Novels like The Dragon's Ritual Book
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- 1 1979: How to Become a Forensic Pathologist 1979：法医是怎样炼成的 Early spring, 1979. Wang Zheng had just graduated from medical school and never imagined he would put on a police uniform, much less become a forensic examiner one day. But fate took an unexpected turn. Not long after he joined the police force, a report came in out of the blue. Qingshi Mountain Reservoir: human bones in the lake... The author already has a period crime-investigation novel on this site with over 5,000 premium subscribers, 2,000 average subscriptions, and nearly three mill 47Votes4.4kRecs16.8kFans
- 2 Nightmare Dive 梦魇潜航 The power of intelligent beings comes from understanding the world. Humanity analyzed the material world and created science, then explored the spiritual world and created the occult. When the radiance of whale-oil steam engines illuminated the world, the nightmare sea hidden beneath reality's veil grew ever darker and deeper. Depth 0: Friend, put on your [Bourdon Tube Depth Gauge]. We are about to begin our descent; Lv1, Depth 1-9: Beep beep! Reality is beginning to peel away, but as long as yo 318Votes19.8kRecs75.6kFans
- 3 EN Anomaly Containment Specialist 怪异收容专家 The ordinary and the anomalous overlap, like the deep sea and its surface. Above the water, skyscrapers stand in rows, and society runs with the precision of gears. Above the water, skyscrapers stand in rows. The world goes on as usual, and ordinary people work like precisely meshing gears, their lives neat and orderly. Beneath the deep sea lie inverted doors and hidden histories. Countless taboos sink beneath the waves: occult arts, memes and antimemes, reality warping, narrative layers, hyper 101Votes74kRecs273.1kFans
- 4 EN Journey Beyond the Endless Night 绝夜之旅 At the dawn of the Fifth Age, the Sunless Calamity descended. The Silver Court crumpled into a pale silhouette. Time ground the Empire into dust. The Sea of Origins still roared, its turbulent tides gnawing day and night at the boundaries of reality, washing the fragments of civilization into sharp-edged despair. After one dark millennium after another, even the banners of the Three Sages snapped during the Twelfth Expedition. The Iron Father’s furnaces fell cold as a tomb, the Philosopher’s tre 914Votes124.8kRecs238.3kFans
- 5 The Beast in the Circle 圈中之兽 “Similarity creates a connection, and connection inevitably brings influence.” On the dark side of this land, the chosen fanatically worship all manner of banished gods and monsters. Through exquisite imitation, they connect with inhuman spirits. They allow their bodies and minds to transform, climbing ever higher on this path in hopes of becoming Deep Ones, burrowing demons, harpy fairies, vampire cultists, woodland satyrs, or ancient serpentfolk, thereby gaining supernatural power and knowledg 797Votes48.5kRecs73.2kFans
- 6 The Age of Anomalies 异常纪元 The laws of physics are dying, and the world is becoming a draft gone mad. Everything we know as common sense is slowly failing. Sudden cancer, a whale carcass on a mountaintop, snake eyes on the highway… As reality falls apart, can reason lead us to the end? 6Votes27kRecs98.7kFans
- 7 Can I Really Get Early Admission to the Monster Vocational College? 还能保送怪物职业学院？ Everything has a pendulum. Those who resonate with a pendulum's frequency can receive a projection of its power and become Classholders. Classholders travel between boundaries. Their footprints can be found across mountains and rivers, lakes and seas, history and myth. Their traces are hard to distinguish, both real and unreal. I couldn't even get into a junior college, yet I was recommended for admission to the Monster Vocational Academy and became a rookie Classholder. After enrolling, I lost 351Votes89.3kRecs348.5kFans
- 8 The Heavenly Principles Protocol 天理协议 April 6: I confirmed that I'm severely nearsighted. This isn't ordinary myopia. I simply can't tell mythical creatures apart from ordinary humans. To my eyes, the two species look exactly alike! June 14: The news reported a bunch of terrifying creatures lurking outside my shop. Oh my god, I always thought they were just ordinary people. We were chatting and laughing in the shop, arms around each other's shoulders! July 22: I can't tell them apart. I really can't! All the special effects have bee 562Votes124.8kRecs649.8kFans
- 9 Wanderer of the Abyss 深渊漫游者 After accidentally blowing up the global internet with one slip of the hand, Jiang Zhou became the worst criminal in human history and fell into a long slumber. When he wakes again a hundred years later, he finds himself in an out-of-control age where the primitive and the civilized intertwine, and control and resistance collide. In the abyss, countless out-of-control AIs run rampant. Above Olympus, supercorporations that consider themselves gods look down on the masses. In baseline reality, ord 33Votes64.2kRecs116.4kFans
- 10 EN The Musician of Yesteryear 旧日音乐家 Soot fills the sky, and steam engines roar without pause. The world runs as usual, prosperity within reach. Yet everyone is ignorant. Only a rare few pierce the fog of history, study forbidden knowledge, unravel hidden inspiration, and wield the unseen. They are known as the “Knowing.” The chaos and truth beneath the world’s filthy surface slowly come into view, beginning with a mysterious incident at a concert: “Hidden Knowledge, Shifting Currents, Phases, Ritual Vessels, Lord of Witnesses”: th 10Votes114.4kRecs229.4kFans
- 11 EN Prison of Alien Dimensions 异维囚笼 As the firelight slowly died, Xia Lun watched nervously as the leader of the evil spirits twitched incessantly in the cold, gloomy cell. In the next instant, the leader spun around, hooked its fingers into its eye sockets, and slowly lifted off its own skull. “I will grant you a new perspective.” Xia Lun was overjoyed. He hurriedly pulled the grimoire of forbidden arts from an eyeball, eager to share his knowledge as well. A few seconds later, the leader, its mind shattered, wailed as it crawled 435Votes95.2kRecs438.1kFans
- 12 A Dream of the Old Gods 旧神残梦 Pagan pantheons are tangled together, and parasitic spirits are spreading like a plague. But I don't care. I just want to get my hands on ten tons of cash, fast. 3Votes77.7kRecs111.4kFans
- 13 EN I Can't Repay My Student Loans, So I Hunt Demons on the Side 还不起学贷的我只好兼职猎魔 [Averaging 20,000 paid subscriptions, so read with confidence!] [The most lighthearted and delightful fantasy light novel!] Gordon transmigrates to Londinium, in an age of steam and the supernatural, and becomes a poor student at the Royal Academy of Natural Sciences. No noble birth, no family fortune, just a hundred pounds of student debt. And a pair of eyes that can see the truth of Source Matter! To everyone else: waste, pollutants, trash. But Gordon sees: [The radiant Source Matter "Unbroken 9.3kVotes114.4kRecs777.2kFans
- 14 Pirate Sovereignty 海盗王权 Kings are crowned, rising from blood and fire; all bow down and sing beneath the throne! Fate is never merciful out of love, nor fair because of greatness. The strong prey on the weak: that is the way of kings! The sole purpose of cannons is to measure a nation's borders! Everything within their range is truth! And in this Age of Sail, ruled by mighty ships and cannons, the only truth is... Hand it over! “Wait! What are all those things overseas? Retreat, retre... Aah!” The great beings of the p 4Votes173.9kRecs696.5kFans
- 15 EN I Loaded the Occult System 我加载了神秘学面板 The Age of Steam, where reason and mysticism exist side by side. The more you know, the closer you come to madness. That is the consensus behind the Veil. Li Cha doesn't believe it. Or rather, that rule doesn't apply to him. His skill panel lets him dabble in many fields and master them all, like a steam engine that never needs to shut down. [Breathing Lv.3 · Healing: Chronic ailments vanish, old afflictions are completely cured] [Knowledge Lv.3 · Erudition: Every book you lay eyes on leaves 1.7kVotes199.4kRecs992.1kFans
- 16 EN Extraordinary Voyage 超凡大航海 An indifferent god gazes coldly down at the world from above the clouds. A tailless crawler whispers in the gap between winter and spring. An octopus demon god in a top hat plays the flute beneath the cold sea. The steam engine has only just lit the flame of civilization. Swordsmanship and witchcraft clash, while alchemical guns and saili 1Votes294.6kRecs401.5kFans
- 17 EN One Dragon Against the World 以一龙之力打倒整个世界！ [Guided by a true dragon: no wild assumptions or careless writing] Steel for scales, flames for bones. The bloodlines of a red dragon and an iron dragon intertwine and merge within me, forging a radiant new life. Flame and steel are my inborn talents, while adaptation and evolution are the powers through which I attain eternity. The weak are full of misgivings. Kings have no taboos. Whatever doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. Before me, those who kneel live, and those who stand die. All 3.7kVotes457.3kRecs1.6MFans
- 18 EN The Path to Immortality 仙业 A dream crosses from the sea floor to withered mulberry trees, having witnessed all the Milky Way’s winds and waves. The Nine Provinces and Four Seas, the Mystic Sects and Demon Schools, the Celestial Outsiders and Pure Land Sangha. Refining qi, receiving registers, taking elixirs, divining omens... Enter the Gate of the Infinite, roam the Fields of the Boundless, shine as brightly as the sun and moon, and endure as long as heaven and earth. All that came before is but a guest; reborn, I walk t 1.9kVotes710.8kRecs761.6kFans
- 19 EN Shepherd's Secret Covenant 牧者密续 During a ritual to summon a demon, Aiwass finally recovered his memories of his previous life. This was supposed to be an online game published and operated by his own company for six years. His adoptive father was now the leader of the villainous organization in the latest version. Six years from now, Aiwass would be exposed and, after hesitating on the side of the protagonists, switch sides. In the end, he would decide to take a fatal blow for a player character and be killed by his thoroughly 139Votes489.5kRecs1.2MFans
- 20 EN Tribulation of Mysteries 神秘之劫 With mystery returning and the dawn of the gods, is it really a good thing? Along with the revival of spiritual qi came something else… an unsolvable terror! An unusual surname, a soul traveling between two worlds, and a mysterious epic… 5Votes588.3kRecs1.1MFans
- 21 EN Whispers of the Machine Age 呢喃诗章 In a new world where the steam industry is booming, I inherit a three-story apartment on the capital’s main square, take care of someone else’s cat, and listen to the whispers in my ear as I bear witness to this mysterious and bizarre era. The epic of the Sixth Epoch is about to begin. Behind the curtain, the Chosen will step into legend. Old gods, relics, steam, witches, detectives, ancient mysteries, the radiance of the Epoch... “Want to play a hand of Rhodes?” Time etches the years, and the s 2.1kVotes1.9MRecs1.3MFans
- 22 EN Above the High Heavens 高天之上 The crowdfunding campaign for the physical edition of Above the Heavens 3: The Abyss of Ruins is officially underway! The rewards include postcards, character stickers, a badge set, and holographic bookmarks. More stretch goals are on the way! As before, you can find us on the WeChat mini-program Dimension Core. The quality is excellent, so give it a try! == Every star shining high above has endured billions of years. Most lives are not even as long as the briefest glimmer of a star, and even th 52Votes734.6kRecs6MFans
- 23 Players Are Super Just 玩家超正义 The long night has come, and the blood moon hangs overhead. Hoarse whispers drift through street corners, while brass steam engines spew clouds of blood mist. Your brain is singing, your eyes are chanting. Your skin cracks, and lumps of flesh swell beneath it. In the gray mist, a wall of flesh that has devoured thousands of corpses howls day and night... “Don't cry. Our players don't bite. They just want to play with you.” The lonely, underhanded game planner; the top player; savior of the Mist 7Votes676.9kRecs1.2MFans
- 24 The Silent Crown 寂静王冠 We are born of aether, made in aether, and pass away in aether. Revere the aether! The Sacred Canon. This is the golden age of musicians. Music has changed the world, aether has forged glory, and the spirits have ascended to the skies to join the stars. This is a world on the eve of the Long Night, where natural disasters and maddened gods spread destruction and death, and a golden age teeters on the brink. This is the story of a boy who sets out on the path of a musician. It is not about being 3Votes378.4kRecs284kFans
- 25 I Am God! 我就是神！ Five hundred million years ago. The Cambrian Period. Yin Shen descended upon the most ancient wilderness and primordial oceans. He was the beginning of all things. He created life and intelligence, the Creator of all living beings. As time passed, stories became epics, epics became myths, and in the end, even myths were buried by the ages. Only the divine is eternal. 23Votes2.7MRecs1.7MFans
- 26 EN Apocalypse Forecast 天启预报 “I want someone to give me a good beating…” Huai Shi, Sword of Calamity, Gravekeeper of the Old World, Tuner, Last Defender of Heaven, One of the Twenty-Four Agents of Destruction, Little Peppa of Huaihai Road, Sun of the Abyss, Final King of Hell. . One day, the impoverished Huai Shi discovers that the golden finger he picked up has finally started working… except this might not be a good thing. To make money and stay alive, he accidentally steps into this dangerous world. The frontier beyond t 336Votes2.2MRecs5.7MFans
- 27 EN The Wizard's Journey 巫师之旅 Give me endless knowledge, and I will use myself as a fulcrum to move countless worlds. This is the story of a wizard named Grimm who relies on his own intelligence and luck to study his unique branch of wizarding knowledge, travel through otherworldly realms, and take part in wars between different civilizations. 26Votes1.4MRecs810.2kFans
- 28 EN Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
