Novels like Maoshan's Greatest Celestial Master
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- 101 The Celestial Master's Book of Strange Tales 天师诡事录 Twenty years ago, a female ghost from a thousand-year-old tomb came to claim a bride. My grandfather gave his life to protect me from the calamity! Twenty years later, fate led me to rob the tomb of that very female ghost. 200Reads7.7Score104Shelves
- 102 Horror Survival: I Livestream Fortune-Telling for the Supernatural 恐怖求生：我直播给诡异算命 The Black Sun appeared, bringing a bizarre and terrifying fight for survival, along with a hundred survival livestreams. Every day, people die horribly while struggling to survive! For three years, Li Changsheng prayed every single day, hoping to be chosen for the terrifying survival game as soon as possible! At last, his happy survival adventure is about to begin! From then on, the whole tone of the terrifying survival game changes. He tells the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s fortune in love! He warns th 10Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 103 It's Not My Fault I Can See Ghosts 我能见鬼不是我的错 A girl who can see ghosts saves a little ghost with a drop of blood from her fingertip, and her life is turned upside down from that moment on. Ghosts appear in droves to test the limits of your nerves, jolting every dormant sense awake! Eerie, thrilling, and full of mysteries... Leng Yuhan sobs: “It's not my fault that I can see ghosts. Could every disaster really be because of my jinxed tongue?” 43Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 104 Eerie Revival: I Just Transmigrated, and Now I Have to Be the Groom? 诡异复苏：刚穿越就要当新郎？ After an accident, Zhang Hao transmigrates into a world plagued by supernatural horrors. He becomes the Daoist sect's sole heir and awakens a sign-in System. He obtains the Tongtian Record, one of the Eight Mystical Arts, and from then on sets out to slay the supernatural. 289Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Heavenly Dao's Last Successor 天道最后传人 In my previous life, I was a judge of the dead. In this one, I have entered the Heavenly Dao. When demons take root in the heart, five thunders descend and vital energy awakens. I will slay demons and exorcise evil, and the righteous path will endure. Ever since I was born, the whole village has treated me like a “freak.” The midwife who delivered me was struck dead by lightning that very night. My father, a respected local exorcist, could only see her off on her final journey. By chance, I bega 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Ghost Hunting: My Baton Is Made of Thunderstruck Wood! 捉鬼：我的警棍可是雷击木做的！ The protagonist, Chen Mo, starts out as an ordinary criminal police officer. After stumbling upon a supernatural incident, he is recruited by the Special Security Department to join its Seventh Squad, which specializes in handling paranormal cases. The Seventh Squad is a unit stationed in the field that deals with supernatural criminal cases. Hidden within the police station, its members work with beings the public knows nothing about. 234Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Exorcist: From the Start, I Encounter the Great Black Buddha Mother 除魔人：开局遇到大黑佛母 Original title: Exorcist: Starting Out by Encountering the Great Black Buddha Mother [Supernatural] + [System] + [Narrow Escapes] + [Film, Animation, Books, and TV] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [Not a Power Fantasy] + [Thriller] + [Horror] The male lead, born under an ill-fated destiny, faces a life-and-death calamity but is unexpectedly chosen by the System. He transmigrates through various parallel worlds to carry out missions to exorcise demons and uphold justice. When you transmigrate and encount 171Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 108 The Yin-Yang Master of the Wilderness 山野阴阳先生 [Yinshan + Maoshan + Folk legends + Supernatural + No saintly protagonist + No womanizing] My grandfather from Yinshan protects my life, and my brothers from Maoshan protect my body. As a Yin-Yang Master who walks among the dead, all I carry is an umbrella and a copper bell. Deep in the mountains, I encountered an old shapeshifter gnawing on a living person's hand. In southern Xinjiang, a demonic carpet sucked people's lifeblood in the middle of the night. In western Yunnan, a one-legged ghost 56.6kReads6.7Score2.4kShelves
- 109 The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途 (This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 110 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... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Slashing Through Ten Thousand Paths: The Reborn Sword Venerable Is Unrivaled 剑斩万道：重生剑尊再无敌 Lu Tian, Supreme Lord of the Immortal Realm, was ambushed by the Eight Immortal Emperors. His Dao companion, the Fairy Zixia, gave her life to protect him. Consumed by boundless hatred, he self-destructed his divine cauldron and fell into the mortal world with a fragment of Zixia’s soul, reborn as a good-for-nothing youth with the same name in Qingzhou City. In this life, armed with the supreme cultivation art, the Great Desolate Heaven-Devouring Art, and the Origin Divine Cauldron, he vows to 153Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Pangu Cultivation Manual 盘古功法 At the dawn of the universe, primordial spirits blossomed. The first to awaken was honored above all, unrivaled in every way. Born amid auspicious signs, accompanied by rare treasures, It ruled the universe and established order, Bringing stability to all life and blessings that endured. The wondrous Pangu art, profound source of creation, At first it had no name, and was hard to describe. The spirits gathered and debated, until the name Pangu was passed down. This blurb doesn't do it justic 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Science Above All: The Mystical Ancestress Has Boundless Power 科学至上，玄学老祖她法力无边 Mystery, paranormal, strong female lead, ancient ancestor, precognition. Feng Zhibai was the only spirit of precognition nurtured by heaven and earth. She had lived for thousands of years as the founder of metaphysics, ever since she first took human form! She could calculate everything, big or small, in the world, but never imagined that one day, people in the distant future would blow up the nest where she had slept for centuries! A firm believer in modern science, Feng Zhibai felt her empty p 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 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
- 116 From the Start: My Extreme Yin Sacred Body Awakens, Shocking Everyone 开局：极阴圣体启动，震惊所有人 [Plot twists + one heroine + suspense and horror + decisive killing + brotherhood] My name is Jiang Daotian. I was born on Ghost Festival, and I’ve been frail and sickly since childhood. When I was five, I became seriously ill, and major hospitals issued notices that I was in critical condition. My parents had plenty of connections and sought out many Taoist priests and immortal masters. But after looking at my birth details and fate, every one of them furrowed their brows and reached the same c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Primordial Edict: Grandmaster of the Daoist Order 元始敕令：道门大宗师 Vanguard of the Taoist altar, great general who banishes demons, edict of the Primordial Beginning, all arts subdued and concealed!!! With Taoist arts perfected and the strength of a grandmaster, he commands thunder and lightning, slaying monsters and vanquishing evil!!! This is a world of the Taoist sects, and the realm of the Nine Provinces… 679Reads6.7Score114Shelves
- 118 A Taoist Priest in the Mortal World 阳间道士 I was an ordinary person, never knowing that a hundred-yuan bill on the ground would completely change my life. 799Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 119 The Paper Effigy Shopkeeper Is Not to Be Messed With 纸扎铺老板不好惹 [A So-Lazy-He’d-Die Bottom (Sheng Qing) × A Green-Tea, Jealous Hades Top (Yan Nanque)] [Two Male Leads + Both Powerful + Fantasy Ghost-Hunting + Sweet Romance] Three thousand years ago, Sheng Qing was a human-world guardian deity who wanted for nothing. Three thousand years later, to make ends meet, he had no choice but to drag his long-neglected, badly atrophied body to open a paper-offering shop near a graveyard in Jingcheng. On the shop’s opening day, restless spirits took turns showing up. T 21Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 120 The Folk Ghost Hunter 民间捉鬼人 This novel tells the true story of an old man from our village. His name was Li Zhengyu, and he was an extraordinary practitioner of the occult. Born in a small village in the mountains of Lingnan, he became tainted by yin energy after being haunted by the ghosts of a mother and daughter, and repeatedly encountered supernatural beings. By chance, he met a master of Daoist arts and began his journey of cultivation, changing the course of his life. Evil Maoshan curses, poison and witchcraft, treas 1.2kReads9.0Score—Shelves
- 121 Crouching Tiger Celestial Master 卧虎天师 A Celestial Master from the Age of Decline transmigrates into an age of the uncanny and unexpectedly becomes the Commandant of Justice. When demons and ghosts run rampant and witchcraft brings chaos, Zhang Suxuan grips a thunder-striking knuckle guard in his right hand and a tiger-inscribed waist token in his left. With a peachwood sword on his back and a Celestial Master’s robe on his shoulders, he exclaims, “Oh yeah, a job just came in!!” 929Reads7.0Score103Shelves
- 122 Horror Livestream: The Whole Nation Watches Me Catch Ghosts Live 恐怖直播：全民看我在线捉鬼 Chen Feng transmigrates to a parallel world plagued by strange phenomena, where all manner of demons and ghosts have appeared. Everyone has entered an age of horror livestream challenges. After being bound to a System, Chen Feng easily becomes the first person to win nine consecutive challenges! “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have killed a thousand-year-old zombie. Reward: one powerful virility pill!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have killed a painted-skin long-tongued ghost. Reward: one 65Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 123 The Little Taoist of the Campus 校园小道士 In today's world, where information technology changes by the minute, Yang Yiqing is a young Taoist priest with little experience of the world. The moment he descends the mountain to gain experience, an extraordinary life is destined to unfold before him. 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 125 Born of the Mystic Dao 玄道而生 The world is divided into yin and yang, and people into the living and the dead. Yet some places and things are neither clearly yin nor yang, and the people there cannot tell whether they are alive or dead... There is a tavern at the point where yin and yang meet. They say that anyone who enters, living or dead, must abide by the owner's rules. Otherwise, they will never be reincarnated! 148Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 126 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. 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 A Record of Funerals in a Small Town 小城丧葬录 In 2020, Rongcheng was battered by torrential rain. At 32, Chen Yan hit rock bottom after falling from a government post. Forced to resign over an air-gun incident, he crashed while hauling freight, went unpaid by an advertising agency, broke his leg at a construction site, and eventually became a food delivery rider, scraping by between his mortgage and daily expenses. One rainy night, he stopped to help someone and stumbled into the Xiao An Funeral Parlor, where he met Old Yang, who secretly c 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 The City's Exorcist 都市驱魔先生 When shadows emerge beyond the reach of the city’s neon lights, young exorcist Jin Lei sets out on the path fate has laid for him. He inherits more than his family’s powers: he also inherits a tragic mystery spanning a hundred years. Why did his ancestor and fellow disciple turn evil? What earth-shattering scheme is the Xuanjing organization plotting from the shadows of history? From strange happenings on campus to bloody feuds in the countryside, from urban crime investigations to a battle ove 274Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Born the Ghost King, I Subdue Ten Thousand Evil Spirits 鬼王命，镇万煞 I was born destined for wealth, good fortune, and a long life, but someone stole my fate, and I nearly died when a horde of ghosts surrounded me. The villains who swapped our fates never imagined that they would be the ones to lead me back to the Ghost King’s destiny... [Horror, talismans, feng shui, curses, folk customs] Ghosts demand lives on a rainy night; a painted-skin demon returns; a devil’s sacrifice; a snake woman in a mountain village; a cursed guesthouse; blood crows snatch souls; a m 10.5kReads8.9Score682Shelves
- 130 The Paranormal Master of Xuan Zong Feng Shui 玄宗风水术师之灵异先生 City life, celestial masters, the supernatural, feng shui, talismans, witchcraft, dark arts, ghost hunting, exorcisms, monster slaying, evil-spirit banishment, demon subjugation, battling zombies, living with a policewoman. No cultivation. 764Reads6.1Score107Shelves
- 131 Tales of Strange and Unusual Events: Supernatural Happenings in Everyday Life 奇闻异事录之生活中的灵异事件 This place has it all: remarkable people living ordinary lives, paranormal oddities happening right beside us, deadly places explored by thrill-seekers desperate to make a living, startling customs and secret tales from every corner of the land, mythical beasts and evil creatures found only in legend, and eerie coincidences so uncanny they make your scalp crawl. It's no exaggeration to say I've experienced every kind of paranormal event you can imagine, and plenty you can't. I used to be an adve 869Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 What Movie Star Still Practices Immortality? 谁家影后还修仙啊！ [A powerful patron leads the way, supernatural cultivation, wild metaphysical ideas, punishing scumbags and leveling up, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted domineering CEO x rebellious, proud actress] Hexes? Raising ghosts? Sorcerers battling it out? A haunted village corpse? We’ve got it all. Come uncover the entertainment industry’s secrets... Three years ago, Zhong Ling, a top-tier starlet, was vilified across the internet overnight and publicly announced her retirement from show business. The ni 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Maoshan Ghost-Suppressing Records 茅山镇鬼录 The gates of the underworld shatter, and ten thousand ghosts emerge! Enchanting ghosts steal souls, birth ghosts claim lives, zombies devour people, painted-skin demons steal faces, and water ghosts drag people under... The mortal world has become a living hell. Everyone fears ghosts and monsters. Only the Maoshan priests take up talismans and tread the Big Dipper steps! Talismans subdue the dead, swords cut down vengeful ghosts, incantations slay a hundred evils, and dark spirits are sealed awa 5.7kReads8.4Score480Shelves
- 134 Reborn: The City’s Comeback by a Culinary Goddess 女厨神重生之城市逆袭 I was reborn. I’m no longer that timid, helpless little woman. This time, I’m a master chef incarnate. Those who looked down on me can wait to get their faces slapped! You ignored me yesterday, but today you’re not worthy of me! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Starting with Brotherhood of Blades, I Run Riot Across the Myriad Worlds! 从绣春刀开始，横行诸天！ After awakening his transmigration talent, Li Xingzhou began a journey of conquest across the myriad worlds. In Brotherhood of Blades, he is the powerful Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard who backs a new ruler! In The Sword Identity, he is the Jade-Faced Asura who takes on the Blackstone Organization alone and claims Bodhi’s remains! In The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, he is the great general who leads an army across the sea on an expedition to the east! In The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 1.1kReads8.1Score105Shelves
- 136 You Can Cultivate Immortality Even with a Mixed Spiritual Root 杂灵根一样可以修仙 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] + [Purple Palace Spirit Fields] + [Modern Man Transmigrates into the Cultivation World] + [A Nontraditional Farming Novel] This book has surpassed one million characters. The author is a Level Five writer. Everyone is welcome to read it, and feel free to leave comments at any time. Xu Ning'an was an orphan on Blue Star, raised by an old Daoist priest at a Taoist temple. Through a fortuitous opportunity, he transmigrated into the cultivation world 106.8kReads8.3Score6.3kShelves
- 137 Who Dares Bully Young Madam Gu? The Entire Ghost Realm Won't Stand for It 谁敢欺顾少夫人？鬼界全体不答应 [Two powerful leads + sweet romance + metaphysics + secret identities + livestreaming + 1v1] Jiang Wanning, an ancestral talisman master, transmigrates into a new world and becomes a poor girl with nothing to her name. To support her family, she decides to livestream ghost hunting. Who would have thought that this seemingly delicate, cool beauty of a streamer would have so many tricks up her sleeve, and strike so mercilessly? The entire internet is stunned! Only then does everyone realize that t 191Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 138 Spirit Village 灵村 Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 My Girlfriend Wants to Eat Me, So I Joined the Daoist Association Overnight 女友想吃我，我连夜加入道协 [Real-world setting x folk Daoist arts x mild supernatural elements x mind games x not wish fulfillment x anti-cliché] Every man for himself, and let the Dao follow nature and the heart. I’m Yuan Jia, an utterly ordinary college student. I just wanted to have a normal relationship, but I nearly ended up as takeout. My campus-beauty girlfriend is a fox demon, literally. She’s lusting after my body. It turns out the “uncanny” really does exist in this world. They wear human skin and could be your —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 After I Dumped My Jerk Ex, a Powerful Figure from the Underworld Set Their Sights on Me 和渣男分手后，冥界大佬盯上我 Two male leads + mystery and the supernatural + solving cases + powerful leads + satisfying revenge The sweet young love of college couldn't withstand reality. For the sake of a bright future, his boyfriend cheated on him and left without hesitation. Think he's just a college student working a part-time job? That's only because you haven't seen him at night, transformed into the director of the Special Events Investigation Bureau, judging yin and yang, deciding life and death, fighting evil spir —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 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... 448Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 142 The Last Grave Chaser 最后一个撵坟人 [Tomb raiding + the supernatural + suspense + Taoist arts + feng shui + spirit-walking + witchcraft + no System + original, not fanfiction + slow burn] In southwest China, there is a little-known profession whose practitioners are called grave chasers. They read the flow of qi and water, scour the mountains and track down tombs, and are experts in feng shui, burial sites, Taoist arts, and witchcraft. What are grave chasers really looking for? How did I get dragged into all this? It all began whe 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 A Working Stiff's Ghost-Hunting Diary 牛马捉鬼日记 Mystery + Supernatural + Comedy. Slow burn; impatient readers, enter at your own risk!!! My name is Qin Fang. I was an ordinary, downtrodden wage slave, until one day, on a whim, I spent a whopping five hundred yuan at a street stall on a nine-story pagoda ornament. My peaceful life was turned upside down. Now, on top of slaving away at work all day and suffering for a measly few thousand yuan, I have to serve the pagoda spirit, Lord Bai, every night. I’m forced to hunt ghosts and subdue demons 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Bai Qinghan, the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon 九尾妖狐白清寒 The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon Bai Qinghan 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 The Taoist Priest's Pact with Three Thousand Ghost Brides 道士与后宫三千女鬼的约定 This Daoist Master doesn't care for fighting and killing. I've had just one hobby all my life: collecting all kinds of beautiful female demons and ghosts from around the world. 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Xuanpin Teahouse 玄牝茶馆 [The author's profession is unusual; this book is best suited to readers in the field] (This is a mid-length novel, with an upper part, a lower part, and a prequel. I'm typing away as fast as I can!) Feng Cai is a hereditary ritual master in a folk religious sect. After receiving a favor from someone, he opens a teahouse in the capital. Though this quiet teahouse sits in a bustling part of the city, it takes on all sorts of baffling commissions... Young woman: “Hello, could you get me into a top 79Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 147 I'm the Daoist World's Peak, So Being a Little Stronger Is Only Natural 我道门天花板，强亿点很合理啊 [Urban fantasy + Taoist arts + Chinese-style horror + no female lead + invincible powerhouse] A child cries on a rainy night, and he attains the Dao during the Southern Song dynasty. For eight hundred years, he alone has guarded the mortal realm. No ghosts or monsters dare take him lightly. Yu Wuye attained the Dao during the Southern Song dynasty. On Zhenyang Mountain stands Zhenyang Hall, and beneath it lies Zhenyang Pass. Zhenyang Pass is where the underworld and the mortal realm meet. 1.8kReads7.4Score103Shelves
- 148 Boss, Your Wife's Fortune-Telling Has Blown Up the Capital's Elite Circle 大佬，你家夫人算命太准炸了京圈 [Mysticism + fortune-telling livestreams + wealthy families + ghost hunting + putting scumbags in their place] Nan Xihe perished alongside a demon. The good news was that she had traveled to a world two thousand years in the future, where she no longer had to worry about being poor. The bad news was that she had become an adopted daughter whose blood was being drained to change someone else’s fate. So Nan Xi switched the blood at the hospital and ran away. Her adoptive parents searched frantical 10.2kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 149 The Divine Coffin of a Thousand Years: I Become a Disciple in Yin Village 千年神棺：我于阴村拜师 If she was born of the heavens, why was she left to sleep for a thousand years in a secluded mountain wilderness? She began studying the Tao under a master as a child, slaying ghosts and banishing evil. Was this simply her fate, or was an unseen hand tipping the scales? Everyone around her seemed destined to cross her path. It turned out that from beginning to end, we were all just pieces on a chessboard. 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Reborn into the Supernatural 重生从灵异开始 Unlucky Su Baiqiao gets into a car accident while out one day, but her world does not end there. She is reborn! Along with her comes a mysterious picture frame. As time passes, Baiqiao gradually uncovers the hidden side of this world. A group of people who can control the supernatural call themselves cultivators! —Reads—Score—Shelves
