The Heavens Stretch Far and Wide; May the Dao Flourish Evermore. Fellow Daoists, I'm Out of Books. Please Recommend Taoist Stories 诸天浩荡荡，我道日兴隆。道友们，书荒了求道士文

1. 601 考 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 Explosive Fire Roast爆炸火烧Mystery132k WordsOngoing [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. 39Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This is beautiful! The male protagonist is a Taoist priest and the female protagonist is a psychic!

2. 602 恐 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted 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 655Reads—Score109Shelves
3. 603 高 After the College Entrance Exams, I Became the Internet's Strongest Taoist 高考后，我成了全网最强道士 A Burden on Life生活累赘Urban316k WordsCompleted After graduating from high school, a young man unexpectedly inherits the teachings of the Dao at Mount Longhu. In this age of declining magic, spiritual energy is scarce and cultivation is difficult. But he discovers that livestreaming to help people solve their problems earns him merit, and so he sets out on the path to becoming the most powerful Daoist on the entire internet. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   How about this?

4. 604 大 A College Freshman at 749, but My System Is in the Cultivation Realm 大一人在749，系统却在修仙界 Stars Hang Over the Dreaming Wilderness星垂梦野Urban998k WordsCompleted [Ruthless and Decisive + Cheat Ability + Dimensional Overkill + Misaligned System] I, Xu Hao, have a Cognitive Impairment System. To scrape together a living in this chaotic world overrun by demons and monsters, I joined the mysterious Bureau 749, thinking that a secure government job would keep me safe. From then on, I was “passively” swept onto the path of an overworked workaholic. I kept my head down and worked like mad, taking on mission after mission just to get stronger. I cleared out a h 715Reads6.5Score110Shelves
5. 605 大 Senior-Year Internship: How Did You Join the Dragon-Slaying Squad? 大四实习：你怎么加入了斩龙队 Grey Wolf, Charge!灰太狼冲Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [No Female Lead]+ [Monster Codex Unlocks]+ [Kill, Never Save]+ [Overwhelming Domination]+ [Pure Satisfaction]+ [Evil Spirits]… Su Ming transmigrates and inherits a paper effigy shop, binding himself to the [Monster Codex]. Every kill unlocks an entry and grants him an incredible skill on the spot. His innate Yin-Yang Eyes see through illusions, his Yin-Yang Treasure Vase devours all things, and his Seven-Orifices Exquisite Heart is immune to every evil. Sealing? Not a chance. My, Su Ming's, 8.9kReads8.0Score817Shelves
6. 606 大 First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 604.6kReads9.5Score54.8kShelves
7. 607 7 749: Demon Slaying, I Have a Containment Facility 749斩妖：我有一座收容所 Milky Ice Cream奶香味冰淇淋Urban182k WordsOngoing [Advanced Martial Arts, 749, Containment, Sequences, Wish-Fulfillment, Monsters and Demons, Decisive and Ruthless] When Su Mu started university, he thought he'd keep slacking off and maybe spice up his life with a little romance, thanks to his devastating good looks. Who knew he'd get caught up in a mysterious incident right on his first day? Everyone else was terrified, but Su Mu's eyes shone with excitement. He had transmigrated to this world many years ago, but his golden finger had never sh 1Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 608 就 I Just Went for an Internship, So How Did I Become the Shadow Lord? 就去实个习，怎么就成了暗影君王 Scholar White Whale白鲸居士Urban320k WordsOngoing [Superpowers + High Martial Arts + Wish Fulfillment + Sequences + Growth + Passionate Action + Not Fanfiction] (The rating just came in. It’ll go up later~) When another world invades and demons run rampant, Xu Yang unexpectedly awakens the only Sequence, [Shadow Monarch]. From then on, every demon he kills grants him awakening progress. When the mysterious national agency, Bureau 749, invites him to join, Xu Yang scans the contract’s benefits: “nine types of social insurance and two funds + 18Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 609 华 The Huagai Fate: My Taoist Past 华盖命：我的道门往事 There Are Immortals in This World世上有神仙Mystery217k WordsCompleted Weak and sickly from childhood, fated to bear the Huagai star, and born in a mountain village steeped in yin energy. Bamboo ghosts from mass graves, shadow cats peering in at midnight, corpses that transform when their coffins are opened: his childhood was shrouded in countless evil spirits. Fortunately, he met Master Ye, a reclusive Daoist expert, inherited the Three Purities lineage, and received the Thunder Commander's seal. He cultivated essence into qi and learned talismans to drive away ev 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This book is different from ordinary supernatural novels. The horror elements in it are all grown from real folklore and taboos. For example, the stories of bamboo ghosts told by old people when they were young, the unrotted corpses found in rural graves, and the inability to open the door after hearing cats fighting in the middle of the night - many people have heard these things when they were young. The novel describes these things very realistically, and reading them will remind people of the things they were afraid of when they were children. The book also incorporates a lot of practical Taoist and traditional Chinese medicine knowledge, such as the ratio of cinnabar to realgar in drawing talismans, the use of raw rice and roosters to guide the way when summoning spirits, and how to read the horoscopes that separate faces - these are not made up, they are real things. If you like down-to-earth horror stories, this is the book for you. "

10. 610 道 Strange Tales of the Dao: Record of the True Mysteries of Xuanyuan 道诡奇谭：玄元真解录 Starry Night Youyou星夜呦呦Mystery439k WordsOngoing In 2026, on the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Fire Horse, Chen Xuan, a PhD in folklore, discovers a late Qing-era journal among his grandfather's belongings. It records the “Great Calamity of the Fire Horse Year.” At the same time, inexplicable “year-end anomalies” begin appearing across the country: incense smoke flowing backward on New Year's Eve, blood-red lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and villages that collectively “vanish” during phone livestreams... Chen Xuan is dra —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's really brain-burning, so exciting. I was completely immersed in the story after reading the first chapter.

11. 611 拜 Apprenticed to Uncle Ninth, I Carry a Dream Supermarket Wherever I Go 拜师九叔，随身携带梦幻超市 The Stone in My Memory记忆中的石头Mystery603k WordsCompleted Lin Fan transmigrates into Uncle Jiu's world and becomes his eldest disciple. After ten years of self-cultivation, he awakens the Fantasy Supermarket System during an exorcism. Coke, Sprite, Huazi cigarettes... all kinds of products have the power to drive out evil. Have you ever seen Uncle Jiu drinking Coke? Have you ever seen Uncle Jiu with a cigarette between his lips, striking down zombies with style? It's all here at the Fantasy Supermarket! Uncle Jiu: Xiao Fan, give me a Huazi. That 225Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Jiu Shu World Initial + System

12. 612 剑 Sword Bones Temper the Heavens 剑骨炼天 God2Tomb神2墓Eastern Fantasy734k WordsCompleted Lin Che was a good-for-nothing, but thanks to a Profound Iron Sword Talisman, he gained the ability to cultivate. Through a series of twists of fate, he advanced step by step, uncovered the mystery of his origins, and ultimately became the strongest in his world. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A potentially good book, well written.

13. 613 都 The Daoist Heart of the City: From Mortal to Cosmic 都市道心：从凡俗到寰宇 God2Tomb神2墓Urban241k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the body of an ordinary high school student in Jiangcheng, Xiao Feng awakens the [Dao Heart System], only to discover that his seemingly ordinary parents are extraordinary guardians who have retired from the world, while his adorably absent-minded younger sister is the reincarnation of the Violet Firmament Female Emperor. Martial arts lie hidden in the bustle of everyday life, and gods and demons lurk beneath the neon lights. From choosing to stand up for justice agains 1Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 614 从 Cultivating Immortality as an Outer-Door Servant 从外门杂役开始修仙 Baby Sea Whale海鲸宝宝Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Mortal's Journey + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead + Not Invincible + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless] A young man from the modern world accidentally transmigrated and stumbled into the path of immortality, struggling onward in his quest to become an immortal. The road to immortality was harder than ascending to heaven. Faced with countless dangers, his resolve to seek the Dao remained as solid as stone. Fang Qing transmigrated here and started ou 2.3kReads6.2Score104Shelves

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    (With a word count of more than one million, you can be slaughtered if you are fat!) Qi-building foundation elixir Yuanying. It's a mortal, there is no heroine, she has grown up step by step from a low-level handyman, the protagonist is decisive in killing, the villain's IQ is online, the plot is compact and the pace is fast, there are no peeing spots throughout the whole process, it is highly readable, it is worth buying!

15. 615 天 The World's Greatest Book of Wonders: The Complete Wisdom Bag (A Plain-Language Translation) 天下第一奇书：智囊大全集(白话译本) Feng Menglong冯梦龙Historical486k WordsCompleted The Greatest Book of Wisdom: The Complete Collection of the Wisdom Bag (in Modern Chinese) is an extraordinary work covering everything from strategies for governing a country and maintaining peace, military tactics and sound judgment in lawsuits, to clever ways of managing a household and finances, practical advice for navigating life, and the wit to turn misfortune into good fortune. It even includes the schemes of favored eunuchs and treacherous ministers, as well as the cunning tricks used t 499Reads9.2Score167Shelves

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    In order to prevent our Taoist priest from dying, I added something to protect myself. Is that okay?

16. 616 轮 Reincarnation Paradise: From the Start, My Lightning Arts Max Out My Tankiness 轮回乐园：开局雷法坦度拉满 Don't Call Me Daoist Li别叫我李道长Mystery836k WordsCompleted [A Derivative World of the Reincarnation Paradise + Maoshan Thunder Arts Cultivation + Myriad Heavens + Mystery Solving + Maxed-Out Talent from the Start + Takes Off After Chapter 50] Li Tiansheng, heir to the Maoshan Thunder Arts, is dragged into an endless cycle of reincarnation. While others struggle to survive in reincarnation worlds, he puts his expertise to work. One lightning talisman is all it takes to make every evil spirit across the Myriad Worlds kneel and call him Dad. I’m no good at 20Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Maoshan Taoist priest who travels across the heavens and specializes in thunder method

17. 617 鸿 The Erudite Seeks the Dao 鸿儒求道 Jian Yu Ru Wu见宇如唔Eastern Fantasy583k WordsOngoing [The Way of Letters] [Soul transmigration] [No System] [Traditional cultivation progression] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [Confucian cultivation] The myriad paths of the heavens! I, Li Shi'an, will shoulder both the Confucian and Daoist ways. The ghosts and gods fill the skies! Why should I, a humble scholar, fear them? Li Shi'an, a fourth-year Chinese language student, has his soul transmigrate to another world, the Tianyuan Continent, after an accident. In this world, Confucianism, Daoism, B 52Reads—Score—Shelves

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    🔥The heavens are mighty, and my Taoist sun is prosperous [Attention][Attention] 🔥① Travel to a Taoist priest, start a Taoist temple, and get the live broadcast system. Stop pretending, Taoist priest, you are just cultivating immortality [shocked][shocked]

18. 618 茅 Maoshan Edict for Slaying Evil 茅山斩邪令 This Taoist Priest Doesn't Panic道爷不慌Mystery644k WordsCompleted Chen Xuan, the nineteenth-generation successor of Maoshan, descends from the mountain at eighteen to enter the mortal world. With a single talisman, he subdues a hundred ghosts; with a wooden sword, he cuts down every evil spirit! In a mountain village, a hanging ghost comes to claim lives. In an ancient town, a water ghost drags people under. A deserted village hides the secrets of a lantern made from human skin... Other people go weak in the knees when they see a ghost. Chen Xuan draws his s 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I wrote this book myself. Brothers, you can read it and support it. If you have any questions or requests, you can feel free to ask. The new author is here to take advice. No system, no immortality, and the protagonist is very strong!

19. 619 世 A Complete Guide to the World's Classic Battles 世界经典战役全知道 Zhang Huiyan张卉妍Historical244k WordsCompleted This book covers classic battles from the 15th century BC to the modern era, explaining the course of each battle in detail. It focuses on the armies’ deployments, the tactics they used, and the successes and failures of their strategies, before analyzing and summarizing each battle’s impact. The book recreates the trials by fire experienced by different eras, countries, and regions over more than 3,500 years. 132Reads9.2Score—Shelves
20. 620 现 Modern Military 现代军事 Lin Zhi Man林之满Historical51k WordsCompleted Chinese Military Encyclopedia is a sweeping work that brings the history of China’s military to life. Drawing on the findings of domestic historical research, it brings together a wealth of military texts and images preserved throughout China’s long history, offering a vivid account of the development of Chinese military history and introducing its fundamentals from a variety of perspectives. Its coverage spans every field of China’s military affairs. 26Reads8.9Score—Shelves
21. 621 周 Duke Zhou's Dream Interpretation 周公解梦 Sick of the Pen, River厌笔川Mystery353k WordsCompleted Everyone dreams, but few people know what their dreams truly mean. Even fewer understand that dreams are actually omens, warning us whether the things about to happen in our lives will bring good fortune or disaster! Just as cats and dogs behave strangely before an earthquake, and ants tirelessly move house in the days before a flood, our dreams guide us whenever a major change is about to take place in our lives… 24.2kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves

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    May I ask other Taoist friends where they learned from?

22. 622 直 Livestream: This Taoist Priest Is Very Scientific 直播：这个道士很科学 Teasing Someone逗某人Urban1.0M WordsOngoing [Urban livestreaming, farming, comedy, satisfying read] Lin Yunhe, a top student, inherited the Taoist temple his master left behind and became a Taoist priest. He thought life would be uneventful, but then he awakened a preaching System. He could enter a lottery by earning preaching points. He drew [Beast Taming at Max Level] and recruited a white tiger to guard his home. He drew [Lightness Skill at Max Level], and his sword rang out with astonishing sword energy. He drew [Complete Plant Compen 337Reads8.5Score—Shelves
23. 623 女 The Taoist Priestess Comes Down the Mountain: Don’t Stop Me from Drawing My Sword 女道士下山，别耽误贫道拔剑 I Am Not Zhou吾不周Modern Romance457k WordsCompleted [Female Taoist + College Student + Real and Fake Heiresses + Metaphysics + Apocalypse] Shen Yuetao was drained of her fortune and exploited to death by her wealthy relatives. Now she’s reborn at eighteen. She won’t give up her chance to attend a top university for the fake heiress again. And she won’t walk into another trap set by her “family.” So what if her wealthy parents favor the fake heiress? So what if her wealthy fiancé only loves the fake heiress? In the eyes of this humble Taoist, worl 378Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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    🌺The male protagonist is an undergraduate who graduated from a Taoist college. It is said that as long as he upholds the righteous path and accumulates merit, he can ascend to immortality. For this reason, the male protagonist begins his journey to become a public servant.

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