Novels like Folk Secrets of Ghost Hunting
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- 1 This Taoist Priest Plays by No Rules 这个道士不讲理 A young Taoist from a remote mountain comes down to make a living. People dismiss him as a fake fortune-teller, but time and again, he uses feng shui and destiny reading to stir up the entertainment, sports, and business worlds. Every chapter draws on real-world hot topics, but readers should be careful not to read too much into them. 342Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Feng Shui Helped Me Reach the Pinnacle of Life 风水助我走上人生巅峰 [Changing your fate with feng shui, real-life feng shui, dispelling evil with feng shui, practical feng shui, making money with feng shui, feng shui helps me find a girlfriend] The day the gaokao results came out, Li Chengfeng didn't even make the cutoff for a junior college. On his way to find a job, he met an old man who taught him feng shui and changed his fate... 43.6kReads7.3Score3.2kShelves
- 3 Feng Shui and Divination 风水卜卦 This is a new work, and I hope you'll give it your support. Your support is what keeps me writing. I'll do my best to make every work a good one, and I hope you enjoy them. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Tales of the Strange Beyond the Pass: The Madam Reads the Fate of All Things 关外诡事录：夫人卦卦算乾坤 [Romance + two powerful leads + divination + ghost hunting + gold prospecting] An Luoling is the only daughter of a renowned fortune-telling family beyond the Pass. She watches over the land around Mocheng, making her living by reading fortunes and catching ghosts. Duan Zongye is the last heir of an eastern Lu gold-prospecting family. He comes beyond the Pass to search for his father, who disappeared fifteen years ago, and to uncover the feud between the An and Duan families that began thirty ye 1.5kReads8.4Score189Shelves
- 5 Heavenly Master of a Haunted World 诡世天师 Lin Jiu, an ordinary young man from the modern era, unexpectedly transmigrates to the twelfth year of the Republic of China, his soul inhabiting the body of a young Taoist priest who shares his name and has just been claimed by a vengeful ghost. As the last heir of the Maoshan Sect, he inherits his master’s legacy and final words: “The Taoist tradition must not die out, and the human world must not fall.” There is no System, no shortcut, only a timeworn copy of the Sacred Register of Shangqing a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 A Life Guide for College Students 给大学生的生活指南 A guide to college life, teaching you how to leave campus and adapt to society more effectively… 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Feng Shui: The Master of Supreme Rank 风水之术，超品相师 This book features a wealth of real-life feng shui cases, progressing from the basics to more advanced concepts and combining landform feng shui with qi analysis. It covers the Eight Mansions school, Xuan Kong Flying Stars, the Golden Lock and Jade Gate method, the Twenty-Four Mountains school, Heavenly Doctor feng shui, Liu Yao divination, and more. [Feng Shui]+ [Physiognomy]+ [Fortune-Telling]+ [Eight Trigrams] [Typed by hand]+ [No AI whatsoever] As the eighteenth-generation heir to the Ma Yi 1.6kReads—Score237Shelves
- 8 My Years as a Fortune-Teller 我做算命先生那些年 My name is Li Nanfang. In the first half of my life, I schemed endlessly, laying countless feng shui traps and amassing a fortune. Even now, many people are still fooled by me. When they see me, they respectfully call me “Minister” and regard me as their savior. But in the end, I gave away everything I owned. If I don’t tell the truth, I feel I’ll have wronged the world! I firmly believe that charlatans never meet a good end! I’m writing this book to warn people to stay alert and avoid being dec 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Everyone in the Psychiatric Hospital Is an Evil Ghost. What a Coincidence, So Am I 全精神病院都是恶鬼，巧了我也是 [Supernatural horror + two male leads + an occult master + an evil ghost heroine] There is an evil ghost inside my body. Everyone says I’m crazy. My parents locked me away in a psychiatric hospital for ten whole years. On my birthday, the most powerful family in Beijing’s elite circles barged in and took me away, forcing me to use my body to save their comatose heir. I discovered the heir’s secret. After that, vengeful spirits and evil ghosts, demons and monsters all came after me. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I Earn Merit by Writing 我靠码字攒功德 If you can’t see it through to the ending, don’t read this book. If you insist on reading it, read only the first three chapters. If you read the first three chapters, you absolutely have to read the extras. If you won’t listen to me, then don’t. 1.2kReads9.4Score182Shelves
- 11 Tales of Hu Tang Xi 花棠僖事 [Mysticism + Urban Daily Life + The Whole Family Dotes on Her + Slow Burn + Ensemble Cast] The Hua family, a prestigious clan of mystics, has a daughter who has come of age. Their eldest, Hua Xiangyang, was born with the ability to see both yin and yang, and possesses extraordinary spiritual power. Just as demons and evil spirits run rampant in the human world and chaos spreads, she descends from the mountain on her master's orders to gain experience. She expects to show off her skills, but her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士 It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess: 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Folk Tales of Feng Shui and the Supernatural 民间风水怪谈 Curse Arts + Maoshan Arts + Qimen Dunjia + Plum Blossom Numerology + Folk Arcane Arts + Gu Techniques Feng shui affects everyone’s health, fortune, romance, family, and career. Want great fortune and riches? Want to become the richest person around? Want your children and grandchildren gathered around you? Want to become famous overnight? Want a beautiful companion by your side? If so, open to the first page and keep reading… 17.3kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
- 14 Everlasting Life of Qinghua 青华长生 In a world where no one can become an immortal or cultivate the Dao, a young man inherits the Shangqing lineage from his previous life and brings the Shangqing Immortal Arts back to the world. He forms the Three Flowers Above the Crown, gathers the Five Qi at the Origin, and trains in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Arts and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts. 80Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 15 You Want This Daoist Master in Infinite Terror? 你让道爷我来无限恐怖？ [Unconventional Lord God Space] [Lighthearted] [Gradual Growth] [Horror Movie Instances] [No Harem] [No Female Lead] [Primarily Thunder Magic] Me? I'm a proper old Taoist priest, seventy-two years old! I was all set to enjoy my retirement! Then I got dragged into Infinite Terror... Hah! Sometimes, when people are speechless, they really are speechless. This old Daoist is no exception. Who says Eastern Taoist magic can't deal with Western devils? I'll zap you right in the face with a palm thunder 5.8kReads6.7Score353Shelves
- 16 The True Account of a Feng Shui Master 一个玄门风水师的真实记录 Lin Yan comes from a family steeped in metaphysics, whose home holds a vast collection of ancient texts on feng shui, fate reading, physiognomy, exorcism, and more. Growing up surrounded by these traditions, he reads every book in the family collection and watches his grandfather and father analyze situations, adjust feng shui, and deal with evil spirits. Through quiet observation and practice, he gradually masters all kinds of metaphysical techniques. As an adult, he officially ventures out int 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 True Stories from a Folk Fortune-Telling Shop 民间算命馆实记 This isn’t some rumor or something I made up. It’s all true, things I saw with my own eyes and experienced myself. Even after all these years, just thinking about it still makes my back grow cold and my hair stand on end. The midnight knocking, the old woman sitting motionless on a roof beam, the white snake unearthed in a graveyard, strange glowing characters appearing on an old wall, the little boy at the five-way intersection, the stone tablet in a dream, the white rooster at the crossroads, 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 High Martial: I Practice Mystical Daoist Arts 高武：我却玄学道术 [Spiritual qi revival + high-martial arts + ghosts and monsters + Daoist arts and mysticism + progression fantasy + Primordial Era] When spiritual qi first revived, beasts evolved and some humans awakened special abilities. The second surge of spiritual qi made plants bloodthirsty, forcing humanity to rebuild the Great Wall to hold back the beast tide. Then the world underwent yet another spiritual qi revival, and ghosts and monsters were born. And I, a pretty handsome high school boy, inherited 351Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Emerging from the Darkness (Shared by a Fan) 从无明中走来（来自粉丝的分享） Coming Out of the Darkness (Shared by a Fan) 23Reads—Score102Shelves
- 20 City Feng Shui Master: My Compass Can Slay Dragons 都市风水师：我的罗盘能斩龙 [System + decisive and ruthless + slaying demons, driving out evil, and killing the supernatural] Lin Yan thought that after his grandfather passed away, he would be left all alone, eventually worn down by making ends meet until he died. Then one day, an evil spirit appeared before him, and the Heaven-Appraising System lit up! The evil spirit was gone, and a wealthy CEO showered him with money. From then on, Lin Yan stepped into a strange and sinister world invisible to ordinary people. Nightmar 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Reborn, I Became a Billionaire Through Fortune-Telling 重生后，我靠算卦成为亿万富翁 Chu Qianxing, a gifted fortune-teller who studied under the old man Gui Chong, can cast a reading worth a fortune. After falling victim to a villain’s scheme, he plunges off a cliff. By chance, during a rare alignment of seven stars, he transmigrates to the modern world. The original Host was killed by his wife and her lover. He begs Chu Qianxing to avenge him, offering him his body in return. As Chu Qianxing takes his revenge, he also sets up a fortune-telling stall. Not only does he read himse 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Great Furnace Dao Lord 烘炉大道君 The Great Lord passed down his divine powers, and I became the Dao Ancestor in another world Li Yan transmigrates into a low-martial, small world and gradually raises it to the level of a vast mythic world through his own efforts. Low-martial world: Li Yan hangs in the air, emitting boundless light from behind him, visible to all living beings. His boundless voice rings out, audible to all. “I am Li Yan, a Daoist whose title is Qingwei. In this world, I shall create a new cultivation method and 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 I'm Going Crazy! I Hid for Three Years, and Then He Confessed to Me in Public 疯了！我躲了三年他当众告白 This Is Crazy! I Hid from Him for Three Years, and Now He's Confessing in Public —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Working the Night Shift at a Funeral Home: My KPI Is Making Ghosts Smile 在殡仪馆上夜班，我的KPI是让鬼微笑 I Work the Night Shift at a Funeral Home, and My KPI Is Making Ghosts Smile —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Hold It In! Can I Only Unleash My Ultimate Move in the Bathroom? 憋住！我的大招只能在厕所放？ Hold It In! Can I Only Use My Ultimate Move in the Bathroom? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Primordial War Lord: Reborn at Zhulu, I Won't Die in the Great Marsh Again 洪荒兵主：重生逐鹿，不再葬身大野泽 Primordial War Master: Reborn in the Battle of Zhuolu, No Longer Doomed to Die in Daze Marsh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Undercover in the Western Magic Empire, I Subdue All with One Sword 卧底西方魔法帝庭，我一剑镇万法 I Went Undercover in the Western Magical Empire, and One Sword Subdued All Laws —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Way of Strange Commerce 奇门商道 Introduction to The Qimen Way of Commerce What happens when the rules of finance become forbidden mystic arts and business contracts stretch across three thousand years? Who controls the ultimate laws behind the flow of wealth? Volume One, The Shadowed Way: Luo Yunyi, a professor of finance who carries the secrets of Qimen Dunjia, joins forces with Bai Qingyue, a “Dragon Guardian,” to investigate the bizarre theft at the machine-tool factory in Fengyang City. Together, they uncover the “Drago 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Mystic Arts Feng Shui Master 玄门风水师 The contemporary heir to the Guigu Sect emerges from seclusion and enters the world, taking on the role of a feng shui master. He knows astronomy, understands geography, grasps yin and yang, and distinguishes heaven and earth. See how he uses his mastery of feng shui and the occult to stir up the world and make a name for himself... 10.4kReads7.7Score461Shelves
- 30 A Disciple of the Supreme One, Listed Among the Immortals, Ascending to the Highest Purity 我太上门下，名录仙籍，荣登太清 [Mystic Arts + Cultivation + Fake System + Alternate Modern City + No Female Lead] A sudden turn of events transformed Chen An’s once-peaceful life beyond recognition. What secrets lie behind the many baffling mysteries? Why do countless skeletons form a towering platform of qi, with mournful wails echoing from it? Why does an elusive shadow lurk beneath the great rivers of the Northeast China Plain? What secrets lie beneath the surface of life in the harsh frontier regions? What complex struggl 24Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 31 Wrong Spirit Summoned! The Living Corpse Girl Punches Evil Away 招错魂了！活尸少女铁拳物理驱邪 [Folklore and supernatural tales + soul transmigration + everyday life of a Daoist priest + a touch of ensemble cast + healing] [Heroine: soft-hearted inside, fists of steel] VS [Hero: people-pleaser, devoted and beautiful] Not long after Luo Yan was born, his mother took him to Luoyang. There, she saw peonies as brilliant as rouge and gave him that name. When he was a little older, he saw peonies in full bloom like those. But when he leaned close to smell them, he found a stench of decay hidd 9.6kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves
- 32 With a Fallen God as My Backer, I Rule Both the Yin and Yang Worlds 我靠着堕神大佬，阴阳两界横着走 [Metaphysics]+ [Comedy]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Ghost Hunting] No romance I’m Sang Yu. I’ve been with a fallen-god big shot since I was eight, and ever since, I’ve ruled both the worlds of the living and the dead! What can I do, you ask? Fortune-telling, face-reading, drawing talismans, and ghost hunting. I know a little of everything. Most importantly, I have a golden finger! Zhao Qingxun: Wasn’t I supposed to be the one hiring a servant? Why am I the one fighting, catching ghosts, and ear 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Seeking the Truth of Dragon Veins: Zhang Xiong's Feng Shui Records, Part Two 龙脉寻真：张雄阴阳宅风水实录二 Zhang Xiong (protagonist) · Born in a rural village in Chaoshan, Guangdong, in 1959 · Personality: hardworking and practical, meticulous, and respectful of teachers · Special talent: sensitive to terrain and its energy, with a “feel for the land” A real-life account of modern feng shui that answers your questions and shows you how to make changes yourself. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Bound to the Book of Life and Death, the Lord of the Underworld Urges Me to Be Kind 绑定生死簿，冥王劝我善良 Bound to the Book of Life and Death, the King of the Underworld Urges Me to Be Kind —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After Finding a Cursed Doll, the Witch Urges Me to Be Kind 捡到诅咒娃娃后，女巫劝我善良 After I Found a Cursed Doll, a Witch Urged Me to Be Kind 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 After Finding the College Entrance Exam Answers, the Top Student Urges Me to Work Hard 捡到高考答案后，学神劝我努力 After I Found the Gaokao Answers, the Top Student Urged Me to Work Hard —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 After Aliens Abducted Me, They Urged Me to Love Earth 被外星人绑架后，它劝我热爱地球 After Aliens Abducted Me, They Urged Me to Love Earth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 After Trading My Lifespan for Money, the Demon Urged Me to Stop Selling 我用寿命换钱后，恶魔劝我别卖 After I Traded My Lifespan for Money, a Demon Urged Me to Stop Selling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 After Becoming a Cauldron in the Cultivation World, My Manual Urges Me to Live a Healthy Life? 穿成修仙界炉鼎后，功法劝我养生？ After I Was Reborn as a Cultivation World's Furnace Cauldron, My Technique Urged Me to Take Care of My Health? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 After Binding to a Rebirth System, the Administrator Urges Me to Lie Flat 绑定重生系统后，管理员劝我躺平 After binding to the Rebirth System, the administrator advised me to lie flat —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 I Found a Matchmaking Stone and Married Off Every Gold Digger to a 'Rich Family' 捡到姻缘石，把拜金女都嫁给了“豪门” I found a matchmaking stone and married all the gold diggers off to “wealthy families” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 After Finding the Emperor's Chat Group, My Loyal Ministers Urged Me to Serve the Throne 捡到帝王聊天群后，忠臣劝我忠君 After finding an Emperor Chat Group, my loyal ministers urged me to serve my sovereign —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Little Daoist Priest, Please Wait 小道长，且慢请留步 I use our ancestors' methods to deal with the “unscientific” things of the 1990s. I'm just an itinerant Taoist priest, traveling through the towns and countryside of southern and northern China in the 1990s with A Xuan. We don't beg for alms or pray for blessings. We only deal with one “dirty business” after another, things science can't explain. While others head to Shenzhen to strike it rich, I earn my travel money handling uncanny affairs. Everyone says I'm too young to be a master. Then A Xu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Sanliao: China's Number One Feng Shui Village, a Thousand Years in the Making 千年三僚：中国风水第一村 [Feng shui + sacred sites of geomancy + geomantic arts + feng shui masters + feng shui knowledge, taboos, and ways to overcome them + mysticism, occult arts, fortune-telling, divination, and geomancy that can change both fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] In the chaotic final years of the Tang dynasty, Yang Junsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and later honored as Master Yang, carried a compass and led two boys into the mountains of Xingguo Sanliao 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 A Story Sparked by a Feng Shui Charlatan 一个风水神棍引发的故事 An ordinary person stumbles by chance onto the path of studying fate and feng shui. After a life of great ups and downs, he finds a master and becomes a master of the Daoist arts. What kinds of opportunities will he encounter as he walks the path of slaying demons and eliminating evil... [In the early chapters, drawing on the author’s personal experience studying feng shui and fate-reading, this book will show you how to choose books and get started.] 461Reads—Score104Shelves
- 46 The Forgotten Petal 被遗忘的花瓣 Article 16 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China [Force Majeure and Accidental Events]: If an act causes harmful consequences in objective terms, but they are not the result of intent or negligence and instead arise from an unavoidable or unforeseeable cause, it is not a crime. Qing Li fell asleep with her head resting on the bright red cover of a copy of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China. The cover was still as eye-catching as ever, though the pages had yellowed 128Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 47 Inviting the Divine 请圣 Those who live on alongside heaven and earth are gods; Those who cultivate after birth and attain the Dao are immortals; Those whose divine consciousness lingers after death are ghosts; Those revered by all the people of the world are saints! All saints, past and present, exist within the divine consciousness of the people. The faith gathered by those who worship them becomes holy thought. To practice the art of inviting a saint, one must use divine consciousness to observe and search far and 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 My Shrine Is Full of Jokers and Screw-Ups 我的堂口，全是逗比和坑货 Yang Erlang reincarnated + an ancient tragic love + a cast of screwups + face-slapping comeback The whole village laughs at me for being a useless spirit medium. The immortals at my altar are all lazy screwups, and my uncle, a Qingfeng spirit and master thief, is the most unreliable of them all. I smash the ancestral copper coin and single-handedly conquer the Nine Hells. The underworld's soldiers keep three paces away from me! One sentence from my little aunt, muttered in her sleep, reveals t 9Reads—Score109Shelves
- 49 The King of the Underworld Is Forced to Hunt Ghosts in Showbiz 冥王被迫在娱乐圈抓鬼 {Metaphysics} {Ghost Hunting} {Entertainment Industry} {Livestreaming} {Mythology} Ghosts in the underworld began disappearing for no apparent reason. After the ghost guards' investigations turned up nothing, the Lord of the Underworld, Bei Muqing, went to the mortal realm himself to look into it. There, he discovered that demons and monsters were running rampant in the entertainment industry. With no other choice, the Lord of the Underworld was forced to hunt ghosts among celebrities. The first 194Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 50 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满：炸翻阴阳界 Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—Shelves
