Novels like King of Gu Sorcery
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as King of Gu Sorcery, best match first.
- 1 I Wield Gu as a Blade, Slaying Every Heartless Man 我以蛊为刃，弑尽负心人 I Wield Gu as a Blade, Slaying Every Faithless Lover 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Gu Heart Nirvana: Returning from Betrayal 蛊心涅槃：从背叛中归来 Gu Heart Nirvana: Returning from Betrayal 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Gu Poison 蛊毒 The tumor cut from my body was raised into a Gu insect by my master. And so began my defiance of heaven... 12Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 4 The Yin Gu Eats the Soul 阴蛊蚀魂 My younger sister has a life-saving gu inside her body... One failed attempt to prolong my life changed everything. 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Judge Yin and Yang 判阴阳 After a bizarre dream, Zhong Gui came into possession of a Netherworld artifact: the Judgment Brush. To his astonishment, he discovered that hidden within this vast world was a strange, uncanny little world. It was a world of the hidden: a group of “secret practitioners” endowed with supernatural abilities and cultivation, living within the wider world. Have you ever seen animals turn into humans, young women radiate resentment, or living people develop the mottled skin of corpses? Countless oth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Gu: A Mortal’s Cultivation Record 蛊：凡人修行记 [Mortal Protagonist + Doesn't Follow the Main Plot Early On + Illiterate] Chu Feng was an ordinary mortal. After a Gu Master killed his entire family, he chose to flee. Hunted and driven to the end of his rope, he was swept underwater by the current. There, Chu Feng encountered a fortuitous opportunity and embarked on a path of revenge and the pursuit of the Dao. A spirit that shakes the ages, a star shining across the heavens: whose glory and brilliance are these? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in the Gu World: A Good-for-Nothing’s Cultivation Journey 重生蛊界之废柴修仙 [Not Brain-Dead]+ [Smart Protagonist]+ [Partly Based on Real-Life Experience] The longer wine is aged, the richer it gets. The more a story is told, the better it becomes. Good news: I transmigrated, and I even got a System! Bad news: it's right when Yuanzi-ge has just been reborn!!! Even worse, the System is a total rip-off and won't do anything useful... “When I was a child, I wanted to grow up to be a pillar of society, like the legendary figures in books. “When I was young, I thought being r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Long Road to Immortality in the Gu World 蛊界寻仙长途 [Not Brain-Dead + No Female Lead] In his previous life, Li Jianxin was controlled by his family. Because of his illness, he lived like a puppet. After he died, Li Jianxin's soul transmigrated to the Gu World. This is Qingyun Mountain, one of the famous mountains of the Southern Border. He awakens A-grade aptitude. From the start, he also gets a cheap master. Is he really an Eighth-Rank cultivator? It turns out he's just a remnant soul. Just as I'm overjoyed, my master tells me that his specialty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The 31st Book of the Great Kingdom of Chechi 车迟国大国第31本书 Transmigration + System + Beast Taming + Gu Arts + Immortal Cultivation. Note: The protagonist is extremely evil and has no morals. Chi Hong: I get by in the Gu world thanks to five things: selling out my brothers, breaking my word, framing others, betraying my own side, and looking after my brother’s wife. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Fortune of the Gu, Blessed by Heaven 蛊运齐天 Chu Qi accidentally transmigrates into a modern cultivation society and obtains a Gu Insect Evolution System. The Great Dao flourishes in this world. Martial artists possess dragonlike bodies, their hidden azure scales reflecting the primordial cosmos as they travel through ancient times from dawn to dusk. Peerless sword prodigies have unyielding sword bones. With a single thrust, their blades stir the winds and clouds, cutting through the dust of ages to earn everlasting reverence. Supreme demo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Tales of the Daoist Sect in Those Years 道门那年那些事 There are three thousand paths to the Great Dao, and many things in this world have yet to be proven. Do these things really exist, or do they not? Are you certain that everyone you see in your daily life is human? Come, step into a little-known world with me. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Gu Kiss 蛊吻 Gu Kiss 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Second Book by Zilanting 子兰亭的第2本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Gu Path: Chasing Immortality 蛊道之永生追逐 Smart characters! Original worldbuilding! Decisive and ruthless! The ultimate climax!!! A suspenseful ending??? I know what you came here for, but no one can stop me from moving forward. I’ll punch the Sword Immortal in the face and kick the Dragon-Crazed Duke in the shins! I treat all things as straw dogs, refining Heaven and Earth, and even people! This is my path. I alone can achieve my goals, and I alone must do it. Ten imposing figures slowly take shape in the air. He faces them calmly, han 210Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Died in the Gu World, Luckily I Have a Simulator 身死蛊界，幸好我有模拟器 Humans are the spirits of all things, the finest essence of heaven and earth. When the body is left behind, only the soul remains. Relying on himself and a simulator, the protagonist, Ye Qixing, gradually comes to understand the world, grows stronger step by step, and searches for a way to return to life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Oh No, I've Been Cursed Again 糟糕又中蛊了 (Fantasy + no System + contracts + worm control and beast taming + wild imagination) My name is Gu Qiqi. Everyone says I'm a useless little orphan, and though I was born into the Gu clan, I can't even control a single worm. After years of holding on, I finally found a contracted Gu beast of my own, only to discover that it was a man who wanted to hit on me! Fate has a cruel sense of humor: the person I've secretly loved since childhood is destined to become the ruler of the nation... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Master Erpi 二皮师傅 My uncle is a corpse tailor, a specialist who repairs bodies. I apprenticed under him, but the very first corpse I stitched up got me into a heap of trouble... 40Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 18 Strange Happenings After Returning to the Village 回村后诡事 You’ve probably seen someone die with their eyes open, but have you ever seen a dead person standing in their own grave? What happened back then that wiped out the entire generation of my father and his brothers? Rats held a funeral for the dead, the blood moon hung overhead, and entire households were sealed off. One eerie event after another unfolded. Come and hear my story. 937Reads—Score105Shelves
- 19 Paper Effigy Maker: A Ghost Bride Steals the Groom, So I Craft a Yin Deity 扎纸匠：鬼新娘抢亲，我扎出阴神 Wu Qingyang transmigrates to a world where supernatural horrors have returned and inherits a shop that makes paper figures. On the day his heart is broken, he gets drunk and accidentally picks up a ghost's embroidered ball. Legend has it that at midnight, a ghost bride arrives in a grand sedan chair to take away whoever picked up the ball... and drain his life force. Luckily, he gets bound to a Paper-Figure-Making System! Make paper figures of underworld constables to capture evil ghosts! Make p 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Urban Gu Master 都市玄蛊医尊 Intern Su Fan is targeted by his superior after offending him, but unexpectedly awakens the supreme art of healing and venomous insects. He honors the way of medicine and masters the art of venomous insects. With a compassionate heart and ruthless methods, he makes his way through the city and amasses the world’s wealth. With peerless medical skills in his left hand and god-tier poisons in his right, he can heal the world’s finest and most virtuous, and destroy today’s tyrants and corrupt rich a 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Second Book by Gu Yue Qicheng 古月奇成的第2本书 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Gu Venerable: My Childhood Friend Willingly Becomes My Vital Gu 蛊尊：青梅竹马甘愿做我的本命蛊 [Urban Cultivation + Villain + Reborn] Lin An, a good-for-nothing young master secretly harmed by his stepmother, opens his eyes in the morgue, and the memories of the Gu Venerable from three thousand years ago awaken. Kill people to take their Gu. Refine the living into Gu. Demon lords run rampant, and danger lurks everywhere. “Refine me into a Gu, and I can reclaim the power from my past life…” The girl broke into a bloodstained smile. Lin An raised a hand and refined her in an instant! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Rising to Sovereignty by Exploiting the Gu Cultivation World 蛊修世界薅羊毛成尊 He is Li Mo, codenamed “Taotie,” a top-tier online deal hunter who has spent over a decade exploiting loopholes. With the “Deal-Hunting Assistant System” he wrote himself, he raked in unimaginable sums from major e-commerce platforms, online lenders, cryptocurrency mining operations, and even all kinds of gray-market ventures. He thought he was a trendsetter in the digital age, a perfect exploiter of loopholes in the rules. But he never expected that the System he had written would be so “powerf 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Ancient House in the Dark: Unraveling the Fog of Death 暗夜古宅：揭秘死亡迷雾 The Mysterious Old House: Uncovering the Fog of Death follows Lin Feng, a suspense novelist who travels to a mysterious old house deep in the mountains in search of inspiration. There, he encounters a woman in white and a string of other supernatural events, then faces a life-or-death crisis in the basement. Through courage and ingenuity, he uncovers the connection between the house’s murders and a secret organization. After returning to the city, Lin Feng is attacked by men in black trying to s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Gu Box Has Arrived, and I Can See Through Everything 蛊匣降临，我能看穿一切 After the apocalypse, he is reborn, and Gu boxes descend. Everyone gambles with their lifespan, sacrificing three days, three months, three years, or even thirty years to draw bizarre Gu worms from black boxes. Some draw a Death Gu and drop dead on the spot; some draw a useless Gu and find life worse than death; others rise to greatness and become kings overnight. In his previous life, Ye Jin struggled underground for three years, only to be stabbed through the heart by the person he trusted mo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Taoist Descends the Mountain: I’m Really Not a Charlatan 道士下山：我真不是神棍 The winds rise, and earth-shaking changes unfold. Yang Ming, a young Taoist priest from Qingyun Temple, attains enlightenment overnight. I really do have heaven-reaching abilities granted by the System. I can livestream, join Dai Xiaomei for a corpse-driving trip during summer vacation, run a shop for goods from the underworld, catch ghosts, read feng shui and predict good and bad fortune, peer into the secrets of heaven, and win over the empress. I can handle all kinds of eerie and terrifying e 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Venerable Love: From the Start, I Transmigrate as Gu Yue Bo 大爱仙尊：我开局穿越成古月博 [The Great Love Immortal Venerable] [An Immortal Gu from the Start] [Becoming Fang Yuan’s Follower] I transmigrated into Gu Yue Bo, clan leader of the Gu Yue clan, and acquired the Formless Immortal Gu. Gu Yue Bo knelt before Fang Yuan, cupped his fists, and said: “Lord Fang Yuan, please let me follow you once more!” “I am willing to give my life in your service, Lord Fang Yuan!!!” “I will make sure you reclaim your place as a Venerable and attain eternal life!!!” Gu Yue Bo spoke with fervor, hi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 I'm Done Being a Celestial Master This Poor 这么穷的天师不当也罢 In times of peace and prosperity, Buddhism flourishes across the land while Daoists hide away in remote mountains. In times of chaos, Bodhisattvas turn a blind eye to worldly affairs, while the Old Lord shoulders his sword and saves a world in turmoil. Daoists emerge from seclusion to save the people only when chaos reigns. In prosperous times, they shun worldly gain and retreat to the mountains, pursuing the Great Dao in their hearts, untouched by mundane distractions. This seems to have become 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Gu Cultivator 蛊修 Suddenly, the Gu world fused with the modern world, and most people gained apertures that allowed them to cultivate. The good news: people could cultivate now. The bad news: they had nothing but primeval essence. The Valley of Life lies in the glow of the setting sun; invaders from another world arrive, and a new peak beckons. A peerless talent astonishes the world, holding fate in his hands and trusting in his own destiny. 5.5kReads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Reborn in the Northern Plains, Gaining One Strength Dao Mark a Day! 重生北原，我一天一力道道痕！ (Gu) (The Last Glow of the Strength Path), The Era of Spectral Soul Xiatian died suddenly from overwork, only to find himself transmigrated into the world of Gu? And as a child of the Northern Plains!? Ju Yang: “No good! Kids, run! It's a blizzard!” Xiatian thought he was doomed to die in the blizzard, but then he discovered he had astonishing strength! And so... Xiatian set out on a one-way road. “Our Strength Path is in decline, killer moves are hard to come up with, Gu worms are scarce, and o —Reads—Score1.2kShelves
- 31 I Raised It for Three Years, and It Turned Out to Be a Golden Cicada Gu King 养宠三年，它居然是只金蝉蛊王 [Invincible + decisive and ruthless + beast taming] After raising silkworms for three years, he finally discovered that his little silkworm didn't eat mulberry leaves. It was actually a king-tier Gu pet, and he found that he could communicate with it! But Chen Tian soon realized that his kindred spirit seemed a little off. It was a well-behaved little darling in front of him, but once it went out, it turned into a little devil who caused chaos everywhere... and was even better than him at flirti 27Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 32 My Second Siheyuan Novel 只会四合院的第2本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 King of Destiny Arts 命术之王 The year I was born, a fire took my parents’ lives. A black-furred weasel rescued me from the flames. My grandfather said I was born under a deadly curse, with three calamities following close behind. So I devoted myself to mastering the arts of fate and divination, overcoming the three calamities, severing the Heavenly Dao, and defying heaven to change my fate. 185Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 34 Reincarnated in the Gu World, My Name Is Gu Yue Fang Zheng 转生蛊界，我名为古月方正 Fate Gu has been destroyed. Fang Zheng was weary of everything in the Gu World. He severed his consciousness, and just before he destroyed his immortal aperture, I happened to be reborn in his body. When I saw the blessed land of the immortal aperture about to drop away, my mind reeled in shock. How could this happen? How could it? I had only just been reborn. How could I die here? When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day before the Awakening Ceremony. Fratricide was never my inten 19.2kReads6.1Score3.3kShelves
- 35 Immortal Venerable of the East Sea 东海仙尊 The East Sea has never had a Venerable. If it’s possible, perhaps I can fill that void. I am not a demonic cultivator, but a righteous one. I will not join the Great Love Alliance of Heaven and Earth. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Jiangcheng General Store 江城杂货铺 Rules of the Jiangcheng General Store: 1. The store opens at the hour of the Rat and closes at the hour of the Rabbit. We serve no customers at any other time! 2. Every visitor is a customer. Anyone who enters must follow the store’s rules, or bear the consequences! 3. All transactions must be honest. Payment is due upon delivery. Break the deal, and bear the consequences! 4. No pets allowed! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Master of Yin-Yang and Feng Shui 阴阳风水天师 [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Mysticism] [Battles of the Occult] [Bickering Couple] My name is Chen Jiuyou. My master gave me that name. He said I was born in the underworld hour of the ninth month, on a yin year, yin month, yin day, and yin hour. My entire Eight Characters birth chart was yin, making me a natural “coffin-born child.” The day I was born, my mother bled to death, my father went mad and threw himself down a well, and the midwife who delivered me went home and died suddenly, bleeding 1.7kReads6.2Score127Shelves
- 38 The Dragon-Locking Coffin 锁龙棺 I have all five yin aspects, yet my allotted years are cut short. Every day, I wear burial clothes. The moment I take them off, one strange and eerie thing after another begins to happen... 133Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 39 Folk Mystical Arts 民间奇术 I’ve been blind since childhood. My grandfather told me that we carvers are different from those people cursed with the Five Afflictions and Three Shortcomings. I didn’t believe him, not until... 79Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 40 The Mountain Keeper 守山匠 Legend has it that the nine sons of the Dragon transformed into nine great mountain ranges, forming the backbone of Huaxia, keeping the legacy of Yan and Huang alive, bearing the fortune of the Nine Provinces, and protecting countless living beings! It is also said that deep in the vast mountains, there is a group of people who have stayed apart from the mortal world for generations. They keep watch over mountains teeming with demons and waters crawling with monsters, guarding a mystery that ha 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Underworld Divine Craftsman 阴司神匠 A conspiracy, a storm of trouble, and a perilous ordeal that refuses to end. Old grudges and tangled passions from twenty years ago, step after nerve-racking step twenty years later: the search for the truth continues. The deaths of my parents, the divide between the living and the dead, a foothold in the Underworld, and demons unleashed in droves... Every step marks my growth, and every step warns that danger is drawing closer. Turn the page and follow me, a paper effigy maker of the Underworld 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Yellow Immortal Worships the Moon: A Dreamt-Up Suicide Note 黄仙拜月：托梦遗书 [Traditional Supernatural Tales, Told by a Practitioner of the Netherworld Arts] A strange book left behind by my grandfather before he died. It records hundreds of uncanny spells: The Nether Soul Spirit-Communication Art, the Scissors Ghost-Sending Method, the Treasure Mirror Circle of Light Technique, the Broom Evil-Breaking Method… These spells may seem rather “homely.” But they brought me all kinds of terrifying experiences: An eerie spirit in a rented apartment, a lost child by the roadside 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Paper Effigies That Reach the Heavens 通天纸扎 My name is Liu Ming, and I make paper effigies. I learned the craft from my grandfather. After he passed away, I took over the family shop, spending day after day among paper figures and paper horses. I was never meant to exist in this world. I was born a boy with a yin fate, a clash of yin and yang, and my birth was considered taboo. But with his extraordinary abilities, my grandfather resolutely saved me and sealed away my fate, binding it closely to the shop. I never imagined that something 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Yin-Yang Corpse Gu: Starting as a Corpse-Refining Immortal 阴阳尸蛊：从炼尸仙开始 “Corpses suppress the tide of corruption, and living Gu can lay waste to a city. In this world, right and wrong come down to whose fist is stronger.” The dying youth Li Wujiu was cast into the Sea of Burial Life, a forbidden ground of the Yin Ruins Cult. Amid thousands of corpses, he awakened the [Yin-Yang Gu Seed] and glimpsed the truth of the world: - The Yin Ruins Cult sought to bring down the Gate of Eternal Night and purify all living things with corpse energy. - The Sun Alliance planned t 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 This Dao Mark Is Amazing 这道痕太棒了 If there’s someone you don’t like, tell me, and I’ll paint him on the spot! His soul transmigrates to another world, where he becomes Hu Bo, clan leader of the Hu clan village on Qingmao Mountain. The Dao marks of the art of painting he brought from beyond the heavens mutate into [Famous Pill Illustrated Catalogue] Dao marks. He can light up entries in the catalogue to earn points. [Meet a famous fifth-rank alchemist, Hu Yi of the Hu clan, and earn ten points.] [Kill the famous alchemist Hu Chil 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Nanshan Secret Realm Makes Me the Immortal Venerable of Longevity 拥有南山秘境的我人称万寿仙尊 Wang Jiu transmigrates to another world and becomes the “Demon from Beyond the Heavens,” hated by all under heaven. But at the brink of despair, he awakens a secret realm of his own: Nanshan. While the people of this age fight and spill blood across the land in their desperate quest for longevity, Wang Jiu quietly forges a path to immortality deep within Nanshan, using the secret realm as his furnace and time as fuel. As the saying goes: A soul from beyond the heavens falls into a distant realm, 21.4kReads5.7Score3.7kShelves
- 47 The 16th Book by Ji Yihui 鸡异悔第16本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Strongest Gu Immortal Training System 最强蛊仙培养系统 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Grave of the Yin Dead 阴人墓 My cousin's wife had an affair and drove my cousin to his death. But the truth was... 6Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 50 Immortal Venerable Eternal Life: The Way of Gu 蛊道之仙尊永生 An ordinary young man from the modern world has an accident and transmigrates into the body of his counterpart in another world. There, he battles heaven and humanity, overcomes countless hardships, and ultimately achieves eternal life. A young man: “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Don't look down on a poor young man!” The young man's big brother: “If you dare stand in the way of my path to immortality, then you deserve to die.” 2Reads6.3Score—Shelves
