Novels like Dark Arts: The Ten Courts of Hell
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- 101 I Became a Haunted House Sleep Tester and Got to Stay with Beautiful Female Ghosts for Free 我成为凶宅试睡员，白嫖美丽女鬼 [Folklore]+ [The Wordless Heavenly Tome]+ [Battles Between Good and Evil]+ [Tales of Passionate Ghosts]+ [Terror in Northern Myanmar]+ [Livestream]+ [Clever Power Fantasy]+ [The Buddhist-Taoist Rivalry] Legend has it that when some people reach the end of their rope, they receive a blank, wordless heavenly tome. Light a lamp on New Year’s Eve, and 365 ghosts and gods will appear on its pages. Make a pact with them, and you’ll gain boundless magic power. If you meet someone else who has read the 71Reads6.4Score1114d adds
- 102 Fellow Daoist, Stay Alive, or This Poor Priest Won’t Be Able to Sleep 道友不死，贫道睡不着啊 Unorthodox paths have existed since ancient times! The righteous despise them, and the heretical sects reject them. Gu Xiu, proprietor of Zero Affairs, is an unorthodox cultivator registered with Bureau 749. Those in the mystic arts who want to show him respect call him the Celestial Evil Daoist. Those who don’t will kindly call him Old Demon Gu in their dying moments. “Our grudges are settled. Now, fellow cultivator, please go and die. Otherwise, I won’t be able to sleep!” 67Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 103 Reborn in the Era of Abundance? Take a Seat in My Human Emperor Banner 年代重生极品多？人皇幡里坐一坐 [Return of the Demon Patriarch + Pocket Dimension + Everyday Life + No Romance + Ruthless + Behind the Scenes + System] A generation's Demon Patriarch fails his tribulation and returns to a special era. Can't get enough to eat? Nothing warm to wear? Too many awful people around? Don't worry. I'll deal with whoever needs dealing with, take care of whatever needs handling, and send those who deserve to die into the Human Emperor Banner. 1.6kReads6.7Score10514d adds
- 104 Jiangshi: A Gu Cultivator in Uncle Nine’s World 僵尸：九叔世界里的蛊修 No System + no transmigration + slow burn: an ordinary man’s all-or-nothing path to immortality. Meng Hai, a nominal disciple of Uncle Jiu, has poor cultivation aptitude. In this Age of Declining Dharma, he can’t cultivate orthodox Daoist arts. By chance, he obtains the inheritance of Gu cultivation and becomes a practitioner of unorthodox arts. From then on, he sets out on his unorthodox path, refining Gu to harvest spiritual power and attain immortality! 760Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 105 Raising Ten Thousand Ghosts with a Corpse, I Cultivate the Dark Arts on the Black Market 尸躯养万鬼，我在黑市当邪修 As the blood of his parents cooled in the cracks between the bluestone slabs, Li Feng understood: if he wanted to survive, he had to be filthier than the wicked and more worthless than mud! Grovel before the Black Tiger Gang? Volunteer to practice the life-shortening Five Poisons Palm? Treat his subordinates as sacrificial offerings? Sell his devoted partner off as a cultivation furnace? As long as it helped him climb higher, he wouldn't blink! His body is on the verge of collapse? Refine it int 2.3kReads6.9Score23814d adds
- 106 The Demon Returns 魔归 Mortal + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead (but there are women) + Corpse Refining + Ghost Commanding + Demonic Cultivation … How does human nature change, and how is it preserved, in a cruel environment? Does the distinction between good and evil lie in power itself, or in the purpose of those who wield it? The conflict between survival and morality, and the choices it demands; the journey of revenge and the struggle to move beyond hatred. … All to recreate the cultivation world i 106Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score23714d adds
- 108 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 109 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… 1.1kReads6.8Score10314d adds
- 110 Borrowing a Path Through the Yin Coffin 阴棺借道 In our area, strange tales of “the white coffin that carries people off” and “the rolling corpse bridge” have been passed down for generations. The elders say that a water ghost claims its victims at the rolling corpse bridge, while the white coffin that carries people off is even more eerie and sinister… 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Path of Unorthodox Cultivation 邪异修行路 He has inherited the legacy of an evil cultivator, yet is merely an ordinary disciple in a small cultivation sect. What is he really after? How will he go from being an ordinary practitioner of evil arts to dominating the entire cultivation world? 139Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 112 The Southeast Asian Medium 东南亚通灵先生 Under duress, I embedded a woman's corpse inside a Buddha statue in a temple. After I was framed, Master Dad taught me Southeast Asian spirit-medium arts. From that day on, the world I saw was no longer inhabited by the living alone... 3.5kReads8.4Score42414d adds
- 113 Demon Cultivator: Heaven and Earth Are My Cauldron, All Living Beings My Elixir's Catalyst 魔修：天地为炉鼎，众生为药引 [Demonic outsider + Decisive and ruthless + No female lead + Fighting evil with evil + Demonic antihero + Satisfying read] An ancient cauldron from the primordial era can absorb the essence of heaven and earth and seize the fortune of all things. If this world devours people, then I'll devour this world. The young Ning Lu was once an ordinary student from China. By a twist of fate, he transmigrated into a world of cultivation at the age of twelve, his soul entering the body of another boy with t 223Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 After Passing as Human, I Became a Director at a Paranormal Company 伪装人类后，我成了怪谈公司董事 [Infinite flow + mind games + brain-teasers + survival + deduction + no romance] As an eerie entity, Feng Ke spent every day crawling through the shadows of his domain, waiting for humans to show up so he could wreck them. This long, empty existence as an eerie being consisted of nothing but entertaining guests, one after another. Tired of the endless work, he finally found a chance to slip into the mortal world as a human and leave that hollow, boring realm of eerie beings behind! But he forgot 4.1kReads8.7Score53714d adds
- 115 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 5.5kReads8.3Score44214d adds
- 116 The Keeper of Fate 守命人 Five years ago, my brother became addicted to gambling and racked up 700,000 yuan in debt. To pay it off, he went to Xiangxi’s Corpse-Hiding Cave to carry corpses and gamble with his life. 819Reads7.2Score14714d adds
- 117 The Orthodox Unity Taoist Acolyte 正一小道爷 My master vanished without a trace. As the sect’s last heir, I have the sect’s treasured spirit sword and a purple-gold spirit talisman brush. One man, one sword, one brush: I descend the mountain to subdue demons and ghosts. Note: Some events in this book are based on real experiences the author has had, and some of the methods are quite authentic. Do not attempt to imitate them! 592Reads6.1Score10014d adds
- 118 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 243Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 The Ghost-Deceiving Master 骗鬼大师 [Mystery] [Ghost Hunting] [Comedy] [Urban] [Scheming Hero] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] My master is a real oddball, so naturally, I didn’t turn out innocent or naive either. Armed with a peachwood sword, I roam the world, making a living catching ghosts. But don’t assume I have any profound magical arts. In truth, catching ghosts is all about bluffing! I can scare a timid little ghost into trembling with fear, and I can talk a century-old vengeful ghost into a complete daze. Watch as my peachwood —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Cultivation: I Can Analyze and Perfect Techniques 修仙：我能推演功法 The world is mired in the Five Turbidities, and spiritual energy is dwindling. Living beings suffer, and all under Heaven endure hardship. Lin Yuan possesses a Heaven-Peering Eye capable of improving cultivation techniques, and transmigrates into this world of cultivation. Here, unorthodox paths flourish, demons and monsters run rampant, and even sects treat their disciples as human ore to be mined. With mediocre talent, he constantly improves and strengthens his cultivation techniques to surviv 448Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 121 I Found a Manual for Evil Cultivation, and Now I Draw Talismans and Refine Corpse Puppets in the City 捡到邪修手册，我在都市画符炼尸 [Raising Corpses and Ghosts] [Urban Cultivation] [Unorthodox Cultivator] [Ordinary Protagonist] [Read It as Cultivation, Not the Supernatural] Dissect a ghost mother, use forbidden arts to seek wealth! Down on his luck, Feng Jie taught himself forbidden arts using a notebook left behind by an unorthodox cultivator. After capturing a "ghost mother" alive, he became a ghost dissector! He used ghost blood to draw a wealth-attracting talisman, but accidentally stumbled into a ghost market and embark 33.9kReads8.0Score3.8k14d adds
- 122 The Blood-Binding Corpse Scripture 血引尸经 The world of Changbai’s demons, home to the northern immortals. I was just an ordinary village boy from Changbai Mountain until I accidentally obtained the strange books Blood Guide to the Corpse and Soul-Eating Blood Eyes. I wanted to save people, yet somehow I was always killing them. My father’s bizarre sect legacy, the thousand-year secrets of the Twelve Strange Sects, the shadowy depths of the Tomb That Moves Mountains. Just how many plots and mysteries are hidden all around me? The bronze 1.1kReads8.8Score14214d adds
- 123 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. 198Reads7.7Score10414d adds
- 124 The Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生 I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang. 3.3kReads—Score11014d adds
- 125 The Disqualified Eternal Night 失格永夜 Dark and gritty, with no brainless characters, demonic cultivation, meticulous worldbuilding, and ruthless characters who don’t waste words. Help! I was wiping down a zither when I somehow saw my enemy’s fatal weakness?! A menial servant in a demonic sect is worth less than grass, and there are poisoned needles hidden in my wife’s zither too!? But the old monster forced a “Heart-Guarding Pill” on me, and its stench is making my head spin… Do I swallow it or not? The needles are blades, the pills 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Demonic Cultivator Sacrifices All Living Beings 魔修祭众生 [Dark story + blood-path demonic cultivator + no female lead + modern technology combined with demonic cultivation + not mindless + pursues eternal life by any means necessary + everyone is smart] In troubled times, heroes rise up everywhere. I had no intention of fighting for dominion over the world, but the people are suffering. So when the realm descends into chaos, a demonic cultivator emerges. 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Undercover in the Hehuan Demon Sect, I Capture the Senior Sister Fairy 卧底合欢魔宗，我抓到仙子大师姐 I went undercover in the Hehuan Demon Sect, never expecting to capture my former senior sister, the once-revered fairy. Day one: “My cultivation has been crippled, and I was captured by mistake. Junior brother, you've become a demonic cultivator? Get on your knees and apologize at once! How dare you! What do you think you're doing?” Day two: “Senior sister, don't come any closer!” Day three: “Senior sister, what happened to those three thousand blond-haired demonic cultivators from the sect outs 194Reads—Score12814d adds
- 128 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 224Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 129 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 130 Evil Fish 邪鱼 Feng Shui fish are also known as yin-yang fish. Choose the right one, and it can change your luck and bring blessings. Choose the wrong one, and it can bring disaster. 1.2kReads9.0Score11614d adds
- 131 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 447Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 132 The Walking Corpse Files 走尸档案 I knew a group of people like this, and accidentally became one of them. They knew ancient secret arts for finding people through corpse refinement. With a person's birth date and time and an item belonging to someone who had gone missing, they used divination, the Eight Gates and Hidden Armor, and the arts of ghosts and spirits to make nowhere safe for the missing, whether living or dead! 640Reads8.1Score10314d adds
- 133 Gotchard: Have I Become a Dark Arts Sorcerer? 歌查德：我成邪术师了？ A new work. I want to bring Kamen Riders and Super Sentai together. Dear readers, just enjoy the ride, and let’s discuss things calmly and rationally. The male lead uses a System to get an advantage, but this isn’t a pure power fantasy. He’ll grow during the early and middle stages. If that’s not your thing, please don’t complain. If you only want to read about a protagonist breezing through everything with cheats, there’s no need to click in. And there’s no need to keep debating the setting, ei 121Reads—Score1714d adds
- 134 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 There is always more to the Yellow River than you know! You’d be better off never asking about the forbidden legends of the Yellow River! The Yellow River’s ghost soldiers, the Fish-Bone Divine Temple, the Iron-Headed Dragon King, deadly venomous insects, ghost wedding processions... The strangest objects of the Yellow River, and the oldest, most mysterious profession: Yellow River corpse divers! Their families have guarded the ancient river route for generations. But what are they really protec 27Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 135 The Immortal Dynasty of Corpse Controllers 控尸仙朝 [Fantasy + power struggles + corpse control and leveling up + corpse refining + patience + dark fantasy] Legend has it that in ancient times, there was once a Corpse Emperor. He commanded a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with a million corpse soldiers under his banner. Wherever they went, no living thing remained. The Heavenly Dao punished him, and the art was erased completely, vanishing for ten thousand years. No one could have imagined that it would return to the world. Fewer still c 2.4kReads—Score36614d adds
- 136 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 115Reads—Score15514d adds
- 137 I Suppress Ten Thousand Evil Spirits with My Own Body 吾以吾身镇万诡 Zhao Xingzhou grew up in a funeral home. He is steeped in yin energy and has seen all kinds of strange and bizarre things, because the Zhao family are the legendary wardens of the funeral home. Only later does Zhao Xingzhou learn that he isn't the only warden there. The old man at the gate, the crematorium shift supervisor, the hearse driver, and even the director are all extraordinary in their own ways. The entire funeral home is shrouded in mystery, with everyone showing off their own unique a 1.4kReads7.9Score18114d adds
- 138 The Boundless Way 道法无边 From the moment I met my godfather, my life was destined to be extraordinary! Strange things are just part of everyday life for me, and all my friends are unusual too! There's the handsome, aloof cat demon, the seductive fox spirit, and the honorable Ghost King! Watch as I lead my powerful companions to slay evil demons and crush every wicked path! When the talisman rises, demons fall; when it descends, heaven and earth are set in order! 88Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 139 The Curse Master: Cautious and Conniving from the Shadows 诅咒师：谨小慎微，背后阴人 [No female lead] Better to stab someone in the back than make a show of yourself in public. After transmigrating to the endlessly warring myriad worlds, Fang Che becomes an unknown nobody in an imperial plane. To survive better, he chooses the curse master profession, the one best suited to striking from the shadows, and uses what he learned before transmigrating to craft all kinds of cursed artifacts. 958Reads6.0Score10114d adds
- 140 Corpse Veins 尸脉 [No exaggeration, no System, a heartwarming story with a bit of a slow start.] Just a series of exciting adventures and a touching father-daughter bond. I live by one saying: “As a Maoshan disciple, if you see someone die and do nothing, Heaven will strike you down.” 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 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 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 142 Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine 妖妻鬼妾 [Third-Person Narration | Traditional Supernatural | Taoist Arts | Spirit Mediums] My name is Zuo Li. I was different from the moment I was born, carrying the fate of a ghost. To make sure I could grow up safely, my grandfather had me live off two women at once. As it turned out, I could only stay alive by living off women... 260Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 143 Reborn to Cultivate Immortality: I Have a File System 重生修仙之我有一个档案系统 [Xianxia Fantasy] [Clever Protagonist] [Everyone Is Villainous] [Multiple Transmigrators] [System Free-for-All] [No Female Lead] Chen Shu, a long-haul truck driver, transmigrates to the Biyang Continent and becomes a menial disciple in a demonic sect, growing ginseng. There are plenty of transmigrators here, and old friends stab each other in the back when they meet. Grow stronger by raising a Gu, and even Systems can level up. Things haven't been going your way lately? Then slaughter a few fell 138Reads—Score10714d adds
- 144 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 624Reads8.1Score13414d adds
- 145 I Destroyed My Cultivation and Left Home, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’ve Become a Demon Cultivator? 自废修为叛出家，我成魔修你哭啥 Three years ago, Lin Yang left home to seek experience after his family treated him with cold indifference. Three years later, when he returned to the Lin family, he was accused of colluding with demonic cultivators. Unable to prove his innocence, Lin Yang had no choice but to cripple his own cultivation to clear his name. After that, he left the Lin family. His hair turned white overnight, and he fell into demonic cultivation. From then on, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. One by o 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 147 The Yin-Yang Demon Suppression Bureau 阴阳镇魔司 He walks between the worlds of yin and yang, slays vengeful ghosts, subdues evil demons, battles zombies, and stands up for the weak against the strong. He even becomes sworn brothers with the Black and White Impermanence and Ox-Head and Horse-Face. 2.3kReads6.7Score24314d adds
- 148 Being an Evil God in the Land of Cherry Blossoms Is Just Wonderful! 在樱花国当邪神，真是太棒了！ [Ensemble Cast + Behind the Scenes + Containment + Gu Insects + Dark + No System] This novel is also known as The Lord of the Sequences, Sequence Monsters: Battle Royale, and The Evil God’s Memoirs. When the evil gods descended, the peaceful, boring world changed. Demons and angels danced together; evil and good converged. “If you’re full of resentment, then let it all out!” No. 000: Evil God No. 001: Corpse King No. 002: Swordsman No. 003: Taotie Lin Fan stood high above, looking down at th 72Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 149 I Use Wicked Sorcery to Pursue Goddesses and Become an Unrivaled Evil Fiend 我用邪术追女神，成为绝世邪魔 Lin Feng, an ordinary college student in the city, suffers his girlfriend's heartless betrayal and public humiliation at the hands of a rich second-generation heir. Then, by chance, he acquires a forbidden demonic art. His life changes completely. Once timid and helpless, he becomes a dark cultivator wielding soul-stealing seduction arts and curse-based killing techniques. Using this dark power, he exacts the ultimate revenge on those who once humiliated him, revels in controlling the fates of o 1.8kReads6.4Score11814d adds
- 150 Evolving from a Bat, I Raise All of Humanity in Captivity 从蝙蝠开始进化，圈养全人类 [Beast Evolution, No Human Transformation, Keeps All Humanity in Captivity, No Saintly Protagonist, No Female Lead, Has Female Supporting Characters] Chu Sheng transmigrates into a fantasy world and becomes the unluckiest male lead ever. In his first life, he was a cow; in his second, a horse... After ninety-nine lives, he finally becomes a pig, helpless at the mercy of others. As the butcher’s knife goes in white and comes out red, Chu Sheng utters a curse. “If I can cultivate and become a demo 69Reads—Score—14d adds
