Novels like The Maoshan Celestial Master's Chronicles
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- 1 White Tiger Boy: A Taoist's Strange Encounters 白虎少年：道士奇遇记 Reborn with the soul of a tiger and a body that can commune with spirits, he encounters one lucky break after another as he grows. This lone star of ill omen charges headlong into the trials of love, and after becoming the supreme being among mortals, regains his memories of a past life. His winding journey seems to be bringing him right back to where it began! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Little Daoist of the Flower City 花都小道士 A Taoist priest descends from the mountains, armed with boundless powers and miraculous medical skills. Young Taoist Qiu Yun heads into the martial world to make his mark. “Your illness can be treated, but my fees are a little steep. This villa is quite nice. Let’s call it payment for the first round of treatment...” Qiu Yun said, gazing at the luxurious villa worth hundreds of millions. “Divine Doctor Qiu, I know how you do things. Here are half the shares in my company. Once I’m cured, they 69Reads9.0Score10414d adds
- 3 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Also known as Soul of Porcelain A new bridge was being built in the village, but no matter what they tried, the final pier simply wouldn’t stand. So the village chief invited a feng shui master. As soon as he entered the village, he said that a white tiger was raising its head in their midst. If they wanted to get the pier standing, they would have to sacrifice a living person... Legend has it that a master potter’s final piece was made with his own blood instead of water. Its patterns resembled 53Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 4 Urban: A Demon Has Possessed Me, So Don't Bother Saving Me Yet 都市：有妖上身先不用救我 [From the start + humor + invincible protagonist] Beneath the bustle of towering skyscrapers and on streets teeming with traffic, there is not only the intoxicating neon-lit nightlife, but also a brutal darkness hidden from view! When humans kill, it's usually over old grudges and grievances. But far more often, people are killed by demons, zombies, and evil spirits... That's why every region has established a Demon Control Bureau, dedicated to hunting down these monsters and evil spirits that w 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Blood Sacrifice: The Nightmare Prison 血祭：梦魇之狱 [Dark + paranormal + evil gods + Cthulhu + demons + angels + mysterious cases + horror + suspense + series + religion + reborn] A mysterious experiment has brought demons back to the human world. The truth is waiting to be revealed, and reporter Donovan Ned is being pulled by an invisible force, step by step into the darkness. Evil gods, living dead, ghouls, bizarre creatures, and a terrible fate await him. He must search for answers and uncover his destiny amid one strange incident after anothe 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Impossible, My Aunt Is Invincible Under Heaven 不可能，我姑姑天下无敌 The King of Hell decreed that I would die at three, but my aunt kept me alive until eighteen. At three, a minor calamity: a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, intent on taking my life. My aunt gave a cold snort, and they scattered in terror. At six, a major calamity: Ox-Head and Horse-Face came to claim my soul. My aunt shouted at them, and the two gods lowered their heads and retreated. At nine, an earthly calamity: a judge entered our home, intending to cut short my life. My aunt told him, “E 53Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 7 The Yin-Yang Master's Secret Records 阴阳师秘记 Where trees grow tall, immortals gather; where locust trees grow, ghosts gather. The village built an elementary school, tearing down the village temple and cutting down a centuries-old locust tree. Then the strange things began... 105Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 8 The Shangqing Celestial Master 上清天师 [Taoist priest + no saintly protagonist + supernatural + two male leads + two female leads] Ever since the great battle between Chinese Taoists and Japanese onmyoji, supernatural incidents have been erupting across the cities, as though ancient forbidden spells have been broken. White-hair vampires, black fiends, vengeful ghosts, grinning corpses... Feuds that began a thousand years ago will finally be settled in this life. With humanity twisted and morality in decline, what other dangers are wa 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Unmatched Little Taoist 极品小道士 This humble Taoist studied under the Ancient Wood Sect, and my master is Sun Banxian. Though my learning is limited, I've been fortunate enough to learn a tenth of my master's skills. Catching ghosts and driving away evil spirits are my specialties. If any handsome gentlemen or beautiful ladies have nightmares, bad luck, or want a face reading or fortune-telling, please do come by. I guarantee I'll be there as soon as you call! Hehe, here's my card. I hope you'll look after me. 205Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 10 Be Careful, It’s Right Behind You 小心它在后面 Synopsis: Taoist cultivation + No System + Folk occult arts + The protagonist grows gradually Yuye is utterly stunned. He can understand Black and White Impermanence changing shifts, but why is White Impermanence asking him to call her big sister?! After Yuye is infected by sinister energy, a medium seals an extremely ominous entity inside him. And so begins his journey as a Taoist priest, seeking redemption for himself. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Secret Records of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘录 Mountain spirits summon immortals; water spirits summon dragons. Do immortals really exist in this world? I don't know, but I do know that dragons are real. From the day the roar of machinery rang out across Miaoling Valley, everything began to slide toward an unknowable abyss. And from that abyss, a pair of eyes watched those involved, their gaze carrying an emotion impossible to decipher... 187Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 12 I Left My Girlfriend and Became a Daoist Master 离开女友，我成了道爷 My girlfriend of nine years cheated on me, but I didn't blame her. After all those years together, she stayed by my side through hardship and worked hard with me. I can only blame myself for failing to give her a happy life. I used the last of my efforts to give her a gift. Then I entered the Daoist path and kept vigil at Qingfeng. But I never expected that entering the Daoist path would be the beginning of a turning point in my life... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Rogue Little Taoist 无赖小道士 A young Taoist priest comes down from the mountains. He can subdue demons, tell fortunes, and read feng shui. Making his way in the City of Flowers, he lives life as he pleases... 538Reads6.8Score10414d adds
- 14 Reborn: The Demon Monkey’s Urban Training 重生之历练妖猴在都市 [Uncle Nine] + [Jiangshi] + [Journey to the West] + [Ghosts] "Has Journey to the West... reached its finale?" "Well, so be it..." After struggling in vain, Sun Wukong watched his body slowly turn to bones and closed his heavy eyelids. "Fools! Who told you to kill him!" Just as the four ghosts, Tang Sanzang, Sha Wujin, Zhu Bajie, and the White Bone Horse, had eaten Sun Wukong down to his bones and were burping with full bellies, an angry roar rang out. "Huh?" The four ghosts looked up and saw Xia 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Lin Family Coffin Shop 林家棺材铺 My name is Lin Ping. I used to run a coffin shop with my grandfather. By chance, I joined the National Bureau of Paranormal Incident Investigation, and that's when my legal tomb-raiding adventures began. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 The Yin Official Forensic Doctor 阴倌法医 Armed with half a tattered book left behind by my grandpa, I took up the shady trade of a Yin Constable, making a living by swindling people. I thought that as long as I followed the rules, I’d be safe and sound. But my final job dragged me into a bewildering whirlpool, and from then on I found myself walking the boundary between the world of the living and the underworld... 1.6kReads7.7Score25114d adds
- 17 The Ultimate Little Taoist of the City 都市极品小道士 Ye Ran is tricked into coming down from the mountain by his lecherous master, only to unleash his domination mode in a city teeming with all kinds of people. From then on, demons and monsters bow before him, while beauties of every kind throw themselves into his arms. … He kicks the Huangquan Stele to pieces. “Are you still going to act tough from now on?” The Ten Kings of Hell: “No, no, we won’t!” 446Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 18 Tales of the Mystic Arts: Southern Maoists and Northern Horse Shamans Battle the Evil King 玄门往事：南茅北马斗邪王 Lu Li, a handsome young Maoshan Taoist, arrives in Northeast China and meets Cui Kan, a frail, frequently ill spirit medium who possesses uncanny powers. The two are forced into a terrifying conflict involving dark sorcery. Wherever the mysterious sorcerer's ghostly figure appears, terror and death follow close behind. On a dark, windy night, an ancient tomb lies shrouded in gloom, heads roll, and rivers of blood flow... Lu Li and Cui Kan face danger at every turn. They must outwit their enemies 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 I Am a Heavenly Master of the Taoist Sect: From the Start, I Capture and Enfeoff Demons 我，道门天师，开局收妖敕封 [Celestial Master + nearly invincible from the start + little girls + supernatural revival] The supernatural returns, and demons run rampant. Vengeful ghosts wreak havoc, and evil gods invade. Lin Qingyang transmigrated and was reborn in the body of a mighty Celestial Master in this world overrun by the supernatural. With power that reached the heavens from the start, already at his peak from day one, how could he face this unfamiliar world? Of course… He'd descend the mountain to exorcise demon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Maoshan 茅山 When I was little, my parents abandoned me in a mass grave. My master found me and raised me to adulthood. He was a Taoist priest who knew how to subdue demons and exorcise evil spirits, and he taught me everything he had learned in his life. I signed an agreement with the underworld to work as a ghost constable in the mortal world, trading my service as a ghost for extra years of life… 981Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 21 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
- 22 True Accounts of Spirit Crossing at Midnight 子时渡灵实录 "A spine-chilling memoir of spirit deliverance by Xu Hanko!" I am an inheritor of Taoist arts. This book records the cases I have handled over the years, helping spirits pass on. Chanting incantations, forming hand seals, stepping the astral patterns, and setting up ritual arrays, I have unraveled the obsessions of countless wronged souls. Every detail of every case is etched in my memory, and behind each one lies the full range of life’s suffering: birth, aging, sickness, death, meeting those w 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score23714d adds
- 24 The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王 On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute 125Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 25 The Super Little Daoist 超级小道士 Gu Tian, a womanizing young Taoist and master of the Daoist sect, is born with the Five Virtues gathered in his body and clad in a flowing-light armor. Sent into the mortal world by his master to cultivate, he sets off a humorous, hilarious, and wish-fulfillment adventure... 229Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 26 The Yin-Yang Spirit Medium 阴阳出马仙 [Transmigration + Urban + Supernatural Powers] He transmigrated to another world, and from the day he was born, there was nothing special about him. He thought he would live an ordinary life, but then he attended a bizarre and mysterious wedding and began his path of cultivation. Curse magic, sorcery, a hundred evil spirits of the netherworld, a nine-headed serpent, a mysterious stone coffin... One strange event after another came his way, constantly plunging him into danger. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Is There Anything I Can’t Do? 还有什么我不会 "Traditional cultivation"+ "A logical story"+ "A well-reasoned setting"+ "No System"+ "No transmigration"+ "Taoist priest story" The Heavenly Dao is merciless, treating all things as straw dogs! A lowly soldier and an ancient tomb set him on the path to heaven! He masters Taoist magic, Buddhist arts, and swordsmanship, breaks through the nine heavens, battles gods and Buddhas, and slays the Heavenly Dao… 3Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 28 Urban Secrets: The Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain Slays Demons 都市秘藏：龙虎天师之斩妖除魔 [Urban cultivation + Celestial Master Taoist + beautiful campus belle + demon hunting and exorcism] “Demon, where do you think you're going? I can tell at a glance that you're not human!” “Take this, the Divine Firmament Five Thunders of Heavenly Dipper!” Is the pure and sweet campus belle really a koi fish? Is the sexy goddess seen once in a thousand years actually a nine-tailed fox demon? Are all those handsome Professor Dos members of alien races? Beneath the city's dazzling nightlife, how ma —Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 29 The Underworld Descends 阴司降世 The day Han Luoxuan was born, the Underworld sent guardians to protect him, a hundred ghosts surrounded his home, and rogue cultivators came to claim his life. The independent Han clan, the Fox Immortals of the Northeast, and the Buddhists joined forces to save him. Born with unusual bones and naturally gifted with Yin Eyes, he carries his family's karmic burden and is guided by destiny. He becomes the focus of a struggle in this world. Hunted by a hundred ghosts and parted from his loved ones, 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Southern Mao, Northern Ma 南茅北马 With one sweep of my staff, I’ll wipe out every demon under heaven! I take life and death in stride, and if you won’t submit, I’ll fight! I’ll prove my Dao through killing, endless yet never extinguished! Yang Wujin is a man with no past life, only this one! The day he was born, the Azure Dragon offered a sacrifice, and a hundred ghosts were put to rout! 147Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 31 Believe in Science! School Beauty, What Are You Doing? 要相信科学，校花你在干啥？ Take a look at this man. His name is Xiaoshuai! He’s sitting cross-legged on his bed, with his palms facing up and resting on his knees. That’s right, he’s meditating. You could also call it sitting in meditation. It’s ten minutes until the Ghost Festival. The time is 11:50 p.m. He’s just curious, that’s all. He wants to know if ghosts and gods really exist in this world. Legend says the gates of the underworld swing wide open on this day. If you want to see ghosts and gods, this is the perfect 736Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 32 Science Above All: The Mystical Ancestress Has Boundless Power 科学至上，玄学老祖她法力无边 Mystery, paranormal, strong female lead, ancient ancestor, precognition. Feng Zhibai was the only spirit of precognition nurtured by heaven and earth. She had lived for thousands of years as the founder of metaphysics, ever since she first took human form! She could calculate everything, big or small, in the world, but never imagined that one day, people in the distant future would blow up the nest where she had slept for centuries! A firm believer in modern science, Feng Zhibai felt her empty p 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Haunted Son of Heaven 诡天子 I can hear the dead speak and tell yin from yang. A serious illness in childhood gave me the ability to hear the last words of the dead and see the shackles on the living! My name is Zhao Changsheng. I was born among piles of corpses, and my life is fated to be bound to death. I won’t live past eighteen. To keep me alive, my adoptive father revealed the secrets of fate before he died, divining thirteen corpses that could defy heaven and change destiny… 216Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 34 Maoshan Secrets: The Way of Yin and Yang 茅山秘录：阴阳道 Do you believe ghosts exist? The moment you ask that question, one might be listening. When he was five, he watched his home burn to ashes with his own eyes. Twenty-two years later, he became the seventy-third-generation direct disciple of the Maoshan Sect. His master said, “Go down the mountain. Gain experience and find the answers.” He thought it would be an ordinary journey down the mountain. He was wrong. In an ancient Jiangnan town, five young people died in the same dream, smiling, th 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 The village needed a new road, so they had no choice but to demolish a grave. After that, one strange thing after another began happening in the village... 52Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 36 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
- 37 The Yin Master of the Living World 阳间葬阴师 I am Shen Xu, born under an ill-starred fate. On the day I was born, ghosts swarmed around me, and I barely survived my first twelve years. The day before I turned twelve, my grandfather used a living corpse hidden in a coffin to conceal my fate, while a nine-lived black cat upset the balance of yin and yang. He put my coffin on a little cart and sent it to the Xuanqing Temple on Mount Taiqing. From that day on, I set out on an uncanny and unpredictable path through the esoteric arts... 365Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 38 Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master 阴阳鬼术师 Some bargains are too tempting to take; accepting them might cost you your life. After Old Wang downstairs died, people around me kept inexplicably trying to give me money, and these offers of money were often followed by death. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn the secret arts Old Wang left behind, stepping into a mysterious underworld... 491Reads7.9Score10214d adds
- 39 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
- 40 Four-House Village 四户村 I live in Sihu Village, a place sheltered on all four sides. Just as its name suggests, Sihu Village has exactly four households, no more and no less. There is no life or death here, only reincarnation, once every twelve years. The rules of Sihu Village are simple: the master must not leave the village, and guests must not stay overnight. Then one day, I really did leave the village, breaking the rules... 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Rampant Daoist 道猖 “Ever since the great calamity eighteen years ago, I have sworn a mighty vow: I will kill every ghost and monster under Heaven!” “Some people cultivate to the heavens, summon the Immortal Gate, and cross the Immortal Bridge, only to end up as food for those above. Kill every ghost and monster under Heaven? Hahaha! Absurd, absurd! Can you fight the sky? Can you fight the earth?” “My fate is mine to decide... not Heaven’s.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 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
- 43 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
- 44 I Have a Scroll of Shangqing Scripture 我有一卷上清书 These days, who doesn't have a side hustle? Liu Yuan's side hustle is transmigrating to the Southern Dynasties to become a Daoist priest. No System, no invincible cultivation, and no heavenly destiny backing him. He's just an ordinary man, carrying a damaged copy of the Shangqing Scripture, a few Yun Zhuan talismans that work only sometimes, and a piece of salvaged rebar. Under the name Zhao Chengyang, he ventures into a world unrecorded in county gazetteers, where the dead can speak. Mass grave 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Exorcist: From the Start, I Encounter the Great Black Buddha Mother 除魔人：开局遇到大黑佛母 Original title: Exorcist: Starting Out by Encountering the Great Black Buddha Mother [Supernatural] + [System] + [Narrow Escapes] + [Film, Animation, Books, and TV] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [Not a Power Fantasy] + [Thriller] + [Horror] The male lead, born under an ill-fated destiny, faces a life-and-death calamity but is unexpectedly chosen by the System. He transmigrates through various parallel worlds to carry out missions to exorcise demons and uphold justice. When you transmigrate and encount 169Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 47 In a Parallel World: My Strange Encounters with the Weasel Spirit 平行世界，我与黄皮子的那些事 (Supernatural, humorous, ridiculous. Take your time reading; the best parts come later.) A shortsighted weasel was undergoing a tribulation and asking humans to confer a title upon it when Tu Laosan, a greedy man who smiled while hiding a knife, knocked it unconscious with a brick. Yu Mu Leng Qiu happened to come across it while feeling unusually kindhearted. He bought the weasel for fifty yuan and put it in the hollow of a dead tree. Before leaving, he placed some of the bean cakes his grandpa 2Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 48 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
- 49 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 47Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 50 The Orthodox Unity Celestial Master Dao 正一天师道 Zhang Tianfeng, a Celestial Master from Maoshan, descends the mountain after mastering his art. He faces a nest of Yin spirits, the Five Ghosts Devouring the Dragon, the Netherworld Bureau, the Xiangxi Corpse King, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, the evil god Xingtian, the Battle of the Azure Underworld, and the Ghost Emperor of the Great Clarity of the Apocalypse. Zhang Tianfeng was born with the destiny of a Ziwei Celestial Master. Is he also a reincarnated ghost child? From a divine being amon 1.9kReads—Score24814d adds
