Novels like My Years as a Daoist Master
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- 151 Dragon-Subduing Art 镇龙术 When I was born, my grandfather foresaw that I would face four great calamities in my life. To change my fate, he traded his life for mine. That day, a thousand white cranes circled overhead, escorting my grandfather to his final rest... 24Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 152 The Fated Divine Seer 天命神相 This world began from nothing. It all started at the very beginning! As Laozi said: “The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things!” From the moment I was named Jiang Yi, my fate was already sealed! Especially after I used my family’s ancestral fortune-telling art to read a classmate’s fortune on my eighteenth birthday. It completely changed the way I saw the world... 26kReads8.4Score2.4k14d adds
- 153 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 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
- 155 Tales of the Shangqing Sect 上清宗往事 After accidentally stumbling into the Four Fiends Soul-Suppressing Formation, he finds his life ticking down to its end in seven years. He joins the Daoist sect in pursuit of immortality, grows stronger as he encounters zombies, ghosts, demons, and monsters, travels the human world and seeks out hidden realms, slays demons and monsters to prove the Dao, and searches through the Six Paths of Reincarnation for true immortality. Only today does he finally realize who he truly is. 6kReads8.8Score57814d adds
- 156 I Don’t Hunt Ghosts, I Save People 我不捉鬼，我只渡人 [Mostly Slice of Life] [No System] [Feng Shui and Face Reading] [Saving People and Ghosts] [Episodic] [Character Growth] [Not a Mindless Power Fantasy] Ghosts aren’t scary. The human heart is. This is a world with ghosts, but the coldest place isn’t the underworld. It’s the hearts of people in the living world. The male lead walks between the realms of the living and the dead, making his living through feng shui and face reading, guided by his conscience: killing the ghosts that deserve to die, 1kReads8.0Score14014d adds
- 157 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
- 158 The Book of Changing Fate: I Defy Heaven by Manipulating All Things 改运天书：我靠拨弄万物逆天改命 Traditional fortune-telling relies on a person’s birth date and hour, but the incomplete scroll of the Book of Guicang inherited by the protagonist, Su Zhe, teaches the Plum Blossom Numerology: “All things are hexagrams.” In his eyes, the entire world is made up of the sixty-four hexagrams. A falling leaf, a bird’s cry, even the color of a passerby’s clothes, will automatically combine in his vision to form a floating “hexagram.” 20Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 159 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 190Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 160 President Gu's Secretary Can Actually Tell Fortunes 顾总裁的秘书居然会算命 A sweet romance about a domineering CEO and an innocent secretary who can tell fortunes. I have some knowledge of the five arts of metaphysics and hold a certificate in psychological counseling. Book fans can contact me for free consultations through Tomato Novel's book-recommendation section, Douyin, or Xiaohongshu. 354Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 161 The Secret Notes of a Feng Shui Master 风水师秘记 My grandfather left me a handwritten ancient manuscript. When I turned eighteen, a dream of mine shook the entire world of feng shui... Liu Bowen severing dragon veins, feng shui guiding a celestial dragon, paper figures controlling one's fortune, plum-blossom tattoos, the dead seeking justice... Everyone knew Yang Qingtian was a legend, but no one knew that I was him! 3.7kReads8.2Score39614d adds
- 162 Fortune-Telling 算卦 Fortune-Telling 65Reads—Score614d adds
- 163 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
- 164 Celestial Master 天师 My name is Chen Rong. Rong as in ‘the world won’t tolerate me’! Have you ever seen someone get struck by lightning? Have you ever seen someone get struck by lightning once every nine years? That’s me!!! 1.3kReads8.0Score—14d adds
- 165 The Celestial Master's Book of Strange Tales 天师诡事录 Twenty years ago, a female ghost from a thousand-year-old tomb came to claim a bride. My grandfather gave his life to protect me from the calamity! Twenty years later, fate led me to rob the tomb of that very female ghost. 198Reads7.7Score10414d adds
- 166 The Last Paper-Cutting Artist 最后一位剪纸人 My name is Song Xiaohan. I’m a living corpse with no heartbeat, and a paper-cutting artist of the underworld. On the surface, I cut paper decorations for a funeral shop, but behind closed doors, I trade with humans and ghosts. My master passed away two months ago and left me the family craft, along with this modest little shop and my tools of the trade: a pair of scissors and a carving knife. “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 186Reads8.5Score3114d adds
- 167 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score34114d adds
- 168 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 491Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 169 The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain 天师出山 When the King of Hell says a man must die at the third watch, who would dare keep him alive until the fifth? I would! The Celestial Master descends the mountain, his mastery of the Dao profound. Above, he can move heaven and earth; below, he can shake mountains and rivers. In the light, he can command dragons and tigers; in the darkness, he can capture ghosts and gods. His power can raise the dead, and his cultivation can transcend life and death! Demons, monsters, ghosts, and fiends, whoever di 482Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 170 Oneness 归一 The mysterious golden dragon tattoo on his chest, the strange human-shaped skeleton in a grave, the dying beggar who speaks an unknown language, the modern writing carved on an ancient stone tablet: all of it haunts Wu Zhongyuan. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going... 9.6kReads8.6Score1.2k14d adds
- 171 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 224Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 172 Evil Fish 邪鱼 Feng Shui fish are also known as yin-yang fish. Choose the right one, and it can change your luck and bring blessings. Choose the wrong one, and it can bring disaster. 1.2kReads9.0Score11614d adds
- 173 Heaven's Curse 天咒 In these troubled times, who pities the common people? Beneath the vault of heaven, who commands the cycle of reincarnation? This is a story of sages who never die and bandits who never cease. This is a story of insignificant mortals and the virtues of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame. In the Year of the Fire Ox, during a leap month, just outside the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, a young Taoist priest named Mu Yi arrived with effortless grace. In the annals of history, an e 3.2kReads8.4Score35314d adds
- 174 Livestreaming in Another World: I'm the Only One Who Understands Jiangshi 异界开直播，只有贫道懂僵尸 Yang Xuanming transmigrates to a world with a strange break in its history and inherits a dilapidated Taoist temple. By signing in every day, he becomes a reclusive Celestial Master. With his departure from the mountain fast approaching, Yang Xuanming wants to revive the declining Taoist tradition and spread its teachings. He starts livestreaming reviews of ghost movies, throwing in explanations of related supernatural lore along the way. “Fellow worshippers, do you know what a jiangshi is?” “Do 460Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 175 Livestream: This Taoist Priest Is Very Scientific 直播：这个道士很科学 [Urban livestreaming, farming, comedy, satisfying read] Lin Yunhe, a top student, inherited the Taoist temple his master left behind and became a Taoist priest. He thought life would be uneventful, but then he awakened a preaching System. He could enter a lottery by earning preaching points. He drew [Beast Taming at Max Level] and recruited a white tiger to guard his home. He drew [Lightness Skill at Max Level], and his sword rang out with astonishing sword energy. He drew [Complete Plant Compen 307Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 176 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
- 177 The Orthodox Unity Celestial Master Dao 正一天师道 Zhang Tianfeng, a Celestial Master from Maoshan, descends the mountain after mastering his art. He faces a nest of Yin spirits, the Five Ghosts Devouring the Dragon, the Netherworld Bureau, the Xiangxi Corpse King, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, the evil god Xingtian, the Battle of the Azure Underworld, and the Ghost Emperor of the Great Clarity of the Apocalypse. Zhang Tianfeng was born with the destiny of a Ziwei Celestial Master. Is he also a reincarnated ghost child? From a divine being amon 1.9kReads—Score24814d adds
- 178 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 714Reads7.4Score10114d adds
- 179 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
- 180 Primordial Edict: Grandmaster of the Daoist Order 元始敕令：道门大宗师 Vanguard of the Taoist altar, great general who banishes demons, edict of the Primordial Beginning, all arts subdued and concealed!!! With Taoist arts perfected and the strength of a grandmaster, he commands thunder and lightning, slaying monsters and vanquishing evil!!! This is a world of the Taoist sects, and the realm of the Nine Provinces… 680Reads6.7Score11414d adds
- 181 The Supreme Taoist: Peerless Daoist Master 道门太上：绝世道长 Clad in a Daoist robe, I walk among the people, driving out every evil under heaven... Humans, ghosts, demons, monsters, gods, immortals, and strange beings: no matter how many I eliminate, I cannot purge the evil thoughts in my heart. Meet kindness with kindness, meet evil and become a demon. The arts of the Daoist tradition shall be the strongest! (Not an invincible protagonist story. Read with caution. No female lead!) 99Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 182 Twenty Years of Taoist Cultivation: I’m Invincible the Moment I Leave the Mountain 道观修行二十年：下山直接无敌 He was the last Taoist priest at Little Immortal Temple, skilled in divination, feng shui, martial arts, and medicine. But after one look at a woman in the crowd, fate decreed that he must descend the mountain and settle an old karmic bond with her. 12.4kReads8.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 183 A Taoist Priest in the Mortal World 阳间道士 I was an ordinary person, never knowing that a hundred-yuan bill on the ground would completely change my life. 785Reads8.2Score10114d adds
- 184 I'm a Daoist Master, the Strongest Celestial Master Around! 道爷我，可是最强天师啊！ As paranormal phenomena erupt, Chu Fan obtains the most powerful Heavenly Master System. He livestreams himself catching ghosts, and the viewers go wild! "Wow! That Taoist priest is so skilled and handsome!" "Looks like the Taoist sects really do have something going for them." "Hey, hey, why does the priest only kill male ghosts? Why does he gently guide female ghosts to the afterlife?" The evil spirit weeps in despair. "Discrimination! This is blatant discrimination!!!" 413Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 185 I Am a Feng Shui Master 我是风水师 I thought I would follow the three instructions my parents left in their will, but everything changed after I rescued a female classmate… 8.9kReads7.4Score65414d adds
- 186 The Yin-Born Child 阴生子 Before I was even born, someone plotted against me. I was cut from my mother’s womb before I was full-term, born with a congenital defect, and prone to attracting evil spirits. My fate was cursed, and I was destined not to live past a hundred days. To stay alive, I went to live with my maternal grandfather, a medium who could travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. After years of learning from him, I became a medium myself. From then on, I could communicate with the gods, enter the 110Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 187 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5kReads8.6Score37314d adds
- 188 Maoshan Demon Catcher 茅山捉妖人 (Supernatural + Urban + Maoshan Taoist Arts + No Self-Sacrificing Saint + No Female Lead) Sanqing disciple Xu Tianyang ventures across the world alone! With the supreme secret arts of Maoshan in one hand, he sweeps across the mortal realm! Slaying ghosts, battling sorcerers, trampling evil gods, and destroying Corpse Kings! Maoshan Taoist arts shake the four corners of the world! Supreme secret arts, unmatched beneath the heavens! 4kReads8.7Score25114d adds
- 189 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
- 190 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
- 191 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
- 192 The Age of Declining Spirituality: The Last Taoist of the Mystic Sect 末法时代，玄门最后一个道士 Following his master’s dying wish, Chen Bufan leaves the Daoist temple where he has lived for twenty years and steps into the modern city below the mountain for the first time. Amid the overwhelming culture shock, he keenly senses the first hint of an “ill omen” belonging to this age. 4.3kReads—Score22114d adds
- 193 A Max-Level Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain: You Can Read Fortunes, So Why Become a Cop? 满级道士下山，你不算卦当警察？ Zhou Yang transmigrates to a parallel world, and he's a Daoist priest? As luck would have it, he awakens a Daoist System, and one of its missions is to make him become a police officer? Fine. I may not have any professional training, but I can tell fortunes and read faces. "Hmm, your forehead looks dark to me. You've stolen things many times, and you'll soon meet with a bloody disaster." Sure enough, the man gets into a car accident the very next second. After looking into it, the police discove 162Reads7.5Score3614d adds
- 194 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score10114d adds
- 195 Qimen Feng Shui for Homes 奇门阳宅风水 Knowledge of yang-dwelling feng shui, feng shui arrangements for the home, yin-dwelling feng shui, ways to solve feng shui problems, and folk feng shui case studies. Much of this feng shui knowledge is practical and based on real life. Here to serve everyone. Thank you for watching and listening. 146Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 196 The Book of Changes in Plain Language, by Ji Wufan 姬无烦白话文讲易经 After my work about the Inner Earth people was published, many readers enjoyed it and strongly urged me to use their technology to publish other works. After giving it much thought, I decided that, to honor the readers' wishes and support, I would use Inner Earth technology to translate China's classic, the Book of Changes, as simply as possible. This will help readers understand the Book of Changes, learn, reflect on life, grow spiritually, resolve their doubts, and seek good fortune while avoi 209Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 The Guardian of the Nation: The Invincible Dragon Son-in-Law 镇国天师：无敌龙婿 The Celestial Master Gao Yang entered the Su family by chance and spent three years as a live-in son-in-law. Three years of pretense came to an end when he awoke from his dream. From that moment on, Gao Yang began a different kind of life. With a single glance, he could tell fortune from misfortune, and his martial prowess could crush all opposition. With a single thought, I can raise you high and make you a person of importance. With a single thought, I can grind you into the dirt, as lowly as 5kReads7.6Score35414d adds
- 198 Fortune-Telling Livestream: Miss, You’re About to Meet with a Bloody Disaster! 直播算命，姑娘你有血光之灾啊！ [Fortune-Telling + Comedy + Livestreaming + Ghost-Hunting + Episodic Stories + Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment + No Do-Gooder Heroine + No Female Lead] Ye Guan took over his master's fortune-telling shop, only to find the industry so fiercely competitive that he decided to start livestreaming his readings. “Master Ye, cut the chatter. I just want to get rich overnight!” “You were born with a knack for unexpected windfalls, but you’re not destined to strike it rich.” “But tomorrow afternoon, Auntie C 390Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 199 You Fake Taoist, I Didn’t Know You Were the Real Deal! 骗子道士，没想到你是真会啊！ [Ghost stories + hilarious comedy + urban legends] As the supernatural resurges and the world descends into chaos, Lin Yu, a fake Taoist, awakens the Dao Ancestor System. He exorcises ghosts to earn merit, which he uses to draw character cards and take on the forms of Taoist disciples from across the myriad worlds. Faced with all kinds of vicious, uncanny, and sinister ghosts, he transforms into a holy master of myriad realms, the Thunder Lord... Wang Lingguan, the Three-Eyed Deity... becoming e 37.4kReads6.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 200 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—14d adds
