Novels like Collected Records of the Way
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- 151 Something Wicked This Way Comes 撞邪 I'm a truck driver who hauls freight all over the country. There are lots of taboos in the business. For example, if you come across a funeral procession, flash your headlights a few times. When driving through a tunnel, especially one with a square entrance, never whistle or say anything disrespectful. And when staying overnight at an inn, always point the toes of your shoes toward the door... 15Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 152 The Northern School's Secret Tombs: Nine Talismans to Find the Tomb 北派秘藏九符寻陵 No mystical spells or dazzling magic, just clashes of blades and bloody fights. Against a backdrop where the modern martial world intertwines with the transmission of cultural traditions, the “Nine Talismans,” the keys that unlock Qin Shi Huang's tomb, become the focus of competing forces. To protect the roots of his culture and trace the whereabouts of his missing master, protagonist Chen Feng is drawn into a story of the duty to safeguard cultural relics and the undercurrents stirring among ma 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Chronicles of a Ghost Hunter 追诡人实录 [Livestreaming + metaphysics + exploration + wacky comedy + no romance] My name is Li Zihao, and I’m a Taoist priest. Unfortunately, my temple fell into decline, and nobody ever came by. With no other choice, I bid my master farewell and went down the mountain with all the skills I had learned. To make a living and repair the temple, I began taking on commissions to help all kinds of people... 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 154 My Family Vanished After the Car Crash 车祸后我的家人都消失了 My Family Disappeared After the Car Accident 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 When the Nursery Rhyme Begins, Close Your Eyes 童谣响起，请闭眼 At 12:17 a.m., audio restoration specialist Mo Feiyue hears his own name on a children's recording from 1998. On the tape, the children are singing "Drop the Handkerchief." But at the very end, a girl's voice suddenly joins in. "Mo Feiyue, why haven't you come yet?" The next second, his phone lights up on its own. [First Nursery Rhyme Realm: Drop the Handkerchief] [Before dawn, find the person who wasn't mentioned in the nursery rhyme.] From that day on, Mo Feiyue discovers that the familiar nur 1.6kReads—Score26814d adds
- 156 0713: Black Screen Record 0713：黑屏记录 In 2010, in Plaburg, a small town in northern New York State, A Country, campus and town surveillance cameras always go black for seven minutes and thirteen seconds at critical moments after an accident on a snowy night. During one of those missing intervals, Tu Yaoyang, an international student in the physics department, sees something for the first time: a transparent spirit, and another figure who looks like him, yet is colder and more familiar. He is forced to join forces with Leslie, a Chi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.5kReads6.3Score11514d adds
- 158 The Human Soul 人魄 The Human Soul 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 The Supernatural Descends! A Female Ghost Teaches Me Maoshan Arts 诡异降临！女鬼教我茅山术 The uncanny descends, and a hundred ghosts roam the night! Li Qiulin was born with his Yin-Yang Eyes fully open. He can see ghosts and gods filling the sky, yet he has pretended to be blind and kept his head down for twenty whole years! That's because he has the rarest constitution of all: pure yang in a body of pure yin. He's the ultimate Yin bait, coveted by every evil spirit. His lifelong dream is to stay home, lie flat, and eat until he dies. But then a bad friend tricks him into exploring a 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Rule Horror: I'm an NPC, and I'm Going Crazy Again Today 规则怪谈：我NPC，今天也发疯 Others enter Rule Horror scenarios to survive. I got sucked in as an NPC, and the System even forces me to go crazy. If I don’t, I die. Fine, then I’ll go crazy for everyone to see. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Tales of the Mystic Arts: Southern Maoists and Northern Horse Shamans Battle the Evil King 玄门往事：南茅北马斗邪王 Lu Li, a handsome young Maoshan Taoist, arrives in Northeast China and meets Cui Kan, a frail, frequently ill spirit medium who possesses uncanny powers. The two are forced into a terrifying conflict involving dark sorcery. Wherever the mysterious sorcerer's ghostly figure appears, terror and death follow close behind. On a dark, windy night, an ancient tomb lies shrouded in gloom, heads roll, and rivers of blood flow... Lu Li and Cui Kan face danger at every turn. They must outwit their enemies 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 I Am a Heavenly Master of the Taoist Sect: From the Start, I Capture and Enfeoff Demons 我，道门天师，开局收妖敕封 [Celestial Master + nearly invincible from the start + little girls + supernatural revival] The supernatural returns, and demons run rampant. Vengeful ghosts wreak havoc, and evil gods invade. Lin Qingyang transmigrated and was reborn in the body of a mighty Celestial Master in this world overrun by the supernatural. With power that reached the heavens from the start, already at his peak from day one, how could he face this unfamiliar world? Of course… He'd descend the mountain to exorcise demon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Morgue Notes: I Saw Messages from the Dead 太平间手记：我看见了死者留言 Chen Ye, an ordinary medical school graduate, took a well-paid job as the night-shift attendant in the city hospital morgue. On his very first night, he discovered that the rules here were absurdly strict: the lights had to be turned off at three in the morning, refrigerator number three was never to be used, and he must never respond to even the faintest sound. He thought it was just a prank to scare the new guy, until he found a line of new writing formed in frost on the back of an old autopsy 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 After Transmigrating, the Forensic County Magistrate Becomes a God! 穿越后，法医县令成神了！ After transmigrating, the county magistrate and forensic examiner became a god! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 I'm Not a Birdman 我不是鸟人 During my final days in the psychiatric hospital, a few of my friends died. I learned a secret, and I was granted a brief stretch of lucidity. This is a story with nothing to do with humanity’s future, the origin of the universe, past and present lives, or the mysteries of science. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Kiss Me as the Storm Draws Near 暴雨将至时吻你 [Sharp-tongued yet soft-hearted criminal investigation captain vs. reborn queen of the night|Two Alphas clash|A tense push and pull] When Meng Chengxiao first saw Chen Xi at a bar, she was being harassed by a few drunks and crying pitifully. His cousin was so smitten, he looked ready to tear out his own heart and give it to her. But on a stormy night, he saw it with his own eyes: the delicate young woman he’d thought so helpless ground her slender toe into a thug’s throat and took down six armed 889Reads8.2Score10514d adds
- 167 A Medium’s Live Stream of Terrifying Calls 灵媒直播间惊悚连线 In the livestream room late at night, there are no viewers, only pervasive yin energy and a flashing alert: “Paranormal Activity Index: 99%.” Psychic medium Su Qing’s streams are anything but ordinary. The “viewers” she connects with are ghosts wandering between the worlds of the living and the dead. When she accepts a connection request, the person on the other end might be the spirit of someone who died unjustly, weeping as it reveals the truth; a vengeful presence in a haunted house, rasping —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 With My Heart, I Question Heaven’s Heart 我以己心问天心 His master’s soul lamp is about to go out, but the Underworld Division has already come to claim his soul, and the Directorate of Fate has secretly altered his lifespan. The young Daoist Chen Shaowei travels from Yunzhou to the capital, uncovering the secrets of the Temple of Heaven, the black accounts of the Ghost Market, and old entanglements in Fengdu along the way. Only then does he realize that the ones devouring people are not a single person or one department, but an old web spanning both —Reads6.9Score12514d adds
- 170 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.” 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 There’s Someone on My Back 我的背上有个人 I always thought I'd slept wrong. I tried medicated plasters and got X-rays, until I met an old man who said, "Young lady, someone has been riding on your back for nearly half a year. You need to send her on her way, right now..." —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 3Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 173 The Folk Grievance Record: The Chosen Wage Slave 民间冤洗录之天选打工人 I was never meant to be alive in this world. My parents dragged me back from the gates of the underworld. But when I was eighteen, they were suddenly killed. Before they died, they used a special method to tell me a shocking secret about my true identity… 12Reads8.9Score114d adds
- 174 I Used a Criminal Investigation System to Clear My Mother's Name 我用刑侦系统为母翻案 Twelve years after my mother was wrongly killed, I received the pocket watch she had mailed me. It lets me see every lie, and has made me the number-one target of an entire criminal organization. —Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 175 Armor Hero: After Signing the Overlord Contract, I No Longer Believe in the Light 铠甲：签完霸王合同后，我不信光 [Armor Hero 1 + Behind-the-scenes power plays + Mystery and the supernatural] Lin Yu transmigrates as the son of D City's richest man. He doesn't wear armor or fight supernatural beasts. He sets the rules, draws the game board, and manages the ledgers. Relying on connections, information asymmetry, and analytical skill, he turns the battlefield into a chessboard. Someone in the morgue's cold storage refuses to wake. Something in the depths of an abandoned well has been painted over and concealed 65Reads—Score314d adds
- 176 The Way of Heaven: Feng Shui Master, I Control the Universe 天道门，风水神师，乾坤由我执掌 The lotus scorched by hellfire is the birthmark on my back. The sins of my past life were too great, and in this life I'm fated to die young. To stay alive, I descend the mountain in search of a way, only to find eighty-one coffins and an underworld wedding waiting for me. A coin hung from a mountain, a cup of water holding the world in check. A demon fetus in a human belly, a woman in a bottle, the witchcraft of Luonan, eight or nine layers of coffins, the underworld's watery halls, a golden co 260Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 177 I Earn Merit by Writing 我靠码字攒功德 If you can’t see it through to the ending, don’t read this book. If you insist on reading it, read only the first three chapters. If you read the first three chapters, you absolutely have to read the extras. If you won’t listen to me, then don’t. 1.2kReads9.4Score18114d adds
- 178 The Whole World Believes in Gods, but I'm the Only One Who Believes in Taoism 全球信神，只有我信道教无敌 The whole world has been chosen by the gods. Only by serving a god can people gain supernatural powers. In the Sakura Kingdom, there are Shinto shrines dedicated to the Yin-Yang Gods and Amaterasu! In the West, there are the Church and the Necromancers' Guild... Only in the land of Yanhuang are there no traces of Taoism, making it a place where foreign lands compete to spread their faith. Jiang Heng transmigrated! After learning the truth, he rejected the gods of foreign lands and resolved to es 35Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 179 Everyone Transmigrates! Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Cases? 全员穿越！说好的鬼呢咋都是案子 Everyone Transmigrates: Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Murder Cases? I had barely transmigrated before bandits dragged me up a mountain and demanded I become their captive bride? Top forensic pathologist Lin Qingge says: No problem. First, let's use science to humiliate you all. [Ding! Golden finger “Voices of All Things” activated. Three uses per day. Hear the final words of all things!] The bandit chief raised his blade. “You little brat, prepare to die!” I looked up a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain: I Slay Every Evil with Changshan Magic 天师下山：我以阊山术法尽诛邪 “The world is in turmoil, overrun by demons and monsters. I wield the Lushan Dao, and can slay specters and evil spirits.” So spoke the Daoist priest as he shouldered his sword and descended the mountain. “Why go down the mountain?” “To vanquish demons and subdue evil.” “And why vanquish demons?” “So I can answer to the Dao in my heart!” 45Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 181 A Talentless Mystic? I Maxed Out My Yin-Yang Eyes from the Start 玄学废材？开局点满阴阳眼 Lin Yi, 22, is a recent college graduate. On the surface, he is a “good-for-nothing” who keeps striking out in his job search. In truth, he was born with yin-yang eyes, but his spiritual powers never awakened, so he has been seeing ghosts since childhood. Cowardly yet stubborn, he uses humor as a defense mechanism. His catchphrase is, “I don’t want to be brave either, but ghosts don’t play fair!” This is the story of how unlucky Lin Yi is forced into action, using scientific thinking and an unre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Chronicles 茅山天师录 Maoshan is famous for its Taoist arts. I learned Maoshan Taoist magic and came down from the mountain to exorcise ghosts. My whole life has been filled with confusion. Is this really how my life is supposed to go? What is the meaning of what I protect? And who is behind the eerie doll and everything else? 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Death Song of the South China Sea Shipwreck 南海沉船亡歌 A treasure ship from the Southern Song Dynasty, built to restore the empire. A death song echoing through the deep sea. His brother dies a mysterious and gruesome death, leaving behind only a bizarre recording that drives listeners mad. Mojin heir Chen Hao joins forces with a Tanka sea king and a genius archaeologist to avenge his brother and uncover the truth, venturing into the South China Sea's forbidden zone, “Ghost-Cry Cove”! Magnetic mountains block all signals, the death song warps the mi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 True Accounts of Spirit Crossing at Midnight 子时渡灵实录 "A spine-chilling memoir of spirit deliverance by Xu Hanko!" I am an inheritor of Taoist arts. This book records the cases I have handled over the years, helping spirits pass on. Chanting incantations, forming hand seals, stepping the astral patterns, and setting up ritual arrays, I have unraveled the obsessions of countless wronged souls. Every detail of every case is etched in my memory, and behind each one lies the full range of life’s suffering: birth, aging, sickness, death, meeting those w 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Crime Puzzle: The Zero-Degree Detective 罪案拼图：零度侦探 Crime Scene Puzzle: The Zero-Degree Detective Synopsis On a rainy night in the old district, a string of locked-room murders rocks the city. The victims are all social elites, and the crime scenes yield no clues, save for a bizarre spade symbol. Reclusive to the point of obsession, Ling Ji, the "Detective Zero," uses uncanny deductive skills to unravel the truth, starting with a single strand of hair or half a fingerprint and stripping away layer upon layer of disguise. At his side are Qin Feng, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 The Germaphobic Detective Is Dragged into a Mechanical Killing Trap by His Mad-Dog Deputy 洁癖探长被疯狗副手拽入机械杀阵 A fastidious detective is dragged into a mechanical killing trap by his rabid deputy. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Once a Harbinger of Calamity, Now Wielding the Golden Dragon Sword, I Claim the Realm Alone 昔日灾星，今执金龙剑，独揽山河 [Genre: Urban Cultivation] + [Theme: Master Returns from the Mountain] + [Theme: The Sovereign Emperor Returns] + [Character Traits: play the pig to eat the tiger + decisive and ruthless] + [Style: rousing wish-fulfillment fiction] Spiritual qi revival: I cultivate both immortal and demonic arts, and split the sky with a single sword! Spiritual qi revival, the rise of all races! Ye Shisan, a good-for-nothing Taoist priest from Guquan Temple, dreams night after night of a world-shaking battle b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Passerby: Secrets of the Ancient Scroll 过路人：古卷秘相 Shen Xun, guardian of the cycle of reincarnation, suppresses evil spirits and keeps the balance between yin and yang. His time is running out, and he must pass on the guardians' legacy as soon as possible. The first successor is Lin Jian, who possesses a supernatural camera. The evil spirits have already set their sights on her. As Shen Xun reaches the foot of the stairs, he senses a pair of eyes watching him from behind. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Just Because You Can't See It Doesn't Mean It Doesn't Exist 你看不见不代表不存在 There are many strange events involving spirits, ghosts, and monsters in this world. To most ordinary people, they're just jokes or stories. Science explains them as changes caused by magnetic fields. But science ends where the occult begins. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ji Shisan grows from a novice who has just entered the spirit world into a powerful figure who shapes it. Alongside his companions, he safeguards order throughout China, gathers ancient div 2Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 190 The Judge’s Brush: I Use Daoist Arts to Subdue Yin and Yang 判官执笔：我以道法镇阴阳 One case, one solution. Episodic stories, fast pacing, easy to get into. Wang Zhen was born with a fate tied to the Underworld, and holds the Judge’s Brush in his hand. He can see through the boundary between yin and yang, judge wicked spirits, and draw talismans with a fingertip. His strokes make them come alive. Curses that steal lives, girls in red at school, ghostly shadows in hospitals... One eerie, bizarre case after another, one vengeful spirit after another claiming lives. While others g 422Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 191 The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王 On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute 125Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 192 The Sea Without Eyes 无瞳之海 This story follows Elena Shaw’s horrifying discoveries in the remote fishing town of Arkham. After she is invited to study a strange statue unearthed in the basement of a local church, a series of supernatural events unfolds: fishermen mutter deliriously about dreams beneath the sea, the tides bring in the remains of indescribable creatures, and ancient families guard dark secrets. As her investigation deepens, Elena gradually realizes that the town lies atop a fissure between reality and nightm 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Logic Tuner of Fleeting Years 流年的逻辑调音师 The Logic of Passing Years: Book One, “The Tuner”; Book Two, “The Uncertainty Principle”; and Book Three, “Antarctica: Dome A” What if the constants of physics weren't eternal, but were chosen by the collective vote of eight billion people's “observations”? Chen Luoji, a PhD in theoretical physics, loses his academic career over a paper that was “too beautiful.” He returns to work as a physics teacher at a tutoring center while caring for his mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. One ordinary nig —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 My Game Isn't That Scary, Really 我的游戏真没那么吓人 I hate horror. The hurried footsteps racing up behind me, the soft whispers circling my ears that send chills down my spine… Every bit of it. I hate it all. I hate it so much that once it reaches a certain point, I throw up. But I’m a horror game developer. So, since I’m not cut out for this, I’ve decided to quit. And yet… [Congratulations! You have activated the Horror Game Developer System] No, I don’t want it. Let me quit. ※Warning: Your world may undergo some changes. This is the story of a 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Who Stole My Luck? Pay It Back Tenfold 谁借了我的运气，十倍还回来 Beneath the surface of the modern city, ancient feng shui arts truly exist as a system unto themselves. True feng shui masters command four levels of mastery: “reading qi, arranging the landscape, seizing momentum, and changing fate.” By stirring the power of heaven and earth through the human heart, they determine life and death, prosperity and decline, without a sound. —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 196 My Embalming Notes with the Agent 我和代行者的入殓手记 [Thrills + Heartwarming Moments + Redemption + Past and Present Lives] Do you believe someone could wait a hundred years for you? Bai Yan doesn’t. She’s just a junior makeup artist at a funeral home. Her only real skill is pretending she can’t see ghosts. But one early morning, she personally transfers a man’s seal onto herself. He lived to be 129, owes a life, and demands she repay him by doing ten things. This isn’t an evil spirit haunting her. It’s a madman who waited a hundred years for the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 A Guide to Performing in Horror Films 恐怖片演绎指南 Infinite Flow + Supernatural A horror-film role-playing show has quietly become a hit. Anyone desperate to have a wish granted will receive an invitation. The Very Horror Show cordially invites anyone interested to take part in its horror-film performances. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 From the Start, an S-Rank Horror Tale: I Only Have One Block? 开局S级怪谈：我只有一个方块？ (Comedy, plot twists, wild imagination and logic, mild horror, and smart protagonists and antagonists) My name is Shen Mo. It sounds cool, but things went horribly from the start: no memories, no teammates, and a block… But! What do you mean, you can jump from dozens of stories up and land in water? What do you mean, you can blow up eerie scenes with TNT? What do you mean, you can beat Cthulhu senseless with the Sword of Cosmic Dominion? Oh, right. One more thing you should know: this is —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Village Tales of the Chosen One 乡村怪谈之天命人 Programmer Wu Jie possesses the ancestral “Truth-Piercing Eye” and is forced to return to the isolated mountain village of Shoushan to inherit his family home. By day, the village seems perfectly normal, but at night it is shrouded in eerie taboos. Every night beneath the old locust tree at the village entrance, a woman in red appears and asks, “Am I more like a human or a god?” Anyone who answers incorrectly either dies or goes mad. While the villagers tremble and obey rules that have been foll 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Daoist Priest Descends the Mountain: From the Start, I Had a Dog, and My Gear Was All Up To... 道士下山：开局一条狗，装备全靠 [No Female Lead]+ [Not Brain-Dead]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Lighthearted and Funny]+ [Cautious and Steady] After transmigrating into the chaotic Southern Song era, where martial arts reign supreme and demons run rampant, the young Taoist Qingfeng is sent down the mountain by his master to gain experience. From the start, he has only a spirit-sensitive country dog named Laifu for company. With nothing to his name and powerful enemies all around, how can he survive in this living hell? Fortunate —Reads—Score—14d adds
