Novels like Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang
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- 101 In a World Overrun by Demons, I Set Up a Fortune-Telling Stall and Become an Immortal 妖魔乱世，我摆摊算命竟成了仙 Su Changqing transmigrates to the Great Jin Dynasty in another world, where demons run rampant, evil cultivators raise living beings like livestock, and cultivation techniques are strange and perilous. Fortunately, he awakens a talent for divination. Using flesh and hair as a medium, he can divine the fortunes of others, randomly copy their items and abilities, and extend his lifespan. At Mount Sancha in the Prefecture of Mount Tai, he divines for a century-old ginseng king and obtains the culti 542Reads7.9Score10514d adds
- 102 The Yin-Yang Master of the Wilderness 山野阴阳先生 [Yinshan + Maoshan + Folk legends + Supernatural + No saintly protagonist + No womanizing] My grandfather from Yinshan protects my life, and my brothers from Maoshan protect my body. As a Yin-Yang Master who walks among the dead, all I carry is an umbrella and a copper bell. Deep in the mountains, I encountered an old shapeshifter gnawing on a living person's hand. In southern Xinjiang, a demonic carpet sucked people's lifeblood in the middle of the night. In western Yunnan, a one-legged ghost 53.5kReads6.7Score2.2k14d adds
- 103 A Spirit Medium’s Disciple Who Became a Taoist 当道士的出马弟子 First, I offer incense as a disciple of the spirit-medium tradition. I am a junior student of Qingwei! This book has three aims! First, to explain some rather mysterious topics and present superstitious ideas from a scientific perspective! Second, to share a few tips on avoiding scams, so no one gets tricked! Third, there is no fantasy cultivation or wish-fulfillment in this book! Fourth, everything mentioned in the book is based on my own personal experience! Zhengyuantang, Wang Clan Immortal R 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 447Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 106 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 49Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 107 The Yin-Yang Master Keeps Coming and Going 阴阳先生她走来走去 There are 360 trades, and not one of them puts enough food on the table. What to do? Do them all! The protagonist is an orphan adopted by a feng shui master. But before he even turns sixteen, his master dies, leaving him alone with eight younger orphan disciples. To keep the family fed, the protagonist has no choice but to dabble in everything. (It's set in a partly fictional world. The overall timeline still follows modern history, but the author has a bad memory, and sometimes can't be bothere —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 The Maoshan Patriarch 茅山祖师 Zhao Hao transmigrates into a world of movies and becomes the eldest disciple of the Maoshan Patriarch during the Republic of China era! Demons and monsters are no match for him, and defeating them earns him blessings and merit. With the Patriarch at his back and a System in hand, Zhao Hao slays gods when he meets them and Buddhas when he encounters them. The vacant position of Maoshan Celestial Master is waiting for me, Zhao Hao! 1.3kReads6.7Score14514d adds
- 109 Yellow Springs Medical Hall 黄泉医馆 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, ghosts roam at night and the living must keep away. Yet on Linjiang Road, an unremarkable clinic stands with all four doors wide open, inviting every kind of visitor. Above the eaves hangs a gilded plaque bearing four large characters: “Yellow Springs Clinic.” 531Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 110 The Extraordinary Physiognomist of the City 都市之超品相师 Shen Ke inherits a mysterious art and learns secret techniques for reading the heavens and the earth. He wanders through the mortal world, caught up in tangled affairs of the heart. He vows to escape the five afflictions and three deficiencies that plague fortune-tellers and set out on a path beyond fate, yet unwittingly forges a legend of his own. 1.4kReads8.2Score16014d adds
- 111 I’m a Yin-Yang Fate Judge in Qingshi Town 我在青石镇当阴阳裁命人 Metaphysics + yin-yang eyes + the Five Arts of Chinese Tradition + a terrible start from the start There’s an inconspicuous incense and candle shop in Qingshi Town, run by Lin Qiu, a young woman who can see beyond the divide between the living and the dead. She inherited the Lin family’s ancestral Five Arts of “mountain, medicine, fate, physiognomy, and divination.” Her yin-yang eyes can distinguish the golden glow of merit from the bloody aura of ill fortune, and she specializes in resolving st —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Yin-Yang Fate Borrower 阴阳借命师 [Traditional Supernatural Horror]+ [Feng Shui and Mysticism]+ [Suspense and Deduction] On my seventeenth birthday, I watched my best classmate die horribly right in front of me. That was when I learned someone had stolen my fate! A mysterious old man told me I was one of the Seven Wise and offered to take me as his disciple. If I refused, I wouldn’t live past thirty. When I was twenty-five, my master ventured alone into the underworld to negotiate with the King of Hell and extend my life. He ult —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 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 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 A Taoist Prodigy in Feng Shui 道家天才风水师 [Feng Shui and Geomancy, Eight Characters and Destiny, Physiognomy, Folk Secret Arts, Qimen Dunjia, Zhuyou Healing, Daoist Magic] First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate good deeds in secret; fifth, study; sixth, choose a name; seventh, read faces; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, befriend benefactors; tenth, nourish the body. This book has a lighthearted, humorous style, similar to the Happy Ghost and Uncle Nine film series. It features Daoist magic, physiognomy, Zhuyou he 2.8kReads6.7Score28814d adds
- 115 I Am a Feng Shui Master 我是风水师 I thought I would follow the three instructions my parents left in their will, but everything changed after I rescued a female classmate… 8.9kReads7.4Score65414d adds
- 116 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
- 117 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score51814d adds
- 118 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score10114d adds
- 119 Twenty Years of Walking Between Yin and Yang: A Memoir 二十年走阴串阳回忆录 [The Great Six Ren, Qimen Dunjia, Four Pillars of Destiny, Xuan Kong Flying Stars, Jin Suo Yu Guan, folk witchcraft, Southeast Asian black magic...] And much more: an abundance of divination arts and folk culture, all knowledge you can learn at a glance and put into practice right away. A wealth of practical information! Zhao Jun graduated straight into unemployment. Then, reeling from the double blow of losing his job and his girlfriend, he encountered something that even he, a staunch material 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Folk Grievance Record: The Chosen Wage Slave 民间冤洗录之天选打工人 I was never meant to be alive in this world. My parents dragged me back from the gates of the underworld. But when I was eighteen, they were suddenly killed. Before they died, they used a special method to tell me a shocking secret about my true identity… 8Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 121 Born of the Mystic Dao 玄道而生 The world is divided into yin and yang, and people into the living and the dead. Yet some places and things are neither clearly yin nor yang, and the people there cannot tell whether they are alive or dead... There is a tavern at the point where yin and yang meet. They say that anyone who enters, living or dead, must abide by the owner's rules. Otherwise, they will never be reincarnated! 141Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 122 A Record of Funerals in a Small Town 小城丧葬录 In 2020, Rongcheng was battered by torrential rain. At 32, Chen Yan hit rock bottom after falling from a government post. Forced to resign over an air-gun incident, he crashed while hauling freight, went unpaid by an advertising agency, broke his leg at a construction site, and eventually became a food delivery rider, scraping by between his mortgage and daily expenses. One rainy night, he stopped to help someone and stumbled into the Xiao An Funeral Parlor, where he met Old Yang, who secretly c 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 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 7.6kReads8.0Score49814d adds
- 124 The Paranormal Master of Xuan Zong Feng Shui 玄宗风水术师之灵异先生 City life, celestial masters, the supernatural, feng shui, talismans, witchcraft, dark arts, ghost hunting, exorcisms, monster slaying, evil-spirit banishment, demon subjugation, battling zombies, living with a policewoman. No cultivation. 734Reads6.1Score10714d adds
- 125 The Unrivaled Heavenly Master 天师无双 The nine stars align, and good and evil are turned upside down. A great war between the Underworld and the Nether Capital is imminent. The Corpse Clan is rising, the Heavenly Ghosts seek to invade, the Heavenly Demons circle overhead, and great monsters descend. The Demon Buddha Sect, the Corpse Immortal Cult, and the Immortal Alliance are all stirring. Ghosts roam by day, demons hide among humanity, little ghosts are hard to deal with, corpse-driving and zombie-exorcising arts abound, the Five 29Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 126 The Great Medium 通灵大法师 A mysterious young man gets dragged into one conspiracy after another when he takes on a ritual job. To stay alive and avoid becoming a pawn, he launches an epic battle to defy fate and change his destiny. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 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
- 128 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
- 129 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
- 130 A Thousand-Year-Old Corpse Immortal Opens His Eyes, and the World Is Free of Ghosts 千年尸仙，睁眼后人间无诡 He lay in his coffin for a thousand years. At dusk, when an archaeological team pried open the lid, Chen Xuan opened his eyes. A sealing formation from the Demon Suppression Division instantly descended. Eighteen golden chains coiled around his limbs, the old professor collapsed in terror, and everyone in the warehouse screamed. But Chen Xuan rose to his feet and shattered the formation with one palm. “When a thousand-year-old corpse opens its eyes, no more monsters will run rampant in the morta 251Reads—Score12514d adds
- 131 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 491Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 132 Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿 Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end! 3.5kReads—Score20214d adds
- 133 Divine Art of Reading the Heavens 窥天神测 Words spring from the heart, and writing gives the heart form. The characters a person writes are intricately connected to their fortunes, misfortunes, and fate. Thus, the art of fortune-telling through written characters came into being. My journey down this path began when I accidentally fell into my grandmother's coffin, only to discover a young woman inside, her clothes in disarray… 985Reads8.8Score10614d adds
- 134 My Life as a Fortune-Teller 我的算命生涯 Earn money from the living, and bargain for your life with the dead. With a book of magical artifacts in hand, I command the laws of reincarnation. Good and evil hinge on a single thought; the truth is revealed in the next life. Do good deeds in this life, and you may live to a ripe old age in the next. Those steeped in evil may not live to adulthood in their next life. You can extend your next life, but you’ll have to give away all your wealth. By day, I do business with the living and 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 I Burned Too Much Hell Money, and Now Grandpa's an Official in the Underworld! 冥币烧太多，爷爷阴间当官了！ After burning too much spirit money, Grandpa transforms into a minor village official in the underworld. From then on, Gu Xiaobai learns that money can make even ghosts turn the millstone. What, Grandpa's promotion is taking too long? Here's a hundred million. Go buy yourself a promotion! What, someone bullied my grandson? I'll go settle the score with his ancestors! And so, the worlds of the living and the dead are thrown into chaos by this grandfather-grandson pair. Years later, Gu Xiaobai som 288Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 136 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score34114d adds
- 137 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
- 138 The Northeast Paranormal Investigator 东北灵异先生 Fangshi, spirit mediums, exorcists: these professions are famous, but their abilities are limited. There is one calling that stands above them all: its practitioners are known as paranormal masters. My name is Huo Jie. When I was nine, I encountered a vengeful spirit and nearly died of fright. To survive, I became a paranormal master! From then on, I roamed between the worlds of yin and yang, wielded the art of feng shui, and guided ghosts and gods through their trials! 230Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 139 The Premier Feng Shui Master 超品风水师 “You rich brats, tremble! I, Zuo Feibai, am back!” Cast out by his powerful family, Zuo Feibai spent ten years cultivating the Dao before returning to his old home. Thus begins a grand adventure, with romantic encounters following him everywhere. From feng shui and divination to the Eight Trigrams, the Five Elements and escape techniques, traditional Chinese medicine, and cooking, there’s nothing he can’t do. Smooth and capable in every situation, he ultimately becomes a master of the occult art 3.9kReads8.9Score42314d adds
- 140 The Book of Changing Fate: I Defy Heaven by Manipulating All Things 改运天书：我靠拨弄万物逆天改命 Traditional fortune-telling relies on a person’s birth date and hour, but the incomplete scroll of the Book of Guicang inherited by the protagonist, Su Zhe, teaches the Plum Blossom Numerology: “All things are hexagrams.” In his eyes, the entire world is made up of the sixty-four hexagrams. A falling leaf, a bird’s cry, even the color of a passerby’s clothes, will automatically combine in his vision to form a floating “hexagram.” 18Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 141 The Day AI Laid Me Off, the Half-Immortal Came Online AI裁我那天，半仙上线了 (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot. Read with care if any of that bothers you.) My name is Su Yan. I’m a wage slave who was laid off by AI. On the first day of my fortune-telling livestream, someone hacked my prediction System. Using my voice, someone “predicted” the death of a powerful tycoon with uncanny accuracy. To find the real culprit, I snuck into the dead man’s mansion, only to get caught up in a 72-hour deadly inheritance game. Every deat 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Maoshan Occultist 茅山诡术师 My name is Fang Gang. I was stolen the moment I was born. From then on, my life unfolded into an epic tale, as turbulent as it was mysterious. 397Reads8.6Score10614d adds
- 143 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大风水师 The living are coffined, the dead are entombed; yin and yang are reversed to establish the four pillars. A mirror that repels yang, cloth that draws in yin, and money trees lined up outside the door. A beautiful woman, plenty of money, yet worldly pleasures are not to be enjoyed. Walk between yin and yang, uncover Heaven’s secrets; every feng shui master is doomed to a short life! 13.9kReads8.6Score1.4k14d adds
- 144 A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才 A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil. 1.7kReads8.8Score11214d adds
- 145 Corpse's Fate 尸命 I have three masters, surnamed Li, Wang, and Xu. But my story begins with someone borrowing thirty years of my lifespan... 841Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 146 Celestial Master 天师 My name is Chen Rong. Rong as in ‘the world won’t tolerate me’! Have you ever seen someone get struck by lightning? Have you ever seen someone get struck by lightning once every nine years? That’s me!!! 1.3kReads8.0Score—14d adds
- 147 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
- 148 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! 3.7kReads8.2Score39614d adds
- 149 The Patriarch of Taoism 道家祖师 As the old saying goes, one person shouldn’t enter a temple, and two people shouldn’t peer into a well. One rainy night, I went into a ruined temple all by myself. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Nine Dragons Hauling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 The day my grandfather died, all living things on Mount Kunlun paid their respects. Dark clouds churned as nine dragons pulled an emerald divine coffin down from the heavens... People said: When an immortal passes into meditation, heavenly thunder welcomes them back to their place in the celestial court; When nine dragons pull a coffin, a divine coffin buries an immortal's body. 4.5kReads7.9Score40414d adds
