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- 51 The Supernatural Returns, and Azur Lane Shipgirls Come Knocking 诡异复苏，碧蓝舰娘找上门 The naval port was peaceful, and the girls were living as usual, until one day a sheet of red paper suddenly appeared on the desk in the command room. My name is Bai Qi. When you read this, I’ll be running for my life from a vengeful ghost that shouldn’t exist in reality. This is a filthy, wretched world, a living hell. My story began with a coffin unearthed by accident at a construction site... A strange golden Buddha statue, a cold and uncanny human skin, the truth buried by history: this i 283Reads5.9Score2214d adds
- 52 Horror Revival: He’s Just Too Cautious 恐怖复苏：他实在太稳健了 Five years ago, terror returned to the world, and evil spirits swept across the land. Li Changye was lucky enough to survive. From then on, he stayed cautious as a stray dog, making sure every killer he faced was reduced to dust and bone. He planned carefully before acting and never stepped into danger lightly. Five years later, terror came sweeping back. Amid endless darkness and despair, Li Changye advanced one careful step at a time, carving out a bloody path to survival. 2.9kReads6.7Score20614d adds
- 53 Horror Returns: I Feed Myself to Ghosts Just to Survive 恐怖复苏，我以身饲鬼只为活下去 The Starving Ghost breaks free, and three S-rank paranormal incidents erupt at once. The Ghost Riders' headquarters falls! While fleeing, Xia Feng is attacked by a ghost and mysteriously winds up in another parallel world. But this world still has ghosts! Ghosts cannot be killed. The only way to fight a ghost is with another ghost. The appearance of ghosts completely overturns materialism. As countless paranormal incidents unfold, regions across the globe begin to fall. Humanity is plunged into 6.8kReads8.4Score63114d adds
- 54 Eerie Revival: I Tamed the Nightmare Ghost 诡异复苏：我驾驭了噩梦鬼 [Eerie Revival]+ [Nightmare Ghosts]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Slow Pace] Three laws govern the ghosts. First, ghosts cannot be killed. Second, every ghost has a pattern to its killings. Find the pattern, and even an ordinary person can survive. Third, only ghosts can fight ghosts! The [Nightmare Ghost] makes people drowsy, trapping them forever in a domain of black mist. The [Fifth Person] taps shoulders in a four-corner game played in both directions. The life-threatening [Night Watchman Ghost] clan 11kReads8.3Score92914d adds
- 55 Horror Resurges: I Have a Ghost Bus 恐怖复苏，我有一辆鬼大巴 “My name is Jiang Yan. If you don’t want to die, get in my car.” On the way back to his village for a holiday, Jiang Yan successfully took control of a ghost bus and became a ghost-handler. What secrets lie hidden in the eerie village? What terror is sealed inside the pitch-black coffin? In a torrential downpour, ghosts roam the amusement park. Is this the beginning of everything, or the end? As a blood mist invades and the entire city is sealed off, despair closes in. Face death and fight t 6.6kReads7.5Score51714d adds
- 56 Mysterious Revival: My Memories Bury Vengeful Ghosts 神秘复苏我的记忆埋葬着厉鬼 Warning: It gets more and more brain-bending as you read! Extremely high intelligence and logical reasoning as the characters solve paranormal mysteries! Don't read if you dislike mind games! Everyone gradually awakens to their powers or takes the abilities of ghosts! High intelligence + aesthetics of despair Scenarios: Dreams, zombies, myths and legends, Cthulhu, and more Difficulty: “Despair!” (No harem, no System, no invincible protagonist, no formulas, no power fantasy, no brainless characte 859Reads—Score10314d adds
- 57 I'm in Malaysia, and I'm Going to Slay Ghosts and Demons 人在大马，我要斩鬼除魔 Moonlight flows like water, while daylight cuts like a blade. On the path to immortality, I slay the heavens' chosen ones. Clad in black, I grip the Tiger Soul blade, scale the heights of Cangwu, and stride across emerald waves. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of the underworld open. When migrant workers venture abroad, they discover how dangerous the outside world can be. They encounter ghosts at ten thousand meters in the air, while the hot lands of Southeast Asia conceal 520Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Horror Revival: My Body Can Make Ghosts Crash! 恐怖复苏：我的身体能让鬼死机！ The supernatural is resurging, and the apocalypse is near. A bewitching ghost in a cheongsam walks down the corridor in blood-red high heels. An unattended room-service cart slowly rolls through a hotel, ramming into doors... A pair of dorm-room slippers appears in the corridor, waiting for someone to put them on... In this era of supernatural resurgence, Tang Yu gains a ghost capable of controlling screens. It enters shutdown inside his body, allowing him to control ghosts at virtually no c 29.7kReads8.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 59 EN Supernatural Resurgence: Controlling a Mirage from the Start 灵异复苏：开局驾驭海市蜃楼 (No female lead, no CP, no morals, no limits, hypocrite, dark and self-serving) The supernatural returns, and vengeful ghosts run rampant. The human world is a living hell, with suffering everywhere. Ghosts cannot be destroyed! Only ghosts can fight ghosts! Order is on the verge of collapse, and truth is about to crumble. Reborn amid taboos, I cast aside my conscience and let my humanity die. “Anyone who makes me unhappy for even a moment will be unhappy for the rest of their life!” “Why stop at 15.1kReads8.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 60 I Founded the Night Watch, Protecting the Nation from the Supernatural, and Now I'm Exposed! 我创建守夜人，为国镇诡被曝光！ [Supernatural resurgence + no romance + subverting expectations] Lin Wuyang transmigrated to a parallel world and discovered that supernatural entities were gradually returning. So he planned ahead, founded the Night Watch organization, and secretly spent ten years suppressing the supernatural for Daxia! Ten years later, he gathered a hundred ghosts and used his own flesh and blood to build a Great Wall protecting the nation, holding back the supernatural tide! The sudden appearance of the red G 4kReads9.2Score30914d adds
- 61 I Smell a Ghost! 我嗅到了鬼味！ [Infinite Flow]+ [Mild Horror]+ [No Romance]+ [Despairing Tone] One night, Gu Quan walks out of the funeral home carrying two memorial portraits, having just attended a funeral. His father calls to tell him that his mother has been in a car accident and is at death's door. In a panic, Gu Quan heads to the underground garage, hoping to drive over and see his mother one last time. On the way, he unexpectedly catches the scent of his natural enemy! Terrified, he gets into a car without thinking, un 196.3kReads8.6Score14.1k14d adds
- 62 Reborn in a World of the Paranormal, and You Want Me to Join Bureau 749? 重生诡异，你让我加入749局？ [Devouring Evolution]+ [Self-Interest]+ [Humanity’s Natural Enemy]+ [Nemesis of Its Own Kind]+ [Kills Men and Women Alike]+ [Plot-Driven]+ [Undercover]+ [Villain]+ [Eerie] "No female lead!!! No harem!!! No romance!!!" (Not Eerie in the traditional sense. The protagonist is undercover in the human camp and kills both humans and Eerie, men and women alike. This story is plot-driven, so readers looking for a feel-good monster-grinding power fantasy should think twice.) (The rating has already been 59kReads8.9Score8.5k14d adds
- 63 New Utopia 新，乌托邦 [No System] [Apocalypse Survival] [Human Nature Reversal] The Ghost Abyss tears open the sky screen, and world-corroding aberrant creatures sweep across the mortal realm. Survivors take up arms and join anti-corrosion combat squads, using their own flesh and blood to hold back the fiends from beyond the boundaries. Everyone believes the calamity comes from the abyss, and that fighting with all their might will win back their home and ensure its survival. Only when the smoke clears and the curt 2.2kReads—Score18214d adds
- 64 Everyone Is an Evil Immortal!!! 全员恶仙！！！ Also known as The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals and The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals: I Have a Temple for Cultivating Immortals [No Angst] [Unhinged] [High Stakes from Start to Finish] There is a rumor of a temple somewhere in the world, with a patch of magical soil inside. Just treat a person as a "seed" and plant them in the soil, and they can become an immortal. Li Shiwu has spent ten years seeking immortality. At last, he finds the temple and plants himself in the soil, but he never expecte 205.3kReads9.0Score19.2k14d adds
- 65 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43kReads9.1Score4.9k14d adds
- 66 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 [Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa 394.7kReads9.3Score44.1k14d adds
- 67 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca 156.7kReads9.3Score16.5k14d adds
- 68 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.1kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 69 EN Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖 [Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost 169.8kReads9.5Score17.3k14d adds
- 70 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.2kReads9.5Score9.6k14d adds
- 71 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
