Novels like Real-Life Tales of Feng Shui and the Metaphysical Arts
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- 51 The Book of Go for All Under Heaven 天下弈书 This book contains profound wisdom drawn from metaphysics and Chinese classical learning, and should be read with an open heart. [It is recommended that you read Nine Li Demon Lord first, as the stories connect. Of course, you can still enjoy this book without reading it.] The Dharma-ending Age. Morality has fallen into decline, men and women are at odds, and faith has collapsed. Following prophecies left behind by the ancients, people today await the birth of a sage who will save the people fro 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Bound by a Blood Pact, Desired by Two Female Demons 血契缠身，被两个女妖精馋上了 My name is Chen Beiming. I’m a half-baked yin-yang practitioner from the old town. My main job is playing the suona; my side gig is laying restless spirits to rest. I thought I’d spend the rest of my life scraping by until I died, but then I took a job at a haunted house. That day, I ran into an evil spirit, and it was so scared that its soul nearly scattered. That night, the grave-robbing Taoist Luo Qinghan climbed over the wall and broke in. The next day, the tomb raider Qin Luo kicked the doo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Diviner of the Mortal Realm: I Use Liu Ren to Determine the Nation's Fate 凡人卜王，我以六壬定国运 [Metaphysics + Divination + Fortune-Telling + Reading Heaven’s Secrets + National Destiny + Technical] [A hard-edged epic metaphysical novel: the only contemporary work built on the true Liu Ren system, fueled by power struggles among mortals, and animated by questions of fate] [No transmigration, no golden finger. Just a left hand, a divination board, and a blood-soaked path to uncovering heaven’s secrets as a mortal] At eighteen, Yan Jidao searched for lost cats on the street and helped people 147Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Strange Arts of a Feng Shui Master 奇门相师 When the Nine Stars align, a supreme fiend descends from Heaven. A beggar raises an orphan; humanity nurtures Heaven’s fate. Also known as The Nine Stars Ascend to Dragonhood. The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens gave birth to the Green Satchel, while Fu Xi, the Great Bright One, created the Eight Trigrams. One is feng shui, the other the Book of Changes; together, they form the art of physiognomy. Shennong, the Flame Emperor, tasted a hundred herbs, and the Yellow Emperor, Xuanyuan, compil 54Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 55 A Critical Look at Bazi Astrology 八字命理评点 If you're interested in Bazi, this book is for you. It takes you from the basics to more advanced material, helping you understand a person's marriage, career, wealth, and children's fortunes step by step. It's also an entry point for students of Chinese metaphysics who want to learn Bazi, and a guide to improving your Bazi skills. 310Reads6.7Score10014d adds
- 56 Record of Folk Traditions 民俗传承录 My knowledge is limited! I’ve organized the memories of my working life into a memoir and written down some of them. If you’re interested in feng shui, geomancy, or the arts of fate and divination, take a look. It’s all practical information. If you’d rather hear stories, you can read the memoir. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Folk Tales of Feng Shui and the Supernatural 民间风水怪谈 Curse Arts + Maoshan Arts + Qimen Dunjia + Plum Blossom Numerology + Folk Arcane Arts + Gu Techniques Feng shui affects everyone’s health, fortune, romance, family, and career. Want great fortune and riches? Want to become the richest person around? Want your children and grandchildren gathered around you? Want to become famous overnight? Want a beautiful companion by your side? If so, open to the first page and keep reading… 16.8kReads7.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 58 The Feng Shui Master of Strange Arts 奇门风水师 Yin-Yang Feng Shui masters are the most terrifying kind of Feng Shui master. For thousands of years, the art has been passed down through a single lineage, never changing. I am fortunate enough to become this generation's Yin-Yang Feng Shui master. I walk among the strange and explore the secrets of Feng Shui, growing stronger through every hardship. 485Reads5.8Score10114d adds
- 59 A Golden Core Cultivator's College Life 金丹修士的大学生活 “Heaven is round and Earth is square. By the nine laws, I write this decree: may all ghosts hide and flee.” What manner of demon are you? Come out and accept your punishment! Oh no! How did I manage to provoke her? Master, save me... The wonderful, thrilling college life begins!!! 93Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 60 Yin-Yang Ruoxie 阴阳若邪 On the day Xie Ruoxie was born, the family home was surrounded by countless poisonous insects. His mother took it as a bad omen and abandoned him at birth. Fortunately, his grandparents raised him. He only wanted to get into college and repay their kindness, so why are the things happening to him getting stranger and stranger? And who am I, really? Why can I command poisonous insects and drive away ten thousand ghosts? (This story is adapted from real events.) 19Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 61 Words Move Mountains and Rivers 文动山河 Confucian cultivation + contention among the myriad paths + transmigration and founding a new path + expansive worldbuilding What does it mean to be a scholar? A stroke of the pen can summon wind and rain; a poem can stir thunder. As the Confucian tradition, dormant for countless ages, is awakened by blood and tears, a single sorrowful poem calls down thunder from the heavens. With modern wisdom and the soul of the Confucian Way, Wang Tiance opens a never-before-seen path of Confucian cultivatio 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 The Copper Coin Feng Shui Formation 铜钱风水局 The copper coin was always right, so right that Xu Yan thought he was chosen by fate. He helped many people, made a lot of money, and his life kept getting better. Only later did he learn that his grandfather’s hand had been trembling before he died. Not because he was afraid of death, but because he was afraid of him. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 A Short Spin-Off of the Novel of the Same Name 同名小说延伸小短文 A short spin-off story for the novel of the same name —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The City's Supreme Wizard Immortal 都市极品巫仙 [Four Pillars of Destiny + Feng Shui + I Ching + Family Witchcraft + Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism] Qian Yi was born with a perfectly Yang Four Pillars chart, with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches identical in his year, month, day, and hour pillars. A one-in-ten-thousand rarity. He bears the mission of carrying on an ancient tradition of witchcraft, and must find a girl with a perfectly Yin chart whose four pillars are all identical so he can find a partner. Only by joining Yin and Y 467Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 65 A Master of Feng Shui in the City 都市风水高手 Yuan Xiaofeng, a real estate agent with poor sales, was about to be fired when he came across Yuan Tiangang's The Strange Book of Yuanzi. It contained everything from medicine and divination to astrology and physiognomy. From then on, he began a wonderful life in which he could get whatever he wanted and thrive at every turn. Beautiful lady, I observed the stars last night, and it seems we're destined to meet! 211Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 66 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 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 True Stories from a Folk Fortune-Telling Shop 民间算命馆实记 This isn’t some rumor or something I made up. It’s all true, things I saw with my own eyes and experienced myself. Even after all these years, just thinking about it still makes my back grow cold and my hair stand on end. The midnight knocking, the old woman sitting motionless on a roof beam, the white snake unearthed in a graveyard, strange glowing characters appearing on an old wall, the little boy at the five-way intersection, the stone tablet in a dream, the white rooster at the crossroads, 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Yuanhai Ziping 渊海子平 Xu Ziping, a fortune-teller also known as Xu Ziyi, was from the Northern Song dynasty. Little is known about his life, though legend says he lived in seclusion on Mount Hua with Chen Tuan at the end of the Five Dynasties period. The Abyssal Sea of Zi Ping is the first relatively complete and systematic work on Four Pillars astrology. It was compiled by Xu Sheng in the Song dynasty, based on the methods used by Xu Ziping, the foremost master of destiny studies at the time. The work is considered 71Reads—Score2114d adds
- 69 The Last Zhuyou Master 最后一个祝由师 “In ancient times, when illness struck, people relied on blessings to dispel disease, and the illness would then pass... When someone fell ill, they used blessings to guide the treatment, shifting the essence and changing the qi to drive it away, without recourse to needles or medicine.” “Zhuyou is a method of healing through talismans, incantations, and rites of exorcism.” Zhu Shisan, the last Zhuyou healer, takes you into the little-known secrets of Zhuyou arts. 2.9kReads8.9Score40914d adds
- 70 A Pact Written in the Oracle 卦辞为契 Using divination verses as their covenant and the Book of Changes as its foundation, this story recounts the astonishing cycles of rebirth and the many lives and origins of Su Wan and Wen Jingran. Bound by their covenant of divination verses, they make a promise to meet in the next life and spend several lifetimes searching for each other… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Qi Harmonizer 气调师 Since ancient times, medicine and healing arts have been inseparable. I also believe that feng shui and the Five Elements are just as inseparable from medicine. That’s why I want to combine feng shui with traditional Chinese medicine. I don’t know much about Chinese medicine, though. Luckily, one of my classmates is studying under a master back in his hometown, and he lent me his notes. All I can do is study and research as I go. —Reads—Score114d adds
- 72 Grand Feng Shui Master Yang Yunsong 风水大宗师杨筠松 [Feng Shui + geomancy + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] From a powerful Imperial Preceptor who could command the wind and rain to an immortal who helped the poor, Yang Yunsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and honored by later generations as Master Yang, was a true “rule-breaker” in the 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 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 2.1kReads8.4Score19214d adds
- 74 The Celestial Register of Mystical Insight 洞玄天箓 [Alternate history] + [No female lead] + [Daoist arts] + [Ghosts and monsters] (The male lead is no overpowered hero. Readers looking for an indulgent power fantasy, proceed with caution.) The Taishang Ganying Pian says: perform three hundred good deeds to become an Earth Immortal; those who seek to become Celestial Immortals must perform one thousand three hundred. To prove his Dao and attain its fruit, Zhang Yuandong travels alone through a chaotic age, slaying demons and vanquishing evil, ear 165Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 75 I Came from the Taoist Sect, Call Me the Dao Lord 我从道门来请叫我道君 [Supernatural] [Modern] [Daoist priest] [Ghost hunting] [Demon slaying] Zhang Qingyuan was born with yin-yang eyes. To keep him safe and healthy, his parents sent him up a mountain to become a Daoist priest. After graduating from university, he returned to the temple and inherited his master's affairs. He thought demons and ghosts had become exceedingly rare in this day and age, leaving him with no chance to put his skills to use. Then a chance encounter showed him a different world. Demons were 4Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 76 The Art of Face Reading 相术人生 After we broke up, I was in agony and lost myself in bars and nightclubs. I never expected that one night together would nearly land me in prison for good. After turning over a new leaf, I was once again caught up in romantic entanglements, a classmate’s schemes, and the pressures of everyday life... Just when my life had hit rock bottom, the face-reading skills my grandfather taught me as a child turned everything around. 92Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 77 The Six Lines: Principles of Hexagram Divination 六爻卦理篇 This book focuses on a detailed discussion of the principles behind Six Yao divination. In simple, accessible language, it uses a wealth of practical hexagram examples to analyze how these principles are applied in actual Six Yao divination. It offers everyone who enjoys or wants to learn Six Yao divination a faster and easier way to master this art. 395Reads—Score11814d adds
- 78 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 230Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 79 The Little Master of Physiognomy in Hemp Clothes 麻衣小相师 Li He, founding master of the Linen-Clad School, once left behind a remarkable book recording everything he had learned in his life. It was passed down to the disciples of his school and continued by them until it was eventually brought to perfection. When the nation fell, it was hidden beneath its covers and circulated through the world. At last, someone bound by fate offered it a blood sacrifice. It transformed into spiritual energy, fused with that person’s soul, and was reborn into the world 2.2kReads7.7Score27914d adds
- 80 The Unscientific Feng Shui Master 不科学风水师 Ji Yan, a top physics student, gains the ability to read the land's feng shui after an unexpected accident in the laboratory. He can find dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, dispel ill fortune and attract prosperity, bring wealth and status, and defy fate itself. With his mastery of feng shui, Ji Yan wins over business tycoons, helps ordinary people, punishes corrupt villains, and becomes a legendary feng shui master. 219Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 81 The Ninth-Rank Geomancer 九品地师 Eighteen years ago, Yang Buyi nearly died in his mother’s womb before he was even born. His grandfather used a piece of tortoiseshell to break the death curse hanging over him, allowing him to be born safely in a fire. Eighteen years later, Yang Buyi finally learns that a borrowed life must eventually be repaid. 776Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 82 Fortune Divination 卜运 I Can’t Stop Divining, So I’m Forced to Save the World: A sharp-tongued fortune-teller meets an obsessive-compulsive policewoman! Lu Yan is the most insufferable sharp-tongued fortune-teller in Liulichang. With ancestral copper coins, he can divine the heavens, the earth, and people’s love lives, and his readings come with pinpoint-accurate roasts. A client’s jade pendant is “a souvenir from a grave mound”; a shikigami master’s cinnabar talismans are “worse than the five-yuan printing-shop speci 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Don’t Study Feng Shui, It’ll Make You Rich 别学风水，会赚 [Science x Mysticism; Folk Feng Shui; Practical Geomancy; Secrets of Yin-Yang Businesses] I used to be a software developer. My father was nothing more than a third-rate feng shui master, and hardly anyone had heard of him. For years, I thought he was just pulling a few tricks to fool people. As someone who had received nine years of compulsory education, I looked down on this “feudal superstition.” Then I got involved in the trade, and my worldview was changed forever... 37Reads—Score514d adds
- 84 Feng Shui Master Lai Buyi 风水大师赖布衣 Lai Wenjun passed the imperial examinations at the age of nine and rose to the rank of Imperial Preceptor. But after exposing Qin Hui’s plot to sever the dragon vein and usurp the throne, he was stripped of his position and exiled, reduced to a commoner begging in the streets. Then Heaven bestowed upon him an awakened Celestial Star Feng Shui Compass, while a fragment of the Green Crow Classic entered his soul. With a bowl of clear water, he could identify a venomous dragon; with three copper co 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Feng Shui Master Liu Bowen 风水大师刘伯温 When Yuan soldiers massacre his village, eighteen-year-old Liu Bowen escapes with his family's ancestral compass in his arms. His father's dying words still ring in his ears: "Protect the surviving pages of the Qingwu Classic, and break the Yuan court's Dragon Vein Severing Curse!" On the run, he comes upon a mountain village plagued by the deadly "White Tiger Carrying a Corpse" formation. Five people have died in three days, and a fraudulent Feng Shui master has set up a formation that instead 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Strange Commerce Series: The Mystic Merchant 奇门商道系列小说：玄商 Shang Xuanji is a business prodigy who has perfectly blended the art of divination and strategy with modern commerce. Armed with the nine business secrets from The True Guide to the Way of Commerce, he turns the tide in a treacherous world of business. Starting with Tingyuxuan, an antique shop on the verge of bankruptcy, he breaks the deadlock with the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation and builds a buzz with the Qimen art of incense. Step by step, he creates a business empire. But as financial pr 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Folk Mysticism: How to Get Rich and Boost Your Luck 民俗玄学让你发财让你运势旺 This book is a feel-good power fantasy. Just reading it will help you avoid many wrong turns, make a lot of money quickly, and understand how the world works. Even if you are a student, reading it will help you make a good plan for your future. After reading this book, you will feel absolutely exhilarated, exhilarated... 559Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 The Five Elements and the Art of Physiognomy 五行相术 Rumor has it that centuries from now, the Five Elements Art of Physiognomy will reappear in the martial world, sparking a scramble among heroes from every corner. Strange events from the decade of calamity, the Qinling Demon Tower, the ancient city of Fuxian, the Tianshan Blood Tomb, the ghost city of Miaojiang, and the haunted lake of Qinghai: after his grandfather mysteriously vanishes, Yuan Yuan must uncover a series of secrets. 121Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 89 The Way of Strange Commerce 奇门商道 Introduction to The Qimen Way of Commerce What happens when the rules of finance become forbidden mystic arts and business contracts stretch across three thousand years? Who controls the ultimate laws behind the flow of wealth? Volume One, The Shadowed Way: Luo Yunyi, a professor of finance who carries the secrets of Qimen Dunjia, joins forces with Bai Qingyue, a “Dragon Guardian,” to investigate the bizarre theft at the machine-tool factory in Fengyang City. Together, they uncover the “Drago 8Reads—Score414d adds
- 90 The Book of Changes: A Clear-Eyed Guide for Modern Readers 易学：写给现代人的清醒指南 Many people who teach the Yi Studies either pepper their explanations with jargon, making them as incomprehensible as a heavenly text, or try to sound profound while saying nothing at all. They turn the Yi Studies into mysticism. I bring them down to earth. There is no mumbo jumbo or pompous lecturing here. What I do is translate the finest wisdom from 3,000 years ago into answers about life that modern readers can understand and put to use right away. Are you stuck at work, wondering why you ge 54Reads—Score914d adds
- 91 I Earn Merit by Writing 我靠码字攒功德 If you can’t see it through to the ending, don’t read this book. If you insist on reading it, read only the first three chapters. If you read the first three chapters, you absolutely have to read the extras. If you won’t listen to me, then don’t. 1.2kReads9.4Score18514d adds
- 92 The Last Celestial Master: The Dragon Burial in the Yellow River 末代天师：黄河葬龙 Lin Feng, an inheritor of Orthodox Unity Taoist traditions, vows to slay every demon and monster in the world, even if it means his Taoist arts will never be needed. His disciple Allen, who came from England, swears to carry his master for another ninety-nine thousand li, proving his devotion and praying that they can be master and disciple again in their next lives. 33Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 93 Zeng Shiqiang Explains the I Ching 曾仕强讲易经 A text version of Professor Zeng Shiqiang's video lectures on the I Ching. After years of studying the I Ching, Professor Zeng hoped to use it to save the world. As a student of Professor Zeng, I am publishing transcripts of his videos to promote the I Ching. The text is transcribed from Professor Zeng Shiqiang's video lectures on the I Ching. 15.9kReads8.0Score3.5k14d adds
- 94 If I Don't Destroy You Today, My Daoist Heart Will Crumble 今天不灭你我道心得毁 No female lead, no System, pure Taoist magic, no stupidity, and solid logic. A humorous male lead, a mischievous weasel spirit, and a cold-blooded Lord Xiao. Fang Hao of the Jing Sect. The last surviving heir, cautious to a fault, afraid that one careless mistake will end the lineage and bring shame upon his ancestors. So he has no choice but to... settle every score and repay every grievance. What happens today gets dealt with today. No putting it off. If I don't wipe you out today, that's simp 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 She Conquers the Business World with Qimen Dunjia 她靠奇门横扫商界 Shen Jinghong is the business world's most mysterious female CEO. Born with the ill-fated Lone Phoenix fate, she is said to bring disaster to her husband and children. Afraid to fall in love, she nonetheless has a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. A master of the Eight Gates and Qimen Dunjia, she makes her way through the business world using feng shui formations and divination, specializing in getting top tycoons out of business deadlocks. “Three million, and I'll bring your betting a 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Four-House Village 四户村 I live in Sihu Village, a place sheltered on all four sides. Just as its name suggests, Sihu Village has exactly four households, no more and no less. There is no life or death here, only reincarnation, once every twelve years. The rules of Sihu Village are simple: the master must not leave the village, and guests must not stay overnight. Then one day, I really did leave the village, breaking the rules... 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Free Public Course on Zi Wei Dou Shu 紫微斗数免费公开课 Zi Wei Dou Shu is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. China has a long and splendid history spanning 5,000 years, along with a rich and well-developed cultural tradition. Our ancestors taught us to approach things objectively, observe the world keenly, and experience the true meaning of life. This course will quickly introduce you to Zi Wei Dou Shu, helping you better understand the world, yourself, and life. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Sanliao: China's Number One Feng Shui Village, a Thousand Years in the Making 千年三僚：中国风水第一村 [Feng shui + sacred sites of geomancy + geomantic arts + feng shui masters + feng shui knowledge, taboos, and ways to overcome them + mysticism, occult arts, fortune-telling, divination, and geomancy that can change both fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] In the chaotic final years of the Tang dynasty, Yang Junsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and later honored as Master Yang, carried a compass and led two boys into the mountains of Xingguo Sanliao 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Help! The Metaphysical Princess Consort Is Causing Trouble Again 救命，玄学王妃又闹妖了 [Metaphysics + Qimen arts + feng shui...] [Transmigrated Metaphysics Master vs. the Lame Young Prince] (Qimen Dunjia, folk secret arts, Qimen Dunjia, Nine Palaces destiny charts, Zhuyou healing... As the saying goes, fate comes first, luck second, and feng shui third. Feng shui has a huge impact on people, from wealth and health to marriage and family. Curious? Then turn to the first page and read on...) A metaphysics master from the twenty-first century was given an assignment by her master at 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 A Commentary on the Daily Sutra 功课经注解 This book provides a detailed, line-by-line explanation of the Taoist classics, including the Morning Scripture, the Noon Scripture (Scripture of the Three Officials), the Evening Scripture, and the Scripture of the Northern Dipper. It fully explains the meaning and function of these scriptures, making it a rare and valuable textbook. 146Reads—Score5214d adds
