Novels like The Spirit Medium: My Days with the Immortals
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- 1 Love's Tribulations Between Immortals and Mortals: A Matchmaker Disciple's Firsthand Tales of Karma and Romance 仙凡情劫：出马弟子亲历的因果姻缘 Love and Tribulation Between Immortals and Mortals: The Karma and Romance Personally Witnessed by a Spirit Medium’s Disciple 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Horse-Riding Immortal: I Am a Ghost Officer of the Underworld 出马仙：我乃阴司鬼差 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 In the Northeast, Everyone Has a Spirit Medium 东北都是出马仙 [Humorous and hilarious] + [Spirit-medium investigations] + [Mystery and the supernatural] + [No heroine] A weasel spirit seeks a heavenly title from Xiao Nan: "Do I look like a human or a god to you?" Xiao Nan replied, "You look like Zhu Bajie to me!" The weasel spirit froze, thinking, What an idiot. But a moment later, the weasel suddenly burst out laughing, saying: "I did it! I successfully got my heavenly title! Zhu Bajie is a god! Zhu Bajie is a god! He said I look like Zhu Bajie, which m 6.2kReads7.0Score39814d adds
- 4 The Northeast Spirit Medium's Hall 东北出马堂口 The Zhang family’s spirit-medium clan in Northeast China, from the works of Northern Little Master. A reader of qi can determine life and death through qi, and distinguish yin from yang through the eyes. The old clan’s people and its spiritual encampment, five armies marching forward. When the sun breaks through, fame follows; when the immortals descend, the incense burns bright. A lineage passed down through two branches and three generations, with more than a decade of professional experience. 24Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 5 The Spirit Medium’s Incense Child: A Record of Supernatural Sensations 出马香童：仙缘体感录 During the long, grueling years of opening the spiritual apertures, a swollen brow, ringing ears, and energy coursing through the body become everyday occurrences. Each kind of immortal visitor brings its own distinct sensations: when a White Immortal arrives, a gentle warmth spreads through the body, and they excel at warding off calamity and curing illness. When a Qingfeng Ghost Immortal comes calling, an icy chill seeps into the bones, and an inexplicable sadness rises in the heart, making yo 1.4kReads6.8Score10314d adds
- 6 Secrets of Spirit Mediums: Incense-Bearing Rituals and Journeys Between Worlds 出马秘闻：顶香出马，走阴串阳 Cultivating immortality requires a destined connection to the Immortal Path, and every immortal has a master to recommend them. Masters roam far and wide, and miraculous powers appear when one falls from grace and passes the imperial examinations. Born in the 1990s, I once thought I had a bright future ahead of me. But one strange thing after another began happening, and all my ambitions came to nothing. Then someone pointed out that I was meant to become a spirit medium and serve the spirits. F 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Guiyuan’s Path as a Chuma Xian 归缘的出马仙之路 Scarlet gauze drapes hang three feet and three inches high, and a golden flower-adorned bowl rests in the main hall. Born in a rural village in Northeast China in the late 1980s, I was renamed Guiyuan at the age of three. I gritted my teeth and held on until I was twenty-two, when I took over the old incense lineage passed down by my ancestors. (Everything in this book is fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental.) Guiyuan will do her best to tell you all a good story every time! 101Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 8 I Call You Dad, Do You Dare Answer? 我叫你爹，你敢答应吗！ [Two powerful leads, neither saintly nor self-sacrificing + Spirit-medium cultivation + No female lead + Suspense and the supernatural + Two male leads + A series of cases investigating the uncanny] As a child, Ni Die thought the words written in bold, flowing calligraphy above his family's spirit altar were incredibly badass: A body full of resentment becomes immortal might, Even underworld bailiffs dare not give chase. With the command seal, I can summon a thousand ghost soldiers, When the Kin 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Strange Tales of Spirit Mediums 出马仙异闻 In the lands of the Northeast, amid the dark forests, mysterious tales of spirit mediums have been passed down since ancient times. The five great spirit clans, the Hu, Huang, Chang, Mang, and Bei, have cultivated for thousands of years, choosing humans to serve as their mediums. Through mortal bodies, they walk the world, exorcising evil, upholding justice, and accumulating merit to become immortals. Those chosen by the spirits, known as spirit disciples, bear a fated burden. They move between —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Immortal Hall's Secret Records 仙堂秘录 The tales of the northeastern spirit mediums are widely known, but have you ever heard of someone serving as a medium for a “Dragon Immortal”? From childhood, I was a walking calamity, born under the sign of Yinghuo and beset by a fiery catastrophe. By a twist of fate, the immortals chose me as their medium. This immortal is not one of the “Five Great Immortal Clans.” She looks sweet and adorable, but she is actually a young dragon from the Heavenly Lake of Changbai Mountain! On the day we estab 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 I’m the Number One Female Dima in Northeast China! 我！东北第一女第马 I'm Hu Xiaoyue, the youngest spirit medium in the village. People used to laugh at me, saying I was crazy and babbled because I was sick. Now? Anyone in the surrounding villages with a difficult problem has to respectfully call me “Master Xiaoyue”! Behind me stands a Hu family spirit who has cultivated for a thousand years, and my altar is served by the five spirit clans: fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake, and rat. Reading a situation? I read the incense, discern cause and effect, and unravel the hum 509Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 12 Bullying Me? You Really Think a Spirit Medium Is a Soft Touch? 霸凌我？真当出马仙是软柿子啊 I got into a university in the city after growing up in the countryside. Before I left, Grandpa gave me a wooden sword and told me to keep it with me at all times, even when I slept. With an outfit this strange, the aunties thought I was practicing tai chi, and my roommates thought I was a cosplayer. The campus belle made fun of me, and the campus bully picked on me... Until the freshman bonfire party. I stood beside the fire, reciting an ancient spell to summon spirit mediums, as the shadow of 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Strange Tales of the Horse-Summoning Immortal 出马仙诡闻录 On the day Long Ling was born, foxes gathered and bowed before her as thunder roared and lightning blazed. Her grandfather was struck by lightning, losing an eye and a leg. Her mother died suddenly that very day, and her father vanished without a trace. Long Ling was born wrapped in a black snake. To uncover the mystery of her origins and avenge her parents, the heroine takes over her family's shamanic altar. On this journey, she cuts through every obstacle and endures countless hardships. In t 53Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 14 Spirit Mediums Beyond the Pass: Making a New World in the Internet Age 关内出马：互联网时代闯出新天地 The Hu and Huang spirits never cross Shanhai Pass, but I'm a spirit medium for the new era, and I'm going to venture out! So I crossed Shanhai Pass, stepped into the world of the internet, and entered a world unlike any other... A brave spirit medium fears no hardship! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Spirit Medium: Protected by a Hundred Immortals, Yet Clueless 出马：身受百仙护卫，屌丝不自知 [Supernatural] + [Semi-True Accounts] + [Spirit Mediumship] + [Peng Zu's Legacy] + [Feng Shui] An inherited spirit-medium tradition, bonds spanning a hundred lifetimes, the innate ability to see spirits, and the legacy of Peng Zu's cultivation techniques. The legendary life of Wang Rengong began one night while he was delivering food. The female ghost in the security office dragged this chosen one straight into the world of the occult. From then on, there was no turning back. He learned prote 5Reads—Score11114d adds
- 16 Northeast Dragon and Phoenix Hall: This Spirit Medium Is a Little Unhinged 东北龙凤堂，这个弟马有点癫 The Ma family of the Northeast practices an occupation steeped in mystery. I've been at it from the age of fifteen to twenty-five: ten years honing my craft, though I haven't exactly honed it quickly. This book will be updated as things happen, and I'll share some of my experiences from these years. Discussion is welcome. Here's the important part!!! To anyone who wants to hurl insults: you definitely won't win that contest with me. To anyone who disparages the profession: go ahead. Things reall 190Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Northeast Spirit Medium: The Yin Mountain Altar 东北出马仙：阴山堂口 The deep mountains of the Northeast conceal strange horrors, while the Yin Mountain spirit hall guards the balance between yin and yang! This is no ordinary spirit-medium hall. It is the last surviving main hall of ghost immortals in the Black Soil region. It does not rely on fox and weasel spirits to preside over it. Instead, it is guarded by the Stele King and commanded by Qing Feng spirits. It holds the Nine Netherworlds’ decree and the Book of Life and Death, dealing with tangled karmic affa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Tomb Raiding with the Immortals at My Back 背着仙家去盗墓 A wild dog that fed only on corpses dragged me out of my grave and handed me over to the head of the “Southern Ma” tradition. The “Southern Ma” are an independent tradition that blends Southern Taoism with the Northern spirit-medium practice known as chuma. Its followers usually work alone, venturing into dangerous places. Each can have several spirit patrons with them at once, and they are not only partners but also the closest of allies. To survive, I chose to take over from my father and beco —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Strange Tales from Northeast China 东北民间诡异故事 A demolished Changxian Temple, the eerie Little South Mountain, a great fox who came to visit, the person behind the resurrection of paper effigies, a wronged female ghost come to call, a full-term fetus dead in the womb. Tell me, am I the one telling the stories, or am I a character in one? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 As a Northeast Spirit Medium, I Slaughtered My Way Through Cults 我在东北当出马仙杀穿邪教 Supernatural • Bioweapons • Folk Traditions • Corpse Puppets • Infinite Flow • Golden Corpses Zhou Yang, heir to the Northeastern tradition of spirit mediums. An ordinary man of humble origins, he carries Huang San Taiye, the fallen patriarch of an old spirit-medium clan, on his back. He makes his own body a prison, carrying three poisons within it: Heavenly Plague (red veins and bone spurs), Earthly Plague (gray fungal patches), and an alien beacon (black flame patterns). In the end, he trap —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Records of the Republic-Era Haunted Realm 民国诡域录 Autumn, 1937. Inside an antique shop on the Shanghai Bund, Lu Ziming, an archaeology professor recently returned from studying in France, uncovers the secret of a gilt-bronze figurine from the Ming dynasty. It is, in fact, a cursed artifact capable of summoning “living terracotta warriors.” When A Si is shot dead by shards from a bronze mirror belonging to Yamamoto, a Japanese merchant, the Lu family’s ancestral compass suddenly spins counterclockwise, pointing to a blood-red patch of light atop —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Reopening the Dojo for Her | I Offer Immortal Blood to Save the World 为她重开堂口|我以仙血祭苍生 I’ll Reopen the Lodge for Her | I Offer Immortal Blood to the Common Folk —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Tales from a Northeastern Spirit Medium 东北出马仙之琐碎事 The Little Things of a Northeast Chinese Spirit Medium 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 True Records of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北奇闻实记录 True Accounts of Strange Tales from the Northeast: This novel tells the story of the Ma family’s legacy in Northeast China! The Northeast Ma family is also known as the Five Great Immortals of the Northeast: foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, snakes, and rats! The current Five Immortals are the fox, weasel, Chang, Mang (that is, the snake), and Qingfeng, the ghost lord who is also the Tragic King. There are also five outer immortals: the wolf, tiger, turtle, bear, and eagle! Riding through the mortal wo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 I Became a Spirit Medium in the Village 我在村里出马仙 At midnight, the incense ash at the village entrance always forms the two characters for “weekend.” Inside the yellowed notebook Grandpa left behind is half a bloodstained birth chart. He thought the village’s “immortals” were showing their power, until the kitchen cleaver sharpened itself and clawed shadows covered the window paper. Those so-called “blessings” were actually sacrifices meant to claim his life. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Autobiography of a Northeastern Spirit Medium 东北出马仙自传 A strip of red cloth, three chi and three cun long. The elders and immortals of the old shrine ride with us. One day, we’ll emerge from the mountains and make our name known across the land, passed down by countless families! A young Northeastern man devoted to the occult will open the door to its mysteries for you, and introduce you to the secret traditions of the Ma family and esoteric Buddhism. What? How did you know I belong to the Dragon-Phoenix Shrine? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 My Years as a Spirit Medium's Assistant 我当出马条子那些年 Li Tie, a temporary morgue worker, encounters his own mother transformed into a ghost immortal on the seventh night after her death. A scorched ancestral altar document spits out a peachwood token inscribed “By Imperial Decree.” In a dream, Grandpa Hu San appoints him: “Boy, take over as head of the Enforcement Hall. Your job is to put the immortals in their place!” The timid Tiezi is close to tears. Other spirit mediums make a fortune every day, while he works as a beat cop and pays for the inc 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 My Cat Is a Cultivator 我家有只修仙猫 The older generation always says cats don’t live past six and dogs don’t live past eight. They say that once cats and dogs reach that age, they start exhibiting strange, supernatural behaviors. And the cat in my house... "Do you have any fava beans? I need eighty-one of them." "You can talk?" "I need eighty-one fava beans." Later, a wandering old Taoist priest said that my old cat had an affinity for immortality, and needed fava beans to cultivate... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The True Record of the Fated Northeast Spirit Medium 天命东北出马仙实录 At eighteen, I took a master and began my training. I'd rather be a god who defies fate and turns the world upside down than a pitiful soul groveling on the ground. Everyone says fate cannot be defied, but do you know that the immortals in the Hall of Lingxiao were once ordinary mortals who dared to challenge Heaven? Laozi rode his green ox through Hangu Pass, with purple clouds stretching thirty thousand miles to the east. Did he ever kneel and ask Heaven for mercy? Zhuangzi dreamed he was a bu 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 I Gave the Immortals a Fake Name 我给仙家报了个假名字 Just rated, so read with confidence [Spirit Mediums + Spirit Cultivation + Secrets of the Immortals + Supernatural Events + Divination Explained + Feng Shui and the Mystical Arts + Suspense + Folk Tales + Modern Paranormal Cases + True Stories] I’ve turned my experiences over the years into a novel. At the age of seven, I jolted awake beneath the gaze of the dead. After a lifetime of ups and downs, I entered the world of spirit mediums and stumbled my way toward becoming a disciple on the path t 15Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 31 The Horse-Riding Immortal: Revelation 2 出马仙启示录2 I am a spirit-medium myself. This novel is written in a loosely narrative style, and my writing isn't particularly polished, but I only write about the most authentic experiences I've had as a spirit-medium. I won't dress things up with empty talk; I'll stick to the facts and share what I've learned over the past few years. This line of work is so chaotic now, and many people have been taken for a ride until their families fell apart. I wrote this book to help aspiring spirit-medium apprentices —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Tales of a Northeast Chinese Spirit Medium 东北出马仙实记 [Fantasy + Supernatural Mystery + Northeastern Chinese Folk Customs + Light Comedy] My name is Hu Xiaohua. On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, a weasel squatted on top of the corn stack in my yard. With a tattered red flower perched on its head, it asked me whether it looked more like a person or a god. I took one look at it and said, “You look like your grandma’s grandson.” Ever since that day, my altar has never known a moment’s peace. My maternal uncle is the altar’s wanderin 1kReads8.5Score10314d adds
- 33 Notes of a Spirit Medium: I Set KPIs for My Spirit Hall 出马仙笔记我制定堂仙考核KPI [Humorous] [Supernatural] [Spirit Medium] [No System] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel] [Treasure Hunt] [Growth] [Defying Fate] I died after falling for a beauty’s trap, but then I came back to life. I even got to experience a trip to the underworld. What’s it like down there? Look, there’s a young lady standing by a pink doorway up ahead, dressed in something so revealing it looks ready to burst. She’s waving at me. “Hey, handsome, wanna come have some fun?” But I’m a model young man. “Go have fun 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Realm’s Boundaries 域界之方圆 The path of cultivation has always defied heaven itself. As for the strange, unknown things encountered by spirit mediums, which science and the naked eye cannot explain, how can they be dismissed in just a few words? I’ve been reading the signs through incense for nine years. Along the way, I’ve tasted every kind of joy and sorrow, experienced the warmth and coldness of human nature, and seen plenty of scheming and rivalry. I’ve read so many stories that I’ve come to disagree with some of them, 33Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 35 The Grandmaster's Little Darling 祖师爷的小宝贝儿 ★ True stories of real paranormal events! ★ The trials and tribulations of more than a decade spent seeking the Dao as a spirit medium! ★ Tales of battling through every obstacle to fight evil mediums and wicked immortals! I’m sharing my own experiences and what I’ve learned, hoping to help those who are meant to find this book! I agonized over writing this, since I’ve never written anything before and I’m no great scholar. So I lit incense and asked my patriarch for guidance. He told me not to 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Others Perform Exorcisms, I Take the Stage: I'm Here to Do Things Differently 别人出马我出道，主打一个不一样 (Tales of the Immortals) (Story Sharing) (Popular Science) (Autobiography) I used to be a thoroughgoing atheist. I believed only in what I could see and scoffed at talk of gods and ghosts. Then I started experiencing sleep paralysis again and again, and even the immortals came knocking. That was when I learned that sometimes people only disbelieve because they haven't been pushed to the brink. To survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of serving the immortals. But the deeper I got in 513Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 37 Sun Wuji of the Northeastern Immortal Sect 东北仙门孙无极 The Northeast Ma Xian series: Sun Wuji, a disciple of the Immortal Sect, is born to face a tribulation and is the chosen one. He endures trial after trial, forging a path to invincibility and reaching the supreme pinnacle of the Immortal Sect. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 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”.. 2.4kReads8.6Score13314d adds
- 39 I Run a Spirit Hall in Henan 我在河南领堂口 I cultivated my character deep in the mountains, then emerged from an ancient cave to make my name across the land. Who says the Hu and Huang spirits never cross the Shanhai Pass? That rule is long gone. When I was in college, the spirits enshrined in my family's ancestral hall sought out my mother. But illness kept her from becoming a spirit medium, so the whole spirit retinue eventually came to me. After enduring countless hardships, I was forced onto the path of a spirit medium. A true accoun 449Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 40 This Chuma Immortal Is Too Vicious 这个出马仙太凶狠了 My father had never once imagined, even as an adult, that he would have a child. Then one day, I came into the world and shattered that age-old belief for good. The thing is, I was born frail and sickly. It was only thanks to Chang Er Ye taking possession of me that I survived in this world. This is my extraordinary tale of spirit-medium tricks and supernatural dealings... 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Path of the Spirit Medium 出马这条路 The path of spirit-mediumship is hard, difficult every step of the way. I'm very grateful to all the readers who follow Million-Dollar General Store. A debut is bound to have a few flaws. I'll do my best to improve and correct them. 303Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 42 A Century-Old Spirit Hall: I’m a Spirit Medium for the New Era 百年老堂口之我是新时代出马仙 When a century-old clan hall joins forces with a young man born in the ’90s, he upholds the idea that a new era calls for a new style, using modern methods to make the old immortals famous far and wide! The story features every kind of feng shui secret art, and all the everyday spells can be put into practice. A heaven-chosen spirit medium, a rice-divining witch, a mountain wanderer, folk sorcerers, the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect? I know them all! Before I became a spirit medium, I was meek and ti 207Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 I’m a Spirit Medium in the Northeast 我在东北当顶香师 “Heaven has thirty-three layers, Earth has three feet and three halls. I walk the yin road, descend to the Underworld, and am a spirit medium from Northeast China.” My name is Ye Ling. My life was ordinary until I turned twenty-one. Then my grandmother died of an illness, and I began having nightmares every night and seeing ghosts all the time. I even gained some kind of special ability. I went to see a fortune-teller, who told me I couldn’t leave this county for three years and had to sit in 242Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 44 Northeastern Spirit Medium: The Yellow Weasel Mourns the Dead 东北出马仙：黄仙哭丧 My dad beat a weasel to death. That night, outside our house, ghosts wailed and countless yellow weasels mourned... A three-foot red sash draped over the body, four beams and eight pillars forming a ladder to heaven. Three great roads meet in the center; nine sticks of incense honor the immortals and gods. The sky grows dark, chaos reigns in every direction. Whenever an age falls into turmoil, demons and evil spirits emerge, wearing human faces and worming their way into the halls of power. Some 156Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 45 Notes from a Real Disciple of the Horse-Riding Immortal 一个真实的出马仙弟子随记 This is my true experience as a spirit medium. If you see something of yourself in this story, even a little, leave a comment and we can talk about it. I guarantee that everything here is based on my own real experiences. 2.4kReads7.0Score15314d adds
- 46 My Life as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的那些事 What do people imagine a spirit medium does? Reads incense, or dances and sings? Tells you to run up the mountain and bind your acupoints? Or summons a whole army? The spirit mediums here are different from those in the Northeast! He doesn't need any spirit tablets or ancestral kings. He's an enforcer of the Underworld! He was reincarnated for the sake of one person alone. His previous life spent thousands of years laying plans, only for everything to come to nothing! 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 My Grandma Is a Spirit Medium 我的奶奶是个出马仙 Ever since I can remember, I would mysteriously fall ill. The adults would put me in a little room at my grandmother’s house. The walls were covered with yellow paper charms, and the table was lined with incense burners. I had no idea what any of it was, but in that room, I felt as if many people were keeping me company, and the pain would ease. It wasn’t until I grew up that I learned my grandmother was a spirit medium from Northeast China. I’ve collected some of her experiences and brought the 108Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Outdoor Paranormal Explorer Streamer 户外探灵主播 In little-known corners of the world, there is a unique profession. Its practitioners work mostly at night, exploring abandoned factories, hospitals, schools, funeral homes, hotels, and former murder scenes out in the open, where they encounter and interact with spirits. They are outdoor paranormal investigation streamers. Yu Haiyang is one of them, and his thrilling, dangerous, fantastical adventures were recorded by his fellow disciple, the online novelist Gao Yunfei. That is how this book, Ou 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 My Wife Is a Half-Immortal 我的媳妇是半仙 [Slow burn] The story takes place in a quiet, peaceful little town where the people are simple and kind, and neighbors are close. The male protagonist is an ordinary local who leads an uneventful life. His wife, however, is known by everyone as a “half-immortal” for her extraordinary intuition and unusual way of handling everyday matters. 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 50 The Last Spirit Medium 最后一个出马先生 For years, I went unnoticed amid the bustle of the city. Then one day, I made my debut, and the whole world knew my name. My name is Yan Youli, and I'm a shaman. Punishing evil, promoting good, cultivating myself, and helping others: those are my principles. Vengeful spirits, wicked fiends, ferocious beasts, and even beautiful women from the underworld: why are they all coming after me? The last shaman takes you into the wondrous world hidden behind traditional culture! 13Reads6.6Score—14d adds
