Novels like Collected Records of the Way
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Collected Records of the Way, best match first.
- 1 Homecoming in a Bountiful Year 丰年归家 Qingshi Town was small. To the north stood Niuer Mountain, hunched like the back of a bull. To the south flowed Baixia River, known for its white shrimp. The townsfolk went to market, farmed, and did business. Year after year, life went on without anything unusual. Sixteen-year-old Ning Chuan had always thought so, too. Until someone ate every last bite of a bowl of noodles left beneath Qingshi Bridge as an offering for the dead. After that, he began to notice that the mountain paths, riverbanks —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I'm Really Not a Con Artist, Fellow Daoists! 贫道真不是江湖骗子啊！ I swear, I’m really not a charlatan! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Those Years I Spent as a Weird Tales Editor 我当怪谈小编的那几年 Most of the supernatural incidents and metaphysical lore in this book are based on real life. It collects many strange tales that have happened in different places and at different levels. Readers who enjoy traditional culture and true tales of the uncanny can read on with confidence. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 If I Were to Follow the Dao 我若为道 Gu Bai, a disciple of the Taoist sect, secretly enters the forbidden grounds of Sanshun Temple to uncover the truth behind his sister’s death. There, he learns the forbidden art of the Heaven-Peeping Method. In the process, he accidentally knocks over the Demon-Subduing Mirror, releasing several thousand-year-old ghosts sealed inside. The mirror also creates a copy of Gu Bai. From then on, two Gu Bais exist in the world, with opposite personalities: one wants to show his sister the magnificent l —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 My Teahouse Is Packed with Spirits and Monsters Every Night 我家茶馆半夜坐满妖灵鬼怪 [Ensemble cast + supernatural abilities + episodic events + the paranormal + social stories + deduction] Orphan Fang Xiaosu inherits the teahouse of the orphanage director. To his surprise, after closing time the teahouse becomes a recognized court of justice for otherworldly races living in the human world. Disputes, incidents, and special requests can all be brought there for a ruling. A starving ghost nearly scares someone to death while frying pancakes at midnight; a creepy child tries to p —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Urban Taoist Priest: One Good Deed a Day, One Floating Life 都市道士：一日一善一浮生 [Also known as: Do Good Deeds, Get a House; I Got Rich by Doing Good] Lin Yi visits Hangzhou and unexpectedly bonds with the “Good Deeds Tree.” He does a good deed by chance and unlocks a luxury home worth 38 million. He helps an old man fend off some thugs and unlocks premium Longjing tea. He mediates a dispute between neighbors and gets a brand-new electric car! Other people do good deeds to build up merit. I do good deeds and get rich on the spot. From then on, the city has a new low-profile —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 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—Shelves
- 8 The Troubles of Being Born with Six Fingers and Having to Become a Taoist Priest 关于我天生六指只能当道士这些事 My name is Li Youbing. I was born with six fingers, and a fortune-teller said I had the “Heavenly Defect Fate,” doomed to bear one of the fates of widowhood, childlessness, loneliness, or disability. Later, an unreliable old Taoist took me in, and I learned that this lousy fate was actually perfect for practicing Maoshan arts. Other people pay money to study the Dao. My tuition is my life. My master said, “Disciple, our sect has only one copy of The Maoshan Incantations left. Just make do with i 6.8kReads—Score243Shelves
- 9 Repaying Yin Debts: The Living Must Not Pass 还阴债：活人禁行 From the day I was born, my whole family wore shrouds. The day my parents took theirs off, they died under mysterious circumstances. To keep me alive, my grandfather sacrificed himself... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Little Daoist of the Flower City 花都小道士 A Taoist priest descends from the mountains, armed with boundless powers and miraculous medical skills. Young Taoist Qiu Yun heads into the martial world to make his mark. “Your illness can be treated, but my fees are a little steep. This villa is quite nice. Let’s call it payment for the first round of treatment...” Qiu Yun said, gazing at the luxurious villa worth hundreds of millions. “Divine Doctor Qiu, I know how you do things. Here are half the shares in my company. Once I’m cured, they 69Reads9.0Score104Shelves
- 11 City Life: Practicing the Heavenly General's Arts 都市，行天蓬法 With the Seven Star Sword in hand and the waters of Beiming beneath his feet, the Nine Profound Fiend Boy leads the way, while thirty-six generals await his command. “Ti Peng, Ti Peng, Nine Profound Fiend Boy... With one stroke of the divine blade, ten thousand ghosts scatter!” 2.5kReads—Score135Shelves
- 12 The Young Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: Where Are the Zombies? 小道下山：僵尸哪里跑 My name is Qin Xuanzhu. I’m a nobody among Daoist sects, a half-baked young acolyte. My master, Xuanjizi, is a greedy drunk who kicked me down the mountain under the pretext of “gaining experience and earning incense money.” Later, I found out the old geezer was just trying to dodge his bar tab! Armed with a chipped peachwood sword, a stack of badly drawn talismans, and a busted compass whose needle jumps around, I returned to Qingzhu Village at the foot of the mountain. I’d barely arrived when —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 I Sell Haunted Houses in the Mortal Realm 我在人间卖阴宅 My name is Wang Chuan, and I sell houses. Lately, I've been so broke that I can only afford instant noodles in packets. Before Grandpa died, he secretly handed me a box. "Wear the jade pendant inside, and you'll be able to find your parents..." Then I ran into a ghost on my first day at work. A haunted house at midnight, a woman ghost hanging from the rafters, and an icy wind blowing all around. The jade pendant suddenly grew hot, and a cool female voice sounded in my mind: "You useless fool, ar —Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 14 Reborn in a Purple Robe: From the Start, I Borrow Magic to Topple Altars and Temples 转生紫袍，开局借法翻坛伐庙 Zhang Qing, a purple-robed Celestial Master, was tricked by the founding patriarch just as he ascended in broad daylight, and transmigrated to another world. At first, all he wanted was to earn a little yin virtue to keep himself alive. Unexpectedly, the people of this world had gone mad. Foreign nations were frantically hunting dragon veins to awaken the gods. With only the dragon veins of Huaxia still intact, they soon attracted the covetous attention of countless foreign powers. As the foundi 1.4kReads—Score113Shelves
- 15 I Lost My Job and Met an Evil Ghost, So I Became a Disciple of the Purple Star Emperor 失业遇恶鬼，我直接拜师紫微大帝 I’m thirty this year, unemployed, and buried under a massive loan. The only place I can afford to rent is this cheap, run-down old apartment building that’s about to be demolished. I never expected to encounter a vengeful ghost coming for my life on my very first day there. I sought help from every temple master, folk exorcist, and even spirit medium I could find, but none of them could save me. With nowhere else to turn, I came across the Northern Emperor’s lineage online. They kill, they don’t 4.8kReads—Score379Shelves
- 16 Three Strange Tales 异闻三人行 I have two friends, Bobo and Yu Lao'er. Since we get along so well, we set out on an adventure together. Along the way, there are laughs, scares, and thrills. Our journey as a trio has begun, and I'm here to tell you the stories of our adventures. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I Studied Hard to Hunt Ghosts Before Coming Down the Mountain, So What Does High Martial Mean? 苦学捉鬼下山，高武是什么意思？ [Slow Burn, Read with Care] [Modern High Martial Arts] [Taoist Priest] [Ghost Hunting] [Eerie] [Awakening] [May Not Be for Everyone] Ye Xuan transmigrated at the absolute worst time. He had been the top scorer in the college entrance exam, but he got a terminal illness and died. As soon as he transmigrated, he took a Taoist priest as his master, though the old man was hardly a proper master. To make a name for himself and slap people in the face after transmigrating, Ye Xuan spent over a decade 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Supernatural Affairs Receiver 灵异接收员 It all began with a dark story. If my special abilities can save others, then I'll do whatever it takes. And so the strange tale begins. The most terrifying thing isn't ghosts. It's the human heart. The world doesn't have that many chosen ones with plot armor. After all, we're all human, not immortals. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Clad in Yellow, This Daoist Has Made It 黄袍加身，道爷我成了 My name is Jiang Qing. On the day I was born, the heavens showed strange signs: eighteen thunderclaps split the sky, and snow fell from the midsummer sky in the seventh month. The villagers saw me as a monster and avoided me. When I was ten, darkness filled my heart, and I nearly slaughtered my own family. Just as the blade was about to fall, a Taoist priest intervened and saved me. He was Zhang Hongxuan, the sixty-second Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, revered as a living god among Taoists. H 7Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 20 The Unseen Silhouette 看不见的背影 After his mother falls into a coma, Li Yang is drawn into a shocking conspiracy and discovers that he is the key "Subject 07" in a genetic experiment run by Dehui Group. A mysterious silver chain, a crescent-shaped birthmark, and a clone follow him like shadows. Every step of his investigation pulls him deeper into a maze where memories and reality intertwine. With the help of the Chen sisters, he gradually uncovers the truth behind the "Hive Project": he is not only the "key" to opening the mot 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 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 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Chronicles of Wangchuan City 忘川城记 Wangchuan City has three iron laws: The living cannot leave, the dead do not decay, and once the faceless statue in the City God's temple calls out a name, someone will die within three days. Shen Du, an eighteen-year-old corpse collector, has to check his arms every morning when he wakes. They are covered in warnings he carved into his own skin. Some have scabbed over, while others look as if they were carved only moments ago. He can't remember what happened the night before, why he can always 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain: A Death Buff from the Start 道士下山：开局死亡buff叠满 Lin Yi woke up to find that the sky had fallen, with countless female ghosts lying beside him... Lin Yi had always kept to strict rules and remained pure and innocent. But because he was so handsome, female ghosts adored him. One moment of carelessness, and he was kidnapped by a ghost. That night, his innocence was gone... In the end, the female ghost even accused him in return. Jealous of him, the underworld authorities punished him severely: his temple was shut down, his merit wiped clean, he 19Reads—Score102Shelves
- 24 The End of the Genius and the Madman 天才与疯子的终焉 Also known as Genius Ends in Madness The first innovative novel of its kind in the country!!! [Classic mystery and deduction] + [hard science fiction at its core] A modern-day, pure classic detective novel that combines hard science fiction on a psychological level, with not a single logical flaw and every detail airtight. When you try to explain any phenomenon in the world, you will find that every question eventually leads back to philosophy, because humans are the ones who define categories. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Bounty Hunter of the Vengeful Dead 猛鬼赏金猎人 I only wanted to go undercover and expose a fake, so how did I actually run into a ghost? I only wanted to get hired full-time and secure a government post, so how did I end up having to be a scion of a powerful family and a disciple of a sect? I only wanted to protect my friends and family, so why did a whole horde of monsters and demons show up? I only wanted to free the human world from the underworld’s enslavement, so why did a whole bunch of Ghost Kings and Ghost Emperors appear? Fine! Fine 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Grandpa's Ghost-Hunting Tales 爷爷的抓鬼往事 The older generation always had plenty of taboos. They would rather chat about anything else than talk about ghosts and spirits, for fear of inviting trouble and shortening their lives. This was all the more true in the rural villages of western Gansu, where the elderly held such beliefs as sacred rules, engraved in their bones and woven into their every word and deed. When my grandfather was young, he crossed between the worlds of yin and yang and subdued evil spirits. No one in the surrounding 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Immortal's Burden 背仙儿 The day I was born, a black snake slithered into our yard. From that day on, I bore a snake’s bones and was half human, half snake. When I was nine, I touched the Snake Immortal statue on West Mountain. The evil god whispered that it wanted me as its spirit medium. To save me, Grandma hoisted the statue onto her back and walked into the blizzard. She was never heard from again. To find Grandma and slay the evil god, I joined the Jingming Sect and spent eight years cultivating. I thought I was ju 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Traversing Myriad Worlds: From Urban Detective to Primordial Supreme 身穿万界：从都市神探到洪荒至尊 Born with an innate Daoist body, I travel across myriad worlds, with a Merit System at my side! Primordial cultivation arts plus a pocket world, solving cases and catching ghosts all the way! Modern city, apocalypse, wuxia, fantasy: I’ll win over every goddess across the heavens! From a modern-day detective to the supreme ruler of the Primordial World! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Anotherworldly Invasion: I Lead Blue Star in a Counterattack 异界入侵，我带领蓝星反攻异界 When ferocious beasts suddenly attack, he fights back with everything he has in the face of certain death, and the wheels of fate begin to turn. By chance, he meets Officer Xiao Yang. The two fall into a bizarre abandoned building caught in a time loop, where they are trapped in a death game set by an evil god. They barely make it out alive. Thinking he could uncover clues about his past by returning to his bloodline family, he instead finds the Fang family cold and heartless, treating him like —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Secret Records of a Spirit Medium Forensic Doctor 灵法医秘录 Lin Yu is a forensic pathologist at the lowest point in his life. One day at work, while examining the fourth corpse, he discovers blood-written words on the victim's internal organs: “72 hours left.” Security footage shows the words appearing out of nowhere. On the inside of the victim's wrist is a miniature roll of film, which, when pieced together, reveals a photograph of an old-fashioned clock frozen at one minute before death. As the investigation deepens, Lin Yu finds the name of a fifth v —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Laws of the Living 阳人禁律 I was born with a hard fate and destined to be alone. I even caused the deaths of my own parents. I spent over a decade with my grandfather, thinking that after he died, I would inherit his funeral shop and quietly carry on working there. I never expected that one night, I would end up being haunted by a hundred-year-old female ghost... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Folk Feng Shui Taboos: I Can Expose Life-or-Death Traps 民间风水禁忌：我能点破生死局 He can see at a glance the deadly traps hidden in homes and burial grounds, but he never dares speak up. Every taboo he exposes costs someone a life. Until the night he revealed the “blood coffin crushing the pulse” to save an orphan girl. Seven people in the village died violent deaths, and with their dying breath, they all pointed at him: “It was you... You should have died long ago.” The truth was, he wasn’t a feng shui master at all. He was the “Life-Substitution Judge,” chosen by the ancien —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Going to the Countryside to Collect Ghosts: A Feng Shui Master for Just 9.9 Yuan, Shipping Included 下乡收诡：九块九包邮的风水师 A supernatural resurgence? No, feng shui has gone wrong. A forty-year-old fat man will help you deal with ghosts for just 9.9 yuan. He contains them; while others talk about karma, he talks about money. With his compass and geomancy, he examines the water outlets of burial sites and the baleful energy in the earth’s veins: the ancient well in Tonghua Village, the old house in Huang Village, the looping ghostly shadows at the old ferry, the mountain range where a grave was relocated, the yin ener 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 All Those Years I Took on Commissions 我做委托的那些年 Mother-and-child temple demons? Jumping corpses from mountain villages? Flying-head demons? Strange monsters and spirits? A ghostly bride? No, they’re all props and actors! An analysis of human nature? A tragic life? A bittersweet romance? No, they’re all just scripts! Is this the male lead’s real-life experience? No, it’s a microfilm! If you don’t understand my Daoist arts, then I happen to know a few moves myself! 3Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 35 The Mystical Dao God 玄清道神 [A slow-burn story: The beginning is a little quiet, but it gets more and more exciting as you read on!] A love that spans three lifetimes. You protected me through two of them. In this life, I have come only for you! Xia Yang owns a paper effigy shop and is also a Taoist priest. With just a sword at his side, he walks the roads of the living while earning his keep in the underworld. He hunts evil spirits, battles zombies, captures monsters, and lays restless souls to rest... 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Beautiful Demon Wife 绝美妖妻 My new story is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 283Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Strange Tales from the Coffin Shop 棺材铺之诡闻 Liu Yin, a 25-year-old unemployed programmer, reluctantly takes over her family's coffin shop. But the shop's customers are ghosts. Whenever the coffins inside creak, ghosts come in the next day to buy coffins for reincarnation. Liu Yin's job is to help these ghosts, still lingering in the human world, resolve their lingering obsessions. Zhang Xingyan, a Taoist priestess who specializes in exorcising demons, and Liu Yin meet through a fight. As fate pushes them along, they go from standing on op 171Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Embalmer's Ten Rules 入殓师的十不准 The Mortician’s Ten Prohibitions 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Fetal Movement Livestream 胎动直播间 The Fetal Movement Livestream Room —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Heir to the Family Business 守业人 The Keeper of the Family Legacy —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 I Once Read the Fortune of a Dead Man 我给死人算过一卦 I Once Read a Fortune for the Dead —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 At Two in the Morning, No One Can Stay in the Autopsy Room 凌晨两点，解剖室不能留人 At Two in the Morning, No One Is Allowed to Stay in the Autopsy Room —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I'm Chen Laoshi, a Daoist Who Tames Every Rebellious Spirit and Evil Thing 贫道陈老实，专治各种不服和妖邪 Chen Laoshi was just as his name suggested: before he transmigrated, he was an honest, somewhat timid office worker. He woke up to find himself in another world, in the body of a boy with the same name, living in abject poverty and on the verge of starving to death. Just as he thought he was about to die again, a voice rang out in his mind: [Ding! The Host's powerful will to survive and 'honest person' qualities detected. Maoshan Celestial Master Training System successfully bound!] [Newbie miss 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Night Shift at the Cemetery: I Make a Living Supporting My Family with Taoist Arts 墓园夜班：我靠道法打工养家 My name is Lu Xiaochen. I’m divorced and raising two kids. With no degree or connections, I took a job as a night-shift patrolman at a cemetery to support my family. Other people are afraid of the forest of tombstones in the dead of night, afraid of things they can’t explain. I’m not afraid. It’s not because I’m brave, but because I’m too broke to worry about being scared. When I was a kid, I picked up a few rudimentary Taoist arts from some village elders. I thought they were just tricks to foo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Mind-Reading Detective: The Killer Without a Trace 读心神探：无证之凶 A body without a wound, a crime scene splattered with someone else’s blood, and a wedding ring that appeared out of nowhere. The bizarre murder at the Feng family compound in Yuezhou leaves the police force’s two top investigators, Ren Jie and Song Zhun, at a dead end. With no other choice, they turn to Dong Yiting, a psychological analyst with an almost uncanny eye for detail. She can spot everything others overlook: the time hidden in footprints, the past etched into scars, and the cracks in h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Perpetual Motion Train 永动列车 Former mechanical engineer Chen Mo boards the mysterious “Perpetual Motion Train” on a stormy night, searching for his younger sister Chen Xi, who has been missing for six months. What follows is a bizarre journey aboard a train running along abandoned tracks, where time and space twist into chaos. Missing passengers are bound by their obsessions, reliving endless cycles of death in the carriages. Each carriage holds a sealed supernatural incident, from curses in mirrors to apparitions in misty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Severed Finger Weaves a Sect 断指编门 After losing his sister and brother, the youth Zhao Xiaochuan, one finger severed, takes a Jia Ma talisman into a mine to exact revenge on the evil spirit Lin Hongxiao. Beneath the mine, a fire vein conceals a conspiracy involving seven blood sacrifices. Corpse puppets and bone-tile curses lurk all around him. With the survivors, he uses blood as a guide and bones as a lock to solve the mystery of the Yin-Yang Stele. Can he weave the gates of hell shut, seal away the baleful energy, and bring pe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The World of Endless Night 极夜世界 After I died, I became the Dao, a civil servant tasked with dealing with ghosts. There are three hundred and sixty trades, and every one has its master. There are three hundred and sixty Daos, and every one can be deadly. Behind every “deviation” lies a life with nowhere to rest. And in the heart of every “Dao” lurks a dream it never wants to wake from. Some want to see me dead, some want to drive me mad, and some want to turn me into the very thing I’m supposed to deal with. This is a story abo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Reborn in the Dayong Dynasty: I’m a Coroner Who Judges Wronged Spirits 魂穿大雍：我，仵作专审冤魂 A modern forensic examiner transmigrates to the Great Yong dynasty and becomes a lowly coroner despised by all. The dead conceal the truth, and bones bear witness. Using modern forensic techniques, they solve one strange case after another, stand up to the powerful, and clear the names of countless souls. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Clown Things 小丑东西们 [Battle Royale + Otherworld + Death Regression + Dark Story + Clown Literature + Extreme Revelry + Fun-Seeker] A clown originally meant someone who entertained an audience through slapstick and antics in a circus. These days, the word is used for "someone who embarrasses themselves in public," "someone who gets carried away with unrequited feelings," "someone who gets humiliated," "someone who gives everything to a crush and ends up with nothing," and "someone whose words and actions seem absurd —Reads—Score—Shelves
