Novels like The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser
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- 101 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.7kReads8.8Score55814d adds
- 102 The Hundred-Ghost Storyteller 百诡传人 To solve the mystery of the Seventy-Two Ghost Mounds, Yang Tianming descends the mountain with the Hundred Ghosts Register, ventures into the city, and meets beautiful women. He rescues a Corpse Sister, practices forbidden arts, and guides wandering spirits to the afterlife. With the Soul-Whipping Whip in hand and the Hundred Ghosts Register at his side, when the Dragon Soul returns to his body, he won’t be alone! 74Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 103 The Omnicompetent Demon Catcher 全能捉妖师 [Urban Fantasy + Superpowers + System] In a world where demon hunters reign supreme, ability is the best proof of one's worth. But he's just a rookie with barely any spiritual power. Then one day, he gets the most powerful spiritual energy absorption System! You cultivate your way, and I'll absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. From that day on, he begins his rise from the bottom. The strongest demon hunter: who can stand against him? 29Reads5.5Score514d adds
- 104 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.5kReads7.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 105 The Supreme Celestial Master 极品天师 A hilarious Heavenly Master, a Heavenly Master devoted to protecting all that is good, a Heavenly Master free of vulgar interests: Wolong strives to show everyone a Heavenly Master unlike any other. 171Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 106 Corpse-Driving Taboos 赶尸禁忌 Grandpa died, but then he came back to life. He said I was destined to face a terrible calamity... If I couldn’t survive it, my whole family would suffer! 145Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 107 The Way Has Yin and Yang 道有阴阳 [Supernatural + Talismans + Formations + Chinese Metaphysics + Comedy] My name is Xu Lin. Born with yin-yang eyes and extraordinary talent, I was chosen by my master. But when I came down from the mountain, I went straight to work for Meituan, only to stumble upon all sorts of strange things... Wicked Gu sorcery... Corpse fiends that devour people... The ghosts haunting an entire apartment building... Which is more terrifying, ghosts or people? A slow-burn story, with no broken power scaling. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Uncle Nine: My Cultivation Soared? The Patriarch Has Answered My Prayers 九叔：修为暴增？是祖师爷显灵了 After transmigrating into a bizarre and fantastical zombie world, I was lucky enough to be taken in by Uncle Jiu, who doesn't even know how to drink foreign coffee. “How did you do it? We haven't seen each other in a few days, and your cultivation is already higher than mine. Don't I deserve any respect as your master?” “What if I told you it was because of the System? Would you believe me?” 1.1kReads6.7Score10114d adds
- 110 Heir to Mount Longhu: Zhang the Celestial Master of the Streets 龙虎山传人：市井张天师 He looks like a rough-and-tumble man, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a penchant for snark. He's also an heir to profound Taoist arts. His peachwood sword slays evil spirits, and his Heavenly Master's seal suppresses dark forces. A vivid and engaging supernatural novel. 106Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 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? 94Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 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 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Heavens Tremble, the Earth Shakes 天惶惶地惶惶 “Just as you’ve spent all this time studying apes, I’ve spent all this time studying your kind: your traits, your intelligence, and the things that make up human nature. On this planet, I chose one person, and that person was you. Through you, I came to understand humanity completely. Why do I seem so familiar to you? Because I’ve been following you for more than twenty years. On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, a woman appeared beside you. The weather was beautiful that day, 658Reads8.9Score12814d adds
- 114 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 115 Heir of the Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海传人 When I was nine, a horde of ghosts surrounded our house, all intent on taking my life! To save me, Grandpa went and found me a female ghost to be my wife… 210Reads9.0Score10314d adds
- 116 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
- 117 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 477Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 118 The Heavenly Dao's Last Successor 天道最后传人 In my previous life, I was a judge of the dead. In this one, I have entered the Heavenly Dao. When demons take root in the heart, five thunders descend and vital energy awakens. I will slay demons and exorcise evil, and the righteous path will endure. Ever since I was born, the whole village has treated me like a “freak.” The midwife who delivered me was struck dead by lightning that very night. My father, a respected local exorcist, could only see her off on her final journey. By chance, I bega 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 354Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 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
- 121 Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang 天命阴阳 The Pixiu feeds on wealth from every corner of the world. It swallows all things but never excretes, attracting riches and gathering treasures, taking in but never giving out. On my eighteenth birthday, I met a girl who completely bewitched me. But I never expected that she would actually… 1.5kReads8.4Score19514d adds
- 122 The Yin Corpse Ghost Physiognomist 阴尸鬼相 I never imagined that simply returning to my village to attend a strange funeral would somehow get me stuffed into a coffin... From then on, my life changed completely, and I became what people call a “yin corpse ghost visage”! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 30Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 124 The Strange Tales of Yishan 沂山诡异录 [Supernatural horror] [Romance] [Dark humor] [Thrilling and stirring] [A short, intense read]: My name is Chen Mo. Twenty years ago, my childhood friend Li Dong nearly drowned in a rainstorm. After being rescued, his personality changed drastically, and his whole family moved away, leaving behind only a mysterious stone. Twenty years later, my father falls gravely ill, and I return to my hometown of Yishan. An anonymous package arrives soon after, containing that very stone. My father identifi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Yin-Yang Medium 通灵阴阳师 This is a world teeming with ghosts and monsters, where strange and inexplicable events happen every day. After transmigrating, Wang Tian gained the ability to see through things and communicate with spirits and all living beings. He thought he could live a carefree life, but the System nearly drained his lifespan. By an unexpected turn of events, he became a yin-yang master. With little time left to live, Wang Tian had no choice but to exorcise demons and avenge the wronged dead to extend his 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Corpse Collector's Diary 收尸人日志 Fog Harbor City is a futuristic metropolis governed by the central System of Deep Blue Life Group. Lu Chen, a forensic data analyst, has one job: to write the final digital epitaphs for the unidentified dead. That is, until he discovers the same unusual fluctuations in the data for a series of “natural deaths.” In the last three months of their lives, every victim’s biological indicators followed an exactly identical decline curve, as if they had been given a preset countdown. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Don’t Mess With Him, This Taoist Is a Little Wild 别惹他，这个道士有点野 Daoist arts + feng shui + folk customs + witchcraft + folk secrets + corpse walking + suspense + the supernatural Have you ever seen a person with no shadow? A corpse that can walk? A living person covered in corpse spots? Paper that cannot be burned? An ancient zither that plays by itself? Someone stepping out of a portrait...? Tang Yao has seen them all, and has spent his entire life dealing with such things. “Conceived in the yin year, month, day, and hour, and born in the yin year, month, da —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Ghost: This Vital Energy Packs a Punch 鬼：这真气有力气 Awakening in the middle of the night, Qiu Zhen discovered that he was sharing a bed with a blood-faced ghost, while his roommates had already been slaughtered. In desperation, he threw a punch and shattered the vengeful spirit. This is written in third person. The tags can't be changed after the contract is signed. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16114d adds
- 131 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 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 A Funeral Procession From the Start, Then I Married a Ghost Bride 开局红白撞煞，娶个女鬼回家 [Spiritual Qi Revival + Superhuman Martial Arts + Not Pure Wish Fulfillment + No System + Lighthearted and Fun + Multiple Well-Developed Heroines + Plenty of Romance + Positive Values, Not Dark and Gritty + Nuanced, Thoughtful Writing] What on earth has happened to this world? I just saw a wild monkey holding a stick and claiming to be Sun Wukong, and a chicken pluck someone's head off and use it as a ball... The world changed drastically, and spiritual qi revived! Monsters, demons, and ghosts a 38Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 133 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 355Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 134 The Maoshan Sect Master 茅山宗师 The greatest blessed land under heaven, the eighth grotto-heaven, is known as the Orthodox Maoshan Tradition! The Manifest Sect has carried its mandate for a thousand years, while the Esoteric Sect has subdued dragons across ten thousand miles. The thousand-year struggle between the two branches of the Maoshan Sect has become a legendary tale without precedent. Gathering the finest wisdom of the immortal way from the ages and preserving the ancient essence of rare secret arts, the path is simple 1.3kReads8.4Score10514d adds
- 135 My Tsundere Fox Wife 傲娇狐妻 My uncle told me that if I raised a fox well, I'd have no trouble finding a good wife. But before I could even make my fortune, a long-tailed bride came knocking at my door... 213Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 136 Maoshan 茅山 When I was little, my parents abandoned me in a mass grave. My master found me and raised me to adulthood. He was a Taoist priest who knew how to subdue demons and exorcise evil spirits, and he taught me everything he had learned in his life. I signed an agreement with the underworld to work as a ghost constable in the mortal world, trading my service as a ghost for extra years of life… 970Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 137 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
- 138 The Jade Dust of Daoist Fate 道缘琼末 [Traditional supernatural horror + ghost wife + first-person POV + one heroine + ghost hunting] Ever since I was born, I’ve worn a strange necklace around my neck. Every year on my birthday, Grandpa makes me bow to it. When I asked him why, he always said it could protect me. Only later did I learn that a female ghost was hidden inside the necklace. Offer three sticks of incense to the gods and four to the ghosts. If someone calls to you at night, never turn around. Otherwise, your yang fire wil 143Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 140 Heir to the Five Arts 五术传人 All the arts of divination under heaven fall into five branches. They are: Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy. More specifically, they include magic, talismans and incantations, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Men Dun Jia, feng shui based on the principles of qi, face reading, bone reading, and more... Our Wei clan is the guiding principle behind all five arts. The five arts encompass everything and seize the workings of Heaven. Thus, only those blessed with 1.8kReads8.3Score21014d adds
- 141 Protected by My Ghost Wife, I Roam Freely Between the Worlds of Yin and Yang 鬼妻护体，我在阴阳两界横着走 [Multiple Heroines + Supernatural + Ghost Stories + First Person] To stay alive, I was forced into a ghost marriage and wed a female ghost in a coffin. Everyone laughs and says I won’t live long, but they don’t know that my ghost wife is the most terrifying being in both the world of the living and the underworld. The soul-takers come to claim souls? She beats them into submission. Vengeful ghosts harm people? She suppresses them with ease. From then on, protected by my ghost wife, I’m avoided 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 436Reads8.5Score10114d adds
- 143 The Feng Shui Master of Qingwu 青乌风水师 My grandfather tells the fortunes of the living. I tell the fortunes of the dead. One day, my grandfather forced me to read his fortune... 1.2kReads8.8Score13214d adds
- 144 Southern Mao, Northern Ma 南茅北马 With one sweep of my staff, I’ll wipe out every demon under heaven! I take life and death in stride, and if you won’t submit, I’ll fight! I’ll prove my Dao through killing, endless yet never extinguished! Yang Wujin is a man with no past life, only this one! The day he was born, the Azure Dragon offered a sacrifice, and a hundred ghosts were put to rout! 145Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 145 The Strongest Feng Shui Miracle Doctor 最强风水神医 A young village mystic is ordered to descend the mountain and help Sister Xiaoqi sell houses in the city. He can do it all, from feng shui to face reading. There isn't a feng shui formation he can't break or a house he can't sell! A master of medicine, revered throughout the healing arts, he can bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bare bones. Even the King of Hell and his minions dread him! Miss, your forehead is glowing red. It means a great disaster is coming. Let me step in and t 89Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 146 Livestreaming Advice to the Paranormal Bureau, I Inherited a Celestial Master’s Bloodline 直播指点灵异局，我继承了天师血统 While catching ghosts, Zhang Xinghe is accidentally knocked unconscious by an old ghost’s thousand-year-old breath. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a country where ghost lore is almost nonexistent. By chance, he sees the country’s paranormal bureau, an authority on the supernatural, livestreaming a ghost hunt. Unable to hold back, he offers a few pointers, setting off a firestorm online. The bureau even mobilizes netizens nationwide to find the “One-Browed Taoist” at all costs. What surpri 108Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 147 The Fox Immortal Seeks a Title: I Said You Look Like My Future Wife 狐仙讨封：我说你像我未来的老婆 The white fox who once snuggled under the covers with me came to ask me to grant her a human form. I said: “You look like my future wife: a tempting face and figure, a slender waist, soft breasts, peach-round hips, fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. You're even more beautiful than a nine-tailed fox spirit descended to the mortal world.” 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Strange Tales from the Countryside 农村里的奇异怪谈 [Traditional supernatural horror + third-person narration + one female lead + no immortal cultivation] In a strange, gloomy bamboo forest, evil forces claim people’s lives. A university graduate has just returned to his village when he becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre events. In the end, he takes a master and learns the Dao. Is the mysterious woman good or evil? What other strange events will the protagonist encounter? Find out in the book. 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Bound by Neither Yin nor Yang 阴阳无忌 First of all, I’m a Taoist priest. I was born in a small village in Northeast China. After experiencing all kinds of paranormal events there, I set out to find a master and study the way. I later became a third-generation disciple of the Zhengyi school, then joined the mysterious Xiangxi lineage. During my days spent driving out ghosts and exterminating demons, I accidentally discovered that my other half had joined an evil cult that had been passed down for hundreds of years... 7Reads6.8Score—14d adds
