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- EN Mysterious Revival 神秘复苏 "My name is Yang Jian. By the time you read this, I will already be dead..." A strange scroll of sheepskin, an eye peering into the darkness: this is the story of someone who survived. 6.5MHeat22.6MPopularity545kReaders
- The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Print edition published and available online] [Tomb Raiding] [Mystery] [Antique Appraisal] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding gang. From south to north, I've seen every kind of person and walked among all sorts of rogues. Over the years, I've gone from a boy to a middle-aged man, gained a bigger drinking capacity, and watched the years pass by. I've encountered all kin 2.5MHeat23.7MPopularity208kReaders
- This Daoist Settles Scores: I Kill, I Don't Save! 贫道看事，只杀不渡！ Mr. Qin returned from the dead in another person's body and passed on a breath of Dao Qi to me. With this art, I walk between the realms of Yin and Yang. I've cultivated the Dao for thirty years. I've seen vengeful ghosts and pacified resentful spirits. Everyone calls me the Living King of Hell. The King of Hell sends people to their deaths at the third watch, but I can keep them alive until the fifth! 2MHeat3.2MPopularity165kReaders
- The Fragrance of the Coffin's Beauty 棺香美人 When I was born, the river rose and swept a coffin into my home. Fifteen years later, the coffin opened, and inside was a woman... Feng shui, destiny... There are endless folk legends and tales of the bizarre and the fantastic. (Keywords: Corpse Fragrance, Coffin Fragrance Beauty) 1.7MHeat14.1MPopularity141kReaders
- Being a Taoist Priest Is No Easy Job 道士不好惹 At Zhongnan Mountain, people know that the Quanzhen Sect is there, but they don't know that a dilapidated Taoist temple lies at its foot. People know that Maoshan is skilled at catching ghosts, that celestial masters excel at warding off evil, and that Master Yang knows feng shui, but they don't know that the people of Gujing Temple understand the Way of Heaven best. That day, the people of Gujing Temple emerged out of nowhere, and from then on their name resounded throughout the world! 969kHeat7.2MPopularity81kReaders
- EN My House of Horrors 我有一座冒险屋 Chen Ge inherits an adventure house left behind by his missing parents. Business is poor, until a phone he unexpectedly finds while tidying the place changes everything. As long as he completes the phone's daily missions of varying difficulty, the adventure house can be repaired and even expanded! So Chen Ge begins exploring forbidden sites to gather inspiration, incorporating their settings and features into his own adventure house. As visitors scream in fright, the place becomes famous overnig 772kHeat4.5MPopularity65kReaders
- EN When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp 天黑请点灯 The village chief said, "When it gets dark, lock the doors and windows, light the oil lamp, and don't believe anything anyone outside tells you." This world is full of evil spirits and eerie horrors. The lovely flowers blooming in this barren land are poisonous. Fear and greed nourish sweet fruit. This is a world where "people eat people." Luo Bin said, "Funny, that's the kind of world I came from, too." 757kHeat3MPopularity63kReaders
- The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 盗墓笔记 [The Original Novel of "Angry Sea Dive"] Fifty years ago, a silk manuscript from the Warring States period was unearthed by Changsha tomb raiders. It recorded the location of a strange ancient tomb from that era. Fifty years later, the grandson of one of the raiders discovered the secret in his grandfather's notes. He gathered a team of experienced tomb raiders and set out to find the treasure. None of them expected the tomb to hold so many eerie secrets: seven suspicious coffins, a fox corpse w 605kHeat8.5MPopularity51kReaders
- Secrets of the Heavenly Coffin 天棺秘藏 [Tomb Raiding + Jianghu + All Walks of Life] I have a sister-in-law of peerless beauty. She gave me an iron fan and a compass, and taught me a whole range of skills. In the 1990s, I rode across the country, searching for dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, appraising antiques, and navigating the grudges of the jianghu... At first, people from every walk of life called me Little Meng. Later, they called me Brother Xun, then Master Meng. In the end, all that remained was a codename in sealed 581kHeat945kPopularity48kReaders
- Master of the Yin Meridians 阴脉先生 They rob people of their lifespans to prolong their own, mutilate victims to make human-animal hybrids, plant delusions to control minds, and bury objects to ward off evil. The thirty-six arts of the heretical path use flesh and blood as materials and life itself as fuel. Every technique is sinister and unfathomable. But after thirty years among the sorcerers of the underworld, I can tell you this: no matter how strange the arts, none is truly evil. Nothing is more evil than the human heart. 571kHeat2.4MPopularity48kReaders
- True Tales of Strange Happenings 民间诡闻实录 Deliver the spirit-baby, avoid the Yang Pass, carry the pregnancy to term, give it a name, offer incense and candles in the twelfth month, and welcome the midwife... I inherited my grandmother's craft and became a male spirit-midwife. Here are the strange and uncanny tales I've encountered over the years... [This story is entirely fictional] 525kHeat28.4MPopularity44kReaders
- The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 [Jianghu] [Antique Appraisal] [Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning a trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of "ghost eyes" that could identify the world's rarest treasures. She trained my hands into "Buddha's hands," teaching me to break through schemes and set traps with impunity. She taught me a set of "divine skills," so I could navigate the jianghu and turn the world in my hands with ease. Drawing on my years 492kHeat8.3MPopularity41kReaders
- The Art of Feng Shui 驭房有术 Auntie, who went to make her way in the city, returns to her hometown in splendid clothes. Zhang Yu's mother is tempted and decides to send her son to seek his fortune with her. Who would have thought that the so-called mansion was just a thirty-square-meter rental, and worse, Auntie's real estate agency was almost unable to pay the rent? Selling houses, renovating... The esoteric arts Zhang Yu learned from Old Wang, who ran a coffin shop in the countryside, actually come in handy. Before long, 453kHeat6.1MPopularity38kReaders
- Notes on Strange Happenings in the Wild 山野诡闻笔记 Strange happenings and uncanny tales from villages and the countryside. Retrieving corpses from the water, spirit possession, drinking talisman water, making paper effigies, the Five Immortals Temple, rice divination and spirit journeys, dragons roaming Yin Mountain... I walk beyond the crowds and the ordinary world, encountering one hidden and eerie mystery after another, things ordinary people could never glimpse! Now, let me tell you about them. 408kHeat5.1MPopularity34kReaders
- You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 In anatomy class, the corpse turned out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through one bizarre experience after another. A bus out of service that only went up, never down, and led straight to a reservoir. An old pagoda tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallowed people whole without even spitting out their bones. A bighead carp by the Qingshui River that begged people for help every night. And a deadly brothel draped in human skin, open for business day and nig 404kHeat1.9MPopularity34kReaders
- Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Tomb Raider's Tale 鬼吹灯（盗墓者的经历） [The official original novel of the television drama Yunnan Worm Valley, chapters 101 to 176] An ancient civilization, lost treasure, and a mysterious tomb. A fragment of a secret text passed down through the protagonist's family sets the story in motion. Three modern-day tomb raiders venture into a bizarre underground world, peeling back layer after layer of ancient mystery. What lies beneath the great Kunlun Glacier, in the nine-story demon tower? The tomb of a vanished ancient kingdom's ruler 339kHeat2.6MPopularity28kReaders
- Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 327kHeat5MPopularity27kReaders
- The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read people's fortunes three times, he left me. From then on, I didn't just read the fortunes of the living. I also had to read those of the dead, and even... 296kHeat4.4MPopularity25kReaders
- The Yellow Emperor’s Secret 黄帝秘藏 With a blood-written deed on my body, I fought hungry dogs for food. In the bitter cold of winter, I was about to be beaten to death on the frozen ground, until someone stood before me and told me I was a dragon in the art of feng shui... 264kHeat6.4MPopularity22kReaders
- The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 When I was thirteen, I lost my soul. As my grandfather tried to call it back, he summoned a spirit that didn't belong to me. From then on, my life changed beyond recognition... 261kHeat14MPopularity22kReaders
- Tomb Raiding 倒斗 [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself.] [Tomb raiding + antique appraisal + mystery + underworld] In the old days, “doul” was underworld slang for the business of robbing tombs. More than twenty years ago, one foolish decision led me to join a small gang at the bottom of the trade. They say that once you enter the underworld, it’s as deep as the sea, and ten years of wandering leave you restless in your dreams. Those years were filled with flashing blades, deceit and betrayal, as well 245kHeat336kPopularity21kReaders
- The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You've heard of the dead who died with their eyes open, but you've surely never heard of a corpse whose mouth won't close... (The Third-Round Coffin Bearer) 244kHeat3.8MPopularity21kReaders
- Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传 This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. His name has left its mark in the corners of every era. He was once a nightmare to some, and he also awakened those who were tormented by nightmares. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. At the end, his name was Wu Di. 243kHeat2.1MPopularity20kReaders
- Museum of Demon Suppression 镇妖博物馆 When the ways of the world go awry, a demon is born. When an object's nature gains awareness, it becomes a spirit. When a soul refuses to disperse, it becomes a specter. When an object behaves abnormally, it becomes a monster. The Commandant of the Sili, once known as the Crouching Tiger, was established by Emperor Wu of Han to handle witchcraft cases and capture treacherous criminals. As spiritual energy and the supernatural revived across the globe, humanity began to grope its way toward culti 207kHeat3.9MPopularity17kReaders
- The Fated Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 On the day I was born, strange phenomena filled the skies, and countless animals bowed before me. Everyone said I was destined for greatness, but my grandfather shook his head and said I was born slow-witted, fated to become the village guardian. To defy fate and change my destiny, my grandfather found me a child bride of peerless beauty. But she ran away the very next day, and my grandfather was not long for this world. Before he died, he told me not to leave the village for twelve years, or I 194kHeat4.4MPopularity16kReaders
- A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨 Before my grandfather died, he gave me a strange ledger. On the first page were four ominous characters: “Records of the Underworld.” The entries inside weren’t money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to help my grandfather collect debts and repay them. It was as if I had become a judge of life and death, walking among the living. In the unseen world, everything has its purpose... 186kHeat843kPopularity15kReaders
- Heaven's Chosen Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 Every village has an idiot... The older generation calls them Village Guardians, also known as Yin Wardens. They’re said to protect their village from disaster. I’m the idiot in our village... When I was twelve, the King of Hell summoned me. To stay alive, I was forced to become our village’s Guardian. 169kHeat314kPopularity14kReaders
- Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 I landed a job as the dorm supervisor in a women's dormitory at a university, but the girls there were acting strangely... Crying in the middle of the night, a dorm room catching fire, a room that doesn't exist. Deep in the darkest recesses of memory, a bizarre and wondrous world lies hidden... The night grows late, but the dream is not yet half over. The mountain spirit snuffs out the lamp. Where can a lone ghost return? 166kHeat1.9MPopularity14kReaders
- Tales of the Supernatural: Master of Feng Shui 民间诡闻实录：堪舆宗师 I am a corpse carrier. I travel north and south, bringing countless bodies to their final resting places, and have seen more than a hundred kinds of death. A violent death is the most ominous; a peaceful death in old age is calm. Those who take their own lives cannot be reincarnated. I am someone rejected by fate, the last surviving bloodline of the Jiang family. Don't light a lamp after dark. Don't blow out the candle. Don't look back as you walk. In every corner, a pair of eyes is watching tho 165kHeat2.9MPopularity14kReaders
- The Art of Curse Magic 厌胜术 The Lu Ban craft is also known as the "Missing One." Its five forms are widower, widow, orphan, childless, and disabled. My name is Xu Dong. I'm an untalented carpenter, and my greatest ambition is to coast through life until I die. That is, until I came across Chen Mazi's shoddily made coffin! A corpse opening its eyes, a body hanging from a roof beam, eerie echoes in a haunted building, shadows in the hospital morgue... Strange events follow one after another, swallowing me like a whirlpool an 162kHeat778kPopularity14kReaders
- The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳诡匠 Have you ever heard of a dead person turning over? I saw it with my own eyes... 160kHeat3.1MPopularity13kReaders
- The Strange Things I Encountered on Long-Distance Drives 我跑长途遇到的那些邪乎事 Do you believe ghosts exist in this world? Do you think there are ghosts in this world? I believe they do, and I've seen them with my own eyes... My name is Qi Ming, but you can also call me Xiao Liu. I hope that when you read this book, I... will still be alive... [Do not read late at night!!!] 155kHeat1.8MPopularity13kReaders
- The Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣天相 Feng Shui techniques can kill without shedding blood and save people without anyone noticing. Fortune-telling and divination can reveal one's fate, but never calculate it to the very end, for the Heavenly Dao is ever-changing. My name is Jiang Sheng. I was born with a yang body and a yin fate, destined for a life of hardship. My grandfather named me Sheng, meaning "victory," hoping I could triumph over fate by half a move and live a good life. My grandfather arranged nine marriages for me so the 153kHeat5.7MPopularity13kReaders
- Secrets of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘事 I was born with a Yin fate. When I was five, everyone in my family was murdered except me. From that day on, my family became neither human nor ghost, yet they remained by my side. To avenge them, I took up the path of a Yin-Yang ghost hunter. The darkness reeked of blood, and it seemed countless pairs of eyes were watching me. Shh. Don't move. The hunt has begun! 148kHeat1.3MPopularity12kReaders
- I Just Learned the Five Thunder Rites, and a Prankster Streamer Shows Up to Debunk Me 刚会五雷正法，整蛊主播上门打假 [Lighthearted] [Arrogant] [Purely Satisfying] [Decisive and Ruthless] After transmigrating into a parallel world where demons and monsters have returned, Lin Heng becomes a Taoist priest, only to be haunted by eerie life-demanding coins. Ten years of his lifespan are borrowed in a single day, and he's on the verge of death. Luckily, he activates the System! "Fuse: Five Thunder Orthodox Art!" With the Heavenly Master's Mansion's ultimate divine power in hand, Lin Heng waits for the supernatural c 145kHeat609kPopularity13kReaders
- Tales of the Supernatural: The Yin-Yang Master 民间诡闻实录之阴阳先生 Feng shui and geomancy determine fate; a tongue of iron and a golden abacus reveal fortune and misfortune! Those who die unjustly at birth become malevolent spirits; in the end, Heaven will judge good and evil! I was born in an age of turmoil. In that era, famine and war were not the only things that took lives. There were also ruthless, vicious criminals. Beneath the bowls of rice handed out to disaster victims, someone might be stealing people's lifespans! Beyond a plague-stricken village, a c 139kHeat4.6MPopularity11kReaders
- The Taoist Master Is Not to Be Trifled With 道爷不好惹 To the west lies Kunlun. The Kunlun Mountains stretch across eight hundred li of vast wilderness, uninhabited and seemingly endless. Generation after generation, the disciples of Kunlun Temple on Yuxu Peak have guarded the twenty-four dragon veins beneath this land. They have studied three thousand three hundred Daoist scriptures, can make precise predictions, subdue demons, drive away evil, travel between yin and yang, and master the art of feng shui. 132kHeat4.6MPopularity11kReaders
- Hunters of the Forbidden Zone 禁区猎人 All things have a spirit. In this world, there are always people and things we have never encountered. Six years ago, a mysterious legend about a giant python undergoing tribulation drew the world's finest hunters to the Kunlun Mountains. In the end, the python died, and Lin Shuo was the only hunter to survive. Afterward, he withdrew from the world and went into hiding in the mountains. Six years later, a huge scale appeared before Lin Shuo. The giant python that had failed its tribulation had s 132kHeat4.8MPopularity11kReaders
- The Living Yin-Breaker 活人阴差 There are people who live in seclusion during peaceful times, then emerge when chaos reigns. They know feng shui and the ways of yin and yang. With a warrant from the Underworld in hand and a spirit-slaying blade at their waist, they destroy evil spirits, deliver wronged souls, open the gates of the Underworld, and guide the dead to the afterlife... "You have done evil without end and lost all conscience. I sentence you to die at the third watch and have your soul destroyed at the fifth. You sha 131kHeat5.9MPopularity11kReaders
- The Misty Sky 迷雾苍穹 Thick fog over the airport, an international flight delayed. A star agent from the Aerospace Investigation Bureau transmigrates through a polar vortex, endures severe turbulence, an invalid passport, and lost luggage, only to watch in horror as his own corpse appears on the baggage carousel, still clutching his ex-girlfriend's pendant. Just one day earlier, the two of them had been making passionate love in New York, thousands of miles away... The tarmac, the control tower, the cockpit, first cl 129kHeat187kPopularity10kReaders
- The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 The woman who just moved in as a tenant kept hearing strange noises in her bedroom and asked me for help. One look at the security footage, and I told her to move out immediately... 128kHeat11.4MPopularity11kReaders
- Strange Tales from the Bureau: The Final Chapter 民调局异闻录之最终篇章 A bizarre past, a mysterious organization, an eccentric white-haired man, and a fat folk-custom investigator who can see through everything. The last tale from the Bureau of Folk Affairs Investigation and Research. 125kHeat1.8MPopularity9.8kReaders
- EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. Haunted houses are divided into two types: blue houses and red houses. Living people can stay in a blue house without harm, but anyone who stays in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. Once, I unknowingly sold a red house. After that, I began to experience terrifying things... 119kHeat1.3MPopularity9.6kReaders
- The Divine Craftsman Who Hates Magic 厌术神匠 When I was eight, I caught the village party secretary having an affair with Widow Li at a Taoist temple on the back hill. The next day, I became mute. Ten years later, while our old house was being renovated, we found a dried-up snake nailed to a roof beam, its head pointed straight at my bed. The old carpenter said, "This is Lu Ban cursecraft. Someone wants to keep you silent forever!" Only later did I learn this was just the beginning. Ghostly happenings at construction sites, paper figures w 117kHeat38kPopularity9.2kReaders
- Folk Feng Shui Taboos 民间风水禁忌 I was born under a fate of certain doom: every seventh year brought a great disaster, and a fortune-teller said I wouldn't live to adulthood. But I was born prematurely, and a mysterious man took me in as his disciple. From then on, I was introduced to a whole different world of the mystical and extraordinary! 116kHeat532kPopularity9.4kReaders
- Borrowing Skin from the Yellow Springs 黄泉借皮 The skin I'm wearing isn't my own. It's a fox's skin. The life I'm living isn't my own, either. It's a yin life! Skin can be borrowed, but a life is hard to repay! The laws of heaven, fate, and man all reject me. And I... I only want to stay alive! 116kHeat1.5MPopularity9.2kReaders
- Dark Alley 1: Black and White 暗巷1：黑白 Life is a difficult journey, and we walk along the edge of an abyss. Do we go with the flow or struggle against it? Give in or hold back? Choose darkness or light? He once wandered alone through the dark alley, but someone came bearing a sharp sword and carrying the light. Was it salvation or judgment? Dark Alley 2: Gaze and Dark Alley 3: Through the Flames have both finished serialization! 116kHeat4.2MPopularity9.4kReaders
- The Fated Knife-Lender 天命赊刀人 They are fortune-tellers who travel the land. They understand feng shui and the yin and yang, and wherever they go, they carry a bag of kitchen knives and scissors on their backs. Wherever they pass, the things they witness usually inspire an eerie prophecy. "Keep this kitchen knife. If an elder in your family dies of tuberculosis within five years, I'll come back to collect payment." "Keep these scissors. If a ghost haunts your child when they're born, I'll come back to collect payment." They c 115kHeat6.5MPopularity9.1kReaders
- Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻 I spent seven years in a daze, living like a fool. Then the Yellow Immortal told me I had a spirit altar inside me, and that my origins were extraordinary. From then on, I embarked on the path of the Northern Tradition. (Keyword: Black Spirit Altar) 111kHeat1.8MPopularity8.7kReaders
- I’m a Max-Level Taoist Master, and You’re Throwing Me Into a Rules-Based Horror Game?! 我满级天师，你让我进规则怪谈？ A bizarre game descends, and one person from each country is randomly transported into it. Zhang Yangqing, who has trained at Longhu Mountain for two years, inexplicably finds himself in the bizarre world of a rules-based horror game. Wax Museum at Midnight. You will play the role of a security guard. [Rule 1: The wax museum closes promptly at midnight. No one may enter or leave, no matter what requests are made from inside or outside the doors.] [Rule 2: You are the only person in the wax museu 108kHeat405kPopularity8.3kReaders
