Looking for High-Quality Tomb-Raiding Novels 求精品盗墓题材的小说
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The Hidden Dragon's Secret Tomb 藏龙秘葬
(No System, no transmigration, no different people, no harem.) This world is full of unsolved mysteries. The fox-shaped shadow in a pit along the Qinling dragon vein, the mysterious disappearance of the Twin Fish Jade Pendant, the mystery of eternal life surrounding Loulan’s ancient kingdom and its left ear, the eerie mirage at the Gate of Hell in Kunlun… Can you believe it? A stunning beauty drops two sacks of cash on me and says she wants to uncover the truth behind this world and search for t
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The Thief’s Disciple 盗徒
(A new author and a new book. The rating has just come out, but it will gradually rise.) My uncle said I wasn't cut out for this line of work, but he was the one who took me into my first tomb. My name is Li Wuming. I've been called an ill-fated loner since I was a child. When my grandfather forced me to memorize the feng shui formulas in the Book of Origins, I thought the most I'd ever become was a fortune-teller. Some roads aren't ones I choose to take. Fate forces me down them.
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The Yin-Yang Secret Records: The Old Man Won’t Let Me Open That Coffin 阴阳秘录：老爷子不让我开那口棺
The Secret Record of Yin and Yang: The Old Man Won’t Let Me Open That Coffin
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Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆：从迁坟开始扬名
On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma
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The Tomb Raider Who Keeps Time 盗墓守时人
“Guardians of Time and the Memory of Civilization”, All ancient tombs and ruins are actually defensive fortifications built by Chinese civilization to withstand periodic “spatiotemporal cataclysms.” The struggle between tomb raiders and tomb guardians is, in truth, a battle over the memory of civilization.
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National Treasure 国家宝藏
[Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
804.8kReads9.4Score53.5kShelves
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Dragon-Subduing Divine Constable 降龙神捕
After several years as a police officer, I found myself in a strange and fantastical world. Mountain spirits roam the hills, while vengeful spirits, evil ghosts, and zombies appear in endless numbers at night. Though weak as ants, we should still aspire to greatness. Though oppressed, we must forge an unyielding heart. That was all nonsense. I’m just a low-level constable, working for the yamen. Greetings, honored sirs.
70.7kReads9.2Score8.1kShelves
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Tomb Hunting in the Wilderness 荒野寻墓
[Tomb Raiding Is Illegal, So Don’t Try It Yourself] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Appraisal + Human Nature + Rules] In the 1990s, with nowhere else to turn, I joined a tomb-raiding gang and embarked on a perilous quest to find ancient tombs. We searched the towering mountains for a vanished kingdom that had stood for a thousand years. Could the sacrificial rites of the ancient Shu civilization really grant eternal life? The deceit and scheming in the antiques trade showed me how cold the world could
54kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves
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Kunlun Abyss: A Forbidden Land of the Mortal Realm 昆仑深渊：人间禁地
[Over 40 million views for the animated adaptation, 9.6 rating for the audiobook, print edition signed, a hit with readers!] Deep in the Kunlun Mountains, sealed underground for two thousand years, lies an elite army of the Great Qin, thought never to have survived. I’m an active-duty soldier. During a rescue mission in an uninhabited zone, I accidentally stumbled into this forbidden place. At death’s door, I had an extraordinary encounter that saved my life. From then on, I joined a mysteriou
45.4kReads9.0Score3.8kShelves
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Tomb Raiding: Wu Xiaofoye Has Decided to Die 盗墓：吴小佛爷决定去死
[South Blind, North Mute, East Rogue, West Flower, and the Fat Master in the Middle + Li Cu + no female lead] After being reborn, Wu Xiaofoye isn’t the only one who’s gone crazy. His crooked ways have gone crazy too. “When the innocent one stops being innocent, all that’s left is quiet malice.” What can soothe regret isn’t Thunder City, but his obsession. The day they went down into the Seven-Star Lu Palace, Zhang Qiling had made a deal with Wu Sansheng to protect his eldest nephew. Watching
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Tomb Raiding: Don’t Make Things Hard for a Fortune-Teller Like Me 盗墓：别难为我一个算命的啊
[Female lead, no romance!!!!] An ordinary high school student ends up in a tomb-raiding world. Miserable enough? Not even close! From the start, she runs into Hei Xiazi and Xie Di, and both of them suspect her. Miserable enough? Still not! Shen Jinqing says there is no such thing as the worst, only worse! Heaven dragged her here, and she can't go back unless she changes the plot. But just look at how completely the plot has gone off the rails! She originally planned to cling to Little Tianzhen,
17.3kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
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Tomb Raiding: I Dance on the Heads of the Nine Gates 盗墓我在九门头上蹦迪
[Tomb raiding + comedy + everyone’s darling] She was rescued from a muddy pit and sat high upon a divine altar for hundreds of years. Then the times changed, and she was forced to leave the altar and enter the mortal world. Little Chenchen thinks this new home is pretty darn great! There are schemes all over this little city, and Little Chenchen loves it! See how she turns that era upside down! From a six-year-old toddler to a graceful young woman, she gradually learns the warmth and bustle of e
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Tomb-Raiding Immortality: My Goal Is to Retire in Yucun 盗墓长生：目标，在雨村养老
[No mindless antics + tomb raiding + no female lead + no System + time travel + the Iron Triangle] I sincerely hope my arrival can heal all his regrets… I came from my own world to Wu Tianzhen’s world. It was because of this experience that I uncovered the ultimate secret. Across the past, present, and future, I befriended the Iron Triangle in different periods of their lives, across different dimensions of time. My appearance even changed the fates of some people. Once everything had settled, w
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Tomb Raiding: They All Call Me the Snake Ancestor 盗墓：他们都叫我蛇祖
[Kindhearted but Not a Doormat + Everyone’s Favorite + Villain Later On] En Ge, studying abroad, only wanted to go downstairs and buy a sandwich. Somehow, he got caught up in a live-action battle royale. All those foreign guys were fine, but he was the only passerby who got shot. He shut his eyes, kicked the bucket, and transmigrated! His System was a slightly haughty little thing with an accent, constantly egging him on to go dig up other people’s ancestral graves. Then one day, En Ge discovere
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Secrets of the Hidden Labyrinth 藏迷探秘
An accident ten years ago led me down the path of tomb raiding. On my first tomb expedition, I gained the ability to live forever, but it came at a terrible cost. Is immortality truly a blessing, or a curse? To uncover the secret of immortality, I traveled far and wide, exploring countless famous mountains and ancient tombs, and experiencing more bizarre events than I could count: the sinister Daji hidden in a tree in the Stone-Born Haunted Tomb, a blue elf that had survived for a thousand years
6.4kReads8.8Score714Shelves
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Tomb Raiding: The Dark Mystery Mirror 盗墓：玄冥宝鉴
[Tomb raiding + treasure hunting + mystery solving + ensemble cast + history + no mindless plot] An original work, not fan fiction. [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try this yourself.] Does the Dust-Repelling Pearl really exist? What secrets lie behind it? What strange and mysterious events are hidden behind the national treasures? What connections link tomb raiding, antique appraisal, the underworld, the martial world, and the protagonist?
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Tomb Raiding Tales from Western Henan 豫西倒斗往事
[Tomb Raiding] [Appraisal] [Period Piece] [Supernatural Mystery] [Feng Shui Secrets] My name is Jin Hai. My grandfather was one of the most skilled tomb raiders of the Republic of China era. While he was alive, he repeatedly warned me never to get involved in tomb raiding. But after he died, I had no choice and ended up taking that path anyway. In the early 1990s, I went against his dying wish and followed in his footsteps, bringing along my childhood friend Wang Ping. Our Luoyang spade plunged
6.1kReads8.2Score319Shelves
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Tales of the Shocking Shan Hai Tomb 山海惊墓录
I was born in Northeast China, at the western foot of Changbai Mountain. From there, my journey began, crossing rivers and enduring hardship. Everything started there. The strange and uncanny things I encountered in those years, I wanted to bury deep in my heart and let time wear them away. But nightmares came again and again, disturbing my sleep. Whenever I woke with a start, I often felt I could barely breathe, and the pain cut to the bone. Thinking it over, I finally decided to put pen to pap
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Tomb of Mountains and Seas 2 山海惊墓录2
Where will we end up if we keep going down? At the Earth's core? The darkness seems to cling to our skin and seep into our bones. Aren't we underground? Then why is there an endless river of stars above us?
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Records of the Shocking Tombs of Shan Hai 3 山海惊墓录3
Some hear breathing but cannot find its source; some see a shadow but cannot tell whether it is their own or some being from the sea. It feels neither anger nor joy. The moment you step inside, it remembers you, and you will never be able to leave.
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Tales of the Shanhai Tomb 4 山海惊墓录4
A low, eerie chuckle drifted from deep within the desolate woods. The red cloth that had been offered in worship swayed from a branch. Ancient paper ash and dying incense lay scattered on the ground, and faded red cords hung deep in the forest. It looked up at me, its mouth splitting into a grin.
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Stealing Heaven's Heart from the Strange 盗诡天心
[Tomb-raiding adventure + character growth + male lead with extraordinary abilities + conspiracy] Secrets have been passed down since ancient times, and countless people have followed in one another's footsteps to uncover them. I'm just an ordinary man, working at a bookstore owned by a distant relative, but hidden forces draw me into this game. The arrival of an old man sets everything in motion. It begins with the Cat Ghost of Yunhai, and I follow the script into the world of tomb raiding. Yet
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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
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Burying Mountains and Seas 葬山海
Chen Xiaole, a graduate student in history, is accidentally drawn into a secret mission at Archive Nine because of a wanted notice smeared with glue. In an underground cavern, he brings out the remains of an immortal whose lips are curved in a smile: an Immortal Husk. From then on, strange things happen one after another: an old immortal appears in his dreams and asks him to return the husk to the mountains, a mysterious stranger on an online forum directs him to Lingyun Temple in Anhui, a haunt
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The Ghost Mirror King's Mausoleum: A Clash Between Heaven and Earth 诡镜王陵之天地对决
[Tomb Raiding + Suspense + Transmigration + Supernatural + Fantasy] Ten years ago, when the vicious Liang Zhongkui killed Xia Bu and Qin Dachuan to claim the sheepskin scroll for himself, the veil of conspiracy behind this strange feud was finally lifted for future generations. It turned out that everything had been done for God's Power Pack. According to unofficial historical accounts, whoever obtained the pack could not only conquer the entire world, but also gain boundless energy when activat
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Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局
[Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries.
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The Xiao Family's Secret Cache: The Bronze Mystery 霄家秘藏之青铜迷局
Xiao Yi is a descendant of the Zhang family. Influenced by his father, all he wants is a quiet, uneventful life. But he goes from being a college student to plunging ever deeper into danger in search of the mysteries surrounding the bronze artifacts and the ultimate secret. As everyone searches for those secrets, no one realizes that the secret is already inside Xiao Yi. What could it be? No one has any idea.
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I Just Wanted to Make Some Money, but I Stirred Up a Millennia-Old Mystery 我就想搞点钱却搅动了千年迷局
He is descended from the Chen family's tomb-raiding captains, yet he has no idea that he was chosen from birth, not to rob tombs, but to serve as a key. On a bronze door hidden underground is a palm print that fits his left hand perfectly. Waiting for him beyond the door is a body identical to his own, and a secret older than his family's bloodline.
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Repairing the Dragon Vein: Starting by Digging for Dragons in the Three Gorges 修龙脉：从三峡挖龙开始
Mending dragon veins is not tomb raiding. You cannot simply charge in, swinging a pickaxe and digging straight down. Tomb raiding is destruction and plunder, seizing the lifeless grave goods. Mending dragon veins, by contrast, is soothing and awakening, restoring vitality to the mountains and rivers. It is an elegant and sacred art. Like a physician taking a pulse, your fingertips must feel the heartbeat of the earth. Like a painter guiding a brush, you must regulate the subtle flow of earth
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The Essence of Heaven and Earth 地天髓
One man is eighty years old, another is four hundred. In my youth, I climbed the mountains until my shoes wore through. Why, then, do clouds rise from the peaks tonight? I see a rainbow in the sky, then return to the world after hundreds of years. In an instant, a vast red cloud sweeps across the heavens. “Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Primordial Wilderness + Tomb Raiding + Ancient Masks + Comedy + Horror...” I was different from the moment I was born. Others have three flowers gath
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Tianxia Bachang's Tomb-Raiding Legends (Five-Book Set) 天下霸唱摸金传奇（共五册）
This series consists of five books: Tracing the Sacred Spring, The Mysterious Tombs of Xiangxi, The Monster Tombs of the Mountains and Seas, The Poisonous Gu of Fuxian, and The Wild Sands of the Treasure Vault. Tracing the Sacred Spring: The greatest tomb-raiding trio in history, Hu Bayi, Wang Pangzi, and Shirley Yang, are back in full force. They venture deep into the distant Amazon rainforest to begin a new expedition! The Mysterious Tombs of Xiangxi: The greatest trio of gold-touching experts
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
684.8kReads9.6Score88.6kShelves
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The Underground World (Complete in Four Volumes) 地底世界（全四册）
Break through the barriers between reality and illusion, and redefine the limits of human understanding! Deep in a colossal rift lies the City of Four Million Pagodas. Carved by countless storms over ages beyond measure, it has always remained a blind spot beyond human perception. Yet a vast secret lies hidden in that empty darkness. Archaeological teams have ventured there again and again, but not a single person has ever returned alive. But curiosity is human nature, and exploration is instinc
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The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局
[Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra
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Knocking at the Tomb Gate 叩陵门
[Tomb Raiding + The Supernatural + Horror + Mystery] When the last generation of highly skilled “underground workers” meets the first group of academically trained archaeologists, carrying fresh ideals, they are not colleagues. Yet, at the will of the state, they are forced to form an unprecedented special team. Their mission is not to hunt for treasure, but to rescue it. Their adversaries are not only the bizarre mechanisms in thousand-year-old tombs, but also foreign forces stirring in the sha
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The Ghostly Blindfold 鬼蒙眼
One night, Liu Zhiwei took a shortcut and ended up haunted by an evil spirit. Misfortune piled up, and he wound up drowning in debt. With no other choice, he and his equally hard-up friend Wu Cheng risked their lives to excavate Japanese tombs. Little did they know that they would go further and further down the road of grave robbing.
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The Lost Treasures of Zechuan 泽川遗藏
History + wild imagination + scheming male lead + suspense + urban Did you know? Scattered across this land, through the turning seasons and its boundless mountains and rivers, lie countless hidden treasures. Their clues can just barely be made out, yet their secrets remain unsolved. From the hymns of Brahma on the snowy plains of the Western Regions to the bronze ritual vessels of dynasties buried in the Central Plains’ yellow earth; from broken walls and ancient steles in the southern land
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The Tomb Raiders of Nanling 南岭土夫子
An ancient-tomb journal left behind by my grandfather, and a perilous journey where death lurked at every turn. I sought out a renowned figure in the underworld in Guangxi and became his apprentice, entering the tomb-raiding trade. After exploring ancient tombs across the north and south, finding hidden treasures and solving deadly traps, I became one of the great tomb raiders of the Nanling region.
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