Novels like Ghost Master of the Yellow Springs
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Ghost Master of the Yellow Springs, best match first.
- 151 The Yin-Walking Incense Master 走阴女香师 Ever since I can remember, there has been a paper doll on my bed every night. With straight bangs and a bob, a pale face with rosy cheeks, a round face and almond-shaped eyes, it was clearly made to look just like me. As I slowly grew up, the paper doll “grew up” too… 318Reads9.0Score105Shelves
- 152 Horror Awakens: I Can Add Traits to the Supernatural 惊悚复苏：我能给诡异添加词条 Horror descends, and the supernatural returns. Since supernatural creatures cannot be killed, those who wield supernatural power to fight them, known as Ghost Tamers, have emerged. Li Zheng acquires the [Supernatural Trait System]. The more impressive his record in supernatural incidents, the higher the level of trait rewards he can earn. Traits can be applied to himself and to the supernatural creatures he controls. (Trait levels: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold) Substitute Death Ghost: Once c 618Reads7.9Score100Shelves
- 153 The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we 989Reads9.1Score169Shelves
- 154 The Beautiful Snake Wife 蛇妻美人 I slept in a coffin from the time I was little. When I was six, a snake slithered in and kept me company in the coffin for six years… He had never slept in a bed as a child, only in a very ancient coffin. When he was six, a snake slithered in and kept him company in the coffin for six years. Later, a graceful fairy came and said she would marry him when he turned eighteen. 132Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 155 Walking Between Yin and Yang 行走阴阳 To carry on the family line, Grandma forcibly brought home a madwoman... Ten years later, someone came to our door and delivered five bright red coffins, each bearing the name of a member of our family... 2.8kReads8.7Score257Shelves
- 156 Upholding Justice in Heaven's Name 替天行道 Yin cannot thrive alone, and yang cannot exist by itself. I grew up in the countryside, left behind by my parents and raised by my grandfather. All his life, Grandpa was either helping widows and orphaned girls or on his way to help them. So, for as long as I can remember, I heard the villagers cursing him behind his back. Then one day, a stranger in a burial shroud asked me a question. A tree without bark but with a soul is bound to die. What happens to a person with skin but no soul? The relat 3kReads8.9Score247Shelves
- 157 Urban Ghost-Hunting Livestream: I Slay a Ghost and Become Famous Online from the Start 都市直播捉鬼：开局斩鬼全网封神 Under the gaze of countless people, he slays every demon and fiend. With chaos engulfing the world, he alone stands guard over humanity! In an age crawling with sinister spirits and where yin and yang have fallen into disorder, the protagonist shoulders the burden of saving the world with nothing but his courage! Ghost weddings, snakes coiled around graves, paper effigy makers, corpses weeping bloody tears, red robes claiming lives, rotting corpses devouring hearts, poisonous insects paying homa —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 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! 3.7kReads8.2Score396Shelves
- 161 The Dark Night Draws Near 暗夜将至 When a person's soul grows powerful enough, it can give rise to an ability almost like that of a god. Hidden in our world is a group of people who possess this extraordinary power. The story I'm about to tell you is about one of them. This book updates three chapters on odd-numbered days and two on even-numbered days. I'll try my best not to take any days off... 3.8kReads9.1Score592Shelves
- 162 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—Shelves
- 163 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 205Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 164 Spirit Village 灵村 Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 After Grandpa Passed Away, I Read Feng Shui for People in the City 爷爷去世后我在都市给人看风水 [Supernatural] [Maoshan Daoist] [Zombie General Chen] [Cultivation, Godslaying] [This book has been adapted into a live-action audiobook. Give it a listen for an even more thrilling experience!] The Black and White Impermanence are my brothers! Granny Meng actually... I, a Maoshan Daoist, can cross between yin and yang and revisit the past. So what if I face the zombie General Chen? With one sword strike, ten thousand ghosts are annihilated. After searching all three realms, I discover that my b 7.6kReads8.0Score498Shelves
- 166 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 147Reads7.9Score241Shelves
- 167 The Underworld Bureau of the Yellow Springs 黄泉阴司 When I was a kid, I went to the back hill of the village to play and pick up human bones. There I stumbled upon a ghost opera and nearly lost my life. Luckily, a green snake saved me, but the snake also began a strange, shadowy romance. Ghost operas, spirit summoning, yellow-skin spirits' yin graves, peachwood seals against evil: the bizarre folk customs of southern Guizhou and chilling, uncanny tales of the worlds of yin and yang are coming your way. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!! 5.8kReads8.4Score586Shelves
- 168 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 277Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 I Have the Body of a Ghost King, Yet Became the Strongest Exorcist 我，鬼王之体，却成了最强术士 [Traditional supernatural horror, folk horror, strange tales and bizarre encounters, taboos of yin and yang] On the third day of the third lunar month, ghosts go mad. Chen Sansan was born on just such a day. Because of him, his father was buried alive by his master in the old house in Heilong Village. For his sake, his master was trapped in a tiny room. As for Chen Sansan, he has no choice but to keep signing contracts between yin and yang with ghosts to prolong his life. Otherwise, he won't sur 38Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 170 Strange Tales from the Road 行路诡闻 [Folk customs and suspense | Episodic stories | Immersive accounts] There's an old saying: Walk the night road three times, and ghosts and gods will follow you. Writer Lin Sui travels around gathering material, recording the rural ghost stories he hears along the way in the old notebook he carries with him. He has no spirit-seeing eyes and can't draw talismans or chant incantations. Faced with those indescribable horrors, his only weapons are the pen in his hand and his instinct for survival. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 Ghost Corpse Refining, Bearer of a Deadly Fate 鬼炼尸，背命人 Song Yuanqing is a former soldier. After leaving the military, he turned down a government-assigned job and chose instead to become an adventure tour guide. Because of the dangers of the profession, people like him are also called “edgewalkers,” meaning they are always walking on the brink of death. In just a few short years, Song Yuanqing has guided clients through the Amazon rainforest and into Lop Nur, the “Sea of Death.” He has also traversed the Bewitched Marsh of Wawu Mountain, known as th 2.1kReads9.3Score214Shelves
- 172 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—Shelves
- 173 The Ghost Physiognomist in Hemp Robes 麻衣鬼相 Some say it's difficult to understand another person, but to a face reader, understanding someone is easy. Others say you can't judge a person by appearances. I think it depends on who's doing the judging. My grandfather was a famous face reader of ghosts. He could read disaster and fortune, life and death, heaven and earth, and even uncover a person's past lives and future incarnations. When I was little, egged on by a group of friends, I kicked over the mound of an old grave. Luckily, my grand 1.4kReads8.5Score177Shelves
- 174 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. 1.9kReads8.2Score165Shelves
- 175 There’s Something Strange in Your Heart 你的心里有鬼 [A print edition under the same title is available from Dimension Core] [Chinese-style horror + folk legends and strange tales + over 70 standalone cases + suspense + romance between two powerful leads + hugely popular series!] “Yin-Yang Studio bridges the worlds of yin and yang. The living come to ask the dead about their affairs, and the dead speak to the living about theirs.” Ye Miao was an orphan born with a special constitution and a pair of “yin-yang eyes.” She grew up with her grandfather 579Reads8.3Score109Shelves
- 176 I Am a Corpse 我是一具尸体 I slit my wrists and bled to death, my body drying into a corpse. They buried me in the ancestral copper coffin, and I came back to life on the Ghost Festival. I wielded my corpse with the will of a living person. I crossed between the worlds of yin and yang. I have loved, hated, killed people, and destroyed ghosts. I am a corpse. I will never grow old. Standing at the highest point in this world, I looked down and saw nothing but desire. This is my story. This is my biography... 158Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 177 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. 1.5kReads8.6Score160Shelves
- 178 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 179 The Yin Messenger's Wife 阴差夫人 Twin sisters, one human and one ghost. My parents were brutally murdered before my eyes. I sought help from a ghost-catching official to avenge them, but he demanded I catch three thousand ghosts for him. I never imagined I would end up becoming a ghost-catching official myself... 3.9kReads9.0Score335Shelves
- 180 A Book by the Speed-Loving Snail 爱飙车的蜗牛的一本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 873Reads7.9Score103Shelves
- 181 The Icy Campus Belle Wants a Ghost Marriage? This Celestial Master Is Just the Man for the Job 高冷校花下冥婚？本天师专业对口 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Horror] [Decisive and Ruthless] [School Beauty] [Invincible] Zhang Jiuxiao, a Celestial Master in a purple robe, perished in a mutual destruction with a fierce ghost one moment, only to be reborn as an ordinary senior high school student the next. After a previous life of bloodshed and turmoil, he considers it the greatest blessing to live an ordinary, peaceful life this time around. That is, until his cool and aloof school beauty deskmate turns deathly pale and tremble 857Reads—Score163Shelves
- 182 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 3.3kReads8.9Score354Shelves
- 183 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. 1.1kReads9.1Score100Shelves
- 184 My Cute and Fierce Undead Bride Protects Me as She Slaughters Her Way Through! 我的女尸老婆萌凶甜，护我杀疯！ [A Taoist priest becomes a demon king, protected by his corpse bride][Ghost hunting, traditional supernatural fiction] [By the command of the heavens, I’ll take your life!][Strange tales from the folk tradition] I slept in a pigsty and drank sow’s milk. Later, I shared a bed with a female corpse. After our wedding ceremony, she awoke. I rely on her to keep me alive, while she relies on me to grow stronger. Our fates are intertwined. My fate is unusual. An old man’s guidance helped me survive, an 1.7kReads7.6Score126Shelves
- 185 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… 849Reads8.6Score152Shelves
- 186 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.7kReads8.9Score411Shelves
- 188 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! 687Reads7.8Score101Shelves
- 189 The Outcast: Divine Mask, I Only Sing Eerie Operas 一人之下：神格面具，我只唱诡戏 “I perform only for ghosts, monsters, gods, and immortals. Will you become a ghost, or ascend to immortality?” Nuo opera bridges yin and yang. Eighteen-year-old Miaojiang Nuo performer Liu Huaige enters the world, bearing a spirit-contract System that lets him witness the past and future, disperse resentful souls, and suppress ghosts and gods. He makes contracts with powerful ghosts and fiends, turning them into divine masks. He can become Zhong Kui, the Demon-Quelling Lord, and swing his sword 190Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 190 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 301Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score470Shelves
- 193 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 1.1kReads—Score170Shelves
- 195 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!] 633Reads8.1Score136Shelves
- 196 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—Score221Shelves
- 197 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—Shelves
- 198 I Command the Ghost King and Become the Mastermind Pulling the Strings 我驾驭鬼王，化身幕后执棋者 [Slow-paced + ghost control + satisfying read + invincible protagonist + daily life] This story follows Mo Bai, who accidentally falls into a supernatural realm while out in the suburbs. After meeting a teammate, he successfully gains control of the Ghost King and returns to the real world. He gradually grows stronger through one supernatural incident after another, eventually becoming the mastermind pulling the strings. This is an invincible-protagonist type of novel, so please don't nitpick th 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府 I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble... 48Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 200 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. 632Reads9.0Score114Shelves
