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- 51 The Daoist Sect Is Slandered, but When the Ghost Tide Attacks, They Still Expect Me to Step In 道门被污蔑，鬼潮入侵却要我出手 [Live Streaming + Invincible + One Female Lead + Ghostly Energy Revival] For hundreds of years, the Celestial Master Sect has suppressed myriad monsters and exterminated evil spirits. Yet the world refuses to acknowledge them, and the Buddhists even lead the way in slandering them as the source of calamity. The Daoist sects have fallen into decline. Jin Qichen, the last Celestial Master, can only descend the mountain and marry. Five years pass in a flash. Over the years, paranormal incidents 182Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 52 I Just Became a Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, and Now I've Encountered a Pen Fairy 刚成龙虎山天师，就遭遇笔仙 [Supernatural] + [Ghost Hunting] + [No Heroine/Single Heroine] + [Don't Read If You Don't Like It] Zhang Xiuyuan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the forty-ninth Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, the birthplace of Daoism! But in this world, Daoism has fallen into decline while Buddhism flourishes! After passing down the position of Celestial Master, his cheap master promptly kicks the bucket. “What? The Celestial Master of Mount Longhu? That little brat?” “Move aside! I want to chal 499Reads5.4Score—Shelves
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Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖
[Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost
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- 54 I Went on a Blind Date, and My Identity as a Yellow River Corpse Retriever Was Exposed 去相亲，黄河捞尸人身份曝光了 Lin Yan was a corpse retriever. In his previous life, he violated the three taboos of the trade and was consumed by baleful energy, only to be reborn by accident. After binding to the Corpse Retriever System, he returns to his old profession and becomes the last corpse retriever in a parallel world! This time, he swears he won't repeat the mistakes of his past life! But unexpectedly, he ends up trending online. UC: “Shocking! Celebrity W 2.1kReads7.8Score264Shelves
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A Daoist Descends the Mountain to Work in a Noodle Shop 道士下山，面馆打杂
[A Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain + Passionate + Has Brothers + Urban Training + Witty + Wish Fulfillment + Ghost Hunting + Zombie Slaying + Organized Group + Cracking Down on Cultivator Crime + Horror] A hostess at a leisure center is sucking people's blood essence. Get rid of her! People keep jumping into the river? A water ghost is harming people. You still want to help it pass on? It harmed people, so get rid of it! A shoddily built tower is haunted... Huh! The ghost lady has earned mer
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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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
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
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I Read Your Fortune: No, That's Your Sister! 掐指一算：不可，那是你姐！
[Fast-paced mini-arcs + comedy + insanely satisfying revenge + a touch of horror + fiercely protective] Chen Xuan transmigrated from Earth to the world of Blue Star. From the start, he inherited a dilapidated Taoist temple and awakened a System. Complete three tasks a day, and you can randomly draw Taoist power, cultivation techniques, cultivation levels, and magical treasures? He immediately started livestreaming, showing off his mystic arts and gaining fans. “Master, help! During the day, if I
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- 59 Fortune-Telling on Livestream, My Predictions Were So Accurate That My Clients Got Depressed 直播算命，算的太准客户抑郁了 [Fortune-Telling Livestream + Oddballs + Supernatural + Cases + No Female Lead + Mythology] After Zhang Kai, a rebel of the Daoist sect, sets a Daoist temple on fire and curses the statue of the Celestial Master, he starts a career fortune-telling on livestream. A billionaire angrily throws off his cuckold’s hat because of him, a woman obsessed with raising ducks has a sudden change of heart because of him, and a wholesome streamer ends up in prison because of him… As one absurd and ridiculous i 6.9kReads8.7Score529Shelves
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I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案，晚上地府当差
I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha
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Maoshan Cultivation Secrets 茅山修真决
[Overpowered protagonist + bonds with multiple heroines + urban cultivation + tragic ending + supernatural mysteries + a world of Daoist arts + hidden mastermind + passing the torch] Bearing the blood of an ancient Qilin, Leng Ye is the last, aloof celestial master of the Tianheng Sect. At twenty, he descends the mountain to enter the mortal world, wielding thunder in a mortal body, making his words reality, drawing talismans in midair, and vanquishing every demon and evil spirit in the world.
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- 62 The Aloof Celestial Master Lives Off Beautiful Women 高冷天师靠美女养活 [Overpowered protagonist + multiple heroines and their bonds + Chinese and Western exorcism + supernatural fantasy + Taoist exorcism + horror and suspense] The white-haired Celestial Master, the strongest Dao Spirit God in the Divine Realm, sealed the Demon God by lowering his own cultivation and hiding in the city. But a 21-year-old university student took him home, thinking he was a down-on-his-luck handsome guy. From then on, he depended on her for a living. He could make words come true and 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Fly My Sword Home After School, Leaving the Campus Belle in White Stockings Stunned 放学御剑飞行，白丝校花惊呆了
This book is also known as: “The Age of Declining Dharma: I’m the Only Cultivator Left on Earth!”, “The Day I Checked In at University, I Descended from the Heavens on a Seven-Colored Cloud!”, “Exposed as an Immortal in My First Year of College, I Shocked Goddesses Around the World!”, and “The City’s Only Qi Refiner: I Lead the Entire Dragon Nation in Invading the Myriad Worlds!” On the eve of the college entrance exam, Cai Shaofan unexpectedly discovered that his girlfriend, the class belle he
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- 64 Stop Pretending, Daoist. You’re Cultivating Immortality 别装了，道长你就是在修仙 Lin Han transmigrated into the body of a Taoist priest. From the start, all he had was a rundown temple, until he obtained a live-streaming System for spreading Taoism. Revitalize Taoism and help more people appreciate its wonders to earn all kinds of rewards. He keeps a panda as a pet, tigers act as docile as kittens in his presence, and he sends an eight-hundred-jin wild boar flying with a single palm strike! With a casual wave of his hand, he summons thunder and lightning. Netizens exclai 20.5kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 65 The Dao Lord Reincarnates and Descends the Mountain to Beat Every Monster to a Pulp 道君转世，下山打哭一切妖魔鬼怪 [Hilarious, Shameless Protagonist] [Ruthless] [Cultivation] He was the lord of the Nine Realms and the Heavenly Dao’s big brother. After a scheme brought about his reincarnation, the Supreme Pure Sage protected him. But whether it was because he’d drunk expired Meng Po Soup before reincarnating or for some other reason, he somehow grew up crooked and cultivated the Path of Shamelessness! To earn merit, he blended into the modern city, slaying demons and vanquishing monsters, shamelessly driving 12.6kReads9.0Score1kShelves
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The Art of Reading People 观人有道
The Daoist Five Arts are Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Physiognomy, and Divination, representing Heaven, Earth, Humanity, Ghosts, and Immortals respectively. The Immortal Way is Mountain: focusing on cultivation, talismans, martial arts, geography, and feng shui. The Human Way is Medicine: focusing on healing, Daoist medicine, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, pulse diagnosis, and prescriptions. The Divine Way is Destiny: focusing on fortune-telling, the Eight Characters, Zi Wei astrology, and more.
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- 67 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 229.5kReads9.6Score66.4kShelves
- 68 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 694.2kReads9.6Score146.3kShelves
- 69 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此，奇门风水震天下 [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
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Fellow Daoist, If You Want to Scam Someone, Find a Living Person 道友，碰瓷请找个阳间的活儿
My name is Dong Qingyun. I’m an ordinary college student, but I somehow ended up with two ridiculous masters. One has such incredible technique that he uses lightning talismans to zap washing machines and save electricity. The other is a shameless clown who catches ghosts while patrolling the streets and delivering takeout. Then, by a stroke of bad luck, a sorcerer came after me and shoved a pair of yin-yang twins into my soul My masters immediately freaked out: “We’re screwed! This ritual’s goi
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼
[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha
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Tales of the Dragon and Tiger Mystic Heroes 龙虎玄侠传
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
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Uncle Nine: Is This Kid a Yin Messenger? 九叔：这小子是阴差？
(Uncle Jiu’s world + underworld bailiff + no female lead + System!) When King Yama says you’ll die at the third watch, who dares keep you until the fifth? Lin Yi transmigrates into Uncle Jiu’s world and unexpectedly becomes Uncle Jiu’s senior disciple. He binds himself to the strongest Underworld System from the start. All he has to do is earn yin virtue to get promoted and receive a raise! [Ding!] [Congratulations, Host, on successfully capturing a soul. Reward: 300 yin virtue!] [Ding! Congratu
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The Celestial Master's Record of Subduing Demons in the City 张天师都市伏妖录
During the Southern Song dynasty, the Ziwei Star is disgraced in the wake of the Jingkang Incident. Demons run rampant across the human world, and the Jade Emperor orders the immortals to descend and exterminate them. The immortals descend, capture every demon under heaven, and seal them inside the Demon-Refining Pot. Centuries later, in the twenty-first century, construction work brings the pot back to light. By a twist of fate, the seal is broken, and the demons escape once more. As demons a
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My Dad Is Uncle Jiu and the Thunderbolt King 家父九叔和雷电法王
A modern man transmigrates here. There's no System, but he does have an incredible master. If he can't win a fight, his master can step in. His father is the Thunderbolt Dharma King, and his master is the great Uncle Jiu. Jiale gets into trouble, the Ghost Judge refuses to accept the verdict, and the protagonist gets chewed out too. The protagonist says, “Fine, you're so impressive. It's just money, right? I'll have my senior brother, the God of Wealth, talk to you.” The Ghost Judge exclaims, “T
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The Taoist of Rural Legends 乡村神话道士
Wencai calls down lightning as casually as if it were child's play and treats danger as nothing. Now, as if nothing had happened, he sets out once more. The Taoist Wencai carries a family heirloom, a leather-bound book densely filled with the names of unclaimed souls. This time, he will lead his fellow disciples in tracking down and bringing 25,000 unclaimed spirits to justice. Wencai calls down lightning as casually as if it were child's play and treats danger as nothing. Now, as if nothing had
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Temporary Worker for the Underworld 地府阴差临时工
[No Angst + One Heroine + Entirely Fictional] “Urgent notice: The underworld is overcrowded with souls and expansion is imminent. We are urgently hiring several temporary field officers to work in the mortal realm. Excellent benefits…” Chen Du was fired from his job and was lying flat in his rented apartment when he came across this ridiculous short video. He assumed it was just clickbait, but after falling asleep late that night, his soul was inexplicably summoned to a City God temple to interv
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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Special Operations Bureau 特事行动科
One thousand three hundred and ninety years ago, under the emperor’s direction, human adepts gained control of the “Void” and used it to create the “Wall,” which separated the real world from the anomalous one. After more than six centuries of effort by adepts from various schools, the anomalous remnants in the real world were finally purged, leaving humanity with a world of its own. Anomalous creatures became demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters in tales of the strange. As time passed, the adepts
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The Underworld Express: Midnight Didi 阴间快车：午夜滴滴
[Urban Life + Ghost Constable + Healing Slice of Life] With a million yuan in family debt, a failed attempt to land a civil-service job, and the weight of a difficult life bearing down on him, Chen Ye buys a used car to drive for Didi. He doesn't realize it's a hearse, and someone reports him almost immediately. From the back seat, the Black and White Impermanence ask: “Want to drive Didi in the underworld?”
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After Passing the Civil Service Exam, a Mage Tricked Me into Catching Ghosts 考编上岸后，我被法师骗去抓鬼
[Supernatural powers + spirit mediums + divination + disciple of a bodhisattva + ghost hunting] This entire novel is told through my personal experiences. I’ve simply recorded all the supernatural events I’ve experienced, witnessed, and encountered over the years. Readers can decide for themselves whether they’re true or not.
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- 82 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 821Reads—Score109Shelves
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The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒
A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end!
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- 84 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Taoist Priest's Pact with Three Thousand Ghost Brides 道士与后宫三千女鬼的约定
This Daoist Master doesn't care for fighting and killing. I've had just one hobby all my life: collecting all kinds of beautiful female demons and ghosts from around the world.
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- 86 A Demon Hunter by Inheritance, I Took Out a God from the Start 祖传猎魔人，开局嘎了个神仙 This is the story of two brothers who exorcise ghosts, subdue demons, vanquish fiends, slay immortals, and kill gods to safeguard the peace of humankind! Born with divine strength and inheriting the 36-character God-Smiting Spell, Jiang Nan traveled across the country with his father from childhood, working as a folk monster hunter. After his father died of illness, Jiang Nan went to the Amazon rainforest to clear his head by battling a giant python. Suddenly, his younger brother Jiang Bei, who 27Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Got a Bad Review for a Delivery, and Now I’m Reincarnating as a Dog 外卖给差评，竟让我投胎做狗
Su Fan gave a bad review to a food delivery order and woke up to find himself mysteriously transformed into a dog. Luckily, the reclusive Taoist priest Shen Nian took him in. From then on, Su Fan was forced onto the path of vanquishing demons and subduing evil. Vengeful ghosts haunt the streets, an ancient mansion seethes with yin energy, and zombies roam a deserted village. Countless sinister dangers lurk in the corners of the city. Armed with talismans and a sword, Shen Nian joins forces with
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The Supernatural Descends! A Female Ghost Teaches Me Maoshan Arts 诡异降临！女鬼教我茅山术
The uncanny descends, and a hundred ghosts roam the night! Li Qiulin was born with his Yin-Yang Eyes fully open. He can see ghosts and gods filling the sky, yet he has pretended to be blind and kept his head down for twenty whole years! That's because he has the rarest constitution of all: pure yang in a body of pure yin. He's the ultimate Yin bait, coveted by every evil spirit. His lifelong dream is to stay home, lie flat, and eat until he dies. But then a bad friend tricks him into exploring a
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Ghosts Haunt Japan's Yasukuni Shrine, So I Go Live and Torture Them All in Public 倭国神厕闹鬼，我反手开直播当众折磨万鬼
Ghosts Haunt the Japanese Yasukuni Shrine, So I Start a Livestream and Torture Them in Front of Everyone
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- 90 A Japanese Delegation Visits China to Save Face, So I Cross the Sea Alone to Crush Japan's National Fortune Array 倭国组团访华装体面，我孤身跨海踏平东瀛国运大阵 A delegation from Japan comes to China to put on airs, while I cross the sea alone to crush the national fortune formation of the Eastern Isles 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Other Taoists Draw Talismans to Exorcise Ghosts. He Slaps a Router on Them to Cure Internet Addiction, Leaving the Whole Internet Stunned 别的道士画符驱鬼，他贴路由器治网瘾，全网看傻了 Other Taoist priests draw talismans to drive out ghosts. He sticks a router on people to cure their internet addiction, leaving the whole internet dumbfounded 20Reads—Score—Shelves
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Better Not to Meet Again 看见不如不见
“You’re not a curse. You’re the key!” “If you don’t want to die, stay away from me.” “Liu Yan, stop licking your lips! You might poison yourself!” “Mind your own business and you’ll live longer!” “Praying to gods? Worshipping Buddha? You’d be better off kowtowing to me.” “I decide whether you stay or go.” Better not to see me than to see me. I’m not talking about myself. I mean all of you.
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The Sleazy Celestial Master 猥琐天师
A brand-new fantasy novel featuring ghost-hunting, exorcism, demon capture, treasure hunting, immortal cultivation, and more. The protagonist's cultivation techniques are based on traditional Taoist magic, including turning beans into soldiers, fire talismans, and palm thunder, among other things... World structure: Mortal Realm → Cultivation Realm → Immortal Realm (Demon Realm, Devil Realm, Underworld, and more) → Divine Realm... Cultivation stages: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Gold
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Perhaps the Heavenly Way Is a Book 天道也许是本书
Humans must not meddle with the Heavenly Way. Anyone who studies the arts of yin and yang will invite the Five Bane and Three Deficiencies. But what is the Heavenly Way? Xiao Sanzi, a student forced to learn Daoist arts, is resigned to living only until the age of twenty-three. There is no transmigration, no golden finger, and no System here. What there is are bizarre events and nights when a hundred ghosts roam the streets.
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The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain: I Sell My Temple and Become a Young Master 道士下山：卖掉道观做少爷
“I am Wang Shiye, a Taoist!” “King of the Taoists, you say? What an arrogant introduction!” His master was dead, and his sect's fortunes had run out. Wang Shiye sold the temple and took the Four-Eared Temple's ritual implements down the mountain. He may not be the King of the Taoists, but this young Taoist in his early twenties, though no good at magical duels, could tell fortunes and read the flow of qi and divine trigrams like no one else. He could even use divination like GPS. Unfortunately,
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A Tujia Daoist by the Wu River 乌江边的土家道士
A graduate of a top university, unable to pass the civil service exam after years of trying and considering his family circumstances, accepts his family’s legacy and becomes a home-based Taoist priest. This Tao is not that Tao: it’s nothing like the Taoist priests we normally imagine. There are no strict rules and taboos, nor any grand mission to save all humanity. Yet this Tao is also that Tao: he wears the same robes, communicates with the realms of yin and yang, and does what he can to help.
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The Celestial Master Police Chief 天师警长
(Daoist priest + urban suspense + unconventional + no invincibility + no dumb decisions + not a wish-fulfillment story) Ever since Celestial Master Zhang Daoling ascended to heaven in broad daylight, the Zhang family of Mount Longhu has passed down its lineage for 2,000 years, with cultivating the heart amid the mortal world as its main path of practice. A top law student and collateral descendant of the Zhang family of the Celestial Master’s Mansion, Zhang Shouyi memorized scriptures at three
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Ghost City Delivery Driver: I Strike Back and Slay a God from the Start 诡都外卖员：开局反手斩神
The uncanny has returned, ghosts roam the night, and order has collapsed. As the cultivators of Daxia suffer defeat after defeat and countless demons and vengeful spirits run rampant through the cities, one figure riding a yellow electric scooter becomes the ultimate nightmare of the underworld. Zhang Daoxuan, a max-level Celestial Master from Mount Longhu, has been rejuvenated into a child and left penniless. Forced to deliver takeout late at night for a base salary of just two thousand yuan, h
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I Draw Talismans in Midair to Slay a Hundred Ghosts: I Am a Maoshan Celestial Master 凌空画符灭百鬼，我是茅山天师
[An immensely satisfying story+lots of perks+a lecherous, roguish young Maoshan Celestial Master wipes out a hundred ghosts+multiple heroines+ghosts run rampant] I am the seventy-second generation Seal-Bearing Celestial Master of Maoshan. I command thunder, fire, water, ice, and wood talismans, and understand the mysteries of heaven and earth. After twelve years of cultivation, I can gather spiritual energy into ink with a single finger, form spells in thin air, and wipe out a hundred ghosts wit
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A Curious Record of Getting By 奇妙糊口录
[Not a wish-fulfillment story, slow-paced, slice of life, horror, urban cultivation, a harem of spirits and demons, and chuuni comedy] Skyscrapers conceal mysteries of yin and yang, while deep forests hide monsters and demons. He learned secret Daoist arts passed down through his family, but he isn't chasing the path to ascension. He just wants to live a peaceful life. Eerie screams in the middle of the night, spirits lying in wait under cover of darkness, and evil cultivators with sinister inte
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