Novels like Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang, best match first.
- 1 The Purple-Robed Young Celestial Master: Feng Shui, Fortune-Telling, and Taming Yin and Yang 紫袍小天师：风水算命镇阴阳 Lin Yan, a young Celestial Master in purple robes from Longhu Mountain, descends into the mortal world at his master's command to temper his heart. With innate divination, he reads the fortunes and calamities of yin and yang. With the arts of the Celestial Masters, he slays evil spirits throughout the world. When sinister yin energy locks Qingxi Village's fortune, one divination breaks the deadlock and restores the earth's ley lines; When disaster strikes the Gu family in Linjiang City, he break 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I'm an Assassin, So I Must Keep Calm 我是杀手要冷静 I'm an assassin. I have to keep my cool. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Cauldron Sect Seeks the Dao 鼎派寻道 Over the course of China's five thousand years of history, countless schools of the occult arts have emerged. This book follows Huang Youqing, who through a chance encounter grows from an obscure feng shui practitioner into a master who founds his own school. Drawn into the bureaucracy of the underworld, he begins a step-by-step quest to seek the Way between Heaven and Earth. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Night Watchman of Fengdu 酆都守夜人 Do you think we live in a safe world? In truth, the world is not as peaceful as it seems. The money you find on the road might be cursed “life-buying money,” and a pair of blood-red eyes might be watching passersby from a dark corner. But because certain people exist, the balance between yin and yang in this world is maintained. They are the ones who hold up the sky, the lonely night watchmen. I'm Su Cangnan. Let me tell you my story. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Daoist Path of the Ma Family 麻衣道途 With a blood feud still unavenged and the secrets of the Qinling Mountains still unsolved, a headstrong young Daoist wields the powers of yin and yang and sets the world to rights. Amid an age of chaos where humans, ghosts, demons, and evil spirits collide, he writes a legendary tale of vengeance, justice, and astonishing deeds. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 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—Shelves
- 7 The Last Spirit Medium 最后一个出马先生 For years, I went unnoticed amid the bustle of the city. Then one day, I made my debut, and the whole world knew my name. My name is Yan Youli, and I'm a shaman. Punishing evil, promoting good, cultivating myself, and helping others: those are my principles. Vengeful spirits, wicked fiends, ferocious beasts, and even beautiful women from the underworld: why are they all coming after me? The last shaman takes you into the wondrous world hidden behind traditional culture! 13Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 8 The All-Around Feng Shui Master 全职风水师 I'm an ordinary feng shui master. Over the years, I've traveled to many places and witnessed some strange things: vengeful spirits and wicked ghosts, bizarre feng shui formations, spirit mediums, Miaojiang witchcraft, the secret arts of curse magic... 129Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Daoist Enters the Mortal World 道爷入世 Reborn by chance, he gains a System and receives a quest to find his wife. At last, he finds his adorable little wife, only to discover she’s the very woman he least wants to see... Now he sets out to rekindle their relationship and make up for his regrets… 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Five Sages of Destiny 天命五圣 I thought my grandfather and I would spend our whole lives quietly in our little town. Then I unexpectedly helped two older sisters, and my life was turned upside down from that moment on... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Haunted House Notes: A Shadow in the Mirror 凶宅笔记：镜中影 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Mysterious Resurgence: I'm Not the Ghost King 神秘复苏，我不是诡王 [Mild horror, somewhat Lovecraftian, no System, survival and growth, one female lead, not for the fainthearted] "This story is entirely fictional and does not reflect reality. Now, the mysteries begin to return..." Grandpa died with his eyes open. The day we carried his coffin up the mountain, I didn't dare look back, because the people carrying it... weren't human! A daily dose of occult weirdness: One ring of the bell, and all ghosts flee; one talisman stuck on, and evil spirits call you Dad 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Notes of a Yinshan Taoist 阴山道士笔记 I am a descendant of Yinshan, born with the body of a virgin boy. The moment I was born, I was afflicted by the foulness of the dead and nearly died. Later, an old geezer appeared and brought me into the Yinshan sect. 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 You Sent Me Down the Mountain to Survive My Tribulation, So I Turned My Counselor into a Jiangshi 让你下山渡劫，你把导员炼成僵尸 [Urban + Taoist Priest + Supernatural + Mystery + Power Fantasy + Invincible + Character Growth + Playing the Fool] My counselor is dying. She has terminal cancer. The doctor says she has at most three months. She didn't cry or make a scene. She just called me into her office and handed me a bottle of cola. “Little Taoist, I want to ask you something.” “Can you turn me into a zombie?” “I don't want to die. I want to watch you graduate.” I fell silent. Corpse refinement is a forbidden art. The re 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 In This Life, I See My Past Life 我于今生观前世 The protagonist encounters his past lives in a dream. Only after unraveling the mystery of his time in the womb does he discover that he is nothing but an empty shell. Once his three souls return to his body, three powerful spirits press against his own will. He has no choice but to deal with monsters and outside intruders to strengthen himself, all while withstanding the weight of karma and fighting to stay alive! Whether it's a black dragon stirring up trouble, a corpse-nurturing ground in the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Zeng Wenchuan, Feng Shui Master 风水大师曾文辿 Zeng Wenchuan was one of the four great masters of the Jiangxi school of feng shui and the foremost disciple of Yang Junsong, the grandmaster of feng shui. Together, they founded the legendary village of Sanliao in Xingguo, Jiangxi, the first village of Chinese feng shui, whose history spans a thousand years. After failing the imperial examinations, Zeng Wenchuan encounters Yang Junsong, a court feng shui master being hunted by the imperial court, in a ruined temple. A mysterious fragment of the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Feng Shui Master: I Started by Subduing a Peerlessly Beautiful Corpse 风水天师：从收服绝美女尸开始 Supernatural mysteries + feng shui + Taoist arts + corpse seamsters + corpse salvagers + Gu sorcery + Nanyang black magic + folk occult arts + paper effigies A peerlessly beautiful female corpse, a seven-tailed white fox, a living corpse, an inn between yin and yang, a red bellyband, a haunted house, the slaying of an evil god, a drowned ghost, a hanged ghost, a headless ghost, embroidered shoes “Within three months, you must complete five tasks involving the dead, or you’ll be doomed beyond red 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Feng Shui Master Liao Wenzheng, China’s Only Feng Shui Top Scholar 风水大师廖文政中国唯一风水状元 [Feng Shui + sacred geomantic sites + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] During the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, the imperial tombs at Tianshou Mountain were nearing completion, and Emperor Jiajing issued an edict calling for the realm’s finest geomancy masters. Liao Wenzheng, a Feng Shui heir 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Urban: The Divine Face Reader 都市：神级相师 Young Lin Feng travels to a big city to sell his family heirloom and raise money for the bride price, only to unexpectedly inherit the legacy of Zhuge Liang. As the wheel of fate begins to turn, one ancient scheme after another, buried for thousands of years, comes to light. The disappearance of myths, the legend of immortality: everything is shrouded in mystery. Can Lin Feng escape the game as a pawn and become the player moving the pieces? Will he choose to remain in the Age of Declining Dharm 70Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 20 Forced to Become a Feng Shui Master 被迫成为风水大师 Twenty years ago, the feng shui secret manual The Green Satchel Compendium was stolen and destroyed, drawing the Lin family into a deadly Seven-Star Fate-Seizing Formation stretching across Hangzhou's seven mountains. Lin Mu, a prodigy in Zhejiang University's architecture department, was born with yin-yang eyes and can see both the living and spirit worlds. His grandmother kept his feng shui abilities hidden from him since childhood. He had hoped to live an ordinary life, but after his uncle m 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 My Years as a Fortune-Teller 我当算命先生的那些年 [A True Account of the Secrets of Fate Reading] Ordinary people have all sorts of names for what I do. Some call me a master, some a fortune-teller, and others a charlatan or a con artist. My line of work is both respected and despised. Over time, I've grown a thicker skin. In the end, it's just how I make a living. But the longer I've been in this business, the more I've come to feel that things aren't so simple... First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, good deeds and virtue; f 189Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Feng Shui Master Zeng Bangmin 风水大师曾邦旻 During the Jiajing reign, in Sanliao Village, Jiangxi, a “sacred Feng Shui site” personally chosen by Yang Yunsong, a young man named Zeng Bangmin began to make a name for himself. At fifteen, he brought out his ancestral compass and helped Old Li survey a plot of land for a home. In front of everyone, he refuted the old Feng Shui master Liu Laosan’s fallacy that “the White Tiger protects the home.” Citing The Green Satchel Classic, he exposed the hidden water hazard to the west and used concret 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Feng Shui: Strange Tales 风水诡闻 Feng Shui, Qimen Dunjia, Maoshan arts, Gu techniques, witchcraft, and spirit summoning. Feng Shui is no pseudoscience. It constantly affects our families, careers, finances, marriages, and health... Some people face setbacks at every turn, while others have everything go their way. It's not bad luck, it's a Feng Shui problem. Want to change your so-called fate? Want to get rich? Then open this book and keep reading… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Forbidden Love with a Demon Wife 妖妻禁忌 He is a soul-reaping emissary who walks between the worlds of yin and yang, the last heir of the Ghost Dao lineage. Bearing the Book of Life and Death and wielding the Judge’s Brush, he can determine reincarnation with a word and decide eternal life with an iron stroke. She is the sovereign of the Fox Clan, blessed with peerless beauty and heavenly talent, and unmatched cultivation. Yet she is willing to defy the whole world just to hold him close. “If we can’t stay together, then this life will 3Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 25 Ghosts While Night Fishing: I Become a Modern-Day Celestial Master! 夜钓遇鬼，我成当代天师！ [The rating has only just appeared. It'll go up later.] Red strings and glutinous rice still remain, recalling Daoist Lin of old. Hundreds of years ago, monsters and evil spirits ran rampant, and the human world was in turmoil. After the new nation was founded, the human world and the monsters and evil spirits made a pact lasting a hundred years. For a hundred years, spirits and monsters could not take form, and evil spirits could not harm people. From then on, the human world enjoyed peace. Peo 75.5kReads6.3Score9.2kShelves
- 26 The Grand Mystic 大玄师 Sun Lei smiles faintly and raises a hand to split open the Yin-Yang Road. “Moved yet?” Demons, ghosts, monsters, and spirits: “Wouldn’t dare. Wouldn’t dare…” 132Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 27 Feng Shui Master Lai Buyi 风水大师赖布衣 Lai Wenjun passed the imperial examinations at the age of nine and rose to the rank of Imperial Preceptor. But after exposing Qin Hui’s plot to sever the dragon vein and usurp the throne, he was stripped of his position and exiled, reduced to a commoner begging in the streets. Then Heaven bestowed upon him an awakened Celestial Star Feng Shui Compass, while a fragment of the Green Crow Classic entered his soul. With a bowl of clear water, he could identify a venomous dragon; with three copper co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Feng Shui Master Liu Jiangdong 风水大师刘江东 The thrilling, overpowered comeback story of Feng Shui master Lai Buyi! He was once the Imperial Preceptor, but a treacherous minister framed him, and he was shackled and exiled to Lingnan. But he had real skills to back him up! Right after setting out, he casually broke the local bully’s “barren grave site.” A withered tree instantly sprouted, humiliating the villain and stunning everyone! And so began a string of satisfying victories: the Crown Prince’s curse? Broken! The Jin kingdom’s evil f 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Feng Shui Master Liu Bowen 风水大师刘伯温 When Yuan soldiers massacre his village, eighteen-year-old Liu Bowen escapes with his family's ancestral compass in his arms. His father's dying words still ring in his ears: "Protect the surviving pages of the Qingwu Classic, and break the Yuan court's Dragon Vein Severing Curse!" On the run, he comes upon a mountain village plagued by the deadly "White Tiger Carrying a Corpse" formation. Five people have died in three days, and a fraudulent Feng Shui master has set up a formation that instead 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Haunted House Salesman 凶宅推销员 My name is Wang Hao, and I work at a real estate agency that only opens late at night. The boss is beautiful, but she's rarely around. My coworker is a creepy Taoist who drags me out every night at 2:30 to spy on the apartment across the street. There's also a little girl with purple hair who keeps throwing pink slippers at me. My job is to inspect haunted houses, because I can see those "things." I only wanted to save up enough to put my younger sister through school. That was until a thousa —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Ink Master 掌墨师 A stern warning!!!! All the yang-meridian techniques in this novel come from a handwritten folk copy of the Lu Ban Book, an ancient text that truly exists. Do not try them lightly!!! It all began with my grandfather… He was an old carpenter, now well over eighty. By chance, I happened to open this long-forgotten copy of the Lu Ban Book. It was handwritten, and my first reaction after reading it was confusion, because I couldn’t understand it at all. So I studied it carefully. It recorded many t 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain: Others Read Faces, I Read Fate 天师下山：别人看相，我窥天命 The Netherworld infant Xiang Ling is born, delivered by underworld officials, with Black and White Impermanence guarding the gates and the Ten Great Nether Marshals patrolling the streets! The feng shui Xiang family suffers a devastating calamity and nearly faces extinction! Xiang Ling survives against all odds, finds shelter on Longhu Mountain, and becomes an heir to the Celestial Masters. Twenty years later, having mastered the mystic arts, Xiang Ling descends from Longhu Mountain to break evi 141Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 33 Guo Pu, the Feng Shui Master 风水大师郭璞 In the chaos of the Eastern Jin dynasty, the fangshi Guo Pu was once found drunk and asleep in the street, mocked by aristocratic youths as a “street-corner charlatan.” No one knew that this hard-drinking, free-spirited man carried a fragment of the Book of the Azure Satchel, or that he had bound himself to the Feng Shui inheritance System. When he buried his mother by the river, thousands condemned him as an “unfilial son,” but he declared that “in half a month, the silt will turn into farmland 14Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 34 Feng Shui Master Liao Junqing 风水大师廖均卿 # Synopsis: The Greatest Feng Shui Master, Liao Junqing Liao Junqing, a young man from Sanliao Village in Jiangxi, fishes a fragment of the Mountain-Driving Whip, passed down by Yang Junsong, from the Seven-Star Pool. His early talent for predicting disaster first brings him to prominence. He foretells a bloody conflict at Tiger-Shaped Mountain and uses seven camphor trees to set up a Seven-Star Formation and drive off bandits, winning fame in a single battle. During the Yongle era, he is summon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Folk Tales of Feng Shui and the Supernatural 民间风水怪谈 Curse Arts + Maoshan Arts + Qimen Dunjia + Plum Blossom Numerology + Folk Arcane Arts + Gu Techniques Feng shui affects everyone’s health, fortune, romance, family, and career. Want great fortune and riches? Want to become the richest person around? Want your children and grandchildren gathered around you? Want to become famous overnight? Want a beautiful companion by your side? If so, open to the first page and keep reading… 17.3kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
- 36 Mountain Patrolman: I Suppress Evil with a Dragon's Sinew Only Three Inches Long 巡山人：我以三寸龙筋镇邪异 Warrior King Luo Laowai returns to his old home in the forests of Northeast China. By a stroke of luck, guided by the Gray Immortal, he obtains a three-inch dragon tendon. An old soldier with an old rifle takes on the forces of nature, ghosts, demons, and monsters. Fox, Yellow, White, Willow, and Gray Immortals gather as divine warriors at his gate. The Three Realms have always existed among humankind, and true immortals walk beside ordinary people... 12.6kReads7.9Score1.2kShelves
- 37 The Feng Shui Mastermind 风水大掌柜 The day I was born, nine dragons came bearing a coffin, and a hundred ghosts wailed in mourning. I was born under a fated star. My name is Bai Ke, a feng shui master delivered to the mortal world in a coffin borne by nine dragons. I guide souls between yin and yang, and was born with an innate gift for the mysteries of heaven and earth. When you run into anything supernatural, just come to me, Bai Ke. I am the chief feng shui master, and there is no mysterious matter in this world that I cannot 594Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 38 The Secret Records of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘录 Mountain spirits summon immortals; water spirits summon dragons. Do immortals really exist in this world? I don't know, but I do know that dragons are real. From the day the roar of machinery rang out across Miaoling Valley, everything began to slide toward an unknowable abyss. And from that abyss, a pair of eyes watched those involved, their gaze carrying an emotion impossible to decipher... 188Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 39 Ghost Eyes and Golden Pupils 鬼眼金瞳 My mother blinded herself and left the martial world for my sake, leaving me to suffer bullying at school from a young age. It wasn’t until Aunt Bai appeared that I saw a glimmer of hope in life. She also taught me that this world is ruled by the survival of the fittest! When a wolf turns back, it has a reason: either to repay a kindness or to seek revenge! 2.4kReads8.5Score263Shelves
- 40 Max-Level Taoist: From the Start, Everyone Mistakes Me for a Scammer 满级道士，开局就被当成诈骗犯 After transmigrating, Zhang Ye acquires the “Heaven-Stealing Manual,” which lets him know the past and see the future. Then one day, the police show up at his door, saying someone has reported him as a fraud! To prove he really has the skills to back up his claims, Zhang Ye uses the “Heaven-Stealing Manual” to help the police capture several wanted Class A fugitives. Police: “How is Comrade Zhang Ye a fraud? He’s clearly every criminal’s worst nightmare!” Public: “Master Zhang, tell my fortune, 27Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 41 First-Rank Spirit Official 一品灵官 What’s it like to “catch ghosts with physical force”? The day my grandfather died, a dark wind blotted out the sky and earth as the gates of the underworld swung wide open. The Ten Yin Marshals arrived, escorted by a million Yin soldiers. But I fell ill, burning with fever for three days and nights. After I recovered, I was sorting through my grandfather’s belongings when I stumbled upon a redwood box. Inside was a book called the “Ledger of the Impermanent” and a black command token. The fro 46Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 42 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—Shelves
- 43 The Heaven-Mandated Divine Hexagram 天命神卦 His predictions are never wrong, and fortunes are worth a fortune! When Lin Shier returns to his homeland as a master of physiognomy, he is destined to become the center of attention. Powerful figures tremble before him, and goddesses fall for him! 45Reads8.4Score105Shelves
- 44 Memoirs of a Feng Shui Master: The Art of Home Feng Shui 风水师回忆录：阳宅风水术 [Practical Feng Shui Novel] [Explaining the Mystical with Science] [Learn About Home Feng Shui, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Face Reading, and More] [Packed with Useful Information] [Lots of Real-World Case Studies] [Includes Feng Shui Tips for 2026!] After graduating from college, I joined my grandfather at Anju Residence, the shop he had opened. I helped him run it and studied Feng Shui, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Six Lines divination, and all kinds of other subjects. I helped all sorts of w 38Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 45 When I Was Born, I Had a Phoenix Crown on My Head and a Green Dragon Around My Waist 我出生时，头顶凤冠，青龙缠腰 My mother was born with a yin fate and was known as the Ghost Mother. She also had another, deeply mysterious identity, one that struck fear into both the spirit and human worlds. Later, my mother gave birth to me. On the day I was born, I wore a phoenix crown, and a green dragon coiled around my waist. The Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters… Yet Master Chen the Third, a feng shui expert, declared that this girl was destined to bring disaster! 5Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 46 Grand Feng Shui Master Yang Yunsong 风水大宗师杨筠松 [Feng Shui + geomancy + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] From a powerful Imperial Preceptor who could command the wind and rain to an immortal who helped the poor, Yang Yunsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and honored by later generations as Master Yang, was a true “rule-breaker” in the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Feng Shui Master Qiu Yanhan 风水大师丘延翰 Qiu Yanhang, courtesy name Yizhi, was from Wenxi County in the Tang dynasty, in what is now Shanxi. A descendant of the Cao Wei general Mouqiu Jian, he was a renowned Tang-dynasty Feng Shui master and was honored as the second-generation patriarch of Feng Shui. He studied under Fan Yuefeng, inherited Guo Pu's geomantic teachings, and combined them with the Book of Changes and yin-yang divination. After discovering the Haijiao Classic on Mount Tai, he established his own distinctive Feng Shui sys —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Last Disciple of the Daoist Sect 最后一个道门弟子 When I was born, all the ghosts bowed to the ancestral shrine. My family was burdened by a curse that weighed heavily on me. Then, when I was sixteen, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, and my uncle vanished without a trace. It all began with that curse... 517Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 49 Is It Too Much for a Fortune Teller Like Me to Know a Little Yin-Yang Magic? 我一个算命的会点阴阳术不过分吧 [Maoshan Arts + Ghost Hunting + Face Reading + Powerful Connections + Walking Between the Yin and Yang Worlds + Team] Zhao Yang's grandfather made him study three books from a young age: the Zhouyi, the Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy, and a third book with no cover, whose contents were handwritten. After his grandfather passed away, Zhao Yang inherited his mantle. But now that cremation was the norm, all he could do was read people's feng shui, barely earning enough to get by. Just as he was thinking 318Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Unscientific Feng Shui Master 不科学风水师 Ji Yan, a top physics student, gains the ability to read the land's feng shui after an unexpected accident in the laboratory. He can find dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, dispel ill fortune and attract prosperity, bring wealth and status, and defy fate itself. With his mastery of feng shui, Ji Yan wins over business tycoons, helps ordinary people, punishes corrupt villains, and becomes a legendary feng shui master. 224Reads9.0Score—Shelves
