Novels like Maoshan Ghost-Banishing Celestial Master
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- 1 I'm a Ghost-Hunting Master in the City 我在都市当捉鬼大师 My name is Ji Ran, and I’m an ordinary office worker. But I have a secret no one knows about. In this modern city, I gradually gain power and grow stronger. I keep my true abilities hidden, letting a charlatan take the spotlight to exorcise ghosts and monsters. Once he’s paid, we leave. In the end, I become an urban legend. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Sorry, I Only Know Qimen Mysticism 抱歉，我只会奇门秘术 In houses where something terrible has happened and someone has died, the owners often refuse to live there, and tenants don’t want to touch that bad luck either. So the rent is usually dirt cheap. After graduating from university, I was forced by poverty to move into one of these haunted houses. Half a torn-off ancient tome for subduing demons, and a boundary stele to the Underworld, where yin and yang meet! My name is Zhang Ye, a graduate who strayed down the wrong path. The truth of the world 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 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 1.7kReads6.2Score12714d adds
- 4 The Feng Shui Mystery: Yin-Yang Diagrams 风水诡局阴阳图录 A broken-palm fate mark appears, and blood jade draws forth a deadly scheme! Burdened by a curse that brings harm to his family and the blood feud of the Lin family's annihilation, Lin Jiuxuan believes he must spend his life pursuing the truth alone. But fate brings him together with his childhood friend Su Qingyao, who bears the Water Dragon Soul Seal, and Xue Ji, a descendant of the Shinto faith. The intertwined destinies of three heirs to dragon-vein legacies uncover a shocking conspiracy spa 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 You Asked Me for a Fortune-Telling, Then Refused to Pay. Why Are You Crying About the Karma? 找我算命不给钱，因果加身哭什么 (Not an invincible protagonist story, enter at your own risk) [Multiple female leads] [Livestream] [Memes] [Comedy] [Easygoing] [Entertainment industry] [749 Bureau] [Eerie] [Decisive and ruthless] [Maoshan] [Miracle doctor] Buddhism and Daoism are sworn enemies? What does that have to do with me? Armed with a System, Zhang Yufu sets up a fortune-telling stall right outside a temple, dressed in a purple Celestial Master's robe and Livestreaming the whole thing! As more and more people come to 3Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 6 Ghost-Catching Expert in the City 捉鬼高手在都市 Gao Xiao originally came down from the mountain to look for someone, but kept running into evil spirits causing trouble and was forced to step in. As a result, he formed complicated, impossible-to-sever relationships with all kinds of women... 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 My Wife Is a Ghost Constable 我的老婆是阴差 I saw a little ad about a rich woman looking for a man to father her child, and it left me completely shaken. Now she won’t stop pestering me, claiming she’s pregnant with my baby. What am I supposed to do? 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Coffin Man 棺人 There was an old coffin in our home. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, Grandpa had me paint it with red and black lacquer. This went on for years, but he never told me why. It was only after I turned eighteen and was buried alive inside that old coffin that I gradually uncovered one secret after another. From then on, I embarked on a very different path in life. Three calamities and six tribulations, nine coffins crossing together: ferrying people, demons, and restless souls! The Ye 251Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 9 Funeral Parlor No. 44 44号白事铺 All he wanted was a quiet job and a little extra cash. But by chance, he became a yin-yang master, earning cabbage money while worrying himself sick. His skills were too shallow to tell the living from the dead at a glance... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 I Learned Ghost Hunting from the Black and White Impermanence 我和黑白无常学抓鬼 I was sleeping just fine when, halfway through the night, Black and White Impermanence dragged me to the Underworld and tried to force me to drink Granny Meng’s Soup. Of course I refused. I knocked over bowl after bowl of the soup, so Black and White Impermanence brought out their signature weapons, mourning staffs, and prepared to teach me a lesson. Seeing how firmly I refused to drink, Granny Meng came over to reason with me. “Young man, everyone dies eventually. Whether it’s sooner or later, 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Soul Ferry: My Guests Come from Past and Present 灵魂摆渡：我的客人来自古今 On a stormy night, Xia Shu, a food delivery rider, received a mysterious order. The address was the basement of a psychiatric hospital abandoned for fifteen years. Soaked to the skin, he stepped into the freezing building and accidentally fell, cracking the soul-sealing talisman on the coffin he was delivering. The ancient talisman burned away, and countless vengeful spirits roared free, pouring into Xia Shu’s body in an instant. He should have been reduced to a wandering soul, but a mysterious 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 I'm a Badass Ghostbuster 我捉鬼超猛的 [A story-driven novel + a completed work of over ten million words, guaranteed quality] I’m Lin Yi. When my suicide attempt failed, that old crook Zhong Kui possessed me. An ordinary bit-part actor turned his life around and became a hundred-billion-yuan movie emperor. Acting is my side gig. Ghost hunting is my real job. The road to heaven is long, and hell is full. The world is in turmoil. With a soul-hooking blade in hand, I’ll sweep away every demon and evil spirit. 57Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 13 Yin-Yang Feng Shui Master: From the Start, I Help the Campus Beauty Catch Ghosts 阴阳风水师：开局帮校花捉鬼 My name is Bai Xiaoer. After the old man passed away, I became the sole successor to the Mystic Sect. The old man said that without his protection, learning the Mystic Sect’s arts would cost me my life, so he arranged for me to go down the mountain and attend university. I spent four peaceful years at school, but my quiet life was completely turned upside down when I spoke out of turn. The wealthy campus beauty came to me for help, and I ended up caught in a shocking conspiracy! A snake immort 46Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 14 The Maoshan Outcast 茅山弃徒 On a snowy night fifteen years ago, an eight-year-old child went up to Maoshan. Fifteen years later, the child had grown into a young man whose Taoist arts were perfected and who was invincible under heaven. Yet the world accused him of betraying his master and murdering countless people. Even the master who had treated him like his own son had died at his hands. Cast out of the Maoshan Orthodox Sect, no one knew what he intended to do. He wandered the world, moving among the most mysterious cro 204Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Dragon-Tiger Heavenly Master 龙虎天师 My master said I belonged to the Yin element of the Five Phases and was born under an ill-fated sign. Little did he know that I'd been born with an understanding of Yin and Yang, and the ability to read feng shui. I learned to borrow the power of the Celestial Masters and stir up storms; I mastered the secret arts of the Zhengyi School to slay demons and bind spirits. Through my own experiences, I'll show you that ghosts and gods are beyond comprehension! 439Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 I Studied Hard to Hunt Ghosts Before Coming Down the Mountain, So What Does High Martial Mean? 苦学捉鬼下山，高武是什么意思？ [Slow Burn, Read with Care] [Modern High Martial Arts] [Taoist Priest] [Ghost Hunting] [Eerie] [Awakening] [May Not Be for Everyone] Ye Xuan transmigrated at the absolute worst time. He had been the top scorer in the college entrance exam, but he got a terminal illness and died. As soon as he transmigrated, he took a Taoist priest as his master, though the old man was hardly a proper master. To make a name for himself and slap people in the face after transmigrating, Ye Xuan spent over a decade 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Haunted Campus: Who Says School Is the Safest Place? 惊魂校区谁说学校最安全 Shocking! A Qing-dynasty tomb has been unearthed behind the school, but the coffin inside is empty. And the four seemingly ordinary university students turn out to be Yin-Yang masters straight out of horror movies. A coffin slid down the hillside behind the school. A secret history of the Qing dynasty that was never recorded. Missing classmates. A sinister archive room. A hearse on Zhongshan Street. A weasel encountered while camping. Somehow, it all seems to be pointing toward something. Do you —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Last Ghost Hunter 最后一个捉鬼师 I was cursed by evil spirits as a child. My fate turned yin, attracting a hundred ghosts. To keep me alive, my father came up with a plan... 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 After College, I Became a Taoist Priest 大学毕业后我去当了道士 Ghost-catching, zombies, tombs, feng shui, and the divide between the living and the dead I was just an ordinary person. That is, until I graduated from college. My relatives passed away, my parents abandoned me, and I became someone the world had no place for. An unexpected letter led me into the world of Taoism. From then on, the realms of yin and yang had boundaries, but they were no longer distinct. White-haired jiangshi lurking in the earth, ancient tomb zombies, spirit mediums borrowing so 16.5kReads8.1Score1.5k14d adds
- 20 Ghost-Hunting Expert: I'm the Celestial Master 捉鬼高手：我就是天师 Qin Feng was born with ghostly energy surrounding him and was raised by Celestial Master Zhang for eighteen years. One day, he was given orders to descend the mountain. Before he could suppress evil and make a name for himself, a beautiful woman took his yang essence... 362Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 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—14d adds
- 22 Shocking! A Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain to Exorcise Ghosts on Livestream 惊！道士下山直播抓鬼 Supernatural + livestreaming + ghost hunting I’m Bai Qingxuan, a rookie Daoist priest. After coming down from the mountain, hunger left me with no other options. Then I had an idea: I’d livestream myself hunting ghosts. There are plenty of supernatural incidents in this modern city. I’ll use Daoist arts to deal with them and livestream the whole thing for everyone to see. 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 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—14d adds
- 24 Maoshan Taoist Master 茅山道师 Where yin and yang diverge, the path is beyond law and form. Spirit maps travel across garments, and ghosts and gods alike obey their commands. Maoshan arts are also known as the “Pure Maiden’s Spirit-Washing Art.” They are famed for their techniques of entering the underworld and fighting with incantations, and have been renowned for a thousand years. The Zuo family’s yin-yang arts evolved from them. My name is Zuo Xiaosan, the third-generation inheritor of the Zuo family’s three-hundred-year t 146Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 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 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 2kReads—Score12714d adds
- 27 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—14d adds
- 28 Maoshan 茅山 When I was little, my parents abandoned me in a mass grave. My master found me and raised me to adulthood. He was a Taoist priest who knew how to subdue demons and exorcise evil spirits, and he taught me everything he had learned in his life. I signed an agreement with the underworld to work as a ghost constable in the mortal world, trading my service as a ghost for extra years of life… 981Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 29 I Was Born Without a Breath, and the One Who Saved Me Was a Nine-Tailed Fox 出生断气，救我的竟是九尾狐 [Traditional Supernatural Horror + Urban Legends + Ghost Stories] I had no breath when I was born. I should have been a stillborn baby. Just as my family fell into despair, a woman in white opened the door and saved my life... The one who rescued me wasn’t an enlightened master, but a nine-tailed fox who had lived for over a thousand years. 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Yin-Yang Celestial Master: I Stole Your Magic Artifacts, and Now a Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night 阴阳天师：偷我法器，百鬼夜行了 [Celestial Master + invincible + folk-customs mystery + paper effigy maker + supernatural revival + dimensional superiority + comedic face-slapping + wild imagination + System] Wei Ping’an transmigrates into a parallel world where spiritual qi revival is underway, becoming the last Celestial Master of Maoshan’s Yin-Yang paper effigy lineage. He watches over a shabby funeral shop called Three Pure Ones Funeral Services. He had planned to earn merit with the Great Dao Manifestation System and unlo 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Heir to the Maoshan Legacy 茅山传承人 I was born of a ghost. My mother died as soon as I was born, and no one knew who my father was. An old Taoist priest came to my home on the day I was born. When I was six, he took me up into the mountains to learn Taoist magic. 242Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 32 The School Beauty’s Little Ghost-Hunting Taoist 校花的捉鬼小道士 The young Daoist Xu Ziqing is a master at healing the sick, vanquishing demons, catching ghosts, and subduing spirits. He can locate buried treasures, read faces, and master feng shui. He enrolls in school, dates the campus beauty, and takes down bullies... Wait, campus beauty, what are you doing? 403Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Tales of the Supernatural in the City 都市灵异传 “The living must not wander into the mass grave, and the dead must not disturb Mr. Chen.” This old saying has been passed down in Chenjia Town for decades. Chen Hui is Mr. Chen’s grandson, but he scoffs at his grandfather’s arts of yin and yang and wants nothing more than to be an ordinary college student. That is, until zombies attack the village at night. Forced to take up a peachwood sword and open the ancient book titled The Dao, he wields the family’s ancestral divine weapon, the Heaven-and 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Haunted House Notes: A Shadow in the Mirror 凶宅笔记：镜中影 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 55Reads—Score814d adds
- 36 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 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Unlicensed Celestial Master: Selling Talismans at a Street Stall from the Start 无证天师，开局地摊卖符箓 (Supernatural thrills and comedy early on, wish fulfillment, then Primordial Chaos later) The world is overrun with strange phenomena. After transmigrating here, Zhang Chen unexpectedly gains a Celestial Master System. He thought he was finally on his way to the top, but it turned out Celestial Masters in this world had to pass exams. Full of confidence, Zhang Chen went to take the test, only to fail at the very first hurdle: the written exam. With no other choice, he set up a street stall, but 40Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 38 The Coffin Bride 棺妻 My name is Li Guan. Li as in the character for plum, and Guan as in coffin. When I was fourteen, I dreamed of a purple coffin. A beautiful woman lay inside. She opened her eyes and told me she was my wife, and that she'd kill me if I married anyone else! She told me to wait for her. On my eighteenth birthday, she really came... When the purple coffin crossed my threshold, the world's shackles broke, revealing the first mysterious glimpse of an entirely new and fantastical world... 362Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 39 Heavenly Demon-Suppressing Master 镇魔天师 My family has always worked for the powerful. By my generation, Grandpa wanted me to live a different kind of life... And what happened? The sinister Seven Stars of Yin Mountain, a blood-soul spinning top jerked into motion by a little ghost, the White Lotus Holy Mother reborn through body possession, the debauched Black-Robed Dragon King, an ancient Western Zhou cauldron teeming with vengeful spirits, and a sinister Taoist who uses souls to form an array... I've been through so much over the ye 429Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 40 The Strange Things I Encountered in My Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马那些年遇到的事 I'll take you into the underworld of spirit mediums, where you'll find lonely graves in the wilderness, vengeful infant spirits demanding payment, and an old woman who comes back from the dead... Even now, I can't tell whether it was reality or a dream. 352Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 41 The Ghost Shop: I Told You to Catch Ghosts, So Why Are You Raising a Female Ghost? 鬼事铺：让你捉鬼，你养女鬼干嘛 What? You’re a male ghost? This poor Taoist and demons, monsters, and ghosts are sworn enemies... There are pretty female ghosts... Miss Ghost, would you care to share a bed with me? Chang Le was born in a year, month, day, and hour of yin. He has an extremely yin constitution and the fate of a lone star cursed by heaven. His destiny is full of calamities and misfortune. He brings ruin to his parents, his wife, and his children. To change his fate as a “lone star cursed by heaven,” Chang Le was 105Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 42 Worries of the Mystic Sect 玄门忧道 Twenty years ago, someone stole my fortune. To save me, Grandpa sent me to Mount Longhu. Twenty years later, a young Daoist descended the mountain. My mother in the mortal world had died, and I stepped between yin and yang to find her… 1.5kReads6.7Score11814d adds
- 43 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 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Feng Shui Taoist 风水道师 Feng shui + Taoist arts + esoteric studies + Qimen Dunjia + folk secret arts + Nanyang black magic “What? He climbed a mountain and went crazy?” “I’m freaking baffled too! My uncle took my cousin to see a doctor, but they couldn’t find anything wrong with him at all.” “My aunt thought the doctor was useless, so she made a scene at the hospital. One minute she was threatening to jump off the building, the next she was trying to hack the doctor to death with a knife!” Feng shui can kill, taking li 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Underworld Judge’s Decree 阴司法官令 For millions of years, the underworld stood firm, until some unknown upheaval struck. The Ghost Gate, which had never shown any sign of trouble since its founding, slammed shut. No one could enter or leave. From then on, the underworld seemed cut off from the world. After a century of wear and tear, some ghosts had forgotten a certain fear buried deep in their consciousness. Strange phenomena began appearing one after another, as if bent on throwing the world into chaos. The young Si Liusan, who 96Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 46 Great Tang: Conquering the Dynasty with the Art of Qimen 大唐：奇门之术闯大唐 Wang Xiu learned the arts of the strange gates from his grandfather, including a range of divination techniques for predicting fortune and misfortune, and clear or rainy weather. While searching through his grandfather's room, he found a fragment of the Qimen Dunjia manual. When he opened it, he unexpectedly entered the Tang Dynasty and became the young lord of the Eighteen Riders of Yan Yun. 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Maoshan Ghost-Slaying Heavenly Master 茅山斩鬼天师 After an incident in her hometown, Zhao Ruoxi meets Perfected Master Qingxu. Once everything is settled, she takes him as her master. Perfected Master Qingxu belongs to the Shangqing lineage of Maoshan and is one of its ten guardian elders. Together, they slay demons, exorcise evil, and see through the human heart. 1.7kReads6.8Score13114d adds
- 48 The Shangqing Celestial Master 上清天师 [Taoist priest + no saintly protagonist + supernatural + two male leads + two female leads] Ever since the great battle between Chinese Taoists and Japanese onmyoji, supernatural incidents have been erupting across the cities, as though ancient forbidden spells have been broken. White-hair vampires, black fiends, vengeful ghosts, grinning corpses... Feuds that began a thousand years ago will finally be settled in this life. With humanity twisted and morality in decline, what other dangers are wa 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Ghosts and Monsters: Run! This Taoist Has a Wild Style 鬼怪：快跑！这道士路子有点野 No harem, no formulaic tropes, invincible, no System, feel-good comedy, laugh-out-loud funny Hey, you ghost up ahead, stop right there! This Daoist isn't going to take your kidneys. Pah! You think a female ghost like you can seduce me? Listen, I'm an honest, upstanding young man! You're only slowing down my money-making. Pay up! Granny Ghost, you ran into me! I won't get up without at least eighty or a hundred thousand. No money? That's fine, just sign this work contract and pay me back by wo 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Yin-Yang Ghost Hunter 阴阳捉鬼道神 (Supernatural + suspense + urban + wildly satisfying power fantasy) Heaven and earth shatter as one man, like a demon god, cleaves the sky and splits the land. In the age of declining magic, Ye Yi, an orphan, is taken in by Tianjizi. He steps into the bustling city carrying a jade pendant as his token. Spiritual qi revives like a rising tide, and fortune gathers like a raging flood. He seizes opportunities, battles the demons and monsters of the mortal world, subdues the fiends of the immortal r 26Reads—Score—14d adds
