Novels like The Yin Master of the Living World
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- 1 The Last Heir of the Yinshan Lineage 最后一位阴山传人 [Supernatural + Suspense + Ghost Control + Exploration + Zombies + Tomb Raiding] No matter how grand your purple robes and golden belt, you must still dismount and ask what lies ahead. Three feet above your head, the gods are watching; three inches in your palm bind you to the spirit world. Lin Yinan, the last inheritor of the Yinshan tradition, is a wandering occultist who walks between the realms of the living and the dead...! Across the five thousand years of Chinese history, all kinds of str 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Feng Shui Master of the Green Satchel 青囊风水师 Feng shui and the arts of divination, fate ordained by Heaven, reading bones to tell fortunes, and offering guidance to those who have lost their way. The Qing Nang holds its arts, the ancient books their words. Healing ghosts and treating the living, all in accord with Heaven’s will. Fifteen years ago, Zhang Tianming of Qing Nang Dian Xiang shortened his own life to change the Lin family’s fate, and arranged a marriage for his apprentice. Fifteen years later, Zhang Qian followed his master’s 61Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 3 My Beautiful Aunt Is a Judge of the Underworld 美艳小姨是地府判官 Ever since I was born, I’ve had an uncanny run of good luck. No matter how life-threatening the situation, things always turn out all right for me. I always thought I was simply born lucky, until I was on the verge of death at eighteen and saw my aunt, who had died young and become a magistrate in the underworld. That was when I learned that all my good fortune was the result of my aunt’s quiet efforts! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Master of Feng Shui 风水大法师 [Traditional supernatural fiction + Taoist arts and spells + cultivation and sect rivalries + no System + smart characters + airtight logic] From the start, I encounter a ghost unlike any other and face the Ming Dynasty's Mother-and-Child Yin Rakshasa Ghost King. A host of ghosts vie for supremacy, while countless demons fight to the death. A demon god sealed away for tens of thousands of years breaks through the boundary and emerges... The demon spirit realm stirs at the call, ready to break it 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Fate's Feng Shui Master 天命风水师 Where mountains bow, generals are born; where dragons emerge from the sea, scholars earn high honors. A yellow serpent playing with a chicken produces a top scholar, while a spirit serpent playing with a toad brings unexpected wealth. I am a feng shui master, born with a yin-yang fate. My grandfather said I was born to make a living at this. But once I stepped into this world, I discovered that feng shui can save lives, and it can take them. Whether one becomes a human or a demon depends on a si 18Reads—Score1014d adds
- 6 Folk Mystical Arts 民间奇术 I’ve been blind since childhood. My grandfather told me that we carvers are different from those people cursed with the Five Afflictions and Three Shortcomings. I didn’t believe him, not until... 79Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 7 The Corpse Investigator 探尸人 In the 1980s, a feng shui master was attacked by a zombie in a land of five evils. He lost a leg and an arm, but miraculously survived. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman surnamed Qin sought out the grandson of that master, Sun. She gathered a group of people and went exploring everywhere, capturing zombies to use as ingredients for medicine. Every member of the group was stranger than the last. What secrets were they hiding...? 396Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Maoshan Outsider 茅山异徒 Maoshan arts proclaim: “Heaven is round, Earth is square; by the nine laws and edicts, as I write, ten thousand ghosts shall hide.” My name is Qin Feng. Ever since I mastered the strange arts of the Ghost Path, I haven't known a moment's peace. Some say I defy Heaven's will, alter fate, and recklessly practice forbidden arts. Others say I reverse yin and yang and turn the heavenly cycle upside down. Yellow-skinned spirits become demons, zombies rise from the dead, evil ghosts possess people, ear 14Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 9 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 A tattoo shop that opens at midnight. The designs aren’t tigers, dragons, or leopards, but... 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Corpse Driver 赶尸匠 Who in western Hunan hasn't heard of corpse-driving? But how many people know about the corpse drivers themselves? They hide by day and travel by night, keeping company with corpses. Using this strange art, they can make the dead walk, guiding them home to be laid to rest. What terrors and hardships do novices face as they learn to drive corpses? How do they grow, step by step, into capable corpse drivers? Come along with my protagonist and embark on a mysterious journey into the art of corpse-d 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Taoist of Naruto: The Lushan Tradition 火影道士闾山传 Shao Lin knows full well that women only slow down his path to immortality. Every day, he does good deeds like crazy to accumulate merit, hoping to become immortal on the spot so he can go after his enemies. After finally turning down his sweet childhood sweetheart, his ex-wife from nine lifetimes ago shows up asking for a fortune reading. “Oh dear, your birth chart is afflicted by an evil influence this year. There's a faint ring of dark energy around your brow. This is a terrible omen. Since w 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Greatest Ghost Taoist in the Mortal Realm 阳间第一鬼道 The coffin is raised, the incense still burns, and the grave is moved. The Taoist was once an evil ghost; wicked arts throw the age into chaos. Paper figures harbor murderous intent; living stones imprison evil spirits. Vengeful ghosts don Taoist robes, and the sinister wind never stops blowing. Ning An was a disciple of the Taoist sect, but his master used him as a pawn, while his master’s wife wanted to eat him and turn him into a vengeful ghost. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 22Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 14 Northeastern China’s Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 In the old days, evil spirits ran rampant across the Northeast, and immortal beings roamed everywhere. It was common for the dead to lie in their coffins, impossible to carry out. I was the most renowned coffin master for miles around, the last Coffin-Carrying Heavenly King. With half a copy of the Coffin Spirit Register in hand, I had seen every evil coffin under heaven. The coffin of a doomed life, the coffin of a violent death, the coffin of resentment, the coffin of hatred, the coffin of mis 577Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Retriever, and Zhou Jie Exposed Me 毕业后当捞尸人，被周姐曝光了 With graduation just around the corner, Lin Yu's girlfriend breaks up with him over the harsh realities of life. Just then, Lin Yu activates the Corpse Retriever System and prepares to start recovering bodies. Some expert: No boat can sail on the River of the Dead. Some authority: No one can identify the corpses in the River of the Dead. Some veteran corpse retriever: Anyone who retrieves corpses from the River of the Dead dies within a year. Yet Lin Yu rows his little boat along the River o 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Eerie Corpse Retrieval: Beating Up a Thousand-Year-Old Water Ghost from the Start 诡异捞尸：开局暴打千年水鬼 As everyone knows, corpse retrieval has three rules: 1. Don’t retrieve bodies during thunderstorms. 2. Don’t retrieve bodies floating upright. 3. If you can’t retrieve a body after three tries, give up! No matter how much the client offers, corpse retrievers refuse to enter the water if any of these three situations arise! Before retrieving a body, they also perform all kinds of warding-off rituals and offerings. If anything seems amiss, they won’t enter the water either! These are precious less 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Strange God Returns 诡神复苏 [Mad Chinese-style ancient gods, with some pretty dark tastes] [Xuanhuan] + [Supernatural] + [Invincible] + [Horror] Lin Yi transmigrated into a world gone mad and awry. The gods feed on flesh and blood, and the path of cultivation is full of sinister madness. God: Become my agent, and I can help you ascend to immortality in broad daylight. Lin Yi: Ascend in broad daylight? No thanks. Let me devour you first! Ancient Wild God: I’ll give you a great gift, one that will make humanity revere you as 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Command My Body 敕吾身 “Perfect my body, command my body. This body is no ordinary body, but one transformed into the golden body of the Supreme Lord Lao…” (The Edict to My Body, also known as The Xuanpin Academy and The Manifestation of Divine Power, is a prequel to The Xuanpin Teahouse.) I became an apprentice at nine, formally began studying the Dao at eleven, and decided to record my experiences and observations at twenty. This is the story of Feng Cai, a disciple of Master Hu Fawang of the Great Manifestation of 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 A Yin-Bodied Man Meets a Ghost 阴身撞诡 Drive out evil spirits, suppress demons and fiends, and every kind of magic appears within the Shanhai Tower! Hateful corpses, undying bones: when the Three Corpses are complete, the body becomes a vessel of yin meridians! After his uncle was killed by an evil spirit and nearly everyone in the village lost their lives, he realized that only by cultivating magic could he protect himself. Again and again, he found himself caught up in mysterious incidents and trapped in desperate situations. As an 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Spirit Guide 渡灵师 Human, it’s already dark outside. Why are you still not asleep? The night is not your time. Something unknown is unfolding... From the song “Monster Rampage” 31Reads7.8Score314d adds
- 21 The Yellow Springs Inn 黄泉客栈 Legend has it that at the boundary between the mortal realm and the underworld lies an ancient, mysterious street called Banshijin. On it stands an inn known as the Reincarnation Inn. Any soul, be it human, god, demon, or monster, whose heart is gripped by an overwhelming fixation will come here after death and wander along this street. 1kReads5.8Score—14d adds
- 22 Pendulum: The Super Taoist Works at a Convenience Store 灵摆：超级道长在便利店打工 After the Sacrifice to the Lord of Mount Tai, the Netherworld King Chacha searches everywhere for Zhao Li, Xia Dongqing, and Wang Xiaoya... A young Taoist priest named Zhang Zhongyang is ordered by his master to go study Chinese at Jiangzhou University. But he is so exceptionally skilled that he gets a perfect score on his final exams and unexpectedly lands a job at Convenience Store No. 444. There, he opens his third eye and takes over from Zhao Li as the new spirit guide. From then on, ancient 254Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Heavenly Master of a Haunted World 诡世天师 Lin Jiu, an ordinary young man from the modern era, unexpectedly transmigrates to the twelfth year of the Republic of China, his soul inhabiting the body of a young Taoist priest who shares his name and has just been claimed by a vengeful ghost. As the last heir of the Maoshan Sect, he inherits his master’s legacy and final words: “The Taoist tradition must not die out, and the human world must not fall.” There is no System, no shortcut, only a timeworn copy of the Sacred Register of Shangqing a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Daily Life of a Mystic Cultivator 玄门修士的日常 Hard, hard, hard: the mysteries of the Dao. Seeking immortality, divining the future... What does it truly mean to cultivate the Dao? Refining qi through inner alchemy, or cultivating both body and spirit? What is the true gateway to the Dao? The daily life of a mystic cultivator. 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Occult Medicine: My Wife Is a Nurse 异术诡医：我老婆是护士 Zhang Zhe: “Don't rush. I'm about to die.” Zhang Zhe: “Don't worry. Once I'm dead, you can take my heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.” Zhang Zhe is terminally ill and on the verge of death. But who could have guessed that while he was watching a meteor shower, a wisp of a remnant soul would crash into him and cure him? Zhang Zhe: “This is a problem. If they find out I won't die after all, they'll probably fight me to the death.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Maoshan Occultist: Tales of the Underworld and Evil 茅山诡术师：幽冥话邪 Maoshan's arcane arts have returned to the world, as demons and evil spirits run rampant. What bloody storm will rise this time? In this cruel world, with its tumultuous lives, who will pay for each and every blood debt? Behind the layers of eerie schemes, who is righteous, and who is evil? I, Fang Gui, have a strange past. By chance, I was drawn into a spiritual calamity. How can I break free of this trap? How can I defy fate and change my destiny? Gather spirits, exterminate evil, and dispel c 362Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 28 The Evil-Suppressing Man of the Living World 阳间镇邪人 The world is formed from the union of Heaven and Earth. Where there is righteousness, there is evil; where there is yang, there must be yin. This world is full of the strange and the terrifying, and I am part of the strange. My name is Xiao Xie. My grandfather once said that on the day I was born, I tore a vicious asura ghost apart with my bare hands... 1.6kReads7.5Score11114d adds
- 29 The Way of Heaven: Feng Shui Master, I Control the Universe 天道门，风水神师，乾坤由我执掌 The lotus scorched by hellfire is the birthmark on my back. The sins of my past life were too great, and in this life I'm fated to die young. To stay alive, I descend the mountain in search of a way, only to find eighty-one coffins and an underworld wedding waiting for me. A coin hung from a mountain, a cup of water holding the world in check. A demon fetus in a human belly, a woman in a bottle, the witchcraft of Luonan, eight or nine layers of coffins, the underworld's watery halls, a golden co 228Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 30 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Chronicles 茅山天师录 Maoshan is famous for its Taoist arts. I learned Maoshan Taoist magic and came down from the mountain to exorcise ghosts. My whole life has been filled with confusion. Is this really how my life is supposed to go? What is the meaning of what I protect? And who is behind the eerie doll and everything else? 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 True Accounts of Spirit Crossing at Midnight 子时渡灵实录 "A spine-chilling memoir of spirit deliverance by Xu Hanko!" I am an inheritor of Taoist arts. This book records the cases I have handled over the years, helping spirits pass on. Chanting incantations, forming hand seals, stepping the astral patterns, and setting up ritual arrays, I have unraveled the obsessions of countless wronged souls. Every detail of every case is etched in my memory, and behind each one lies the full range of life’s suffering: birth, aging, sickness, death, meeting those w 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 A Collection of Folk Tales and Strange Accounts 民间怪谈异闻录 Also known as: Spirit Hunt Begins Here, Keep Quiet and Stay Back [Supernatural + Video Filming + Small-Scale Infinite Horror + Folk Horror Tales + Taoist Magic] Have you heard of the Death Omen and the Hanging Guest coming to claim lives, the sound of meat being chopped at midnight, a blood-red singing doll, eerie sobbing from a mass grave, the startling secrets of a baozi shop, or the mystery behind a school of death? Do you know that there may be many things in this world that you cannot see? 85Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 33 The Yin-Yang Spirit Medium 阴阳出马仙 [Transmigration + Urban + Supernatural Powers] He transmigrated to another world, and from the day he was born, there was nothing special about him. He thought he would live an ordinary life, but then he attended a bizarre and mysterious wedding and began his path of cultivation. Curse magic, sorcery, a hundred evil spirits of the netherworld, a nine-headed serpent, a mysterious stone coffin... One strange event after another came his way, constantly plunging him into danger. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Soul Funeral Director 灵魂殡葬师 My name is Zeng Yao. Yao, as in “beautiful as jade.” I have no father or mother. They say my mother died in childbirth, and no one knows who my father was. My uncle, Old Lei, brought me home. My uncle had an unusual profession: he was an undertaker. He beautified and applied makeup to the dead, then handled their cremation and everything else. Like father, like son, they say, but although I wasn’t my uncle’s child, he made me learn all those things from a young age. But I didn’t like it. I eve 461Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 35 A Bowl of Meng Po's Soup 一碗孟婆汤 Among strange spirits and monsters, dangers abound. Break bones to uncover secrets and seek the path to immortality. Lin Zemin’s grandmother was a famous village doctor throughout the surrounding countryside. She could not only cure illnesses, but also read the signs. The medicines she used were all folk remedies. They might not have seemed orthodox, but they always worked. Lin Zemin was born late in his parents’ lives, and after his birth, his grandmother declared that he was destined to bear a 116Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 36 Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Wrong 【十卦九不准】 [No heroine, not a power fantasy, no tired tropes. A sequel to The Nether Road, also known as Strange Tales of the Spirit Road.] Read people's fortunes when you meet them; divine the dead's paths when you encounter ghosts. Use yarrow stalks to cast hexagrams, and pluck gold to change fate. Walk among the corpses without fear, and never lose your way in the underworld. The practitioners of yin and yang arts investigate strange cases, while ancient mystic traditions probe the hearts of humankind. 542Reads8.7Score10714d adds
- 37 The Borrowed Blade 借刀人 As a shooting star streaked across the sun, a young man borrowed a blade. The Guigu Seal was broken, the Chiyou Banner appeared, and war erupted. The five immortals of fox, weasel, hedgehog, rat, and snake traveled by night and day, while the five evils of judges, tribute collectors, insects, corpses, and livestock roamed the land. Earth gods and City Gods, zombies and hanging ghosts, dragon maidens, vengeful spirits and monsters, Thunder Gods and drought demons walked between the realms of yin 16Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 38 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 40 Underworld Enforcer 地府执法者 I was the rising star of the police force, but because of my name, the illiterate Black and White Impermanence accidentally hooked the wrong soul. Since I was weak as a child and born under an ominous star, my uncle, a Taoist priest, forced me to accept the King of Hell as my godfather. Once I entered the Underworld, holy smokes! I instantly became a glittering second-generation official! I call Judge Zhong Kui my brother and boss the Black and White Impermanence around like underlings. When I'm 52Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 41 The Underworld's Sales Rep 地府带货人 He was born under a twin-virgin curse, destined to be widowed, lonely, and die young. But an unexpected visitor set him on a road of no return… 56Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 42 Street Lie Detection: The Corpse Stitcher’s Identity Can’t Stay Hidden 街头测谎，缝尸匠的身份瞒不住了 Su Chen unexpectedly gets the strongest corpse-stitching System. He can grow stronger just by stitching up corpses. One day, he goes out to stitch a corpse, but a beautiful woman stops him halfway and demands to give him a lie detector test. The result unexpectedly exposes Su Chen's identity as a corpse stitcher, and then one strange event after another begins to unfold… 39Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 43 The Maoshan Taoist 茅山道士 There are many things in this world that are unknown to most people. Five hundred years ago, hordes of ghosts and monsters roamed near the Kunlun Mountains. They fed on the spiritual qi generated by the Kunlun Dragon Vein and grew powerful enough to wreak havoc on the human world. For reasons unknown, the Nine Hells shattered, leaving the souls of humans and other living beings with nowhere to go after death. They gathered at the Kunlun Mountains, where they absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven a 20Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 44 I Came Down the Mountain as a Corpse Driver and Scared My Online Girlfriend Silly 赶尸下山，我把网恋对象吓傻了 His shima told Zhang Hao to take his marriage contract and go down the mountain to meet his beautiful fiancée. Then the woman he'd been dating online for seven years sent him a message. Liu Shishi: "Let's break up. I don't want to keep staring at my phone." Zhang Hao: "I'm coming down the mountain." "Then... let's meet in person." "Let's meet in person tomorrow night. Don't keep me waiting." Liu Shishi brought her twin sister and showed up at the designated spot as promised. A young man 1Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 45 The New Taiping Guangji: Records of Supernatural Survival 新太平广记：非自然生存实录 “Stay away from Duan Fei! He’s a jinx who meddles with yin and yang and throws the Three Realms into chaos!” The warning from the darkness is filled with despair. “So what if he’s a jinx? I’m going to uncover the secrets of the Six Paths behind him.” The voice is brimming with arrogance. “Uncover them? You’re pushing yourself into the cracks between the Three Realms, straight into the Six Paths’ deadliest abyss!” The whisper sinks into the bones. A deadly mystery spanning life and death acros —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳旅店 From the day I was born, underworld soldiers came to drag my soul away. At eight, I arrived at the Yin-Yang Inn and began working as a guide for the dead. From then on, I guided both the dead and the living. Every ghost or living person who came to the inn had a secret they couldn't tell. The Yin-Yang Inn has strange rules. Ghosts must sign a contract, while the living must stay the night. Whether or not their request is fulfilled, their payment is never refunded. Even so, guests keep coming one 257Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 47 The Yin Official Forensic Doctor 阴倌法医 Armed with half a tattered book left behind by my grandpa, I took up the shady trade of a Yin Constable, making a living by swindling people. I thought that as long as I followed the rules, I’d be safe and sound. But my final job dragged me into a bewildering whirlpool, and from then on I found myself walking the boundary between the world of the living and the underworld... 1.6kReads7.7Score25114d adds
- 48 The Third Yin Messenger 第三阴差 He is neither a Taoist priest nor a mage, yet with a raised hand he can banish ghosts, and with a breath he can destroy demons. Heaven may be first, and earth second, but he is the third Yin messenger walking among mortals: Qin Wuming! 1.7kReads7.6Score16614d adds
- 49 A Ghost Hunter in the Underworld, Earning Billions in Hell Money 地府打工人捉鬼赚亿点点冥币 [Chinese-style horror + underworld constables + folk ghost stories + mystery investigations + the supernatural + comedy + wild imagination + no romance] First major arc: A rookie ghost constable slowly learns the ropes of catching ghosts through a series of cases. Second major arc: The supernatural world levels up, with rivals competing and growing stronger through cultivation. Third major arc: At the China-Myanmar border, he goes undercover deep behind enemy lines. What secrets are being kept t 939Reads—Score11014d adds
- 50 Space-Time Distortion 时空扭曲 After an accident forced me into a bizarre world, I found myself facing the slaughter of monsters and the strangeness of that world. I was a test subject for the Three Saints: the Five Ghosts Saint, the Azure Robe Saint, and the Immortal Talisman Saint. They called it Domain Slaughter. Meanwhile, I had to conceal my identity and follow the clues surrounding that man in black. My situation was dire. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
