Novels like Maoshan Ghost Arts: Kill, Never Deliver Souls
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- 51 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 The Sticky Echoes of the Basement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear-Eyed Darkness 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 2.1kReads—Score140Shelves
- 57 The Scientist Miss Won’t Fall in Love with the Taoist Mr. 科学家小姐不会爱上道士先生 [Romance + Comedy + Mystery + Fantasy + Sci-Fi] (Not a wish-fulfillment story) After leaving the mountain, Su He, a Taoist priest, becomes obsessed with the female character Li from the game Legendary Showdown. One day, while taking on a mission with a senior, Su He meets a beautiful silver-haired girl with red eyes, only to discover that her name is Su Li! A fledgling Taoist priest and a lonely materialist scientist cross paths by fate. Su He falls in love with Su Li at first sight, and she is 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Occult Medicine: My Wife Is a Nurse 异术诡医：我老婆是护士 Zhang Zhe: “Don't rush. I'm about to die.” Zhang Zhe: “Don't worry. Once I'm dead, you can take my heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.” Zhang Zhe is terminally ill and on the verge of death. But who could have guessed that while he was watching a meteor shower, a wisp of a remnant soul would crash into him and cure him? Zhang Zhe: “This is a problem. If they find out I won't die after all, they'll probably fight me to the death.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 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
- 60 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 New Tales from the Strange Studio 新聊斋奇谈 The author has collected strange tales of ghosts and monsters from elderly people around them and various folk sources. The stories are fresh, with surprising twists, and have the feel of a modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Not for the faint of heart! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 One Stick of Incense to Worship the Gods, an Outlaw Exorcist: Zhang Wulang! 一香祀神法外狂徒，端公张五郎！ This book is a work of fiction. The rituals, incantations, and water-based magic performed by Duangongs are invented for the story. Do not imitate them. What you read here is a story, not a craft. Cherish life and trust in science. Read the final chapter, and you will see with your own eyes what lies at the end of tearing down altars and temples. I transmigrated to the late Qing dynasty and became an outlaw. In other words, a man beyond the reach of the law. My skills came from ancient times, b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 It's 2:30 A.M. Let Me Tell You a Story! 凌晨两点半，我来给你讲故事！ Before I knew it, this book had passed 200 chapters. Time flies, and now the story is nearing its conclusion. It will end after just one million words. We’re currently in the rapid-update phase, with three chapters posted every day at 9 a.m. This book is a collection of folk horror stories set in the countryside. Each chapter is a standalone story, and every plot has been carefully crafted by the author. Comments from fellow readers are welcome. If you like it, add it to your bookshelf. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Way of Heaven: Feng Shui Master, I Control the Universe 天道门，风水神师，乾坤由我执掌 The lotus scorched by hellfire is the birthmark on my back. The sins of my past life were too great, and in this life I'm fated to die young. To stay alive, I descend the mountain in search of a way, only to find eighty-one coffins and an underworld wedding waiting for me. A coin hung from a mountain, a cup of water holding the world in check. A demon fetus in a human belly, a woman in a bottle, the witchcraft of Luonan, eight or nine layers of coffins, the underworld's watery halls, a golden co 332Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 68 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 21Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 69 The Whole World Believes in Gods, but I'm the Only One Who Believes in Taoism 全球信神，只有我信道教无敌 The whole world has been chosen by the gods. Only by serving a god can people gain supernatural powers. In the Sakura Kingdom, there are Shinto shrines dedicated to the Yin-Yang Gods and Amaterasu! In the West, there are the Church and the Necromancers' Guild... Only in the land of Yanhuang are there no traces of Taoism, making it a place where foreign lands compete to spread their faith. Jiang Heng transmigrated! After learning the truth, he rejected the gods of foreign lands and resolved to es 35Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 70 I Write Horror Novels on Tomato Novel 我在番茄写恐怖小说 A friendly heads-up: [This story is wildly imaginative] This novel brings together over a hundred stories, with elements of the uncanny, fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror. Unlike other novels, it has no long, tedious passages. Every story is full of eerie, fresh surprises. 121Reads—Score127Shelves
- 71 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
- 72 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Folk Secrets of Ghost Hunting 民间猎鬼秘术 Practical, hands-on content, focused on feng shui, ghost-hunting techniques, and other useful know-how! [Strictly traditional, no System, no wild fantasy, no saintly heroine! A technical, skills-focused story!] My name is Wang Nan. I’m 31, and I’ve been making a living from yin-yang work since I was 16. Now I want to sort out my love life, so I’ve decided to retire from the business. Everything I describe below comes from my own experiences over the past decade or so, or from things that have ha 400Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 74 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Paper Figures Knock at the Door: No Living People Allowed 纸人敲门，活人勿进 The father who came back with a corpse died yesterday. The old man who came to report a death was made of paper. My childhood sweetheart, Fang Ting, kept watch with me. At dawn, she was gone too. Suona horns blared outside. Her father held up her memorial portrait and said she had died at eight o'clock last night. So what was the thing in my bed last night? And now, evil beings from a hundred li in every direction are heading for my home. 6.6kReads7.1Score523Shelves
- 76 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
- 77 From Beggar in a Ruined Temple to the Ancestor of All Daoist Sects 从破庙乞丐，到天下道门之祖 [Daoism + ensemble cast + slow burn + not mindless wish fulfillment + strong traditional Daoist themes. If it’s not your thing, don’t read.] After transmigrating into the body of a beggar with paralyzed legs, he encounters a vengeful ghost seeking his life... At death’s door, Li Daoxuan holds up a Golden Light Seal and chants the Golden Light Divine Incantation. To his surprise, it really drives the ghost away, and he awakens the Daoist True Immortal System. From then on, an unremarkable little 49.4kReads7.6Score5kShelves
- 78 I Told You to Be a Taoist, So Why Did You Strike My Ex-Girlfriend with Lightning? 让你当道士，你却雷劈前女友？ [Folk Horror + Lighthearted Comedy + No Female Lead + Decisive and Ruthless + Packed with Jokes + Slow Start] After my girlfriend broke up with me, she ran off to northern Myanmar to work in sales for someone else. When she came back, she'd turned into an evil ghost who wanted to rip out my kidneys. To save myself, I accidentally became a Taoist priest. I'm not much good at the arts, but I've got a real talent for cursing people out! I learn thunder magic and raise fierce spirit soldiers. I'm a 11.5kReads8.2Score872Shelves
- 79 Ghost Hunting: My Baton Is Made of Thunderstruck Wood! 捉鬼：我的警棍可是雷击木做的！ The protagonist, Chen Mo, starts out as an ordinary criminal police officer. After stumbling upon a supernatural incident, he is recruited by the Special Security Department to join its Seventh Squad, which specializes in handling paranormal cases. The Seventh Squad is a unit stationed in the field that deals with supernatural criminal cases. Hidden within the police station, its members work with beings the public knows nothing about. 249Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Records of a Hundred Ghosts 百鬼事录 [Short Story Collection] + [Based on True Events] + [Folk Paranormal] + [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Urban Legends] + [Standalone Stories] Two hundred standalone horror stories, with no dragging things out. Every story delivers a jolt to the heart, with supernatural encounters, suspense, and eerie mysteries taking turns onstage. No lengthy buildup, just instant scares. Not for the faint of heart! 261Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 81 A Young Taoist Moonlights as a Spirit Medium, and Every Demon and Ghost Rushes to Offer Him a Smoke 小道兼职出马仙，精妖鬼怪忙递烟 What? The little treasure is facing a life-and-death ordeal at six? How could the old immortals let their beloved little darling come to harm? Protect! Spoil! Help! Oh my... How is this kid getting more and more capable? Now she's protecting the old immortals' little brats instead?! Who cares what kind of monster the Hu family is? If they mess with my old immortals, I'll kill them without a second thought! Hu Xianxian is the prettiest, I'll praise her, praise her, praise her! Liu Xian is the tou 20.6kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
- 82 Strange Tales of Folk Feng Shui 民间风水奇谭 In 2013, hundreds of thousands of fish died in Liaozhong Reservoir; ghosts roamed the streets of Tawan; a sinister market appeared in Wenguantun; and a Qing princess rode in a sedan chair outside Shenyang Imperial Palace. But could these all be the work of nature? I am a feng shui master. Over the past ten years, I've saved many people, and harmed some as well. I wrote this book to warn the world: “Feng shui can nurture people, but it can also kill.” But the law itself is neither good nor evil. 533Reads5.3Score102Shelves
- 83 I Became a Heavenly Master of the Dao 我成了道门天师 My name is Li Changqing. When my mother gave birth to me, ghosts roamed the night, and a wandering Daoist saved my life. He said my fate was far too harsh, bringing calamity to my closest relatives. My parents might not die peacefully… and I still had three disasters to survive. My only chance of survival was to join the Daoist sect. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Yin Sovereign: The Fox Immortal Arrives 阴天子，狐仙驾到 I was born with an extraordinary destiny, meant to become an emperor. But just after I was born, someone tried to sabotage my fate. To save me, my grandfather gave away the merit accumulated by eighteen generations of our family, and risked his own life to defy the heavens and change my destiny... 5.4kReads7.4Score357Shelves
- 85 The Supernatural Investigation Society 超自然力量诡探社 A detective agency called Supernatural Forces specializes in investigating mysterious cases that science can't explain, while never admitting its existence to outsiders. Male Lead: Li Xiaoming An ordinary human with no talent for the occult and no special bloodline. As a child, he lived in the alleys of the old district and often heard neighbors recount all kinds of strange supernatural happenings. He became determined to uncover the truth behind them. As an adult, he independently studied physi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Heavenly Fate Shop 天命铺 Some borrow years from others. Some change their fate. Some seek wealth. Some yearn for children. But people don't know that every gift fate bestows comes with a price already marked. My name is Lu Qing. Other fortune-tellers charge money. I tell fortunes and collect lives. Before my grandfather died, he left me with just one sentence: “The day the Heavenly Fate Shop opens is the day you repay your debt.” Then one day, a little girl, soaked from head to toe, walked into my shop… She handed me a 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Beast-Tongue Murder Cases: The Antisocial Personality Forced to Become Everyone's Favorite 兽语凶案，反社会人格被迫成团宠 [Animal Speech + Crime Investigation + Antisocial Villainess + Beloved by the Detective Squad + Beloved by Little Animals] The gentle Captain Shen Anxin of the Criminal Investigation Squad ✖️ Su Tang, an antisocial personality [Devoted to Each Other + Redemption + Healing + Childhood Sweethearts + A Hero Who Is a Master Chef] Su Tang has an antisocial personality, and her greatest hobby is plotting murders. The doctor says it’s an illness and needs treatment. Su Tang decides to give up on treatm 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Feng Shui Master: I Started by Subduing a Peerlessly Beautiful Corpse 风水天师：从收服绝美女尸开始 Supernatural mysteries + feng shui + Taoist arts + corpse seamsters + corpse salvagers + Gu sorcery + Nanyang black magic + folk occult arts + paper effigies A peerlessly beautiful female corpse, a seven-tailed white fox, a living corpse, an inn between yin and yang, a red bellyband, a haunted house, the slaying of an evil god, a drowned ghost, a hanged ghost, a headless ghost, embroidered shoes “Within three months, you must complete five tasks involving the dead, or you’ll be doomed beyond red 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 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
- 92 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 315Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 The Boundless Way 道法无边 From the moment I met my godfather, my life was destined to be extraordinary! Strange things are just part of everyday life for me, and all my friends are unusual too! There's the handsome, aloof cat demon, the seductive fox spirit, and the honorable Ghost King! Watch as I lead my powerful companions to slay evil demons and crush every wicked path! When the talisman rises, demons fall; when it descends, heaven and earth are set in order! 88Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 94 Uncle Nine: My Younger Brother Has the Makings of a Celestial Master 九叔：吾弟有天师之姿 [Uncle Jiu + Taoist Priest + Growth + Three Systems + Transmigration + No Romance + the Myriad Worlds] [He suppressed his merit early on, but not his cultivation level. Later, he reaches the Celestial Master realm, making this a pure power fantasy. If you don't like that, don't read!] My name is Lin Li. The good news: I transmigrated and became a disciple of Daoist Qingxu. The bad news: this is a world overrun by ghosts and monsters. No big deal. Luckily, I have a System. What?! Uncle Jiu is act 11.6kReads8.0Score950Shelves
- 95 The Celestial Register of Mystical Insight 洞玄天箓 [Alternate history] + [No female lead] + [Daoist arts] + [Ghosts and monsters] (The male lead is no overpowered hero. Readers looking for an indulgent power fantasy, proceed with caution.) The Taishang Ganying Pian says: perform three hundred good deeds to become an Earth Immortal; those who seek to become Celestial Immortals must perform one thousand three hundred. To prove his Dao and attain its fruit, Zhang Yuandong travels alone through a chaotic age, slaying demons and vanquishing evil, ear 160Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 96 The Taoist Priestess Comes Down the Mountain: Don’t Stop Me from Drawing My Sword 女道士下山，别耽误贫道拔剑 [Female Taoist + College Student + Real and Fake Heiresses + Metaphysics + Apocalypse] Shen Yuetao was drained of her fortune and exploited to death by her wealthy relatives. Now she’s reborn at eighteen. She won’t give up her chance to attend a top university for the fake heiress again. And she won’t walk into another trap set by her “family.” So what if her wealthy parents favor the fake heiress? So what if her wealthy fiancé only loves the fake heiress? In the eyes of this humble Taoist, worl 246Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 97 I Picked Up a Republic-Era Ghost Wife 捡个民国鬼妻当老婆 Lin Mo, a greedy, lecherous relationship counselor, takes a bride price of a hundred thousand yuan to go on a matchmaking visit to a remote village. In a daze, he signs a marriage pact with the dead and marries a ghost bride from the Republic of China era who has been dead for eighty years! His left hand awakens as a Yin Hand: touch a ghost and it can be destroyed, touch a living woman and she suffers searing pain. Only a female ghost can approach him without harm. A cool, beautiful policewoman 156Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 I Came from the Taoist Sect, Call Me the Dao Lord 我从道门来请叫我道君 [Supernatural] [Modern] [Daoist priest] [Ghost hunting] [Demon slaying] Zhang Qingyuan was born with yin-yang eyes. To keep him safe and healthy, his parents sent him up a mountain to become a Daoist priest. After graduating from university, he returned to the temple and inherited his master's affairs. He thought demons and ghosts had become exceedingly rare in this day and age, leaving him with no chance to put his skills to use. Then a chance encounter showed him a different world. Demons were 4Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 99 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 802Reads7.6Score102Shelves
