Novels like Tales of the Taoist Sect
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Tales of the Taoist Sect, best match first.
- 151 Maoshan Disciple 茅山弟子 Maoshan has divine arts to exterminate evil, gathering ill omens from both the yin and yang worlds. Where is the Seven-Star Dragon Spring now? Ye Shaoyang, the hero of those days, is nowhere to be seen! 1.8kReads8.2Score24414d adds
- 152 Zhenwu Subdues Demons: Sixty Years of Peace 真武荡魔：甲子太平 [Invincible Protagonist] [Pure Supernatural] [No Female Lead] I was the True Warrior Emperor in heaven, but could not bear humanity's suffering. Moved by compassion, I descended to the mortal world, to vanquish evil, deliver ghosts, and bring peace to all. The Five Arts of geomancy, medicine, destiny, physiognomy, and divination can determine the fate of the world. Geomancy suppresses demons and evil; medicine saves people. Destiny can be changed, and physiognomy reveals the powerful and the nob 2.3kReads—Score16014d adds
- 153 Martial Arts? This Daoist Doesn’t Know Any. I Only Know Magic! 武术？贫道不会，我只会法术！ Zhang Xuan is reborn in a parallel world, only to discover that the original owner of this body was the Heavenly Master of the Celestial Masters’ Mansion. After binding to a Cultivation System, he can earn rewards by completing daily tasks. He figured he could just take it easy and coast along, but an image posted online suddenly made him famous, and his peaceful days were over. Not long after, zombies attacked the Celestial Masters’ Mansion again. Zhang Xuan was furious: How dare they bully a H 1.1kReads7.5Score—14d adds
- 154 I Read People's Fortunes 我是一个看事的 (No harem, not a power fantasy, slow-paced, fighting monsters and leveling up) My name is Yu Xuanxiao. I was an ordinary person, but I was inexplicably drawn into a conspiracy and had no choice but to enter the Daoist sect and learn the art of talismans. By chance, I discovered that the source of it all was connected to a black fox from a hundred years ago. For the sake of my future, I can only fight alongside a group of like-minded companions, battling demons and monsters to the death time an 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Reading Yin Fate: The Female Ghost Is So Gorgeous, I Can't Help Myself 算阴命：女鬼太正，真的忍不住啊 Lin Qishan stayed up past midnight and brought a ghost home. She was a beautiful female ghost, too. As the saying goes, if you’re bold enough, even a female ghost will take maternity leave. After all, the law doesn’t protect female ghosts. The female ghost bit her lip, eyes burning with shame and anger. She didn’t dare make a sound and could only endure it in silence. After experiencing how wonderful the female ghost was, Lin Qishan finally let himself go... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Kunlun Gatekeeper: Ten Thousand Ghosts at My Back 昆仑守门人：我背后有万鬼 There's a long-standing rumor about the Capital Museum: though it's crowded with visitors by day, the palace is thick with yin energy after midnight. Palace maids carrying lanterns, eunuchs bearing sedan chairs, and guards in yellow robes stroll openly through its halls. For a hundred years, three generations of the Chen family have guarded the Capital Museum, suppressing evil spirits and the Three Fiends and Five Afflictions, and keeping the palace secure on all eight sides so peace can reign. 5.4kReads8.9Score43614d adds
- 157 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 There are many things in this world that you and I have never encountered. Just because we've never encountered them doesn't mean they don't exist. Legends are often more than mere legends. And traditions must have an unknown reason for becoming traditions. 632Reads9.0Score11414d adds
- 158 Urban Ghost-Hunting Livestream: I Slay a Ghost and Become Famous Online from the Start 都市直播捉鬼：开局斩鬼全网封神 Under the gaze of countless people, he slays every demon and fiend. With chaos engulfing the world, he alone stands guard over humanity! In an age crawling with sinister spirits and where yin and yang have fallen into disorder, the protagonist shoulders the burden of saving the world with nothing but his courage! Ghost weddings, snakes coiled around graves, paper effigy makers, corpses weeping bloody tears, red robes claiming lives, rotting corpses devouring hearts, poisonous insects paying homa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 I Became Shi Jian's Disciple: While Others Cultivate the Dao, I Cultivate Immortality 拜师石坚，别人修道我修仙 (Taoist cultivation + reborn transmigration + System + fantasy monsters and ghosts + no female lead + not a goody-goody) Li Shengyi is reborn and transmigrates to the Republican era. He becomes the direct disciple of Shi Jian, the Maoshan Sect’s senior disciple and the Lightning Dharma King. With magic in his left hand and the System at his fingertips, he cultivates immortality while others practice Taoism. He travels across famous mountains and rivers, upholds the justice he believes in, and fi 1.8kReads8.0Score10414d adds
- 160 I’d Just Become a Celestial Master When Someone Showed Up to Call Me a Fraud 我，刚成天师，就被人上门打假 Trapped for a thousand years inside the sect leader’s jade ring, Yang Fan advanced to Celestial Master and returned to the city with power that could reach the heavens and shake the earth. Who knew he would immediately be called out by a hugely popular livestreamer? “Everyone, can you believe there are still people who claim they can tell fortunes these days? Let’s expose this fraud together today!” Three sentences later, the livestreamer said, “Master, could you tell me if I can become a famous 431Reads7.0Score10014d adds
- 161 The Maoshan Secret Arts Passed Down in My Family Changed My Life 祖传的茅山秘术改变了我的一生 He grew up with his grandfather. When his grandfather died in the boy's seventh year, a twist of fate led him to discover a book his grandfather had left behind: The Secret Arts of Maoshan. From then on, the course of his life changed... 1kReads—Score10514d adds
- 162 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6kReads8.8Score49014d adds
- 163 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
- 164 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
- 165 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. 3.2kReads8.8Score22914d adds
- 166 My Days as a Disciple of the Spirit Mediums 我当出马弟子的时光 A true account of spirit-medium practices, giving you an authentic look at every little detail! Every story and every person in this book is based on real events! 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Tales of the Dragon and Tiger Mystic Heroes 龙虎玄侠传 In the Age of Declining Dharma, spiritual qi revives. Evil spirits wreak havoc, and dragons and tigers descend from the heavens. With the Nine Heavens Divine Pill reappearing in the world, orthodox and unorthodox factions alike prepare for battle. The arts of the occult, talismans, soul-binding, poison and witchcraft clash in a contest of skill. Ye Chen and Xiao Jun, two disciples of the Zhengyi Heavenly Masters, are summoned by Heaven's will to exterminate demons and defend the Dao. Bound by th 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 A Feng Shui Master Born in the 1990s 90后风水师 One glance tells you who is destined for riches. Two reveal who will live or die. After realizing that the goddess was doomed to disaster, Li Shiyi embarked on a road of death from which there was no turning back. 282Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 169 The Age of Declining Dharma: I Fought My Way from the White Mountains and Black Waters to Ascension 末法时代：我从白山黑水杀到飞升 In an age when spiritual energy has run dry and the era of cultivation is ending, I became the last cultivator in the world. My parents were stained with blood in Songhe Town, and my sister’s fate was unknown. At thirteen, I fled into the deepest part of Baishan, carrying a damaged Daoist scripture passed down through my family. 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 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… 3.3kReads8.4Score42614d adds
- 171 I, a Little Taoist Priest, Am Already Invincible 我，小道士，已经无敌天下了 A young Taoist in the Golden Core stage descends the mountain to gain experience. Broke and penniless, he arrives in the city and deliberately gets hit by a car driven by a beautiful police officer who is on duty. From then on, the two are bound together by an unbreakable bond. The young Taoist is determined to be a good citizen. He repeatedly helps the police solve cases, catches criminals, subdues female ghosts, cracks strange cases, and slays demons... Meanwhile, his extraordinary medical ski 7.4kReads8.8Score74214d adds
- 172 A Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain, Gaining the Power of Taotie from the Start 道士下山，开局获得饕餮之力 Transmigration + System + Classic of Mountains and Seas + Invincible + No Cultivation Realms Li Shanhai's soul travels to the Tianxuan Continent, where he becomes a young Daoist priest and gains the Classic of Mountains and Seas System. From then on, in a world overrun by demons and monsters, while everyone else practices martial arts, he uses cheats. You say you know the Heart-Sucking Technique? I have the Power of Taotie. Let's see who's better at sucking! You call yourself the Blazing Ancesto 574Reads8.2Score10914d adds
- 173 Case Files of the Unusual: New Century 异案调查录2：新世纪 A century marks one hundred years. In this new century, technology and information are advancing at breakneck speed, and all kinds of bizarre cases are springing up everywhere. News of them spreads faster than ever before. A boy who can only walk by hopping, another person's face appearing in the village well, a human shadow appearing on a factory warehouse wall in the middle of the night, and more... Only the Unusual Cases Investigation Bureau can handle this series of bizarre incidents... 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 4Reads8.3Score114d adds
- 175 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—14d adds
- 176 The Maoshan Patriarch 茅山祖师 Zhao Hao transmigrates into a world of movies and becomes the eldest disciple of the Maoshan Patriarch during the Republic of China era! Demons and monsters are no match for him, and defeating them earns him blessings and merit. With the Patriarch at his back and a System in hand, Zhao Hao slays gods when he meets them and Buddhas when he encounters them. The vacant position of Maoshan Celestial Master is waiting for me, Zhao Hao! 1.3kReads6.7Score14514d adds
- 177 The Heavenly Wolf Feng Shui Master 天狼风水师 “The Heavenly Wolf reborn, feng shui as the blade, medicine as the heart; through the mortal world's purgatory, beauty at his side, he breaks the deadlock and changes fate!” He is a lone star born under the Heavenly Wolf, and humanity’s savior. The night Li Xingfan was born, the Heavenly Wolf star fell into the mortal world. The three elders of Zhongnan declared: “If this child does not learn the secret arts, he will not live past twelve.” At seven, he heads up Zhongnan Mountain. There, he learn 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Monks Don't Give Their Names, Daoists Don't Speak of Their Lifespans, but I Can Exorcise Ghosts 僧不言名道不言寿但我会驱鬼 He was nearly buried alive at birth. The venerable Taoist Zhang Jiuye defied fate and changed his destiny, but in doing so planted a curse: he was fated to face three tribulations. At sixteen, he was summoned to call back a soul, then fought the Five Plague Gods by night, only to have his spirit dragged into a temple in the underworld! At nineteen, his life-and-death trial arrived, and beneath the Laojun Temple, a mysterious stone slab sealed away for a thousand years was unearthed... Other peop 1.5kReads8.6Score13514d adds
- 179 By the Power of the Law 急急如律令 It all began when I took fifty yuan from a blind fortune-teller. Then, in the middle of the night, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind me. 1.4kReads8.6Score15514d adds
- 180 Thirty Years on Maoshan 茅山三十年 ♥ Don’t let the rating fool you, my book is top-notch! A feel-good story about a Taoist priest who descends the mountain to catch ghosts and drive out evil. No romance, no saintly do-gooder. Traveling far and wide to vanquish demons and uphold the Dao. No padding, no rambling, no romance. 9.3kReads8.8Score75714d adds
- 181 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 768Reads7.6Score10214d adds
- 182 The City's Exorcist 都市驱魔先生 When shadows emerge beyond the reach of the city’s neon lights, young exorcist Jin Lei sets out on the path fate has laid for him. He inherits more than his family’s powers: he also inherits a tragic mystery spanning a hundred years. Why did his ancestor and fellow disciple turn evil? What earth-shattering scheme is the Xuanjing organization plotting from the shadows of history? From strange happenings on campus to bloody feuds in the countryside, from urban crime investigations to a battle ove 266Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Little Daoist in Blue 青衣小道长 This is my first work. It’s a book inspired by stories I heard from older generations when I was young, which I adapted and made up, as well as things I’ve written based on my own life. The child at the beginning is real, my own son. This book is also a way of expressing my hopes for him. I hope he does better and better, and can walk just like other people, go to school, grow up, get married, have children, and live the life he wants. That’s why I’m writing this as a mix of fantasy, supernatura 194Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 458Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 185 I Have a Book That Suppresses Ghosts 我有一本镇鬼书 [Wild imagination + ghost taming + fighting ghosts] [Punching Japanese Onmyoji in the face + kicking Satanist exorcists] During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the unorthodox Taoist Song Dingbo sealed more than a hundred evil ghosts that plagued the world inside a notebook. After his death, the notebook was buried with him in a grave on Yunwu Mountain. As the years passed, the grave was damaged one day in 2012, releasing all the ghosts. Li San, who happened to be on a mission nearby, was accidentally p 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 The Great Mystic War Chronicles 太玄战记 A valiant soldier, a bizarre transmigration, a chaotic age where the Three Realms were indistinguishable, and a passionate yet solitary path of cultivation… 845Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 187 Ye Fashan: Defending the Tang Dynasty with Daoism and Crushing Western Heresies 叶法善：以道镇唐，力挫西域异教 [Transmigration + No System + Tang Dynasty + Immortal Cultivation + Ancient History + Fantasy + Xianxia + Xuanhuan] A modern history graduate student unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Ye Fashan, a Taoist priest in the early Tang Dynasty. Carrying the memories of two lifetimes, he must inherit the talismanic arts and divine abilities of this legendary figure from Taoist history, while viewing an era of coexisting Buddhist and Taoist traditions and the undercurrents of foreign religions 8Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 188 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
- 189 Yin and Yang: The Book of Life and Death 阴阳：生死簿 Lin Zhao spent ten years as an outer disciple Taoist at Longhu Mountain and learned only one spell: the Soul Summoning Art. > Until one night, the voice of Heaven rang out in his mind: “Ten zhang ahead, a wronged spirit seeks help.” > Following the voice, he found an old woman clutching a black cat and sobbing that her son had gone missing. > He formed a hand seal to investigate and discovered that the cat's eyes reflected the scene of her son's death: the neighbor butcher's hideous face. > When —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Celestial Master Marries: Nine Lavish Betrothal Gifts Leave the Richest Man Stunned! 天师大婚，九重聘礼惊呆首富！ The youngest daughter of a wealthy family says she wants to marry a man from the mountains. Everyone is firmly opposed. Her tycoon father even sends a young heir from a prominent family to propose on the spot. A procession of luxury cars, antique betrothal gifts, famous matchmakers... Just then, Four Taoist priests walk in calmly and present the mountain man's betrothal gifts. On the wedding day, They write their marriage vows. Presented to the Heavenly Court: Heaven rejoices, and swallows t 3.1kReads7.8Score21114d adds
- 191 The Exorcist’s Journal 伏魔笔记实录 I was born in a mysterious village in Chaoshan, amid violent storms and the strange disappearance of my family. From childhood, I was different from other people: I could see ghosts that no one else could. This unusual ability left me misunderstood, but it also led me into Grandma's mysterious world. Under her influence, I became fascinated by yin-yang and the Eight Trigrams, feng shui, and the art of destiny. Little by little, I learned that mysterious forces unknown to the world were hidden al 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.6kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 193 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.3kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 194 The Northern Emperor Descends to the Mortal Realm: Suppressing Evil on the Ghost Festival from the Start 北帝临凡：开局中元节镇邪 On the blood moon of the Ghost Festival, heaven and earth are sealed off, and all manner of evil awakens. The path between immortals and mortals is severed, and the human world becomes a living hell. A fragment of the Imperial Divinity descends from the Ziwei Star, taking human form. Wielding the laws of the Big Dipper and commanding thunder and deadly force, he summons and commands ghosts and gods, and confers titles upon mountains and rivers. He walks the mortal world with ease, purging the l 334Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Daoist Sect Is Slandered, but When the Ghost Tide Attacks, They Still Expect Me to Step In 道门被污蔑，鬼潮入侵却要我出手 [Live Streaming + Invincible + One Female Lead + Ghostly Energy Revival] For hundreds of years, the Celestial Master Sect has suppressed myriad monsters and exterminated evil spirits. Yet the world refuses to acknowledge them, and the Buddhists even lead the way in slandering them as the source of calamity. The Daoist sects have fallen into decline. Jin Qichen, the last Celestial Master, can only descend the mountain and marry. Five years pass in a flash. Over the years, paranormal incidents 172Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 196 The Yin-Yang Ghost Master 阴阳鬼师 The young Maoshan Celestial Master Zhao Ziyang ventures into the city. Half a bowl of clear water reveals the workings of heaven and earth; one spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. He walks the Eight Trigrams steps of Maoshan and wields a divine sword to slay evil spirits. From the underworld’s ghostly canals and the six-eyed evil child to the great demon of Black Mountain and the thousand-year-old Blood Corpse King, he takes them all on along the way. There is a female lead. Pure supernatu 24.2kReads6.3Score2k14d adds
- 197 They Destroyed My Temple in the Name of Anti-Feudalism, So I Struck Back with Thunder Magic! 反封建毁我山门，贫道反手雷法！ [Purple-Robed Celestial Master + high-octane from start to finish + face-slapping satisfaction + reckless to the extreme + demons awaken] Zhang Ziyang transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a Purple-Robed Celestial Master. He plans to enjoy a carefree life on Mount Longhu, but an arrogant anti-feudalism streamer shows up looking for trouble. Just how crazy is this streamer when it comes to chasing views? Tying a rope around his neck to summon ghosts and dotting the eyes of paper figure 933Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 198 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 528Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 199 I Use Chinese Taoist Scriptures to Suppress Everything 我靠华夏道藏镇压一切 Zhang Fan transmigrates into a parallel world where spiritual energy has only just begun to revive. Here, strange phenomena run rampant and haunted tombs emerge, but unfortunately... orthodox Chinese Daoist culture has suffered a severe break in its transmission! The elite agents of the National Bureau Nine use a damaged Han-dynasty “Celestial General’s Ruler” as a blunt weapon, swinging it around at random. They practice broken breathing techniques until they suffer cultivation deviation. Faced 3kReads—Score27014d adds
- 200 Lord of the Primordial Dao: From Wandering Taoist to True Immortal of the Mortal World 混元道主：从游方道士到红尘真仙 [Classic xianxia + traditional cultivation + multiverse + tales of the strange + upright values + no heroine + 200,000 words in reserve, readers can jump in with confidence] After transmigrating to a world where Daoist arts manifest in reality, Zhou Qingnan turns away from romance and devotes himself to cultivating the Dao! With a treasured scripture in hand, he gains both cultivation and merit, freely claims techniques and supernatural abilities, and exchanges talismans and magical treasures a 207Reads6.8Score2014d adds
