Novels like The Gu Master
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Gu Master, best match first.
- 1 World Game: There's an Author Inside My Head 世界游戏：我脑袋里有个作者 [Livestreaming + gaming + original multiverse + Cthulhu] Black mist descended, and higher-dimensional beings began a global livestream. “Welcome to the World Game.” “Lose the game, and your country’s resources, territory, and national fortune will be devoured. Win, and the losing side’s resources become the victor’s reward.” Li Wei, an “ordinary citizen” who had just escaped from a psychiatric hospital, couldn’t believe the voice in his head was telling the truth. [The world you live in is a nov 6Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 2 My Ability Is a System, So What If I Slay Gods? 异能是系统，我屠神怎么了？ The Blood Moon appeared three hundred years ago. Now everyone has a spirit inside them, and they must undergo a spirit-summoning ritual to awaken their supernatural abilities. But! On the night of the ritual, Xu Xian summoned an A-rank succubus! Faced with the choice of becoming a human icicle or a dried corpse, Xu Xian chose the System. And successfully summoned Kiyohime... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Superpowers: I Master the Cycle of Reincarnation and Win Big! 异能世界：掌控轮回的我赢麻了！ [Slow burn + ordinary protagonist + invincible in the later stages + slice of life + growth + urban fantasy + the Myriad Worlds + civilization] Wang Tuan transmigrated into a high-martial world and became the overlooked legitimate son of a prominent clan. Thanks to his knowledge of the Netherworld from before he transmigrated, along with a series of fortunate coincidences, he awakened a powerful reincarnation ability. With extraordinary perseverance, the protagonist starts from nothing, rises st —Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 4 The Miaojiang Boy I Picked Up Is the One I’m Fleeing My Wedding From 捡到的苗疆少年是我逃婚对象 As the unfavored Ninth Princess, I was sent to Miaojiang for a political marriage. While fleeing, I came across a beautiful young man. Later, he stood amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, smiling seductively at me as he asked, “Are you afraid?” I threw myself into his arms. “I just missed you so much.” 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I Started Building the Underworld in the Womb 我从娘胎开始建地府 Jiang Yu transmigrates to an era where supernatural horrors are returning, becoming the unborn child of the goddess Yan Xiaoyan. Yet Yan Xiaoyan has never been in love. She became pregnant through a mysterious force. Everyone urges her to have an abortion, but she chooses to say no. For Jiang Yu, Yan Xiaoyan resolutely turns against the entire world. On his first day of sign-in, Jiang Yu obtains the Eyes of Yin and Yang. On his hundredth day of sign-in, he gets Black and White Impermanence as se 57Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 6 The Yin-Walking Path 走阴门 On the day I was born, a thousand crows gathered overhead and a hundred ghosts surrounded our home. My mother died on the spot, and I was branded an ill omen! 1.9kReads6.7Score189Shelves
- 7 I Made Fantasy Real and Ushered in an Age of the Supernatural 幻想具现，我开启了超凡时代 [Alternate World!] [Villain] [The Protagonist Turns Dark] Xu Fengshuang acquires the Wish-Fulfilling System, which lets him bring his fantasies to life through Influence Points and set out on a path to the extraordinary. Vengeful ghosts, jealous eyes lurking in the cracks... one bizarre incident after another! Daoist incantations, Buddhist golden bodies, the righteous spirit of scholars... one path of cultivation after another! Superpowers run rampant, magic and technology merge, machines bring 974Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 8 Grandma's Yin-Yang Eyes 奶奶的阴阳眼 When I was little, I didn’t understand anything. I just thought it was fun. I remember when Second Grandma died, even Second Grandpa, who slept beside her, didn’t know. But Grandma woke Dad up and told him to go pay his respects... 672Reads7.8Score103Shelves
- 9 Red and White: A Deadly Omen 红白喜煞 I was born amid a clash of red and white funeral rites, with a sinister tattoo on my back from birth. People call me the Sin-Born, and everyone who gets close to me is cursed with bad luck. To keep me alive, my grandmother entrusted me to the Goddess Houtu, making me a temple keeper. She also found me a person with a pure spirit to absorb my baleful energy. To dispel the tattoo on my back, I embarked on a path of good deeds and accumulating merit. Only at the very end did I learn that the most 14Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 10 The Feng Shui Mastermind 风水大掌柜 The day I was born, nine dragons came bearing a coffin, and a hundred ghosts wailed in mourning. I was born under a fated star. My name is Bai Ke, a feng shui master delivered to the mortal world in a coffin borne by nine dragons. I guide souls between yin and yang, and was born with an innate gift for the mysteries of heaven and earth. When you run into anything supernatural, just come to me, Bai Ke. I am the chief feng shui master, and there is no mysterious matter in this world that I cannot 594Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 11 In This Life, I Shall Suppress Yin and Yang 这一世，镇压阴阳 [Urban high-martial arts, reincarnation and rebirth, one heroine, a touch of the supernatural, lighthearted and passionate.] In their previous lives, he was an orphan, and she was a ghost. An orphan and a ghost, from meeting and understanding each other to relying on and keeping one another company. Then, their feelings quietly blossomed, and they became lovers... after overcoming countless hardships. But what happy ending has there ever been for a human and a ghost in love? Every union between 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 AI Theory of Cultivation AI论修真 "Getting AI to Spill the Beans" "The Impeccable AI" "The Author’s Tears" "The Author Strikes Back" "Triumphantly Returning | Or So I Think" "How I Mistook a Book Under 100 Chapters for a Short Story" "The Author Is a Poor Sap Who Keeps Deleting and Rebuilding" 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 After I Hurt the Miaojiang Boy 渣了苗疆少年后 [Short! Short! Short!] Xin Qin, an utterly ordinary great disciple of the number one person in the Four Realms. Under her master's century-long suppression, she was a role model for disciples of every sect: diligent in cultivation, respectful toward her master, obedient to the rules, helpful to others, and eager to learn... At long last, the number one person in the Four Realms ascended to immortality. She threw her head back and laughed. Finally, she could let loose and snatch handsome men! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Miaojiang Lovers’ Tomb 苗疆情冢 The Miao people of Nanyang have a peculiar custom: people there know only their mothers, never their fathers. The women are in charge, and if one takes a liking to you, she'll force you into marriage. After a local woman chose me, I was thrust into a nightmare I had never imagined... 76Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 16 The Cultivator's Guide to Abstinence 戒色修仙录 [Urban] + [Working Hard to Make Money] + [Cultivation] + [Self-Discipline] You have the secret Nine-Character Mantra: “Soldiers, fighters, those who array themselves, advance in formation.” I have the Ten-Character Treasure Manual: “Restraint, nourishment, refinement, cultivation, thought, comprehension, study, discipline, courage, determination.” In this age of declining magic, when the myriad paths have withered, I alone shall attain immortality through abstinence. As the only cultivator in th 53Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 17 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 2kReads—Score127Shelves
- 18 The Outcast from the Start, Worth Trillions 开局一人之下，身价万万亿 [Villain's Dad] [Crushes the Protagonist] [Feel-Good Story] Transmigrate as the father of a weak-minded villain? The eldest son kneels and kowtows in public just to win a woman's favor! The second son buys an entire mountain just to get a spring, all so he can wash the protagonist's woman's feet? The youngest son would even poison his own father for a woman? Wan Hao transmigrates as the father of a weak-minded villain. Seeing his three sons acting like simps right in front of him, he immediately 114Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 19 My Pure and Beautiful Heiress 我的清纯大小姐 The hardest things to forget are the ones you never thought about, yet can never forget! A car accident during the summer before my senior year of high school left me with amnesia. To escape my confusion, I boarded a train to Lhasa alone. I thought it would be an ordinary trip, but then I met a girl on the train who would heal me for the rest of my life... This is the story of a lost boy with amnesia searching for redemption, and finding love during his four years at university. 3Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 After the Entire City of Tianfu Was Transported, the Japanese Were Stunned 天府市群穿后，小鬼子懵了 Tianfu City in the Great Xin Empire, with the entire nation transmigrated back to the Great Xin Empire during the War of Resistance against Japan. Faced with a modern, tri-service military force decades ahead of its time, the Japanese invaders are left dumbfounded. “Nani? Their artillery has a terrifying range of over a thousand kilometers!” “Baka! One of their warplanes can beat dozens of ours!” “Damn it, what is that massive warship out at sea, big as a mountain? It's a monster! Hurry, call on 24Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 21 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Evil-Breaker 行走阴阳：破邪 There is a group of extraordinary people who walk between yin and yang, slaying demons and breaking evil curses to maintain the balance between the two worlds! Devoted to the Dao, they battle evil men, seal away vengeful ghosts, and uphold the path of righteousness. They are all nobodies, with just one mysterious connection: the Dragon Group! 181Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 22 College Student Traps: Campus Beauties, the Supernatural, and a Dog 大学生诱捕器：校花，诡异和狗 The only one on the entire site! [Face-like horrors + villains, anti-tropes, and unconventional logic]! Horrors lurk on campus, and traps are everywhere. Money, fame, steamy thrills, even cute cats could all be bait! The campus belle was forced to sign a pact with darkness. On the night of the eclipsed moon, a baby’s cries rang out as a black dog sneered from the wall. The horrors coveted fresher souls! Students shrouded in fear found a lead on the dark web: Jiang Luohui, a student at their scho 56Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 24 Me, a Chubby Seven-Year-Old, Making a City Famous with Barbecue 我，七岁小胖，用烧烤带火一座城 I transmigrated into the body of Su Xiaohu, a chubby seven-year-old boy in Bocheng. I had hoped to start a carefree new life, but the System bound Su Xiaohu to a barbecue shop at Baxiaoju Market. So the chubby boy, who had grown up on the neighbors' charity, decided to use a little grill to set the whole city ablaze with barbecue... A few months later, as Bocheng flourished and the shop's fame spread across all of Jiuzhou and even the world, this seven-year-old chubby boy became a household name 338Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 25 Don’t Mess With Him, This Taoist Is a Little Wild 别惹他，这个道士有点野 Daoist arts + feng shui + folk customs + witchcraft + folk secrets + corpse walking + suspense + the supernatural Have you ever seen a person with no shadow? A corpse that can walk? A living person covered in corpse spots? Paper that cannot be burned? An ancient zither that plays by itself? Someone stepping out of a portrait...? Tang Yao has seen them all, and has spent his entire life dealing with such things. “Conceived in the yin year, month, day, and hour, and born in the yin year, month, da —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Yin Sovereign: The Fox Immortal Arrives 阴天子，狐仙驾到 I was born with an extraordinary destiny, meant to become an emperor. But just after I was born, someone tried to sabotage my fate. To save me, my grandfather gave away the merit accumulated by eighteen generations of our family, and risked his own life to defy the heavens and change my destiny... 5.4kReads7.4Score348Shelves
- 28 Miao Mountain Romance 苗山情缘 During the summer of my sophomore year, I returned to school and took the wrong bus because I was in a hurry. I fell asleep on the ride, and when I woke up, I was in a remote mountain village. A farmer took me in, and I never imagined my life would change so drastically from that moment on. 2kReads8.4Score173Shelves
- 29 The Day I Was Born, the Heavenly Coffin Bestowed Blessings, and Nine Dragons Suppressed Evil 我出生那天，天棺赐福，九龙镇煞 The day I was born, the Nine Dragons wailed, and a divine coffin appeared in the sky. Feng shui lore says that when the Nine Dragons bow before a coffin, it becomes a Heavenly Coffin. Whatever lies inside will bring either immense fortune or great calamity. I was never meant to live in this world. My grandmother stole my life from a dragon-bone Heavenly Coffin. When I turned eighteen, she told me a great secret about the Heavenly Coffin… 3.8kReads7.6Score321Shelves
- 30 The 16th Book of the Year 恰逢年岁第16本书 A mysterious text-based game had the unique ability to affect reality. Here, everything was available: immortal cultivation, beast taming, mages, supernatural powers... Chen Su gained the ability to turn back time because of it. Made the wrong choice? No problem. I can turn back time. Can't figure out a cultivation technique or skill? No problem. I can turn back time. Can't take it anymore? No problem. I can turn back time. Chen Su sighed and rubbed his forehead. Who understands what it's like t 176Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 31 The Miaojiang Gu Sorceress 苗疆蛊女 Ancient mists, legends of Miaojiang: what faithless lover wouldn’t fear a love charm planted by their beloved? 206Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Can Transform the Cursed Gods 我能改造诡神 Classic of Mountains and Seas + urban fantasy + System + leveling up + no romance + pets Rotting beasts of mountains and seas have become humanity’s nightmares. They are powerful, immortal, terrifying, savage, and uncontrollable. And I have given them new life. When the Kun dons an outer shell of superalloy, the Nine-Tailed Fox gains the ability to leap through space, and the Nine-Headed Bird merges with Yamata no Orochi, they will surpass myth. 687Reads7.8Score104Shelves
- 33 Luring Ghosts 招诡 A lot of the time, there are secrets and things hidden inside you that even you don't know about. For instance, what happens after you fall asleep... 350Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 34 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Born of a Corpse 尸生子 My mother-in-law was a midwife. When I grew up, I took over and delivered babies for women, becoming a male midwife. I deliver babies for the living, but I also deliver them for the dead... 177Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 36 Witchcraft 蛊术 To save me, Grandpa dug up the poisonous gu worm buried for ten years… From then on, I was swept into the bizarre world of gu insects! The ten most fearsome insects of Miaojiang, ancient and mysterious gu arts, all enough to take your breath away. This novel strives to portray gu arts in their purest form and is well worth a read. 702Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 37 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Let My Guard Down! Someone Stole My Sweet Little Cabbage 大意了！养的小白菜被人撬了 [Raising and nurturing] [Slow-paced] [No System] The woman watched as the twin childhood friends next door and the newcomer both clung to the little cabbage she’d raised herself, and fell into deep thought. “Help! What do you do when someone steals the little cabbage you raised yourself?” 60Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 39 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score237Shelves
- 40 The Spirit Chaser 赶阴人 Read the stars and moon, and declare life and death with ironclad certainty. A man on the margins of the human world, he sets right the injustices of the underworld. My new book, The City's Strongest Immortal Son-in-Law, is out now. I humbly ask for your support! 450Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 41 The Orthodox Unity Taoist Acolyte 正一小道爷 My master vanished without a trace. As the sect’s last heir, I have the sect’s treasured spirit sword and a purple-gold spirit talisman brush. One man, one sword, one brush: I descend the mountain to subdue demons and ghosts. Note: Some events in this book are based on real experiences the author has had, and some of the methods are quite authentic. Do not attempt to imitate them! 592Reads6.1Score100Shelves
- 42 A Rural Guide to the Supernatural 乡野灵异手册 I was born in a remote village, with a faint red, triangular birthmark on my forehead. On the day I was born, every fish in the village pond died. After my birth, one strange event after another began happening in the village: cooked chunks of a corpse in an abandoned well, a neighbor's grandmother coming back from the dead, a doll that wept bloody tears. The villagers started calling me a harbinger of disaster, and everyone avoided me. 131Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 43 The Yin-Yang Artisan 阴阳诡匠 [Author's note: This book has no System and isn't mindless. Most of the events… really happened. Do not try any of the customs or taboos described here! Any consequences are your own responsibility!] It's better to offend the King of Hell than a poor carpenter. When you've worked as a carpenter long enough, you'll inevitably encounter all sorts of terrifying, bizarre accidents and stories. Sometimes, we're part of them ourselves. I used to think my grandfather was just an eccentric old carpenter 1.1kReads6.3Score102Shelves
- 44 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 224Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 45 Tearing Love Apart 撕爱 Torn Love 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Enter at Midnight: Clear the Dungeons to Survive (Season 7) 午夜入场，副本通关才能活下去(第七季) Enter at Midnight: Clear the Instance to Survive (Season 7) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Maoshan Heavenly Master 茅山天师 My grandmother’s death indirectly set me on a path completely unlike that of ordinary people. From then on, my fate began to change. The farther I traveled along this road, the more strange things I experienced: underworld messengers, the Eight-Gate Corpse Fiend, the Spirit Rock Ghost Realm, the Kunlun Demon Droughtfiend, and more. Then I suddenly realized that all these events seemed to point toward a conspiracy, one powerful enough to turn the world upside down... 1.6kReads7.5Score107Shelves
- 48 Surviving in a Strange World, I Became a Pawnshop Owner 诡异世界求生，我成了典当铺老板 [Rules-Based Horror + Lovecraftian Horror + Business-Building + Progression System] When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. You there, get in here! I’m an internet-addicted teenager. I was planning to stay up all night and finish a horror novel when I was unexpectedly dragged into a bizarre survival world. There was a mysterious pawnshop, an abacus that could talk, and on my very first deal, I got swindled by a Level One supernatural item: the Ghost Bride... 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Yin Corpse Brought Me to the Mortal World: The Living, Keep Away 阴尸送我来人间，生人退避 My name is Luo Ansheng. I was delivered by a Yin Corpse. A Yin Corpse brought me into the world, and a hundred ghosts fought over their food. All manner of fearsome beings gathered, eager to devour my flesh and essence. After I gave them a good beating, they settled down and began competing to protect me. 4.2kReads8.8Score386Shelves
- 50 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—Shelves
