Novels like The Fog City Monster-Hunting Journal
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- 1 The Transcendent Refuses to Acknowledge Their Family 超越者绝不认亲 A mother who’s lost her mind, a father who drinks and flies into rages, a sister whose family has fallen apart, and a younger brother who rides ants into battle. What do you mean these are my long-lost relatives? What do you mean our family has spread throughout the heavens? What do you mean our family has fallen from grace, but I still have an invincible bloodline? Immortality from birth, included for free? After being dragged into an infinite world by another version of himself, he watches the 0Votes11.7kRecs22.9kFans
- 2 The Ming Dynasty’s Useless Third-Place Scholar 大明草包探花 A joke circulates in Jinling: When the Yangtze floods, just toss Cao Guogong Li Jinglong and Young Fang, the top scorer in the palace exams, into the river, and they’ll block the channel. After all, they’re both complete idiots. Fang Jing doesn’t mind the joke much. He just finds it a little weird when people call him Young Fang, since it sounds like something that could get him arrested. Then again, he is the palace exam top scorer personally chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang. Though his actual ability m 127Votes24.4kRecs394.1kFans
- 3 Classmates, Slay the Demons 请同学斩妖 From the start, a weasel blocked the road and begged him to grant it a title: “Do I look more like a human or an immortal?” Fang Xiao had just transmigrated. He unbuckled his belt and lashed the creature mercilessly! This was a dangerous world where cultivators, martial artists, and ordinary people lived side by side, and demons and monsters ran rampant. Fortunately, every item Fang Xiao had brought with him had transformed into a powerful magical treasure. Exclusive treasures and life-bound tre 0Votes73.4kRecs296.8kFans
- 4 The Treasure-Hunting Ship of the Steam World 蒸汽世界的猎宝船 [April 11: Successfully hunted and dissected a Windwing Serpent. Perception +1] [May 17: Successfully explored an abandoned floating island and evacuated. Acquired a “miniature differential engine,” which can activate a Level 3 specialty.] [July 23: Failed to explore the “Abandoned Construct Factory.” Lost 37 armor-piercing rounds. Unlocked a new route, “Passage to the Depths of the Fog Tide,” now added to the atlas.] … The Fog Tide swallows the land. Airships patrol the skies, humanity retreats 226Votes32.5kRecs172.9kFans
- 5 EN Behind the Curtain 帷幕之后 After transmigrating to a steampunk alternate world, Jialuo only wants to use his golden finger System to live a stable life as a “human search engine.” While others sweat over their work in factories, he sits in a café and earns a fortune every day through “knowledge navigation.” While the geniuses at Imperial Capital University of Technology rack their brains over their papers, he finishes reading ancient texts in a few minutes and pinpoints the core issue. The professors are astonished by his 0Votes17.1kRecs135.3kFans
- 6 The Splendor of the Red Chamber 红楼风华志 [The story is linked to The Story of Minglan. The author has completed The Red Chamber Detective and The Red Chamber: A Life of Pride and Glory. Read with confidence.] A dream of wandering through the mortal world, then a startled awakening deep within the vermilion chambers. Jia Lian dreams of modern times and learns that the Rongguo Mansion is on the verge of collapse. From then on, he devotes himself to planning and striving to make the family stronger. At first, he only hopes to protect this 196Votes55.3kRecs53.7kFans
- 7 The Ghost Knight King’s Dungeon Project 幽魂骑士王的地下城工程 Dungeon construction and management meets exploration and travel in another world, a two-in-one adventure. Design influences include Darkest Dungeon, Made in Abyss, Delicious in Dungeon, The Lord of the Rings, Overlord, and Dark Souls. Xia Mo'an, a fan of hardcore base-building and resource-management games, is summoned by Talia Ronove, a mixed-blood demon who has reached the end of her rope. He transmigrates to another world and unexpectedly takes possession of an ancient suit of cursed armor. 233Votes68.4kRecs166.9kFans
- 8 EN Mythical Card Creator: Myriad Ghosts Night Parade at the Start 神诡制卡师：开局百鬼夜行 A mythological card novel with over 20,000 premium subscribers! [History and Folklore] [Meticulous Research] [Illustrated] Lin Chen, a scholar of mythology and folklore, transmigrates to an unknown card-based world. From the start, he finds himself in the extremely dangerous [Night of a Hundred Demons] dungeon! At a critical moment, Lin Chen harnesses the incense offerings at the [City God Temple] to create the [Door Gods: Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong] card. After surviving the crisis, Lin Chen disc 92Votes78.9kRecs269.8kFans
- 9 Am I Really a Hallucination? 我还真是幻觉？ “You mean to say that you have a girlfriend only you can see, wealth and money that no one else acknowledges, and anything you want within easy reach, but war airships frequently pass overhead, giant beasts roam the great cities whenever mist descends, handsome men dressed in black transform randomly in public, and there is even a perfect piece of toast chasing people down the street and biting them, while your nonexistent friends do not believe you and often laugh at you, saying that you are dr 0Votes51.2kRecs203.2kFans
- 10 Is That Cybernetic Implant Legal? 你这义体合法吗 I’ve transmigrated, and I still have to pay a two-thousand-percent tariff to use Great Yan prosthetics? I don’t even get health insurance if I use the United Brothers’ prosthetics? I have to pay patent fees just to get online wirelessly? Am I supposed to beg for food on my knees? Legal? My golden finger whipped up the laws! Who’s going to stop me? 12Votes106.5kRecs207.8kFans
- 11 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
- 12 Curses of the Mountains and Seas 咒禁山海 In the twenty-eighth year of Zhizheng, the emperor ascended the throne and issued an edict: No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! In the fourth year of Xiaokang, a ghost coffin in the Zhuo River leaped up the Dragon Gate, taking every corpse diver in the river with it. In the eighth year of Xuande, the treasure fleet returned to Liujiagang, but not a single person was aboard... Open the history books, and the waterways of the world, along with the vast eas 6Votes120.2kRecs297.7kFans
- 13 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
- 14 EN Herald of Calamity 天灾信使 The Messenger is an MMORPG that has won the Global Best Game Operations Award ten years in a row. It was also the first online game in the world to surpass ten million concurrent players. Yan Qing had never played it before. Now, he is the game’s only player. 8Votes259.6kRecs737.3kFans
- 15 Notes on a Corpse Monster's Cultivation 尸怪修行笔记 That year, I awoke beneath the earth, with the ground for a blanket and the quiet for my bed. Years later, The mountain’s demons gather, while I sit alone in the tower and pass the long, clear night. 24Votes146.5kRecs371.7kFans
- 16 EN Super Sorcerer: The Weave Crashes Again from the Start 超魔术士：开局魔网又崩了 [Dungeons & Dragons] [Faerun] [High Magic] [Adventure] Anse accidentally transmigrates to Toril, and the Goddess of Magic has run into trouble yet again! Has the Spellplague struck again?! When the claws of the Underdark tear through the night over Baldur's Gate, the never-quiet Faerun erupts into chaos. But this is only the beginning. Elements include: Dungeons & Dragons, the Weave, dragon-blood sorcerers, wizards, leveling up, twenty-sided dice, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter, the Underdar 196Votes116.2kRecs378.1kFans
- 17 Real-World Programming Association 现实编程协会 [A literary IP recognized by the China Writers Association as having the greatest adaptation potential in 2026] [The 37th Galaxy Award’s most valuable science fiction IP] [Shortlisted for the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature; award-winning entry in the Galaxy Project and Human World Theater writing competitions] Heavy rain has been falling over Jiangcheng for months, concealing many things that aren’t right. Yu Xian thinks he’s sick. People around him are disappearing one after another, s 865Votes302.1kRecs465.6kFans
- 18 EN Gatekeeper of the Myriad Worlds 万界守门人 The planets died. The gods fell. After the Realm of Law collapsed, humanity lost all its protectors. Now, “anomalies” and “calamities” are beginning to invade the human world. As the age of darkness begins, a soul from Blue Star transmigrates into this world. … A comic of the same name is now available on Tencent Animation, Qidian, and QQ Reading. 13Votes486.2kRecs1.5MFans
- 19 EN My Overly Unique Class 我的职业太有个性 In a universe buried beneath black fog, towering figures roam the stars, whispers murmur in people's ears, and mountain-sized metal wreckage litters the world. Professionals struggle to survive. Fortunately, Su Chen has a career panel to help him. By collecting career information and meeting the requirements, he can take up a profession. [Stonewall Fighter] advances to [Flesh Emperor]! [Puppeteer] advances to [Mech Saint]! With a clear road ahead, he proceeds cautiously, one step at a time, unti 36Votes165.1kRecs714.9kFans
- 20 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 2.1kVotes200.7kRecs994.1kFans
- 21 EN Swordlight Over the Great Wilderness 剑烛大荒 “Zhulong: Eat it to open primordial chaos, illuminate the Nine Yin, command day and night, change the seasons, and summon wind and rain. “Xiangliu: Eat it to corrode the earth, swallow mountains, poison the ages, and set its nine heads to act independently. “Feiyi: Eat it to overcome pests, control the mind, and ward off all illness. “Yugu: Eat it to hide and lie in wait, then shoot people with sand. “... “Why is the secret version of The Classic of Mountains and Seas in this world so different 14.8kVotes1.8MRecs2.4MFans
- 22 EN The More They Oppose, The More I Know I'm Right 他们越反对，越是说明我做对了 “The more the Church supports me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” “Even when the heretics praise me, it proves I’m right. If they say nothing, that proves my work is beyond reproach!” “If the Church opposes me, that proves they’ve all fallen into heresy. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” In 681, Ansu, the youngest pope in the history of the Church, was crown 42Votes135.6kRecs1.1MFans
- 23 EN Dimension Paradise: I Am the Summoning Apostle 维度乐园，我是召唤系使徒 “The Dimensional Paradise is kind and generous. Its punishments are gentle as water, while erasure and forced execution are rare.” “But here's the bad news: the opposing factions are full of high-pressure lunatics teetering on the brink of death.” “As a summoner, it's only reasonable for me to sell everything I own to raise a few big daddies to protect me.” Chu Danqing thinks that apart from being so broke his pockets are cleaner than his face, he's actually doing pretty well. … Walking through 80Votes212.2kRecs442.5kFans
- 24 EN My Life in America: My Uncle Don Quixote 人在美利坚：我的叔叔堂吉诃德 [Successfully completed, read with confidence] [Over 10,000 first-month paid subscribers, 38,000 average subscribers, 150,000 peak subscribers: the highest first-month and average subscriber counts for an American-set novel] My name is Li Wei. After my parents passed away and left me saddled with a huge debt, I was taken in by a distant uncle in America and went to live with him in New York. Wait, what is this medieval adventure System? Why does it think my uncle is a mad knight? Why is the Uppe 1.2kVotes209.3kRecs1.4MFans
- 25 EN The Last Gentleman 终末的绅士 Weary reader, I’m honored that you have chosen this book among the shelves of this heavy, gloomy library. Unfortunately, this book is sick. Your fingers should be able to feel the raised growths on the surface of its cover. The words written long ago are like parasites taking root in the pages, hoping someone will watch them writhe, feel them, examine them, touch the diseased substance of this story. If you insist on borrowing this book, please be sure to check your physical condition regularly. 20Votes320.8kRecs888.2kFans
- 26 EN My Name Is Huang Tian: The Blue Heaven Is Dead, What the Heck? 我名黄天，苍天已死什么鬼？ “Doctor, for the past ten days, whenever I’m asleep, I keep vaguely hearing someone call my name.” “Mr. Huang Tian, you’re experiencing auditory hallucinations.” “I’m certain I heard them.” “Then it’s anxiety manifesting physically.” “Anxiety manifesting physically?” “In any case, there’s nothing wrong with you. Don’t worry. Avoid smoking and drinking, go to bed early and get up early, and try to relax. You’ll be fine.” “…” September 5: I went to see a doctor. He said there was nothing wrong wit 1.3kVotes154.7kRecs733.9kFans
- 27 Rebooting Mythology 重启神话 Dawn. The first light of day was long overdue, while the last glow of the setting sun had already faded into darkness. In a city shrouded in mist, a church hid in the shadows, veins clung to cracks in the walls, something gnawed in the sewers, and dark figures murmured in hushed whispers... The lamplighter strolled onward. 3Votes455.2kRecs1MFans
- 28 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
- 29 EN Clearing Jin 廓晋 To clear the way means, first, to open it up, and second, to sweep it clean. Having arrived in the Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms era, one should strike out into the current, set one’s heart on the Northern Expeditions, drive the Five Hu tribes from the Central Plains, and then sweep away the aristocratic clans from the imperial court. Such is the way to clear the realm, build a new enterprise, and carry on Chinese civilization. That is the theory. But in the autumn of Yonghe 5, AD 349, when a 15.7kVotes911.1kRecs1.1MFans
- 30 EN This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms 这个地下城长蘑菇了 “A wondrous soul stolen away, a hero’s power, and a classic tragic start as the catalyst!” “And with that, a savior is born... Holy crap, why did a mushroom fall in there!?” Lin Jun somehow transmigrated into a mushroom and found herself trapped from the start in the depths of a dungeon, surrounded by all kinds of monsters. With no hands, feet, or eyes, she survives only thanks to a cheat that lets her break down corpses and steal their skills. She even carved out a mushroom garden in the dunge 397Votes668.8kRecs1.7MFans
- 31 EN Decaying World 腐朽世界 Mystery, despair, pain, decay. The world is lost, and I have no idea where to turn. I arrived in a world nearing its end, beset by dangers and seemingly without hope. All I can do is rely on the mysterious blood mark on my body, continually simulating and evolving all kinds of skills in an attempt to find a way out of this hopeless situation. 112Votes750.5kRecs1.2MFans
- 32 EN Journey to the West: The Roadblock! 西游：拦路人！ Transmigrating into Journey to the West, he awakens the Roadblocker System. As long as he stops Tang Sanzang and his disciples from continuing their pilgrimage at each trial, he can receive rewards. Block them for three days, reward: the Art of Moving Mountains Block them for seven days, reward: Six-Turn Golden Elixir Block them for half a month, reward: True Dragon Pearl Block them for one month, reward: Acquired Spirit Treasure: Five-Flame Divine Fan Block them for one season, reward: Divine A 424Votes179kRecs861.5kFans
- 33 Winter Returns 冬日重现 Zhang Shutong once had two female classmates: One was a proud heiress from a wealthy family. The other was a cool, aloof girl who served as a temple keeper in the mountains. One was murdered eight years ago. The other died eight years later. Zhang Shutong also had a secret he could tell no one: He could return to the past. But after going to all that trouble to save them, why are they fighting each other? Deep mountains, a great lake, an ancient temple, shadows beneath the water, a strin 3.1kVotes509.6kRecs1.4MFans
- 34 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
- 35 EN Tales of Mounted Warfare 骑砍风云录 This summer, Li Cha leaves his homeland to become a frontier noble. At the time, he is surrounded by hostile natives on one side, while scheming nobles lie in wait behind him. He has very little to rely on, but one of those things is called... the Mount & Blade System. P.S. You can enjoy this story even if you’ve never played the game. 1Votes292.3kRecs268.3kFans
- 36 Love Comes After the Simulation 恋爱要在模拟后 [Love Simulator, at your service] [Simulations will appear as text and scenes from your memories] [Each simulation has three stages: courtship, falling in love, and turmoil/tender moments] [When the simulation ends, you will receive a score and review to help you reflect on the relationship] [Click to continue] . While in Japan, Nan Youxi got his hands on a love simulator. What was the point of a fake simulation? He had initially dismissed it. Until he discovered that he could acquire skills hon 10Votes171.1kRecs581.6kFans
- 37 EN The Book of Strange Tales 志怪书 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. The pine wind scatters the tea smoke. Amidst piles of white clouds, immortals sleep. A dream of the past rises without warning: beneath the village entrance tree, an old man tells tales. The stories of immortals, ghosts, fox spirits, and mountain monsters that once left children wide-eyed are neither wholly true nor wholly unreal, both eerie and romantic, and still as marvelous as ever. How many have dreamed of traveli 86Votes1MRecs1.3MFans
- 38 EN Doomsday: My Keyword is One More Than Everyone Else's 末世：我的关键词比别人多一个 Brave, cowardly, kind, cunning, generous, greedy, elegant, cruel, cheerful, perverse, upright, a shameless hypocrite... In this apocalyptic world, resources can only be obtained by winning on alien battlefields, ensuring the survival of civilization. Every warrior entering an alien battlefield is randomly assigned a keyword of their own. When their words and actions match that keyword, their attributes grow rapidly and they gain superhuman abilities. But if they break character, their abilities 11Votes285.2kRecs854.6kFans
- 39 EN Lord of Pro 普罗之主 His name is Li Banfeng. Feng as in mountain peak, not as in going crazy. His doctor has told him he isn’t insane. To save a friend’s life, he went to Platform 96, boarded Steam Train 1160, and arrived in Puluo Province, where the world had been stuck in the age of steam. He met a confidante in an old gramophone, peerless beauties on calendar posters, a swaying lady in an antique clock, and a worldly master in a wine gourd. Here, food cultivators grow stronger the more they eat, smoking cultivato 145Votes729.7kRecs2MFans
- 40 EN Twilight Divide 黄昏分界 Dusk divides the world in two, yin and yang. When the flesh of evil gods forced its way through cracks in the earth, flesh as vast as mountains appeared everywhere. Some were afraid. Some worshipped it. Some burned incense and made offerings. Others took a taste and thought, Huh, not bad. And so the flesh became crops, greedily harvested and fought over by people who consulted spirits and worshipped their ancestors. Hu Ma was reborn out of fear. He ate taixui, tended his furnace, and endured cou 67Votes705.1kRecs3.8MFans
- 41 Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角 New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 42 EN Becoming a Weird Tale Counts as Success 成为怪谈就算成功 Urban legends are uncanny things that feed on cognition, wield information as weapons, and use data as currency. They are neither living nor dead, existing in human rumors and dwelling in the shadows of the world. “So this means I’ll become an urban legend?” In ancient times, they were worshipped as gods, growing stronger through faith. “Then I’ll be a god!” In more recent times, they were feared as demons, nourished by fear. “I’ll become the Lord of Urban Legends!” But swept along by the tides 0Votes212.8kRecs675.3kFans
- 43 EN The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 People know that ghosts are terrifying, but ghosts know how cruel the human heart can be. This is a traditional supernatural novel. 6.3kVotes7MRecs21.2MFans
- 44 First Player 第一玩家 [If all of humanity places its hopes in one person, will civilization have an easier road ahead?] “When you read these words, a game of planetary survival, with everything at stake, will already have begun. Only by winning to the very end can you win back your home civilization.” “I am Su Ming’an. I possess the ability to rewind after death, and I alone know it.” “I guard a secret even the planetary invaders don’t know: whenever civilization falls into despair, I’m the only one who can retur 180Votes1.2MRecs2.3MFans
- 45 The National Forensic Doctor 国民法医 Corpse: Have you no manners? 110Votes4.1MRecs2.4MFans
- 46 EN Beyond the Deep Space 深空彼岸 In the vast universe, the birth and death of a galaxy are but a fleeting flash of mottled light. Gazing up at the stars, I can’t help feeling that the ending is already set. Where will you and I be a thousand years from now? Our homeland, the sparks of civilization, the Earth: all are but specks of dust in the depths of space. A moment in the starry sky, a thousand years in the mortal world. A bug’s whole life is but one autumn, and you and I are just the same, struggling to cross the river. Wha 150Votes9.9MRecs8.9MFans
- 47 EN I Never Intended to Become an Immortal 我本无意成仙 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. I am a stranger in this land, with no intention of becoming an immortal. After twenty years of cultivating the Dao in the mountains, Song You's master sends him down the mountain to witness demons and monsters, the many faces of life, and the famous mountains and rivers, and to seek out the immortals of legend. He says that is what true cultivation is. Who would have thought that after traveling the length and breadth 192Votes1.2MRecs4.1MFans
- 48 The Mirror Legacy 玄鉴仙族 Lu Jiangxian stayed up all night and died suddenly, but his lingering soul attached itself to a blue-gray bronze mirror covered in cracks. The mirror drifted into a vast, boundless world of immortal cultivation. In the perilous and unpredictable Dali Mountains, beside the Mei Chi River, a small village sat in the shadow of a minor clan. When the clan came across the mirror, it began passing down the path of immortality and teaching its arts, ushering in a magnificent new era. (A family’s cultiva 22.9kVotes7.2MRecs21.2MFans
- 49 EN This Game Is Too Realistic 这游戏也太真实了 This game is way too realistic! Hauling bricks, running errands, picking up trash, delivering packages... At most, a company can make you experience the hardships of working 996. Here, you can experience 007 on super speed. All right, enough talk. The great Administrator has called me to haul bricks. The Administrator says that as long as we work hard and offer up our livers, next month he can get himself another brand-new set of power armor. Then he’ll take us to explore a whole new map, where 467Votes4.9MRecs9.4MFans
- 50 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. 26Votes1.4MRecs810.4kFans
