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- 151 Demons of the Northern Mountain 北山有妖 When I was twenty, someone killed me. My killer dumped my body at Beishan, a thousand miles away… 2kReads7.5Score252Shelves
- 152 Entering the Dao with Immortal Guidance 带着仙家入道 I started out as a disciple of a top incense master, then met a wise teacher and became a young Taoist disciple. This book consists entirely of popular science and real-life experiences, and it also contains plenty of tips on how to avoid scams! Nothing is made up, and this is not a power fantasy about cultivating immortality. Your support is greatly appreciated! 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 My Wife Is the Asura King 我的老婆是修罗王 Enter a ghost marriage, command a hundred ghosts, recruit ten thousand immortals, return to Yuxu... A new disciple’s “Madman’s Diary” 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 The Fox Seeks a Wife 狐讨妻 When I was born, I fell gravely ill. To save my life, my father sold me to a white-haired fox. Fifteen years later, the fox came to collect its debt and demanded I repay it by becoming its disciple. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of bizarre things I could never have imagined. I thought the fox and I had nothing more than a simple debt to settle, but later I discovered a shocking secret hidden beneath it all. 400Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 155 The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we 1kReads9.1Score170Shelves
- 156 A True Spirit Medium 一个真实的出马仙 Spirit mediums are believed to bridge the human and spirit worlds. By drawing on the power of their “immortals,” they can help people avert disasters, resolve troubles, and predict good or bad fortune. Chosen from a young age to become a spirit medium, she is a young disciple burdened with a fate unlike anyone else’s. Her spirit altar is home to more than a hundred spirit beings, including fox, weasel, snake, and python spirits, spirits of the outer five types, and Qingfeng and Yanhun. Each ha 511Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 157 The Mountain Wanderer 走山人 Three years after I died, I climbed out of my grave. I set out on the path of a spirit medium and made my name roaming the mountains. Grandpa said I was half-dead, with no taboos to hold me back! 2.3kReads8.7Score200Shelves
- 158 I Picked Up a Calligraphy Brush and Ended Up as an Underworld Errand Boy 捡了一支毛笔，结果成了地府牛马 After unexpectedly finding a divine brush from the underworld, a mother and daughter are drawn into a strange world between yin and yang. With a stroke of the brush, they can draw talismans to suppress evil spirits in every direction. It can also forge a blade, creating a divine weapon that devours souls. Armed with their brushes, the mother and daughter embark on a unique supernatural adventure. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 My Grandfather’s Supernatural Notebook 我爷爷的灵异笔记 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural + Episodic Stories] One eerie incident after another, each like something out of a horror novel. Getting trapped in a ghostly maze in the middle of the night Strange mystical arts and Taoist magic A weasel that can talk A notebook of supernatural cases left behind by my grandfather helped me unlock my Yin-Yang Eyes, sealed for years. From then on, I embarked on an extraordinary everyday life as a ghost hunter! 498Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 160 The Years I Spent as a Shepherd 我当羊倌那些年 A noodle shop packed with customers uses eels dug out of graves. A scrawny yellow dog is willing to develop gallstones for the sake of its master. A man-eating catfish has a water-swallowing pearl in its belly, while the teeth of an ancient corpse have turned to jade. As an heir to the grave-robbing treasure-seeking trade, I transmigrate through mountains and forests in search of heavenly treasures. People call those of our trade shepherds… 2kReads8.1Score237Shelves
- 161 Miss, Wait Up, Little Taoist 女施主：小道长留步 Witty and humorous + grounded in reality and rich in metaphor + ghost hunting and the supernatural A Taoist priest descends the mountain + an utterly doting big brother + a collection of short stories + long-term foreshadowing + guiding souls to the afterlife In 2026, I hunt ghosts and guide souls in the city. Only later did I realize that human hearts are far scarier than ghosts. I have just two kinds of clients: the living and the dead. The living pay me to solve their problems. The dead pay w 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Married to a Fox 嫁狐 The sins of my ancestors came back to haunt me. To save my life, Great-Auntie invited a fox spirit to protect me. But who knew this fox spirit wasn’t here to protect me at all, but to kill me... 411Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 163 Master of the Daoist Arts 道门高手 A funny, easy-to-follow story about catching ghosts and vanquishing demons in a modern city. My dad’s surname is Li, and my mom’s surname is Bai, so my name is Li Bai. By day, I wear a white lab coat and look impossibly handsome! By night, I wear a black suit and look devastatingly handsome! Do you believe in ghosts? You don’t, because you’ve never seen one. I do. Not only have I seen them, I’ve caught them! Two male leads: a slightly dim-witted second male le 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Rise of Spirit Mediums in Northeast China 东北顶香风云 [No heroine + occasional humor + supernatural + xuanhuan + brotherhood + sisterhood] There sure are plenty of weird things in the Northeast! Let me tell you about it. I, Xue Lin, traveled far and wide with the spirit immortals. I helped a coal mine owner find missing miners and battled vengeful ghosts in a burial ground. I broke a formation for the richest man in Wende and stuffed a troublemaking fox spirit into a gourd. I've seen how hard it is to fathom people's hearts, faced ghosts claiming l 706Reads8.0Score106Shelves
- 165 That Guy Is Both a Northern Shaman and a Southern Taoist 那家伙既是北马又是南茅 Join the Old Immortal in gathering merit and spreading blessings across the land! Anyone with a “little circle” on them is there to help others. This is a little master who is both rather laid-back and a bit of a slacker, “part Taoist, part Marxist,” and specializes in helping people solve their problems and helping the Old Immortal accumulate merit! He’s also an expert at exposing fakes! Ha, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that! 725Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 166 The Fox's Seduction 狐诱 Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone! 617Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 167 Testimony from the Immortal Realm 仙家证词 Murders in the old forests of Northeast China are never just a matter of earthly cause and effect. When testimony about "a weasel spirit delivering a warning" or "a fox immortal showing the way" appears in the police station's case files, everyone dismisses it as nonsense. Only I, a half-trained spirit medium, know the truth: these are ironclad proofs from the immortals, and death warrants binding the living to the dead. The truths hidden in the sparks of a pipe and floating atop the incense ash —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 Tales of a Northeastern Spirit Medium 东北出马仙见闻 Strange things began happening around Li Yaoyao while she was still in school. Later, all sorts of baffling images kept appearing in her life. Had she really seen them with her own eyes, or had she imagined them? Perhaps neither you nor I can tell. It was only after she met her master that everything became clear through her explanations. Yet these so-called truths were only the opening chapter of the story of what happened to her. The road a spirit medium must travel is long, very long. Over th 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Fox Immortal Haunts Me, Making Me Her Spirit Medium 狐仙缠我当弟马 [Modern Romance + Contemporary Romance + Fantasy Romance + Countryside] I was glued to Grandma when I was little, and heard all the stories about spirits and immortal encounters in the mountains. But there was one tale from thirty years ago that she told with particular solemnity. She said that deep in the old forest, she had once met a snow-white fox spirit, perched on a blue stone, its eyes gleaming like moonlight on water. It had opened with the fateful question of a spirit seeking a title: “ 6Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 170 Thirteen Years in the Shady Business 我捞偏门十三年 [The rating just came out, but it'll go up later] I entered the business in 2008 and retired in 2021. People usually call those of us in this line of work "readers of the unseen." In thirteen years on the job, only about eighty percent of the strange cases I handled ended well. All I can say is that ghosts aren't the most sinister things out there. Some things don't even have names you can call them by. 56.8kReads8.9Score10kShelves
- 171 Tales from the Northern Horsemen 北马见闻录 I’m a spirit medium. What do I need brains for? As long as I’m stubborn enough, those weasels can’t get the better of me. This is a story full of blood and heart, and the legend of a spirit medium’s life. Whether it’s life or human nature, the wise will eventually find the answers meant for them. A record of strange encounters, and half the history of the Ma family. Folk legends, chilling mysteries, and uncanny wonders, all within... 3.5kReads8.9Score287Shelves
- 172 Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻 After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path. 11.3kReads8.5Score2kShelves
- 173 The Fox Bride 狐嫁女 Eighteen years ago, my grandfather offended a Hu fairy in the mountains and suffered its frenzied revenge. Eighteen years later, to settle the score, I was forced to marry the beast that ruined my family, serve as its spirit medium, and become the most powerful spirit medium across the vast black soil! Please help me with the spirit-invocation chant: Golden incense burner, silver incense whip, set aside the sea-sized bowl and let the incense smoke rise; Offer red beams and clear water to the 1.5kReads8.9Score211Shelves
- 174 Calling on the Immortals 请仙儿 In our village, every adult child in the family has to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival and weigh down paper offerings on the graves. But when I went to pay my respects at Grandma's grave, I put the paper on the wrong one... 526Reads8.7Score111Shelves
- 175 The Destined Immortal-Boned Female Face Reader 天命仙骨女相师 I was born with the bones of a phoenix. Chen the Half-Immortal, who had spent half his life telling fortunes in the village, said I was the reincarnation of the living Bodhisattva worshipped in the village shrine. That was why I had a natural gift for discerning yin from yang and driving out ghosts and spirits. But before I turned six, I was an idiot, because someone had stolen my spiritual root with a forbidden art that defied heaven. Only after a master who came to ask my adoptive mother for h 245Reads9.3Score206Shelves
- 176 Mr. Xiao Wang 小王先生 My mother held on for several extra hours while giving birth to me, just so I wouldn’t be born on the date the fortune-teller had predicted. Haunted by evil spirits! Delivering winter clothes to the dead! Wandering ghosts! Why does everyone come to me for everything? Incense roots? Fate? Five-colored cloth? These mysterious trades all depend on intuition! Granny Bai says I have a spiritual gift and a knack for opening the senses. Aunt Yang says I have all three kinds of affinity. But I never tho 13.5kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
- 177 Incense Ashes: I'm a Yin-Yang Medium 香灰：我是阴阳女先生 If someone asks to borrow money from you in a dream, promise me you won’t lend it. Because what you’re lending isn’t money, it’s your life. … Grandma called me a debt-collecting demon, and Mom called me a bringer of bad luck. All because, when I was born, a fire broke out at home for no apparent reason, and the villagers rushed over to help put it out. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t extinguish the flames. The fire only slowly died down after half the village had burned to the ground. 6.9kReads9.1Score841Shelves
- 178 The Outcast: The Strongest Spirit Medium in the Northeast 一人之下：东北最强出马仙 [Also known as: The Outcast: I’m the Beloved Darling of the Northeast Spirit Immortals! The Outcast: The Northeast’s Strongest Spirit Medium!] [The Outcast, shameless schemer, sly operator, ruthless, System, no female lead] Guanshan accidentally transmigrates into the world of The Outcast. He becomes the youngest grandson of Guan Shihua. Born with a divine meridian, he can invite gods to possess him, making him immune to the Spirit Summoning and Commanding technique, one of the Eight Extraor 13.9kReads8.4Score918Shelves
- 179 Awakening My Immortal Destiny: The Path of a Spirit Medium 仙缘觉醒，出马仙之路 Lin Xiaoman once thought she would spend her whole life in the old alleys of a small Northeastern town, working from sunrise to sunset and living a quiet, uneventful life like countless generations of her family before her. Then, after a sudden high fever, she began to see “things” ordinary people couldn’t: a woman in blue wandering beneath the old locust tree at the end of the alley, a white-bearded old man tapping on her window at night, and even the indistinct summons of “the immortals” in he 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Don't Move! I've Got Connections in the Underworld 别动！姐地府有人 The continuation of Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma: filling in the gaps from before, meeting the people who came afterward, and briefly recording the everyday happenings that followed. It also teaches a few simple things that you can put into practice. 745Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 181 My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊 A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle? 298Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 182 The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童 A strange story set in a small town ninety years later. The heroine begins her shamanic calling at thirteen. On the day she was born, all the fox, yellow weasel, white weasel, willow, and rat spirits within a ten-kilometer radius knelt to welcome her. Then came a series of miraculous experiences. 10.6kReads9.5Score947Shelves
- 183 My Years Running a Spirit Hall in Liaoning 我在辽宁领堂口的那些年 When I was three, a Huang spirit knocked my soul loose, and by chance I became sworn brothers with another Huang spirit. A Ghost King let something slip by accident, and following the clues, I learned that this Huang spirit was actually a golden-armored deity. It was only when the Living Buddha of Haitang Mountain appeared that I discovered I had two souls in one body. The arrival of my wife from a past life gradually awakened my sealed memories. Atop Mount Tai, the majestic and magnificent scen 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 The Fox’s Child 狐胎 I was born in a poor, remote village in Northeast China, and grew up not knowing who my father was. On the day I was born, a red-haired fox brought me a gold ingot in its mouth. Only later did I learn that I was the fox’s child. Twenty-one years later, when I met the fox again, he threatened to drag me into his bridal chamber! To survive, I swallowed my humiliation and became his spirit medium. Just as I was beginning to accept him, I discovered that it had all been a scheme, and I was nothing m 1.1kReads9.2Score185Shelves
- 185 Ghost Messenger, Don't Run 鬼差你别跑 The sequel to "The Underworld Calls Me Little Mister", picking up perfectly from the final chapter of the first book. Hilarious ghost-hunting power fantasy! Every member of the main cast is an overpowered carry, and they won’t put up with even the slightest injustice! An invincible protagonist, with payback served the very same day! Packed with all kinds of superstitious trivia from Taoist classics, along with knowledge from the other Hundred Schools of Thought. 18.7kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
- 186 After Coming of Age, I Became the Snake Lord’s Most Beloved 成年后，我成了蛇君大人的心头肉 People from Northeast China don’t eat wild animals. The big ones are too strong to beat, and the little ones are all spirits! But my great-great-grandfather refused to believe it and caught a giant snake. From then on, strange things kept happening to the Shen family for generations. Then, when I turned eighteen, I learned firsthand what it meant to pay for his actions… 451Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 187 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 188 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 146Reads7.9Score244Shelves
- 189 A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事 As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate! 339Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 190 I Pretended to Be Guan Gong, and a Weasel Came Asking for a Blessing 我扮关公，黄皮子竟来讨封 When the actor playing Guan Yu failed to show, Zhu Changfeng went onstage as his replacement. His portrayal was so majestic that people who admired him began asking him to dress as Guan Yu and drive away evil from their homes. Zhu Changfeng agreed. That night, a weasel showed up and bowed to him. “Please, Lord Guan, grant me a place among the gods. I am willing to serve you loyally and without fail...” Zhu Changfeng was dumbfounded. “You actually believe I'm the real deal?” 4.8kReads8.5Score673Shelves
- 191 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生！ I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I 8.8kReads9.4Score692Shelves
- 192 The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙 When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife... 11.9kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 193 Are You a Spirit Medium? No! I Deliver Takeout 你是出马仙么？不！我是送外卖的 [Humorous comedy] [Traditional supernatural horror] [Spirit-medium tradition] [No System] You’ve got to be a little crazy to write novels. Ever since deliveryman Yang Ergou encountered a ghost for the first time at twenty-four, he’s gradually let loose. When faced with a ghost: “Bro, you’ve hit me and beaten me up, and I found my phone. Just let me go, okay?” Yang Ergou looks down at his phone. “Cut the crap. Help me deliver this order first.” When faced with an immortal spirit: “You reckless sp 31.3kReads9.2Score3kShelves
- 194 The Life of a Spirit Medium’s Disciple 出马弟子的人生 A novel about real experiences and nothing but facts, centered on the real practice of spirit-mediumship! I hope you enjoy it! No fantasy power trips or immortal cultivation: every bit of it is based on real experiences! 271Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 195 Fellow Daoist, If You Want to Scam Someone, Find a Living Person 道友，碰瓷请找个阳间的活儿 My name is Dong Qingyun. I’m an ordinary college student, but I somehow ended up with two ridiculous masters. One has such incredible technique that he uses lightning talismans to zap washing machines and save electricity. The other is a shameless clown who catches ghosts while patrolling the streets and delivering takeout. Then, by a stroke of bad luck, a sorcerer came after me and shoved a pair of yin-yang twins into my soul My masters immediately freaked out: “We’re screwed! This ritual’s goi 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 The Spooky, Hilarious Legend 恐怖幽默搞笑传 Synopsis of The Spooky, Humorous, Hilarious Tale Other streamers are scared out of their wits when they encounter ghosts on camera. When he runs into evil spirits, his go-to move is “cuddle up”! In a gloomy old mansion, instead of heartrending sobs, the streamer blasts his absurdly catchy “Good Luck Is Coming” theme music. A ghost in white lifts her long hair to scare him, only for him to whip out a pair of Tony's scissors and ask, “Want a makeover?” Even the supernatural crowd rushes to post co 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Yin-Born Girl and Her Snake King Betrothed 阴生女，蛇王聘 The day I was born, the Imperial Star entered my fate, and a hundred ghosts clung to me. To keep me alive, my grandmother summoned the most powerful guardian spirit in the north to suppress my fate. With a python as my master, I became a spirit medium, learned the ways of yin and yang and the Eight Trigrams, and traveled across the land to protect the world. Under my master's protection, I became a generation's greatest prodigy. But in doing so, I also glimpsed secrets and heavenly mysteries I w 6.9kReads8.9Score447Shelves
- 198 Folk Tales of the Mountain Wilds 民间山野怪谈 A lifetime spent roaming the martial world, telling tales of ghosts and strange happenings from the countryside. Stories of spirits and monsters in the wilderness have always been a staple of people's conversations over tea, and folk tales about mountain ghosts and gods come in every variety. There is a kind of extraordinary man who can help people choose burial sites and homes, divine life and death, reveal the secrets of fate, dispel evil spirits, travel to the underworld, save lives, and ward 1.1kReads8.9Score151Shelves
- 199 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 1.5kReads8.9Score239Shelves
- 200 The Legend of Situ Shankong 司徒山空传 The rags-to-riches journey from teahouse server to grandmaster. The extraordinary life of an old Taoist from eastern Sichuan, spanning seventy years! 3.2kReads8.9Score960Shelves
