Any Stories About Taoist Priests Traveling the Land and Exorcising Demons? Ancient or Modern Settings Are Fine! 有没有道士走南闯北降妖的，古代现代都可以！
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The World Beneath the Soil: A True Record of Tomb Raiding 土里乾坤之盗墓记实录
My name is Chen Laosan. In 1985, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind only a notebook on feng shui. I was a timid country boy from rural Hebei, forced into the world of tomb raiding. Over fifteen years, I used feng shui to track dragon veins and the Six Lines to divine fortune and misfortune, sharing life-and-death adventures with three brothers. We explored an underwater tomb in the Yellow River, a tomb guarded by wolves in the Qinling Mountains, hanging coffins in
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- 52 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆：从迁坟开始扬名 On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 3Reads—Score214d adds
- 53 The Haunted House Cleanup Crew: The Mystery of My Origins 凶宅清理师之我的身世之谜 The Haunted House Cleaner: The Mystery of My Origins 52Reads—Score—14d adds
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅
A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut
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Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记
In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!)
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- 56 The Heavenly Kingdom: The Rise of an Imperial Dynasty 天国王朝：帝朝崛起 This is the legendary life of God's agent, entrusted with shepherding His flock! From a modern transmigrator to a medieval infant, he relied on the Mount & Blade System and his own strategic brilliance to break free from constraints, defend the Holy City, establish an empire, and change the course of history for both the Crusaders and the Islamic world. (Early game: using Mount & Blade to break through; mid-game: political scheming; late game: cyberpunk space opera) 79Reads—Score10614d adds
- 57 The Soul of Tang Returns to the Righteous Cause 归义唐魂 To the west, he allied with his uncle’s Yutian Kingdom; to the east, he reclaimed eleven prefectures of Helong. He drove the Uyghurs north and secured the Tianshan Mountains; looking south toward Chang’an, he reclaimed the old frontiers. Gunpowder shattered the Tibetan ranks; iron cavalry trampled the Khitan camps. The Three Stars Banner swept across Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the Han realm’s sky was opened anew beneath the sun and moon. 1.7kReads—Score14414d adds
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After Accidentally Killing My Cheating Wife, I Turned to Cultivation 失手杀了出轨老婆后，我反手修仙
I'm Li Yahui, an ordinary person. That night, I shoved her. She hit the wall and never got back up. I thought my life was over. But then the Supreme Lord Lao said, "You have Daoist energy above your head. Come with me." So I joined the Taiqing Sect, learned the Daoist way, and cultivated divine abilities of my own creation. Later, I killed Qiongqi, slew Taotie, and fought the Great Emperor Zhenwu. The Jade Emperor came in person to mediate, sentenced him to a thousand years of wall-facing, and l
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno
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Ascension, Yet No Immortality 羽化非仙
[No System, no golden finger, no harem, not a transmigration story] [There is no sect competition, and yet it is the truest sect competition of all: the losers will see their lives, sects, traditions, and even their entire races erased.] The righteous path is not as bright and noble as it appears; The demonic path is not as cruel and bloodthirsty as it is portrayed; But evil cultivators are even more wicked than anyone could imagine. Here, there is love that spans ten thousand years, hatred that
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The Bankrupt Exorcist's Haunted House Livestream 破产天师的凶宅直播间
“Congratulations. You've inherited a mansion worth a fortune, as well as... 200,000 yuan in deadly yin debt.” The lawyer's voice was like a scalpel, cutting through all my beautiful dreams. I'm Wu Suowei, a con artist who edits photos to pass myself off as a master of the occult. I was planning to pack up and run. But when I opened the doors of Jingxin Studio and saw the strange assortment of “family members” inside... I knew there was no escape. This wasn't a haunted house. It was an ancient se
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- 62 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times with the Fuying Hall's Legacy 我带着伏英馆法脉穿越古代 Ghost hunting, exorcism, wuxia, ensemble cast, no System. The protagonist is a disciple of the Liuren Fuying Hall who has only recently started learning the arts and rarely applies himself. When his teacher takes on a mission, he transmigrates to another world in ancient times, setting off a series of events involving the supernatural, the martial world, and the rise and fall of dynasties. As the saying goes, when a nation is on the brink of collapse, demons and evil spirits are sure to emerge! 172Reads—Score13214d adds
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The Little Fool’s Demon-Hunting Chronicles 瓜娃儿捉妖记
[Mystery and Supernatural] + [Folk Customs] + [Legends] + [Strange Tales] This really is a mystery and supernatural novel about catching demons and ghosts. The author begs the officials who review the categories to show mercy and stop changing this book’s category at random. Could you please? During the Xianfeng era, Gua Wa’er is sent to learn magic from Taoist Li at the Wengong Shrine, having incurred a debt of gratitude for changing his father Niu Yuansheng’s fate. He joins the wondrous Yunmen
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Collecting Corpses, Ghosts, and Immortals 收尸，收诡，收仙人
(Supernatural horror, cultivation, ordinary protagonist, no System, no transmigration) A poor young man from a small town becomes a corpse collector to earn enough to marry. Before long, he stumbles into a strange and magnificent world of immortals and gods...
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I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士
It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess:
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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
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Folk Customs Record: Chen the Paper Effigy Maker 民俗录：纸扎陈
There's an old saying in western Hunan: “Better to walk through a mass grave at night than cross the Paper Effigy Chen family.” When Chen Ming woke up, he found himself lying in a thin-walled coffin. Paper figures all around the room were smiling at him. He was the last living member of the Paper Effigy Chen family. For three generations, his ancestors had made paper effigies for a living, but the Chen family didn't just make paper people and horses... They shaped souls. They shaped rules. They
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- 68 Strange Tales from the Jianghu Streets 市井江湖异闻录 Qin Bei was an ordinary young man from Northeast China, living a quiet, unremarkable life among the bustle of the city. Then a mysterious package arrived out of the blue, shattering his peaceful routine and dragging him into one bizarre incident after another. Beneath the glittering surface of modern life, undercurrents are stirring. The secretive martial sects passed down for millennia have never vanished, and mysterious powers unknown to the world lie hidden in the everyday rhythms of the cit 58Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Begin by Slaying Demons, Then Attain Sainthood Through the Flesh 斩妖除魔开始，肉身成圣
[Ancient setting, high martial arts and high fantasy + wish fulfillment + no romance + female lead + strong heroine] [Wuxia jianghu, suspense, the uncanny, and horror] The mountain path lay under a thin veil of mist in the early morning. The sound of suonas and a noisy crowd drifted through the fog, lively and boisterous, drawing closer and closer. A red procession slowly emerged from the mist. The four people at the front played suonas, singing and dancing. Behind them came a line of bearers ca
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A Peachwood Sword Becomes a Selfie Stick: A Daoist Comes Down the Mountain to Take Orders 桃木剑改自拍杆，道士下山忙接单
A Peachwood Sword Becomes a Selfie Stick: A Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain to Take Bookings
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- 71 Cyber Daoist Venerable: Descendant of Longhu Mountain Purges the Myanmar North Killing Fields 赛博道尊：龙虎山遗脉肃清缅北修罗场 Cyber Daoist Venerable: The Descendants of Mount Longhu Clean Up the Burmese Underworld’s Hellscape 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 The Cyber Daoist's Hidden Canon: A Taoist Recovers Stolen Treasures from the Misty Capital by Remote Control 玄网归藏：赛博道士隔空索回雾都万国赃珍 The Mysteries of the Profound Web: A Cyber Daoist Reclaims the Stolen Treasures of Wudu’s International Settlements from Afar 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 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 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 74 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—14d adds
- 75 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 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 A Farewell Letter Reveals the Deep Love Shared by Two Taoist Priests 一纸绝笔信，道尽两位道士的半生情深 A final letter reveals the deep bond shared by two Taoist priests over half a lifetime 7Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契
Jiang Si, who was there to watch the show, nearly gets crushed to death. On the brink of life and death, he is sucked into the core of the Nine Dragons Feng Shui Formation and accidentally gains a pair of all-seeing eyes... Before he can even celebrate, a drought demon sets its sights on him... Luckily, at the crucial moment, he is summoned to a bizarre world by an ancient zombie patriarch who has lived for a thousand years... After being welcomed back into the family, he hears, "What! You want
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A Max-Level Celestial Master Works as a Cleaner and Catches a Ghost on the Side 满级天师当保洁，顺手抓个鬼
My name is Su Xiaoman, and I’m a top-tier exorcist from the Mystic Order. My master said I was too mischievous. After I dismantled the sect’s protective formation, he sealed 99% of my spiritual power and kicked me down the mountain. Want to come back? First earn 100,000 merit points. With no money and no job, I had no choice but to work as a cleaner in the rich folks’ district. I’m incredibly strong, and I can mop floors fast and spotless. What else could I do? On my first day at work, I fo
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I Really Just Want to Survive: Gou Xiaoqing’s Path to Immortality 我真的只是想活命啊：苟小庆修仙
This is a “cultivation romance wrapped in comedy.” At first, you’ll laugh at Gou Xiaoqing’s cowardice. In the middle, you’ll ache for everything he loses. By the end, Yun Wuyue’s steadfast devotion will move you. This isn’t a feel-good power fantasy that makes you laugh from beginning to end. It’s a story that leaves you remembering “It’s a little salty, but I like it,” “Just right,” and “You have to be afraid to stay alive.” If you want a purely comedic cultivation novel, the first half will sa
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- 80 Between a Single Thought of Demon and Buddha 魔佛一念间 Ling Chen suffered endless humiliation within his sect, until a spirit monkey from the back mountain, the Heaven-Splitting War Venerable, saved him. The Buddhist Realm called him a demon and slaughtered his entire village. Ling Chen crossed countless deadly trials before finally understanding his true nature and the Great Dao. He asks not whether something is righteous or evil, but whether it is right or wrong. He seeks no mandate from heaven, only his own path. The road of defying convention is 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Three Kingdoms: I Hold the Registers and Suppress the Ghostly Path 三国：我，执箓镇鬼道
Gender: Male Species: Human Specialty: Uneducated and unskilled, though he occasionally recalls fragmented bits of knowledge from the future. Evaluation: C- aptitude, lazy and content with the status quo Ghost Records Name: Huang Liao, courtesy name Boju Gender: Male Species: Ghost Specialty: His body has long since been ruined by drink and lust. Prospect rating: D-. A complete failure, bottom of the barrel, with a bleak future.
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I Conquered the Immortal Realm by Trying to Die 我靠求死称霸了仙界
After she transmigrates into a book, the protagonist discovers that the only way to return to the modern world is to follow the original plot and die gloriously in Chapter Three. So her lifelong goal is no longer to defy fate, but to [die with pinpoint precision]**! But there's something wrong with this world: the harder she tries to get herself killed, the more absurd her deaths become, and the more famous she gets!
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