Taoist Stories Where the Protagonist Can Cast Spells on the Fly and Fight Without Talismans or Props 随手掐诀，跟敌人对打不需要画符和道具的道士文
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Slay Demons, Devour Sins, Drive Out Evil in the North! 斩妖吞孽，北极驱邪！
“The Great Emperor of the North Pole, Ziwei Yuxu, commands the stars above, governs the myriad laws in the middle, and rules Fengdu below. He is the lord of all the stars in the heavens, and the Northern Pole Exorcism Office is his duly appointed authority.” “Isn’t the Exorcism Office an internal Celestial Court department that judges matters involving ghosts and gods? Why call it a military bureau?” “Do you know what a ghost is?” “Isn’t a ghost just a ghost?” “The Taishang Tiantan Yuge says: ‘A
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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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The Amazing Little Flower Farmer 神奇小花农
An ordinary high school student happens to buy a secondhand book on the Way, and from then on, his life takes a different path. A top-student protagonist, but this isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, an invincible-protagonist novel, or a rebirth novel. It portrays an authentic high school life, with intelligent characters and believable events. There are no advanced martial arts, powerful officials, or influential clans. These are things that could happen to you or me. Blending cultivation element
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The Ten Arts of the Three Pure Ones: The Celestial Venerable Descends the Mountain 三清十诀：天尊下山
Gu Feng possesses the ten strongest immortal arts in the world. He is a mortal emissary of the Nine Heavens, sent to walk among humanity. By his master's order and out of duty, Gu Feng enters the modern city… After wiping out a series of demons, ghosts, and wicked practitioners, he discovers that the mastermind behind it all is hiding on the legendary Immortal Island of Penglai! This earth-shattering conspiracy reaches far and wide. It involves the demon Taoists of Mount Mao in Yan Country, a
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Zhenwu Subdues Demons: Sixty Years of Peace 真武荡魔：甲子太平
[Invincible Protagonist] [Pure Supernatural] [No Female Lead] I was the True Warrior Emperor in heaven, but could not bear humanity's suffering. Moved by compassion, I descended to the mortal world, to vanquish evil, deliver ghosts, and bring peace to all. The Five Arts of geomancy, medicine, destiny, physiognomy, and divination can determine the fate of the world. Geomancy suppresses demons and evil; medicine saves people. Destiny can be changed, and physiognomy reveals the powerful and the nob
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Life in the Jianghu: An Electrical Engineer's Extraordinary Adventure 人在江湖：一个电力工程师的奇遇
Li Fangao, an electrical engineer, unexpectedly gains supernatural powers. In a daze and against his will, he finds himself stepping into the modern-day underworld. His powers bring him one extraordinary encounter after another, and with each new experience, his abilities continue to advance. Moving between the underworld and everyday life, he thrives in both. The underworld today has no more flashing blades or torrents of blood, but it is rife with open and covert power struggles, with deadly d
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Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好
Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It
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Among the Daoists: Crooked Talismans in My Left Hand, an Unparalleled Sword in My Right 人在道门：左手歪符，右手绝世剑
[Transmigration + multiple heroines + sword cultivator + lighthearted and passionate + decisive and ruthless + no System] Su Changan transmigrates to the Cloudfall Continent. He has no System and no invincible bloodline. All he has is a family so poor they can barely afford to eat, and a black-horned little sister, A Ning, who has to clutch his wrist every night to fall asleep. A man-made tide of demonic beasts destroys everything. His parents are killed, and A Ning is taken away by a powerf
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Proving the Dao Against the Current 逆流证道
Lin Xuan transmigrates to a world of cultivation and becomes an ordinary member of a common family. He awakens the power of a golden finger that amplifies his abilities and infuses them into his spells. A water-element technique that was once utterly unremarkable suddenly displays tremendous power. Revisiting the memories of objects, a divine ability that gives him three heads and six arms… Follow Lin Xuan as he defies the current and seeks the Dao, step by step, in this brutal world of cultivat
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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 Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士
[Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill
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- 12 A Taoist Priest Enters the World 道士入世记 [Professional Taoist + slow burn + folk customs + the supernatural + mild horror + realism + gradual development + no wish fulfillment] (The central theme of this second novel: people and their relationships.) The Taoist's Journey into the Mortal World is a continuation of The Little Taoist of Qingshan. New readers can enjoy it on its own, while returning readers will find it an even richer experience. Do you want to learn about folk spiritual mediums? Curious about spirit mediums? Want to know 470Reads8.7Score—14d adds
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Two Souls, One Body: Magic in My Left Hand, Taoist Arts in My Right 双魂一体：左手魔法右手道术
[Two Souls in One Body + Fusion of Two Systems + No System + Mysterious Magic + Profound Daoist Arts + Not Invincible + Takes Off from Chapter 50] Read at your own risk! Warning: This book contains a large number of spells and talismans. Don't try them if you don't have a mana bar, or you'll bear the consequences! Story: A bolt of lightning on a dry day sends the soul of Zhang Shangyang, a modern young Taoist, transmigrating to another world. There, he ends up sharing a body with Alec, the good-
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The Nine Apertures Prove the Way and Become a Saint 九窍证道成圣
[Big imagination + fantasy + wish fulfillment + the power of literature] [Fantasy novel; many early foreshadowing details, all building toward the explosive finale] [Poetry isn't just for showing off; it's also used to comprehend wondrous arts] [Intrigue clashes with thrilling payoffs, for the perfect blend of wits and wish fulfillment] The protagonist is replaced in the college entrance exam from the start and arrives in a world where the demon race has sealed the fortune of the literary Dao. E
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She Reincarnates into the Modern Era and Makes a Fortune Through Fortune-Telling 魂穿到现代，她靠算命风生水起
[Rise to power + mysticism + fortune-telling + feng shui + comedy + ghost-hunting] A fortune-telling girl’s soul transmigrates into the modern era, just as a crooked old Taoist abandons his prayers for her halfway through her funeral rites. Unable to stand his cutting corners, she suddenly sits up and calls him out. She manages to ruin her own funeral single-handedly, and her mother tries to send her away, thinking she’s a monster. From then on, she has to fend for herself. She returns to her ol
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The Taoist Landlord, Open the Door! 道士房东，快开门
Her boyfriend left her stranded on the highway, but a handsome Taoist priest picked her up. She never expected that, besides seeing ghosts all day, she'd also have to keep begging the priest, who was always trying to take advantage of her, to open the door and save her...
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The Supreme Dao Lord 太上大道君
A meteorite fell onto the snowy plains of the northern lands. No one knew it had brought not a child, but a fragment of the Heavenly Court's great calamity. At sixteen, the orphan Li Yuchen entered Shangqing Zhengyi Palace on Mount Longhu. Three trials, one talisman, nine orphans, and a single promise to stand as fellow disciples made them a family. Snake demons, plague gods, demon kings... One disaster after another struck. When the Jiangxia Nuclear Power Plant was on the verge of meltdown, he
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The Northern Emperor Descends to the Mortal Realm: Suppressing Evil on the Ghost Festival from the Start 北帝临凡：开局中元节镇邪
On the blood moon of the Ghost Festival, heaven and earth are sealed off, and all manner of evil awakens. The path between immortals and mortals is severed, and the human world becomes a living hell. A fragment of the Imperial Divinity descends from the Ziwei Star, taking human form. Wielding the laws of the Big Dipper and commanding thunder and deadly force, he summons and commands ghosts and gods, and confers titles upon mountains and rivers. He walks the mortal world with ease, purging the l
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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You Want This Maoshan Apprentice Immortal to Fight That Demoness? 让我茅山预备仙打这妖女？
Keywords: The only two supernatural beings in the city. The story focuses mainly on the male lead falling in love with his older sister and the two of them battling supernatural threats together. Rules-based horror is just a side dish, with short comedic skits for seasoning. There are basically no official organizations involved. The two leads are not a couple. The male lead has a love interest, while the female lead will probably stay single for life. Chen Anqiu: My name is Chen Anqiu, and I’ve
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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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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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The Rogue Heavenly Master 痞子天师
[No System] + [Not brainless] + [No harem] + [Not invincible] Beneath the surface of this world lurks a mysterious force known as the [Xuanmen]. Zhang Daoyi, a young Taoist priest from Niubei Mountain, is sent down the mountain by the Old Celestial Master to gain experience. Along the way, he meets many dependable companions, and together they encounter all kinds of bizarre events. In the end, he gradually uncovers the dark side of this world... #This will be a long story, so read with confiden
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Apocalypse Programmer: Decoding the Classic of Mountains and Seas with Code 末世程序员：用代码解析山海经
The rules changed, and civilization collapsed. Terrifying beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas and twisted mechanical creations rampaged side by side, while the laws of physics descended into chaos. Lin Feng, a genius programmer from the former “Genesis” project, accidentally became the sole Host of a mysterious [Civilization Decoder]. From the start, he was forcibly bound to a deadly mission: reach the source of the apocalypse, the “Tower of Origin,” within four hours, or be erased out
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After a Hundred Thousand Years of Qi Refining, I’m Already Invincible 炼气十万年，我已经无敌
[Ten Thousand Years at the Qi Refining Realm + Invincible]+ [Reviving His Sect in the Lower Realm]+ [Taking Disciples]+ [Defeating Every Villainous Sect]+ [Slaying Demons and Exorcising Evil]+ [Free Travel Between the Human, Immortal, and Demon Realms, as well as the Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Timespaces]+ [Protagonist's Halo]+ [An Incredibly Satisfying Power Fantasy] Zuo Xiaoyu had spent a hundred thousand years in the Immortal Realm, stuck at the Qi Refining Realm. One day, he discover
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Tales of the Supernatural: Ghost-Hunting Venerable 怪谈之捉鬼天尊
Eight severed-head mountains form a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, imprisoning Song An’s first eight incarnations. To ensure that Song An can grow up safely in his ninth life, a mysterious eminent monk comes to the mortal world. Unfortunately, this time Song An is born on the night of the Ghost Festival, and is also a child of extreme yin, with all eight characters of his birth chart belonging to yin. Even stranger, nine days and nine nights of blood rain fall before Song An’s birth. For
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Proving the Dao Through Calamity's Flames 劫火证道
A crippled disciple with shattered meridians bears the blood feud of his murdered clan. A mysterious calamity fire stirs the winds and clouds of the Nine Provinces! In a martial world where might makes right, Yan Zheng became a cripple after cultivating an incomplete Fire Art, but at the brink of death, he resonated with the ancient Heavenly Tribulation Flame. The cold and beautiful sword cultivator Su Li arrives on orders. From crossing swords to relying on each other through life and death, th
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The Bell Shakes the Mountains and Rivers 铃动山河
Hardcore worldbuilding: the Maoshan Taoist ghost-hunting tradition, the secret Shaolin art of guiding ghosts to the afterlife, Seven Star fate-reading, the Wu people’s shamanic medicine, and their logical integration with modern technology. Urban setting, supernatural mysteries, ghost hunting, schemes, corpse retrievers, corpse-carrying teams, corpse drivers, zombies, curses, and Southeast Asian horror stories. *Modern military life × ancient metaphysics*: Secret lineages and supernatural crises
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Urban Ghost-Hunting Livestream: I Slay a Ghost and Become Famous Online from the Start 都市直播捉鬼：开局斩鬼全网封神
Under the gaze of countless people, he slays every demon and fiend. With chaos engulfing the world, he alone stands guard over humanity! In an age crawling with sinister spirits and where yin and yang have fallen into disorder, the protagonist shoulders the burden of saving the world with nothing but his courage! Ghost weddings, snakes coiled around graves, paper effigy makers, corpses weeping bloody tears, red robes claiming lives, rotting corpses devouring hearts, poisonous insects paying homa
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