Novels like The Shaman's Records
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- 1 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—Shelves
- 2 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 1.4kReads6.8Score102Shelves
- 3 Notes from a Spirit Medium 出马仙随记 This is a true account of a spirit medium’s experiences. I have summoned spirits to possess me so worshippers could speak with the dead across the divide between yin and yang; I have also handled difficult cases of people tormented by ghosts, unable to find peace day or night; Immortals sending warnings in dreams, strange changes in the incense at the altar, evil spirits coming to trouble people… There are no exaggerated supernatural battles or made-up wish-fulfillment thrills. Every incident is 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 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—Shelves
- 5 Grandma Is a Spirit Medium 姥姥是个出马仙 I’m Wen Tingting. The day I was born, my father saw that I was a girl and didn’t want me. My grandmother couldn’t bear to leave me behind, so she took me in and raised me to adulthood by earning money through spirit-medium rituals… 372Reads7.0Score156Shelves
- 6 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 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Modern Tales of the Strange: We Worship a Northeast Tiger at Home 现代志怪见闻录，我家供了东北虎 [Ghost hunting, local deities, strange tales, folk customs, first-person narration] Everyone knows about the Ma Xian and the household guardian spirits, right? The disciples’ families usually worship fox, yellow weasel, snake, and python spirits, but my family… worships the Mountain Lord! A Northeast tiger that has been cultivating for who knows how many years! Remember that nursery rhyme? “Hook pinkies~ hang yourself, and don’t break your promise for a hundred years!” That saying didn’t come fr 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 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 537Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 9 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 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—Shelves
- 11 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 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 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—Shelves
- 13 A Spirit Medium Survives by Borrowing Ghosts' Lifespans, While the Kid Is the Underworld's Beloved 出马仙靠鬼续命，崽在地府做团宠 [Runaway with the Baby (Underworld Edition) + Metaphysics + Reverse Livestreaming (Underworld Edition) + Two Powerful Leads] [A gentle-looking but genuinely gloomy male ghost ✖️ A mother who dares to defy heaven itself to raise her child and stay alive] Jiang Zhi, owner of the Gui Jia funeral shop, is a short-lived spirit medium who travels between the realms of the living and the dead. She trades with ghosts for karmic merit, which she uses to extend her life month by month. By day, she earns m 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 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—Shelves
- 15 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? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 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—Shelves
- 17 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—Shelves
- 18 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—Shelves
- 19 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 474Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 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—Shelves
- 21 Mysterious, Yet Not So Mysterious 玄而不玄 [Modern Women]+ [A Real Spirit-Medium Journey]+ [Born with a Spiritual Constitution] Only after a shadowy figure began haunting her did Xu Cui realize she was destined to work with spirits. This ordinary office worker joins forces with an old immortal to unravel a vengeful ghost’s curse and embark on a career helping people deal with the supernatural! (This story is adapted from real events.) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 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. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 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 14Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 24 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. 323Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 25 The Legend of the Horse Immortals of Jinan 济南马仙传记 (Original title: Strange Tales from Jinan) An obscure nobody has set out on a path whose destination no one knows. No one knows how far he can go, either. So he’ll just keep going for as long as he can. 45Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 26 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. 2.3kReads7.0Score139Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 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 114Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Child Immortal of the Northeast 东北童仙 Every story here is drawn from my own experience. I come from three generations of spirit mediums. The main people in my life are my mother, Lingzi; my uncle, Tongtong; and the elder who protects me from beyond. I never thought I would write down anything, despite working in this field for more than ten years. Then, on the night of October 10, 2023, my soul left my body, and I resolved to leave behind for my descendants what I have seen and learned. I hope none of what I leave behind will ever b 303Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 30 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—Shelves
- 31 I Was Forced to Take the Spirit-Channeling Seat Too 我也被迫出堂了 The protagonist, Zhang Muchen, lives in a small county in northern China. His childhood is plagued by one disaster after another. His story isn’t exactly bizarre, but it is full of twists and hardships. After passing through trials of love, wealth, and life itself, he is eventually forced to open a spirit altar and read fortunes. He thought things would go smoothly from then on, but instead he faced one ordeal after another... This book is based on the author’s personal experiences. All names ha 474Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 32 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. 25Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 33 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... 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 An Unorthodox Spirit Medium 野路子出马仙 My father found a treasure while searching the mountains, but the villagers killed him for it. To avenge him, I went to the Five Immortals Temple and summoned five wild spirits. That was how I embarked on an extraordinary path as a spirit medium... 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Tales of a Little Spirit Medium 出马仙之小小传 Everyone wants to get their spiritual powers quickly, but no one knows how hard the trials are to endure. If you haven't experienced anything strange, if you haven't suffered through the kind of misery that's hard to explain, why would the immortals choose you? 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 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 239Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 37 A Long Road to Spirit Mediumship 出马路漫漫 A strip of red cloth, three feet and three inches long; troops from the five directions come, immortals from the five directions arrive. The old hall's people and soldiers will one day emerge from an ancient cave, and their fame will spread across the four seas, passed down through countless households!!! There was a young female disciple in Northeast China, full of youthful vigor. After years of stumbling along, where did her path lead? Was cultivation about following the Dao, or understanding 276Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 38 Beast-Taming Celestial Master 兽医天师 My grandfather once killed five wild immortals in an instant. Thanks to him, I was born able to communicate with beasts. In my white coat, I practice medicine with compassion; with the bones of the Five Immortals, I dominate the world of cultivation; and with the Five Thunder Method, I vanquish demons and uphold the Dao. If a patient insists on making a scene, I'm also pretty handy with my fists. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 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—Shelves
- 40 Tales of the Five Immortals of the Northeast: Ma Daha’s Strange Adventures 东北五仙那些事儿马大哈奇遇 Take a look. This man is called Ma Daha. Thirty-three, unmarried, a farmer by trade and a bachelor on the side. His greatest achievement is making the village chief's mangy old dog stop barking at him. It’s afraid of catching something. His life plan was simple: farm, eat, and wait to die. Until one night, he ran into a weasel standing guard at the village entrance. “What are you looking at?” “What’s it to you?” Those few words sent his life completely off course. The next morning, he woke up to 4.6kReads6.9Score176Shelves
- 41 Tales of Spirit Mediums in the Northeast 东北出马的那点事儿 A record of my personal experiences as a spirit medium in Northeast China, including stories about the traditions passed down by the older generation, the rules of the community, people around me, and all sorts of people fate brought my way after I became a medium. 1.4kReads6.9Score—Shelves
- 42 My Rise to Immortality in the Mortal World 我在人间之出道仙 You think I’m writing a story, but what I’m really writing about is my own misadventures. A realistic, documentary-style novel about a spirit medium making their debut. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. The main plot follows the male lead as he undertakes missions, guides spirits to their final resting places, fights demons, and heals the sick and saves lives. The novel also introduces many disciples who are connected to the male lead… Every divination has a source. Realism + documentary-sty 454Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 43 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—Shelves
- 44 War God Di Xuan Helps the Dragon Clan Return to Its Peak 战神帝玄助龙族重回巅峰 The War God Di Xuan helps the Dragon Clan return to its former glory. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 My Uncle Is a Spirit Medium 我老舅是出马仙 My Uncle Is a Spirit Medium 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Spirit Medium Files: Unnatural Deaths 出马档案：非正常死亡 Beneath the black soil of Northeast China, the ancient pact of the spirit mediums conceals a mystery. Meanwhile, a string of unnatural deaths in modern cities and remote villages is tearing open the boundary between reality and the spirit world. Shen Zhiwei, a forensic examiner at a funeral home, inherited the spirit-medium tradition as a child. Her left eye can see the dead, and her right hand can sense yin energy. She had hoped to keep her heritage hidden and live as an ordinary forensic exami 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 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—Shelves
- 48 My Strange Spirit-Medium Life 我的诡异出马人生 I'm Xiao Ming. I live in an ordinary family in Northeast China, where my parents run a business. I'm introverted, and because I'm overweight, my classmates mock and ostracize me at school. “Look at that fatso. What a freak!” “He's a loser.” Their words made me feel inferior and depressed. At home, Mom was gentle but controlling. After Dad got involved with Buddhist teachings, he was always lecturing us, and his temper was unpredictable. Their love left me feeling suffocated. I have a special sen 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The First Half of a Ma Xian's Life 出马仙的前半生 Not one true disciple of the Spirit Medium tradition willingly chooses this path. They all endure hardship after hardship and are driven by desperation to take up the calling and serve as a vessel for the spirits. Next, come with me as we explore the first half of the life of a middle-aged girl. (This book is based on real events. Since it’s a novel, it naturally includes a few obviously fake special effects and fictional scenes. Please read responsibly, and don’t imitate anything in the book.) 2.9kReads7.5Score176Shelves
- 50 Northeast Spirit Medium: My Years as the King of Tragedy 东北出马之我当悲王那些年 (Traditional supernatural fiction, not a wish-fulfillment story, no cultivation, parallel storylines for a man and a woman. Don't try the spells in this book; this story is entirely fictional!) After dying on the street while trying to help someone, Zhang Daoxuan became a lonely ghost. He thought his only hope was to find a substitute and then reincarnate in the underworld. But through a twist of fate, he became a shamanic spirit medium. With my left hand, I push open the yin-yang gate; with my 217Reads8.0Score—Shelves
