Novels like The Yin Master of the Living World
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- 151 Gu Watch 蛊观 [Folklore and the Supernatural + Urban Superpowers + Gu Poison Mysteries + A Young Man’s Coming of Age + Family Revenge] Want revenge? Want to change your fate? Want to take back everything that should have been yours? Then come raise gu. Each talisman bears a karmic debt; each gu can end a life of suffering. The upper three talismans can alter life and death, the middle three can transform the body, and the lower three can change the heart. Which will you choose? The Life-Bearing Talisman takes 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Suppressing Yin and Yang 镇阴阳 [Supernatural The Underworld Comedy No female lead Not human] I used to think I was just an ordinary person. But on the day I was born, Yama sent a child into the world, ten thousand ghosts entered my body, and every ghost within a hundred miles hid in fear. The Underworld’s gods of the dead avoided me like the plague. In this life, I shall command yin and yang and tread the cycle of reincarnation. I only hope this song of sorrow ends in splendor… 3.9kReads9.0Score35914d adds
- 153 Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau: The Sequel 民调局异闻录后传 Twenty-six years ago, when I was born, someone told my fortune and said my fate was tainted by ill luck. So my grandfather gave me a name meant to ward it off: Shen La. Twenty years ago, when I was six, I innocently saw a friend from that other world. Four years ago, when I was still a special forces soldier, I took part in a bizarre incident. Fate led me to an organization called the Bureau of Folk Affairs Investigation and Research, where I became an investigator. From that day on, my nightmar 1kReads9.4Score—14d adds
- 154 The Years I Spent as a Shepherd 我当羊倌那些年 A noodle shop packed with customers uses eels dug out of graves. A scrawny yellow dog is willing to develop gallstones for the sake of its master. A man-eating catfish has a water-swallowing pearl in its belly, while the teeth of an ancient corpse have turned to jade. As an heir to the grave-robbing treasure-seeking trade, I transmigrate through mountains and forests in search of heavenly treasures. People call those of our trade shepherds… 2kReads8.1Score24314d adds
- 155 Strange Tales from Republican-Era Sanjiang 民国三江诡事集 Whenever Eunuch Li from the teahouse downstairs told stories about the many strange and uncanny things he had encountered in his youth, a crowd would always gather around him. Whenever I was bored as a child, I would run over to listen. A corpse that had been dead for days was pulled from the Yangtze River, yet bled when its relatives came to see it. The owner of Second Brother’s restaurant had a brother who was a sworn brother of the underworld. One night, he followed the gang’s leader to an ab 110Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 I Asked You to Stream Down-to-Earth Content, Not from the Underworld! 让你直播接地气！不是接地府啊！ The world is on the brink of a terrifying resurgence, and Chen Mo transmigrates into the body of a streamer with barely any viewers. Luckily, the System may be late, but it never misses its cue! [Option One: Ride Bus 13 at midnight and livestream a ghostly hearse. Reward: The Golden Light Mantra!] [Option Two: Hide at home and livestream while waiting for a female ghost to show up. Reward: The Five Thunder Orthodox Art!] Chen Mo: “Can I have both?” When Chen Mo boards that midnight hearse, t 5Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 157 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 115Reads—Score15514d adds
- 158 The White Dragon Horse Medium 白龙出马仙 Break through seven trials, meet with sudden disaster, make a blood sacrifice of an infant, refine corpse oil. One by one, long-lost secret arts resurface, and strange, mysterious events begin unfolding throughout my journey... That lantern made of human skin holds captive the youth I can never return to. 1.1kReads9.1Score10014d adds
- 159 Old Tales of Jiangyang: The Evil Dragon of Sanjiang 江阳旧事之三江孽龙 Luzhou, in central Sichuan, was known in ancient times as Jiangyang Commandery and is also called the City of Liquor. The Yangtze, Tuo, and Chishui rivers surround the city, which also borders Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, making it an important transportation hub for the three provinces since ancient times. The constant streams of mule caravans within the city, cargo boats on the rivers, and merchants lining the streets, along with the local brotherhood halls where sworn brothers trained with f 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Yin Fourth Gate 阴四门 [One heroine + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium] (Adapted into an audio IP) Prequel to "A One-Stop Funeral Service, with Cyber Immortals by My Side" (It’s perfectly normal for a funeral officiant like me to summon immortals, right?). The Yin Four Trades: an occupation that lives entirely off the dead. What would happen if the strongest spirit medium within thousands of miles joined one of the Yin Four Trades… 849Reads8.6Score15214d adds
- 161 The Soul-Suppressing Stele 镇魂碑 Telling the eeriest stories and exposing the most unfathomable human hearts! The final installment in the Evil-Quelling Trilogy! (The first two, Evil-Quelling Notes and Thousand Corpse Town, are both complete.) After the first thirty thousand words, there will be three updates every day! No delays, guaranteed! Thank you all for continuing to support Lao Zhang! 669Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 162 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
- 163 What's Wrong with a Paper Effigy Shop That Reads Feng Shui and Catches Ghosts? 纸扎店怎么了也看风水也抓鬼 The evil ghost’s skin was an eerie bluish-black, its eyes blood-red, and black mist poured from its mouth. Its teeth were as sharp as knives, still stained with blood. Chen Yu was so terrified by the sight that he couldn’t move. All he could do was watch as the evil ghost slowly closed in on him. The evil ghost stretched out its long, slender claws, their nails sharp as hooks, and lightly traced Chen Yu’s face. A stinging pain flashed across his skin, and a streak of blood appeared. He wanted t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Living for the Dead: I Devour the Bizarre in the Human World 替死者而活：我在人间吞噬诡异 [This novel is a serious supernatural mystery] Qi Guang died, and I took his place. An inhuman being, surviving in a borrowed body, without warmth or an understanding of humanity. I can devour every supernatural entity. I carry all of his memories, imitate his life, and learn to understand warmth, the bustle of everyday life, and the bonds between people. The human world meant nothing to me, until I met Mu Chen and gained a family I wanted to protect, along with an ordinary daily life. But the 360Reads—Score6414d adds
- 165 Ferryman of the Underworld 黄泉摆渡客 My sister was abused to death by her husband. Even after she died, her resentment kept her from resting in peace. To help her find peace, I became a ferryman traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead. From then on, I strode between yin and yang as if walking atop a hanging coffin. The strong live, the weak die. I will be the one to decide who lives and who dies! 885Reads8.6Score11714d adds
- 166 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.7kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 168 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.8kReads9.2Score96314d adds
- 169 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
- 170 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 I Just Became a Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, and Now I've Encountered a Pen Fairy 刚成龙虎山天师，就遭遇笔仙 [Supernatural] + [Ghost Hunting] + [No Heroine/Single Heroine] + [Don't Read If You Don't Like It] Zhang Xiuyuan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the forty-ninth Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, the birthplace of Daoism! But in this world, Daoism has fallen into decline while Buddhism flourishes! After passing down the position of Celestial Master, his cheap master promptly kicks the bucket. “What? The Celestial Master of Mount Longhu? That little brat?” “Move aside! I want to chal 478Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 172 What Do You Mean the Corpses I Sew Together Are All Cursed? 什么叫我缝的尸体都是大凶之物？ [Chinese folk customs] [Corpse seamster] [Traditional supernatural horror] [A clever protagonist who isn’t an idiot] My name is Chen Yang. I’m a mortician, or rather... a corpse seamster. I can sew up corpses no one else can. I can take jobs no one else dares to accept. I’ve handled all sorts of bizarre cases: people who jumped from buildings in red clothes, corpses missing arms and legs, and even one person who was holding their own head... Everyone says the corpses I sew up are all terribly un 219.6kReads9.1Score29.1k14d adds
- 173 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 624Reads8.1Score13414d adds
- 174 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
- 175 The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书 "The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe 1.5kReads8.7Score23414d adds
- 176 The Guardian Spirit of Northeast China: Between Illusion and Reality 幻实之东北的守护灵 If you ask about the guardian spirits of people in Northeast China, they might be the region's several great immortals: the weasel (Huang Xian), the fox (Hu Xian), the python or snake (Liu Xian), the hedgehog (Bai Xian), the gray immortal, or rat (Lao Shu), and the ghost immortal, which is exactly what it sounds like: a ghost. These animals are believed in Northeast China to possess special spiritual powers and divine abilities, capable of influencing people's fortunes and misfortunes, the rise —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Commanding Ghosts to Save the World: I Face Ten Thousand Calamities in the Mortal Realm 驭诡救世：我于人间抗万劫 This world is completely absurd At some point, evil spirits began appearing without warning, and one supernatural incident after another followed. Ordinary people could only hide in terror, while spirit wielders were the only ones capable of standing up to ghosts. Lin Jie only wanted to find a job and pay his rent, but through a twist of fate, he was drawn into a series of events that seemed destined to happen. There are no born heroes, and no fated burdens to bear. Since a ghost has already po 640Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Huang Daxian 黄大仙儿 The Huang Daxian of Northeast China, also known as the Huangpizi, are weasels that have cultivated into spirits. This is a terrifying story about the shamanic traditions of Northeast China, told in the region’s authentic style. A supernatural tale rooted in the everyday life of Northeast China. 3.1kReads8.6Score33614d adds
- 179 Thirteen Years in the Shady Business 我捞偏门十三年 [The rating just came out, but it'll go up later] I entered the business in 2008 and retired in 2021. People usually call those of us in this line of work "readers of the unseen." In thirteen years on the job, only about eighty percent of the strange cases I handled ended well. All I can say is that ghosts aren't the most sinister things out there. Some things don't even have names you can call them by. 59.8kReads8.9Score10.3k14d adds
- 180 Cursed Grudge 怨咒 [Warning: After leaving this unfinished for ages, I can't write what comes next, and I really don't want to pad it out and ruin the feel of the earlier chapters. I've decided to shelve it, so please don't read.] When I was sixteen, an evil spirit latched onto me and changed my fate. I brought disaster upon my parents and family, then my relatives and friends. Anyone who came near me would die violently in the street, bleeding from every orifice and meeting a horrible end. A fortune-teller calcul 373Reads9.3Score10414d adds
- 181 Cangshan Ashes: The Dao-Demon Chronicle 苍山烬，道魔启世录 [Steady updates, and it will never be abandoned!] “Master, weren't we here to catch ghosts?” “Today is inauspicious. We shouldn't make a move!” “Master, you just can't beat them, can you?” “Don't talk nonsense. Demons and ghosts have their place in life.” “Disciple, don't go around exorcising demons and slaying monsters at the drop of a hat.” “Cultivating the Dao means cultivating the heart. We should be kind.” “Remember, all things under heaven have life, and life comes first. If we run into so 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.1kReads9.2Score1k14d adds
- 183 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 313Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 184 Eerie Revival: From the Start, I Became a Netherworld Lord 诡异复苏：开局成为地府大佬 [Eerie Revival] [Urban] [Gods] After the Red Moon appeared, strange events erupted all over the world, and humanity began living in fear every day. Genetic coding and human augmentation projects gave people the power to fight back. Gu Qingming, whose name means “clear and bright,” unexpectedly transmigrates into this world on Tomb-Sweeping Day. He gains a God-Making System, and the stage is set for his grand debut... 1.4kReads6.7Score11714d adds
- 185 The Mountain and Sea Coffin 山海棺 Wooden coffins bury the dead, iron coffins conceal ghosts; silver coffins nurture demons, and golden coffins seal gods. After Grandpa dies, all spirits pay their respects at the shrine, and he is buried in a coffin among the mountains and seas... 362Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 186 A Gatling Gun Slays Evil Spirits, and You Call Me a Taoist Celestial Master? 加特林灭诡，你管这叫道教天师？ Synopsis: [Transmigration + Rebirth + System + National Destiny Binding + Supernatural Horror + Livestreaming + Invincible] When Ye Lang wakes up, he discovers that he has transmigrated. This is a world on the brink of a supernatural apocalypse. To stay alive, he puts on sunglasses and a fake mustache, then sets up a fortune-telling stall by the roadside. [Hand-touching +1, reward: Mastery of Thunder Magic] [Contact +1, reward: Heaven and Earth Manifestation] [Contact +1, reward: Ghost-Slaying G 81Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 187 A Rogue of the Mortal World 俗世妖人 Xiu Xu from Bazhong is in the mountain city, where he owns an offline murder mystery game shop. He was once a top-tier Werewolf player, comes from a family of feng shui masters, and is suffering from end-stage pancreatic cancer. When his grandfather died, he left behind a peerless beauty with no sign of life. To stay alive, Xiu Xu had no choice but to bring his whole family along, leading a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled relatives as they punched their way through the South Heaven Ga 6.5kReads8.7Score62214d adds
- 188 Maoshan Ghost-Suppressing Records 茅山镇鬼录 The gates of the underworld shatter, and ten thousand ghosts emerge! Enchanting ghosts steal souls, birth ghosts claim lives, zombies devour people, painted-skin demons steal faces, and water ghosts drag people under... The mortal world has become a living hell. Everyone fears ghosts and monsters. Only the Maoshan priests take up talismans and tread the Big Dipper steps! Talismans subdue the dead, swords cut down vengeful ghosts, incantations slay a hundred evils, and dark spirits are sealed awa 5.6kReads8.4Score48614d adds
- 189 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 174Reads8.4Score10914d adds
- 190 The Uncanny One 邪门儿 In the old days, bandit gangs had four pillars and eight posts. The foremost pillar was called the Heaven-Supporting Pillar, and its holder served as the gang's strategist. Since strategists tattooed goshawks on their chests, they were also known as Mountain-Circling Eagles. A Mountain-Circling Eagle is neither monk nor Daoist, yet can discern yin and yang, communicate with spirits, and foretell fortune and misfortune. Neither immortal nor shaman, yet can cast talismans, drive out evil spirits, 1.5kReads8.6Score15614d adds
- 191 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
- 192 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
- 193 The Fake Taoist Comes Down from the Mountain 假道士下山 Jia Bufan is a student at a second-rate university. In today's fiercely competitive job market, he has spent ages without finding suitable work and doesn't want to toil away, so he spends his days wandering around online. But he is naturally bright and deeply interested in traditional Chinese medicine and the occult. By chance, he meets Daoist Longquan, an expert in the occult with profound knowledge of Daoist arts, and becomes his disciple. From then on, his life takes a very different path. Th 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Miss, This Little Taoist Doesn’t Want to Join Showbiz 女施主，小道我不想入娱乐圈 [Everyday life + easygoing + king of punchlines + no cookie-cutter tropes = a completed two-million-word novel by an established author] Mo Yu was just a little Taoist priest on Feiyun Mountain. But fame has a mind of its own: he sat quietly on the mountain, and celebrities came streaming in from all over. A top-rated variety show was abruptly turned into a personal daily-life showcase for a little Taoist priest on a mountain. Mo Yu had hoped to live quietly on the mountain, becoming a master ph 2.3kReads8.0Score16914d adds
- 195 Twenty-Four Strange Tales 二十四异 A child found by an executioner, a senior member of the Daoist sect, and the godson of a Yellow Immortal lead the way. Joined over time by twenty-four more people with extraordinary abilities, they form an organization in Republican-era China dedicated to dealing with supernatural incidents. 4.4kReads9.2Score60914d adds
- 196 Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录 Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is 229Reads8.5Score5714d adds
- 197 I Married a Dragon, and I Was Born to Eat Yin Energy! 嫁给了龙，我天生吃阴饭！ I was born amid a blazing fire on a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, right at the witching hour. A fortune-teller said I had a "demon-encountering fate and must never leave my hometown." On the day I turned sixteen, I went with the other girls from my village and accidentally stepped onto land belonging to the neighboring village. When the witching hour came, I gained the ability to see spirits. The first thing I saw was the sweetheart of a girl from the village. He smiled at me, then flicked 829Reads9.2Score10014d adds
- 198 No Way Out, So I Opened a Shop to Read Feng Shui and Catch Ghosts 没活路了，我开个店看风水捉捉鬼 The evil ghost’s face grew even more hideous and terrifying. Its skin began to peel away, revealing bright red muscle and stark white bone beneath. The flames in its eyes blazed more fiercely, as if they were about to shoot out. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 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
- 200 A Tale of Ghost Hunting in Town and Country 城乡捉鬼奇谭 A string of bizarre murders rocks Tianquan City. The victims’ deaths are so strange that no ordinary person could be responsible. Lin Feng, a college student who has just inherited an antique shop, is accidentally drawn into the turmoil. The family heirloom in his hands, an ancient book, contains secret arts of fortune-telling, ghost-catching, and feng shui. A plea for help from his childhood friend Zhang Long, a criminal investigator, pushes Lin Feng to the edge of the truth. Alongside Li Yue, —Reads—Score—14d adds
