Tomb Raiding: Guardian of the Ancient Bloodline

Seventeen years ago, Lin Tiancheng, a history professor, mysteriously disappeared during an archaeological expedition. The only clue was an ancient book of notes filled with riddles.

Seventeen years later, his son Lin Yuan stumbled upon a fragment of bronze at an antiques market. The moment he touched it, images from just before his father's disappearance flashed through his mind: a bronze cauldron, jade, and twisted light...

A mysterious man claiming to be his martial uncle found him and told Lin Yuan that the bronze fragment was a piece of the legendary Nine Tripod Cauldrons, and that his father had disappeared after taking part in a secret mission to protect them.

The Guardians are a secret organization passed down through the generations for a thousand years. Their mission is to protect historical relics from being damaged or forgotten. Lin Yuan inherited his father's ability to resonate with antiquities, allowing him to sense the history carried by an artifact through touch.

To uncover the truth behind his father's disappearance, Lin Yuan joined the Guardians and became the student of the taciturn Zhang Qiling. Along with technology expert Wang Kai, they formed a three-person team. They tracked a relic-trafficking syndicate from the newly discovered Sanxingdui excavation pits to the Western Xia imperial tombs, traveling from China to overseas locations as they gradually unraveled the secrets of the Nine Tripod Cauldrons.

But the truth was far more complicated than they had imagined. The Guardians...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.