Novels like The Maoshan Outsider
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- 151 The Demon in the Coffin 至棺重妖 The new novel, The Fragrance of the Living Dead: Handling Ghostly Affairs Among the Living, is now being serialized. The excitement never stops, with new chapters every day. If you enjoy it, please support the author, Ye Wei. Thank you all! [Mystery + Horror + Supernatural + Folk Tales of the Strange + Female Ghosts + Monsters + Mountain Spirits + Corpses] This is a strange little village hidden deep in the mountains... Ever since he was nine and encountered the dead rabbit crouched on his windo 1.6kReads9.2Score11214d adds
- 152 The Divine Son-in-Law in Hemp Clothes 麻衣神婿 The day I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. To keep me alive, my grandfather came out of retirement and arranged an engagement to prolong my life. Twenty years later, thanks to the great fortune my grandfather bestowed on her family, my fiancée had become the richest woman in the land, yet her family broke off our engagement. They had badly underestimated my grandfather’s power and my background. Then karma came knocking... 9kReads8.5Score92514d adds
- 153 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When Grandpa died, the whole city was in an uproar... 9.8kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 154 Disciple of the Maoshan Sect 茅山门徒 A strange antique shop where the owner uses his ghostly eyes to appraise treasures and spends a fortune buying ghost bones! Think the owner only knows how to appraise antiques? Think again. He can read beautiful women, too! The domineering female CEO, the hottest star, an unconventional beauty, the pure-hearted campus belle, the girl next door… He can see right through you with a single glance! 7kReads9.0Score64814d adds
- 155 The Spirit Medium's Stories: Me and My Clients! 出马儿之我和缘主的那些事儿！ A girl who grew up in a small village experiences all kinds of hardships and amusing encounters with the people who come to her for help! Stories about my spirit-medium work and clients getting scammed. I'm looking for stories to use! Anyone with a good story is welcome to share a true one with me! 415Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Urban: I'm Super Vicious After I Die! 都市：我死后超凶哒！ After being brutally murdered, Lin Tian discovers that he has become a zombie and gained the art of controlling corpses, allowing him to command every zombie. Suck blood to grow stronger: the blood of mages, celestial masters, demon kings... Immortals become his servants, gods his slaves. The Corpse King has returned. A million zombies submit, welcoming the Zombie King!!! King Yama: “Bro, I’m a ghost. I have no blood. Don’t suck it, don’t!” A thousand-year-old fox spirit: “Zombie King, this litt 1.7kReads7.5Score18414d adds
- 157 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.8kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 158 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.8kReads9.2Score97514d adds
- 159 The Yin-Yang Wicked Son-in-Law 阴阳恶婿 At the end of the Ming dynasty, four families discover a terrifying dragon's lair, a feng shui site said to lead to heaven. They divide it into four parts, named Power, Wisdom, Wealth, and Beauty. Those buried within it can ensure their descendants enjoy power, wisdom, wealth, and beauty forever. But the lair defies the natural order. Even its good fortune carries danger, and it invites Heaven's punishment. To preserve their destiny, the families must find a scapegoat to take the blow in their p 17.3kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 160 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 313Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 161 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Art 茅山天师诀 [Maoshan Taoist arts] [Urban ghost-hunting] [Folklore and strange tales] [Chinese cosmic horror] Lu Xiaoyang, an heir to the Maoshan tradition, drank blood instead of milk for his first taste of anything after birth. After enduring three calamities and nine tribulations, he was personally appointed “Judge of the Living” by King Yama. To avoid becoming the son-in-law of the Great Emperor of Mount Tai, Lu Xiaoyang heads to the city to find the woman he was betrothed to as a child, only to be dumpe 16.1kReads8.1Score1.6k14d adds
- 162 Why Do Zombies Go Out of Their Way to Avoid Me? 僵尸见我绕道走，为啥 Lin Xiaojiu was granted reincarnation by the will of Heaven. In his previous life, he was Maoshan's greatest Celestial Master, who had reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao. Reborn in this life to cultivate anew, he's invincible from the start! Others go weak in the knees at the sight of ghosts. When he shows up, zombies turn and run, while evil spirits kneel and beg for mercy. “Zombie bros, don't run! I haven't exorcised you yet!” “Are there no evil spirits in this generation who can put up a 8.1kReads9.5Score81714d adds
- 163 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 7.9kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 164 Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命 When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father... 1.8kReads9.0Score13014d adds
- 165 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score91514d adds
- 166 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 1.4kReads8.5Score17714d adds
- 167 Live-Streaming a Borrowed Spell: Please Believe in Science 直播借法，请相信科学 Welcome, viewers, to the livestream! There are no such things as ghosts in this world. It's all just people scaring each other. Today's broadcast is all scripted, with special effects. Please be sensible and trust in science! [Streamer, how about you put down that ruler in your hand before telling us to trust in science?] [Hey, streamer, are you selling that hamster or not?] By the Celestial Master's command, gods and ghosts must keep their distance! Those who refuse will be dealt with on the sp 8.8kReads8.3Score38814d adds
- 168 Strange Tales from Republican-Era Sanjiang 民国三江诡事集 Whenever Eunuch Li from the teahouse downstairs told stories about the many strange and uncanny things he had encountered in his youth, a crowd would always gather around him. Whenever I was bored as a child, I would run over to listen. A corpse that had been dead for days was pulled from the Yangtze River, yet bled when its relatives came to see it. The owner of Second Brother’s restaurant had a brother who was a sworn brother of the underworld. One night, he followed the gang’s leader to an ab 123Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Dragon-Suppressing Coffin 镇龙棺 The day Grandpa died, all the beasts paid their respects, and nine dragons carried his coffin... 2.5kReads8.9Score46314d adds
- 170 Old Tales of Jiangyang: The Evil Dragon of Sanjiang 江阳旧事之三江孽龙 Luzhou, in central Sichuan, was known in ancient times as Jiangyang Commandery and is also called the City of Liquor. The Yangtze, Tuo, and Chishui rivers surround the city, which also borders Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, making it an important transportation hub for the three provinces since ancient times. The constant streams of mule caravans within the city, cargo boats on the rivers, and merchants lining the streets, along with the local brotherhood halls where sworn brothers trained with f 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 The Feng Shui Diviner 风水神相 [The short drama and comic adaptation are now available] First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate good karma; fifth, study; sixth, choose a name; seventh, read faces; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, make friends with benefactors; tenth, maintain your health. Eighteen years ago, an old Daoist priest found an abandoned baby in the mountains. Eighteen years later, a young feng shui master left his temple and came down from the mountain. Over the years, Jiang Chen learned all m 10.9kReads9.0Score1k14d adds
- 172 I Moved into Dorm 404 and Uncovered a Deadly Campus Mystery 住进404宿舍，我看破校园凶局 Feng shui, the supernatural, campus life, society: everything you're looking for is here! A story is just a story. Even if someone has experienced something similar in real life, I hope you'll still treat this as just a story! Don't get too caught up in it! Finally, may you, dear reader, stay safe and well! 33Reads—Score10414d adds
- 173 My Years as a Yin-Yang Master 我当阴阳先生那些年 An entanglement of karma inherited from my ancestors and an ancient, wondrous book made me a Yin-Yang Master. From that day on, burdened by the curse of the Yin-Yang Master, I embarked on a path of slaying demons and suppressing ghosts. 3.9kReads8.2Score35214d adds
- 174 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.3kReads8.4Score76714d adds
- 175 Reborn as the CEO's Fortune-Telling Wife 重生之总裁的算卦妻 [Rebirth + Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Actress + CEO + Influencer] After her fellow disciple ambushes her, the heroine is reborn as a disgraced influencer. After beating up a sleazy director, she tells him, “You’re going to prison.” When her unscrupulous agent demands an outrageous contract termination fee, she says, “Be careful when you go out. You’re in for a bloody disaster.” At a banquet to clear up a rumor, she exposes a scheming actress’s past crimes: raising a ghost to harm people and —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 My Years Running a Spirit Hall in Liaoning 我在辽宁领堂口的那些年 When I was three, a Huang spirit knocked my soul loose, and by chance I became sworn brothers with another Huang spirit. A Ghost King let something slip by accident, and following the clues, I learned that this Huang spirit was actually a golden-armored deity. It was only when the Living Buddha of Haitang Mountain appeared that I discovered I had two souls in one body. The arrival of my wife from a past life gradually awakened my sealed memories. Atop Mount Tai, the majestic and magnificent scen 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 A Chronicle of Debut 出道纪事 [No formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no web-novel conventions, traditional supernatural fiction, based on real events. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] I graduated from high school in 2014 and became a disciple of my master, Li Jingshan. I spent three years studying the Dao and another three learning the arts. Then I spent five years practicing them in the world, occasionally gaining new insights. I enjoy reading novels, but lament that today's books are all baseless fabricat 630Reads8.5Score12314d adds
- 178 A Strange Man of the Republic 民国奇人 The Republic of China was an era of upheaval, teeming with extraordinary people. In those chaotic times, the martial world was vast. As the saying goes, “The heroes of our age emerge amid the world's turmoil; the seven extraordinary figures of the Republic are here.” But who were these seven? There was a Daoist priest who cried, “In prosperous times, Buddhist temples thrive on incense while Daoists hide away in mountain retreats. In troubled times, the Bodhisattvas turn a blind eye, so the Old L 15kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 179 The Rogue Heavenly Master 痞子天师 [No System] + [Not brainless] + [No harem] + [Not invincible] Beneath the surface of this world lurks a mysterious force known as the [Xuanmen]. Zhang Daoyi, a young Taoist priest from Niubei Mountain, is sent down the mountain by the Old Celestial Master to gain experience. Along the way, he meets many dependable companions, and together they encounter all kinds of bizarre events. In the end, he gradually uncovers the dark side of this world... #This will be a long story, so read with confiden 1.1kReads6.5Score—14d adds
- 180 Borrowing Yin Bones, Wife of the King of Hell 借阴骨，阎王妻 To keep me alive, my grandfather threw me into a mass grave and buried me with nine stunningly beautiful female corpses. But he never expected someone to cut open my chest and dig out my bones, leaving me on the brink of death… 8.3kReads8.9Score83514d adds
- 181 The Underworld: I've Got a Little Background 地府我有亿点背景 Cultivation? Doesn’t exist! I rode in on a stroke of great fortune, bearing the sun and moon on my shoulders and striding across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers! When I woke up, I was astonished to discover I was the real deal! … The big shots of the underworld? They’re my ancestors! As the underworld’s number-one rich playboy, I’m completely unfazed. Because spoiling the youngsters runs in my family. The underworld’s ghost officers? They’re my underlings! They can drive me around an 1.5kReads8.9Score13814d adds
- 182 I Bring the Underworld into the World 我，让地府降临 [Alternate world] [Behind-the-scenes style] [No heroine] A blood moon hangs in the sky, and daylight suddenly breaks! The world changes, and spiritual energy surges forth! Beneath the daylight and blood moon, blood rains down without warning. Living beings wail, demons emerge, and ghosts run rampant. Deep Blue Star has become utterly unfamiliar to Meng Zhou. I, Meng Zhou, hold the Jade Edict of the Son of Heaven! I command ten thousand ghosts! I shall be lord of monsters and demons, ruler of the 7.7kReads7.9Score74114d adds
- 183 The Yinshan School: From Ghost-Hunting Jobs to Founding a Daoist Sect 阴山法脉：从接单捉鬼到称宗道祖 (Thriller) + (Supernatural) + (Mystery) + (Horror) + (Ghost Hunting) + (Exorcism) + (Feng Shui) + (Showing Off in Public) The sole heir of the Yinshan Sect's 37th generation! He inherits a dilapidated Taoist temple. Armed with half a ghost seal and three pages of a fragmentary manual, his cultivation is mediocre at best, yet he relies on the Yinshan Sect's secret arts to hunt ghosts and exorcise evil! Is orthodox Taoism hostile to him? Are Southeast Asian sorcerers causing trouble? Do vengeful s 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Hong Kong Crossover: I Started Cultivating from the Start, and Every Female Ghost Wants to Marry Me 港综：开局修仙，女鬼都想嫁给我 Sadako crawls out of The Ring and hands him a love letter. “Sir, I would be honored to cook for you.” A red-clad female ghost from a funeral home clings to him, her eyes sparkling. “Master, why not take me on as your little sidekick?” Even the wrongfully killed heiress of a wealthy family and a fox spirit who has cultivated for a thousand years come knocking, all hoping to marry him! Faced with a parade of stunning female ghosts desperately pursuing him, Lin Chen rubs his forehead helplessly. “ 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘 When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began. 5.5kReads9.0Score38814d adds
- 186 Uncle Nine: The Maoshan Senior Disciple's Dream of Immortality 九叔：茅山大弟子的成仙梦 (The score only came out after the book was finished, so it isn’t very high. What a shame, I thought it wouldn’t get a score at all. Thanks, everyone! This is my first book to receive a score, and I’m quite moved.) Shi Lingxi transmigrates into the Republican-era world of Uncle Jiu, where Shi Jian adopts her as his daughter and teaches her Maoshan arts. She heads down the mountain to aid Uncle Jiu, taking on zombies and ghosts in righteous group beatdowns. This is an ensemble story where the her 1.3kReads8.1Score10014d adds
- 187 The Last Daoist Lord 最后的道君 Ever since my mother got pregnant with me, strange things kept happening at home. First, a hedgehog came into the house, a long snake coiled around the beams, and a weasel dug a burrow in the vegetable patch out back. Then foxes from the mountains joined in, showing up at our doorstep every few days to peer inside. Now the five immortals were all gathered: Hu, Huang, Liu, Bai, and Hui. Anyone in the know would recognize this as the Five Immortals entering a home. Any one of the five entering 10.8kReads9.1Score97814d adds
- 188 749 Bureau: The Forbidden Return 749局之禁忌归来 [Mystery, imaginative twists, traditional supernatural horror, traditional fantasy, and modern technological civilization] From the day he was born, his fate was destined to be extraordinary. To protect the lasting prosperity of China's dragon veins, he led members of Bureau 749 across the world, eliminating evil entities from beyond the borders and vowing to keep the land secure forever. He is both an honored guest in the ghostly domain of Fengdu and the elusive "Mr. Nine" within Bureau 749. Ye 744Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 I Am Daoist Lin Jiu. I Invite You All to Your Deaths 贫道林九请诸位赴死 [System] [the Myriad Worlds] [Daoist Arts] [Uncle Nine] The red string and glutinous rice remain to this day, but the Daoist Lin of old is no more. Uncle Nine of the Myriad Worlds introduced countless transmigrators to the world, yet they always treated him as a stepping stone. Few remembered his kindness or helped him rise to greatness. When the "Supreme Dao Ancestor System" descends upon Uncle Nine, what sparks will fly between an unreliable System and an upright, slightly cunning Uncle Nine? 10.9kReads7.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 190 The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise… 28kReads9.0Score3.3k14d adds
- 191 The Yin Son of Heaven: From the Start, I Summon Black and White Impermanence 阴天子：开局召唤黑白无常 [System + passionate action + feel-good power fantasy + invincible protagonist + Underworld + Yin Heavenly Son + adventure + wild imagination] Shen Lian transmigrates to a fantasy continent and awakens the Yin Heavenly Son System. He slays vengeful ghosts, eradicates demons and evils, revives myths, and descends upon the mortal world. He obtains the Black and White Impermanence: vengeful ghosts are seized by the soul, and the Impermanence spirits claim their lives. He obtains the City God’s divi 2.7kReads7.6Score21014d adds
- 192 Xuanhuan: All My Ghost Wardens Are Players from Earth 玄幻：我的鬼差全是地球玩家 [Lord of the Underworld + underworld enforcers + Fourth Calamity + System + comedy + wild imagination] Zhang Muzhi transmigrates to a fantasy world and, from the start, awakens the Underworld System: an underworld with not a single ghost in it. Can't summon people in a fantasy world? No problem. I'll recruit players from Earth to work for me as underworld enforcers. At that moment, the players, known as the Fourth Calamity for being immortal and indestructible, descend en masse upon the fantasy 170Reads7.1Score10514d adds
- 193 A Collection of Folk Feng Shui Records 民间风水集录 Also known as The Dragon-Seeking Secret: The Five Masters of Jingmen. Main characters: Tao Duoyu and Ren Shiyu; The Five Masters of Zhongzhou: Xiong Lei of the Northeast, Zheng Xuan of western Hunan, and Su Mei of Jiangnan; My name is Tao Duoyu. My master is Tao the Blind, the foremost of the Five Masters of Zhongzhou. Twenty-four years ago, he saved me when I was at death’s door, snatching fate from the heavens to extend my life by more than twenty years. Twenty-four years later, my master myst 2.5kReads9.1Score38914d adds
- 194 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score96014d adds
- 195 The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人 I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but 5.5kReads9.0Score47614d adds
- 196 A Notebook of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌笔记 I was born with a pair of snake eyes, and everyone at the forest farm said I was a demon child born of a snake. The night I was born, thunder crashed again and again. The next day, a huge, gold-scaled python was found dead from a lightning strike outside Laolingou. Something was squirming inside its belly. Master Sang sliced open the python with a single stroke and carried out a blood-soaked baby. He named me Lin Shisan. From that moment on, my fate was bound to Master Sang’s for life… 19.5kReads9.3Score1.5k14d adds
- 197 We've Got People Down Below 咱下面有人 The big shots of the Underworld? They're my ancestors! As the Underworld's number-one playboy, I stay calm. My family has always been serious about protecting its own! The Underworld's ghost dragons? They're my tattoos! Those guys are a little too wild. If possible, send a few more my way! The Underworld's bailiffs? They're my underlings! They can drive for me and deliver packages, too! Evil spirits causing trouble? I'll kill every last one of them. Well, as the Underworld's Ghost Courier Ju 9.1kReads9.0Score69814d adds
- 198 Tales of the Supernatural: Ghost-Hunting Venerable 怪谈之捉鬼天尊 Eight severed-head mountains form a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, imprisoning Song An’s first eight incarnations. To ensure that Song An can grow up safely in his ninth life, a mysterious eminent monk comes to the mortal world. Unfortunately, this time Song An is born on the night of the Ghost Festival, and is also a child of extreme yin, with all eight characters of his birth chart belonging to yin. Even stranger, nine days and nine nights of blood rain fall before Song An’s birth. For —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Xuanhuan: From the Start, I Become the Underworld’s Yin Son of Heaven 玄幻：开局成为地府阴天子 The King of Hell says you die at the third watch. Who would dare keep you alive until the fifth? Qi Yun transmigrates to another world and becomes the Underworld’s Yin Emperor. He summons the Ten Kings of Hell and the Four Ghost Emperors, establishing a supreme underworld and restoring order to the world. “What? An old man named Yao Chen is hiding inside a ring? What are we waiting for? He’s a ghost lingering among the living right under my underworld’s nose. Go arrest him and drag him down here 1.8kReads7.9Score11014d adds
- 200 The Little Dumpling Adopted by Uncle Jiu 被九叔收养的小团团 The story of a little one destined to become a king, adopted by Uncle Jiu and swept up in all kinds of supernatural incidents. (A fanfic about Uncle Jiu, with a bit of The Pendulum mixed in, and a character from The Outcast appearing later.) 1.9kReads9.1Score11714d adds
