Novels like The Secret Records of Yin and Yang
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- 101 Soul Reaper 收魂人 To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a two-headed monster. But I never expected her to be a Rakshasa with two souls. My fate was utterly transformed, and I embarked on a perilous path full of thorns, surrounded by demons and spirits... 744Reads7.2Score11214d adds
- 102 The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we 989Reads9.1Score16914d adds
- 103 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score51814d adds
- 104 I've Got People Downstairs 我下边有人 “Master, I died so suddenly that my family doesn’t know where I hid some money. Could you pass them a message?” “Sure. I’ll take thirty percent!” “Master, my son is getting married next month. I want to see his wedding. Could you ask the underworld messenger to wait a few days before taking me down?” “No problem, but you’ll have to cover my expenses...” “Kid, you dare mess with me? Do you know I’ve got connections? One word from me and your business will be shut down!” “Heh, you’re finished! Do 861Reads8.0Score10314d adds
- 105 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大风水师 The living are coffined, the dead are entombed; yin and yang are reversed to establish the four pillars. A mirror that repels yang, cloth that draws in yin, and money trees lined up outside the door. A beautiful woman, plenty of money, yet worldly pleasures are not to be enjoyed. Walk between yin and yang, uncover Heaven’s secrets; every feng shui master is doomed to a short life! 13.9kReads8.6Score1.4k14d adds
- 106 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 313Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 107 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! 4.5kReads8.7Score58914d adds
- 108 Ghost Corpse Refining, Bearer of a Deadly Fate 鬼炼尸，背命人 Song Yuanqing is a former soldier. After leaving the military, he turned down a government-assigned job and chose instead to become an adventure tour guide. Because of the dangers of the profession, people like him are also called “edgewalkers,” meaning they are always walking on the brink of death. In just a few short years, Song Yuanqing has guided clients through the Amazon rainforest and into Lop Nur, the “Sea of Death.” He has also traversed the Bewitched Marsh of Wawu Mountain, known as th 2.1kReads9.3Score21414d adds
- 109 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 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 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 536Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 111 Eight Supreme Skills from the Start: I Drained Kui's Yin Energy 开局八奇技，我把傀的阴气吸干了 Sun Liancheng dies in an expedition and transmigrates into the world of The Lost Tomb, where he gains the Eight Extraordinary Skills. Six Treasury Immortal Thief: A cultivation art for longevity, mandatory study for Wu Xie. Spirit Summoning and Command: Summon the heroic souls sleeping beneath this land. Both Hands: Sculpt yourself a new face and extract your enemies’ memories while you’re at it. Divine Machine, Hundred Refinements: Xiao Ge’s favorite. Heaven-Connecting Talisman: Demons and ghos 679Reads6.5Score10014d adds
- 112 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—14d adds
- 113 The White Dragon Horse Medium 白龙出马仙 Break through seven trials, meet with sudden disaster, make a blood sacrifice of an infant, refine corpse oil. One by one, long-lost secret arts resurface, and strange, mysterious events begin unfolding throughout my journey... That lantern made of human skin holds captive the youth I can never return to. 1.1kReads9.1Score10014d adds
- 114 The Taoist Came Down the Mountain to Give His Heart Away, Then Got Scammed Out of 98,000 Yuan in an Online Romance 道士下山把心搭，网恋被骗九万八 Fast-paced, light comedy, no horror, packed with laughs from start to finish, with no reliance on memes: On his first day down the mountain, his online dating partner swindled him out of 98,000 yuan. On the second, his landlord kicked him out. On the third, someone drugged him on a blind date. His name is Nan Feng, and he is an apprentice in the Daoist tradition. To earn enough merit to return to the mountain and receive his ordination, he grits his teeth and takes on exorcisms and funeral rites 973Reads7.2Score14114d adds
- 115 The Maoshan Corpse King 茅山尸王 (Urban supernatural, talismans and Taoist arts, hand seals and incantations, action-packed power-ups, explosive battles) Hunting ghosts and demons can get your adrenaline pumping too!!! Born with an innate Daoist body and bearing the bloodline of the Corpse King, he wields a peachwood sword in his left hand and a copper-coin sword in his right. He strides across the innate Eight Trigrams and declares the Heavenly Master’s sacred words. Tell me, who in the worlds of yin and yang would dare fight 3kReads8.6Score22914d adds
- 116 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 121Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 117 Uncle Nine: Wait, You're Trying to Outnumber a Maoshan Taoist? 九叔：不是，你跟茅山道士比人多 [Uncle Jiu, zombies, Maoshan Taoists, warlords, no female lead, calling for backup, group brawls, alternate setting] Maoshan's First Commandment: Good and evil stand opposed. Fight for life! Maoshan's Second Commandment: Whoever follows me is righteous; whoever opposes me is evil! Maoshan's Third Commandment: When there's trouble, call for backup! When there's trouble, call for backup! When there's trouble, call for backup! Standing guard is dull work for the Celestial Soldiers and Generals. Wha 107Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 118 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 119 The Life of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 顶香出马弟子的人生 The life of a spirit-medium disciple, recounting how I established my altar and became a spirit medium, as well as how I took a Taoist priest as my master! Everything is based on real experiences and factual explanations, with no fantasy or cultivation elements whatsoever! 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂 A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and 122Reads—Score1114d adds
- 121 Suppressing Yin and Yang 镇阴阳 [Supernatural The Underworld Comedy No female lead Not human] I used to think I was just an ordinary person. But on the day I was born, Yama sent a child into the world, ten thousand ghosts entered my body, and every ghost within a hundred miles hid in fear. The Underworld’s gods of the dead avoided me like the plague. In this life, I shall command yin and yang and tread the cycle of reincarnation. I only hope this song of sorrow ends in splendor… 3.9kReads9.0Score35914d adds
- 122 Nine Dragons Hauling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 The day my grandfather died, all living things on Mount Kunlun paid their respects. Dark clouds churned as nine dragons pulled an emerald divine coffin down from the heavens... People said: When an immortal passes into meditation, heavenly thunder welcomes them back to their place in the celestial court; When nine dragons pull a coffin, a divine coffin buries an immortal's body. 4.7kReads7.9Score42314d adds
- 123 Half Farmer, Half Taoist 半农半道 A record of life’s fleeting moments, a modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! In the Age of Declining Dharma, beneath the White Lotus, the greatest hermits hide in plain sight. The truly gifted master Suan Potian and his young apprentice Liu Yi, with help from Captain Liu of the J Team, travel through all kinds of strange tales. They fish drowned souls from the water, battle spirit mediums, drive out evil, escort ghosts and capture monsters; they read the veins of yin energy, set the ea 335Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 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… 1.7kReads8.8Score34114d adds
- 125 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.7kReads8.9Score40114d adds
- 126 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 2.6kReads8.9Score30114d adds
- 127 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! 4kReads8.7Score25114d adds
- 128 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—14d adds
- 129 The Beautiful Snake Wife 蛇妻美人 I slept in a coffin from the time I was little. When I was six, a snake slithered in and kept me company in the coffin for six years… He had never slept in a bed as a child, only in a very ancient coffin. When he was six, a snake slithered in and kept him company in the coffin for six years. Later, a graceful fairy came and said she would marry him when he turned eighteen. 132Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 130 The Name of Heaven's Wrath: Divine Thunder from the Nine Heavens Scours the Mortal World 天罚之名：九霄神雷劫红尘 Falling flowers and flowing water seem heartless; green mountains and evening snow each go their separate ways! The young Daoist from Shenxiao and his childhood friend, his junior uncle, journey through the mortal world together, enjoying life! The extraordinary may be closer than you think. The so-called gods, ghosts, and spirits may all be illusions! Those who cultivate the Dao cultivate the heart. Entering the world is a way to sever one's karmic ties! 201Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 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 6.6kReads9.3Score72314d adds
- 132 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score47014d adds
- 133 The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避 The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin 8.6kReads8.8Score76514d adds
- 134 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 6.8kReads9.2Score96314d adds
- 135 The Lowlife Taoist 屌丝道士 A man who nearly gets electrocuted while taking a leak, and a Taoist priest with the worst luck imaginable! What hilarious trouble will he get into when he runs into ghosts? 23.4kReads8.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 136 The Legend of Situ Shankong 司徒山空传 The rags-to-riches journey from teahouse server to grandmaster. The extraordinary life of an old Taoist from eastern Sichuan, spanning seventy years! 3.1kReads8.9Score96314d adds
- 137 The Day I Left My Master, I Banged My Head and Killed My Entire Family 出师当天，我一头磕死满院亲人 A yellow weasel weeps at a grave, a dead woman gives birth. A sinister, uncanny world of curse magic unfolds... 2.4kReads8.9Score32014d adds
- 138 Opening the Road to the Underworld 开冥路 [No romance, no female lead, not much of a power fantasy, first-person narration, a slightly slow start. If you don't mind, please be patient. My new book, "Nine Divinations Out of Ten Are Wrong", is the second installment of this story.] My name is Sui Xiaotian. I'm a guide. But I only guide those who die unnatural deaths. An unnatural death is a bitter consequence brought about by bad karma. After death, the great temples won't accept you, and the small temples won't keep you. You become a lon 13.5kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 139 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—14d adds
- 140 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 377Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 141 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—14d adds
- 142 The Ghost Physiognomist in Hemp Robes 麻衣鬼相 Some say it's difficult to understand another person, but to a face reader, understanding someone is easy. Others say you can't judge a person by appearances. I think it depends on who's doing the judging. My grandfather was a famous face reader of ghosts. He could read disaster and fortune, life and death, heaven and earth, and even uncover a person's past lives and future incarnations. When I was little, egged on by a group of friends, I kicked over the mound of an old grave. Luckily, my grand 1.4kReads8.5Score18014d adds
- 143 The Yin Grave 阴坟 A soul on the bed, a grave beneath it. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, offerings are made to the gods. One ritual burned several people alive. Were they human, or spirits? 16.6kReads8.8Score1.7k14d adds
- 144 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀，不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Master of Folk Occult Arts: My Livestream Terrifies the Entire Internet 民间秘法大师，直播吓疯全网 [Horror + no romance + comedy + innate spirit body + spirit communication + maximum fear factor] My younger sister drew the death lot, and the whole village demanded she be sacrificed. I turned on a livestream and made a century-old vengeful ghost into sashimi. From then on, haunted houses became my cafeteria, and ghost kings became takeout. The authorities begged me to work with them, the Taoist sects revered me as a master, and the underworld begged me to livestream. When fear returned and a h 70Reads—Score714d adds
- 146 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. 4.2kReads8.7Score46714d adds
- 147 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 714Reads7.4Score10114d adds
- 148 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.” 25.5kReads8.4Score3.3k14d adds
- 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. 1.6kReads8.8Score11314d adds
- 150 She's a Deity! Of Course Catching Ghosts and Exorcising Demons Makes Sense 她！神明！抓鬼收妖很合理吧 [Alternate Universe + Goddess Descends to the Mortal World + Real-World Ghost Hunting + A Few Adorable Monster Companions] Luo Sheng is a baby who fell from the sky. She grew up with her master at a Taoist temple, and only came down the mountain when she started university... On her first day of school, she meets an upperclassman plagued by yin energy and pursued by a female ghost. Her roommate is being stalked by a water ghost after saving someone's life. She forms a contract with a thousand-ye 11.5kReads8.8Score1k14d adds
