Recommend Me Supernatural Novels About Taoist Priests 求灵异道士文小说
Translated by GPT-6 Luna
In this list
Reader notes translated by Google Translate
21
-
1
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
4kReads—Score347Shelves
Reader note
-
2
The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师
Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha
25.8kReads8.1Score2.3kShelves
Reader note
-
3
My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年
After cultivating his character deep in the mountains, he emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. In twenty years as a spirit medium, he has overcome countless obstacles and witnessed countless events. This true account of those twenty years offers insight to readers unfamiliar with the profession and shares experience with fellow practitioners.
11.5kReads9.4Score700Shelves
-
4
My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊
A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle?
297Reads8.2Score—Shelves
-
5
A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事
As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate!
299Reads8.2Score—Shelves
-
6
The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺,生人勿近
[Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts.
4.3kReads6.5Score364Shelves
Reader note
-
7
Transmigrate into the Supernatural: I Am an Heir of the Celestial Masters' Mansion 穿越诡异,我是天师府传人
[Transmigration] + [Supernatural Horror] + [Orthodox Taoist Arts] After transmigrating to a bizarre world overrun by evil spirits, Zhang Jingxuan opens his eyes to find himself lying in a mass grave. An endless graveyard, collapsed coffins, the stench of decay in the air, and zombies shambling toward him... He panics. Then he discovers that the Taoist arts he brought with him from the Celestial Masters' Mansion on Mount Longhu are real! The Golden Light Spell shields him and slays evil, the Spir
9.8kReads6.2Score467Shelves
Reader note
-
8
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...
212Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
9
After Eighteen Years of Foolishness, I Became a Yin-Walker 痴傻十八年后我成为了走阴人
Every ancient village has a mysterious legend passed down through the generations: the Village Guardian. They bear a secret duty, using their broken bodies to ward off disasters and misfortune for the village, shouldering every calamity alone. People say they have come to the mortal world to endure hardship, and that their suffering in this life will bring blessings in the next. Yet fate treats them cruelly. Most die young, grow old alone, and endure endless mockery and cold stares. And I am one
9Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
10
A Chronicle of Debut 出道纪事
[No formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no web-novel conventions, traditional supernatural fiction, based on real events. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] I graduated from high school in 2014 and became a disciple of my master, Li Jingshan. I spent three years studying the Dao and another three learning the arts. Then I spent five years practicing them in the world, occasionally gaining new insights. I enjoy reading novels, but lament that today's books are all baseless fabricat
470Reads8.5Score100Shelves
Reader note
-
11
The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生
[Completed Novel Recommendation] Northeast folk horror and suspense! When the old rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I direct supernatural dramas, but fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a Guandong woman who understands yin-yang and feng shui. I thought I was simply carrying on my ancestors’ legacy. Who knew I’d be the key to unraveling the “Dragon-Locking Yin Formation” and
343Reads—Score101Shelves
Reader note
-
12
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
1.1kReads—Score101Shelves
Reader note
-
13
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
636Reads—Score109Shelves
-
14
Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生
Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny
97Reads—Score—Shelves
-
15
The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人
The Woman in the Cabinet
47Reads—Score—Shelves
-
16
The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开,青丝缠人拖入柜
The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside.
45Reads—Score—Shelves
-
17
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!
17Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
18
The Maoshan Taoist-Buddhist Master 茅山道释
[Maoshan] + [Supernatural] + [Urban Cultivation] + [Stunning Beauties] The mighty Heavenly Emperor is reborn, only to be driven to the brink by a predatory loan contract?! In my previous life, I was Shiti Huan Yindiluo, the Heavenly Emperor. My merits complete, I should have ascended beyond the heavens, but I was ambushed by petty villains, and my divine soul fell into the mortal world! Fortunately, the power of the Sumeru Realm protected me, and I was reborn alongside a Maoshan Celestial Maste
605Reads—Score—Shelves
-
19
Maitreya Heavenly Emperor 弥勒天帝
[Mortal cultivation + creation of the heavens and myriad worlds + fantasy + beauties galore] Citi Tianxing has already reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm, yet he resolutely gives up his position as sovereign over all worlds and ventures toward an even higher, unknown realm. He seeks to question the heavens: What is the meaning of cultivation? What is the purpose of creation? Follow him as he battles across the Myriad Worlds, comprehending the great mysteries of darkness, light, life,
170Reads6.2Score—Shelves
-
20
I Can Only Fight Monsters, and That Lets Me Cultivate? What Is This, Liaozhai? 只会打怪,就能修仙?什么聊斋!
From the start, he accidentally eats a dragon's egg, gets chased by the dragon, and stumbles into the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Kill the monsters, keep the pretty spirits! Then he discovers that killing ghosts and monsters lets him gain their abilities! Magical treasures, cultivation techniques, buried riches? Wait, can he also score treasures and techniques by taking in spirits? Any way of recruiting them works~
145Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
21
The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 阴司叫我小先生
From the day he was born, he was unlike ordinary people. He could pass freely between the worlds of the living and the dead. Whenever Hei Bai Wuchang encountered him, they would bow and step aside, respectfully addressing him as Young Master. Others said he was born with the ability to communicate with the underworld and blessed with an extraordinary fate. Only the gods of the underworld knew that behind their respect lay an unmistakable wariness. As the years passed, the events sealed away for
—Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note