Novels like King of Gu Sorcery
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as King of Gu Sorcery, best match first.
- 101 The Yin-Yang Guardian of the Dead 阴阳守灵人 The world of the living has its own order, and the underworld its own iron laws... When order falls into chaos, monsters and demons run rampant among the living... Then the living have their spirit guardians to vanquish demons and monsters… My name is Li Ping'an. After I was born, everyone in my village died… [Supernatural mystery] [Urban fiction] [No over-the-top drama] [Deadpan humor with laughs] 2.6kReads7.3Score—Shelves
- 102 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 273Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 I Have Yin-Yang Eyes 我有一双阴阳眼 Born with yin-yang eyes, Su Mingye was frail and sickly as a child, easily assailed by ghosts. When he was fifteen, the seal on his yin-yang eyes broke, and a hundred ghosts surrounded his home to steal them. With his life hanging by a thread, he was saved by a practitioner of yin-yang arts. He later became the practitioner’s disciple, learning the arts to protect himself. With his yin-yang eyes open, he can discern the worlds of yin and yang, destroy evil spirits, recognize demons and monsters 105Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 104 I Ferry Souls in the Mortal World 我在人间摆渡灵魂 Some people call me Master, others call me a charlatan. Some even respectfully address me as Grandmaster or Celestial Master. But really, I’m just an “ordinary” guide for the dead. Jiang Cheng, an unremarkable funeral master, awakens a mysterious ability after one particular funeral. He can actually see souls, or ghosts!!! (This story has only one supernatural character, the protagonist. It’s more of an everyday-life story with tearjerking moments, not a horror novel.) 50Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 105 Stealing Heaven’s Legacy from the Start, I Change Class to the Demon Lord Who Steals Heaven 开局盗天传承，转职盗天魔尊 (The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later.) Lin Tian transmigrates into a world where everyone changes class. From the start, the will of the Heaven-Stealing Demon Venerable notices him as it passes by. Just as Lin Tian is about to become a worthless Thief, a voice suddenly rings in his mind. “Wanderer from afar, you are just like me, a poor soul with a home you cannot return to. “My real name is Benjiesun. The world calls me the Heaven-Stealing Demon Venerable, but I’m really just a vagab 11.7kReads6.7Score1.3kShelves
- 106 The Boy from Liuhui Mountain 流辉山少年 365Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 107 The Maoshan Debt Collector 茅山讨债人 Zhong Qingfeng, the 108th head of the Maoshan sect, descends the mountain to collect a debt on behalf of his master. A cold-as-ice CEO? A spoiled heiress? Sorry, I'm your creditor... Everyone finds him annoying, even dogs give him the cold shoulder. Little do they know that half the people in the world owe him a debt. Some owe him their lives, some owe him good fortune, and others owe him a person. And that's not even counting money and other worldly possessions. But he has never cared about any 220Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 108 Great Love Immortal Venerable: Invincible in the Sword Path 蛊大爱仙尊从剑道开始无敌 Gu + Sword Dao + regret-focused story Chu Sheng is reborn five hundred years in the past. After three years of heartfelt devotion, his wife wants a divorce for the sake of her childhood sweetheart, the one she has always loved. But after the divorce becomes final, she goes mad. Unloving parents, an abusive older sister, an older brother who frames him? Blood Skull: “Family is the first fortune in your life.” Paradise Earth Immortal Friends was the last Venerable. By the principle that the l 2Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 109 Dreaming Again, My Soul Returns to the Gu Village 再梦魂身入蛊乡 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Gu World’s Continuing Path: Eternal Supremacy 蛊世续途，永生独霸 Picking up after the final chapter: Fang the Model Worker and Ju Yang awaken and battle Su Yu; the Heavenly Court collapses, and the Heavenly Dao falls into chaos. The Spectral Soul will emerge, the Venerables will rise, and chaos will engulf the world. Fang Yuan watches the world with cold eyes, advancing one careful step at a time, seeking only to attain eternal life and transcend heaven and earth. Immortals or demons, Venerables or not, all who block his way will turn to dust. He walks alone 9.9kReads—Score780Shelves
- 111 The Paper Effigy Maker: Paper Figures Become Gods 扎纸匠：纸人成神 The world underwent a tremendous change, and spiritual qi revival began. All kinds of monsters appeared in the human world and wreaked havoc everywhere. Fortunately, humans also awakened all sorts of supernatural abilities, gaining the power to fight back. Wang Ling was an ordinary paper effigy maker until he awakened an ability called “Spirit-Driving Paper Control.” From then on, all kinds of powerful paper spirits came into being. Ferocious beasts, ghosts, supernatural ability users, even the 6Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 112 Mo Xingchenren's Seventh Book 陌星辰仁的第7本书 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 True Essence Descends: I Awaken to Gu Cultivation in My Hometown County 真元降临，我在老家县城开窍练蛊 Yin Tui was an ordinary wage earner, driven to desperation by reality. His mother was gravely ill and near death, and neither the medical bills nor the treatment plan seemed within reach. With nowhere else to turn, he unexpectedly awakened to the Blood Path in a cave behind the ruined temple near his hometown, refining a Blood Path Gu worm. He awakened a talent for the Blood Path: a born fighter who grows stronger the tougher things get. To save his mother and break free from a life dictated 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 In the Gu World, My Song Leaves My Heart Shattered 人在蛊界，我一曲肝肠断 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Folk Taboos: I Cultivate Merit in the Mortal World 民间禁忌：我在人间修功德 Everyone knows the barber, but few realize that the earliest barbers were actually executioners, and strange adepts who mastered esoteric arts. They walk between life and death, needing only a barber's razor to read the secrets of Heaven and travel between yin and yang. They shave the living, and they shave the dead. Even today, folk wisdom warns: never offend the barbers who roam the land with their poles and packs. 168Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 117 The Yin-Yang Medium 通灵阴阳师 This is a world teeming with ghosts and monsters, where strange and inexplicable events happen every day. After transmigrating, Wang Tian gained the ability to see through things and communicate with spirits and all living beings. He thought he could live a carefree life, but the System nearly drained his lifespan. By an unexpected turn of events, he became a yin-yang master. With little time left to live, Wang Tian had no choice but to exorcise demons and avenge the wronged dead to extend his 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Raising Gu Across the Globe: My Lifebound Gu Is Acting Strange! 全球养蛊，我的本命蛊不对劲！ A new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 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
- 120 Gu Yue Locks Your Heart 蛊月锁君心 A clear-headed editor transmigrates into a book VS an unhinged young master of the Miao borderlands: she takes the plot apart, while he falls head over heels. ◆ The male lead really does go crazy and become obsessive, but the female lead gradually sets him straight. ◆ The romance is full of intense push and pull, while the plot blends political intrigue and the art of Gu. Expect constant high-stakes twists. ◆ Features plenty of Miao culture, Gu battles, the truth behind a substitute, and court i 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 I Sealed My Heart to Love for Eternity 为了永生的我封心锁爱 Qing Shu transmigrates to another world, a place where extraordinary powers exist. Everyone has the chance to obtain a Gu worm with mysterious powers, and Gu worms can be either living creatures or inanimate objects. Like the Great Love Immortal Venerable, Qing Shu's goal is to attain eternal life, an undying and imperishable state. 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Fox Immortal Seeks a Title: I Said You Look Like My Future Wife 狐仙讨封：我说你像我未来的老婆 The white fox who once snuggled under the covers with me came to ask me to grant her a human form. I said: “You look like my future wife: a tempting face and figure, a slender waist, soft breasts, peach-round hips, fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. You're even more beautiful than a nine-tailed fox spirit descended to the mortal world.” 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 22Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 124 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 404Reads6.8Score111Shelves
- 125 The Yin-Yang Paper-Cutting Artisan 阴阳剪纸匠 They say the Yin trade has thirty-six branches: [Yellow River Corpse Divers], [Feng Shui Geomancy], [Northeastern Shamanism], [Pallbearers], [Longhu Orthodox Unity Sect], [Xiangxi Corpse Drivers], [Hundred-Faced Nuo Performers], [Yin-Yang Paper Cutters], and more... Let me take you into this underworld of warriors, a world of passion and honor, yet full of mystery, where life and death intertwine! My name is Chen Jin, and I’m the seventeenth-generation heir to the Yin-Yang Paper-Cutting trade. 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 The Greatest Folk Art of All 民间第一奇术 When Mother was pregnant with me, my older brother thought I shouldn't be allowed to live. He was supposed to be the only son in the family! From that day on, Mother started acting strange. I was born in a coffin and survived on milk from the dead! My name is Chen Guansheng. 429Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 127 The Coffin Shop on West Street 西街棺材铺 The world is vast, and full of wonders. Chinese culture is profound and rich. How many of those bizarre, spine-chilling tales have you heard? In a small town in Guizhou, there is a coffin shop known as the West Street Coffin Shop. Its owner is a young man who couldn't even get into college. But how much do you know about this coffin-shop owner who couldn't even get into college? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 The Gu God of Miaojiang 苗疆蛊神 In a Miao village in Yunnan lives a remarkable master of Gu. He is mysterious and formidable, and everyone who has witnessed his methods... falls in love with him before they know it. One day, in a certain year, he leaves the vast mountains and ventures into the bustling city... 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Gu-Bone 蛊骨 Xuanming, the Gu doctor from Medicine King Valley, discovers that every person he saves develops a soul-binding pact on their neck, identical to his own. When the thirty-seventh corpse puppet, embedded with bronze scales, claws its way out of the earth, he recognizes the rotting stitches as his own handiwork. The patients he had treated over the past three years had all been substitute vessels for the Gu his elder brother was cultivating. In the blood pool at the bottom of the Sword Burial Abyss —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 I Reincarnated into the Gu World and Was Blessed with Unparalleled Luck 魂穿蛊界的我鸿运齐天 [A little ruthless] [Fast-paced] They say that if you have the kind of luck usually reserved for a protagonist, you’re guaranteed to rise smoothly and enjoy a bright future. Yet Qi Xiao can’t bring himself to be happy. He has transmigrated into Ma Hongyun, a mere pawn blessed with incredible luck, while the demon Gu Yue Fang Yuan, who transmigrated and was reborn five hundred years ago, lurks by his side. The Shadow Sect lies hidden in the darkness, plotting across the Five Regions to control hi 54Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 131 The Tenth Book by Pengzhuang Huoxing 碰撞火星第10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! 153Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 I Became a Savage Beast in Another World 我在异界当荒兽 Huang Ming, a demon from beyond the heavens, arrives in another world and becomes a fox-like savage beast. After becoming the Beast King, he encounters a brave young man. “My name is Man!” From then on, Huang Ming, the Yin-Yang Beast King, becomes famous throughout the otherworld. 72Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 133 Honghuang: Xuandu of the Human Way, the Great Venerable of Honghuang’s Gu Path 洪荒：人道玄都，洪荒蛊道大天尊 In the modern age, Xuandu's soul transmigrates to the primordial world, at the dawn of the Human race. He thinks Saint Nuwa will protect humanity, giving them at least a few eras to grow without interference from the myriad primordial races. Who could have known that, even if the myriad primordial races leave humanity alone, the savage beasts of the primordial world, still lacking intelligence, would continue to see the weak humans as natural prey? No sooner has Lady Nuwa ascended to sainthood a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 A Continuation of Great Love Immortal Venerable 大爱仙尊续写 This is not a Gu novel. Please don't click in by accident. Truth and lies, lies and truth, both true and false, both false and true. And finally, please don't click in by accident. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 A Transmigrated Girl in Qingmao Mountain Won’t Meet the Great Love Immortal Venerable 穿越青茅山少女不会遇上大爱仙尊 (Starting from Qing Mao Mountain, growing alongside the hardworking Fang Yuan. I’ll stay as close to the original as possible.) (The protagonist is a Fang Yuan fangirl. If you don’t like that, please don’t flame me.) After transmigrating into the Gu world, I was stunned. How could I survive in this chaotic age? Obviously, by shamelessly mooching off the protagonist! Fang Yuan goes to Shang clan city? I’m going too! Fang Yuan goes to Three Kings Mountain? I’m going too! Fang Yuan goes to the Impe 52Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 136 Gu World: Good Thing I Have Plenty of Brothers 蛊界：还好兄弟多 A Gu World fanfic I accidentally ended up in the Gu World, more than 200 years too early. Can I leave now? No worries, I’ve got plenty of brothers. They’re all in other worlds, but they’re doing great. 14Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 137 The Demon Venerable’s Immortality 魔尊永生 Reading the original story moved me deeply. It’s a pity the page was too short, and the Immortal Venerable never achieved immortality. I waited a long time, but it never came. So I started writing for my own amusement, daring to add a shabby tail to the original. This book is purely for my own enjoyment. If you want to criticize it… go ahead. The world turns on and on; who isn’t a fellow cultivator? Today I’ll give it a try. May you achieve immortality one day. Previously: Humans are the spirit —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 My Undying-Bone Ancestor Is Neither Good nor Evil 我的不死骨老祖宗亦正亦邪 My Undying-Bone Ancestor Is Both Righteous and Evil Phoenix blood, the soul of a qilin, an undying bone, the Art of Immortality... A thousand-year-old conspiracy stirs once more, sending the world into turmoil. See how young Master Feng meets every move with a counter of his own! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Eerie Revival: A Hundred Ghosts Roam from the Start 诡异复苏：开局百鬼夜行 [Dark and oppressive + no saintly heroine + Ye Wudi + eerie + urban supernatural + hellish start from the start] This world has been contaminated. The supernatural has returned, and vengeful ghosts are coming for lives. When the eerie returns to the mortal realm, is this world still the realm of the living, or has it become hell? In an endless graveyard, a severed hand bursts from the earth, reaching up to blot out the sky. A dense fog engulfs a city, where faceless ghosts roam and take lives wi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 There's a Little Ghost at the Bottom of the River, and He Calls Me Dad 江底有个小鬼，他喊我爸爸 Blurb One: The corpse retrievers of Cangjiang have one rule: never look back. That day, I broke the rule and turned to look at the river. A child stood beneath the water, his face deathly pale as he smiled at me. That night, he crouched beside my bed and timidly called me “Uncle.” I didn’t think much of it until he told me, “You look like my dad.” Only later did I learn that this little ghost was the corpse I had pulled from the river with my own hands three years earlier. He called me Dad for t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节，我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 I Have a Super Map System in the Gu World 蛊界我有超级地图系统 Zhao Changsheng transmigrates to a world of Gu Masters and awakens a Super Map System. He ventures into secret realms and captures Gu, growing from a nameless good-for-nothing into an unrivaled Gu Immortal and enjoying a wondrous life. The Super Map System can distinguish good from evil, determine direction, and locate treasures. While others are still poking their faces into bushes, Zhao Changsheng has already looted the resources and made his escape. Whenever his enemies pursue him, they alway 266Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 143 The Fate-Reversing Gu 逆命之蛊 This is a world of raising, controlling, and refining spirit insects. After time turns back six hundred years, Bai Zigu returns to the turning point of his fate. The road ahead is full of danger, and every step is fraught with peril. “Through winter and summer, six hundred years reversed, I swear to protect my kin and quell demons. Dark currents stir, the journey is perilous. Let us see what calamity lies within the secret of reincarnation.” Note: This book is entirely fictional. Please do not 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Transmigrating as Fang Zheng with Only Five and a Half Primeval Stones 穿越方正，手头只有五块半元石 (A fanfic. Some details may be changed for the sake of the plot. There are scenes of the protagonist suffering. That’s called understanding humanity.) I’d barely transmigrated when Great Love Immortal Venerable wanted to sever our brotherly ties. Oh no! This misunderstanding is too deep to explain away. Fang Yuan is sharper than a monkey, so how can I fool him and keep things under control? I don’t want to die, and I don’t want to be a tool, so I can only become a Forgetful Daoist! Now, I, Gu Yu 20Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 145 Tales of Western Hunan 湘西往事录 Strike the gong to announce the spirits, ring the bell to summon their souls. Dressed in Taoist robes, the corpse driver of western Hunan. The dead are on the move. The living, stand aside. A crescent moon shines on blue robes, a river of stars stretches across the low sky. The mournful gong clears the way, ghostly shadows speak of western Hunan. Silver bells softly summon souls, coins pave the road and drive the spirits away. Every household shuts its doors tight, the living keep away as deathl 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Last Maoshan Celestial Master 最后一个茅山天师 They tore down the temples, burned the peachwood swords, packed the Taoist robes away, sealed the talismans in storage, and put the glutinous rice away. It was a scientific triumph, and the Taoist masters’ final age… Ding Chen, the last heir to the Maoshan Taoist lineage, never imagined that he would lose his job the moment he inherited the sect leader’s seal at the age of twenty-one. He could only take a copy of the Book of Celestial Divination and a marriage agreement to Chang’an. 178Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 148 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 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 What? You Want Me to Become the Immortal Venerable’s Moonlight? 什么？让我成为仙尊的白月光？ Also known as: What Burning Heaven Demon Venerable? Call me the Great Benevolent Immortal Venerable! Protagonist: Liu Piaoxu (Hu Qianxu) The blurb’s no good, so come on in and leave your brain at the door. The author’s aim: to write a story with a truly female-led protagonist. I’ve added some of my own ideas and worldbuilding. Original-work fans, please go easy on me. I’ll write as I go. I’ll try not to stray too far from the original, though the protagonist will also have her own path of develo —Reads—Score1.9kShelves
- 150 A Guide to Transmigrating into the Gu World and Being Reborn 穿越蛊界重生指南 A new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 34Reads7.0Score—Shelves
