Novels like Witchcraft
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Witchcraft, best match first.
- 101 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 102 One Hundred Ways to Encounter a Ghost 见诡一百法 The day my eldest uncle died, all our relatives and friends went to his funeral. My cousins wailed as they finished burning the joss paper. When it was my turn, I just couldn't cry. I could have faked it, but no tears would come, and my aunt's family looked displeased. That wasn't really a big deal. The problem was that when I tossed paper money into the brazier, the flames, which had been burning fiercely, went out in an instant! I tried several times, and it happened every time. It was creepy, 1.8kReads8.5Score122Shelves
- 103 EN Evil Insect God 邪虫神 Between righteousness and evil, on the boundary between good and wicked, lies heresy. Reborn in the Spirit Realm Continent, Huo Hai possesses a secret art for raising insects and vows to bring it to its fullest potential. Rare spiritual techniques, heavenly treasures, beauties: he gathers them all under his command, becoming the Insect God of a generation. 2.8kReads8.0Score390Shelves
- 104 I Have a Gu-Refining Panel 我有一张炼蛊面板 Gu are the true essence of Heaven and Earth, while humans are the most wondrous of all living things. People control gu in their search for survival, life, and the Dao. This is a world where people raise gu, use gu, and refine gu. There are Lifespan Gu, which grant immortality; Emperor Gu, which let you conquer the world; Fortune Gu, which bring boundless good luck; and Travel Gu, which let you wander freely through the world. … 6Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 105 The Outcast: You Made Me a Sacred Child, So Why Am I a God of Gu Poison? 一人：让你当圣童，你蛊道封神？ Jiang Mo accidentally transmigrated to a world of superpowered outcasts and, unlucky for him, became one of the children chosen by the Yao Xian Hui to cultivate as a Holy Gu Vessel. Just when he thought he was about to die the moment he transmigrated, he unexpectedly achieved the Holy Gu God's Physique. All Gu, poisons, and even sinister forces would become his nourishment. After discovering this, Jiang Mo could only say: The Yao Xian Hui really are good people! Years later, when people from the 183Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 106 A Feng Shui Master Born in the 1990s 90后风水师 One glance tells you who is destined for riches. Two reveal who will live or die. After realizing that the goddess was doomed to disaster, Li Shiyi embarked on a road of death from which there was no turning back. 282Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 107 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺匠 My family has dealt with the dead for generations. Following in my father’s footsteps, I became a coffin bearer. Before carrying a coffin, I always offer the deceased five incense sticks. When offering incense to the living, three long sticks and two short ones are taboo. When offering incense to the dead, three short sticks and two long ones are taboo. That day, I carried a coffin, and the dead pregnant woman inside gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl! [Shh, keep quiet! We’re settin 2.9kReads8.3Score194Shelves
- 108 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 917Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 109 Ancestor of Ten Thousand Poisons 万毒之祖 [Mortal's Journey, No System, No Harem, No Old Master] A bullied young man awakens a special constitution. The poisons that kill others become his finest nourishment. He slays powerful enemies, seeks opportunities, ventures across the world, cultivates immortality, roams the four seas, and becomes invincible beneath the heavens, ultimately attaining the title of Ancestor of Ten Thousand Poisons! 598Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 110 From the Start, I Have an Ant Queen: I Can Optimize Her Without Limit 开局一只蚁后：我能无限优化 He rushed outside to pick up his takeout, slipped, and tumbled straight down the stairs... When he woke up, he found himself surrounded by a vast primeval forest. He looked up at the gigantic raptor with a wingspan of over a hundred meters, and the twenty-zhang-long tiger with wings. Lin Kong was utterly bewildered. What kind of place was this? Could his frail little body even survive for a day?! 1.1kReads7.6Score100Shelves
- 111 Carrying the Dragon Coffin 抬龙棺 The First Emperor's coffin was called the Dragon Coffin. By rights, everyone who carried the Dragon Coffin should have been buried alive with him. But my ancestor somehow escaped. Was the elixir of immortality really just a legend? And where did Xu Fu go after sailing east? My ancestor was the only person who knew the secret of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum... 2.9kReads8.5Score297Shelves
- 112 The Exorcist’s Journal 伏魔笔记实录 I was born in a mysterious village in Chaoshan, amid violent storms and the strange disappearance of my family. From childhood, I was different from other people: I could see ghosts that no one else could. This unusual ability left me misunderstood, but it also led me into Grandma's mysterious world. Under her influence, I became fascinated by yin-yang and the Eight Trigrams, feng shui, and the art of destiny. Little by little, I learned that mysterious forces unknown to the world were hidden al 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 I’m a Corpse-Driving Empress from the Start, and the School Belle Found Out 开局赶尸女帝，被校花发现了 Chen Tianxiu transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has been revived for a thousand years. Everyone in this world can cultivate and become a warrior. The strongest can even fly through the skies, tunnel beneath the earth, move mountains, and overturn seas, becoming like gods! Then he awakens the Divine Corpse-Wrangling System. Every successful corpse-wrangling earns him various rewards. He can even abandon martial arts and pursue immortality! His first target is the Empress Qianqiu, who v 3.2kReads8.7Score233Shelves
- 114 The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣 My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family. 1.1kReads8.8Score117Shelves
- 115 A Corpse Driver Seeks Justice for the Dead, Then Gets Exposed by a Streamer! 赶尸人为亡者申冤！被主播曝光！ Zuo Qian becomes a corpse driver and takes on commissioned jobs “Thirty years ago, a magnitude-nine earthquake struck Zhongnan City. Aid poured in from every direction! But the supply truck driven by volunteer Zeng Xiao vanished without a trace!” The livestream camera focuses on an elderly couple. Reporter: “What do you think about your son selling off life-saving supplies?” The old man says angrily, “He didn't! He never sold them!” The reporter sneers, “Really? Then let's hear it from him i 378Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 116 Upholding Justice in Heaven's Name 替天行道 Yin cannot thrive alone, and yang cannot exist by itself. I grew up in the countryside, left behind by my parents and raised by my grandfather. All his life, Grandpa was either helping widows and orphaned girls or on his way to help them. So, for as long as I can remember, I heard the villagers cursing him behind his back. Then one day, a stranger in a burial shroud asked me a question. A tree without bark but with a soul is bound to die. What happens to a person with skin but no soul? The relat 3kReads8.9Score247Shelves
- 117 The First Book by Bingleng De Gouliang 冰冷的狗粮的第1本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 492Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事 The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish… 13.9kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 119 From the Start, I Refined Corpses and Turned Myself Into an Unrivaled Jiangshi 开局炼尸，把自己炼成了绝世僵尸 After transmigrating into a terrifying immortal-fantasy world overrun with monsters and demons, Ye Xiao discovered on his very first day as a member of the Corpse Soul Sect that he’d been set up. A strange Corpse Refining System appeared! In a moment of crisis, Ye Xiao activated its corpse-refining function! As it turned out, the System was updating and its interface was garbled, so Ye Xiao had no choice but to try refining blindly. When he saw the result, Ye Xiao was thrilled! Not only had the 1.4kReads8.5Score105Shelves
- 120 The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香 [The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again... 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Maoshan Taoist Arts: The Way of Heaven 茅山道法之天道 In The Maoshan Daoist Arts: The Heavenly Way, Li Yunfei becomes a Maoshan disciple by a stroke of luck and embarks on a journey to vanquish demons and exorcise evil. Demons, devils, and ghosts across the Three Realms all tremble at the sound of his name... 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Cangshan Ashes: The Dao-Demon Chronicle 苍山烬，道魔启世录 [Steady updates, and it will never be abandoned!] “Master, weren't we here to catch ghosts?” “Today is inauspicious. We shouldn't make a move!” “Master, you just can't beat them, can you?” “Don't talk nonsense. Demons and ghosts have their place in life.” “Disciple, don't go around exorcising demons and slaying monsters at the drop of a hat.” “Cultivating the Dao means cultivating the heart. We should be kind.” “Remember, all things under heaven have life, and life comes first. If we run into so 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Twenty-three years ago, his father died under mysterious circumstances. His skin was hung from the old locust tree at the entrance to the village. Twenty-three years later, the eldest brother who had been given away as a child returned. His banner read: Corpse Retriever. 3.3kReads8.3Score484Shelves
- 124 I Have a Book of the Yellow Springs 我有一本黄泉书 [Decisive and Ruthless + Violent Ghost Exorcism + Kill, Never Save + No Goody-Two-Shoes] The most terrifying thing in this world is often not ghosts, but people, especially ruthless men like me, who kill instead of saving souls. Chanting sutras to send the dead to a better afterlife, saving all sentient beings? None of that exists where I’m concerned. In this age of underworld officials, vengeful ghosts, and supernatural monsters, I seek only one thing: exorcising ghosts. I kill them. I don’t sa 525Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 125 Daddy: My Daughter’s Poisonous Pet Was Exposed on a Beloved Variety Show 奶爸：我的毒宠女儿被向往曝光了 A cute little girl makes a surprise appearance on the live stream of Yearning for Life! But this little girl is a bit poisonous: her whole body is covered in venomous creatures! The girl grabs an African vine snake with one hand and scolds her own little snake: “Be a good girl and don’t come out whenever you feel like it, or next time I’ll stew you for soup!” Da Peng is so scared he loses control of his bladder. “Whose kid are you? Don’t your family keep an eye on you?” Hearing this, Qin Ran, a 200Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 126 Maoshan Ghost-Banishing Celestial Master 茅山捉鬼天师 [Taoist Master] + [Ghost Hunting] + [Supernatural Mystery and Suspense] Light a lamp and tell ghost stories; observe the taboos of yin and yang. The inscrutable secret arts of the Upper, Middle, and Lower Maoshan traditions; the uncanny spirit-possession tablets; and mysterious taboos that inspire dread. The only Maoshan sect leader in history to vanish under mysterious circumstances seizes the secrets of heaven and earth and travels between the realms of the living and the dead. Let him reveal 3.2kReads6.5Score205Shelves
- 127 They Demanded More Dowry at the Last Minute? The Officer Turned Around and Married a Miaojiang Healer 临时加彩礼？军官转头娶苗疆医女 [Period setting, 1980s, military marriage, golden finger, satisfying read, devoted and sweet romance with mutual fidelity, skilled in poison and medicine] On the day of the wedding, his fiancée's family blocks the doorway and demands more at the last minute: “Eight hundred yuan in bride price and thirty-two pieces of furniture. If you can't provide even one of them, this wedding is off!” Cheng Yuanchi leans on his cane. He's a wounded officer who served his country, yet now he suffers humiliatio 20.9kReads8.5Score3.1kShelves
- 128 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score131Shelves
- 129 Hive Controller 虫巢掌控者 The outbreak of psychic energy brought not evolution, but disaster. Then the battlefield opened, plunging the entire world into the abyss. Lin Han was reborn from the depths of that abyss to the first day of the cataclysm. This time, standing atop the insect nest and surrounded by countless swarming shadows, he boldly declared, “If you’re unhappy, brace yourself against the wall and watch me crush you all with one hand!” 1.3kReads8.3Score117Shelves
- 130 Tomb Raiding: I Became a Corpse-Driving Master 盗墓：我成了赶尸匠 Ye Yun discovers that he has been chosen by the Corpse-Driving System. He starts out at an ancestral hall in western Hunan, travels through one world after another, and wins great renown for the corpse-driving tradition. “The six-winged centipede in western Hunan? I already killed it, and now its corpse is my mount!” “I’ve already opened the Bronze Gate. The ultimate secret is about to be revealed.” “These nine dragon corpses, and that bronze coffin: once I claim them, I should become even stron 20Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 131 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
- 132 The Primordial Insect Sovereign 荒古虫尊 [Spirit Insect Companions + Beast Taming + Traditional Cultivation + No Transmigration + No System] An unparalleled secret has circulated through the world: the Ancient Devourer of the Dao Divine Insect is peerless, able to consume corpses and refine immortal arts and secret techniques. The immortal sects of the heavens and the gods and Buddhas of the Western Heaven all fight desperately to claim it, seeing it as an extraordinary opportunity to attain the Great Dao. Yet no one knows that the anc 1.7kReads—Score244Shelves
- 133 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, and Dango Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被团子曝光了 Shh, the corpse is rising! Keep quiet. The dead are on the move, so the living must stay clear! In ancient Xixiang, strange and terrifying things happen whenever night falls: white coffins, thousand-year-old corpses, and more! Under the moonlight, Jiang Chen shakes a soul-snaring bell in his left hand and holds a talisman to suppress evil in his right, controlling a stiff figure that hops along... 1.2kReads8.3Score105Shelves
- 134 Reborn, I Refuse to Fawn and Choose a Toxic Darling, So the Campus Goddess Chases Me Instead 重生拒舔选毒宠，校花女神倒追了 Reborn in his college days, Xu Yan refuses to be a simp and discovers he can hear his poisonous pets’ thoughts! “In that case, I’ll get back into keeping poisonous pets!” The adorable Lucy individual king, the aloof albino king, the muddleheaded blackened Motuo bamboo viper, the fierce-but-cute hognose snake, the black mamba that guards the house, and more... And then there’s the girl who calls him her “best friend”: a communication disorder patient, a social anxiety pro, a super-rich heiress, a 4.5kReads9.2Score556Shelves
- 135 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
- 136 The Fake Taoist Comes Down from the Mountain 假道士下山 Jia Bufan is a student at a second-rate university. In today's fiercely competitive job market, he has spent ages without finding suitable work and doesn't want to toil away, so he spends his days wandering around online. But he is naturally bright and deeply interested in traditional Chinese medicine and the occult. By chance, he meets Daoist Longquan, an expert in the occult with profound knowledge of Daoist arts, and becomes his disciple. From then on, his life takes a very different path. Th 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Wasteland! The Insects Are Well-Behaved, So Don’t Be Afraid 废土！蛊虫很乖，你们别害怕 [No romance, strong female lead, scavenging and raising Gu, everyday family life] Tu Que has transmigrated once again. This time, her situation is even worse: she has landed in the wasteland of Blue Star after a nuclear explosion. Radiation is everywhere. Plants and animals have mutated drastically. Humans have fallen to the bottom of the food chain. Tu Que has only her supposedly useless Gu Realm to rely on, and all she wants is to stay alive. The heroine is a lone wolf. She builds no territory 1.8kReads8.7Score198Shelves
- 138 The 90s-Era Celestial Master 九零后天师 Everyone knows the Book of Lu Ban, but few have heard of the Gongshu Manual. The art of creation has been passed down through the generations. A Celestial Master descends into the mortal world, stirring up storms across the land! 4.4kReads8.8Score626Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 Tomb Raiding: Inheriting the Gu Immortal’s Legacy, I Slaughter My Way Through the Tomb-Raiding World! 盗墓：蛊仙传承，杀穿盗墓世界！ Li Yu transmigrates into the world of tomb raiding and becomes the last surviving Gu master of the Jiuli Clan. He inherits King Xian's legacy and ultimately earns the title of Gu Immortal. Corpse-eating beetles? Corpse turtle elixirs? They're all the finest nourishment for my Gu. The Huo family's undying worm, capable of creating wormholes. The flying centipede, able to soar through the skies and burrow underground. The Corpse Turtle King, whose poison is the deadliest in the world. Fatty: “Mast 9.9kReads8.5Score687Shelves
- 141 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
- 142 The Outcast: The Strongest Gu Master 一人之下：最强蛊师 “Nobody needs me. There’s no place for me in this world...” Leaning against a tree, the girl curled up into a ball and spoke helplessly. “So, I choose to...” Before she could finish, the boy suddenly cut her off. “Then I’ll give you a new choice. Become my Gu. I need you, and I’ll make the world accept you!” 3.4kReads8.7Score260Shelves
- 143 The Ruyi Teahouse 如意茶馆 In a lively old town stands a century-old teahouse where residents and passing travelers come to rest. Who could have guessed the true meaning of the words “as you wish”? As you wish, as he wishes, or... as it wishes! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Great Scripture of the Mystic Truth 玄真大道经 Li Xuanxin was abandoned at birth on Mount Zhongnan, but fortunately, the reclusive Daoist master Qingxu took him in. He thought he could devote himself to cultivation in peace, far from worldly affairs. But then the funeral bells of Yongjia rang. The Five Barbarians’ cavalry trampled across the Central Plains, Luoyang fell, and bones lay exposed in the wilderness. Before ascending, his master left him a prophecy: “Heaven and Earth are sealed, and the laws are incomplete. To seek the Great Way, 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 The Heavenly Master of Reverse Fortune 逆运天师 [Originally titled The Reversed-Fate Celestial Master and Those Years of Helping Ghosts Harm People] [Multiple Female Leads] [Supernatural Evil Cultivation] [Controlling Paper Dolls, Consecrating Yin Compasses, Refining Copper-Coin Ghost Treasures, Making Corpse Puppets, Raising Ghosts, Practicing Yin Fiend Arts] [Cultivation Ranks: New Ghost - High-Grade Ghost - Yin Soldier (Yin Soldier Ghost Path) - Ghost King (Ghost King Evil Path) - Ghost General (Netherworld Ghost General) - Great Demon - F 2.5kReads8.1Score206Shelves
- 146 I Transmigrated and Became a Mom, Mastering Both Mystical Arts and Paper Effigies 穿越喜当妈，玄学扎纸两手抓 [Supernatural arts + alternate setting + romance] Nie Qing woke up one morning to find herself in the body of a scrawny, sallow-faced woman who was apparently someone’s “mom.” How come everyone else who transmigrates gets doted on by their whole family or becomes a tycoon, while she’s broke and living in a dump? When she rode down the road in a green, rickety horse-drawn cart, she left everyone gaping. When she set up a stall to do business, people actually mistook her for offering special serv 2.4kReads9.1Score310Shelves
- 147 The Mountain Keeper 守山人 My family has been guarding the mountain for generations. Every generation, someone meets an untimely end at the age of forty. The curse was broken in my grandfather's generation, but it came at a great cost. A soul dwells in each mountain, and one person holds each mountain at bay. 4.1kReads8.7Score472Shelves
- 148 From the Start, Immortal Longevity: Cultivating from the First Qi Refining Stage 开局长生：从炼气一层开始修仙 The Heavenly Dao is flawed. Of the fifty paths of the Great Derivation, forty-nine are complete. Mo Bufan is the missing “one,” born immortal! The Heavenly Dao is merciless. Immortality is forbidden! Again and again, it drives Mo Bufan to the brink of despair. So what if it is the Heavenly Dao? He refuses to accept his fate! Immortality is not mere survival. Being cautious does not make him a coward. Mo Bufan turns around and trades his lifespan for forbidden arts! An immortal of taboo arts. An 1.7kReads7.8Score120Shelves
- 149 A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才 A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil. 1.7kReads8.8Score112Shelves
- 150 The Age of Declining Dharma: I Fought My Way from the White Mountains and Black Waters to Ascension 末法时代：我从白山黑水杀到飞升 In an age when spiritual energy has run dry and the era of cultivation is ending, I became the last cultivator in the world. My parents were stained with blood in Songhe Town, and my sister’s fate was unknown. At thirteen, I fled into the deepest part of Baishan, carrying a damaged Daoist scripture passed down through my family. 51Reads—Score—Shelves
