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- 51 Eerie Revival: I Can Avoid the Side Effects 诡异复苏：我能豁免副作用 Note: The motion comic adaptation of the same name is now available!!! [Heh heh heh, this System has met its performance targets. From here on, you're on your own, Host. Bye-bye!] Su Che had just transmigrated into a high school student's body when the System's AI core ran off. To make matters worse, everyone on campus went berserk after being infested by strange creatures. Relying on the immunity trait the System left behind, Su Che embarks on a journey to grow stronger in this world of the 8.2kReads7.1Score1.3kShelves
- 52 The Last Taoist Priest 最后一个道士 Heaven, earth, humanity, gods, and ghosts: all five realms have their own masters. The Heavenly Master observes the sea of clouds, commands the sun and moon, and shifts the stars and constellations. The Earth Master reads the terrain, studies the rivers, and searches the mountains for their veins. The Human Master reads faces, divines good and ill fortune, and predicts people's fates. The Divine Master invites the Eight Immortals, calls upon the power of Heaven, and subdues demons and monsters. 237Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 53 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.5kReads9.1Score139Shelves
- 54 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.2kReads9.0Score101Shelves
- 55 I, a Little Taoist Priest, Am Already Invincible 我，小道士，已经无敌天下了 A young Taoist in the Golden Core stage descends the mountain to gain experience. Broke and penniless, he arrives in the city and deliberately gets hit by a car driven by a beautiful police officer who is on duty. From then on, the two are bound together by an unbreakable bond. The young Taoist is determined to be a good citizen. He repeatedly helps the police solve cases, catches criminals, subdues female ghosts, cracks strange cases, and slays demons... Meanwhile, his extraordinary medical ski 7.5kReads8.8Score742Shelves
- 56 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score341Shelves
- 57 The Maoshan Occultist 茅山诡术师 My name is Fang Gang. I was stolen the moment I was born. From then on, my life unfolded into an epic tale, as turbulent as it was mysterious. 397Reads8.6Score106Shelves
- 58 Robes of the Dao, and All Evil Flees! 我，道袍加身，诸邪退避！ Ye Bugui, who works in the funeral business, unexpectedly gains a mysterious System. From then on, he rules both the human and supernatural worlds. … “Impertinent! What little demon are you, daring to wreak havoc in the human world?” Ye Bugui pulls out his peachwood sword and charges straight in! “What? You want to work for me?” Ye Bugui looks at the thousand-year-old female ghost before him and calmly says, “Start by washing the dishes!” “A ten-thousand-year-old Ghost King?” Ye Bugui sneers an 931Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 59 Folk Tales of the Mountain Wilds 民间山野怪谈 A lifetime spent roaming the martial world, telling tales of ghosts and strange happenings from the countryside. Stories of spirits and monsters in the wilderness have always been a staple of people's conversations over tea, and folk tales about mountain ghosts and gods come in every variety. There is a kind of extraordinary man who can help people choose burial sites and homes, divine life and death, reveal the secrets of fate, dispel evil spirits, travel to the underworld, save lives, and ward 1.1kReads8.9Score151Shelves
- 60 Livestream: This Taoist Priest Is Very Scientific 直播：这个道士很科学 [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 312Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 61 The Patriarch of Taoism 道家祖师 As the old saying goes, one person shouldn’t enter a temple, and two people shouldn’t peer into a well. One rainy night, I went into a ruined temple all by myself. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Daoist Cui Hunts Demons: A Night Raid on Consort Dong’s Tomb 崔老道捉妖：夜闯董妃坟 Old Cui’s real name is Cui Daocheng. He once sneaked a look at two and a half lines of a heavenly scripture in the Five Thunder Hall on Mount Longhu, and often compared himself to Jiang Ziya and Zhang Zifang. Unfortunately, he was short on luck and blessings, and no matter how capable he was, he didn’t dare put his skills to use. But he couldn’t bear to live in poverty and hardship either, so whenever he got the chance, he’d stir up trouble. In the end, he not only failed to make any money, but 3.3kReads9.5Score660Shelves
- 63 The Supreme Taoist: Peerless Daoist Master 道门太上：绝世道长 Clad in a Daoist robe, I walk among the people, driving out every evil under heaven... Humans, ghosts, demons, monsters, gods, immortals, and strange beings: no matter how many I eliminate, I cannot purge the evil thoughts in my heart. Meet kindness with kindness, meet evil and become a demon. The arts of the Daoist tradition shall be the strongest! (Not an invincible protagonist story. Read with caution. No female lead!) 99Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 64 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 There are many things in this world that you and I have never encountered. Just because we've never encountered them doesn't mean they don't exist. Legends are often more than mere legends. And traditions must have an unknown reason for becoming traditions. 632Reads9.0Score114Shelves
- 65 I Tamed Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Came Down from the Mountain as the Strongest in the World 收服万千厉鬼，我下山即人间最强 [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Mind-Blowing Twists] I was adopted by my master as a child and grew up in the mountains, learning all kinds of ghost-hunting techniques. Since I never had any playmates, I thought I was a total pushover. Later, I descended the mountain on my master’s orders and met someone with a bizarre fate. His face clearly showed he should have died long ago, yet he was still alive and well! A strange greenhou 1.5kReads8.0Score100Shelves
- 66 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 317Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 67 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Exorcist from a Poor Family 寒门镇邪师 The three-year-old daughter of Lin Yan, a poor woodcarver, grows a fragrant green shoot in her palm, just as three golden lines appear in a crack in a copper lock passed down through his family. Only then does Lin Yan realize that a peddler's prophecy from three years ago has come true. His daughter, Nian'an, is the Chosen One of the Dao Fruit, but this divine gift is also a death sentence. Evil spirits from the outer city knock at the door in the dead of night, while members of the Spirit Infan 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Entering the Dao with Immortal Guidance 带着仙家入道 I started out as a disciple of a top incense master, then met a wise teacher and became a young Taoist disciple. This book consists entirely of popular science and real-life experiences, and it also contains plenty of tips on how to avoid scams! Nothing is made up, and this is not a power fantasy about cultivating immortality. Your support is greatly appreciated! 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 A Proper Daoist Priest: Ladies, Please Behave 正经道爷，女居士请自重 [Modern city, feng shui, physiognomy, Taoist priests, multiple heroines] Zhou Fan is a street fortune-teller who gets a beast-patterned seal to recognize him as its master. From then on, he masters the Dao and can use its arts, but all he wants is to make money honestly. “Dear sis, I swear to Heaven I won't fool around. If I do, may I be struck by lightning.” “Oh no, lightning's coming! I'm done for...” “Right! I almost forgot. I can withstand lightning.” 25.8kReads8.4Score3.4kShelves
- 71 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 471Reads9.2Score105Shelves
- 72 The Little Daoist in Blue 青衣小道长 This is my first work. It’s a book inspired by stories I heard from older generations when I was young, which I adapted and made up, as well as things I’ve written based on my own life. The child at the beginning is real, my own son. This book is also a way of expressing my hopes for him. I hope he does better and better, and can walk just like other people, go to school, grow up, get married, have children, and live the life he wants. That’s why I’m writing this as a mix of fantasy, supernatura 171Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 The Divine Seer and the Eerie Doctor 神相诡医 Zhang Fan grew up with his grandfather, who ran a coffin shop. Blessed with peerless skills in face-reading, medicine, and the supernatural, he makes his way through the city. He can read the faces of the living and the dead, treat both human ailments and ghostly afflictions, take on local bullies, and capture evil spirits as he writes the story of a legendary life! 4.5kReads8.7Score587Shelves
- 74 Reborn as the CEO's Fortune-Telling Wife 重生之总裁的算卦妻 [Rebirth + Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Actress + CEO + Influencer] After her fellow disciple ambushes her, the heroine is reborn as a disgraced influencer. After beating up a sleazy director, she tells him, “You’re going to prison.” When her unscrupulous agent demands an outrageous contract termination fee, she says, “Be careful when you go out. You’re in for a bloody disaster.” At a banquet to clear up a rumor, she exposes a scheming actress’s past crimes: raising a ghost to harm people and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Forty-Eight Taoist Spells and Techniques 道家咒术四十八法 In Taoism, spellcasting is a form of ritual magic that invokes deities through incantations or curses ghosts and demons. It is believed to establish communication with the Celestial Emperor and command spirits, driving away evil, averting calamities, and turning misfortune into good fortune. 2.3kReads6.6Score619Shelves
- 76 Walking Between Yin and Yang 行走阴阳 To carry on the family line, Grandma forcibly brought home a madwoman... Ten years later, someone came to our door and delivered five bright red coffins, each bearing the name of a member of our family... 2.8kReads8.7Score257Shelves
- 77 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6.2kReads8.8Score519Shelves
- 78 By the Power of the Law 急急如律令 It all began when I took fifty yuan from a blind fortune-teller. Then, in the middle of the night, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind me. 1.5kReads8.6Score160Shelves
- 79 Practicing Heretical Arts on the Unorthodox Path, I Refine Longevity with the Dao Fruit 人在旁门修邪术，我以道果炼长生 [Classic Xianxia + Xian Hu Style + Unorthodox Cultivation + Taoist Style + Strange Tales Style + Primordial Spirit Cultivation + Ruthless and Decisive + Steady Cultivation] Thanks for asking. I’m in the unorthodox cultivation world, and spiritual energy is running dry. Taoists herd the masses, devour souls to refine qi, and great cultivators treat their disciples like sheep. The land is steeped in blood and filth. Young Jing Yuan is an aspiring cultivator who dreams of flying swords, spirit p 35.5kReads7.7Score3.7kShelves
- 80 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5.1kReads8.6Score377Shelves
- 81 Kunlun Gatekeeper: Ten Thousand Ghosts at My Back 昆仑守门人：我背后有万鬼 There's a long-standing rumor about the Capital Museum: though it's crowded with visitors by day, the palace is thick with yin energy after midnight. Palace maids carrying lanterns, eunuchs bearing sedan chairs, and guards in yellow robes stroll openly through its halls. For a hundred years, three generations of the Chen family have guarded the Capital Museum, suppressing evil spirits and the Three Fiends and Five Afflictions, and keeping the palace secure on all eight sides so peace can reign. 6.3kReads8.9Score493Shelves
- 82 Maoshan Disciple 茅山弟子 Maoshan has divine arts to exterminate evil, gathering ill omens from both the yin and yang worlds. Where is the Seven-Star Dragon Spring now? Ye Shaoyang, the hero of those days, is nowhere to be seen! 1.8kReads8.2Score238Shelves
- 83 Dai Chuan’s Idle Snow 黛川闲雪 One flower, one world; one leaf, one bodhi. People are like plants, subject to the cycle of flourishing and withering through the seasons, life and death, reincarnation, cause and effect. The only things that never change are the inherent energies in the magnetic field. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When Grandpa died, the whole city was in an uproar... 9.9kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 85 Showbiz: My Immortal Daoist Temple Was Exposed on the Variety Show 娱乐：我的长生道观被向往曝光了 Jiang Xuan wandered the world from within a Taoist temple for ten thousand years. He watched bronze masks being cast and phoenixes take flight! He saw bones piled beneath the pyramids and flames of war raging along the Great Wall for thousands of miles. At the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu burned his boats and defeated a larger force with a smaller one, all because of the Overlord Spear he had made as a playful experiment. At the Tushan gathering, Yu founded the first dynasty, with Jiang Xuan there t 1.2kReads8.4Score103Shelves
- 86 The Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣天相 Feng shui techniques can kill without spilling blood or save lives without anyone noticing. Fortune-telling and divination can reveal one's fate, but no reading should reveal everything, for the ways of Heaven are unpredictable. My name is Jiang Sheng. I was born with a yang body but an yin fate, destined for a life of hardship. My grandfather named me “Sheng,” hoping I could win half a move against Heaven and live a good life. My grandfather arranged nine marriages for me so I could overcome th 11kReads8.6Score2.4kShelves
- 87 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
- 88 Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 2 苗疆蛊事2 "Witchcraft of Miaojiang II", also known as "Witchcraft of Miaojiang: The End of the World", is written by Nan Wu Jia Sha Li Ke Fo. The calamity of witchcraft has persisted for thousands of years, ever since the Western Han dynasty, despite repeated attempts to suppress it. Today, as traditional Chinese culture declines and public awareness grows, only country folk in this vast land of China still talk about it. Many people caught up in the affairs of the world don't even know it exists. Yet wi 6.7kReads9.3Score735Shelves
- 89 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
- 90 I Chose Twenty Years of Humiliation, and Gained an Immortal Spirit Root 选择二十年河东，获得仙灵根 [Lighthearted + no angst + (fake) live-in son-in-law] Xu Nian transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes the illegitimate son turned away by a powerful family in Great Yan. He lives with his mother in a remote mountain village. On his twentieth birthday, his wealthy biological father sends people to find him, disrupting Xu Nian and his mother’s peaceful village life. The family even wants Xu Nian to honor an old agreement on their behalf and become a live-in son-in-law! Under the laws of Great 55.1kReads7.2Score4.7kShelves
- 91 The Struggles of a Taoist Priest 一个道士的奋斗 [Rookie climbs the ranks + No System + Not a power fantasy + Slow burn] Fan Shengman graduated from Longhu Mountain Taoist Academy with a four-year bachelor's degree. Legend has it that once a Taoist priest receives a celestial register, his name is entered into Heaven's official records and he is appointed an immortal official. By upholding justice, slaying demons, and building merit in the mortal world, he can keep rising through the ranks, eventually earning a place among the immortals. As a 1.8kReads8.9Score134Shelves
- 92 Why Do Zombies Go Out of Their Way to Avoid Me? 僵尸见我绕道走，为啥 Lin Xiaojiu was granted reincarnation by the will of Heaven. In his previous life, he was Maoshan's greatest Celestial Master, who had reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao. Reborn in this life to cultivate anew, he's invincible from the start! Others go weak in the knees at the sight of ghosts. When he shows up, zombies turn and run, while evil spirits kneel and beg for mercy. “Zombie bros, don't run! I haven't exorcised you yet!” “Are there no evil spirits in this generation who can put up a 8kReads9.5Score798Shelves
- 93 The Fox Bride of Qingqiu 青丘狐妻 Liu the Half-Immortal told my mother, “On the night of the full moon, take your child and a chicken to Qingqiu Mountain and wait. Whoever eats your family’s chicken will become your child’s spouse, whether it’s a snake, an insect, an ant, a bird, or a beast...” That night, a little fox and a little white wolf fought fiercely over the chicken, and from then on, the gears of fate began to turn... 9.5kReads8.6Score831Shelves
- 94 Live-Streaming a Borrowed Spell: Please Believe in Science 直播借法，请相信科学 Welcome, viewers, to the livestream! There are no such things as ghosts in this world. It's all just people scaring each other. Today's broadcast is all scripted, with special effects. Please be sensible and trust in science! [Streamer, how about you put down that ruler in your hand before telling us to trust in science?] [Hey, streamer, are you selling that hamster or not?] By the Celestial Master's command, gods and ghosts must keep their distance! Those who refuse will be dealt with on the sp 8.8kReads8.3Score388Shelves
- 95 The Taoist Returns to His Village and Begins His Revenge as a Street Vendor 道士回村，从摆摊开始复仇 [Taoist priest + feng shui + talismans + ghost hunting + demon slaying + folk customs + no System + no livestreaming + no cultivation] When his grandfather was young, he gathered herbs in the mountains and once saved a young Taoist priest who had been badly injured. To repay him for saving his life, the young Taoist chose a feng shui site known as “Golden Rooster Brooding Over an Egg” and told his grandfather to build the family home there. Once the house was complete, the Lin family grew rich a 23.4kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
- 96 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 2.1kReads—Score143Shelves
- 97 The Feng Shui Diviner 风水神相 [The short drama and comic adaptation are now available] First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate good karma; fifth, study; sixth, choose a name; seventh, read faces; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, make friends with benefactors; tenth, maintain your health. Eighteen years ago, an old Daoist priest found an abandoned baby in the mountains. Eighteen years later, a young feng shui master left his temple and came down from the mountain. Over the years, Jiang Chen learned all m 11kReads9.0Score1kShelves
- 98 Twenty Years of Taoist Cultivation: I’m Invincible the Moment I Leave the Mountain 道观修行二十年：下山直接无敌 He was the last Taoist priest at Little Immortal Temple, skilled in divination, feng shui, martial arts, and medicine. But after one look at a woman in the crowd, fate decreed that he must descend the mountain and settle an old karmic bond with her. 12.1kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
- 99 Questions and Answers from the Spirit Realm 灵界问答录 I have nearly ten thousand years of memories from my past lives, so my understanding of the Spirit Realm is fairly comprehensive. In my spare time, I write about the things I’ve encountered in those past lives: mythology, aliens, reincarnation, the heavenly eye, cultivation, liberation, destiny, changing one’s fate, the laws of the universe, the discriminating mind, karma, the Heavenly Dao, and more. Ask me anything, and I’ll answer whatever I can. 327Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 100 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 15.2kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
