martial Arts Champion from a Poor Family 寒门武状元 His father died with his name cleared too late, his mother was forced to pretend to be insane, and his son followed the same tragic path. A modern special forces soldier transmigrates into this world and sets out to exact revenge, take the imperial military exams, become an official, and raise an army... For the original owner, for his parents, and for his beloved, he takes his revenge with ruthless satisfaction and outsmarts all kinds of people. With me, Qiu Suo, in this world, who can stand ag 31.4kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 97 What If the Campus Belle Turns Into a Zombie? No Worries, I'm the Perfect Person for the Job 校花尸变咋办？不怕！我专业对口 [Supernatural + horror + urban legends + ghost stories + invincible protagonist + one heroine] What should you do if your school-beauty deskmate turns into a corpse during class? She’s probably faking it. Just give her a kiss. Huh? She’s not faking it??? Lu Jiuyang was utterly baffled. One moment, he was the last Celestial Master of Maoshan, battling a tide of countless ghosts and sealing the demons with his own body. The next, he had been reborn as an ordinary high school freshman. This 190.6kReads8.4Score27.7kShelves
- 98 When the Funeral Dance Begins, the Living Must Flee 丧舞起，活人避 The Red Luan chapter of The Book of a Thousand Autumns, also known as Red Luan Ferry [Folk Professions + Southern Yunnan Mysticism + Paranormal Folklore + Strange Tales] I was supposed to die when I was six, but I joined a sect to prolong my life. A folk sect in southern Yunnan: warding off evil spirits and guiding the dead. There are countless rules and taboos in our line of work. “When the funeral dance begins, the living must stay away.” When the funeral dance is performed, the living must tu 200Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.7kReads8.2Score373Shelves
- 100 The Crazy Stone Gambler 赌石狂徒 Just after graduating from college, Xia Feng was dragged by relatives into a company running an illegal investment scheme. His deceived relatives and friends poured all their fury onto him. With no other choice, he fled his hometown in a panic and went into hiding, until he arrived in a small town on the southwestern frontier… 2.3kReads9.2Score390Shelves
