Novels like The All-Around Master of Physiognomy
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- 51 The Taoist Returns to His Village and Begins His Revenge as a Street Vendor 道士回村,从摆摊开始复仇 [Taoist priest + feng shui + talismans + ghost hunting + demon slaying + folk customs + no System + no livestreaming + no cultivation] When his grandfather was young, he gathered herbs in the mountains and once saved a young Taoist priest who had been badly injured. To repay him for saving his life, the young Taoist chose a feng shui site known as “Golden Rooster Brooding Over an Egg” and told his grandfather to build the family home there. Once the house was complete, the Lin family grew rich a 23.8kReads8.9Score2.2k14d adds
- 52 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 3.8kReads9.1Score45914d adds
- 53 The Carefree Immortal Emperor of the City 都市逍遥仙帝 Su Luo, the family's eldest legitimate son and a peerless genius, disappeared for two years. When he returned, he had become a Supreme. Faced with a family utterly devoid of warmth, he swore he would reclaim the summit, never let down the woman he loved, stand proud above the universe, make heaven and earth tremble, restore the immortal lord's glory, and strike terror into all his enemies. 1.1kReads8.4Score10014d adds
- 54 The Great Path of Cultivation 修行大道 Hello, all those who are destined to cross paths with me! I am Mr. Qian Kun. I write The Way of Cultivation to promote the ancient cultivation culture of China. Those who feel a connection are welcome to follow along and cultivate together. 999Reads6.7Score13014d adds
- 55 At the Taoist Temple: I Got Livestreamed Teaching Animals the Way 道观:给动物讲道的我被直播了 Three years ago, just after graduating from college, Cheng Fan was dragged home by his parents to inherit the family’s dilapidated Taoist temple. The moment he inherited the temple, he activated the strongest Taoist System. Over the next three years, Cheng Fan steadily built up the temple’s business. Alongside a toddler he had picked up two years earlier, he spent each day doing his regular lessons and cultivating. Then one day, a livestreamer showed up. After broadcasting Cheng Fan summoning cl 7.4kReads8.5Score46914d adds
- 56 Livestream Fortune-Telling: From the Start, I Leave a Gold-Digger Red-Faced 直播算命:开局把拜金女的脸打肿 [PS: No female lead, punishing evil and promoting good, no monster-fighting or leveling up, 95%+ five-star reviews] A good person can do ninety-nine good deeds and one bad deed, and still be called a hypocrite. A bad person can do ninety-nine bad deeds and one good deed, and people will say, “They're not so bad after all.” This world is simply too unfair to good people. Why should they always be the ones who have to suffer? It's downright awful. Then Shen Chen came into possession of a myste 4.3kReads8.5Score30414d adds
- 57 The Art of Reading People 观人有道 The Daoist Five Arts are Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Physiognomy, and Divination, representing Heaven, Earth, Humanity, Ghosts, and Immortals respectively. The Immortal Way is Mountain: focusing on cultivation, talismans, martial arts, geography, and feng shui. The Human Way is Medicine: focusing on healing, Daoist medicine, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, pulse diagnosis, and prescriptions. The Divine Way is Destiny: focusing on fortune-telling, the Eight Characters, Zi Wei astrology, and more. 13.6kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
- 58 Kicked Down the Mountain by His Stunning Master’s Wife, He Wreaks Havoc on His Fiancée 被绝色师娘赶下山,祸害未婚妻 [Invincible power fantasy + beautiful master’s wife + fiancée] (The master's wife shows up later~) My proud and aloof master's wife is invincible! My missing parents have mysterious identities! My breathtakingly beautiful fiancée has the Heavenly Phoenix constitution! As for me, I'm the Greedy Wolf Star Lord and the God of War of the Big Dipper. I wield miraculous medical skills, have a naturally pure-yang body, and am the most wickedly talented cultivation genius in the world! (It just keeps ge 11.4kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds
- 59 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 43.8kReads9.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 60 Insulting Me on My Livestream? I'll Read Your Fortune Right Back at You! 直播间骂我?反手推你八字! [Coming of Age, Ensemble Cast, No System, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel, Metaphysical and Supernatural] [The short drama adaptation is now available!!!] I’m a lousy fortune-teller, and I’m a streamer too. If you insult me in my livestream, I’ll use your birth details to put your embarrassing secrets on a livestream for the whole internet to see. If another streamer talks bad about me, I’ll help him court good fortune and avoid disaster, and make sure he suffers. I can even diagnose internet cripp 10.7kReads9.0Score98214d adds
- 61 The Divine Son-in-Law in Hemp Clothes 麻衣神婿 The day I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. To keep me alive, my grandfather came out of retirement and arranged an engagement to prolong my life. Twenty years later, thanks to the great fortune my grandfather bestowed on her family, my fiancée had become the richest woman in the land, yet her family broke off our engagement. They had badly underestimated my grandfather’s power and my background. Then karma came knocking... 9kReads8.5Score92514d adds
- 62 The Pure Yang Immortal of the City 都市纯阳真仙 This book has been adapted into a short drama, The Campus Heartthrob Is All the Rage, and I Make a Spectacle of Myself Flying on a Sword. It is now streaming on Hongguo Short Drama. Han Dong, a grassroots college student from the countryside, unexpectedly inherits the legacy of the ancient immortal Golden Crow Emperor! He pioneers a new way to cultivate immortality using solar power, forges a Pure Yang Body, and masters all kinds of immortal arts! He excels at martia 15.5kReads8.7Score1.7k14d adds
- 63 The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: My Love in the Mortal World 小道士下山之我的红尘情缘 [Fortune-telling + urban life + multiple heroines + martial arts] The day Zhang Qingfeng was born, his maternal grandfather took him away and abandoned him. His master later brought him back to a Taoist temple, where he learned martial arts and a little fortune-telling and character analysis. At seventeen, his master sent him down the mountain to resolve his own entanglements in the mortal world. 1.6kReads8.6Score15314d adds
- 64 Urban Ancient Immortal Physician 都市古仙医 Ye Bufan, a college junior, stages a fake accident to raise money for his mother's medical bills, but runs into a female driver who refuses to play along. After she hits him, he inherits the legacy of an ancient school of medicine. From then on, he masters medical arts, cultivates powerful techniques, takes the city by storm, and wins the favor of countless beautiful women. 1.9kReads9.1Score1k14d adds
- 65 The Immortal Emperor Returns to the City 仙帝回归都市 The Immortal Emperor returns to Earth, and to his surprise, his cultivation remains intact. After going through untold hardships to find his beloved wife, he discovers that she is actually... Author Pang Ju brings you a different kind of urban Immortal Emperor story. 166Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 66 I'm a Fortune-Teller (The Original Novel of I'm No Master, Starring Li Xian and Li Yitong) 我是个算命先生(李现、李一桐主演《我不是大师》原著) The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Li Xian and Li Yitong, I'm No Master The highest level of fortune-telling isn't predicting the heavens. It's reading people. During the Republican era, a secretive group called the Jiangxiang Sect operated in the underworld. They called themselves fortune-tellers, but made their living through fraud. From secret agents of the Military Statistics Bureau and bandit chiefs to scholarly households, sheltered women, and children, no one could escap 13.8kReads9.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 67 Destiny Opens the Door to Wisdom 命运开启智慧之门 Miner Lin Haiyang has a chance encounter that introduces him to the divination arts of the Book of Changes. Through persistence and selfless, tireless study, he unravels one age-old mystery after another, opens the door to wisdom, and embarks on a life enlightened by it. 15.5kReads9.0Score1.4k14d adds
- 68 The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师 Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha 30.9kReads8.1Score2.4k14d adds
- 69 The Supreme Dao Lord 太上大道君 A meteorite fell onto the snowy plains of the northern lands. No one knew it had brought not a child, but a fragment of the Heavenly Court's great calamity. At sixteen, the orphan Li Yuchen entered Shangqing Zhengyi Palace on Mount Longhu. Three trials, one talisman, nine orphans, and a single promise to stand as fellow disciples made them a family. Snake demons, plague gods, demon kings... One disaster after another struck. When the Jiangxia Nuclear Power Plant was on the verge of meltdown, he 2.1kReads6.7Score22314d adds
- 70 Livestream: I'm Really Not a Taoist Master 直播:我真不是道门大佬 Qin Hao was a Daoist priest in his previous life. After transmigrating, he discovered that he was a Daoist priest in this life too. From the start, he had a dilapidated temple, and had to rely on the mountains for everything! This was a parallel world where the Daoist faith had become little more than a legend and had nearly disappeared. But Qin Hao unexpectedly obtained the Daoist Venerable System, giving him the chance to revive the Daoist faith and restore its former glory! “Ding! Congratulat 7.9kReads8.3Score80114d adds
- 71 The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童 A strange story set in a small town ninety years later. The heroine begins her shamanic calling at thirteen. On the day she was born, all the fox, yellow weasel, white weasel, willow, and rat spirits within a ten-kilometer radius knelt to welcome her. Then came a series of miraculous experiences. 10.8kReads9.5Score96414d adds
- 72 I Had Just Mastered the Purple Sky Divine Thunder When a Hundred Ghosts Appeared at Night 刚修成紫霄神雷,就遇到百鬼夜行 “Young man, you’re a cultivation genius the likes of which appears once in a thousand years. Come with me, and I’ll give you an incredible opportunity.” When Gu Changsheng met a charlatan in the park, he planned to play along and expose him. But as soon as the Daoist reached the mountain, he started flying on a sword. Uh-oh. Looks like this one’s the real deal. Gu Changsheng was filled with anticipation, imagining himself living the life of an immortal in white robes. Instead, on his very f 19.1kReads8.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 73 What Should I Do After Blowing Up the Shrine? 炸了神社该怎么办 Su Ye joined a tour group to visit Sakura Country out of sheer boredom. While looking around a shrine, he suddenly got a System from the heavens. After learning what was going on and hearing the System announce its mission, Su Ye gazed at the crowds streaming through the shrine, and the expression on his face gradually changed. From then on, the world had one more helpful young man. 1kReads7.5Score17514d adds
- 74 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆:从迁坟开始扬名 On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 A Max-Level Metaphysics Expert's Daily Fortune-Telling Livestream 满级玄学大佬的直播算命日常 [No female lead + livestreaming + metaphysics expert + feng shui secrets + ghost hunting + immortal cultivation] After failing to ascend, the head of the Divination Sect transmigrates into the body of a small owner of a paper effigy shop. To cultivate the Great Dao anew and ascend once more, this top-tier metaphysics expert begins livestreaming his daily fortune-telling sessions. Reading faces, telling fortunes, locating dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, reading feng shui: this half-immo 28.8kReads9.0Score2.5k14d adds
- 76 I'm a Fortune-Telling Streamer, and the Whole Internet Is Fighting for a Spot 我算命主播,一个名额让全网疯抢 Wang Yue transmigrates to a parallel world and inherits a fortune-telling shop on the verge of closing down. His 300-jin landlady is also eyeing him hungrily. Luckily, the System may be late, but it finally arrives, activating the Divine Fortune-Telling System at a crucial moment. From then on, he makes a point of telling fortunes in unconventional ways. Other people read palms, but he tells fortunes by looking at photos. Wang Yue: “You there, kindred spirit. I see a terrible omen hanging over y 22.8kReads8.7Score2k14d adds
- 77 From the Start, I Became the Peak Master and Signed In to Obtain Saint-Realm Cultivation! 开局成为峰主,签到圣境修为! [Transmigration + Lighthearted + Everyday Life + Invincible + Sign-in + System + Taking Disciples] Chen Luo transmigrates to the Desolate Ancient Continent and becomes the master of Tianzhu Peak in the Daotian Sect. He awakens the Strongest Peak Master System. As long as he takes in disciples and develops Tianzhu Peak, he can earn all kinds of rewards. From then on, the Desolate Ancient Continent has one more utterly ordinary peak master. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on your first sign-in. 28.4kReads8.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 78 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
- 79 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 28.8kReads9.4Score4.1k14d adds
- 80 Heavenly Destiny 天相 On the Continent of Ten Thousand Aspects, spirit fiends run rampant. Ding Xiao, a coffin bearer unable to nurture a spirit aspect, can only make a living carrying coffins and transporting corpses for the Spirit-Suppression Bureau’s Mortuary Department. After thousands of relentless attempts, he finally nurtures the strongest spirit aspect of all, the Primordial Devourer. From then on, he embarks on a heaven-defying path, making a spectacular comeback and becoming the mightiest spirit-aspect mast 14.9kReads9.0Score1.8k14d adds
- 81 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 24kReads8.9Score2.9k14d adds
- 82 The World of Dao 道界天下 A mysterious young man emerges from a mysterious village. He has no Daoist heart, no Dao spirit, and no Daoist physique, yet he is determined to seek the Dao. He joins the Wenda Sect and embarks on an utterly unconventional path of cultivation! 38.8kReads8.8Score3.4k14d adds
- 83 Calculating Fate Through Yin 算阴命 My mother was snatched away by a beast when she gave birth to me. Twelve years later, my father brought home a woman. Three days after that, my father died… 1.8kReads8.9Score25714d adds
- 84 EN My IQ Can Be Recharged 我的智商能充值 “Your IQ balance is running low. Please top up immediately!” Chen Zhao, a high school student, accidentally acquires a System that can raise his IQ and transmigrates to a parallel world much like Earth. As long as he completes the System's missions, he can top up his IQ and become the smartest person in the world! And just like that, he becomes insanely impressive! He glances at the questions on an exam and calculates the answers in his head! As a gaming streamer, his lightning-fast judgment mak 9kReads9.0Score1k14d adds
- 85 The Divine Schemes of Guiguzi 鬼谷神谋 [Historical Fiction Writing Contest] Other people are reborn into wealth and privilege, but I came back as a stalk of rice. No, a stalk of rice growing on a grave! A lovesick woman ate me, and became my mother. I became Guigu Wang Chan, whom later generations called Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Vertical and Horizontal School. In this turbulent age, watch me stir up the world once more and make my mark on the battlefields of the Warring States! 550Reads6.6Score10214d adds
- 86 The First Immortal Returns to the City 都市归来第一仙 After six years of blood and turmoil, he returned as the pinnacle of another world. He had spent sixty thousand years cultivating in that other world, slaying immortals and gods, destroying Buddhas, with a Demon Palace to guard the world and divine weapons to awe the heavens. Even though he was invincible, he could never forget the blood feud of the past. At last, he crossed the cosmos and descended upon the city! The Demon Lord has arrived, his cultivation power shaking the heavens! Those who b 10.2kReads8.3Score91614d adds
- 87 Fortune-Telling Abroad, Leaving Foreigners in Tears 留学算命,吓哭外国人 [A satisfying supernatural fantasy + a cool, tragic, beautiful, and formidable female lead + fortune-telling for foreigners + slaying demons and vanquishing evil + no romance at first, with a Chinese male lead] Chen Anran goes abroad to study, only to be suddenly told that she is to inherit a Western family. She also gains a blond fiancé and three brothers with completely different personalities. The rebellious fiancé: I won't be conquered by a Chinese international student. The cold military of 5.4kReads9.3Score1k14d adds
- 88 The First Notebook of a Feng Shui Master Passed Down Through Generations 第一本祖传风水师笔记 [Adapted into a short drama] [A feng shui novel about the world around you] This novel explores feng shui in homes, shops, offices, graves and burial grounds, and people’s personal lives. There’s nothing mysterious or abstruse here, just feng shui stories from everyday life. By the time you come across this book, the gears of fate may already have started turning. Read carefully, and you may find something unexpected... 244kReads9.1Score24.5k14d adds
- 89 The Book of Fortune-Telling 算命簿 I am a fortune-teller in real life. I was 83 years old when I wrote this book. No one knows what sort of writing an 83-year-old man might produce, and neither do I. I just want to write a book while I still have time, and finally put one matter to rest... Synopsis: A wandering fortune-teller speaks of hidden mysteries, yet has a past unknown to all. This forbidden volume records a century's worth of secrets about practitioners of the occult. In the instant when dark arts clash with fate, the mys 3.3kReads7.0Score48514d adds
- 90 The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 六祖法宝坛经 Opening Verse The supreme, profound, wondrous Dharma is rarely encountered, even in a hundred million kalpas. Now that I can see, hear, receive, and uphold it, may I understand the Tathagata's true meaning. The true nature of the universe: those who hear this true Dharma can awaken and be reborn, break free from the illusory cycle of reincarnation, and attain liberation and freedom! 416Reads—Score10214d adds
- 91 Livestreaming Cultivation Manuals: A Basic Manual Cures Cancer 直播卖功法:一本凡级功法治癌症 The System said that in three years, the evil clans would invade Blue Star, and humanity would be powerless to resist. To make humanity stronger, Chu Yang had to guide people into the age of cultivation. He would start out as a small-time streamer and bring cultivation to everyone! Not enough time? Open the [Temporal Secret Realm], where time flows a hundred times faster, giving everyone plenty of time to cultivate! Not enough resources? Open the [Medicine Garden Secret Realm] and the [Ascension 27.7kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds
- 92 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 4.3kReads9.2Score72614d adds
- 93 The Great Ming Surveillance Court 大明道察院 [See the epic history of the Daoist sects in the early Ming through the eyes of a transmigrator] In the third year of Hongwu, the Hongwu Emperor established the mysterious Dao Investigation Bureau to rein in Daoist sorcerers who could turn the tide at will. There is no carefree Daoist life here, only the ironclad rule that “magic must be bounded by law, and the Dao restrained by regulations.” Even mighty cultivators who can fly through the skies and burrow through the earth must face execution i 3.3kReads9.3Score49214d adds
- 94 The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master. 148.2kReads9.2Score17.3k14d adds
- 95 My Little Sister Exposed My Everyday Life as a Cultivator 我的修仙日常被妹妹曝光了 [Modern Cultivation, Modern Cultivation, Modern Cultivation, Insanely Satisfying, Number One on the Entire Internet] An unconventional modern cultivation novel, focused on everyday life. Extremely satisfying, without making the protagonist an idiot. The supporting characters have brains, and the heroine isn’t a self-sacrificing saint. The protagonist gets little screen time early on, mostly appearing in other people’s stories to show off. (Everyday Cultivation: My Peerless Power Has Been Expos 11kReads8.8Score73714d adds
- 96 The Last Female Mystic 最后一个女玄术师 When Ye Simei was five, a fortune-teller told her she was born with a bewitching beauty and destined to become a canary in some powerful man's cage. Ye Simei: Have the powerful gotten too cocky, or do you think I, Ye Simei, can't wield a blade anymore? 1.9kReads9.0Score27214d adds
- 97 Stop Pretending, Daoist. You’re Cultivating Immortality 别装了,道长你就是在修仙 Lin Han transmigrated into the body of a Taoist priest. From the start, all he had was a rundown temple, until he obtained a live-streaming System for spreading Taoism. Revitalize Taoism and help more people appreciate its wonders to earn all kinds of rewards. He keeps a panda as a pet, tigers act as docile as kittens in his presence, and he sends an eight-hundred-jin wild boar flying with a single palm strike! With a casual wave of his hand, he summons thunder and lightning. Netizens exclai 20.5kReads8.8Score1.9k14d adds
- 98 The True Awakening of the Supreme Old Lord's Daoist Heart 太上老君道心启真 Take the void and the natural way as its guiding principle; take clarity, purity, inaction, and non-interference as its substance. Act without intention or attachment; unite with the One, and all things are accomplished. The Supreme Lord Lao, the foremost teacher of the Dao, embodies profound virtue that flows far and wide. His every word and deed contains the ultimate principles of the Great Dao. The Lord Lao often presents himself with a calm and peaceful bearing, every gesture displaying comp 1.8kReads6.8Score34814d adds
- 99 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 53kReads9.2Score5.1k14d adds
- 100 Heir to a Divine Technique, the Village Doctor Becomes the World's Richest Man 传承通天神功,小村医成世界首富 [Fortune-telling decides the world; medical skill shakes the heavens] A miracle doctor who can tell fortunes: are you scared yet? Intern doctor Lin Fei is framed by villains, losing his family and home. He is left blind and paralyzed from the neck down, and with his great revenge still unfulfilled, he and his sister-in-law depend on each other and struggle to survive. 20.6kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds

















































