Novels like I Guard the Realm with My Dao
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- 1 The Last Taoist Priest in the City 都市最后一个道士 When I was little, strangers were always visiting our home, bringing all kinds of gifts for my grandfather. They were dressed in fine clothes and drove foreign cars. It was clear they were from a different class than us. But those visits also led to my grandfather’s death. And I was drawn into the chain of events that followed. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Feng Shui Master 风水天师 After my feng shui master grandfather died, I followed his will and took a security job at Nanda Arts College. The place was full of beautiful women, but it had one strange rule: no one could remain in Teaching Building No. 9 after seven in the evening. I refused to believe it and went inside... 179Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 3 A Daoist on the Road 道门行走 “Miss Bai, slow down! You’re running too fast. I can’t keep up!” Wu Zhi called after the white fox sprinting ahead of him, helplessly trying to persuade her. The white fox heard him, wagged her tail, and looked back at Wu Zhi with a sly glint in her eyes. “I’ll stop if you call me Lady Bai, young sir.” “Certainly. Please wait for me, Lady Bai.” Wu Zhi replied with an amused tease. “Don’t forget, Lady Bai. You promised to travel across all these mountains and rivers with me and measure them toget 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 4 Can I Be a Taoist, Too? 我也能当道士？ A rebellious student who smokes and gets into fights, and a Daoist master who is a fortune-telling charlatan with a surprising hip-hop look: round black sunglasses, a hoodie, shorts, and basketball shoes. What kind of sparks will fly between this master-and-disciple duo? Come experience the mysteries of the occult, the Eight Trigrams, talismans, all kinds of supernatural enigmas, and folk legends... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Master of Metaphysics 玄门国手 Lin Yanyang is a 22-year-old third-year student at a traditional Chinese medicine college. Thin and slight, he has a focused gaze but often lowers his eyes to avoid meeting anyone's stare, and habitually sits in the corner. After witnessing a close family member fall ill in childhood without receiving timely treatment, he withdrew into himself and came to be mistaken for “aloof and boring.” He has a near-photographic memory and an extreme sensitivity to scents, colors, and pulses. Unable to expr 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Secret Feng Shui Arts for Exorcising Evil 风水治邪秘术 My great-grandfather was a bandit. Among the many treasures he plundered were two ancient books. One, The Secret Arts of Feng Shui and Exorcism, helped my grandfather become a renowned yin-yang master across the surrounding villages. The other, a strange book with no name or writing, made me a legendary figure in the world of mystical arts and feng shui! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Chinese Taoism, 1937 中华道门1937 A new novel is here! You’re welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Direct Disciple of the Three Pure Ones: I Slay Demons in the City 三清嫡传：我在都市斩妖邪 An immortal child serving beneath the Three Pure Ones accidentally perishes and is reborn as a drowning boy in the mortal world. On the brink of death, he unexpectedly arrives in the underworld, where a mysterious expert teaches him the arcane Book of the Three Pure Ones. But he accidentally lets the underworld's evil ghosts escape. To make amends, the boy travels through the city wielding talismans and Taoist arts, slaying demons and vanquishing evil. Along the way, he meets Yi Xiaotong, the gi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Coffin Man 棺人 There was an old coffin in our home. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, Grandpa had me paint it with red and black lacquer. This went on for years, but he never told me why. It was only after I turned eighteen and was buried alive inside that old coffin that I gradually uncovered one secret after another. From then on, I embarked on a very different path in life. Three calamities and six tribulations, nine coffins crossing together: ferrying people, demons, and restless souls! The Ye 251Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 10 This Daoist’s Words Are Blessed: One Follow Leaves the Whole Internet Stunned 这个道士嘴开光一个关注吓懵全网 My Funeral Livestreamer: One Follow Has the Whole Internet Freaking Out! After transmigrating to a parallel world, Huang Ping, a Taoist priest, was bound to the Funeral Services System. While scrolling through Douyin videos, Huang Ping came across a livestream, and a system prompt flashed through his mind. “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You’ve found a new client.” “Target: Dandelion Who Loves Riding Snails.” “Tip: The more you walk at night, the more likely you are to run into trouble. This perso —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 I Unleash My Divine Might in Another World 我在异界大显灵威 [Not a Leveling Story] [Not a Mafia-Style Cultivation Story] Take one method from the Dao, and one technique from that method. A temple rascal born in the 2000s transmigrates to another world, only to discover that immortals and demons are real here, and magic is everywhere. This is practically a heaven-sent opportunity! What? The Daoist traditions have been lost? I have magic from another world! This time, your Daoist master is going to show off! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 From Little Taoist Novice to Grandmaster of the Taoist Order 从小道童到道门老祖 A lone star defies fate and changes his destiny A young Taoist's journey in search of immortality and the Dao 172Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Marrow-Cleansing Sutra 拍案洗髓经 Mo Fei, known as Old Mo, is an ordinary, sensible man who plays by the rules and lives within his means. A medical checkup report prompts him to change the way he lives, setting him on a journey from which there is no turning back, where all kinds of unbelievable adventures await… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain: Why Does My Daughter Think I'm a Fraud? 道士下山：我女儿竟然说我是神棍？ [Livestream Revelations + Supernatural Suspense + Taoist Descends the Mountain] To save his daughter, Han Sh Que spent ten years cultivating in the mountains. When he returned, he was met with his daughter accusing him on a televised livestream, claiming that her own father had committed heinous acts against her. Yet everyone around them took the side of the monstrous father. What exactly is going on? 2Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 15 Poisonous Humanity: 1945 人毒：1945 After his wife was killed by Japanese invaders, Wudang disciple Lu Li was swept into the tide of resistance against Japan, transforming from a wandering doctor into a knight-errant physician in a time of chaos. Alongside Jiang Qi, a Miaojiang witch, he wielded silver needles as swords and used poisonous parasites as shields, navigating the forces of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and Japan. From a secret cave on Wudang Mountain to a nuclear blast on Mount Fuji, and from forbidden technique —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 A Child Disciple of the Three Pure Ones 三清座下一童子 A world where black and white, order and chaos, East and West, technology and religion all coexist... A novel that truly tells stories about Taoism and its teachings. Dao Meng has been an orphan since childhood. He scrapes by in the Westland, once the Continent of Taoism and Buddhism, now occupied by the Church. Technology is advanced here, but anything connected to the Church costs a fortune... By chance, Dao Meng is taken in by an old Taoist. From the first moment he sees the Three Pure One 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Daoist Patriarch 道家祖师 In the Eastern Region, immortal sects and demonic orders vie for supremacy, wielding wondrous arts. In the Southern Borderlands, shamans rule, and their strange sorcery and curses defy belief. In the Northern Sea, the Dragon Palace reigns supreme, while the demon clans hold sway with their powerful bodies. The Western Lands are an unknowable place, shrouded in mystery. This world had no Daoism, but Yang Xuan said there should be, and so Daoism came to be. Here are the One Breath Transforming int 91Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Born with an Immortal Spirit Body: I Somehow Became a Celestial Master of the Daoist Sect 天生仙灵体：我竟修炼成道门天师 Zhang Lin was once a poor young man. After picking up a treasured ring, he gained magical powers. Following his master, Daoist Qingfeng, he went on to subdue demons and exorcise evil, eventually becoming a great Celestial Master. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Seven Disciples of the Daoist Sect 道门七子 Do you believe that other spaces and dimensions exist beyond the world we know? Do you believe that among the people we encounter every day, there may be extraordinary individuals with extraordinary skills, unknown to the rest of us? Here, we tell stories about people and events in this world that ordinary people never hear about. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Uncanny Has Arrived? At Last, This Daoist Has Work! 诡异降临？贫道终于来活了！ Lin Mo transmigrates into a bizarre world where rules have descended and demons run rampant, becoming the only Daoist priest at Xuan Zhen Temple. He starts a livestream, attracting a fan haunted by a paper wedding gown. After activating the Demon-Slaying System and obtaining Palm Thunder, he destroys the gown in a single strike, and his following explodes. He cracks the rules, offers up the strange 1.3kReads—Score6514d adds
- 21 Mastering Qi for a Thousand Years: The Heaven-Defying Divine Artifact 气御千年.逆天神器 Feng Yu Jiu Qiu is one of China’s most celebrated fantasy and cultivation novelists, a prominent figure on the Tianya online community. His epic Taoist adventure novel, Qi Yu Qian Nian, has been passionately embraced by readers, earning rave reviews and over a hundred million clicks. Readers have called him the Jin Yong of contemporary fantasy and cultivation fiction. In 2012, he was named one of China’s Ten Most Influential Internet Celebrities, an event hosted by Phoenix TV and Lenovo, with Li 206Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 22 The Last Maoshan Celestial Master 最后一个茅山天师 They tore down the temples, burned the peachwood swords, packed the Taoist robes away, sealed the talismans in storage, and put the glutinous rice away. It was a scientific triumph, and the Taoist masters’ final age… Ding Chen, the last heir to the Maoshan Taoist lineage, never imagined that he would lose his job the moment he inherited the sect leader’s seal at the age of twenty-one. He could only take a copy of the Book of Celestial Divination and a marriage agreement to Chang’an. 178Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Little Martial Uncle Is Slacking Off Again Today 今天的小师叔也在摸鱼 “Little Martial Uncle, Master and the others all say you’re an immortal banished to the mortal world and reborn. Is it true?” “Don’t believe rumors or spread them.” “But in the stories you tell, the geniuses from other sects are always born amid strange omens, with flowers raining from the sky or golden lotuses springing from the earth. Little Martial Uncle, were there any signs when you were born?” “There sure were!” “What were they? Purple clouds stretching three thousand miles east, or one ha 7Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 24 Huaxia Taoist Academy 华夏道教学院 This book shares my experiences studying Taoism at a Taoist academy. Whether you believe it or not, the events described here really happened around us. Demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits have never been mere legends; they truly exist. 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Charismatic Feng Shui Master 风骚风水师 Huang Daxian, an outcast from the Three Pure Ones Temple, and his disciple Wei An live in seclusion at Xiaoyao Temple. They spend their days using the Book of Strange Gates and Hidden Armor to tell fortunes and read people's fate. One day, while practicing the Great Ultimate Golden Flower Teaching, Wei An suffers a cultivation deviation. In a dream, he becomes the Unforgiven Tower Lord, leading his followers in a final battle against the righteous path, only to suffer a crushing defeat. Wei An 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Reborn: Master Daoist, I’m Back Again 重生之道爷我又回来了 After my last book inexplicably flopped, I took a long, hard look at myself! I've decided to make a comeback. Sigh! I won't change a thing, because that's the fun of it. A blessing in disguise. This is the perfect chance to fix what was lacking in the previous book. Come along, and I'll keep showing you this world. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 You Said You’d Be a Taoist Priest, So How Did You Become the Dao Ancestor? 说好的当道士，你怎么成道祖了？ Three thousand years ago, the myriad races invaded, and everyone awakened a class. Feng Chen became a Daoist, but all he could do was concoct pills for kidney strength and stamina, and calculate what the old Wang next door was up to. The strongest Daoist System showed him the right way to be a Daoist. The Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods, the Seventy-Two Earthly Arts! He moved mighty rivers with his bare hands and slew the myriad races with a flick of his finger! Then the Old Ones descended upon the 59Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 28 Worries of the Mystic Sect 玄门忧道 Twenty years ago, someone stole my fortune. To save me, Grandpa sent me to Mount Longhu. Twenty years later, a young Daoist descended the mountain. My mother in the mortal world had died, and I stepped between yin and yang to find her… 1.5kReads6.7Score11814d adds
- 29 I'm Done Being a Celestial Master This Poor 这么穷的天师不当也罢 In times of peace and prosperity, Buddhism flourishes across the land while Daoists hide away in remote mountains. In times of chaos, Bodhisattvas turn a blind eye to worldly affairs, while the Old Lord shoulders his sword and saves a world in turmoil. Daoists emerge from seclusion to save the people only when chaos reigns. In prosperous times, they shun worldly gain and retreat to the mountains, pursuing the Great Dao in their hearts, untouched by mundane distractions. This seems to have become 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The True Immortal Path of Mount Shu 蜀山真仙道 A Different Shu Mountain. Jing Xiao finds himself in a different version of the Shu Mountain world, yet carries memories from somewhere else. See what kind of thrilling xianxia adventures await Jing Xiao in this unfamiliar world of Shu Mountain. 32Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 31 Livestream: Is It Really So Strange for a Taoist Priest Like Me to Know Magic? 直播：我一个道士会道术很合理吧 [Livestreaming + System + Pets + Urban Fantasy + Supernatural Invasion = ?] Chen Chuan transmigrates to a world on the brink of a supernatural invasion, becoming a Taoist priest with a temple from the start and binding himself to a live-streaming System for saving the world. To prepare for the crisis that may be coming, Chen Chuan begins his daily livestreams. “Daoist, why can your husky do kung fu?” “Daoist, you say you can’t use magic, so what’s that ball of lightning in your palm?” “Daoist, y 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 I'm a Taoist Priest. It's Normal for Me to Tell Fortunes for the Paranormal, Right? 我一道士，给诡异算命很正常吧？ [Supernatural Horror Revival + Livestreaming + A Little National Fate + One Female Lead] A bizarre game has arrived. Anyone who dies in the game dies for real, becoming a sacrifice that summons the true forms of the horrors into our world. To resist the invasion, countries around the world assemble elite teams and send them into the game. But once the weak and helpless humans enter, they can't even handle the first minor boss. They're torn to pieces, and their gruesome deaths play on repeat in 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 I Changed Classes to Taoist Priest and Attained the Dao Through Earthly Fiend Arts 转职道士，我以地煞术成道 [Taoist Class Advancement] [Skill Tree: Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts] Fu Beishang transmigrated. He had no System, but this world had wish-granters. He inherited his predecessor's genuine last wish and successfully became a Taoist in a world where people could change classes. But he hadn't been happy for long before he ran into the divine messengers who specialize in sending transmigrators home. He'd barely been here a few days before they sent him back to his hometown. When he returned, he di 7.6kReads6.3Score87114d adds
- 34 The Taoist Master Is Not to Be Trifled With 道爷不好惹 To the west lies Kunlun. The Kunlun Mountains stretch across eight hundred li of vast wilderness, uninhabited and seemingly endless. Generation after generation, the disciples of Kunlun Temple on Yuxu Peak have guarded the twenty-four dragon veins beneath this land. They have studied three thousand three hundred Daoist scriptures, can make precise predictions, subdue demons, drive away evil, travel between yin and yang, and master the art of feng shui. 56Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 35 A Heart of Devotion to the Dao 肃道丹心 [Cultivation] + [History] + [Imperial court] + [Passion] + [Reborn] + [Smart protagonist] + [Frequent updates] + [Rapid updates]. If you can’t keep up, think twice before reading. During the Jiajing era of the Ming dynasty, the imperial court is obsessed with alchemy and refining elixirs from ancient artifacts. In the Prince of Su’s palace in remote Lanzhou, fate leads the prince’s grandson Zhu Jingchen onto a very different path of cultivation: the orthodox Daoist art of internal alchemy. From 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 I, the Purple-Robed Celestial Master, Craft Palm Thunder and Slay a Black Dragon 我，紫袍天师，手搓掌心雷斩黑龙 [Modern urban high-martial arts + invincible power fantasy + steamrolling everyone + no goody-two-shoes + ruthless and decisive] After transmigrating to Blue Star, he was reborn as the young master of a useless family. When he awakened a C-rank class, he was cast out. Bai Lan was reborn and awakened a System that grants him lifespan for slaying demons. [Congratulations, Host, you have awakened the hidden class: “Violet-Robed Celestial Master”!] [Congratulations, Host, you have awakened the a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Wolf Demon Chronicles 狼妖传 The love between humans and demons has been passed down through the ages; the White Snake is not the only one to cross the River of Forgetfulness. A half-demon bears the blood of wolf and fox, with love and hatred entwined along a long road. The shadows of an ancient tomb conceal danger, while pursuit draws fate ever closer. Who will join in this sorrowful song? On the jianghu road, they speak of bonds forged in the mortal world. Through all the ages, there have been countless romances between 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 From the Start, I Got a Daoist System and Rebuilt China's Daoist Tradition 开局获得道教系统，重铸华夏道统 I was framed for taking someone else's college entrance exam. My mother was critically ill with cancer. Then Liang Jie, a rich second-generation heir, threw money in my face and said, “You're nothing but a dog. You have to kneel before you're worthy of taking it!” Just as I was about to give up, the [Hongmeng Daoist System] activated! A Body-Refining Pill took me straight to the Qi Refining stage. With the Qinggang Sword in hand, I slayed demons and exorcised evil. The Golden Light Mantra protec —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Talisman Sword That Subdues Demons 符剑镇妖邪 Zhang Qing'an was born amid the chaos of the late Qing dynasty. His fate was incomplete from birth, and he was not expected to live past twelve. Yet he was also the pawn of that person, and his fate was intertwined with the Temple of Heaven and Earth. Daoist Xu, the twelfth generation Daoist of the Temple of Heaven and Earth, paid an enormous price to defy heaven, change Zhang Qing'an's fate, and complete his destiny. Zhang Qing'an forged a new path, entering the Dao through talisman swords and 325Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Seeking the Dao, Searching for the Path 寻道觅途 Li Wuchen chuckled softly, as he often did. “Heaven's will must not be defied.” Until his parents' blood ran cold, his closest friend turned against him, and his beloved disciple died a tragic death... Until he saw, in the pages of a fragmentary history book, the woman he loved more than life itself. They had crossed a thousand years together, yet remained forever full of regret... Doubt stirred in his heart. “Fate... can it truly not be defied? Heaven's will... can it truly not be overturned?” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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
- 42 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain: I Slay Every Evil with Changshan Magic 天师下山：我以阊山术法尽诛邪 “The world is in turmoil, overrun by demons and monsters. I wield the Lushan Dao, and can slay specters and evil spirits.” So spoke the Daoist priest as he shouldered his sword and descended the mountain. “Why go down the mountain?” “To vanquish demons and subdue evil.” “And why vanquish demons?” “So I can answer to the Dao in my heart!” 45Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 43 Tales of Yin and Yang Ghosts 阴阳鬼记 A Yin-Yang notebook lets me travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. A single Yin-Yang petition can make even the Judge of the Underworld yield. I have a Yin-Yang notebook filled with such petitions. My name is Ximen Rong, and my fellow practitioners call me Little Ghost. The ghosts all call me Young Master. This is my notebook, the most powerful weapon my master left me. He said only someone with the strongest spiritual intuition was worthy of reading it. But when I opened the note 15Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 44 The Ghost-Eyed Fixer 鬼眼话事人 Chen Cheng was born with ghost eyes, able to see what ordinary people cannot. A Daoist master recognized his gift and took him on as his final disciple. He sought justice for ghosts and drove demons from the mortal world. After his master left, he took over as the new keeper of the ghost eyes, hunting thousand-year-old vengeful spirits, battling zombies, luring vampires to their deaths, and investigating haunted tunnels, ghost villages, and phantom ships... He will carry on the Daoist tradition 969Reads7.3Score10014d adds
- 45 My Heavenly Master Wife 我的天师老婆 Our meeting was no coincidence. Heaven had planned it all along… After the book goes on sale, updates are guaranteed at 6,000 words a day. 405Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 46 Global High Martial: Create the Celestial Master’s Mansion from the Start 全球高武：开局创建天师府 Zhang Daoling transmigrates to a parallel Earth. Hundreds of years ago, monsters rose again here, and evil spirits, demons, ghosts, and other horrors began roaming the world. Martial artists among humanity formed their own organizations to fight back. But bizarrely, this world has no Daoists! Zhang Daoling obtains the Celestial Master’s Mansion System and establishes the Celestial Master’s Mansion from the start! He suppresses every monster and evil spirit, and sweeps away all the demons and gho 627Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Maoshan Occult Talisman 茅山诡箓 I was born in an age when Daoist arts were gradually fading, yet I was born with yin-yang eyes and a gift for divine calculations. I became the heir to Maoshan's Yuantian lineage. With a glance, I can distinguish yin from yang; with divine calculations, I can determine fate! Then, after finding a letter my grandfather left behind, I faced the Tiger Immortal of the Northeast and broke the Japanese art of raising ghosts. From then on, I embarked on a thrilling journey... 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 True Martial Temple 真武观 “A four-hundred-year-old temple, with only a twenty-year-old abbot left.” “The Dao is not passed on to the unworthy, but the unworthy refuse to come.” The Daoist tradition was in decline, its teachings scattered. He made his home in the city, where what he had to protect was not merely “a mountain, one person, or a single line of incense and prayer.” He also had to preserve the glory of the Daoist tradition, built over thousands of years. 21.3kReads8.1Score2.7k14d adds
- 49 The Taoist Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 道门天师走人间 Where there is good, there will be evil, and naturally, wickedness too. Injustice may be forgiven, but evil deeds must never be pardoned. The world is also plagued by demons and monsters. He is the reincarnation of an immortal from the heavens. To fulfill his karmic merit, he descends the mountain and enters the mortal world to exorcise evil and capture ghosts! (An invincible protagonist! The moment he leaves the mountain, he reaches the pinnacle of the mortal world!) 589Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The God of Thunder Possesses a Good-for-Nothing Boy: His Life of Cheating His Way to the Top 雷神寄体废柴少年的开挂人生 [Entirely handwritten] + [modern urban coming-of-age] + [teaching you real ways to make money from nothing] + [changing your fate through traditional culture] + [no overpowered golden finger] Nineteen-year-old Sass is the kind of student everyone thinks is going nowhere: a father who drinks, a mother who cries, rock-bottom grades, a gaming addiction, bullying at school, and a family so poor they can barely scrape by. Then one day, a voice sounds in his head. It's a deity claiming to be from the 3Reads—Score—14d adds
