Novels like The Living Dead
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Living Dead, best match first.
- 1 Heavenly Dragon-Seeking Master 寻龙天师 “The Heavenly Hound rises from earthen ramparts, then falls beneath the fading sunset. The sky turns blood-red, and the lucky star retreats into nothingness. Amid the vast wilderness, one person staggers onward, struggling through hardship, leaving blood with every step. Behind them, only a single late-blooming camellia wilts and falls.” This is an omen no one can decipher, but some say it is my fate. Others say that ritual officials who meddle in yin and yang, specialize in tombs, and obscure H 3.2kReads8.7Score340Shelves
- 2 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
- 3 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
- 4 Lu Ban's Secret Art of Feng Shui 鲁班风水秘术 Carpenters revere Lu Ban as their patriarch. He left behind the Lu Ban Book, divided into two parts. The first contains carpentry techniques, while the second is a collection of secret spells, never to be shared with outsiders. The patriarch also left a curse: anyone who learns the spells in the second part must suffer one of the fates of being widowed, orphaned, childless, or disabled. That is why later generations called the second part of the Lu Ban Book the “Missing One.” In the old days, mo 5.9kReads9.1Score832Shelves
- 5 The Seventy-Two Transformations of Tiangang and Disha 天罡地煞七十二变 Demons run rampant, and ghosts devour people. Wild dogs dig up graves, fox spirits knock on doors, and eerie spirits wear painted faces! The calamity of heaven and earth has arrived, and all living things are as insignificant as ants. With a manual for slaying demons in hand, Jiang Chen will carve a brighter world out of this dark age! In this life, I ask nothing of the next. I seek only eternal life! 27.1kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
- 6 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
- 7 The Celestial Master's Dragon-Seeking Secret 天师寻龙诀 Before she died, Grandma gave me three instructions. The most important one was that, on the night I turned eighteen, I must not open the door for anyone. But that night, my dead grandmother came back... 4.7kReads8.0Score1.8kShelves
- 8 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain 天师下山 Back in my day, I had mastered my own school of celestial arts. One punch made the high-ranking martial artists at the nursing home north of the village tremble. One kick sent the young prodigies at the kindergarten south of the village bawling. And when I stood at the mass grave east of the village, not one of those hundreds of Ghost Kings or Ghost Emperors dared even breathe. 13.7kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
- 9 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.7kReads8.9Score327Shelves
- 10 Uncle Nine: Is This Kid a Yin Messenger? 九叔：这小子是阴差？ (Uncle Jiu’s world + underworld bailiff + no female lead + System!) When King Yama says you’ll die at the third watch, who dares keep you until the fifth? Lin Yi transmigrates into Uncle Jiu’s world and unexpectedly becomes Uncle Jiu’s senior disciple. He binds himself to the strongest Underworld System from the start. All he has to do is earn yin virtue to get promoted and receive a raise! [Ding!] [Congratulations, Host, on successfully capturing a soul. Reward: 300 yin virtue!] [Ding! Congratu 2kReads7.1Score103Shelves
- 11 Uncle Nine: I Copy Traits, and Ren Tingting Begs Me in Tears to Marry Her 九叔，复制词条任婷婷哭着求嫁 [Zombie manipulation, humorous traits, recruiting disciples across film and TV worlds] Lin Fan transmigrates to Renjia Town, becomes Uncle Ninth’s disciple, and awakens the Trait Copying System. He can even combine traits without limit! Five Thunder Spell (Gold), Qimen Dunjia (Red), Zhong Kui Possession (Rainbow) Chrysanthemum Corpse Cultivation (Purple), Corpse King’s Tyrant Body (Red), Soul-Reaping Buddhist Chant (Red) Maoshan Corpse Driving (Purple), Sword Control Through Qi (Supreme), Indest 12.2kReads7.3Score852Shelves
- 12 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Miss, You're About to Suffer a Bloody Disaster 直播算命：姑娘你有血光之灾 Ye Chen took over his master's Daoist temple. He should have been content to live as an ordinary young Daoist, but instead he started livestreaming fortune-telling. “Daoist priest, do you think I can land this 50-million-yuan project?” Ye Chen scolded him: “You've committed countless evils and used up all your ancestors' accumulated virtue. You already have the look of a dying man!” “Daoist priest, why am I so unlucky?” Ye Chen replied coolly, “Your fate is cursed with loneliness and calamity. Y 6.2kReads9.2Score542Shelves
- 13 Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺 At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen. 14.5kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 14 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 4.2kReads9.2Score706Shelves
- 15 Stop Pretending, Daoist. You’re Cultivating Immortality 别装了，道长你就是在修仙 Lin Han transmigrated into the body of a Taoist priest. From the start, all he had was a rundown temple, until he obtained a live-streaming System for spreading Taoism. Revitalize Taoism and help more people appreciate its wonders to earn all kinds of rewards. He keeps a panda as a pet, tigers act as docile as kittens in his presence, and he sends an eight-hundred-jin wild boar flying with a single palm strike! With a casual wave of his hand, he summons thunder and lightning. Netizens exclai 20.5kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 16 Uncle Nine: Simplifying Cultivation Starting at the Funeral Parlor 九叔：从义庄开始简化修仙 [Uncle Jiu + charity hall + Taoist priest + growth + System + cultivation + cunning schemer] Lin Luo transmigrates to Uncle Jiu’s world and becomes his eldest disciple. After ten years of keeping a low profile, he finally awakens the Simplification System! Every skill and cultivation method can be simplified! The Shangqing Breathing Technique is simplified: breathe! The Shangqing Great Grotto Scripture is simplified: breathe deeply! The Shangqing Lightning Fist is simplified: generate static ele 37.9kReads8.9Score3.3kShelves
- 17 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 18 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart. 2.6kReads9.1Score395Shelves
- 19 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼 [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 817Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Global: I Memorized Three Thousand Daoist Texts and Changed Class to Celestial Master 全民：我背诵三千道藏转职天师 [Everyone Changes Class + No Harem + Passionate Action + Multiple Classes + Invincible Leveling] A hundred years ago, otherworldly races invaded at will, bringing humanity to the brink of extinction. To fight back against the demon beasts, everyone undergoes a class change at the age of twelve. Only by becoming a class-changer and continually leveling up can one reach the pinnacle of the world! On the day of his class change, Ye Xiang became a Taoist priest with a natural level of ten. But Taois 54.4kReads9.0Score4.7kShelves
- 21 Reverend, Stop Pretending. I Know You Can Use Immortal Arts 道长别装了，我知道你会仙术 At Zhongnan Mountain, people knew only that it was home to the Quanzhen Sect. Few knew that at its foot stood a dilapidated Taoist temple. That day, the people of Gujing Temple burst onto the scene. From then on, their name would resound throughout the land! 186.2kReads9.2Score13.7kShelves
