Novels like Tales of Feng Shui, Tomb Raiding, and the Supernatural
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Tales of Feng Shui, Tomb Raiding, and the Supernatural, best match first.
- 1 Ghost Lantern: The Secret Mausoleum of the Funeral Home 鬼点灯之义庄秘陵 They say ghost lights often appear in desolate places, among ancient tombs and shadowy woods. As the saying goes, where ghost lights glow, dark shadows fall! They warn anyone who comes near to leave at once. Do not disturb the spirits sleeping in their tombs! 365Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Tomb Raiding: The Divine Tomb of Nanling 盗墓之南陵神墓 My name is Qin Hao. I was born into a family of tomb raiders, and my grandfather was a legendary successor of the Mojin tradition, famous throughout the trade. On the day I was born, my grandfather made a rule: from then on, he'd quit the trade for good. My father was to leave it behind as well, and the Qin family donated all its wealth and moved to a remote mountain village to make a living. My father said it was all for my sake! When I was born, I had a strange birthmark on my back. They say i 615Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Caves Beneath the Sea of Sand 沙海地窟 To find his brother, who mysteriously vanished six months ago, Xiao Rui sets off on an adventure to the underground caves of the Sand Sea. 20Reads7.3Score614d adds
- 4 The Green Satchel Guide to Physiognomy 青囊相经 Five years ago, the Zhou family was wiped out over the Qing Nang Scripture, left behind by the Western Han physician Hua Tuo. Zhou Qing's grandfather was even robbed of his grave. Few people know, though, that along with the medical classic, there is another book: the Qing Nang Manual of Physiognomy. The former grants mastery of medicine, while the latter makes its possessor the supreme authority in the mystic arts! The five arts of mysticism are geomancy, medicine, destiny, physiognomy, and div 157Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Taoist Priest, Your Junior from the Supernatural Society Has Arrived! 道长，您的灵异社团学妹已到账！ [Plot-driven + fast-paced + suspense + Taoist priest + supernatural everyday life + multiple heroines] Bai Jiaojiao is a first-year college student. On her very first day of school, she ends up 30,000 yuan in debt and is forced to spend the rest of her life doing grunt work for Chen Mo, a Taoist priest in the university’s paranormal club. It all started because inexplicable supernatural incidents keep happening around her. But she’s so oblivious that she hardly cares. “There’s no such thing 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I Turned Out to Be a Maoshan Taoist 我竟是茅山术士 After her grandmother dies, Lin Miaomiao, an ordinary modern college student, returns to the old family home to sort through her belongings. There, she accidentally touches a mysterious bronze token and awakens the supernatural powers in her bloodline, forcing her into a bizarre and dangerous hidden world. Lin Miaomiao once firmly believed in science and expected an ordinary future. Now she discovers that she is a direct heir to Maoshan Taoist arts. She must navigate the traditional and mysteri 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The God-Touched: After I Was Beheaded, I Heard a Voice in My Coffin 通神者：被斩首后，我在棺中听见 [Eastern Fantasy + Multiple Heroines + Beheaded from the Start + Investigating Cases and Righting Wrongs + Recruiting Gods and Forming Pacts + Revenge + Ensemble Cast + HE] On the day Shen Guhong was beheaded, the authorities stamped his records: “Inspection complete. Case closed.” On the first night after his death, a voice came from inside his coffin. Her name was Su Zhiwei, and just like him, she had been “erased” from the world by the same government office. She passed her lingering though —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 A Fool by Day, a Taoist Priest by Night 白天当傻子，夜晚当道士 Who says a Taoist priest has to hunt ghosts? Can’t he flirt with girls? Can’t he be a tomb raider? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Red Lotus Record 紅蓮記 This story is entirely fictional. [Folk Culture + Folk Exorcists + Driving Out Evil and Calamity + Blessings + Magical Showdowns] Legend has it that once White Lotus Sect disciples have mastered their arts, the men can turn invisible, while the women must take off their clothes to hide their forms. The White Lotus Sect is also especially skilled at using Yin magic to harm people. In contrast, the Red Lotus Sect specializes in breaking White Lotus magic and is adept at all kinds of everyday affai —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Moving Mountains and Commanding Ridges 搬山御岭 Whether you turn to tomb raiding out of desperation or in the hope of getting rich overnight, once you take it up, you're a thief. A thief is a thief. No matter how you dress it up or how many stories you tell, a thief is still a thief. Once you've done it, you'll never shake that label. I fell in with the wrong crowd by a twist of fate. After all the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations, I managed to make a little something of myself. If you'd like, I'll tell you my story, slowly and from 9Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 11 Young Feng Shui Grandmaster 少年风水大宗师 A weasel spirit came to claim my life, and the King of Hell sent for my soul. From the moment I was born, I was doomed to face a deadly calamity. The village fortune-teller said I wouldn’t live past nine. But I refused to believe in fate. I was determined to defy heaven and fight against it! My life was filled with countless disasters, each one more terrifying than the last. A coffin made of human skin, nine women changing their fortunes, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, a fox’s wedding: every 356Reads—Score10114d adds
- 12 The Underworld Calls Me Little Ancestor 地府叫我小祖宗 This book is also known as: “After I Saved Humanity, the Heavenly Dao’s Great Powers Cast Me into the Eighteenth Level of Hell” Fahai, justice, swagger, face-slapping, decisive killing, play the pig to eat the tiger, supernatural horror. Fahai relied on the mighty Heavenly Dragon to subdue demons and exorcise evil, earning the rank of Arhat, yet he never reached the Land of Ultimate Bliss. Instead, the power of the Heavenly Dao cast him into the Eighteenth Level of Hell. After fighting his way o 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Northern and Southern Tomb Raiders 南北派盗墓贼 [Tomb Raiding, Suspense, Jianghu, First Person] In the mysterious underground world, ancient tombs are riddles no one can solve, and a source of treasure in the hearts of countless people. Some raid tombs for money, but I am a tomb raider willing to do whatever it takes to escape my family's curse. In the dark underground world, I embark on a life-or-death race against time. I spent more than eight years in the military. To escape my family's curse, I had no choice but to take this thorn-strewn 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Secret Records of the Mountain Movers 搬山秘录 During Beijing's damp plum-rain season, Zhang Tian, a history graduate obsessed with antiques, happens upon a mysterious old man in Panjiayuan. Along with an ancient bronze mirror, he unexpectedly acquires a book called The Secret Records of the Mountain Shifters, its pages steeped in an eerie aura. Tucked between the yellowed sheets is half a jade pendant engraved with the Big Dipper. Phrases hidden in the notes, such as “Mountain Shifters specialize in breaking mechanisms,” seem to open a door —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 I Became Shi Jian from the Start, and Used Thunder to Rule the Republic 开局成为石坚，我以雷霆镇民国 Shi Jian, the senior disciple of the Maoshan Sect, is a master of Taoist arts, especially skilled in the Lightning Fist. Stubborn and fierce in his hatred of evil, he leads a team to pursue a group of wicked practitioners who took advantage of a warlord conflict to steal corpse energy from an ancient tomb for their cultivation. They fall into an ambush, and he is wounded by evil magic. His temple strikes a rock, and he dies on the spot... And then... there’s me, Chen Yang, an ordinary office wor 27Reads—Score214d adds
- 16 Recollections of the Tomb-Raiding Years 追忆盗墓年月 In the early years of the Republic, tomb robbing was all the rage. The trade was split between northern and southern factions, each further divided into more than a dozen gangs, with countless complications within every group. The ancient tombs were strange and uncanny, their twists and turns shrouded in mystery, and every one of them perilous! The suspicious tomb of Fengdu will reveal a hidden chapter of human history... 601Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Tomb Raiding: The Secret Realm of Tianshu and the Seven-Star Lamp 北派盗墓：七星灯之天枢秘境 In 2003, northern China stood at a delicate turning point between old and new. The tide of reform and opening up was reshaping traditional industries, while thousand-year-old tombs buried deep underground still concealed secrets and temptations yet to be unearthed. Across this vast region, stretching from the black soil of the Northeast to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Gansu, a special group of “dragon seekers” plied their trade. They inherited the ancient 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 18 I Suspect My Wife Has Been Possessed by a Malevolent Spirit 我怀疑我的妻子被诡夺舍了 [Infinite flow + survival + mild horror + thrills + twists + one heroine + bizarre elements + the heroine barely appears in the dungeon arcs] Ever since his wife returned from a business trip, Lu Chen has been certain that the Su Qingyan before him is no longer his wife. He goes to see a psychiatrist, trying to convince himself that it’s all just a hallucination. But the liquid the doctor sips is a blood-red drink with a raw, fishy smell. “Only those chosen by ghosts can see them.” “You have now 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 A Tomb Raider's Jianghu Memoir 一个盗墓者的江湖自传 A tomb raider with a background in geology uses his knowledge to unravel mechanisms that have baffled people for millennia, yet becomes increasingly ensnared in the labyrinth of human nature. This is his true account of life in the underworld: no ghosts or gods, only greed, honor, and betrayal governed by the laws beneath the earth. When the light reveals the treasure, it also casts the shadows of the soul. After crossing the line between life and death, where does true redemption lie: in the to 138Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Tomb Raiding Prophecy: Secrets of a Parallel World 盗墓预言：平行世界的秘密 Lin Feng, an online writer with dreams of striking it rich, plagiarized tomb-raiding novels to make ends meet. But he unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel world much like Earth. To his delight, he discovered that none of the novels he'd plagiarized existed there. Armed with the “Tomb-Raiding Compendium” in his mind, he set off a tomb-raiding craze in the online fiction world. The ancient tombs he wrote about, from the mysterious Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to the perilous City of Jings jue, w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Ten Years Beneath the Northern School's Lantern 北派江湖十年灯 Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself. “A band of tomb raiders spend ten years digging through seven haunted tombs, only to discover that the deepest ‘tomb’ is themselves: a fate buried together with the times, greed, and the code of the underworld.” 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Ancient Map of the Nine Provinces 上古九州山河图 In the 1950s, with strong support from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the History Department of Peking University established the country's first archaeology program. It admitted undergraduate archaeology students and began training the first generation of archaeologists for the People's Republic of China. Chinese archaeology flourished, and in the 1970s, excavations at Yin Ruins unearthed a mysterious artifact d 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Tales of Dao Chen 道尘往事 [Fate of the Yin Hour]: Never set the coffin down before reaching its destination; [Phantasmal Yin Realm]: The wails of vengeful spirits drive people to their deaths; [Seven Stars in Alignment]: A defiant demon lays claim to the earth's ley lines; [Ghost Market of the Netherwilds]: Every spirit has a price, paid in paper money. [Spirit Mountain Soul Summoning], [Shumen Exorcism], [Miaojiang Gu Poison], [Wuxian Feng Shui], [Nine Chrysanthemums Corpse Cultivation]… After five hundred years o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Dragon-Sealing Art 锁龙诀 My line of work isn’t exactly respectable. My name is Zhang Yimao, and I make a living buying and selling animal specimens and handicrafts. That’s what I do in public, anyway. In secret, I’ll deal in anything that can make money. But I never imagined that one day my fate would become entangled with a legendary divine beast like the dragon. Later, I joined an expedition team heading into the vast, remote mountains, only to stumble into an even greater crisis... 198Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 25 The Rural Tomb-Raiding Gang 乡村盗墓团伙 Lao Zhang, Pin Yu, Wang Youcai, Yi Xiaoling, and Wang Jiabei are drawn into the secret of an ancient tomb sealed away for years deep in Baishan after a chance discovery. Ghost soldiers marching along hidden paths, eerie wormholes, lost tombs, and events from thirty years ago emerge one after another. As the group ventures deeper into Telmo Mountain, they gradually discover that the real danger on this adventure has never been limited to what lies inside the tomb. It also comes from the secrets e 3.1kReads—Score12714d adds
- 26 Tomb Raiding: I've Been Destined for Great Things Since Childhood 盗墓：从小就是干大事的人 The autobiography of a master sand-reader. [Tomb Raiding] + [Feng Shui] My name is Shaozi. I went to Yunnan hoping to make a fortune gambling on jade, but Li Buping dragged me into Tomb Raiding instead. On my first trip into a tomb, we pulled a piece of blank cloth from the back of an ancient corpse’s head. On the second, the dense rows of hanging coffins overhead nearly drove us to kill one another. On the third, in a Shang-Zhou tomb, we dug up three stitched-together monsters with beast heads 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Lamp Blower 吹灯者 Deep in a ravine on the Loess Plateau lie the secrets of a dynasty, sealed away when Cao Cao established the Gold-Touching Captains. Sixteen-year-old Qin Xiao accidentally awakens the yin-yang eyes inherited through the Qin bloodline when he touches a bronze compass in a collapsed Dragon King Temple. Those gray-white eyes can pierce the earth and glimpse the flow of qi meridians, revealing the ancient tomb complex known as the “Nine-Bend Linked Citadels,” formed when the Yellow River changed cou 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Delivery Guy's Tomb-Raiding Journal: From Good-for-Nothing to Immortal Venerable 外卖小哥盗墓记：从废柴到仙尊 Liu Santuo pedaled his battered electric scooter into the downpour. “Bad review? Deliver food in a storm? Forget that!” The next second, an out-of-control luxury car sent him and his scooter flying. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a celestial sect wreathed in clouds and mist, in the body of Ling Santu, the sect’s number-one good-for-nothing. “Jumping off a cliff? Come on, man, that’s too much. Even a bad review wouldn’t be this harsh!” He’d barely finished complaining when three young m —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Little Taoist Ghost Hunter: The Happy Little Taoist 捉鬼小道士之欢乐小道士 I was born with Yin-Yang Eyes, yet spent twenty years as an atheist. That changed the day a piercing scream came from the old house. I opened the door and saw an entire human skin hanging from the rafters, dripping blood. I calmly took out my phone. “Master, that ghost-hunting side job you mentioned comes with insurance and room and board, right?” There was a moment of silence on the other end. “...First, recite the Divine Incantation for Purifying Heaven and Earth. Put on your Bluetooth earbuds 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Eye Beneath the Earth 入地眼 I was just seven when I crawled out of the tomb. Much later, when I looked back on it, it seemed as if everything had been arranged by fate. Perhaps from that very moment, it was predestined that I, who had crawled out of that tomb, would embark on an adventurous, mysterious, and utterly bizarre legendary journey. The dragon stirs, and the land is shaken! 1.3kReads8.6Score13614d adds
- 31 Maoshan Secrets: The Way of Yin and Yang 茅山秘录：阴阳道 Do you believe ghosts exist? The moment you ask that question, one might be listening. When he was five, he watched his home burn to ashes with his own eyes. Twenty-two years later, he became the seventy-third-generation direct disciple of the Maoshan Sect. His master said, “Go down the mountain. Gain experience and find the answers.” He thought it would be an ordinary journey down the mountain. He was wrong. In an ancient Jiangnan town, five young people died in the same dream, smiling, th 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 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
- 33 The Great Mystery 大迷踪 Does the legendary Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin really exist? Where did the mysterious organization with snake tattoos on the backs of their necks come from? A strange ancient blade shaped like a serpent, and a life-or-death game spanning a thousand years! Can the young man who stepped out of an antique shop shoulder the heavy, turning wheel of fate? What can the so-called heir to the art of tomb-grabbing really do? 40Reads7.1Score714d adds
- 34 The Haunted Ancient Village 幽灵古村 Read the new book, Yin-Yang Geomancer, now: Chapter 1, The Tomb-Raiding Gang An accident during an expedition led them into a bizarre ancient village. At the village inn, there was a soul-stirring sound in the middle of the night, a strange white figure by the bed, an old woman whose whole family had died horribly, and a girl who kept a mysterious white fox. There was a mysterious spirit-summoning ritual, an ancient and horrifying sacrifice, and an old well shrouded in strange legends. After ret 1.4kReads6.7Score10014d adds
- 35 Paranormal Files 灵异档案 In a strange era, strange events unfold across the country: ghosts, mountain spirits and water monsters, yin beings, zombies, and all manner of evil spirits and monsters. A series of major supernatural incidents will be brought before you. 530Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 36 The Maoshan Outsider 茅山异徒 Maoshan arts proclaim: “Heaven is round, Earth is square; by the nine laws and edicts, as I write, ten thousand ghosts shall hide.” My name is Qin Feng. Ever since I mastered the strange arts of the Ghost Path, I haven't known a moment's peace. Some say I defy Heaven's will, alter fate, and recklessly practice forbidden arts. Others say I reverse yin and yang and turn the heavenly cycle upside down. Yellow-skinned spirits become demons, zombies rise from the dead, evil ghosts possess people, ear 14Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 37 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
- 38 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: An Autobiography 盗墓笔记：自传 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Early Growth + Later Power Fantasy] My name is Wang Yifan, and I’m a college student. One day, I saw my girlfriend, “Meng Yao.” Not just one, but two identical Meng Yaos. I wanted to investigate the matter, so I sought out the Faqiu Sect. Then one day, after making thorough preparations, I ventured deep into the uninhabited wilderness of Lop Nur and witnessed one strange event after another: “Snow monsters?” “The Demon Tomb of Cancong?” “Instant teleportation?” “The Twi 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Little Maoshan Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: Watch Me Turn the Tide! 茅山小道士下山，看我搅动风云！ Why is an eighteen-year-old Taoist priest so powerful? Because when he was eighteen, he was struck by lightning while gathering herbs on the mountain. He survived, and unexpectedly gained a System that randomly pops up with all kinds of tips to help the Host avert danger and turn misfortune into fortune! His journey through the mortal world uncovers the mystery of his origins, helps him reclaim his parents' remains, and earns him the orthodox Daoist legacy. From then on, he bears the responsibil 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Healer's Dao Heart 医者道心 An accident made me lose my seal necklace, awakening my ability to see ghosts and setting off a series of perilous adventures. They’re dangerous, but there are also heartwarming moments and plenty of laughter. I’ll face the unknown alongside my good friends… But a much larger conspiracy is also quietly taking shape in the shadows… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Matters of the Living, People of the Dead 阳间事，阴间人 Orphaned from birth, She Qiang grew up being fed by kind neighbors. Born in a time of chaos and raised in a Daoist temple, he learned a lifetime’s worth of Daoist arts from nothing but spell books left behind by someone unknown in the temple. He had planned to muddle through life, but reality kept pushing him, step by step, toward that unknown world... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Exorcisms and Face Reading, Guaranteed! 直播算命：驱邪看相妥妥的！ [System + supernatural + wild imagination] On the first day of his livestream, Du Jie gets a call from a popular female streamer. A feng shui problem? Easy! The cases that follow are much trickier, and each one is more bizarre than the last! A ghost baby? A paper effigy? The strange illness in Xiangyang Village, the Five Elements fortune-borrowing ritual... Are all these bizarre events testing my cultivation? Forget it. I'd better call on the Grandmaster! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Strange Tales of the Corpse Retrievers 捞尸诡闻 My grandfather was a corpse retriever. When he died, the waters of the river churned all night. In a single night, every chicken in the village died... 17Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 44 Tomb King: From Rookie to Tomb-Raiding Expert 盗王：从小白到倒斗高手 The pressures of life and an unexpected opportunity led me into the tomb-raiding business. In this line of work, I met the best boss I could ask for, the Fatty who trusted me most, and the person I loved most, Xiao Ya. Together, we went on countless tomb-raiding adventures, and in the end I became a famous figure in the trade: Master Cheng... 240Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Tales of the Strange in China 神州异事录 Ever since I was young, I’ve experienced all sorts of strange things beyond ordinary people’s wildest imagination. In particular, these eyes of mine can see the dead and all manner of yin entities… Now that I’m old, I have plenty of free time, so I’ve decided to look back on the things I’ve experienced. If life were a piece of music, I’d say it’s like the suona. Of all the instruments, the suona reigns supreme: it either sends you to heaven or plays at your wedding. Everyone gets to live a life 164Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Dao Master's Manual 道驭录 Veteran Lu Fei and his junior fellow disciple Liu Bowen, nicknamed Fatty, use Aoshan Taoist arts to exorcise ghosts and ward off evil, taking on a series of supernatural incidents brought about by changing times. If it's not good, come hit me! 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Life in the Burial Ground 葬地生 When a fragment of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon surfaces, a deadly game spanning a thousand years quietly begins! The life-and-death secrets of ancient tombs, a companion's betrayal, and the human choices people make when offering sacrifices to survive. With the ultimate secret pointing toward... can they make it out of the tomb alive? Will they become the next immortals, or remain trapped forever in an underground world riddled with mechanisms? 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 My Tomb-Raiding Life 我的倒斗生涯 Tomb raiding is said to have originated during the Cao Wei dynasty and continued for a thousand years. It has both official recognition and civilian organizations. A thousand years have made this illicit trade a fully developed profession, with an astonishing number of tricks and secrets. Literary works have told and retold its tales. But what is tomb raiding really like? I entered the trade at fifteen and led my first expedition into a tomb at sixteen. I saw its dangers with my own eyes... 102Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 49 The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons 北派盗墓寻龙记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Adventure + Underworld + History] Adapted from true experiences. That year, I was no master appraiser fresh out of prison. I was just a poor kid who identified soil by smell and felt his way along tomb passages with his fingers. I drifted through a hazy youth and into middle age, enduring hardship and uncertainty all the way. Over half a lifetime, I witnessed all sorts of people from all walks of life, and heard tales of the underworld you have never heard before. If yo 51.3kReads7.9Score4k14d adds
- 50 Secrets of the Black Dragon: A Feng Shui Tomb-Raiding Chronicle 玄龙秘藏：风水盗墓录 Beneath the land of Huaxia lies the “Nine Twists of the Dragon Vein.” Deep within each twist are secret burial sites dating from antiquity through the Ming and Qing dynasties, holding the secrets of feng shui, tales of immortality, dynastic treasures, and forbidden curses. Folk feng shui masters are divided into three factions: the “Tomb Guardians,” who protect the dragon veins and the order of ancient tombs; the “Tomb Raiders,” who use feng shui to find tombs and make a living; and the “Evil-Br —Reads—Score—14d adds
