Novels like The Fated Guardian of the Village
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- 51 Maoshan Occultist: Tales of the Underworld and Evil 茅山诡术师：幽冥话邪 Maoshan's arcane arts have returned to the world, as demons and evil spirits run rampant. What bloody storm will rise this time? In this cruel world, with its tumultuous lives, who will pay for each and every blood debt? Behind the layers of eerie schemes, who is righteous, and who is evil? I, Fang Gui, have a strange past. By chance, I was drawn into a spiritual calamity. How can I break free of this trap? How can I defy fate and change my destiny? Gather spirits, exterminate evil, and dispel c 362Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 52 The Yin Corpse Emperor's Fate 阴尸帝命 My name is Zhang Chuan. As far back as I can remember, I've had to burn incense and paper offerings to my own portrait. I've asked Grandpa countless times why I had to do it, but he never had an answer. It wasn't until Grandpa's final moments that I learned a shocking secret: I was already dead, and there was more to it than that. I had the fate palace of the Ziwei Emperor, so I was neither alive nor dead, with my soul and body separated. After that, my life became even more extraordinary. A tho 68Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 53 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Evil-Breaker 行走阴阳：破邪 There is a group of extraordinary people who walk between yin and yang, slaying demons and breaking evil curses to maintain the balance between the two worlds! Devoted to the Dao, they battle evil men, seal away vengeful ghosts, and uphold the path of righteousness. They are all nobodies, with just one mysterious connection: the Dragon Group! 177Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 54 The Snake Bridegroom 蛇婿 I was cut from the belly of a corpse, a child born of the dead, a jinx everyone despised. Misfortune followed me from childhood, yet Grandma said I had a noble destiny and limitless prospects. Then I was kidnapped and taken into the mountains, where a golden serpent coiled around me. From that moment on, strange events never stopped, and I began to challenge fate itself… 97Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 55 The Daoist Half-Immortal 道门小半仙 [Fox Wife, Single Female Lead] [Pure Supernatural Horror, No Cultivation, No Invincibility, Intelligent Male Lead] The night I was born, it snowed all night despite the sweltering midsummer heat. The descendant of the Willow Immortal, one of the Five Great Immortals of the Northeast, and the current Celestial Master of Mount Longhu both came to my home. A fate marked by an evil dragon, rejected by Heaven? Then I'll defy Heaven itself. My grandfather used eight coffins, eight yin souls, and eight 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Heir to Mount Longhu: Zhang the Celestial Master of the Streets 龙虎山传人：市井张天师 He looks like a rough-and-tumble man, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a penchant for snark. He's also an heir to profound Taoist arts. His peachwood sword slays evil spirits, and his Heavenly Master's seal suppresses dark forces. A vivid and engaging supernatural novel. 106Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Bride from the Underworld 来自阴间的新娘 On the night my neighbor got married, the bride died because of me… 1.1kReads6.8Score10014d adds
- 58 Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang 天命阴阳 The Pixiu feeds on wealth from every corner of the world. It swallows all things but never excretes, attracting riches and gathering treasures, taking in but never giving out. On my eighteenth birthday, I met a girl who completely bewitched me. But I never expected that she would actually… 1.5kReads8.4Score19514d adds
- 59 Don’t Mess With Him, This Taoist Is a Little Wild 别惹他，这个道士有点野 Daoist arts + feng shui + folk customs + witchcraft + folk secrets + corpse walking + suspense + the supernatural Have you ever seen a person with no shadow? A corpse that can walk? A living person covered in corpse spots? Paper that cannot be burned? An ancient zither that plays by itself? Someone stepping out of a portrait...? Tang Yao has seen them all, and has spent his entire life dealing with such things. “Conceived in the yin year, month, day, and hour, and born in the yin year, month, da —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Rivers, lakes, and seas, teeming with countless things. Beneath the waves lie countless wronged souls, unable to pass on. Only one kind of person can enter the water and guide the dead onward. They are called corpse divers. 1kReads—Score6214d adds
- 61 Corpse Driver: From the Start, I Wore a Taoist Robe to Military Training 赶尸人：开局穿道袍参加军训 After finally getting into a decent university, I got bound to a System on the very first day of term! It wants me to drive a corpse at the dead of night, and if I refuse, it’ll take years off my life?! The worst part is, the first corpse I have to drive is my academic adviser’s father... 29Reads5.4Score314d adds
- 62 Horror Revival: From the Start, I Chose to Become a Corpse Stitcher 恐怖复苏，开局选择成为缝尸人 Zhao Han transmigrates to the Blue Star for no apparent reason, and from the start is recruited by the Spirit Suppression Bureau, an organization devoted to handling supernatural incidents. Thanks to his outstanding talent, he is assigned to the team with the best benefits. But then a System appears, and he has to join the corpse-stitching team to activate it. To activate the System, Zhao Han says, “I don’t want to join Team One. I want to join the corpse-stitching team.” Much later, when people 1Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 63 The Corpse-Driving System from Heaven 天降赶尸系统 College student Tian Ye suddenly acquires the Corpse-Driving System and becomes a mysterious corpse driver... 452Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 325Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 The Feng Shui Master of Qingwu 青乌风水师 My grandfather tells the fortunes of the living. I tell the fortunes of the dead. One day, my grandfather forced me to read his fortune... 1.2kReads8.8Score13214d adds
- 66 My Fated Little Fox Immortal 我的天命小狐仙 Born with all eight characters of my birth chart belonging to yin, every ninth year brings disaster. That is my fate. To save my life, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me when I was nine. But when I was nearly eighteen, he personally called it off. Because of that, I embarked on a path unlike that of any other feng shui master! I said, “Our marriage was fated. You’re written in my destiny, and we’ll be together for three lifetimes!” She said, “Cut it out. If you don’t wash the dishes today 305Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 67 After the College Entrance Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, Exposed by the Campus Goddess 高考后当赶尸人，被校花女神曝光 After the college entrance exams, the campus belle suggested that everyone take a trip to western Hunan and visit her childhood sweetheart. When they arrived at a village in western Hunan, they found a gloomy, mysterious old mansion standing there. The locals stayed well away from it. Campus Belle: Village chief, this old mansion has been abandoned for so long. Why doesn't anyone live there? Village Chief: Miss, don't ask so many questions. Hurry up and leave, or someone might die! Campus Belle: 3Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 68 A Handbook of Feng Shui, Destiny, and Fortune 风水命理运势手册 [A beginner's guide to feng shui, requiring no prior knowledge]. After reading it, life will no longer feel so confusing. How can you put feng shui's energy to work for yourself? What are the principles and rules behind feng shui? How can you tell a genuine master from a fraud? Can feng shui really change your luck and bring you good fortune? What is each person's destiny? 2.3kReads7.1Score26114d adds
- 69 After Dropping Out, I Became a Corpse Driver: Exposed on Ziqi's Livestream 辍学后当赶尸人：被子柒直播曝光 After dropping out of school, Yuan Shuai thought his life was over. He never expected to be hit by a god-tier corpse-driving System. After the college entrance exams, a classmate posted in the group chat: “Yuan Shuai, if you dropped out and don’t have a job, why not come work as a security guard at my company?” Yuan Shuai: “No thanks, I’m busy driving corpses. Since we’re classmates, I can give you a twenty percent discount if you need a corpse driven.” When the dead return home, passersby must 40Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 70 After Failing the Exams, I Took Up Corpse Driving and Got Exposed by Xiao Zhouzhou! 落榜后去赶尸，被小周周曝光了！ Li Chen fails the college entrance exam, and his family is buried in loan-shark debt. Just as he thinks he's done for, he suddenly awakens a corpse-driving System. Driving corpses makes him stronger and earns him generous rewards on the side. Just then, a call comes in about his class reunion. “Li Chen, you didn't get into college, did you? How about I get you a job hauling bricks at my family's construction site?” “Sure! You'd better pay the wages of a few people, then!” The call ends. Li Chen 106Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Heaven's Chosen Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 Every village has an idiot... The older generation calls them Village Guardians, also known as Yin Wardens. They’re said to protect their village from disaster. I’m the idiot in our village... When I was twelve, the King of Hell summoned me. To stay alive, I was forced to become our village’s Guardian. 4.3kReads8.8Score13214d adds
- 72 The Day I Was Born, the Heavenly Coffin Bestowed Blessings, and Nine Dragons Suppressed Evil 我出生那天，天棺赐福，九龙镇煞 The day I was born, the Nine Dragons wailed, and a divine coffin appeared in the sky. Feng shui lore says that when the Nine Dragons bow before a coffin, it becomes a Heavenly Coffin. Whatever lies inside will bring either immense fortune or great calamity. I was never meant to live in this world. My grandmother stole my life from a dragon-bone Heavenly Coffin. When I turned eighteen, she told me a great secret about the Heavenly Coffin… 3.8kReads7.6Score32114d adds
- 73 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Haunted 行走阴阳：撞邪 My mother was born under the rare fate of a nine-life yin woman, cursed with solitude. A fortune-teller said that women with this fate were destined to bring misfortune to their husbands, children, and parents. I survived only because my mother gave her life for mine. The night I was born, crows called out to summon souls, wild cats wailed like mourners, and a hundred ghosts fought over me... 262Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 74 Feng Shui Master: I Started by Subduing a Peerlessly Beautiful Corpse 风水天师：从收服绝美女尸开始 Supernatural mysteries + feng shui + Taoist arts + corpse seamsters + corpse salvagers + Gu sorcery + Nanyang black magic + folk occult arts + paper effigies A peerlessly beautiful female corpse, a seven-tailed white fox, a living corpse, an inn between yin and yang, a red bellyband, a haunted house, the slaying of an evil god, a drowned ghost, a hanged ghost, a headless ghost, embroidered shoes “Within three months, you must complete five tasks involving the dead, or you’ll be doomed beyond red 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Eerie Survival Game 诡异生存游戏 Mind-bending puzzles + deduction + battles of wits + no overpowered protagonist + dungeon games A beautiful woman shows up at his door with a card. He scans it and becomes a player. From then on, Lin Chen begins his battle to survive in a bizarre game. Sweet Home, the beginning of a dream; a battle for life and death that dispels lies. The Killer Game, where it’s hard to tell police from criminals; votes decide the verdict in the Hall of Judgment. A wedding brings everyone together in a snowy ca 125Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 76 The Corpse Walker: Exposed by Buer Bu Jiao Zhou Jie 赶尸人：被不二不叫周姐曝光 Shen Yun, who was doing manual labor to earn his tuition, accidentally bound himself to a corpse-driving System. But he was so handsome that even the System couldn’t stand it, so it changed his face into that of white-haired Zhang Fei! Shen Yun: “Damn it! Where did my handsome face go?!” The first time his face changed, he scared Zhou Jie unconscious on the spot. Viewer 1: “Holy crap! That extra’s acting is incredible!” Viewer 2: “The set and special effects are amazing! Zhou Jie’s going all out —Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 77 The Spirit Medium Beyond the Pass 关外出马仙 Have you ever wondered whether the Great Wall, built over generation after generation, was meant to keep out enemies or something else that cannot be spoken of? Shanhaiguan Pass in the Ming dynasty was built to keep out the Manchus beyond the pass. Why, after the Qing army entered through the pass, did they still station heavy troops at Shanhaiguan? What were they guarding against? After the Qing took control of the Central Plains, why did they keep the lands beyond the pass sealed off for over 24Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 78 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
- 79 The Dragon King's Dad Wants to Eat Me, but Eighteen Phoenix Maidens Risk Their Lives to Protect Me 龙王爸爸要吃我，十八个凤女连夜保我命 My mother was sacrificed alive to the river god. But ten months later, she crawled out of the river... The dragon devours its illegitimate children. As the Dragon King's bastard son, I was going to be eaten the moment I was born. 370Reads8.0Score10514d adds
- 80 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
- 81 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
- 82 A Fox’s Dream, Traveling by Your Side 狐梦伴君行 Also known as: Down on My Luck, I’m Forced to Marry the Fox Family’s Eldest Daughter My name is Xu Rong. I was born in a remote mountain village. My mother left when I was little, and my father passed away when I was twelve. I thought I would spend my whole life alone, until the night I came of age at eighteen, when I had a dream that completely turned my life upside down. In the dream, a young woman caressed my face, calling me her husband. But I never expected her hand to be a furry animal paw 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 A Female Streamer Goes on an Outdoor Adventure and Is Scared Unconscious by Me, the Corpse Driver 女主播户外探险，被赶尸的我吓晕 [System + Corpse-Driving + Urban Suspense] Gu Liang transmigrates to a parallel world and, after failing the college entrance exams, binds himself to a God-Tier Corpse-Driving System! A female streamer goes exploring outdoors, only to be scared unconscious by me driving a corpse! The blood moon hangs overhead, and ghostly energy resurges! First, a drought demon emerges and wreaks havoc across the land! Then an unrotting corpse seeks the Dao and gathers the corpse demons of the world! The human w —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 84 My Wife Is a Dragon Maiden 我的老婆是龙女 When my mother was giving birth to me, she had a difficult labor. In a dream, she found herself in the Dragon Palace, where a fairy handed her a cup of tea. She drank it without thinking, then miraculously survived. Little did she know, that was the tea a bride serves her mother-in-law at the wedding. And somehow, I ended up with a Dragon Princess for a wife... 559Reads8.9Score11214d adds
- 85 The White-Haired Celestial Master 白发天师 Synopsis: [Southern Mao and Northern Ma + fox spirits and ghosts + Feng Shui mysteries + invincible protagonist] Wang Qiankun is a disciple of Southern Mao and an heir to the Northern Ma tradition. With an immortal air and flowing white hair, he holds the sun and moon in his hands and treads upon the Seven Stars. He is the chosen one of a Feng Shui formation known as Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl. Born with an immortal body and soul, he naturally attracts yin energy, and strange phenomena con 266Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 86 I Hosted a Show, and My Identity as a Corpse-Driving Taoist Was Exposed 主持节目，我赶尸人身份被曝光了 A campus interview show. Host Zhou Xiaoyi asked, “Have you ever seen a ghost?” “Heh. What era are we living in? We should believe in science. Of course I've never seen a ghost!” Ye An replied. Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! “Then what did you do after you encountered a ghost?” “Obviously, I ran! It was a ghost. Wouldn't I have to be an idiot not to run?” Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! From that day on, Ye An's identity as a corpse-drivin 34Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 87 I Quit My Job to Become a Corpse Herder, and Xiao Tuantuan Exposed Me 炒了老板去赶尸，被小团团曝光了 Designer Qin Long submits his proposal for the tenth time. Boss: Take it back and revise it again! Qin Long: To hell with this, I'm done! Do whatever you want! After quitting on his boss, Qin Long suddenly awakens a System that forces him to drive corpses... When the soul-summoning bell rings, the dead set out! One leaping figure after another races along the broad road of afterlife... The whole scene is accidentally exposed by Xiaotuantuan, who is livestreaming an outdoor adventure as a treat f —Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 88 I Expose My Corpse-Driving Skills at School 开学赶尸，被校花曝光了 He was just passing by while escorting a corpse, but the campus belle exposed him! They even thought he was playing dress-up! “Bro, your makeup looks so real!” “Miss, these are real zombies! They're not pretending!” 3.2kReads6.9Score14014d adds
- 89 The Last Corpse Driver 最后一个赶尸人 The dead march on; the living must keep their distance. If they don't, disaster is sure to follow! I'm a corpse driver, and this is my story! 723Reads8.0Score10114d adds
- 90 The Corpse Driver of the Yellow Springs 黄泉赶尸人 My name is Zhang Yijiu, and I’m a corpse walker. When I got my first job, I didn’t dare say a word the whole way. That road had only two living people on it: me and Fatty Fan... 662Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 I Became a Pallbearer After Graduation, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 毕业做抬棺匠，被呆小妹曝光了 Graduation day. Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers ask Feng Chuqi: “Have you found a job?” Feng Chuqi: “I have. No 996, and I work when I want. When I don't, I take the day off.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “What?” “Thump, thump.” Feng Chuqi taps the coffin behind him. “Ghosts are carrying a coffin. Living people, stand aside.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “Holy crap, coffin bearers really exist?” Feng Chuqi: “Of course not. Believe in science, everyo 160Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 92 After the School Belle Humiliated Me, I Became a Corpse Driver and Now I'm Invincible! 被校花侮辱后成了赶尸人，我无敌了！ At the dinner where he plans to confess to the campus belle, Zhang Bufan, a student who failed his exams, is pranked by his classmates and unexpectedly obtains a god-tier Corpse-Driving System! Classmate: Zhang Bufan, come clean the toilets at my dad's company. I'll give you the friends-and-family rate: 1,000 yuan a month! Zhang Bufan: For 100 yuan, I'll help your dad find his way back to his ancestors. “When the dead are on the move, the living must keep away...” At midnight, the bells ring and 401Reads5.4Score10214d adds
- 93 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 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... 436Reads8.5Score10114d adds
- 95 Tales of Spirit-Binding and Ghost-Fighting 扎灵斗阴传 My name is Yun Bo, and I make paper offerings. My master said there was one taboo every paper-offering maker had to observe: never paint the eyes on a paper figure. Because once you do, it might come to life. That year, during a deadly night at a haunted house, I broke the taboo. I thought I had only brought a pair of guides to life, never dreaming they would become weapons of murder. It was only when the government’s shackles closed around my wrists that I understood: I had never been the one c 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 I Became Haunted by Evil Spirits After Starting Out as a Corpse Burner 从当烧尸匠开始恶鬼缠身 To escape an arranged marriage, I took a job burning corpses at a funeral home. Old Li, who handled the bodies, actually brought a prostitute to the funeral home. That woman later died, leaving a red high heel at the entrance... The next day, Old Li died. A red high heel had pierced through the center of his forehead... With my father's help, I learned that before she died, the woman had been pregnant. Someone had cut the baby out of her and turned them into a Mother-Child Demon. After that, t 5.5kReads8.3Score43614d adds
- 97 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 186Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 98 The Heavenly Master of Zhuyou 祝由天师 After my grandfather dies, I inherit the art of Zhuyou and become a ghost doctor who wanders the mortal world. I've treated the living, tormented by evil ghosts, and helped the wronged spirits bullied by wicked people. As I encounter more and more evil entities, I learn more of Zhuyou's secrets. I get drawn deeper into it all, with less and less control over my own fate. A corpse alive in a mass grave, an evil spirit kept in an old mansion, a fingerless woman who steals people's lifespans. Every 139Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 99 Feng Shui Yin-Yang Master 风水阴阳师 "Born under the Emperor Ziwei's fate, with yin-yang eyes from birth." An extraordinary life is his destiny. He inherits his ancestors' feng shui arts. In the world of the mystic arts, yin flourishes while yang declines. A thousand-year plan awaits just one person. 1.2kReads7.1Score11914d adds
- 100 Seeking a Blessing? I'll Get a Fox Immortal for a Wife! 讨封？讨个狐仙当老婆！ [Supernatural] [One Heroine] [Lighthearted Daily Life] [Comedy] That day, an eerie blood-red coffin was unearthed at a construction site, along with a dried-up female corpse with a swollen belly, a white fox with five tails, and an ancient bronze mirror... The next day, that very white fox latched onto me and asked me to grant her a human form... A nontraditional supernatural story 74Reads—Score—14d adds
