Novels like The Yin-Yang Occult Artisan
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- 1 The Xiangxi Corpse Driver: A Record of Strange Cases in Xiangxi 湘西赶尸人之湘西诡案录 Deep in the mountains of western Hunan, on nights when the corpse-driving bells ring, the living must hold their breath, and the dead open their eyes. Lin Xiaoqi, the last corpse-driving practitioner in western Hunan, has been able to see the ghostly lights along the Yellow Springs Road since childhood. She burned paper money and scattered cinnabar, thinking she would spend the rest of her life running a funeral shop. Then a string of “grinning murder cases” struck the county town: a taxi driver —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Yin-Yang Paper Effigies 阴阳扎纸人 Searching for immortal arts?! On Mount Kunlun, Jiang Taigong obtained thirty-six minor immortal arts, which helped the Zhou overthrow the Shang and establish a dynasty that lasted eight hundred years. Later, those thirty-six minor immortal arts were lost among the people, giving rise to countless famed scholars and generals. Among them, the Nine Heavens Hidden Dragon Art was the most revered. At his father's behest, Zhu Yiba set out to find the Nine Heavens Hidden Dragon Art, only to become enta 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Corpse Retriever: A Fake Blind Date, and the Campus Belle Wants a Baby Right Away 捞尸人：假相亲，校花要立马造娃 [Body Retrieval + School Beauty Pursues Him and Moves In + No System + Ghost Hunting] Qin Feng reluctantly inherits the family trade and becomes a senior corpse retriever at the Ninth Bend of the Great River. Senior corpse retrievers never go hungry and have no trouble finding a wife, but the dangers they face go far beyond retrieving bodies! So he decides to deal with the Great River's Ten Great Threats before marrying and having children, lest one careless mistake leave his wife a widow and hi 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 I’m a Coffin Sealer, So Making a Jiangshi Is Perfectly Normal 我一个封棺匠，炼个僵尸很正常吧 For generations, the Chen family has passed down a saying: coffin-sealing masters have guarded the Nine Dragons for generations. Chen Tian, the last coffin-sealing master, was treated as a mere tool by nine forces as mighty as dragons. Unwilling to accept his fate, he rises up against them, even if it means breaking the Chen family taboo to suppress and seal the Nine Dragons. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Four Yin Gates 四阴门 Have you heard of the “Four Yin Trades”? It’s a collective name for four professions that deal with the dead. There’s a saying that goes: “The executioner’s blade hangs on the wall; the coroner’s eyes can see; the paper effigy maker’s craft looks lifelike; the second-skin tailor’s needle and thread stitch right through the hide.” My grandpa practiced the third of these trades: he made paper effigies! 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 A Food Courier's Path to Exorcism 外卖员的驱邪之路 Can you believe that Yu, the legendary Great Yu who tamed the floods, has become a delivery driver thousands of years later? And his time-crossing encounter with Nüjiao, daughter of the Tushan clan, is all the more heartbreaking! Follow the growth of a delivery driver across a thousand years! Was it fate, or a plan four thousand years in the making?! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 I Retrieve Corpses from the River 我是捞尸人 Tomb raiding has its northern and southern schools; corpse retrieval has its old and new traditions... A corpse retriever is just a job, but it's one you risk your life to do for money. As long as the price is right, there's nothing a corpse retriever won't retrieve. Nothing is off-limits. My name is Zhang Yang, and I'm an old-school corpse retriever... Let me tell you what a real corpse retriever is... 131Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Paper Effigy Maker: My Paper Dolls Are Powerhouses 扎纸匠：我的纸人是大佬 “My name is Hong Chen. I’m a paper effigy maker. I never believed in anything supernatural, but last year, a young man from the countryside named Zhang Dan ordered a white paper effigy from me. I never imagined that it would be the beginning of a nightmare…” 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Strings of Terror in the Dark: A Collection of Folk Mystery and Horror Stories 暗夜惊弦：民间悬疑恐怖故事集 [Mystery] [Supernatural] In the shadowy corners of the folk world lurk countless chilling tales of mystery and horror. This collection is an invitation to the unknown, ready to lead you into dark worlds few have ever seen. Here, every story is a window into the mysterious and the terrifying. You’ll hear midnight sobbing in an ancient mansion, the sound seemingly coming from another world, filled with endless sorrow and resentment. You’ll also encounter vengeful spirits wandering through an aband 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Mystic Paper Effigy Maker 奇门扎纸匠 Before I was even born, my grandfather had already begun quietly changing my fate, arranging an engagement to someone I had never met. He spared no effort to defy fate and pass down the paper effigy-making craft of the Four Yin Sect, hoping to avoid every calamity brought by the Five Bane and Three Deficiencies. When I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. Something extraordinary was happening, and it seemed all the disasters were only just beginning. It looked as though everything had be 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Ghosts Are So Scary! Learning to Slay Them in a Supernatural World 有鬼好怕怕，我在灵异世界学斩鬼 [Horror novel. Not for the faint of heart.] Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? If not, where did the word “ghost” come from? Have you ever experienced despair? The world I live in is filled with it. My name is Li You'an. If you’d like to hear my story, come take a look at my world. Twenty kilometers beyond the cemetery, countless hands clawed their way out of the earth. The world changed, becoming strange and unfamiliar. Ghosts ran rampant, the gates of the underworld swung wide ope —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Retriever, and Zhou Jie Exposed Me 毕业后当捞尸人，被周姐曝光了 With graduation just around the corner, Lin Yu's girlfriend breaks up with him over the harsh realities of life. Just then, Lin Yu activates the Corpse Retriever System and prepares to start recovering bodies. Some expert: No boat can sail on the River of the Dead. Some authority: No one can identify the corpses in the River of the Dead. Some veteran corpse retriever: Anyone who retrieves corpses from the River of the Dead dies within a year. Yet Lin Yu rows his little boat along the River o 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Corpse Driver: I Dug Up an Undercover Cop from the Start 赶尸人，开局挖出警方卧底 Synopsis: Li Chengchuan is so busy driving corpses that he accidentally stands up his blind date, enraging his older sister! “I’ll go plead your case again, but you’d better behave this time, or I’ll beat you to death!” “I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation.” “Sorry, I had to go on a last-minute business trip and forgot to tell you.” “So what do you do for work?” “If I say I drive corpses, would you believe me?” “I believe you!” Song Qianqian didn’t take him too seriously, because her 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Dragon-Locking Coffin 锁龙棺 I have all five yin aspects, yet my allotted years are cut short. Every day, I wear burial clothes. The moment I take them off, one strange and eerie thing after another begins to happen... 133Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 15 Survival Manual for the Eerie World 诡异世界生存手册 [Suspense] [Rule Horror] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Battle of Wits] [Warning: This is not a novel. It is a real survival manual for the supernatural world.] Rule One: Don’t open the window after dark. Rule Two: The night-watch candle must never go out. Rule Three: Never trust anyone outside the window. If you break any of these rules, write down your last words immediately. Because a ghost player is already standing behind you. 30Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 16 Jiangshi World: From the Start, I’m a Paper Effigy Maker 僵尸世界：开局一个扎纸匠 On a deserted street in Changping City stood a shop that made paper offerings. The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The night should have been peaceful and quiet, but now the air was thick with the stench of corpses. Every shop on the street was closed, and the nearby residents had gone to bed early. Only that paper-offering shop still had a faint light shining inside. The wreaths at the entrance looked especially unnerving. Inside, row upon row of paper figures and burial clothes were 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Midnight Livestream 午夜直播 Other people livestream to make money. I livestream to stay alive. When you see me on stream, you need to be careful. Shh, don't look back... There's a ghost there. 1.9kReads6.7Score19814d adds
- 18 Tales from the Artisan Sect: The Underworld Barber 匠门奇谈：阴间剃头人 Have you ever seen a ghost? Do you know about the Midnight Barber? My name is Lu Yang, and I’m a barber who roams the streets at midnight. With a single razor, I can master the realms of yin and yang; with a word of heavenly insight, I can foretell life and death. The strange and mysterious tales around me include taboos the living must never touch. Get your ears ready, and listen as I tell you about the bizarre and uncanny things that have happened around me… 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Horrifying Stories Happening Near You 发生你身边的恐怖故事 The place you live is growing onto you. A collection of independent short stories, each with a different kind of horror grown out of everyday life. The dampness in your rental that never goes away, takeout so delicious you can't stop eating, always check the back when you rent a place, do you know why people like eating pork...? Look back at your own room, and suddenly something feels wrong. Every story begins with a scene you're familiar with: family, friends, renting a place, ordering takeou 414Reads—Score10014d adds
- 20 The Nightmare Invasion 诡梦侵袭 [Infinite worlds + bizarre invasion + dreams + no female lead] Also known as: The Ultimate Dream Controller: My Mental Strength Is Maxed Out When Gu Meng wakes up, he discovers that whenever he closes his eyes, he can see a world where “Nightmares” descend on humanity from the edge of hell. The first “Nightmare” he encounters is the Lord of Sweet Dreams. Under its control, he gradually becomes a tool for “Nightmares” to invade reality. His fiancée's murder awakens the seeds of vengeance within h 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Heaven-Chosen Paper Effigy Maker 天命扎纸人 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate virtue, and fifth, study. Sixth, choose a spouse; seventh, choose a career; eighth, make friends with people of influence; ninth, practice good health. Those who work with yin and yang make their living by reading fate, but they are doomed to three deficiencies and five afflictions, with life and death impossible to predict. With nothing but the craft of making paper effigies, they guide countless wandering souls and spirits to t 349Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Strange Case Files 诡局录 [No System + No Cultivation + No Foolish Protagonist + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mystery and Suspense] My name is Shang Tian, and I’m a man cursed by an evil spirit. It was a lottery ticket that should never have existed. Its dark, yellow-black background looked soaked in old blood and night; the glaring red lettering wasn’t a set of lucky numbers, but an invitation to hell. When I scratched it off, overjoyed and thinking I’d found a lifeline to a hundred-thousand-yuan jackpot, my finge 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Tales from the Corpse Retriever: When Midnight Comes, the Dead Speak 捞尸怪谈：夜半正是尸语时 The great river in my hometown is deeply sinister. Ever since my great-grandfather's time, my family has worked in this area at a job that living people should stay away from: retrieving corpses from the water. After I inherited the family trade, all kinds of strange events began to unfold around me: the mother and child corpses in Qinghe, the soul-snatching female streamer, the uninhabited mountain village... 53Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 25 Short Tales of Terror: A Collection of Strange Stories 短篇微恐：志怪故事集 Do you think the footsteps behind you when you walk alone late at night are just the wind? Do you think the unfamiliar object that suddenly appears in an old storage box is just something you forgot about? Do you think the blurry shadow that sometimes flickers across the mirror is just a trick of the light? This collection of strange tales has no blunt, bloody shocks. It is filled only with eerie everyday moments hidden in the folds of ordinary life. Each story stands alone, yet after you close 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 146Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Corpse Retriever: I Started Out by Recovering My Blind Date's Body 捞尸人，从打捞相亲对象出师 A woman in red floated in the middle of the river. She turned out to be my blind date… I'm a corpse retriever. I never imagined that my first lesson on the job would be retrieving the body of my blind date, or that it would lead me straight into a carefully woven trap. An invisible hand was driving me forward. I couldn't stop… 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Clay God Carver 泥神匠 My family has been making clay idols for generations. We sculpt statues of gods and invite spirits into them. Remember, you must never worship at the little mountain god or earth god temples hidden in the ravines. Those are wild temples, because you never know what it is you're worshipping... 17Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 30 The Corpse Driver: The Beautiful Campus Belle Insists on Becoming My Apprentice 赶尸人：美女校花非要拜我为师 [No System + No Livestreaming + The Male Lead Is OP] After Zhang Xiaolong showed off his corpse-driving skills, he shattered the worldview of the beautiful campus belle An Siqi. After a fierce inner struggle, An Siqi decided to learn the art of corpse-driving from him. “Xiaolong, I want to take you as my master and learn corpse-driving!” “Not happening! I only pass it down between husband and wife, unless you become my wife.” “...” This book is also known as "Part-Time Corpse Driver: The Ic 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Hell’s Prison Warden 地府镇狱人 Eighteen years later, I returned to the place where my nightmare had begun. I never expected to encounter the bizarre sight of a weasel asking to be granted a title, and even less did I expect that, through a series of mishaps, I would become an outsourced worker for the Underworld. To keep living among the living, I was forced to become a jailer in the Underworld. 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Corpse Driving: I Drive Corpses Across the Myriad Worlds 赶尸：我在诸天万界当赶尸人 [No female lead + corpse-driving and ghost-hunting + System + paranormal invasion + travel to other worlds later] Lin Xuan was an ordinary high school student on Blue Star. After failing the college entrance exam, he unexpectedly obtained the Myriad Worlds Corpse-Driving System and began traveling daily through the Myriad Worlds as a corpse driver. Blue Star: The God of the Paranormal arrives from across the ocean with an army of the uncanny. “Ding-a-ling…” Lin Xuan sees what is happening and ri 33Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 33 Notes from a Visitor to Another World 异界人笔记 [Infinite Flow horror + mild scares + mystery + single male protagonist + no romance] My father is Pei Shiwu, my mother is Zheng Baifen, and I’m Pei Zheng, who both loses and gains. At sixteen, I unexpectedly gained the ability to see ghosts. I fought evil, helped the vulnerable, and encountered one bizarre, fascinating tale after another. These are my notes. Come along and see what I went through. Got your seats ready? I’m about to reveal it all, one story at a time… 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Debts of the Dead 死人债 Born of vengeful spirits, bound by the debts of the dead! When a hundred ghosts roam, they chain the souls of the departed! Bearing the debts of the dead, I enter the cycle of reincarnation, blessed from birth with the ability to foresee death... 314Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 35 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Eerie Corpse Retrieval: Beating Up a Thousand-Year-Old Water Ghost from the Start 诡异捞尸：开局暴打千年水鬼 As everyone knows, corpse retrieval has three rules: 1. Don’t retrieve bodies during thunderstorms. 2. Don’t retrieve bodies floating upright. 3. If you can’t retrieve a body after three tries, give up! No matter how much the client offers, corpse retrievers refuse to enter the water if any of these three situations arise! Before retrieving a body, they also perform all kinds of warding-off rituals and offerings. If anything seems amiss, they won’t enter the water either! These are precious less 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 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… 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Cultivating Buddhism and Taoism, I Befriend the Paranormal 佛道双修我与诡异为伍 No System, no harem, no goody-two-shoes protagonist, and either one or two heroines. Fresh out of college, Chen Xiao scraped by delivering takeout in his spare time. One night, he accidentally crossed paths with something unclean, and from then on, evil spirits clung to him relentlessly. Strange events kept happening, and misfortune followed him everywhere. On the road, he ran into a ragged wandering monk. Unable to turn a blind eye, Chen Xiao gave him a little help. He never imagined that this 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 I’m Meng Po’s Underling 3 我给孟婆当小弟3 The entanglements of past-life grudges lead to a meeting in this life. The final installment in the Granny Meng series. 2.2kReads7.2Score18314d adds
- 41 Three for Humans, Four for Ghosts, Seven for Lord Bai 人三鬼四白七爷 Slay ghost generals, destroy ghost kings, and battle the Ghost Emperor in the Eighteen Levels of Hell! War breaks out beneath Fengdu City, and white mourning banners rise as battle standards. Capture evil ghosts, guide wronged souls to peace, and bring justice to the mortal world. The Black and White Impermanence pass down their arts, while Ox-Head and Horse-Face gift me military tallies. The Judge writes the end of a life with his brush, while the Taoist Master Zhong Kui strikes fear into every 982Reads6.5Score10714d adds
- 42 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 273Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Blood Mill 血磨坊 Mom is a zombie. Dad has a pure Yang constitution. And I was born as a walking delicacy for monsters. Demons run wild across Changbai Mountain. To summon heavenly thunder and subdue the demons, the entire village became living dead. 42Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 44 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠：从阴间开始成大佬！ (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 825Reads6.7Score15214d adds
- 45 The Young Celestial Master of the Daoist Sect 道门小天师 On the year of his master's eightieth birthday, his master arranged a funeral for himself. Everyone in the city came... 101Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 46 Keep Away from the Living 活人勿近 Young people these days are always looking to hop onto someone’s Wi-Fi, but let me tell you: there are places where you’d better not use the Wi-Fi. It could cost you your life. Maybe you think I’m being alarmist, but I’ve been through it myself... 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Boss, I Need a Day Off to Compete in a Hopping Corpse Contest Back Home 老板请个假，回乡参加赶尸比赛 [Leave Request:] [Dear Manager,] [There will be a corpse-driving and Gu-worm competition in western Hunan in the second half of December. I need to request leave so I can go home and train my Gu worms. Without me, our village will lose.] In his twenties, Chu Yan has already become the undisputed master of corpse-driving. Tired of the dull life, he joined a Fortune 500 company and settled into a leisurely office job. Until one day, the village chief sent him a text: "When are you coming back to c 55Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 48 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 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—14d adds
- 50 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
