Novels like Grandmaster of Ghost Taoism
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- 1 Stealing Heaven's Fate 窃天命 His father died a gruesome death, his remains scattered. An ancestral box held an official City God uniform. So the Mandate of Heaven could be stolen after all! 59Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 2 King of Feng Shui Sorcerers 风水术士之王 No female lead, feng shui, Miaojiang Gu magic, the Xiangxi corpse-driving tradition, zombies, immortality, and other fascinating legends of China. If you enjoy traditional tales of the mysterious and the marvelous, join us in witnessing the tumultuous world of a feng shui master. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 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 256Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 4 I'm a Taoist Priest at Houhe Precision 我在厚合精密当道士 What? You want me to work on an assembly line? I'm a dignified Celestial Master! So what if you're a Celestial Master? I'm an emperor, and you don't see me complaining. If we don't work on the line, where are we supposed to get the money to build a golden statue of our founding master? Fellow Daoists, watch as I practice the Dao and vanquish demons while working on an assembly line. “Amid the sorrow and chaos of this world, I shall set Heaven and Earth in order.” “Hey! Master, why'd you hit me? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The City’s Post-00s Yin-Yang Master 都市00后阴阳先生 [Urban]+ [Unusual Mysteries]+ [Feng Shui Secrets]+ [Occasional Horror]+ [Pretty Funny Too] Life is tough, so this yin-yang master is putting on a show! In a world where jobs are fiercely competitive, people can get laid off at the drop of a hat, and business in the yin trade is even harder to come by, Lin Xu, a new-generation yin-yang master born in the 2000s, decisively ventures into livestreaming. “I'm Lin Xu! My major is yin-yang mastery, and my minor is paper crafting! Tell me what you folks 228Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Yin-Born Child 阴生子 The day I was born, my grandfather shut himself away in a mountain cave, while my mother instantly withered into a skeleton! Because I was never meant to be born into this world... 330Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn: Learning to Catch Ghosts in Ancient Times 重生之我在古代学抓鬼 My name is Lou Yanming! I'm a ghost-story enthusiast living in the 21st century. I work a grueling job every day as a scaffold builder on construction sites. Then one day, my safety rope suddenly snapped, and I plunged from more than twenty stories up. I heard only a loud crack as my mind began to grow hazy. My coworkers called for an ambulance! They carried me into the vehicle, and a nurse told them, "You have to hold on!" Just then, a voice rang out in my mind: "Young man, let go. Come with me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 You've Refined the Human Emperor Banner, So Who Cares About the Rules? 都炼人皇幡了，谁还守规矩啊 Fame precedes you, for better or worse. The past is the past, but now you’re a complete lunatic! When Yan Jiuyou appeared before his enemies, carrying the Human Emperor Banner and the Yin Dragon Standard, their ancestors going back eighteen generations were “overjoyed.” “Fellow Daoist, I’m Yan Jiuyou. I’ve come for you!” … 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 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—Shelves
- 10 My Gentle Ghost Wife 我的温柔女鬼老婆 I'm a paper effigy maker. One day, a customer came into my shop with a strange request: he wanted a paper effigy that looked exactly like me, and offered a high price. So I agreed. From then on, I had a ghost wife. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Heir to the Ghostly Way 鬼道传人 The art of ghostcraft bridges the worlds of yin and yang, drawing upon every school of magic. Lin Ziqin was born with a short-lived fate and had a knack for attracting ghosts from childhood. Fortunately, a master saved him, and he became an heir to the art of ghostcraft. After completing his training, he returns to capture vengeful spirits and banish evil. With beautiful women by his side, he roams the campus and the city, crossing between the realms of the living and the dead, all to defy fate 728Reads5.6Score110Shelves
- 13 Picking Up a School Beauty at a KTV, Then Bringing Home a Horror Story 商K点校花，惊悚带回家 [First-Person Supernatural] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Multiple Heroines] [Mortal Ascends to Immortality] [Animals Worldwide Turn into Demons] He gets off work early and comes home to catch his girlfriend cheating. He heads to a nightclub to blow off steam, only to run into the campus belle who died. Rescued by an expert, he starts making his fortune by helping ghosts cross over. Just as he begins to make a name for himself, animals around the world turn into demons. He slays demons and banishes t 2.7kReads8.1Score336Shelves
- 14 The Master Is Down from the Mountain: Master, Your Disciple Doesn't Want to Go on Blind Dates Anymore 高手下山：师傅，徒儿不要相亲了 [Master comes down the mountain + Celestial Master + being pursued + invincible + comedy + the arrival of the Classic of Mountains and Seas] Unhappy with his master's repeated matchmaking arrangements, Liu Mang runs away from his wedding and heads down the mountain. Danger and prospective brides soon come one after another! What, you're a great demon who lays waste to the people? I'll capture you and turn you into barbecue! What, you're a rich second-generation heir who acts like you own the wor 1kReads7.3Score100Shelves
- 15 The Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain 道士下山 A feng shui expert and master diviner, skilled in every art and proficient in them all! Those who reveal the secrets of heaven will face retribution. It isn't that it won't come, only that the time isn't right yet! Qin Hao was an orphan, taken in by an old Taoist who brought him to the mountains and taught him Taoist arts for three years. When his time was up, his master sent him down the mountain to find his seven senior sisters, supposedly to gain experience... 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Eerie Game: Winning Over an S-Rank Eerie Bride from the Start 诡异游戏：开局攻略S级诡异新娘 Fang Xin was unexpectedly thrown into a game world of horrors, and his very first mission was an S-rank “Horrifying Bride.” After dying thousands of times and spending thousands of days in the same house, Fang Xin used a mission reset to successfully change the bride’s nature and sign a “marriage contract” with her, becoming her “groom.” In this horrifying game world, supernatural horrors lurk everywhere: whisperers by the roadside at night, a midnight bus, a hospital room whose door must never 42Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 17 Marrying a Female Ghost 娶个女鬼当老婆 In my past life, I lived in the underworld. In this one, war rages without end. A bond from my past life, a bitter consequence in this one. A red-clad female ghost was chasing me, and I ran and ran until I reached an inn. When I looked back, the ghost was gone. The innkeeper was a kindly-looking middle-aged man, smiling at me. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Secret Records of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘录 Mountain spirits summon immortals; water spirits summon dragons. Do immortals really exist in this world? I don't know, but I do know that dragons are real. From the day the roar of machinery rang out across Miaoling Valley, everything began to slide toward an unknowable abyss. And from that abyss, a pair of eyes watched those involved, their gaze carrying an emotion impossible to decipher... 188Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 19 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—Shelves
- 20 The Last Feng Shui Master 最后的风水先生 I was born into poverty and was drawn to feng shui and Taoist arts from an early age. But I never imagined that reading the fortune-telling books my grandfather collected would set me on a mysterious and perilous path... The changing mountains and rivers are all in my sight; the rise and fall of the sun and moon, all in my heart. A single calculation reveals the world; one glance lays bare the cosmos! The last feng shui master takes you on a journey to explore an unknown history and a world of s 154Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Told You to Confess, So Why Did You Go After a Female Ghost? 让你表白，你找上女鬼？ [Horror + laugh-out-loud comedy + ghost stories + multiple heroines] Qin Feng awakens a System by accident while taking part in a paranormal TV show. [Host, you have thirty seconds to confess your feelings to a woman. Fail the mission and you will die immediately!] At that moment, the only one inside the legendary haunted house is a red-clad female ghost. With no other choice, he confesses to the ghost in front of the cameras. Qin Feng: “I like you. Will you go out with me?” The female ghost: “H 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Lawyer Who Upholds the Law 执法律师 This novel tells the story of a rookie lawyer from the bottom of society, living in a remote corner of Southwest China, who happens to learn the arts of the mystic sect. Armed with those arts and the law, he cuts through every obstacle, sweeps away demons and monsters, and protects his principles and his sense of justice. Unlike similar novels, the legal knowledge featured in this story is drawn from practical legal experience, offering readers something to learn from and consider. Moreover, the 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Feng Shui Yin-Yang Master 风水阴阳师 "Born under the Emperor Ziwei's fate, with yin-yang eyes from birth." An extraordinary life is his destiny. He inherits his ancestors' feng shui arts. In the world of the mystic arts, yin flourishes while yang declines. A thousand-year plan awaits just one person. 1.2kReads7.1Score114Shelves
- 24 A Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night: The Yin Emperor Rebuilds the Underworld to Protect the Living 百鬼夜行：阴天子重建地府镇人间 Chen Zhao, a history student at Jiangcheng University, was born with an abundance of yin energy and can see a hundred ghosts. When the underworld collapses and yin energy spills into the world, the human realm becomes a domain of ghosts. Alone, he faces hauntings on campus and restless spirits running amok. He can barely protect himself, let alone save anyone else. One night, he accidentally wanders into an abandoned temple and unexpectedly gains a golden finger. He can absorb resentment to leve 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Born in a Coffin, Bride of a Ghost 棺生子，鬼新娘 [Folkloric horror, feng shui arts, mystery and the supernatural] On a stormy night filled with thunder and lightning, I was born in a coffin that reeked of decay, breaking the taboo between yin and yang! My family betrothed me to a ghost bride. When the wedding procession came to fetch her, an eerie atmosphere shrouded the village! After that, strange things happened one after another: crying in the middle of the night, objects mysteriously moving on their own... 24Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 26 The Last Wild Maoshan Master 最后一个野茅山 During the Republican era, my great-grandfather brought a bowl of executioner's rice to a death-row inmate who was about to be beheaded. On a rainy night in late autumn, the beheaded convict knocked on the courtyard gate... [Traditional supernatural horror + Maoshan magic + no System] 19.3kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 27 The Paper Effigy Yama 纸扎阎罗 Before Grandpa died, he left me with a warning: a paper effigy maker must never make three kinds of figures. On my very first day taking over the shop, I broke every rule. I made a wedding dress for a girl who died violently, a filial son for a childless widow, and finally... a stand-in for a living person. Now all the paper figures I made come alive at night and gather around me, calling me “Master.” Outside the window, the girl who should have been dead for three years is knocking on the door. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 I Cultivate the Ghost Path in the City 我在都市修鬼道 When Shi Yaoyang opened the secret door in his ancestral home, the bronze demon mask swallowed the last ray of sunlight. The boy whom the girls jokingly called a “bad-boy heartthrob” was now pressing a bloodstained peachwood sword to his own throat. A fierce ghost leered from the mirror, his childhood sweetheart Teng Shiyun lay unconscious in the middle of a blood-red talisman array, and the faint sobs of twin sisters drifted from the shadows. The neon lights of the modern city collided with a t 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Walking Between Yin and Yang, I Took Two Vengeful Ghosts as Aunts 行走阴阳，我认了两个厉鬼作姑姑 [Supernatural + Horror + Ghost Stories + Urban + Ghost Hunting + Taoist Magic] He was punching ghost dolls and kicking fox spirits at the age of three, and you tell me that's reasonable? He's a yin-yang master who took two vengeful ghosts as his aunts, and you tell me that's perfectly normal? You can already fly on a sword, and now you're telling me to believe in science and reject superstition? Beating up evil spirits at the funeral home, making a water ghost copy out the Tao Te Ching, and sicc 81Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 30 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
- 31 The Supreme Celestial Master 极品天师 A hilarious Heavenly Master, a Heavenly Master devoted to protecting all that is good, a Heavenly Master free of vulgar interests: Wolong strives to show everyone a Heavenly Master unlike any other. 179Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 32 Eerie: From the Start, I Contracted a Pure-Hearted Female Ghost 诡异：开局契约了一只清纯女鬼 For seventeen-year-old high school student Guo Yang, his biggest worries are the college entrance exam and the future. Then, on a blood-red morning, he and his car are dragged into the rift between the world of the living and the underworld: the Yin-Yang Rift of the Ghost Realm. The System activates, but instead of a chance to turn his life around, it gives him a nightmare from the start. Before his eyes, countless pale ghost hands reach out from the rift and drag a living person into the abyss, 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 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. 2.5kReads8.6Score235Shelves
- 34 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… 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Ghost Hunter 捉鬼人 My name is Zhao Jinyin. By chance, I learned the skills of a ghost hunter, and from then on made my living at it, roaming freely between the worlds of yin and yang. Ahem, this book is a bit frightening, so readers with high blood pressure should stay away. It’s also a little humorous, so anyone with a weak heart should stay away too. 262Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang 天命阴阳 The Pixiu feeds on wealth from every corner of the world. It swallows all things but never excretes, attracting riches and gathering treasures, taking in but never giving out. On my eighteenth birthday, I met a girl who completely bewitched me. But I never expected that she would actually… 1.4kReads8.4Score189Shelves
- 37 A Collection of Folk Tales and Strange Accounts 民间怪谈异闻录 Also known as: Spirit Hunt Begins Here, Keep Quiet and Stay Back [Supernatural + Video Filming + Small-Scale Infinite Horror + Folk Horror Tales + Taoist Magic] Have you heard of the Death Omen and the Hanging Guest coming to claim lives, the sound of meat being chopped at midnight, a blood-red singing doll, eerie sobbing from a mass grave, the startling secrets of a baozi shop, or the mystery behind a school of death? Do you know that there may be many things in this world that you cannot see? 93Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 38 I'm a Professional Mage: Isn't Marrying a Demon Wife the Perfect Protection? 我职业法师：娶妖妻辟邪很正常吧 (One devoted male lead and one heroine + ensemble cast + passionate, funny, with a touch of angst) While other twenty-year-olds are partying and binge-watching shows, Shen Mobai is pretending to be a fortune-teller to scam people out of big money. He digs up a grave in the middle of the night for a 300,000-yuan ghost-marriage fee, only to wake the vengeful ghost buried inside! “Hey, lady! I was just following orders. I didn’t mean to dig up your grave!” “Take it up with the King of Hell.” “Help 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Ghost Wife: Bro, Please Take Your Sister-in-Law Back 鬼妻：哥，求你把嫂子收回去吧 [Married from the start + ghost wife + one heroine + not a wish-fulfillment novel (plot-focused) + fast-paced growth (nearly invincible) + exorcising ghosts and banishing evil] Born under yin, he is also a child born of a corpse. He has the body of the living, but the fate of the dead. He is doomed to be cursed! Liu Cheng was dug from his dead mother's womb by an old gravedigger, and grew up in a cemetery. The old man said that those born under yin are extremely yin from birth, making them a cho 241Reads7.6Score100Shelves
- 41 The Last Disciple of the Daoist Sect 最后一个道门弟子 When I was born, all the ghosts bowed to the ancestral shrine. My family was burdened by a curse that weighed heavily on me. Then, when I was sixteen, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, and my uncle vanished without a trace. It all began with that curse... 531Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 42 The Fox Immortal Seeks a Title: I Said You Look Like My Future Wife 狐仙讨封：我说你像我未来的老婆 The white fox who once snuggled under the covers with me came to ask me to grant her a human form. I said: “You look like my future wife: a tempting face and figure, a slender waist, soft breasts, peach-round hips, fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. You're even more beautiful than a nine-tailed fox spirit descended to the mortal world.” 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Evil Dead Pursue: My Master Tried to Possess Me, but I Turned the Tables 猛鬼追魂：师父夺舍被我反噬 After a ghost blinded me, I accidentally knocked over a vase in a porcelain shop. The heartless old boss demanded an outrageous sum, so I had no choice but to agree to work as his shop assistant for three months to pay off the debt. I figured he'd make my life miserable, but the old geezer did a complete about-face. He said we were destined to meet, and not only wanted to take me as his apprentice, but also offered me his ravishing, graceful, one-in-a-million goddaughter as a wife. Could anythin 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Yin-Life Pawnshop 阴寿当铺 The Underworld Pawnshop: I Sell Ghostly Goods to Stay Alive Lu You's funeral shop stands at the coldest, most shadowy corner of the old street in the west of the city. For generations, the Lu family has dealt with the dead, but by Lu You's generation, they are cursed to die before turning thirty. By day, he sells incense, candles, and paper money for the dead. By night, he helps vengeful spirits who died unnatural deaths fulfill their wishes in exchange for extra days of life. On the first night 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Heaven's Curse 天咒 In these troubled times, who pities the common people? Beneath the vault of heaven, who commands the cycle of reincarnation? This is a story of sages who never die and bandits who never cease. This is a story of insignificant mortals and the virtues of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame. In the Year of the Fire Ox, during a leap month, just outside the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, a young Taoist priest named Mu Yi arrived with effortless grace. In the annals of history, an e 3.2kReads8.4Score355Shelves
- 46 Sleep Paralysis from the Start? I Confessed to the Female Ghost and Made Her My Wife! 开局鬼压床？表白女鬼当老婆！ What? Sleeping paralysis can’t be cured with medicine? Is there an easier way to treat it? Lin Cheng: There is, bro! There is! I’ll just kiss her and confess! Won’t the ghost girl explode? 22Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 47 Exorcising Evil 诛邪 When I was twenty, I went into the river to catch fish, never imagining I’d pull out… It became the nightmare of my life! This is a book about the strange things in rivers that you probably never knew about! 789Reads6.7Score109Shelves
- 48 Exploring the World: The Unlucky Streamer and the Sneaky Celestial Master 探秘全球：大冤种主播和老六天师 Jin Qichen transmigrates to Blue Star, binds himself to the “Celestial Master Training Device,” and becomes a female streamer’s bodyguard. Together, they explore the world’s mysteries, such as a mysterious female corpse in an ancient underwater kingdom, a giant spider with a human face, and a bizarre plant resembling a hydra. [Self-Cultivation: Other people rely on hard work to cultivate, but all you need to do is steep goji berries in your thermos.] [Pill-Making: When your own abilities fall sh 5Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 49 Exorcist Celestial Master: Starting Out as a Red-Robed Ritual Master 镇邪天师：从红衣端公开始 Duan Gong are a distinctive group, their traditions passed down from generation to generation among the people. They worship the gods and entertain the people. They have dealings with spirits year-round, performing the mysterious village rites of “exorcising ghosts, warding off evil, and praying for peace.” They are regarded as intermediaries who communicate with the divine. Duan Gong wear red ritual robes. Red represents vitality and masculine energy, used to suppress evil spirits, while also f 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Strange Tales from Zangdi: The Snowland Corpse Buddha 臧地诡闻录，雪域尸佛 On a night of blizzard, Langda is bound to a skull altar and watches as his sister is sacrificed to the Nine-Headed Corpse Mountain God. With no way out, he bites into a priest's eyeball and awakens the Netherworld Eye, glimpsing a frozen corpse of a Witch King. He pulls free a blood-fed bone flute and calls forth a tide of corpses! He devours the mountain god and rips out his enemy's spine to make a human sinew rope, but inherits the blood curse of “devouring kin and killing those he loves.” T —Reads—Score—Shelves
