Are There Really So Few Chinese Taoist Priests Left? 我华夏道士难道已经十不存一了吗？
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- 1 Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友，你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊？ Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity! 81.3kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves
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Reverend, Stop Pretending. I Know You Can Use Immortal Arts 道长别装了，我知道你会仙术
At Zhongnan Mountain, people knew only that it was home to the Quanzhen Sect. Few knew that at its foot stood a dilapidated Taoist temple. That day, the people of Gujing Temple burst onto the scene. From then on, their name would resound throughout the land!
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The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: My Love in the Mortal World 小道士下山之我的红尘情缘
[Fortune-telling + urban life + multiple heroines + martial arts] The day Zhang Qingfeng was born, his maternal grandfather took him away and abandoned him. His master later brought him back to a Taoist temple, where he learned martial arts and a little fortune-telling and character analysis. At seventeen, his master sent him down the mountain to resolve his own entanglements in the mortal world.
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- 4 The Zhao Family’s Sixth- and Thirty-Sixth-Generation Descendants 老赵家的六世孙和三十六世孙 Zhao Yang is the thirty-sixth-generation descendant of Zhao Kuangyin. He transmigrates unexpectedly to the Jingkang era of the Northern Song Dynasty, where he turns out to look exactly like Zhao Yang, a sixth-generation descendant of Zhao Kuangyin. For the sake of his people and his family's fate, he resolutely takes on the responsibility of saving the world. 147Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 5 A Celestial Master Takes a Job at the Crematorium, Who Would Dare Fake Their Own Death? 天师入职火葬场，这谁敢诈尸啊？ Zhang Jiusheng is reborn in a parallel world as the only direct disciple of the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain. He thought he had it made and could live off incense offerings until he died. Who could have guessed that Taoism in this world had fallen into decline over the centuries? Now it's so poor, it can't even afford a bowl of pork trotter rice! He'll have to take on some side jobs! Just then, a group of government officials showed up at the mountain. The National Crematorium is hiring! 1.4kReads7.4Score247Shelves
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Zombies Descend Across the World, and You Say the Taoist Class Is Useless? 全球僵尸降临，你说道士序列没用
Purple-hair zombies, white-hair zombies, black-hair zombies, green-hair zombies, fur-covered zombies, flying zombies, wandering zombies, lurking zombies, unrotting-bone zombies, and drought demons… This is a world overrun by zombies across the globe! Xu Yi arrives in this world and awakens the Taoist path. But people accuse him of being inferior to those on the fire-element path. Xu Yi scratches his head and looks at his Dragon-Tiger Evil-Slaying Talismans, Golden Light Incantation, corpse-dr
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- 7 What If the Campus Belle Turns Into a Zombie? No Worries, I'm the Perfect Person for the Job 校花尸变咋办？不怕！我专业对口 [Supernatural + horror + urban legends + ghost stories + invincible protagonist + one heroine] What should you do if your school-beauty deskmate turns into a corpse during class? She’s probably faking it. Just give her a kiss. Huh? She’s not faking it??? Lu Jiuyang was utterly baffled. One moment, he was the last Celestial Master of Maoshan, battling a tide of countless ghosts and sealing the demons with his own body. The next, he had been reborn as an ordinary high school freshman. This 190.3kReads8.4Score26.9kShelves
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The Patriarch Praises Me as a Fine Immortal Seedling 祖师夸我好仙苗
Beyond the Thirty-Six Heavens, above the Nine Skies, dwell the immortals. Immortals were once ordinary people too. The only thing that holds ordinary people back is a lack of resolve. My name is Shen Xing. My life has been full of hardship since childhood. I was destined to have no parents, no wife or children, no official position, and no wealth. I was born to be pitied. People said someone like me might end up a beggar one day. But my master said my fate was one in ten thousand. Even if I beca
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Don’t Mess With Him, This Taoist Is a Little Wild 别惹他，这个道士有点野
Daoist arts + feng shui + folk customs + witchcraft + folk secrets + corpse walking + suspense + the supernatural Have you ever seen a person with no shadow? A corpse that can walk? A living person covered in corpse spots? Paper that cannot be burned? An ancient zither that plays by itself? Someone stepping out of a portrait...? Tang Yao has seen them all, and has spent his entire life dealing with such things. “Conceived in the yin year, month, day, and hour, and born in the yin year, month, da
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- 10 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 11 The Supreme Daoist: Endless Slaughter 道门太上：无尽杀戮 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The arts of the Daoist sect shall be supreme! All the great paths under Heaven come from the Supreme One. The Supreme One has but one lineage: the Li family! (No female lead, no harem, no System, and not a story where the protagonist is completely invincible.) 8.7kReads9.3Score610Shelves
- 12 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
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Li Chengdao 李承道
Special forces soldier Li Chengdao unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange valley. He transforms the valley and makes his way out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he builds his own Heavenly Dao Group in the world of immortal cultivation. He establishes the Li Family Medical Hall and heals the sick. He makes his fortune with spiritual-root wine, branches into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes a free Heavenly Dao Academy and cultivates a great
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- 14 Transmigrated into a Cultivation MMORPG World 穿越到修仙网游世界 Lin Yue, an ordinary office drone, struggled his way through the cultivation online game The Realm of Xuanyuan and finally reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. After staying up all night to clear a secret realm, his vision suddenly went black, and he collapsed... When Lin Yue woke up, he had transmigrated into the game The Realm of Xuanyuan. 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Pure Yang Sacred Body, Supreme of the Divine Realm, Immortal for Eternity 纯阳圣体，神界至尊，万古不朽 Pure Yang Sacred Body, Supreme Ruler of the Divine Realm, Immortal Through the Ages 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Only Wanted to Claim a Mountain and Be King, but Ended Up on the Throne 只想占山为个王，最后登基称帝了 All I wanted was to claim a mountain and be its king. In the end, I became emperor. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Lin Wanwan’s Livestream for Easing Your Worries 林晚晚的解忧直播间 Lin Wanwan’s Live-Stream Advice Clinic 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 After Being Diagnosed with Lung Cancer, I Went to Zhongnan Mountain to Cultivate Immortality 确诊肺癌后，我上终南山修仙 After being diagnosed with lung cancer, I went to Mount Zhongnan to cultivate immortality. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Whales Fall with the Tide, Wind Rests on the Shore 鲸落于潮，风栖于岸 A whale falls with the tide, the wind comes to rest on the shore 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Thousand-Year Fox Demon: Devouring Souls and Stealing Bodies 千年狐妖，噬魂夺身 A thousand-year-old fox spirit devours souls and steals bodies 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Taiyin Sacred Body: Frost Moon Over the Nine Heavens 太阴圣体：霜月临九天 Taiyin Sacred Body: Frost Moon Descends Upon the Nine Heavens 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Stranded on a Deserted Island, I Gave Birth to Twins 被困荒岛，生了双胞胎 Stranded on a Deserted Island, I Had Twins 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 I Transmigrated Into a County Magistrate, and From the Start Everything Was a Mess 穿越成县令，开局烂摊子 Transmigrated as a County Magistrate, With a Mess from the Start 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Tales of the Norgay Grasslands 诺尔盖草原上的故事 Stories from the Norgay Grasslands 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Became a Sword Immortal Through Complaining 我靠吐槽成剑仙 I Became a Sword Immortal by Ranting 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Her Words Become Law: The Stunning Empress of Heavenly Divination 言出法随，绝色天卦皇后 Whatever She Says Comes True: The Stunning Empress of Heavenly Divination 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Beijing Beauty: The Warmth of the Hutongs 北京靓姐：胡同里的热乎劲儿 A Stylish Beijing Girl: The Warmth of the Hutongs 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 On the Imperial Throne, the Overworked Employee Reigns Supreme 御座之上，社畜为王 On the Throne, the Overworked Wage Slave Rules —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Livestream: I'm Really Not a Taoist Master 直播：我真不是道门大佬
Qin Hao was a Daoist priest in his previous life. After transmigrating, he discovered that he was a Daoist priest in this life too. From the start, he had a dilapidated temple, and had to rely on the mountains for everything! This was a parallel world where the Daoist faith had become little more than a legend and had nearly disappeared. But Qin Hao unexpectedly obtained the Daoist Venerable System, giving him the chance to revive the Daoist faith and restore its former glory! “Ding! Congratulat
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I'm a Taoist Priest. What's Wrong with Knowing a Few Spells? 我一个道士，会点法术怎么了
Anti-cultural export + cultivation + livestreaming + Daoist priest + System + spreading the Dao in America + no couples + no female lead + no spiritual qi revival + scheming protagonist Also known as: Spreading the Dao in America, Shocking the Eagles Every Day Chen Xian, Daoist name Xuanyun, is known in the martial world as the well-mannered young Daoist, the Cultivator's Version of Homelander, and the Enlightened Master Who Follows His Every Whim. His motto: “This Daoist does whatever he wants!
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The Day I Was Born, a Hundred Ghosts Fled and a Soul Reaper Came Calling 我出生当天，百鬼退避，阴差上门
My mother was crazy, but after I was born, she miraculously got better. Before my birth, Granny Liu in the village had divined that I was born under the Ziwei Star, destined to be blessed with benefactors and an exalted fate beyond words. But after I was born, a blood moon hung in the sky and black clouds blanketed the heavens. Only then did Granny Liu realize... [Taboos of Yin and Yang, Folk Horror] King Yama seals the coffin, and no one can rise again for a hundred years. The Poor Ghost crouch
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- 32 Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥，你是警察啊，不是道士！ [If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T 71.6kReads9.2Score7.4kShelves
- 33 Running Man: Who Invited Him? He’s a Taoist Priest! 跑男：谁请他来的？他可是道士啊 Also known as Run, Brother: We Asked You to Be a Guest, Not to Perform Magic! Daoist Lin Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an outdoor guest on Run, Brother. To his surprise, he unlocks a god-tier Choice System! Inside a pitch-black maze. Choose [Use a tracking spell to locate the celebrities. Reward: +10 years of lifespan!] Choose [Use light-footed kung fu to snatch name tags. Reward: Unlimited stamina!] Choose [Use fortune-telling to solve the riddles. Reward: God-tier luck ski 138Reads6.1Score113Shelves
- 34 Part-Time Celestial Master: The Nation Calls on Me to Hunt Evil Spirits 兼职天师，国家请我出山抓诡 "I had only just transmigrated, and before I could learn much of the Daoist arts, the old Taoist priest had already gone to heaven on a crane." "I'd barely learned the basics before they dragged me down the mountain to hunt ghosts for the state!" "And every ghost I catch turns out to be a female ghost. What's going on?" The mortal world is a mess of temptations, disrupting this poor Daoist's quiet cultivation! 1.5kReads—Score100Shelves
- 35 A Purple-Robed Taoist Streams Live to Revive Taoism in China 紫袍道长直播，振兴华夏道门 [Urban + livestream + Taoist priest + immortal cultivation + Chinese civilization] The martial arts realm of the Dragon Kingdom has been revealed, sparking a heated debate across the internet! Ye Yu, who practices at Mount Longhu, is the master of Hongmeng Temple and the youngest purple-robed Taoist priest in history. After activating the live-streaming Taoist instruction System, he can promote Chinese civilization and pass on Taoist culture through livestreams, earning Instruction Points that c 1.4kReads5.5Score131Shelves
- 36 A Cultivator in Modern Society 现代社会的修仙道士 “Taoist priest, can you do magic?” “Magic? People believe in science these days, young man. You should believe in science.” With that, the Taoist in his robe leaps off a cliff and flies away on his sword, leaving the hiker who had camped in the wilderness staring in stunned disbelief. 14.5kReads8.5Score612Shelves
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Supreme Ghost and Fiend Tamer 太上御鬼煞
When heaven and earth first emerged, chaos was divided; demons and monsters each claimed dominion. If anyone masters my Supreme Way, all ghosts and gods in the human realm will bow to them. [No female lead] [Semi-invincible protagonist] [A spectacular start from the very beginning] [Parallel-world supernatural fantasy] [Ensemble cast] The Supreme Taoist Li Changsheng series! Li Changsheng, the younger brother of the Dao Ancestor Laozi, also known as Li Er, makes a solemn vow:
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I'm the Daoist World's Peak, So Being a Little Stronger Is Only Natural 我道门天花板，强亿点很合理啊
[Urban fantasy + Taoist arts + Chinese-style horror + no female lead + invincible powerhouse] A child cries on a rainy night, and he attains the Dao during the Southern Song dynasty. For eight hundred years, he alone has guarded the mortal realm. No ghosts or monsters dare take him lightly. Yu Wuye attained the Dao during the Southern Song dynasty. On Zhenyang Mountain stands Zhenyang Hall, and beneath it lies Zhenyang Pass. Zhenyang Pass is where the underworld and the mortal realm meet.
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Live Long Enough, and No One Can Beat Me 只要活的够久，就没人是我对手
[System]+ [Transmigration]+ [Playing It Safe] Xu Fan transmigrates to a fantasy world and obtains an Immortality System. The System’s only function is to extend his lifespan. Today’s run: lifespan +2 days Today’s boxing practice: lifespan +3 days Today’s kicking practice: lifespan +5 days “A gentleman’s revenge can wait five hundred years.” After Xu Fan waited five hundred years and finally found his enemy again, the only thing he could do was dance on his enemy’s grave. Question: What
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At the Taoist Temple: I Got Livestreamed Teaching Animals the Way 道观：给动物讲道的我被直播了
Three years ago, just after graduating from college, Cheng Fan was dragged home by his parents to inherit the family’s dilapidated Taoist temple. The moment he inherited the temple, he activated the strongest Taoist System. Over the next three years, Cheng Fan steadily built up the temple’s business. Alongside a toddler he had picked up two years earlier, he spent each day doing his regular lessons and cultivating. Then one day, a livestreamer showed up. After broadcasting Cheng Fan summoning cl
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I Asked You to Pose as a Taoist Priest, So Why Are You Wearing a Celestial Master's Robe? 让你假扮道士，你怎么披上天师服
[Hardcore] [Popular Science] [Urban] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Ye Guan cosplayed a mad Daoist priest at an anime convention. His costume was so convincing that people mistook him for a real Daoist and invited him to their company to perform a ritual. Just then, he awakened the True or Fake Celestial Master System. The company wanted a lucky start to business? He invited the Three Gods of Wealth right through the door. But when a video of the ritual was posted online, netizens lau
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A Century in a Dream, and I Became a Daoist Celestial Master 一梦百年，我成为了道家天师
[Fortune-Telling + Medicine + Traditional Martial Arts + Invincible + One Heroine + Humor + No Cultivation + Not High-Martial] Chen Haoyu was hit by a car while saving a girl and ended up in the hospital. After lying unconscious for a hundred days, he received the legacy of the Carefree Taoist from a thousand years ago in a dream and became a Taoist Celestial Master of his generation. “How can your medical skills be so incredible?” “Sorry, I used the Zhu You healing arts!” “You can tell fortunes
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- 43 Chen Buqi, the Little Taoist 小道士陈不欺 Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Buqi. My professions include Taoist priest, locksmith, cook, phone repairman, driver, and tomb-raiding consultant…. I have too many to list them all. I was raised by my master and martial uncle! They were both incredible! I only learned that after coming back from my first year out in the world. Because I liked to play around, I also squandered a lot of techniques that people would have envied! Fortunately, I devoted myself to physiognomy and mastered two special 151kReads9.1Score13.3kShelves
- 44 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
- 45 Maoshan Demon Catcher 茅山捉妖人 (Supernatural + Urban + Maoshan Taoist Arts + No Self-Sacrificing Saint + No Female Lead) Sanqing disciple Xu Tianyang ventures across the world alone! With the supreme secret arts of Maoshan in one hand, he sweeps across the mortal realm! Slaying ghosts, battling sorcerers, trampling evil gods, and destroying Corpse Kings! Maoshan Taoist arts shake the four corners of the world! Supreme secret arts, unmatched beneath the heavens! 3.9kReads8.7Score223Shelves
- 46 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.8kReads9.2Score975Shelves
- 47 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 48 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain 天师下山 Back in my day, I had mastered my own school of celestial arts. One punch made the high-ranking martial artists at the nursing home north of the village tremble. One kick sent the young prodigies at the kindergarten south of the village bawling. And when I stood at the mass grave east of the village, not one of those hundreds of Ghost Kings or Ghost Emperors dared even breathe. 13.7kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
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The Taoist Temple Goes Bankrupt! The Little Taoist Heads Down the Mountain to Seek His Childhood Friend 道观破产！小道士下山投奔竹马
[This story is entirely fictional. The setting is imaginary, so please don’t take it seriously!] Master said Jian Xi was born to make a living from the occult! Of the Five Afflictions and Three Deprivations, Jian Xi had two! Of widowhood, spinsterhood, orphanhood, and disability, she had orphanhood! That’s right, she was an orphan, taken in as a child! Of the Three Deprivations, she had poverty! That’s right, she could never save money, and she wasn’t allowed to have any! Sure enough, Master tra
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Who Told You to Ask Him for a Fortune? He's Morally Deficient in Every Way! 谁让你找他算命的，他五行缺德！
Chen Changsheng transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes a barefoot Taoist who sets up a stall to tell fortunes. Once he accumulates enough merit points, he can return to his original world and attain the Dao on the spot. To earn more merit points, Chen Changsheng decides to start livestreaming and build an audience. He thinks he can rack up a fortune in merit points by reading people's fortunes and interpreting their lots. But gradually, the atmosphere in Chen Changsheng's livestream
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