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- 101 Northeastern Immortals: My Tangled Encounters with Spirit Mediums 东北仙家：出马仙与我纠缠的那些 Let me take you into the world of the Chuma immortals. This isn't a power fantasy, just an account told at an unhurried pace of a Chuma immortal's experiences... In the black soil of Northeast China, the depths of the old forests hold many unknown mysteries. People say every mountain has its mountain god, every cave its master, and every willow bank its immortal; pythons can become spirits. On this land, protected by both gods and the wild, there is a kind of person known as a “Chuma immortal”.. 2.4kReads8.6Score135Shelves
- 102 The Northeast Spirit Medium 东北出马仙 [Rural life + folk legends + strange tales + horror + Northeastern China + adventure + crime and deduction + solving cases] [A police officer with a special constitution × a shaman grandmother: an ensemble mystery-solving tale as they team up to uncover the secrets of spirit mediums!] Northeastern China is the birthplace of shamanism and a thriving home to spirit mediums, including the Fox, Weasel, Hedgehog, Snake, and Rat spirits. Since ancient times, it has been full of people with extraordina 3kReads9.3Score150Shelves
- 103 The Spirit Medium Qing Xuan 出马仙清玄 A strip of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people and horses, the old hall's immortal. Whip the horse down the mountain, and make your name known throughout the land. I was born in 1990 in an ordinary village in a northeastern province. When I was three, a great deity said I would one day take up the incense and become a spirit medium. I didn't believe in fate, but in the end, I did become one. Over the years, I've worked as a chef, served as a leader, and entered the 1.1kReads7.2Score103Shelves
- 104 The Yin-Yang Master Keeps Coming and Going 阴阳先生她走来走去 There are 360 trades, and not one of them puts enough food on the table. What to do? Do them all! The protagonist is an orphan adopted by a feng shui master. But before he even turns sixteen, his master dies, leaving him alone with eight younger orphan disciples. To keep the family fed, the protagonist has no choice but to dabble in everything. (It's set in a partly fictional world. The overall timeline still follows modern history, but the author has a bad memory, and sometimes can't be bothere —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Making Money in Both the Living and the Dead Worlds 阴阳两界通吃 [Multiple Heroines + Wacky Daily Life + Light Comedy + No System] I'm Guan Du, one of the top wage slaves between the worlds of the living and the dead. I take jobs and make money by day, then work for ghosts at night. Ghost Big Shot: Help me find my killer, and I'll give you a haunted house! Gluttonous Impermanence: You can mooch a meal, but pay protection money first! Tsundere Receptionist: Keep running your mouth, and I'll put you up for auction online! What? You don't scam people for money? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The White Dragon Horse Medium 白龙出马仙 Break through seven trials, meet with sudden disaster, make a blood sacrifice of an infant, refine corpse oil. One by one, long-lost secret arts resurface, and strange, mysterious events begin unfolding throughout my journey... That lantern made of human skin holds captive the youth I can never return to. 1.1kReads9.1Score100Shelves
- 107 The Spirit Medium of the Three Realms 三界通灵人 From spirit medium to spiritual cultivator to primordial spirit, I slowly unveil the mystery. Born with an extraordinary destiny, I endured trial after trial. A strip of red cloth, three chi and three cun long; the elders of the clan and the old spirits of the mountain. My grandmother was a famous village shaman, and the Fox, Yellow Weasel, Porcupine, and Python spirits accompanied me, making me a medium between yin and yang. I roam the Three Realms, helping people avert disaster and driving out 292Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 109 Strange Tales of the Horse-Riding Immortals 出马仙异闻录 The story of a spirit medium’s growth. The first sixty-plus chapters are just a prelude, written to honor the old incense roots of my ancestors. There’s no outline. Whenever I remember something that happened to me, I just write it down. Although most of the stories are based on things that really happened, the details have certainly been fictionalized and exaggerated. Novels about spirit mediums have a drawback: the true stories aren’t entertaining, and the entertaining ones aren’t true. If a s 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Sinister Way of the Chuma Immortals 诡道出马仙 Twenty-year-old Lu Yuan couldn't find a job after graduating from college, so he returned to his hometown in Northeast China. There, he joined his great-grandfather and grandfather as a spirit medium. As he practiced, he grew both physically and emotionally, gradually learning the many rules of the spirit-medium trade and encountering all kinds of ghosts and bizarre, uncanny events. 198Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 A Spirit Medium’s True Story, in Their Own Words 一个出马仙自述真实经历 An exorcist born in the 1980s shares his true story in plain language, without a single invented or exaggerated detail. I also hope to help those who are lost on this path and destined to walk it, so they can avoid taking unnecessary detours. 342Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 112 The Daoist Tradition of Northeast China 东北道家 A story about real-life Taoist priests and spirit mediums in Northeast China. The content is based on true events. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. An illiterate author writing a book has it rough. 359Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Taoist Master's Wife Is a Spirit Medium 天师道长的出马仙儿老婆 Twenty-five years ago, the Kiku School from Japan used every sort of scheme to persecute the various branches of China’s occult world. Xuan De, the Taoist master then leading Maoshan, joined forces with experts from Longhu Mountain, the Northeastern Shamanic sect, and a mysterious organization within the Chinese government. Together, they foiled the Kiku School’s plan to wipe out China’s occult traditions. Twenty-five years later, Zhang Xuanqing, the private disciple of Maoshan’s current master 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Memoirs of a Spirit-Medium Taoist 出马道士回忆录 First establish a spirit-medium altar, then head to Bayu to study the ritual arts. A Qingwei disciple, holding the rank of Dujiao, with a white crane in his cave. A book of real experiences, true stories, and popular science! Everything in this book comes from my own real experiences and true stories! This book only covers things that really happened. It contains no fantasy or cultivation tales! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 The Record of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子进行录 A very real, purely personal account of life as a spirit medium! I’m a real spirit-medium disciple myself! This book has no fantasy elements or cultivation-power fantasies, just true experiences and information! I hope you’ll enjoy it! wlt52121 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Guanyang’s Diary: Going on Assignments in Beijing 观阳日记之在京出马 A true-to-life, healing novel for those interested in the occult and supernatural abilities, and who feel a spiritual affinity with the immortals. Learn how to open your heart's inner sight and stop falling for scams. Set in Beijing, this is adapted from the real diary of a law graduate and music director who had worked with a top-tier star and created a breakout hit, only to suddenly learn that she was the reincarnation of a celestial deity and become a spirit medium. It explains what spirit me 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 117 Immortal Bones of Fengtian: The Biography of Li Jinglin 奉天仙骨：李景林传 Thunder crashes, the black earth crowns a legend! For a hundred years, the Northeastern mystic sects have produced no young prodigy like him, a master of talismans who can subdue heaven and earth. He slays demons with his sword and protects all living beings with his life! At ten, he took up his brush and drew talismans that summoned thunder from the heavens. At fifteen, he roamed across mountains and rivers, glimpsing the dragon veins at a glance. At twenty, his talisman magic reached the divin 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 I Am the King of Hell Among Men, and No Ghost May Pass! 我，人间阎王，百鬼禁行！ [Traditional folk customs + no romance + slow burn + character growth + not a wish-fulfillment story + proceed with caution if that bothers you!] The night I was born, underworld messengers came to claim my life, and vengeful ghosts tried to seize my soul. But they didn’t know I was destined to be the Yin Emperor... I was born with the fate of the Ziwei Star! On the Cold Clothes Festival, a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, hoping to steal my fate and take over my body. To keep me alive, my 3.3kReads7.9Score187Shelves
- 119 Strange Tales from Guandong: I'm a Chuma Immortal 关东诡事异闻录，我是出马仙儿 As a child, I was always running into evil spirits and seeing ghosts. A master said I was destined to become a spirit medium. My grandpa barked right back: “Why not become a donkey instead? A spirit medium, my foot!” But Huang Tianlong, the immortal from the Huang family, saw right through me and declared that I was born under a guiding star, a spirit medium chosen once in a thousand miles. My mother wanted to send the immortal connection away. The old immortal slammed down his wine bowl. “Send 248Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 120 My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年 My name is Chen Jiuyang. I began cultivating under my master as a child, and officially became a spirit medium at eleven, carrying the Five Immortals with me as I wandered the world. With a Seven Kills destiny, a beauty who is but a skeleton, and a demon star bringing chaos to the age, the moment I stepped into the martial world, it was already fated that I would never escape unscathed. Leather-Skinned Ghosts, Resentful Corpse Demons, and White Bone Talisman Immortals: every strange case I encou 3.8kReads9.2Score381Shelves
- 121 The Heaven-Chosen Horse-Riding Immortal 天命出马仙 The day I was born, a blood moon appeared in the sky. Roosters crowed and dogs barked, foxes bowed to the moon, and all nine stars in the heavens fell. As soon as I came into the world, I caused my mother’s death, then scared my father out of his mind. Everyone said I was a bringer of calamity reborn, but only my grandfather said I was chosen by heaven and destined for great things. When I grew up, I took over a shaman’s altar to investigate the mystery of my birth, only to be dragged into an ev 2.2kReads9.1Score178Shelves
- 122 The Strange Immortals of Northeast China 东北诡仙录 In the bitterly cold lands of Northeast China, an ancient faith has been passed down since time immemorial. It combines the ancient Chan sect’s traditions with shamanic worship of animal spirits. The animals that cultivate there are known as “Old Immortals,” and their human representatives are called spirit mediums. Among them are a brother and sister who travel the mortal world, punishing evil and upholding justice. Along the way, they encounter a female ghost seeking a husband, a drought demon 2.3kReads9.2Score231Shelves
- 123 The Hall of the Living: A Spirit Medium's Extraordinary Experiences 堂口人间：一个出马仙的神奇经历 A chip is sent from the future to 1970. Recipient: Wang Cuifang, a woman in her early twenties, recently divorced and from a rural village in Northeast China. She has no idea what’s going on: suddenly, something extra is in her mind. She can investigate, defend herself, and attack. With her eyes closed, she can “see” what’s happening across the surrounding villages, and when danger strikes, her body retaliates automatically. But the System’s supernatural abilities must remain secret. She needs a 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Allure of the Fox 狐香引 When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever... 918Reads8.9Score111Shelves
- 125 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺人 Those who carry coffins are also known as the “Eight Immortals” or the “Eight Vajra Warriors.” Only people with a strong birth chart, courage, and abundant yang energy can do the job. According to folk belief, the living use their own life force to carry the dead on their final journey, inviting yin energy into their bodies. Carry one coffin and you accumulate blessings and virtue; carry ten and misfortune clings to you; carry a hundred and you die an unnatural death. I’m a professional coffin b 3.4kReads8.6Score209Shelves
- 126 Morgue Mysteries: Lord Huang Santai’s Manhunt Order 太平间异闻：黄三太爷的追凶令 No one believes that an immortal fox lives in the hospital morgue, much less that this immortal is the meddlesome “Third Master Huang.” But ever since I took over the bizarre case of a “corpse moving by itself,” I keep seeing a flash of yellow beside the autopsy table. I even caught the reflection of a weasel in the dead person's pupils. As a disciple who can communicate with the immortals, I know this case is part of Third Master Huang's scheme, and a hunt for the culprit that crosses the bound —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Not a Daoist Priest, but a Mage 不是道士是法师 Beat the drum and swing the whip. With a shiver, I emerge from the mountains. I open my mouth and speak like a human: I'm the half-mad Li Xiaoxian! Ever since I was born, bad luck has followed me everywhere. I've nearly died time and again. To fight against the fate laid out for me, I believed in the Lord, recited Buddhist scriptures, and even worked at a wholesale market. But Heaven played a cruel joke on me. Misfortune kept piling up until I became completely dazed and unhinged. Desperate to g 406Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 128 The Spirit Medium's Stories: Me and My Clients! 出马儿之我和缘主的那些事儿！ A girl who grew up in a small village experiences all kinds of hardships and amusing encounters with the people who come to her for help! Stories about my spirit-medium work and clients getting scammed. I'm looking for stories to use! Anyone with a good story is welcome to share a true one with me! 424Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 This Spirit Medium Is No Ordinary One 这个出马仙不一般 [Paranormal tales from Northeast China, adapted from true stories] A three-foot strip of red cloth bears the names of a hundred or so immortals. Incense smoke curls before it, and the disciple is known as a spirit medium. My name is Jin Laimi. A weasel calling itself the Yellow Immortal once possessed me, and from then on, I became a spirit medium. I opened an agency specializing in feng shui and all kinds of “paranormal” cases. A father who guards his daughter with his spirit even after death; 382Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 130 My Spirit Fox Immortal Wife 灵狐仙妻 [Spirit Fox + Immortal Lord Mentor + Spirit Medium + Sweet Romance] [This novel is complete] The day I was born, the sky was thick with dark clouds, and lightning flashed and thunder roared, but not a drop of rain fell. The moment I came into the world, a blood-red moon suddenly appeared in the sky. When the blood moon rises, monsters are born! From then on, my family treated me as a monster. Years later, after I started working, I learned that Grandma didn’t have long to live. Before she died, 162Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 131 The Years of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子的时光 Everything that happens in this book is based on my own real experiences, with a touch of fantasy added! There's some popular science in here, too! I hope you enjoy it! 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 I Became the First Founding Ancestress of My Husband's Family to Receive Offerings 我成了婆家第一代顶香的祖师奶 Su Can had been frail and sickly since birth. At eighteen, she nearly died from an illness. A great immortal told her she had the fate of a Hua Jie, and only after a substitute effigy was burned was her life spared. From then on, great opportunities came her way. She lost her husband just one day after getting married, and one disaster after another followed. The Hu, Huang, Bai, and Liu spirits, along with the Bei Wang, all came looking for her. As she endured one ordeal after another, involving 4.8kReads9.3Score373Shelves
- 133 The Unorthodox Horse-Riding Immortal 不正经的出马仙 Nine out of ten shamanic practitioners are frauds, and the other one is still cultivating. It’s both lucky and unlucky that I’m a shamanic practitioner who doesn’t cultivate immortality. I only like hanging out with my fox spirit companion, and I absolutely refuse to cultivate. 15.6kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 134 The Spirit Medium’s Here! A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Flick It on the Forehead 出马！黄皮子讨封，我弹它脑瓜崩 A mostly story-driven tale, slightly spooky and a million times hilarious. [Spirit Mediums] [Humorous and Hilarious] [One Thrilling Moment After Another] [Not a Dull Moment in the Whole Book] After a breakup, the brash young Zhang Shitou gets drunk and runs into a weasel asking him to grant it a title. He thinks it’s just a big yellow dog. “Damn it, a good dog doesn’t block the road.” He goes right up and flicks it hard on the head. “Kid, quit flicking me. Look carefully, I’m the Yellow Immortal 14.9kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
- 135 The White Fox Guardian Spirit 白狐保家仙 I was just a mortuary cosmetologist, until I saved a white fox and killed a wolf demon during a camping trip. That unexpected encounter tied me to the immortal families of the Northeast by an unbreakable bond. More and more great demons have since moved into my home. Was it an accident or a long-planned scheme? I have no idea. Grief over his beloved wife turned his hair white overnight. To keep his promise, he willingly gave up his treasured artifact. For the woman he loved, he lived in a state 3.2kReads9.0Score292Shelves
- 136 I’m a Dentist in a Small Town, and I Exorcise Demons on the Side 我在小城当牙医，兼职驱邪 [Mystery + the supernatural + urban legends + team growth] Pull teeth by day, exorcise evil by night: my side gig is way more thrilling than my day job! Chen Mo is an ordinary dentist in Qinglin City. One day, after pulling a mysterious old man's tooth, the man drew a blood talisman on his palm. That night, Chen Mo dreamed of a giant snake that could speak. When he woke up, he discovered he had become a disciple of the Willow Immortal, able to communicate with the realms of the living and the d 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 The Apocalypse's First Spirit Medium 末世第一出马仙 This is the story of Qingcheng, a disciple of a shamanic tradition entrusted with the mission of saving the world. On the land of Northeast China, as the Age of Declining Dharma descends, Qingcheng grows stronger, cultivates their powers, and gathers spirit companions. In the end, they establish the foremost spiritual lodge, turn the tide, and save both the world and the Age of Declining Dharma. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 Northeast Spirit Medium: From the Start, the Hu Family Town Is Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts 东北弟马：开局胡家镇百诡 [Spirit-medium tradition + Northeastern Chinese customs + folk supernatural tales + feng shui secrets] My name is Chen Mo. I had just graduated from college when my grandpa passed away. On the day he died, the portrait in the mourning hall stared at me, someone spoke from inside the coffin, and his corpse even sat up on the day of the funeral. That's when I learned my grandpa hadn't died of an illness. He'd left me a whole spirit retinue: the Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui spirits, each with formi 8.5kReads6.3Score458Shelves
- 139 Tales of the Immortals of the Black Soil 黑土地仙家录 On the black soil of Kaoshantun in Northeast China, young Li Gousheng grows up with his grandfather. By chance, he gets caught up in strange affairs involving the Huang Immortal, the Fox Immortal, and other spirit beings. From helping a neighbor resolve a grudge with the Huang Immortal to clearing the names of wronged souls, from facing snake plagues and zombies to matching wits with practitioners of dark arts, Gousheng gradually grows, under his grandfather's guidance and with the spirit beings 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Reborn in Northeast China: The Spirit Medium Among the Educated Youth 重生东北：知青出马仙 Buddhas in the south, immortals in the north: a reborn young intellectual becomes a spirit medium! Back in the 1970s, he encounters folk tales and legends, one small story after another. With an eighteen-foot Serpent Spear in hand, truth in his left and magic in his right, he knows that good people are always bullied, while evil spirits meet their match in evil men. 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Reborn: I Will Save the Spirit-Medium Industry! 重生之我要拯救出马仙行业！ A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Shamanic Tales: Strange Folk Stories and Supernatural Tales from Northeast China 出马仙之民间诡事，东北灵异故事 [Traditional supernatural horror] Some strange happenings my second uncle experienced when he was sent to the countryside as a young man Which is truly more terrifying, ghosts and gods or the human heart? A night spent seeking shelter at a temple brings vengeful spirits to the door. A son gathers herbs to cure his father, only to cause his death. Children from the same clan die one after another under bizarre circumstances. The Snake Immortal storms into the hall with a blade in hand, seeking on 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Horse-Riding Disciple Still Lives Today 出马弟子今犹在 If you live in Northeast China, you've surely heard tales of the chuma xian. What exactly are the yellow weasels asking for when they beg to be granted a title? Are the Five Great Immortal Families the Fox, Yellow Weasel, Chang, Python, and Qingfeng spirits, or the Fox, Yellow Weasel, White, Willow, and Gray spirits? What can spirit mediums do, and what must they never do? Will the spirits be punished if they do something wrong? As it happens, my older sister is a spirit medium who has establish 6.4kReads9.3Score644Shelves
- 145 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 19.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
- 146 Little Dongbei 小东北 Nature has yin and yang, and society has good and evil. An imbalance between yin and yang brings chaos, but so does drawing too sharp a line between good and evil. When righteousness dwells within, evil cannot intrude. When yin is balanced and yang is secure, the spirit is at peace. Your path is yours to choose: follow your nature, let go of judgment, and wisdom will shine. The Dao moves by returning to its source. In a word, avoid extremes and don't make the same mistake twice... 339Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 147 The Life of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 顶香出马弟子的人生 The life of a spirit-medium disciple, recounting how I established my altar and became a spirit medium, as well as how I took a Taoist priest as my master! Everything is based on real experiences and factual explanations, with no fantasy or cultivation elements whatsoever! 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 My Years as a Spirit Medium's Apprentice 我当出马弟子那几年 Hello, everyone. I'm a spirit medium from Shandong. The main reason I'm writing this book is, first, to record my experiences. Whether it becomes popular or not, I want to preserve my memories and my life story! Second, I hope the book will help people understand spirit mediumship. In recent years, certain people with bad intentions have given it a terrible reputation. So I'm writing about my own experiences to help clear its name! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Fated Spirit Medium 2 天命出马仙2 Shen Nan was an ordinary college student until he accidentally got caught up in a haunting at his school. He also inadvertently learned that he was born in response to fate and was destined to help Chu Yifan fight the immortals and Buddhas who were about to appear. Unexpectedly, they opened the passage ahead of time, and a great battle across the Three Realms is about to begin... Stride across the Three Realms and Six Paths, and continue the legend of the spirit medium! 4.1kReads9.2Score339Shelves
- 150 The Fox Immortal's Betrothal Gift: A Town for a Hundred Ghosts 狐仙下聘，镇百鬼 (Ancestor of the Fox Clan) (Angst in the middle and later parts) My grandmother told me I was born under an unusual fate. On the day I was born, my mother nearly died in childbirth, thunder and lightning raged, and many restless spirits appeared nearby. The Ancestor of the Hu Clan emerged from seclusion and brought the Fox Clan’s troops to guard our family’s courtyard. That was the only reason I survived. In exchange, my family had to offer incense to him for the rest of our lives, and eighteen 154Reads—Score—Shelves
