Novels like Judge of Yin and Yang
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- 1 Underworld: The Judge's Brush Exposes My Identity as the Yellow Emperor's Daughter 地府：我黄帝之女的身份被判官笔曝光 A certain old god sincerely asks: What should I do if I accidentally wiped out every flower of the other shore in the Underworld? Asking online, and it’s pretty urgent. So the old god, struck down by heavenly retribution, was dumped into the male lead’s bath. After the two gazed deeply into each other’s eyes... The male lead: “She’s looking at me like that. She must like me.” The old god: “He’s looking at me like that. Is he trying to kill me?” The more she thinks about it, the angrier she gets! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Grand Judge of the Mortal Realm 阳间大判官 The world is divided into Heaven, Earth, and the Human Realm. Heaven means the Celestial Court, Earth means the Underworld, and the Human Realm means the world of mortals. All life in the world revolves around these three realms, and none of them can exist without the others. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Yin-Yang Realm's Deputy Judge 阴阳界之代理判官 With the Book of Life and Death in my left hand and the Judge's Brush in my right, I command yin and yang and pass judgment on life and death. It all began when my grandfather died for no apparent reason. As I investigated one uncanny incident after another, I learned of his other identity. From then on, I became an acting judge of the underworld and embarked on a journey to find the true culprit who killed my grandfather. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I’m the Judge of the Underworld 我在阴曹地府当判官 After a seismic upheaval in the stars, dark energy surges forth and living creatures mutate. Humanity enters an age of cultivation. From the start, Qian Ye possesses a Yin-Yang Ruler, builds a farm in the underworld, starts an agricultural company, and recruits the Black and White Impermanence and Ox-Head and Horse-Face as managers. His products sell like hotcakes at home and abroad. Qian Ye: “You’re all my employees. Don’t work yourselves to the bone. Do a good job and you’ll get stock options 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Reincarnation Envoy: Roaming the Worlds of the Living and the Dead with the Judge’s Brush 轮回使：手持判官笔游走阴阳两界 [Cultivation] + [Parallel World] + [Rebirth] + [Invincible] Zhong Chenyang was born with Yin-Yang Eyes, and even his hair is half black and half white! After entering Longyao Academy, he unexpectedly awakened to Foundation Establishment, with strength comparable to a Martial Venerable in the human world! The memories of his past life, sealed in his mind, slowly shattered and merged with the memories of this life. With a monstrous talent and a cultivation speed like a madman's, he roams endle 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Have a Judge's Brush 我有一支判官笔 A peerless genius falls in a single day. A hidden dragon swims beneath the waters; a tiger loses its place in the sun. Reborn in the underworld, he will reclaim his glory. He drinks deep of the River of the Yellow Springs, strides across the Bridge of Helplessness, grips the Judge's brush, and gazes toward the Gates of Hell. The path of the soul is long and winding. The journey through the mortal world is fraught with endless hardship. Slaying gods and vanquishing demons, what a thrill. When he 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Judge of Yin and Yang 阴阳判官 The living answer for their crimes before the living. The dead answer for theirs before me! Once you die, you become a ghost. The causes and consequences of your past life are settled. Don’t pine for the people you left behind. If fate allows, you’ll meet again in your next life. 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Urban Judge of the Living: From the Start, I Have the Book of Life and Death! 都市：人间判官，开局一本生死簿！ After his younger sister was kidnapped, Lin Xuan unexpectedly activated his ancestral jade token and traveled to the underworld, where he obtained a miniature Book of Life and Death. From then on, Lin Xuan became a judge of the mortal realm, wielding the Book of Life and Death to pass judgment on matters between yin and yang and rid the world of its troubles... 210Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Ferryman: I Am the Judge of the Living World 摆渡人：我是人间判官 My name is Su Yang, and I’m a handsome crematorium worker. A misleading message from my ex-girlfriend led me to try to end my life, but the attempt failed, and I unexpectedly acquired the Judge System. From then on, I roamed among countless ghosts with the Judge’s Brush in hand. That day, by a twist of fate, I discovered that the campus belle was dead. To get my help, she actually… 221Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 He’s the Underworld Judge. Why Would You Mess With Him? 他阴间判官，你惹他干嘛？ [No female lead + two male leads with a brotherly bond + demon and ghost hunting + light supernatural elements + original plot] P.S. This isn't a power fantasy, and the characters don't act brainlessly. I'm a judge of the underworld, yet my immediate superior, King Chujiang, has banished me to the mortal realm. [Me: Boss, I didn't do anything wrong, did I? Even if someone has to go through a trial in the human world, it shouldn't be me, right? I'm a judge!] [King Chujiang: Are you trying to thro 171Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Give Me a Billion: The Underworld's Son of Heaven Sees You Off at Your Funeral 给我十亿：葬礼阴天子为你送行 If you're willing to pay ten thousand yuan, I'll give you a funeral fit for a king! A license-free Hongqi sedan. An old man with white hair and a face full of hardship. Thirty men in black, wearing sunglasses, watching in silence! Every guest will wonder whether you had a mysterious and terrifying past. If you're willing to pay ten billion yuan! The sun will set for you! The stars will shine for you! The gods of every realm will chant sutras in your honor! A thousand immortals will fly here on t 8Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 12 I Am China’s Judge of the Dead, Passing Judgment on Evil Live 我乃华夏判官，直播审判罪恶 [From the Start]+ [Transmigration]+ [Urban]+ [Superpowers]+ [Urban Cultivation]+ [Western Gods]+ [Aliens] Xiao Fan got his hands on a Book of Life and Death, and from then on became the guardian of justice and fairness in the world. [Those guilty of heinous crimes shall die] [Those who are disloyal and unfilial shall die] [Those who bully the weak shall die] [Monsters and demons who wreak havoc shall die] Whether human, god, ghost, demon, or monster, all will face my judgment. The more I judge, 137Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 13 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Fighting Evil with Evil: No Criminal Gets Away 以恶制恶：罪犯一个别想逃 [System]+ [powerful heroine with no pairing]+ [criminal justice]+ [fighting evil with evil]+ [criminal investigation]+ [punishing scumbags] Behind the bustle of a thriving city lie many dark corners unknown to the public. Terror, violence, and bloodshed abound in these places, leaving victims in utter misery! After drowning, Lu Pan accidentally binds herself to a Criminal Judgment System. For every victim in life-threatening danger she saves, Lu Pan gains three months of life. Lu Pan must help v 217Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 15 From the Start, Trapped in a Vegetative State? I'll Judge the World's Evil 开局植物人？我要审判世间罪恶 [Alternate universe, System, no romance] Ji Ran's moment of weakness led to misfortune, but she unexpectedly acquired the “Righteous Path of the World” System. From then on, she uses the System to root out evil, deliver justice for its victims, and restore peace and order to the world. Every livestream gives criminals a “brand-new” experience, while reminding the public: never do evil. 177Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Yin-Yang Judge of Life and Death 阴阳生死判 [Slow-paced story. Enter at your own risk if that’s not your thing.] Remote villages are often home to all kinds of bizarre legends. A hundred ghosts carry a coffin for a thousand miles to deliver a child... The King of Hell calls the roll, then hunts someone down for a thousand miles... These strange events all happen to Ye Qiu. Ye Qiu: “I am the Judge of Life and Death. I’ll handle affairs in the world of the living, and affairs in the underworld too. The laws of the Underworld are strict. Le 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Me! Rebuilding the Underworld in the Mortal Realm 我！在人间重造地府 Jiang Ning transmigrates to a world where ghostly qi has revived. This world has no reincarnation, and no Underworld! The gates of hell stand wide open. The supernatural is everywhere, ghosts roam in droves, and all life is devastated! The gods and Buddhas turn a blind eye, and heaven and earth offer no refuge. Fortunately, he awakens a System, summons the manifestation of the King of Hell, and becomes ruler of the netherworld! Build a hell, recruit yin soldiers, and appoint judges. The Book of 2Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 19 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
- 20 Feng Shui Yin-Yang Master 风水阴阳师 "Born under the Emperor Ziwei's fate, with yin-yang eyes from birth." An extraordinary life is his destiny. He inherits his ancestors' feng shui arts. In the world of the mystic arts, yin flourishes while yang declines. A thousand-year plan awaits just one person. 1.2kReads7.1Score114Shelves
- 21 Horror Livestream: I Became the Lord of Hell 惊悚直播：我成了地狱之主 Hell has descended into chaos, and the ghosts can no longer be reincarnated. Lin Fan obtains the Lord of Hell System and gathers countless ghosts for his horror park! Visitor 1: “Bro, you're standing right in front of me, so who's calling me? There's a ghost in this phone! Aaaaaah!” Visitor 2: “What the hell? I was just playing a horror park game, so why did I see my dead grandpa? Damn!” Visitor 3: “Here's a secret: you must never play the spirit-writing game at this horror park!” Lin Fan smiles 6Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 22 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.5kReads8.8Score484Shelves
- 23 Supernatural: I Am the Yin Emperor, Founding the Underworld and Ruling the Mortal Realm 灵异：吾阴天子，创地府掌控人间 [Invincible + Incredibly Satisfying] Su Xin transmigrates to a parallel world. Supernatural phenomena are resurging, killing is rampant, the world’s order has collapsed, the gods have vanished, and the Underworld has fallen apart. Fortunately, Su Xin awakens the Underworld Inheritance System and becomes its supreme ruler: the Son of Heaven of Yin! From then on, Su Xin recruits subordinates, establishes City Gods around the world, hunts down evil ghosts, restores order to the world, and rebuilds 93Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 24 Ghost Hunter 捉鬼人 My name is Zhao Jinyin. By chance, I learned the skills of a ghost hunter, and from then on made my living at it, roaming freely between the worlds of yin and yang. Ahem, this book is a bit frightening, so readers with high blood pressure should stay away. It’s also a little humorous, so anyone with a weak heart should stay away too. 262Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 25 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 114Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 26 Wayfarer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳行者 The ultimate truths of heaven and earth are two: death and parting, and the way between yin and yang. I protect the living in the world of light, driving out evil and subduing demons until every specter is vanquished. I guide the dead across the Yellow Springs, and set foot upon the Bridge of Helplessness without hesitation. A traveler between the realms of yin and yang, I bear the balance of life and death on my shoulders. Have you ever seen an old sheep knock at your door, or a paper figure sp 279Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 27 Supernatural: I Bring Home an Old Immortal in Inner Mongolia 灵异：我在内蒙领老仙儿 My name is Li Tianshu. I was originally called Li Chengcai. I was sickly from childhood and plagued by hardship. I was so familiar with the gates of death that even the King of Hell knew my face. My grandparents said I had been cursed just like my great-grandfather, and planned to abandon me in the mountains to be raised by wolves. It was my maternal grandfather who gave me back my humanity and renamed me Li Tianshu, hoping Heaven would forgive me and free me from the curse. From then on, my fat 336Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 The Last Grave Chaser 最后一个撵坟人 [Tomb raiding + the supernatural + suspense + Taoist arts + feng shui + spirit-walking + witchcraft + no System + original, not fanfiction + slow burn] In southwest China, there is a little-known profession whose practitioners are called grave chasers. They read the flow of qi and water, scour the mountains and track down tombs, and are experts in feng shui, burial sites, Taoist arts, and witchcraft. What are grave chasers really looking for? How did I get dragged into all this? It all began whe 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 With the Book of Life and Death in Hand, the King of Hell Makes Me a Judge 手拿生死簿，阎王让我当判官 Two names lie before Zhao Ming: Zhang Min and Wang Fuqiang. One of them will die in seven days! Who dies is up to Zhao Ming! Zhao Ming has inherited Old Man Leng’s legacy: a Judge’s Brush, a Book of Life and Death, and a volume called The Judge’s Notes. He has become a Judge personally appointed by the King of Hell. In the world of the living, he passes judgment on people’s fates on the King of Hell’s behalf! A correct judgment earns him an extra month of life. A wrong one costs him a year. Befo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 I Want to File a Complaint! This Ghost Officer Uses Excessive Force! 我投诉！这个鬼差暴力执法！ After being framed, underworld kingpin Chen Jiuhua becomes a ghost bailiff in the Netherworld and gains the Ghost Bailiff System. Every soul he captures makes him stronger. Sun Wukong: “Your Majesty, I’m reporting one of your men for using excessive force! He stole my Golden Cudgel and sold it for scrap, and now he wants to crack open my skull and suck out my brains!” Jehovah: “Hey, I’m a Western god. The Netherworld has no jurisdiction over me, right? I was on my way to Heaven when that guy kic 801Reads8.7Score221Shelves
- 31 Heir of the Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海传人 When I was nine, a horde of ghosts surrounded our house, all intent on taking my life! To save me, Grandpa went and found me a female ghost to be my wife… 208Reads9.0Score103Shelves
- 32 Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master: I Wield the Art of Qimen Dunjia 斩龙天师：我身怀奇门遁甲术 On the day I was born, a dragon skeleton was unearthed beneath our ancestral home. My grandfather said I was the dragon reincarnated, and that I would live no longer than twenty years. To stay alive, I became the last Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master in the world. 3.1kReads8.8Score234Shelves
- 33 The Judge Is Here, Make Way 判官来咯，请让路 Feng Jing, a newly hired intern specializing in traditional Chinese medicine, returns home after visiting his parents’ graves, only to have two figures claiming to be the Judge’s Brush and the Book of Life and Death latch onto him. After his resistance proves futile, he switches fields and becomes a novice judge of the underworld. Feng Jing: “Can I refuse?” Kuixing: “What do you think?” Yinyue: shakes her head. Feng Jing: sniffles. He happens to meet Lu Yuting, a powerful heir from a wealthy fam 718Reads9.0Score130Shelves
- 34 The Local Official 土官 In some parts of northern China, a local ritual master is the person who presides over funeral rites. The role is semi-official, and local ritual masters are also responsible for the village shrines to the Earth God. As the times change, this profession is destined to disappear. But the protagonist, whose mother died when he was ten, finds a different path: he lives with an open heart and no fear, and with kindness in his heart and no regrets. 4.6kReads8.9Score477Shelves
- 35 The Book of Buried Ghosts 葬诡经 Most people know about Thailand's black magic, but few realize that China's own Jiangmen tradition is the true source of all such sorcery. As the saying goes: “A master of sorcery has no ancestors in the Southern Seas; reverence for the Three Teachings is the true tradition.” Let me tell you all about the Chinese sorcerers and their craft… 3.2kReads8.4Score410Shelves
- 36 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 110Reads—Score155Shelves
- 37 The Eerie Coffin Bearers 诡抬棺 Nine peaks, a sea of blood, mountains of bones... Murderous danger lurks everywhere. Every step is fraught with peril, and I never know how much longer I'll survive. It wasn't until I deciphered the nursery rhyme I'd heard when I became someone's disciple that I uncovered a shocking secret... 63Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 38 The Mountain and Sea Coffin 山海棺 Wooden coffins bury the dead, iron coffins conceal ghosts; silver coffins nurture demons, and golden coffins seal gods. After Grandpa dies, all spirits pay their respects at the shrine, and he is buried in a coffin among the mountains and seas... 371Reads8.2Score100Shelves
- 39 Having a Son Is Like Having the King of Hell 生个儿子是阎王 Five years ago, I gave birth to a child. Everyone who saw what the child looked like died. Five years later, I met a man who told me he was the child's father. 16.9kReads8.9Score377Shelves
- 40 Snatching Immortality 抢仙 [Mystery and adventure + occult battles + a nontraditional path to immortality + ruins around the world] I've practiced Daoism for twenty years and watched my master ascend with my own eyes. Becoming an immortal has become an obsession. But the Heavenly Dao has run out of opportunities for me. I'm just one step away, yet the gap is as vast as heaven and earth. The chance to become an immortal should be somewhere between the highest heavens and the deepest underworld, but I can find it nowhere. I 50Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 41 Horror Survival of the Nation: From the Start, I Inherit the Netherworld 惊悚国运：开局继承阴曹地府 A terrifying, eerie game descends upon Blue Star, while countless strange and uncanny beings quietly spread across the world. Five players are selected from each country and bound to their nation as they enter various instances. When they clear an instance, their country receives a reward that can be used to fight the uncanny. Li Fan, an escaped mental patient who had long been bound to the Underworld System, is chosen to enter the game. And so, the game takes a sudden turn... Gambler: Let me go 73Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 42 A Record of Strange Encounters 怪异见闻录 [Folk horror, Taoist exorcists, spirit mediums banishing evil, no romance, intelligent protagonist] My grandmother is a spirit medium. Just tonight, Uncle Bei from our village came to ask her to perform an exorcism. He said Auntie Liu from the village was actually a ghost? But Auntie Liu only came to my shop yesterday to buy paper money! And so began a series of strange encounters… that turned me from an ordinary person into someone with only three souls and six spirits left! 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 You Were Supposed to Catch Demons, So Why Are You Dating a Fox Demon? 让你去捉妖，你和狐妖好上了？ When I was born, the King of Hell sent a child, and the Yin Marshal guarded me. Strange things happened one after another. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged five betrothals for me. On my eighteenth birthday, a bewitchingly beautiful fox spirit came to my door... 289Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 44 Fear Descends: The Death Livestream Begins 恐惧降临:从死亡直播开始 The underworld lies empty, while demons roam the living world. A cataclysm of unprecedented scale destroyed the underworld. Yang Tian, who unexpectedly obtained the [Ruler of the Underworld] System, became the sovereign of the netherworld: the Yin Emperor! Only by harvesting the souls of evil people in the mortal realm can he rebuild the underworld! And so, terror descended... 15Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 45 With No Judge of the Dead in This World, I Become Yama 世间无判官，我身化阎罗 Half a Book of Life and Death; A Pen of Reincarnation. When they appeared, the world was rife with crime, online abuse, bullying and slander, right and wrong turned upside down, the powerful beyond the reach of the law, resentment filling the skies, and ghosts and monsters multiplying... "I shall set right what Heaven cannot, and judge what black and white cannot." As Mu Yi holds the Book of Life and Death and murmurs in his heart, divine thunder fills the sky, and the entire planet Yan Hua trem 1.2kReads8.4Score100Shelves
- 46 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 47 Honghuang: I Am the Yin Heavenly Son. Gods and Buddhas, Prepare to Die 洪荒：我，阴天子，请诸神佛赴死 Jiang Qian transmigrated into the Primordial World and became the Yin Son of Heaven, ruler of the underworld. He obtained the Underworld Investiture of the Gods System, setting him on an endless path through tribulations. “As for our origins, my underworld came into being alongside heaven and earth. We are the true lineage of the Father God. Even you, Hongjun, owe me a debt of karma!” “As for our foundations, we hold the Book of Humanity and govern reincarnation. We rule the paths of humanity an 857Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 48 The Yin-Yang Sect Leader 阴阳掌门人 Corpse retrievers have three rules about bodies they must never retrieve. For the sake of a hundred thousand yuan, my father and I broke all three. As we were pulling a woman's corpse from the water, she suddenly opened her eyes. From then on, she wouldn't leave me alone… 7.7kReads8.6Score739Shelves
- 49 On My Graduation Internship, I Become the Underworld Emperor Fengdu's Spokesperson 毕业实习：我成了酆都大帝代言人 Just before graduation, Du Feng gets an interview at the Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Shop and unexpectedly becomes the spokesperson for the Great Emperor of Fengdu. From then on, his life takes a dramatic turn. As the young lord of the underworld, he commands the respect of countless ghosts, slays ghosts and demons, drives out evil and binds spirits, and judges the affairs of yin and yang... Du Feng: “Crush their bones and scorch their marrow, gouge out their eyes and flay them, tear out their tendons 1.5kReads8.4Score148Shelves
- 50 I'm a Merchant in a World of Horror 我在惊悚世界当商人 Some people trade in the living, while others trade in the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, joss paper, burial clothes, or paper offerings. I sell things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger… 2.6kReads8.8Score262Shelves
