Novels like Collected Records of the Way
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- 101 Every Beginning Has a Cause, Every Rebirth Its Consequence 终始有因，轮回有果 This is a mystery novel. There is no paranormal content. The 1997 Asian financial crisis had a severe impact on every aspect of life for the people of Thailand. As the financial tycoon Soros plundered the economy, a series of stories that should never have happened began to unfold. Their effects can still be felt today. This novel follows two high school students whose misguided actions during the financial crisis set off a chain reaction, ultimately leading to a terrible catastrophe. Even twent 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 The Heaven-Chosen Daoist Maiden 天命女道 [Supernatural horror, no romance, mystery and imagination] The tags are wrong and I can't change them. Sorry, everyone!! What could the Chief God of the Underworld be planning by reincarnating as a village girl in a remote mountain valley? Lin Qinghe has been able to see all kinds of spirits since she was little. A Taoist who roamed the land placed a seal on her, but fate cannot be denied. After more than a decade of ordinary life, the seal is unexpectedly broken while Lin Qinghe is in high scho 163Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 Seeking the Dao, Searching for the Path 寻道觅途 Li Wuchen chuckled softly, as he often did. “Heaven's will must not be defied.” Until his parents' blood ran cold, his closest friend turned against him, and his beloved disciple died a tragic death... Until he saw, in the pages of a fragmentary history book, the woman he loved more than life itself. They had crossed a thousand years together, yet remained forever full of regret... Doubt stirred in his heart. “Fate... can it truly not be defied? Heaven's will... can it truly not be overturned?” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 I, a Young Maoshan Taoist, Walk Between Yin and Yang 我，茅山小道，行走阴阳 (A note to all readers!!! You can skip Volume One, The Young Maoshan Daoist Comes of Age, and go straight to Volume Two, Conquering the Yin and Yang. Volume One is a little slow, so feel free to skip it if you don’t want to read it.) My name is Li Qingfeng. The year I was born, strange phenomena appeared in the sky, as dragons and tigers contended. Later, I studied Maoshan Daoist arts under a master. He said I was the most gifted person he had ever met, and that taking me as his disciple left hi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Nine-Pearl Powder 九珠散 During the Republican era, my great-grandfather was lured by members of the Fu family into exploring the Song Dynasty tomb in Luoyang and an underground ancient tomb beneath a temple on Mount Jiuhua. There, he accidentally discovered a mysterious Buddhist bead. Years later, in 2002, the same kind of bead appeared again in a Six Dynasties tomb beneath an abandoned chemical plant in Nanjing. In 2003, I found my great-grandfather's notes and two Buddhist beads back in my hometown. Gradually, I real —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Can’t Beat People in a Fight? Catching Demons Should Be a Piece of Cake, Right? 斗人斗不过，抓妖还不手到擒来？ A ghoul is a creature of lack. Whatever it lacked in life, be it wealth, health, or fortune, it must seize from others after death to make up for it and rest in peace. In 2009, five homeless children were suffocated in a dumpster. I was the sixth, and the only one who survived. I was never meant to become a Yin-Yang Celestial Master. Until I discovered that what happened that year was no accident. Some ghosts are bottomless pits, plundering without restraint. Some people once swept away an entir 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Endland: Infinite Flow 终末地【无限流】 Dungeon One: [Hidden Heart] has ended [Infinite Flow + A Few Lovecraftian Elements + Includes a Side Couple] In the gaps between shadows, what you see: darkness, or eyes that have been covered? When a voice comes from your throat, how can you be sure it was you who spoke, and not your tongue acting independently of you? Ruan Zhijiang thought she would live an ordinary life, neither an absolute success nor an absolute failure. Then, one day, she stepped into a world beyond the world and suddenly —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Ten Lifetimes of Reincarnation: The Bottom-Ranked Outer Disciple Strikes Back 十世轮回，外门倒数的我杀回来了 Shen Zhuye’s family owned the last incense and candle shop in Qingxi Town. One day, he opened the account book and found three words on the final page that hadn’t been there before: One Question Owed. The words in the account book could ask questions on their own. That night, someone knocked at the door. The food delivery was half a bag of pond mud. As a chill crept in through the crack beneath the door, a man in white shielded him from disaster and spoke eight words: You have one year left to 190Reads—Score14314d adds
- 109 The Daoist's Notebook 道门笔记 On a rainy night in Suzhou, a night watchman comes across a barefoot, waterlogged corpse. Its face is blue, its fangs bared, and beneath the black chrysanthemum mark between its brows, something writhes under the flesh, making the skin bulge in terrifying waves. The Thunder Talisman from Longhu Mountain has barely warmed in his hands when the corpse vanishes, leaving only a sickly-sweet black mist curling around an old Daoist at the street corner. Hong Ying, a Miao woman, watches her golden sil 21Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 110 A Bewildering Labyrinth of Strange Tales 诡谲迷迭 [Infinite Flow] [No Golden Finger] My name is Wang Hong. My younger sister has gone mad. She's been haunted by a ghost. When I started searching for the truth, I was haunted by a ghost too. I should have realized sooner. Now, there's no going back. And ghosts are like a plague. I was the one who brought them into the lives of those around me. Believe me, I didn't mean to. If she comes to find me, it'll be inevitable once she comes to her senses. Anyway, while I was still more or less lucid, I le 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 A Billion-Dollar Collection of Horror Stories 一个亿恐怖故事集 A Collection of One Hundred Million Horror Stories [Standalone stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + heartfelt emotion + mild horror + timid readers beware] A hundred wildly different tragic fates await. When long-forbidden folk taboos passed down by the ancestors are broken, and eerie legends from the corners of the city quietly come true, the everyday world you know will begin to fall apart on the very next page. Whispers by the pillow, shadows beneath the wa 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Be Careful, It’s Right Behind You 小心它在后面 Synopsis: Taoist cultivation + No System + Folk occult arts + The protagonist grows gradually Yuye is utterly stunned. He can understand Black and White Impermanence changing shifts, but why is White Impermanence asking him to call her big sister?! After Yuye is infected by sinister energy, a medium seals an extremely ominous entity inside him. And so begins his journey as a Taoist priest, seeking redemption for himself. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师 Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 A Crime Guide Group from the Start 开局犯罪指导群 When logic is the only weapon, who can glimpse the truth at the edge of the abyss in a maze woven from lies? On a rainy night in the old city, there is a corpse and a picture frame deliberately set straight. To criminal investigation captain Chen Xi, the evidence clearly points to a burglary. But to forensic evidence expert Lin Jianshen, it is a chilling ritual, meticulously staged. He never believes in coincidence. He trusts only the ironclad logic behind people's actions. The angle of a tilted —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Everlasting Life of Qinghua 青华长生 In a world where no one can become an immortal or cultivate the Dao, a young man inherits the Shangqing lineage from his previous life and brings the Shangqing Immortal Arts back to the world. He forms the Three Flowers Above the Crown, gathers the Five Qi at the Origin, and trains in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Arts and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts. 81Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 117 The Last Feng Shui Master 最后的风水先生 I was born into poverty and was drawn to feng shui and Taoist arts from an early age. But I never imagined that reading the fortune-telling books my grandfather collected would set me on a mysterious and perilous path... The changing mountains and rivers are all in my sight; the rise and fall of the sun and moon, all in my heart. A single calculation reveals the world; one glance lays bare the cosmos! The last feng shui master takes you on a journey to explore an unknown history and a world of s 151Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Infinite Filth 无限之垢 (Infinite flow, mystery, not a wish-fulfillment story, no mindless characters, no clichés, no harem. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Writer Zhang Bai is forcibly pulled into an instance. Who am I now? And where am I? After she leaves the instance and arrives in a new world, she meets someone around her age among people from different eras and countries. How will they find their way home? What will they go through along the way? Will they ever make it back? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 The Mortician: The Truth Behind the Stolen Souls 入殓师：灵魂失窃真相 Me, an Embalmer: My Job Is to “Piece Together” the Dead I’m an embalmer. I put makeup on corpses so they can make their final journey with dignity. But starting last month, I noticed that something was missing from my “clients.” Not organs, not skin, but some kind of… invisible “part.” The beautiful forensic pathologist says I’m making things up, and the head of the criminal investigation team says I’m obstructing their work. Until they discover that no high-tech instrument can explain why the s 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 A Taoist Priest’s Guide to Exorcising Evil in the City 道士之都市驱邪 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 I Left My Girlfriend and Became a Daoist Master 离开女友，我成了道爷 My girlfriend of nine years cheated on me, but I didn't blame her. After all those years together, she stayed by my side through hardship and worked hard with me. I can only blame myself for failing to give her a happy life. I used the last of my efforts to give her a gift. Then I entered the Daoist path and kept vigil at Qingfeng. But I never expected that entering the Daoist path would be the beginning of a turning point in my life... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 I Pretended to Be a Mystic, but the System Made Me a True God 装神棍的我，靠系统真成了大神 My name is Su Xuanqing. I come from a family versed in the occult. My ancestors were once famous feng shui masters. But by my generation, the true teachings were all lost. All I had left were a few incomplete books and a handful of half-learned formulas, so I could only pose as a fortune-teller on the overpass to scrape by. When I was cornered by city inspectors and had nowhere to run, I unexpectedly bound myself to the Fortune-Teller-to-Godhood System. Everyone else thinks I'm still making thin 20Reads—Score114d adds
- 123 I Have a Fox Immortal Wife 我有一个狐仙老婆 As the old saying goes, when a fox comes asking for your hand, it’s either deeply in love or out to harm you. When Gu Ning was five, a white fox with magical powers tricked him into a wedding ceremony, making him take the heavenly tribulation in her place. To stay alive, Gu Ning opens a café that only operates after midnight and caters exclusively to wandering spirits... 2Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 124 Mystery, Horror, the Supernatural, and Folklore: Fourth Auntie? Where Did I Get a Fourth Auntie?! 【悬疑惊悚+灵异+民俗】四姑婆？我哪儿来的四姑婆！ [Mystery and suspense + the supernatural + folk customs] Great-Aunt Four? Where would I even get a Great-Aunt Four?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 X-13 X-13 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Dreams of the Ghost Realm: The Gate of Life and Death 梦之鬼境：生死门 [Mystery + Wild Imagination + System + Two Heroines + High Intelligence + No Brain-Dead Plotting + Weak in Reality, Invincible in Dreams] “When you read this letter, I'll have become a ghost, one whose sole purpose is to open the Gate of Life and Death. Don't try to stop me, or I'll kill you without a second thought!” Three years ago: The top student in the school hanged himself the day before the college entrance exam... Three years later, a hugely popular streamer suddenly leaped to her death —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Daoist Exorcist: One Body, Two Souls, a Daoist and a Curse Master 道降师：道士和降头师一体双魂 Banish evil spirits, avenge the wronged, solve century-old mysteries, and explore ancient ruins thousands of years old. One righteous, one wicked: Daoist secret arts and cursecraft coexist in a single body. Lu Xiaoxi studied for five years in the Lingbao School of Mount Gezao. After his master passed away, he was expelled from the sect and attacked by its leader. By a twist of fate, Yang Gongyu of the Curse Sect, whose attempt at body liberation had failed, tried to possess him. The possession f 123Reads—Score11814d adds
- 128 Grandma's Yin-Yang Notes 2 奶奶的阴阳笔记2 Mystery and the Supernatural + Copper Coins to Find the Way + Paper Effigies That Hear the Dead + Locust Wood to Bind Souls I work as a temporary hire at the Special Investigations Bureau in the Dragon Kingdom. I’ve seen madmen capable of rewriting fate. That day, a gigantic black hand came crashing down and the air froze. I thought I was as good as dead. But my mother burst out like a streak of red lightning. In the look she gave me over her shoulder, I saw reluctance, concern, and a fierce re 205Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 129 Demons Run Amok? I’m a Taoist Priest, This Is My Specialty 妖魔横行？贫道专业对口 Chen You'an opened his eyes and realized he had transmigrated. The good news: he had transmigrated with a System. The bad news: this was an ancient world torn apart by war and filled with starving corpses. There were no immortals or gods, only life-snatching demons, harmful devils, wandering ghosts, man-eating monsters, and hopping zombies. 2.4kReads5.4Score16114d adds
- 130 Atonement Darwin 赎罪达尔文 What do you mean, I transmigrated, then transmigrated again? (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no System. An ensemble cast with a focus on characters and plot. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.) “My life ended yesterday, but my story begins today.” Lu Wei was an ordinary second-year college student on Earth, but every night he entered another world of immortal cultivation in his dreams. When he was certain the world in his dreams was fake, he found himself trapped i —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Grading Essays, I Uncovered a Murder from Three Years Ago 批阅作文，我查出了三年前的人命 Chen Mo, a Chinese teacher, discovered a murder case in an essay. A student described in detail how a girl from the same school had been bullied to death three years ago. The victim was the older sister of Su Qing, the transfer student in his class. When he started investigating, the principal handed him a thick red envelope. “Mr. Chen, let the past lie quietly. This is the ‘rational good.’” His mother was gravely ill and urgently needed money. And the fate of whistleblowers? Shen Xiao, the form —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了 Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 The Scalding Gold Bracelet 烫手的金镯 Five boys set out to rob a tomb, but their greed awakened something even more terrifying beneath it. Could the ancestral gold bracelet actually be the lock on a seal? Forced to become a “living target,” Wang Erwa must uncover the truth behind a silversmith’s violent death and the sins of an old debt before the evil spirit fully awakens. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Yin-Yang Travels in a Mountain Village 山村阴阳行 My name is Chen Jiujin, and I'm a wandering tradesman. To put it plainly, when someone has a haunting on their hands, they hire me to take a look. This time, I came to Zhou Family Village. A seventeen-year-old girl had been followed by something foul. She drank chicken blood, dug up graves in the middle of the night, and kept repeating the same words: “Give me back my life.” I thought it was just an ordinary wandering ghost. But I was wrong. The thing inside that girl's belly wasn't a ghost. It 2.7kReads6.4Score22114d adds
- 135 The Missing Pages of History 史阙 Time flows like water, never resting, never stopping. The world's obsessions surge like a tide, throwing the river of time and space into chaos. Some defy the natural order, trying to rewrite the years and throw the world into turmoil; Others hold fast to the rules, facing eerie shadows to defend the source of time and space. Ordinary books conceal countless rifts. Strangers who meet on unfamiliar paths become companions, while obsessions and rules clash without end. The path of order is thorny —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Wuniang's Cookbook 五娘食谱 Deep in the neighborhoods of Chang'an, a light from a cooking fire always glows quietly at night. It belongs to Wu Niang's food stall. Sometimes it sits on a street corner; other times, it becomes an unremarkable little shop, as if carried along by the wind. She makes food so delicious that people can't stop thinking about it. She knows her true customers are not just people, but the desires and resentments churning within their hearts. Wherever greed burns brightest, wherever old grudges run de 131Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 138 I Have a Scroll of Shangqing Scripture 我有一卷上清书 These days, who doesn't have a side hustle? Liu Yuan's side hustle is transmigrating to the Southern Dynasties to become a Daoist priest. No System, no invincible cultivation, and no heavenly destiny backing him. He's just an ordinary man, carrying a damaged copy of the Shangqing Scripture, a few Yun Zhuan talismans that work only sometimes, and a piece of salvaged rebar. Under the name Zhao Chengyang, he ventures into a world unrecorded in county gazetteers, where the dead can speak. Mass grave 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 A Little Crazy, a Little Daoist, Crazy and Daoist All the Same! 癫癫又道道，道道又癫癫！ [Fortune-telling + face reading + feng shui + ghost hunting + lighthearted comedy] Stories and lessons always go hand in hand. Who knows whether young people will understand them. Zhang Jiuyue, a young Taoist from Sanxian Temple, slings his pack over his shoulder and heads down the mountain, with no idea what hardships life has in store for him. But as far as he is concerned, if gods come, he’ll kill the gods; if demons come, he’ll vanquish them. What’s there to be afraid of? Life is only a few 376Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Sun Pupil, Moonless Night: I Know the End from the Start! 日瞳月晦：开局我已知晓终末！ [Supernatural] ~ [Mystery] ~ [Mind Games] ~ [Plot Twists] ~ [No Idiot Plots] The first time was at a casino. I won every last chip in the place, but I couldn’t escape the strange curse that clung to me. Luckily, when I woke up, the game hadn’t started yet. The second time, death came calling at midnight. The rules offered no way out. I watched the skin being peeled from my body inch by inch, helpless to stop it. The nightmare wouldn’t go away. The third time, the fourth time... Death played out 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 The Spirit Pact of Sinister Schemes 诡谋之灵契 People often say that a person’s fate is decided by Heaven, but that is not entirely true. Mu Fan was born into a vast conspiracy. With a body of four yin and an utterly yin fate, his perilous destiny made an ordinary life impossible. A female ghost in the park tries to seize his soul, while a stunning ghost bride enters into a marriage pact with him. Corpses dance in the funeral home; teachers and students at a school haunted by vicious ghosts leap from buildings in eerie circumstances; deep in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Underworld's Manager 黄泉主理人 “Do you know why the lights at Haishi University never go out? Because monsters lurk in the dark, gnawing away at the light.” Lin Chen tosses his milk tea, frozen into an ice sculpture, into the microwave to thaw, then sighs at the red-clad woman flickering in and out of view in the mirror. His life is like an absurd horror movie: vending machines sell carbonated drinks flavored with Meng Po’s soup, corpses in the dissection room tap-dance on full-moon nights, and worst of all, he’s started eyei 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 The Tomb-Keeper's Shaman Boy 守陵巫童 My name is Shen Yan, the lowliest tomb-guarding shaman boy on Mount Cangwu. A vengeful spirit in white bit my neck, leaving behind a black, snake-shaped mark. She said I had forty-nine days left to live. I thought that was as bad as things could get. Until my fellow disciples sold me out, and the tomb warden sealed off the mountain to hunt me down. Until the remnant soul of a Martial Emperor, who had slept beneath the earth for a thousand years, began coveting my cinnabar-bloodline body. One w 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 I Mend the Cracks in the Mortal World 我在人间补裂缝 [No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no brainless writing, no wish-fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.] I survive in a reality warped by the uncanny by patching up its cracks. Then, while mending the heart of a female corpse from the Republican era, she whispers in my ear: “You’ve patched up so many cracks. Haven’t you noticed that you yourself are the biggest one?” That day, a bruise shaped like a handprint appears around my wrist, and a 72-hour —Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 146 My True-Life Paranormal Encounters: The Bizarre Things I've Experienced 亲身灵异实录：我经历的邪门事儿 Based on true events, firsthand accounts. Over the course of my life, I’ve encountered far too many bizarre things that science can’t explain. On a stormy night, a nightclub hostess was pinned down by a ghost in her sleep. Something furry crouched on her chest, and a seductive moan like a fox’s cry sounded beside her ear. She began to walk with a sway, her eyes shining like a fox’s, and the men around her started meeting with strange accidents one after another: the boss’s brakes failed in a c 1.1kReads6.8Score10614d adds
- 147 Taking Shelter in a Taoist Temple from the Start, I Turn Around and Invest a Ghost God with Divine Authority 开局道观避难，反手敕封一尊诡神 After failing the college entrance exams, I retreated to a remote mountain temple, ready to lie flat. Who would have thought that a murderous ghost would knock at midnight, forcibly activating the Daoist Investiture System! [System Notice: Rule-based entity “Knocking Ghost” detected. Host, please confer a divine title!] As I watched the shadow about to break through the door, I decided to give it a try and shouted, “I confer upon you the title of Guardian Deity, in charge of guarding the home an 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 King of the Occult Arts: Exorcising Demons in the American Horror Universe 诡术之王：我在美恐世界斩妖除魔 After three years of cultivation, Lin Yan was still at the bottom of the food chain in the American Horror world: kept like livestock by vampires, tormented by vengeful spirits, and ultimately killed on a witch’s sacrificial altar. Then he was reborn and awakened the Lin family’s ancestral legacy of occult arts! In his previous life, he had been ignorant. This time, he wielded talismans as blades, peachwood swords as edges, and soul-subduing bells as his guide, using the thousand-year heritage o 175Reads—Score10014d adds
- 149 The Taoist Priest Took Me Ghost Hunting 道士带我抓鬼啦 [Folk mysteries + Taoist ghost hunting + urban paranormal + supernatural tales] The headless little ghost at the amusement park The eerie singing in the morgue An elevator leading to a paranormal dimension... Are these bizarre events mere coincidence, or were they destined to happen? 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Countless Reincarnations, All to Save You 无数次轮回只为救你 Does an abandoned weed, the lowliest and most insignificant of all, truly have the right to touch "happiness"? When will this unending death finally come to an end? The "twins," born in the name of hope, have long since lost their freedom after stepping into an ancient web of grudges and entanglements. —Reads—Score—14d adds
