Looking for Novels About Taoist Priests, Taoist Temples, and Cultivation, with No Livestreaming or System from the Start 有没有道士道观修道类，禁止开局，直播，系统，类

1. 351 龙 Tales of the Dragon and Tiger Mystic Heroes 龙虎玄侠传 Wind-Filled Tower風滿樓Mystery281k WordsOngoing In the Age of Declining Dharma, spiritual qi revives. Evil spirits wreak havoc, and dragons and tigers descend from the heavens. With the Nine Heavens Divine Pill reappearing in the world, orthodox and unorthodox factions alike prepare for battle. The arts of the occult, talismans, soul-binding, poison and witchcraft clash in a contest of skill. Ye Chen and Xiao Jun, two disciples of the Zhengyi Heavenly Masters, are summoned by Heaven's will to exterminate demons and defend the Dao. Bound by th 43Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Pure Taoism, pure dry stuff, not brainless or systematic.

2. 352 镇 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 Ninth Young Master of the Daoist Sect道门九公子Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 2.8kReads8.8Score556Shelves

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   Story introduction: At the beginning, the protagonists are all miserable in life. Recommended star rating: 5 stars

3. 353 我 I Watch the New Heavens from My Secluded Temple, Waiting for the World to Be Restored 我于幽观观新天，待看乾坤归复时 An Wen Ye安温叶Urban281k WordsOngoing Cultivation was spoken of in the past, manifested in the present, and would shine gloriously in the future! “Master, what true arts are there to seek in this world?” “Good sir, aren't the true arts of this world the nine years of compulsory education you've received? Individuals can use it to leap over the dragon's gate and change their fate. The nation can use it to develop, transform the world, drive out invaders, and bring about the rejuvenation of the people. That's the true art of this worl 50Reads5.5Score—Shelves
4. 354 民 Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈 Su Wan苏皖Urban2.7M WordsCompleted A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me? 8.7kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves
5. 355 跟 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Ding Xingxing521丁星星521Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa 45.7kReads8.8Score3.9kShelves

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   This book is worth recommending

6. 356 凡 The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫 Ximen Woxue西门卧雪Eastern Fantasy4.4M WordsOngoing Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm... 151.1kReads9.0Score10.7kShelves

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   Nice,!!!!!

7. 357 民 Folk Tales of the Mountain Wilds 民间山野怪谈 Pan Haigen潘海根Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted A lifetime spent roaming the martial world, telling tales of ghosts and strange happenings from the countryside. Stories of spirits and monsters in the wilderness have always been a staple of people's conversations over tea, and folk tales about mountain ghosts and gods come in every variety. There is a kind of extraordinary man who can help people choose burial sites and homes, divine life and death, reveal the secrets of fate, dispel evil spirits, travel to the underworld, save lives, and ward 1.2kReads8.9Score157Shelves
8. 358 李 Li Dakai’s Record of Cultivation 李大开修仙记 Li Dakai李大开Eastern Fantasy3.6M WordsCompleted [Mortal Cultivator Style, No System, Decisive and Ruthless, Not Mindless, Funny] I, Li Dakai, began cultivating immortality at the age of fifty. A slow-burn cultivation fantasy with a satisfying payoff. The story unfolds gradually, with every turn grounded in reason! Fellow cultivators, please don’t be put off by the title. New chapters every day at exactly 5:10 p.m.! 32.6kReads9.1Score3.4kShelves
9. 359 史 The Strongest Qi Refiner in History 史上最强炼气期 Li Daoran李道然Urban14.5M WordsCompleted Fang Yu has been cultivating for nearly five thousand years, yet still hasn’t broken through the Qi Refining stage... “I really am only at the Qi Refining stage, but don’t mess with me!” 46.2kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
10. 360 道 The End of the Daoist Age 道门末法年 Quantum量子Eastern Fantasy219k WordsOngoing The Daoist Sects’ Age of Decline: Secrets of the Three Realms The Immortal Realm has no time to spare for the mortal world. Yin Xi, a reincarnated disciple of the Three Pure Ones, awakens with no memories. He uncovers the secrets of the Daoist legacy, defies fate, and shakes the Three Realms to their core! Feuds, tangled romances, and battles against destiny await! 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist, Yin Xi, the eldest disciple of Lao Tzu, the supreme representative in the world, is very happy [Blowing kiss][Flowing kiss][Flowing kiss][Flowing kiss][Flowing kiss]

11. 361 僧 Monks Don't Give Their Names, Daoists Don't Speak of Their Lifespans, but I Can Exorcise Ghosts 僧不言名道不言寿但我会驱鬼 Practice What You Preach坐言起行Rural Life1.4M WordsCompleted He was nearly buried alive at birth. The venerable Taoist Zhang Jiuye defied fate and changed his destiny, but in doing so planted a curse: he was fated to face three tribulations. At sixteen, he was summoned to call back a soul, then fought the Five Plague Gods by night, only to have his spirit dragged into a temple in the underworld! At nineteen, his life-and-death trial arrived, and beneath the Laojun Temple, a mysterious stone slab sealed away for a thousand years was unearthed... Other peop 2.3kReads8.6Score249Shelves

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    I only recommend what I have seen, my personal test is really shocking, I am not a novice!

12. 362 直 Live-Streaming the Demolition of Spirit Mountain, and the Buddha Loses It 直播拆灵山，佛祖破防了 Dust Adrift in Fate's Hands天命浮尘Eastern Fantasy274k WordsCompleted As the Three Realms' most rebellious figure, Sun Wukong starts by wreaking havoc in Heaven, then livestreams the dismantling of Spirit Mountain, and gradually breaks away from the Three Realms. Beyond the solar system, he finally escapes certain death, only to discover that he's nothing but a line of code in a virtual world, an NPC in the author's story! His indignation surges into a burning fury. But who should he rebel against now? Let's find out together! 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Come on, come on, take your seat quickly

13. 363 黑 Dark Journey to the West: Wukong Reborn 黑暗西游：悟空重生 Dust Adrift in Fate's Hands天命浮尘Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsOngoing Think carefully, everyone. Since the Monkey King impostor incident, has Sun Wukong still been the same person we know? No... absolutely not. The real Sun Wukong was replaced by the Six-Eared Macaque. So where did the real Wukong go? Now, let's talk about where he went. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 364 天 Fish of the World 天下游鱼 Happy Acorn开心橡果Eastern Fantasy7.5M WordsCompleted By the Canglan River, a young man wears a straw raincoat and bamboo hat, holding wine in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. His heart has no place in the world, yet he finds himself in the jianghu... I come from a place beyond knowing. I want to see this world, just as unknown to me... 104.7kReads9.0Score10.3kShelves
15. 365 程 A Programmer's Path to Immortality in Another World 程序员在异界的修真之路 Three Liang of Rice Wine三两米酒Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted Qin Yang was an IT engineer who worked himself to death, then transmigrated to a world of cultivation. In this life, he no longer wanted to run himself ragged. All he wanted was to lie flat and cultivate. After lying flat at a Taoist temple for six years, he was forced to leave when it went bankrupt. Taking his junior sister with him, he returned to the secular world. He had hoped to keep lying flat, find love and start a family, and cultivate freely with all the resources he needed. But the mar 8kReads8.3Score665Shelves

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    Qin Yang was an IT engineer in his previous life. He died of overwork and traveled to the world of cultivation. In this life, he no longer wants to be an old scalper, he wants to lie down. He first lived in peace in the Taoist temple for six years, but his master did nothing and the Taoist temple went bankrupt. He was forced to take his junior sister back to the secular world. Then continue to pursue a peaceful life in the secular world! However, the world is in a hurry, and he can't help himself, and various challenges follow one after another. Fortunately, his programming brain can turn decay into magic, perfect all mental training methods, and become the golden finger of his cultivation. See how he repairs the troubles that prevent him from living peacefully, and protects his leisurely life of cultivation. Will he win?

16. 366 躺 You Can Cultivate Immortality While You Lie Flat 躺平也可以修仙 Qing Chong Yue Er青虫月二Urban1.5M WordsOngoing These are my personal insights and experiences in cultivating the Dao and refining qi, woven into a novel that creates a strange and eerie supernatural world through both dreams and reality. If you enjoy supernatural mysteries and immortal cultivation, give it a read. It’s unlike anything else, and the opportunity is rare. When this old man achieves a perfected Golden Core, you’ll all be disciples of my Qingfeng Sect. 991Reads6.6Score162Shelves

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    A true Taoist novel, a suspenseful and mysterious story about cultivating immortality, a realistic version of the record of cultivating immortality, refining energy to transform into spirit, refining energy into spirit, and refining spirit to return to emptiness. I am willing to prove the path to immortality with everyone.

17. 367 神 The Charlatan 神棍 Qing Chong Yue Er青虫月二Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted A fortune-teller, one of the oldest professions. An ancient name for a fortune-teller or feng shui master. Knowing the stars above and the earth below; the five elements of yin and yang, the eight trigrams and nine palaces. Physiognomy and feng shui, defying fate and changing one’s destiny: nothing is beyond their power! Huang Zheng, a modern-day fortune-teller. Born under the influence of yin and yang, with the canopy star at his back. With extraordinary skills in reading fortunes and feng shui 1.3kReads8.7Score179Shelves
18. 368 民 A Notebook of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌笔记 Green Pepper and Shrimp青椒肉虾Mystery5.0M WordsOngoing I was born with a pair of snake eyes, and everyone at the forest farm said I was a demon child born of a snake. The night I was born, thunder crashed again and again. The next day, a huge, gold-scaled python was found dead from a lightning strike outside Laolingou. Something was squirming inside its belly. Master Sang sliced open the python with a single stroke and carried out a blood-soaked baby. He named me Lin Shisan. From that moment on, my fate was bound to Master Sang’s for life… 21.4kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves

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    Absolutely good-looking, traditional supernatural lacks traffic

19. 369 鬼 The Divine Schemes of Guiguzi 鬼谷神谋 Qing Chong Yue Er青虫月二Historical4.6M WordsCompleted [Historical Fiction Writing Contest] Other people are reborn into wealth and privilege, but I came back as a stalk of rice. No, a stalk of rice growing on a grave! A lovesick woman ate me, and became my mother. I became Guigu Wang Chan, whom later generations called Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Vertical and Horizontal School. In this turbulent age, watch me stir up the world once more and make my mark on the battlefields of the Warring States! 567Reads6.6Score107Shelves
20. 370 欢 Building Heaven with Joy 欢天喜地建天庭 Three Feet Three Inches of Waves浪高三尺三Urban4.1M WordsCompleted Hello, everyone. My name is Zhang Manyi, and I’m the Jade Emperor, down here in the mortal world. I’ve been kidnapped, so hurry up and send me 100,000 yuan. Once I rebuild the Heavenly Court, you’ll be the Crown Prince, the Jade Emperor’s Crown Prince! 340Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    Start directly with Jade Emperor, it's a bit slow at the beginning but much better at the end

21. 371 最 The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人 Yan Xiaoxiu阎小朽Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but 6.2kReads9.0Score557Shelves
22. 372 混 Lord of the Primordial Dao: From Wandering Taoist to True Immortal of the Mortal World 混元道主：从游方道士到红尘真仙 The Laid-Back Soul of the Mortal World红尘懒散人Eastern Fantasy766k WordsCompleted [Classic xianxia + traditional cultivation + multiverse + tales of the strange + upright values + no heroine + 200,000 words in reserve, readers can jump in with confidence] After transmigrating to a world where Daoist arts manifest in reality, Zhou Qingnan turns away from romance and devotes himself to cultivating the Dao! With a treasured scripture in hand, he gains both cultivation and merit, freely claims techniques and supernatural abilities, and exchanges talismans and magical treasures a 216Reads6.7Score148Shelves

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    This is a classical and orderly world of fairy tales, with a court, a market, aristocratic families, and hidden sects. Zhou Qingnan, wearing a green shirt and holding a sword, walks between the world of mortals and the path of immortality. The curse at the bottom of the Qingtang River, the anger and ignorance of the mountain spirits, and the evil schemes of the human heart... Are all practices. What you keep is the clarity of a little spiritual platform in your heart; what you do is the myriad causes and wonders in the world. (Classical fairy + traditional culture + Taoism + Zhutianliu + Zhiguai + Sword Immortal + Three Views

23. 373 茅 The Maoshan Occultist 茅山诡术师 Floating Pagoda on the Other Shore彼岸浮屠Mystery4.4M WordsCompleted My name is Fang Gang. I was stolen the moment I was born. From then on, my life unfolded into an epic tale, as turbulent as it was mysterious. 376Reads8.6Score106Shelves

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    I've watched both of them and it's okay. The main character in the first one is a bit of a virgin and I don't know who the heroine is after watching it, but the plot is okay. The second one was a bit unwatchable before but I got better after watching it and the ending was a bit rushed.

24. 374 茅 Maoshan Occultist: Tales of the Underworld and Evil 茅山诡术师：幽冥话邪 Floating Pagoda on the Other Shore彼岸浮屠Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted Maoshan's arcane arts have returned to the world, as demons and evil spirits run rampant. What bloody storm will rise this time? In this cruel world, with its tumultuous lives, who will pay for each and every blood debt? Behind the layers of eerie schemes, who is righteous, and who is evil? I, Fang Gui, have a strange past. By chance, I was drawn into a spiritual calamity. How can I break free of this trap? How can I defy fate and change my destiny? Gather spirits, exterminate evil, and dispel c 412Reads7.0Score—Shelves
25. 375 神 Divination: From the Start, I Reject the Empress! 神算：开局拒绝女帝！ Empress666女帝666Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted [System + empress + one female lead + keeping a low profile] Xiao Fan, an ordinary person from Earth, transmigrates to Qianlong Continent and awakens the Heavenly Secrets Fortune-Telling System. The System can calculate everything, past and present! The protagonist earns points by telling people's fortunes. The points can be exchanged for all kinds of abilities. They can also be used to withstand all kinds of attacks. The protagonist can't cultivate and is usually just an ordinary person, bu 30kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves

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    This book is not bad. Fortune teller is okay.

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