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- 1 The God-Touched: After I Was Beheaded, I Heard a Voice in My Coffin 通神者：被斩首后，我在棺中听见 [Eastern Fantasy + Multiple Heroines + Beheaded from the Start + Investigating Cases and Righting Wrongs + Recruiting Gods and Forming Pacts + Revenge + Ensemble Cast + HE] On the day Shen Guhong was beheaded, the authorities stamped his records: “Inspection complete. Case closed.” On the first night after his death, a voice came from inside his coffin. Her name was Su Zhiwei, and just like him, she had been “erased” from the world by the same government office. She passed her lingering though —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Repaying Yin Debts: The Living Must Not Pass 还阴债：活人禁行 From the day I was born, my whole family wore shrouds. The day my parents took theirs off, they died under mysterious circumstances. To keep me alive, my grandfather sacrificed himself... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 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
- 4 Practical Mysticism Anyone Can Learn at a Glance 一看就会的实用玄学 I have studied esoteric arts for 21 years. In total, I have spent no less than 300,000 yuan on tuition, studied under 13 teachers, and eventually taken one as my master. Along the way, I have read more than ten thousand books, traveled tens of thousands of miles, visited nearly a thousand friends, and taken on three disciples. I have helped many people, but also made many mistakes. I hope fellow students will do good deeds and avoid wrongdoing. The true teachings can be conveyed in a single sen 31Reads—Score714d adds
- 5 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
- 6 The Spirit Medium’s Hall 出马堂口 In recent years, people have looked down on the northeastern tradition of spirit-mediumship. But it’s not just spirit-mediums: every line of work has both good and bad practitioners. There are so many fraudsters that even people who need help now hesitate to consult anyone. These days, it’s become common for someone to finish a reading and tell you that you have a whole host of problems to deal with. If you don’t pay to have them fixed, it weighs on your mind; if you do, you’re afraid you’ve fal 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 I'm Chen Laoshi, a Daoist Who Tames Every Rebellious Spirit and Evil Thing 贫道陈老实，专治各种不服和妖邪 Chen Laoshi was just as his name suggested: before he transmigrated, he was an honest, somewhat timid office worker. He woke up to find himself in another world, in the body of a boy with the same name, living in abject poverty and on the verge of starving to death. Just as he thought he was about to die again, a voice rang out in his mind: [Ding! The Host's powerful will to survive and 'honest person' qualities detected. Maoshan Celestial Master Training System successfully bound!] [Newbie miss 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 In This Life, I See My Past Life 我于今生观前世 The protagonist encounters his past lives in a dream. Only after unraveling the mystery of his time in the womb does he discover that he is nothing but an empty shell. Once his three souls return to his body, three powerful spirits press against his own will. He has no choice but to deal with monsters and outside intruders to strengthen himself, all while withstanding the weight of karma and fighting to stay alive! Whether it's a black dragon stirring up trouble, a corpse-nurturing ground in the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 After the System Went Bankrupt, I Was Transferred to Customer Service in the Underworld 系统破产后，我被移交冥界客服 After the System Went Bankrupt, I Was Transferred to Underworld Customer Service —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 I Got a Permanent Job at the Hotel by Following the Rules 我靠遵守规则，被旅馆永久录取了 I Got a Permanent Job at the Hotel by Following the Rules —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Hey, System, You're Sending Me to a Haunted Restaurant for a Late-Night Snack? 喂，系统你让我去鬼店吃宵夜？ Hey, System, You’re Sending Me to Eat Late-Night Snacks at a Ghost Shop? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 An Underworld Wage Slave, an Overworld Night Owl 阴间打工人，阳间熬夜人 An Underworld Employee, an All-Night Worker in the Living World —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Don't Worry, My System Talks Too Much but It's Useless 别怕，我的系统话痨但很菜 Don’t Worry, My System Talks a Lot but Is Pretty Useless —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Notice: We Really Have Ghosts. We Are Not Responsible If You Get Scared to Death 告示：我们真的有鬼吓死不负责 Notice: We Really Do Have Ghosts. We Are Not Responsible If You Get Scared to Death. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Please, Someone Come and Try to Kill Me! 求求你们来个人害我吧！ Please, someone come and hurt me! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Shocking! Is There Really a Ghost Behind the Streamer? 惊！主播身后真有鬼？ Shocking! Is There Really a Ghost Behind the Streamer? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Scare Delivery 惊吓快递 Scare Delivery —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong 恐怖直播翻车了 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Lord Guan Guards the Night: From the Start, a Security Guard Gains the Remnant Will of the Martial Sage 关公镇夜：保安开局得武圣残念 [Bickering Couple + Mystery and Deduction + Witty Humor + Leveling Up and Fighting Monsters] Watch an ordinary person from the streets stumble into the business of yin and yang, as his hilarious journey of soul-catching begins! Male Lead: A down-on-his-luck man of humble origins, quick with a joke and fond of snarky remarks. A timid good-for-nothing at first, he grows into a composed and powerful protagonist who makes a comeback. Female Lead / Bickering Partner: Sharp-tongued and always trad —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Perfumer of the Tongyou Fragrance Shop 通幽香铺的调香师 First comes the incense marrow, second the incense skin, third the incense flesh and fourth the incense soul… Fifth, greed; sixth, wrath; seventh, delusion; eighth, gratitude… Ninth, burning away… the anguish of reincarnation… The tenth incense… is the void she wrenched from her own soul… My name is Shen Heng, and I run an incense shop on an old street in Yingkou. I sell incense by day and ferry souls by night. Nine kinds of incense, exchanged for nine kinds of obsession. Greed, anger, delusion 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Chronicles of Wangchuan City 忘川城记 Wangchuan City has three iron laws: The living cannot leave, the dead do not decay, and once the faceless statue in the City God's temple calls out a name, someone will die within three days. Shen Du, an eighteen-year-old corpse collector, has to check his arms every morning when he wakes. They are covered in warnings he carved into his own skin. Some have scabbed over, while others look as if they were carved only moments ago. He can't remember what happened the night before, why he can always 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 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 6kReads7.0Score37814d adds
- 23 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 160Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 24 Night Voyage on the Yellow River 黄河夜行船 Before he died, Grandpa told me something strange: “Whatever's in the river, never fish it out.” I didn't listen. The next day, I fished a corpse out of the Yellow River. It smiled at me. Only then did I learn that the Shen family had been retrieving bodies for generations, not to recover the dead, but to guard something far more terrifying in the Yellow River. The River Crossing Register listed every rule the Shen family had to follow, but the more I read, the less sense they made: Why had no R —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Please, I'm Really Not an Unmatched Expert 求求你们，我真不是绝世高人 Please, I’m Really Not an Peerless Expert —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 After the Grim Reaper Retired, the System Begged Me to Come to Work 死神退休后，系统求我上班 After the Grim Reaper Retired, the System Begged Me to Go to Work 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 After I Transmigrated, I Started Livestreaming Sales to the Heavenly Demons 穿越后，我给天魔直播带货 After I Transmigrated, I Started Livestreaming Sales to the Heavenly Demon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Soul-Returning Ledger 还魂帐 On the seventh day after death, the dead return to settle their debts. Funeral director Shen Yantian was born with the ability to see accounts. He audits, weighs, and settles accounts for the dead, at the cost of pawning a memory each time. Until he discovers that the account for the fire that should have killed him three years ago is blank. Someone died in his place. This is my first novel, so the plot moves a little quickly at the beginning. It gets better later on. Thank you for your understa 10Reads—Score18514d adds
- 29 I Take the Fox Immortal to the Underworld 我带狐仙闯地府 Zhao Xiaosi had no idea that after his grandfather died, he would be dragged to the underworld, where the King of Hell would give him a treasure. Nor did he expect to be swept for no reason into the conflicts of the underworld’s Asura realm. With no other choice, Zhao Xiaosi returned to the mortal world to seek help from various immortals dwelling in the mountains. He joined them in putting an end to the underworld’s fighting, bringing along fox spirits, snake spirits, weasel spirits, and all th 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 My True-Life Paranormal Encounters: The Bizarre Things I've Experienced 亲身灵异实录：我经历的邪门事儿 Based on true events, firsthand accounts. Over the course of my life, I’ve encountered far too many bizarre things that science can’t explain. On a stormy night, a nightclub hostess was pinned down by a ghost in her sleep. Something furry crouched on her chest, and a seductive moan like a fox’s cry sounded beside her ear. She began to walk with a sway, her eyes shining like a fox’s, and the men around her started meeting with strange accidents one after another: the boss’s brakes failed in a c 1.1kReads6.8Score10614d adds
- 32 King of the Occult Arts: Exorcising Demons in the American Horror Universe 诡术之王：我在美恐世界斩妖除魔 After three years of cultivation, Lin Yan was still at the bottom of the food chain in the American Horror world: kept like livestock by vampires, tormented by vengeful spirits, and ultimately killed on a witch’s sacrificial altar. Then he was reborn and awakened the Lin family’s ancestral legacy of occult arts! In his previous life, he had been ignorant. This time, he wielded talismans as blades, peachwood swords as edges, and soul-subduing bells as his guide, using the thousand-year heritage o 186Reads—Score10014d adds
- 33 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! 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Ten Lifetimes of Reincarnation: The Bottom-Ranked Outer Disciple Strikes Back 十世轮回，外门倒数的我杀回来了 Shen Zhuye’s family owned the last incense and candle shop in Qingxi Town. One day, he opened the account book and found three words on the final page that hadn’t been there before: One Question Owed. The words in the account book could ask questions on their own. That night, someone knocked at the door. The food delivery was half a bag of pond mud. As a chill crept in through the crack beneath the door, a man in white shielded him from disaster and spoke eight words: You have one year left to 190Reads—Score14314d adds
- 35 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, 35Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 36 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—14d adds
- 37 I Believe in the Dao, Not Religion 信道不信教 [Great Xia + realism + religion + metaphysics + paranormal + ugliness] This novel is based on the oral account of someone who has long lived within a certain religion. It lifts the veil of mystery surrounding religion and offers a glimpse into the ugliness of human nature. When power falls into your hands, will you hold on to your good intentions or descend into the abyss? 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 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 243Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 40 My Days as a Disciple of the Spirit Mediums 我当出马弟子的时光 A true account of spirit-medium practices, giving you an authentic look at every little detail! Every story and every person in this book is based on real events! 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮：我见证死者的执念 Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Immortal Hall Beyond the Pass: A Yin-Yang Master Guards Changbai Mountain 关外仙堂：阴阳先生守长白 Have you ever witnessed a weasel asking to be granted a title? What causes people to get trapped in a ghostly maze while walking mountain trails, or suffer from strange ailments that leave them feeling awful but can’t be diagnosed at a hospital? Trained in ancient shamanic arts, versed in the theories of yin-yang masters, and accompanied by an immortal serpent cultivating beneath the streams of Changbai Mountain, become a spirit medium who roams the White Mountains. The rules of Northeast China’ 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Confessions of a Spirit Medium, Part Two 一个出马仙自述经历第二部 This book is the official sequel to "The True Story of a Spirit Medium's Experiences". The entire work is fictional, so please don't take it as a reason to believe in superstition! As a sequel, this book recounts several strange experiences from a spirit medium's cultivation. The tale of my soul entering the body of the spirit tablet king at my own altar is just one of its central plotlines. I was a spirit medium in the human world, setting up altars, investigating cases, and helping clients. I 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 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—Score114d adds
- 47 The Years I Spent as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的那些年 Eighteen years ago, a weasel brought me two eggs. Eighteen years later, after my grandmother passed away, I officially became a spirit-medium disciple, venturing into the mortal world with an entire retinue of spirits. 437Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 48 The Divine Oracle 神卦 The reviews are the best introduction. Reader [Bai Ri Bu Dao Chu Qing Chun Zi Lai]: Meeting was fate. I was completely absorbed in these words, and in a few chapters, I felt as if I were right there in the story. As I read, I found myself wondering what kind of person the author was. Over the years, I’ve met a number of people who study the esoteric arts. Of all those so-called “masters,” very few have truly earned my respect. Yet through these words, I’ve come to admire the author’s character a 465Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 49 I Met a Northeastern Immortal in Hebei 在河北遇到东北仙 Because of his unusual fate, Zhang Yang kept running into all kinds of strange things before he turned eighteen. As a child, he helped his mother work in the fields. Whenever she set him down by the ridge, a white shadow would circle around him. On his way home from evening study at primary school, he once ran into an acquaintance who had died earlier that afternoon. When he was twelve, he made a bunch of wild guesses while telling someone's fortune, and every single one came true. Thinking he m 75Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 50 Don't Panic, I'm a Legitimate Northeast Chinese Spirit Medium 各位莫慌，贫道乃正经东北出马仙 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Spirit Mediums] [Comedy] [No System] [Yang Ergou Series, Book 3] On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of the underworld swing wide open. Yang Duoduo follows his parents' last wishes and goes to a mass grave to pay respects at a lonely tomb. Born with a half-spirit body, he should have remained untouched by the worlds of yin and yang. But a black fox bursts from the grave and forcibly changes his constitution. Black Fox: Do you think I look 8.2kReads6.9Score58314d adds
