Novels like I Became a Heavenly Master of the Dao
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- 101 Supernatural: My Girlfriend Isn’t Human 灵异：我的女友不是人 In an abandoned red house, a little girl’s cries ring out every night after dark… A haunted house no one dares approach, where the tale goes that a father killed his son… A grinning corpse with a strange smile on its face. When you hear a cat meow, close your eyes immediately… Ancient embroidered shoes, and flowers from the other shore blooming in a sea of blood… Lin Fei only wanted to survive his ghostly girlfriend, but a battered old book called Records of Yin and Yang slowly opened his ey —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Livestream Fortune-Telling: My Identity as a Celestial Master Is Exposed 直播算命:我的天师身份被曝光了 Ye Tian grew up in the mountains, where he mastered the art of feng shui. At a young age, he became the head of Qingyun Hall. To support his family, he started livestreaming fortune-telling. But after joining a call with a streamer who had tens of millions of followers, he forgot to turn off his camera. In front of millions of viewers, he conjured a fireball with his bare hands to light incense. He recited the Golden Light Incantation to illuminate the room. With a single exorcism talisman, he a 92Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 103 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
- 104 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
- 105 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times with the Fuying Hall's Legacy 我带着伏英馆法脉穿越古代 Ghost hunting, exorcism, wuxia, ensemble cast, no System. The protagonist is a disciple of the Liuren Fuying Hall who has only recently started learning the arts and rarely applies himself. When his teacher takes on a mission, he transmigrates to another world in ancient times, setting off a series of events involving the supernatural, the martial world, and the rise and fall of dynasties. As the saying goes, when a nation is on the brink of collapse, demons and evil spirits are sure to emerge! 172Reads—Score13214d adds
- 106 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 107 The Bride from the Underworld 来自阴间的新娘 On the night my neighbor got married, the bride died because of me… 1.1kReads6.8Score10314d adds
- 108 This Taoist Priest Is the Crown Prince 这个道士是太子 A domineering, unruly crown prince who gave the civil and military officials endless headaches, filled the people with grievances, and made his peers jealous yet helpless was finally sent up the mountain to become a Daoist by imperial decree... That day, officials of every rank cried out, “Long live the wise emperor!” Their voices soared into the clouds... That day, firecrackers thundered and gongs and drums blared throughout Chang'an... On Cranecry Mountain, the deposed crown prince, now a Daoi 1.6kReads5.6Score11914d adds
- 109 The Number One Mystic Arts Master 玄门第一相师 A young Taoist is forced to leave his temple. Luckily, he finds a secret manual and slips into the city to begin his cultivation journey. Even the head of a major corporation treats him as an honored guest. 2.2kReads7.7Score31014d adds
- 110 My Wife Is Actually a Zombie 我的老婆竟是僵尸 The legends speak of eight kinds of Jiangshi: Purple Jiangshi: slow-moving, wreathed in purple energy. White Jiangshi: entirely white, afraid of light and fire. Green Jiangshi: unafraid of livestock, but afraid of sunlight. Hairy Jiangshi: covered in hair, unafraid of sunlight. Flying Jiangshi: skilled in magic, able to fly through the sky and burrow underground. Wandering Corpse: travels between the worlds of yin and yang, gathering the resentment of heaven and earth. Buried Corpse: imperishabl 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 I Had Just Become a Celestial Master When I Entered a Horror Game 刚成天师，我进入了惊悚游戏 Zhang Chen became the Celestial Master's sole disciple and awakened the “Strongest Celestial Master System” at the age of nine. He doesn't need to cultivate. He only has to keep catching ghosts to grow stronger. But ghosts are incredibly rare in the real world, so all he can do is stare longingly at the Celestial Master's various divine powers in the System… Then, when he turned nineteen, his master went down the mountain and disappeared. Seeing the invitation to a horror game in his hand, 3Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 112 Dragon-Subduing Art 镇龙术 When I was born, my grandfather foresaw that I would face four great calamities in my life. To change my fate, he traded his life for mine. That day, a thousand white cranes circled overhead, escorting my grandfather to his final rest... 24Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 113 The Maoshan Sect Leader 茅山掌教 The Dao is the foundation of the Way; arts are how it is put to use. Hidden soul-binding talismans, a life of poverty and an early death for initiates, the three Maos’ upper, middle, and lower teachings, and secret arts that leave ghosts and gods in awe! The most mysterious final patriarch of Maoshan leads his disciple Zhang Shouyi across the land, exorcising demons, exploring dangerous places in search of treasures, resolving ancient grudges, and roaming both the realms of yin and yang as he li 1.1kReads6.7Score10014d adds
- 114 The Heavenly Master of Zhuyou 祝由天师 After my grandfather dies, I inherit the art of Zhuyou and become a ghost doctor who wanders the mortal world. I've treated the living, tormented by evil ghosts, and helped the wronged spirits bullied by wicked people. As I encounter more and more evil entities, I learn more of Zhuyou's secrets. I get drawn deeper into it all, with less and less control over my own fate. A corpse alive in a mass grave, an evil spirit kept in an old mansion, a fingerless woman who steals people's lifespans. Every 140Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 115 The Orthodox Unity Taoist Acolyte 正一小道爷 My master vanished without a trace. As the sect’s last heir, I have the sect’s treasured spirit sword and a purple-gold spirit talisman brush. One man, one sword, one brush: I descend the mountain to subdue demons and ghosts. Note: Some events in this book are based on real experiences the author has had, and some of the methods are quite authentic. Do not attempt to imitate them! 592Reads6.1Score10014d adds
- 116 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 714Reads7.4Score10114d adds
- 117 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 458Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 118 A Feng Shui Master Born in the 1990s 90后风水师 One glance tells you who is destined for riches. Two reveal who will live or die. After realizing that the goddess was doomed to disaster, Li Shiyi embarked on a road of death from which there was no turning back. 282Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 119 Supernatural: Starting Work at the Funeral Home 灵异：从殡仪馆上班开始 A person who received nine years of compulsory education finds themself caught up in a series of utterly bizarre events because of a job posting and a job... The synopsis doesn't do it justice. Read the story and see for yourself. 629Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Yin-Yang Taboos 阴阳禁忌 My family told me that on the night I was born, an old beggar woman came to my grandfather's house. The moment she saw me, she said nothing and grabbed me by the throat... It wasn't until my grandfather was murdered that I learned the truth. I swore to fulfill every last one of his wishes! 1.5kReads8.4Score12414d adds
- 121 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
- 122 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
- 123 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
- 124 My Road to Riches with a Taoist Who Sees Yin and Yang 我和阴阳眼道士的暴富之路 After graduating from college straight into unemployment, Su Nian was at the end of her rope when she stumbled into a company specializing in the mystical arts and somehow became a ghost-hunting master. While other people relied on their cultivation to hunt ghosts, she got by on talismans given to her by a female ghost possessing her. It was barely enough to keep food on the table. Who could have guessed that an ordinary ghost hunt would provoke a century-old ghost, which branded her with a de 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Low-Key Taoist 低调术士 The distinction between good and evil in this world lies not in the art, but in the person. For millennia, Su Chunfeng was the most gifted occult practitioner in the world of mystic arts, and the one most likely to reach the realm of “Returning to Truth.” After being ambushed and gravely wounded, he received the devastating news that both his parents had died. He went mad, met his end, and, by a twist of fate, his powerful soul crossed through time and space, and he was reborn in the past. In th 58Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 126 Heir to the Five Arts 五术传人 All the arts of divination under heaven fall into five branches. They are: Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy. More specifically, they include magic, talismans and incantations, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Men Dun Jia, feng shui based on the principles of qi, face reading, bone reading, and more... Our Wei clan is the guiding principle behind all five arts. The five arts encompass everything and seize the workings of Heaven. Thus, only those blessed with 1.8kReads8.3Score21014d adds
- 127 The Xuanpin Teahouse 玄牝茶馆 [The author's profession is unusual; this book is best suited to readers in the field] (This is a mid-length novel, with an upper part, a lower part, and a prequel. I'm typing away as fast as I can!) Feng Cai is a hereditary ritual master in a folk religious sect. After receiving a favor from someone, he opens a teahouse in the capital. Though this quiet teahouse sits in a bustling part of the city, it takes on all sorts of baffling commissions... Young woman: “Hello, could you get me into a top 83Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 128 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6kReads8.8Score49014d adds
- 129 I’m a Purple-Robed Celestial Master. Even Lord Lao Has to Call Me Big Brother 我，紫袍天师，老君来了也得叫哥 [Invincible Urban Fantasy + Patriarch Descends the Mountain + Tales of Ghosts and Gods + Primordial Realms] A boxing streamer comes to Mount Longhu for a challenge and picks out the only young man in the entire Zhengyi Sect wearing a purple robe. Little does he know that the youth before him is not only the patriarch of Mount Longhu, but also a fearsome figure who can summon thunder at will... 406Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 130 A Mystic Sect Master Transmigrates into a Book as the Real Heiress, and the Whole Family Faces Retribution 玄门大佬穿书真千金，全员火葬场 [Metaphysics + wish-fulfillment + no romance + livestreaming + secret identity + fortune-telling + a touch of ensemble cast + everyone gets their comeuppance, no forgiveness] Xi Jiudu, sect leader of the Mystic School, failed her tribulation and transmigrated into a book as the biological daughter who was doomed to be cannon fodder in a pampered-daughter story. The heroine, meanwhile, was the adopted daughter, Xi Cha. Father Xi: “Xi Jiu, listen carefully. Whatever you do, Cha Cha will always be 2kReads8.1Score25614d adds
- 131 You Were Told to Summon a God, So Why Did You Summon the Founding Patriarch? 让你请神，你把祖师爷请出来了？ [This work is entirely fictional and set in a parallel world. It has no connection to real life!] The man standing before you is the Great Virtuous Teacher, the General of Heaven, a native of Julu in Jizhou during the Eastern Han Dynasty, leader of the Yellow Turban Army peasant uprising at the end of the Eastern Han, founder of the Way of Great Peace, and the man who brought the Eastern Han to an end. Heaven is dead; the Yellow Heaven shall rise. In the Year of Jiazi, there shall be great fortu 1.1kReads5.4Score16014d adds
- 132 The Boundless Way 道法无边 From the moment I met my godfather, my life was destined to be extraordinary! Strange things are just part of everyday life for me, and all my friends are unusual too! There's the handsome, aloof cat demon, the seductive fox spirit, and the honorable Ghost King! Watch as I lead my powerful companions to slay evil demons and crush every wicked path! When the talisman rises, demons fall; when it descends, heaven and earth are set in order! 88Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 133 The Great Wilderness Cultivation Chronicles 大荒修真传 Legend has it that after Pangu created heaven and earth, the supreme benevolent energy of the South Pole transformed into all kinds of living beings, including humans, and the Great Wilderness gradually took shape. Just as yin and yang give rise to and counteract each other, the Great Wilderness is home to immortals and gods, rampaging demons and monsters, and mortals who live and multiply. Anything can happen in this world, and everyone has a unique destiny and story. Since ancient times, the s 8Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 134 Corpse Veins 尸脉 [No exaggeration, no System, a heartwarming story with a bit of a slow start.] Just a series of exciting adventures and a touching father-daughter bond. I live by one saying: “As a Maoshan disciple, if you see someone die and do nothing, Heaven will strike you down.” 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The Living Dead Files 活死人档案 The Ziwei Empress has reincarnated for a thousand years. Returned from another realm, she once again sets out on the path of pursuing her destiny. Ghost soldiers march along hidden roads, and departed souls pledge allegiance. Yet all of this is only the edge of the truth. In search of answers, she steps into the boundary between yin and yang, enduring life, death, and hardship as she draws ever closer to the mystery deliberately buried from sight. It turns out the dead have never truly died, whi 16Reads—Score114d adds
- 136 Supreme Daoist: Master of the Zombies 道门至尊，僵尸道主 Kindle the Daoist fire in your heart and slaughter every demon and fiend in the world! Chen Changsheng, a disciple of Uncle Jiu of Maoshan, descends the mountain on his master’s orders. He slays ghosts and exterminates demons! After fulfilling his master’s command, he uncovers a shocking secret from eighteen years ago... 21Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 137 Upholding Justice in Heaven's Name 替天行道 Yin cannot thrive alone, and yang cannot exist by itself. I grew up in the countryside, left behind by my parents and raised by my grandfather. All his life, Grandpa was either helping widows and orphaned girls or on his way to help them. So, for as long as I can remember, I heard the villagers cursing him behind his back. Then one day, a stranger in a burial shroud asked me a question. A tree without bark but with a soul is bound to die. What happens to a person with skin but no soul? The relat 3kReads8.9Score24914d adds
- 138 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
- 139 The Paper Effigy Shopkeeper Is Not to Be Messed With 纸扎铺老板不好惹 [A So-Lazy-He’d-Die Bottom (Sheng Qing) × A Green-Tea, Jealous Hades Top (Yan Nanque)] [Two Male Leads + Both Powerful + Fantasy Ghost-Hunting + Sweet Romance] Three thousand years ago, Sheng Qing was a human-world guardian deity who wanted for nothing. Three thousand years later, to make ends meet, he had no choice but to drag his long-neglected, badly atrophied body to open a paper-offering shop near a graveyard in Jingcheng. On the shop’s opening day, restless spirits took turns showing up. T 18Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 140 The Guardian of the Nation: The Invincible Dragon Son-in-Law 镇国天师：无敌龙婿 The Celestial Master Gao Yang entered the Su family by chance and spent three years as a live-in son-in-law. Three years of pretense came to an end when he awoke from his dream. From that moment on, Gao Yang began a different kind of life. With a single glance, he could tell fortune from misfortune, and his martial prowess could crush all opposition. With a single thought, I can raise you high and make you a person of importance. With a single thought, I can grind you into the dirt, as lowly as 5kReads7.6Score35414d adds
- 141 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 142 Crouching Tiger Celestial Master 卧虎天师 A Celestial Master from the Age of Decline transmigrates into an age of the uncanny and unexpectedly becomes the Commandant of Justice. When demons and ghosts run rampant and witchcraft brings chaos, Zhang Suxuan grips a thunder-striking knuckle guard in his right hand and a tiger-inscribed waist token in his left. With a peachwood sword on his back and a Celestial Master’s robe on his shoulders, he exclaims, “Oh yeah, a job just came in!!” 964Reads7.0Score10314d adds
- 143 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… 12Reads8.9Score114d adds
- 144 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
- 145 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 A Divine Medium Came Down from the Mountain 山上下来个女神棍 [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + feng shui + ghost hunting + demon capture + comedy] “Who are you, what kind of demon are you, and why do you keep appearing in my dreams?” Li Muqian “I was about to ask you the same thing! Why are you in my dreams?” Gu Shaofan “So you're not a ghost. You're just an ordinary person, yet you can enter this Taoist nun's dreams. Interesting.” Li Muqian “With a mouth that sharp, you're a charlatan, then!” Earth Fiend spirits? What's that? What? There are also Dem 261Reads—Score12014d adds
- 147 The Taoist Master's Wife Is a Spirit Medium 天师道长的出马仙儿老婆 Twenty-five years ago, the Kiku School from Japan used every sort of scheme to persecute the various branches of China’s occult world. Xuan De, the Taoist master then leading Maoshan, joined forces with experts from Longhu Mountain, the Northeastern Shamanic sect, and a mysterious organization within the Chinese government. Together, they foiled the Kiku School’s plan to wipe out China’s occult traditions. Twenty-five years later, Zhang Xuanqing, the private disciple of Maoshan’s current master 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Starting at a Mountain Daoist Temple, I Become Famous Worldwide 从深山道观开始，举世闻名 After his master ascends to immortality, Lin Yun returns to Longshou Mountain and inherits the position of abbot at Yun Yin Temple. He also awakens a god-tier livestream System. By gaining popularity through his streams, he can enter System draws and obtain miraculous items from the Myriad Worlds. [Waves Treading Steps]: A movement technique based on the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. Move like a phantom and glide through the air, making countless people question 633Reads6.7Score10014d adds
- 149 The Dream of the True Page Tao: A World Made Real from Illusions 真页道之梦化虚界 The supernatural returns, alongside alchemical arts, thunder magic, talismans, the 749 Bureau, and battles between Chinese and foreign practitioners. This is a secret chronicle of cultivation, ghost slaying, demon-smiting, and god-killing. Mysteries are gradually awakening. Where do ghosts, monsters, spirits, and demons come from? Immortals have attained the Dao, but the gods are hard to summon. The world is mired in desire. How can anyone cross over to safety? With the power of the Dream Realm, 227Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 150 Forbidden Feng Shui Arts 风水禁术 My name is Yu Nianbai. I was supposed to die shortly after birth, but my father gave his life to extend mine, allowing me to survive. I thought I could live a peaceful life, but then someone dug up my father’s grave... 1.4kReads8.3Score10214d adds
