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- 51 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The End of the Daoist Age 道门末法年 The Daoist Sects’ Age of Decline: Secrets of the Three Realms The Immortal Realm has no time to spare for the mortal world. Yin Xi, a reincarnated disciple of the Three Pure Ones, awakens with no memories. He uncovers the secrets of the Daoist legacy, defies fate, and shakes the Three Realms to their core! Feuds, tangled romances, and battles against destiny await! 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 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... 20Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 54 Ninefold Mystic Seal: Demon-Slaying Massacre 九玄封魔戮 A thousand years of Taoist tradition, now at its final breath in an age when magic has waned. When Lin Jiuxuan, the last heir of the Tianshu Temple, enters Jiangcheng University as an auditor, all he wants is a few quiet days. Then a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the cafeteria pins down an earthbound spirit, ancient jade at the neck of the cool, aloof goddess of the archaeology department begins to glow, and the Demon-Sealing Talisman dormant in his palm grows searing hot. Only then does he rea 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满：炸翻阴阳界 Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Thousand-Year-Old Snake Wife 千年蛇妻 [First-person POV + One Female Lead + Maoshan Disciple + Cultivation Prodigy + No System + No Immortality Cultivation] [A passionate romance between a human and a demon] [A mission passed down across thousands of years] [Wild ideas spanning ancient and modern times] In the rural Northeast, all sorts of eerie stories are always being told. But with my unusual constitution, I refuse to believe in the supernatural, so I insist on going to play in the haunted hills behind the village. There, I run i 15.5kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 59 Demon Revival: The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain, Inheriting His Legacy from the Start! 妖魔复苏：天师下山，开局传承天师度！ Seven peerless skills reign supreme, while the night-time martial world is shrouded in mystery. The affairs of every school and faction unfold amid chaos, and in this world of flowers, I roam without restraint! I'm an heir to Maoshan. I'm invincible! 1.3kReads—Score104Shelves
- 60 I'm a Young Daoist from Maoshan 我是茅山小道士 I'm a young Maoshan Taoist. I can't earn enough to eat, life is hard, and misfortune follows me everywhere. With no other choice, I set up a fortune-telling stall, reading the winds and studying the land, interpreting hexagrams and divining people's fates. When ordinary people are in trouble, they come to me for help. When vengeful spirits have grievances, I help them find justice… 269Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才 A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil. 1.7kReads8.8Score112Shelves
- 62 The Feng Shui Master 风水相师 Look up to observe the celestial signs, look down to study the lay of the land, and read the fortunes of heaven, earth, and beautiful women! My name is Tang Dabao. I studied feng shui and occult arts in the tradition of the “Celestial Aspect” school from childhood. After my grandfather suddenly passed away, one scheme after another was set against me. I take on the feuds between powerful families and the blood vendettas of the occult world all by myself. Dancing with a coffin on my back, strolli 2.2kReads8.4Score194Shelves
- 63 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, 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 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 56.6kReads6.7Score2.4kShelves
- 65 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 A Celestial Master? I'm the Ghost Emperor 天师？我可是鬼帝 He was once one of the supreme Five Ghost Emperors of the Underworld, ruling Mount Luofu in the south and wielding awe-inspiring divine might. But according to the Underworld's structure, the other four regions were each jointly ruled by two emperors. Only his southern domain had long been guarded by him alone, through ten thousand years of solitude unknown to anyone. After one drunken binge, a moment of carelessness allowed a fragment of the sealed Demon Ancestor Luohou's soul to escape, unleas 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 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... 1.4kReads8.3Score107Shelves
- 68 The Unrivaled Heavenly Master 天师无双 The nine stars align, and good and evil are turned upside down. A great war between the Underworld and the Nether Capital is imminent. The Corpse Clan is rising, the Heavenly Ghosts seek to invade, the Heavenly Demons circle overhead, and great monsters descend. The Demon Buddha Sect, the Corpse Immortal Cult, and the Immortal Alliance are all stirring. Ghosts roam by day, demons hide among humanity, little ghosts are hard to deal with, corpse-driving and zombie-exorcising arts abound, the Five 31Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 69 Tomb of the Yin 镇阴棺 I was always at my grandfather’s side, helping people relocate graves. There was a special burial practice involved in moving graves called a second burial. It required opening the coffin, gathering the bones, and dressing them in new clothes. The first time I encountered a second burial, I dug up a female corpse that looked lifelike... 122Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 70 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 215Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 71 Making Money in Both the Living and the Dead Worlds 阴阳两界通吃 [Multiple Heroines + Wacky Daily Life + Light Comedy + No System] I'm Guan Du, one of the top wage slaves between the worlds of the living and the dead. I take jobs and make money by day, then work for ghosts at night. Ghost Big Shot: Help me find my killer, and I'll give you a haunted house! Gluttonous Impermanence: You can mooch a meal, but pay protection money first! Tsundere Receptionist: Keep running your mouth, and I'll put you up for auction online! What? You don't scam people for money? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 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... 469Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 73 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 6.2kReads8.8Score519Shelves
- 74 The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途 (This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 75 Tales of the Strange 怪谈 [A Born Ghost-Busting Saint vs. A Bewitching Beauty Bound by a Sinister Fate] [Case-by-Case Stories + Criminal Investigation + Folk Legends + Ghost Hunting + An Overarching Plot + Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Fighting Side by Side] "Corpses become curses, souls become gu; strange cases arise, and every road is hard to tread." Zhang Miao was short of water in his five elements, and before he was even born, he was given a "water ghost" as his godmother. As a result, he awakened a special constit 2.1kReads8.5Score130Shelves
- 76 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.5kReads8.8Score484Shelves
- 77 Ghost Hunting with a System 带着系统去捉鬼 Zhou Yang unexpectedly acquired a strange System. It contains all kinds of miraculous pills and talismans, as well as many missions involving ghosts. The only way to improve his abilities is to complete missions and earn ghost coins, which he can use to buy items in the System. Will Zhou Yang, with this strange System, become a master, or will one careless mistake turn him into a vengeful ghost? Read on to find out... 88Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 78 I Told You to Be a Taoist, So Why Did You Strike My Ex-Girlfriend with Lightning? 让你当道士，你却雷劈前女友？ [Folk Horror + Lighthearted Comedy + No Female Lead + Decisive and Ruthless + Packed with Jokes + Slow Start] After my girlfriend broke up with me, she ran off to northern Myanmar to work in sales for someone else. When she came back, she'd turned into an evil ghost who wanted to rip out my kidneys. To save myself, I accidentally became a Taoist priest. I'm not much good at the arts, but I've got a real talent for cursing people out! I learn thunder magic and raise fierce spirit soldiers. I'm a 11.7kReads8.2Score860Shelves
- 79 Supernatural: I Bring Home an Old Immortal in Inner Mongolia 灵异：我在内蒙领老仙儿 My name is Li Tianshu. I was originally called Li Chengcai. I was sickly from childhood and plagued by hardship. I was so familiar with the gates of death that even the King of Hell knew my face. My grandparents said I had been cursed just like my great-grandfather, and planned to abandon me in the mountains to be raised by wolves. It was my maternal grandfather who gave me back my humanity and renamed me Li Tianshu, hoping Heaven would forgive me and free me from the curse. From then on, my fat 336Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 80 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 448Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 81 I’d Just Become a Celestial Master When Someone Showed Up to Call Me a Fraud 我，刚成天师，就被人上门打假 Trapped for a thousand years inside the sect leader’s jade ring, Yang Fan advanced to Celestial Master and returned to the city with power that could reach the heavens and shake the earth. Who knew he would immediately be called out by a hugely popular livestreamer? “Everyone, can you believe there are still people who claim they can tell fortunes these days? Let’s expose this fraud together today!” Three sentences later, the livestreamer said, “Master, could you tell me if I can become a famous 460Reads7.0Score101Shelves
- 82 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 A Spirit Medium’s Disciple Who Became a Taoist 当道士的出马弟子 First, I offer incense as a disciple of the spirit-medium tradition. I am a junior student of Qingwei! This book has three aims! First, to explain some rather mysterious topics and present superstitious ideas from a scientific perspective! Second, to share a few tips on avoiding scams, so no one gets tricked! Third, there is no fantasy cultivation or wish-fulfillment in this book! Fourth, everything mentioned in the book is based on my own personal experience! Zhengyuantang, Wang Clan Immortal R 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 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. 2.5kReads8.6Score235Shelves
- 86 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 1.5kReads5.6Score113Shelves
- 87 I've Been Invincible Since the Late Qing Dynasty 自清末开始，我无敌了 Lin Tianwen transmigrated to the late Qing dynasty, carried there by the innate undying spirit-light left behind when the Chaos Bell shattered. The spirit-light steadily improved his comprehension and innate essence. From then on, Lin Tianwen cultivated both body and soul, mastering every kind of spell with ease. He single-handedly destroyed the Corpse Refining Sect and obtained the Chaos Bell’s clapper and fragments. At a young age, he succeeded to the position of sect leader, launched a war be 1.5kReads6.5Score114Shelves
- 88 I’m a Daoist Heir: From the Start, I Fuse the Eight Extraordinary Techniques! 我！道家传人，开局融合八奇技！ 794Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 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 729Reads7.4Score101Shelves
- 90 You Fake Taoist, I Didn’t Know You Were the Real Deal! 骗子道士，没想到你是真会啊！ [Ghost stories + hilarious comedy + urban legends] As the supernatural resurges and the world descends into chaos, Lin Yu, a fake Taoist, awakens the Dao Ancestor System. He exorcises ghosts to earn merit, which he uses to draw character cards and take on the forms of Taoist disciples from across the myriad worlds. Faced with all kinds of vicious, uncanny, and sinister ghosts, he transforms into a holy master of myriad realms, the Thunder Lord... Wang Lingguan, the Three-Eyed Deity... becoming e 36.5kReads6.5Score5.7kShelves
- 91 The Eight Immortals Bear a Coffin, While the Weasel Bows 八仙抬棺，黄皮子磕头 A filial son's head rolls through the streets. The living die, and their descendants bury them. Sons kneel; daughters become nuns. My dad is the only one in the village who can see and interpret omens. This is the story of the strange and wondrous things I witnessed after taking up his mantle! 243Reads6.4Score108Shelves
- 92 The Daoist in Blue 青衣道人 "A Feel-Good Taoist Power Fantasy + Unstoppable Domination of the City! + No Female Lead" "Building a Taoist Temple Alone + Holding Court in the Golden Triangle of Northern Myanmar + Looking Down on All Under Heaven!" Dressed in blue, with a black sword in hand, he slays gods when gods appear and vanquishes Buddhas when Buddhas come! The Thirty-Six Heavenly Powers and the Seventy-Two Earthly Arts! The Twin-Fish Jade Pendant, mummies, pyramids, lizardmen beneath the earth, A world unlike any othe 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Twenty Years of Walking Between Yin and Yang: A Memoir 二十年走阴串阳回忆录 [The Great Six Ren, Qimen Dunjia, Four Pillars of Destiny, Xuan Kong Flying Stars, Jin Suo Yu Guan, folk witchcraft, Southeast Asian black magic...] And much more: an abundance of divination arts and folk culture, all knowledge you can learn at a glance and put into practice right away. A wealth of practical information! Zhao Jun graduated straight into unemployment. Then, reeling from the double blow of losing his job and his girlfriend, he encountered something that even he, a staunch material 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 I Got a Bad Review for a Delivery, and Now I’m Reincarnating as a Dog 外卖给差评，竟让我投胎做狗 Su Fan gave a bad review to a food delivery order and woke up to find himself mysteriously transformed into a dog. Luckily, the reclusive Taoist priest Shen Nian took him in. From then on, Su Fan was forced onto the path of vanquishing demons and subduing evil. Vengeful ghosts haunt the streets, an ancient mansion seethes with yin energy, and zombies roam a deserted village. Countless sinister dangers lurk in the corners of the city. Armed with talismans and a sword, Shen Nian joins forces with —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 24Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 96 After Gaining the Power of Witchcraft 拥有巫蛊之力后 The book just got its rating, so it’s very low for now TT. It’ll go up later. [Occasional unhinged writing + power fantasy + strong female lead + a bit of infinite-flow + no romance] One day, Jiang Mo unexpectedly discovered that she had awakened a special ability. Witchcraft? One of the nine strongest known abilities? Was she really that powerful?! With the conviction that anyone who doesn’t want to be the world’s strongest awakened one isn’t a proper awakened one, Jiang Mo joined the Seventh S 4.3kReads8.4Score606Shelves
- 97 The Top Scholar Became a Celestial Master from the Start? I Attain Immortality Through Incense 开局状元被封天师？我以香火成仙 [Top scholar, Celestial Master, wish-fulfillment, no female lead, Age of the Five Turbidities, ghost hunting and demon slaying] Zhang Zhiwei transmigrated into an Age of the Five Turbidities where no immortals or Buddhas remained, the gods had vanished, and demons and ghosts ran rampant. The original owner, a genius of the highest caliber, had helped the empress ascend the throne solely to rebuild the Demon Suppression Bureau and subdue the monsters and demons of the world. Yet the empress went 10Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 98 Maoshan Ghost Arts: Kill, Never Deliver Souls 茅山鬼术，只杀不度 When I was twelve, my father was killed by someone using an evil technique, and my mother took her own life. I was adopted by relatives and suffered endless abuse. In the end, their entire family died horribly, leaving me an orphan. The villagers regarded me as an omen of misfortune. To stay alive, I stole offerings meant for the dead, only to attract an evil ghost, which bought my life with a hell banknote. At the critical moment between life and death, my master, Old Guo, saved me, took me in 254.1kReads8.8Score24.9kShelves
- 99 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—Shelves
- 100 Maoshan Ghost-Banishing Celestial Master 茅山捉鬼天师 [Taoist Master] + [Ghost Hunting] + [Supernatural Mystery and Suspense] Light a lamp and tell ghost stories; observe the taboos of yin and yang. The inscrutable secret arts of the Upper, Middle, and Lower Maoshan traditions; the uncanny spirit-possession tablets; and mysterious taboos that inspire dread. The only Maoshan sect leader in history to vanish under mysterious circumstances seizes the secrets of heaven and earth and travels between the realms of the living and the dead. Let him reveal 3.2kReads6.5Score205Shelves
