Novels like Adventure Journal
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- 1 Memoirs of a Tomb Raider 盗墓者回忆录 [No System, not fanfiction, entirely original!!!] Tomb raiding is a technical craft. You must open a tomb without damaging it, and open a coffin without breaking it. This story begins in 1998 at Whitehair Mountain, on the southern slopes of the Qinling Mountains. Pagoda of the Buddha, Mound of Ten Thousand Bones: a tomb-raiding adventure with a suspenseful edge. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Gold-Seeking Nightwalker 寻金夜行者 The times are always advancing. If you can't keep up, society will leave you behind. Only by continually working hard and learning can you improve and grow. The harsh realities of human nature forced me to enter this complicated society too soon, where I struggle, face setbacks, and keep moving forward… 3Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 3 The Tomb-Seeker's Chronicle 寻墓探迹录 [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Underworld] What if the life you seek does not exist, and the regrets in your heart can never be soothed... The unprecedented ice disaster of 2008 led to me, a seventeen-year-old, joining a tomb-raiding crew by a twist of fate. From then on, I entered the underground world and the treacherous world of human hearts, never to live an ordinary life again. After returning from the Kunlun Mountains, I thought I could leave the scene behind for good. But, to my surprise, I —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Treasure-Hunting Livestream: I Collect the World's Greatest Treasures 直播寻宝：我收尽全球至宝 On the day Ye Ling transmigrates, a mysterious countdown and announcement appear in the sky around the world: in seven days, the age of global exploration will begin. All historical ruins and legendary secret realms will “come alive,” holding real power and deadly dangers. The ancient carvings and sword in Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland; Davy Jones's heart in the Caribbean; the Sea God's Crown, symbol of Atlantis's royal authority 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Ancient Map of the Nine Provinces 上古九州山河图 In the 1950s, with strong support from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the History Department of Peking University established the country's first archaeology program. It admitted undergraduate archaeology students and began training the first generation of archaeologists for the People's Republic of China. Chinese archaeology flourished, and in the 1970s, excavations at Yin Ruins unearthed a mysterious artifact d 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Forbidden Code (Original Title: Ancient Tales of the Yellow River) 禁忌密码（原名：黄河古事） The great river flows ever eastward, nurturing China's most ancient and brilliant civilization. For thousands of years, countless people have tried to uncover its secrets, yet no one knows what truly lies hidden in its waters. Corpses embracing boats, ghosts sailing vessels, strange stone coffins sunk beneath the riverbed, nameless bodies rising from the dead... A river diver who grew up along the Yellow River takes you back thirty years, to an era brimming with bizarre mysteries and thrilling t 168Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Notes on Searching for Dragons 寻龙笔记 In the early 1980s, everything was about money. It was an era of setting things right, an absurd era, an era of daring and fighting, and above all, an era full of opportunity. It was fate that led me into the world of antiques, where I took up archaeology, exploration, and treasure hunting. This suspenseful, perilous tale of twists and turns begins when the production team organized a river-repair project. 59Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 8 Seeking My Grandfather with Kunlun’s Secret Talisman 昆仑秘符寻祖父 Carrying his ancestral compass, Yang Wenhua ventures deep into the treacherous Kunlun Mountains to investigate his grandfather's disappearance, where he encounters a blood corpse in a deadly cave. He feeds blood to a talisman, triggering a secret passage. The man-eating menace beneath a sealed divine palace and the truth about his bloodline are about to be revealed... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Top-Secret Restricted Zone 绝密禁区 [Exploration + Mystery Solving + Teamwork + Ruins + Challenges + Experiments] An unexplained videotape sets off an expedition into the remote mountains of the Great Northwest. An exploration team heads out carrying specially made engineer shovels, breaking into abandoned mines, stumbling into mysterious caverns, and uncovering an experimental facility left behind half a century ago. One baffling mystery after another gradually comes to light. 6Reads—Score214d adds
- 10 Tomb Raider's Notes 盗墓手札 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, uncanny world opened before my eyes. Deep beneath mysterious tombs that have stood for millennia, half the people are tomb raiders, and the other half are... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Dragon Vein of Cangshan 苍山龙脉 A bronze coffin unearthed beneath the Qinling Mountains reveals a secret buried for a thousand years. Shen Ling, a retired soldier and heir to a line of tomb raiders, is forced back into the trade after finding half of a dragon-patterned jade pendant left behind by his uncle before he disappeared. He turns to his childhood friend Jiang Kui, who made his fortune dealing in grave goods at Babaoshan, and meets Gu Qingyan, an archaeologist willing to do anything to find her father. More terrifying s 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Eye Beneath the Earth 入地眼 I was just seven when I crawled out of the tomb. Much later, when I looked back on it, it seemed as if everything had been arranged by fate. Perhaps from that very moment, it was predestined that I, who had crawled out of that tomb, would embark on an adventurous, mysterious, and utterly bizarre legendary journey. The dragon stirs, and the land is shaken! 1.3kReads8.6Score13614d adds
- 13 Forbidden Ground for the Living 活人禁地 Seek out the world's rare treasures, and plunder its hidden relics. The living should stay away from these places... 1.5kReads7.2Score13114d adds
- 14 The Great Mystery 大迷踪 Does the legendary Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin really exist? Where did the mysterious organization with snake tattoos on the backs of their necks come from? A strange ancient blade shaped like a serpent, and a life-or-death game spanning a thousand years! Can the young man who stepped out of an antique shop shoulder the heavy, turning wheel of fate? What can the so-called heir to the art of tomb-grabbing really do? 40Reads7.1Score10314d adds
- 15 The Haunted Ancient Village 幽灵古村 Read the new book, Yin-Yang Geomancer, now: Chapter 1, The Tomb-Raiding Gang An accident during an expedition led them into a bizarre ancient village. At the village inn, there was a soul-stirring sound in the middle of the night, a strange white figure by the bed, an old woman whose whole family had died horribly, and a girl who kept a mysterious white fox. There was a mysterious spirit-summoning ritual, an ancient and horrifying sacrifice, and an old well shrouded in strange legends. After ret 1.4kReads6.7Score10014d adds
- 16 Kunlun Abyss 昆仑极渊 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Adventure + Lighthearted + Witchcraft] The Ghost Mother of the Ghost Kingdom in a bronze coffin, the mysterious boat-shaped coffin in a thousand-year-old well, the coffin sunk beneath the lake in the Valley of Death on Mount Kunlun, the mysterious airport on Mount Kunlun, and the temple ruins of the Queen Mother of the West's kingdom all point to one mythical place: the Ruins of Kunlun. To uncover the truth, I traveled through all kinds of hidden places: underground, si 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Ghost Lantern: The Secret Mausoleum of the Funeral Home 鬼点灯之义庄秘陵 They say ghost lights often appear in desolate places, among ancient tombs and shadowy woods. As the saying goes, where ghost lights glow, dark shadows fall! They warn anyone who comes near to leave at once. Do not disturb the spirits sleeping in their tombs! 365Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: An Autobiography 盗墓笔记：自传 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Early Growth + Later Power Fantasy] My name is Wang Yifan, and I’m a college student. One day, I saw my girlfriend, “Meng Yao.” Not just one, but two identical Meng Yaos. I wanted to investigate the matter, so I sought out the Faqiu Sect. Then one day, after making thorough preparations, I ventured deep into the uninhabited wilderness of Lop Nur and witnessed one strange event after another: “Snow monsters?” “The Demon Tomb of Cancong?” “Instant teleportation?” “The Twi 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 In Search of Miracles 神迹寻踪 [Supernatural, old-school style, serious mystery and adventure novel, not a tomb-raiding story, slow to start, but it gets exciting later] The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth can transform into all things under Heaven. The stillness of Wu Earth is a wild force that can move mountains and overturn seas. The solemn change of Geng Metal is a sharpness that strikes straight at the soul. The concealment of Gui Water is a chill that can freeze time and space. The refinement of Yi 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Secret Forbidden Lands 幽秘禁地 College student Liu Minghui has recently been dreaming again and again of an ancient, mysterious altar. In his dreams, he is trapped deep in the Ailao Mountains, where he encounters extinct creatures, eerie rituals, and piles of corpses in armor. Each time he wakes, the terror lingers... He was going to dismiss it as a mere hallucination, but then Liu Hui happened to learn that ruins had been discovered in the primeval forest of the Ailao Mountains, and that they eerily matched the scenes in his 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Beneath Fuxian Lake 抚仙湖底 Beneath Fuxian Lake 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 A Freak Accident Connects Hacker King Lei from 2026 to Lunar Streamer Xue Yu in 2072 来自2026黑客王磊一次意外连上了2072月球主播薛宇 In 2026, hacker Wang Lei accidentally connected with Xue Yu, a moon-based streamer from 2072. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Secret Records of Evil Spirits 邪灵秘录 A healer saves lives, but medicine is divided into “living medicine” and “dead medicine.” A group of young people journey through remote mountain valleys, deserts, and snowy wilderness. They venture along the boundary between life and death, exploring lost techniques. This is a shocking mystery hidden among mountains, rivers, and vast wilderness... 690Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 24 Dragon Seeking 寻龙 Forty years ago, a great flood unearthed an ancient Warring States tomb. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather leads me back into the tomb. Carve corridors through mountains and hollow them out for tombs! How many secrets lie hidden in the tombs of ancient kings? To find a dragon, seek the mountain's winding folds. Each winding ridge marks another pass; If a gate has a thousand locks, a prince or lord must surely lie within. Only when I opened the coffin did I realize that som 930Reads6.6Score10414d adds
- 25 30 Degrees North: The Curse of Jielingchong 北纬30度：界岭冲之咒 Paranormal mystery + exploration + survival + wild imagination + no romance Near 30 degrees north latitude on Earth, there are many mysterious places that humans have yet to fully explore. The Jielingchong Primeval Forest is one of them. Surrounded by towering mountains, the forest is shrouded in dense fog all year round. Its terrain is complex and ever-changing, and it is full of unknown dangers. The forest holds the remains of ancient and extraterrestrial civilizations. These ruins may contain 376Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 My Tomb-Raiding Life 我的倒斗生涯 Tomb raiding is said to have originated during the Cao Wei dynasty and continued for a thousand years. It has both official recognition and civilian organizations. A thousand years have made this illicit trade a fully developed profession, with an astonishing number of tricks and secrets. Literary works have told and retold its tales. But what is tomb raiding really like? I entered the trade at fifteen and led my first expedition into a tomb at sixteen. I saw its dangers with my own eyes... 102Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 27 Recollections of the Tomb-Raiding Years 追忆盗墓年月 In the early years of the Republic, tomb robbing was all the rage. The trade was split between northern and southern factions, each further divided into more than a dozen gangs, with countless complications within every group. The ancient tombs were strange and uncanny, their twists and turns shrouded in mystery, and every one of them perilous! The suspicious tomb of Fengdu will reveal a hidden chapter of human history... 601Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Tomb Raiding: The Secret Realm of Tianshu and the Seven-Star Lamp 北派盗墓：七星灯之天枢秘境 In 2003, northern China stood at a delicate turning point between old and new. The tide of reform and opening up was reshaping traditional industries, while thousand-year-old tombs buried deep underground still concealed secrets and temptations yet to be unearthed. Across this vast region, stretching from the black soil of the Northeast to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Gansu, a special group of “dragon seekers” plied their trade. They inherited the ancient 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Heavenly Tomb's Labyrinth City 天墓迷城 I'm a feng shui master. By chance, I stumbled into a fascinating and mysterious world unlike any other. My goal is to unravel every mystery and uncover the true essence of feng shui! How many secrets are hidden in China's five thousand years of history? How many unknown mysteries lie within its 9.6 million square kilometers? The answer to everything lies in feng shui. 428Reads6.7Score10314d adds
- 30 A Tomb Raider's Jianghu Memoir 一个盗墓者的江湖自传 A tomb raider with a background in geology uses his knowledge to unravel mechanisms that have baffled people for millennia, yet becomes increasingly ensnared in the labyrinth of human nature. This is his true account of life in the underworld: no ghosts or gods, only greed, honor, and betrayal governed by the laws beneath the earth. When the light reveals the treasure, it also casts the shadows of the soul. After crossing the line between life and death, where does true redemption lie: in the to 138Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Tomb Raiding Prophecy: Secrets of a Parallel World 盗墓预言：平行世界的秘密 Lin Feng, an online writer with dreams of striking it rich, plagiarized tomb-raiding novels to make ends meet. But he unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel world much like Earth. To his delight, he discovered that none of the novels he'd plagiarized existed there. Armed with the “Tomb-Raiding Compendium” in his mind, he set off a tomb-raiding craze in the online fiction world. The ancient tombs he wrote about, from the mysterious Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to the perilous City of Jings jue, w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Ten Years Beneath the Northern School's Lantern 北派江湖十年灯 Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself. “A band of tomb raiders spend ten years digging through seven haunted tombs, only to discover that the deepest ‘tomb’ is themselves: a fate buried together with the times, greed, and the code of the underworld.” 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Global Adventure: The Search for the True Dragon Begins 全球冒险：从寻找真龙开始 From the pyramids to Mayan altars, from the Bermuda Triangle to Atlantis, from the Maya to the ancient pharaohs, from their descendants to Xing Tian, this book reveals the truth behind every unsolved mystery and myth or legend. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Streamer Li Yu Explores the World's Ten Greatest Adventure Sites 主播李宇探索世界十大探险圣地 Outdoor streamer Li Yu hits a low point in his career and sets out to challenge himself by exploring the world’s ten greatest adventure destinations. The story is divided into ten volumes. Volume One: Meili Snow Mountain, China. (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.) 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Adventure Livestream: From the No-Man's-Land to the Top of the World 探险直播间：从无人区到世界之巅 A bronze compass linked to a livestreaming System conceals the secret behind the fall of a prehistoric civilization! Lin Feng was an unemployed poor kid, but the ancient techniques unlocked by the compass let him roam the world's forbidden zones without rival. An ancient city in a salt desert, a frozen altar, the Tree of Life... Every ruin is rife with deadly dangers, while powerful corporate interests watch from the shadows. The moment the livestream camera turned toward a prehistoric mural, th 2Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 36 A Tomb Raider's Life 盗墓生涯 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, eerie world opened up before my eyes. Beneath a mysterious thousand-year-old tomb, half were tomb raiders, and the other half were... 558Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 37 Trails Through the Haunted Domain 诡域迷踪 A personalized writing contest: an obscure underground city, strange flowers that imprison souls, a mysterious lost civilization, an ancient sect stretching across Europe and Asia… Two former soldiers only wanted to work as tour guides and make a little money by tricking tomb raiders. But a twist of fate branded them with a mysterious curse and inexplicably dragged them into a deadly crisis. As the veils of history are lifted one by one, life and death seem to matter less and less… 106Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 38 Exploring the Mystery of the Curse 探险诅咒之谜 Li Wen takes his girlfriend exploring in Black Bamboo Valley, but she accidentally falls into a mysterious place. When he sees her again, he has been cursed. To break the curse, Li Wen sets off on adventures far and wide. From the Black Bamboo Kingdom to Jin Feng Ridge and Ailao Mountain, he eventually uncovers an ancient and earth-shattering secret. How could it possibly be... 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Grave-Nailing Craftsman 钉坟匠 A centenarian’s body must not be buried carelessly. My master hanged himself at his own front door because he mishandled one such burial. To let him rest in peace, I performed an Earth Immortal burial again, only to discover that my dead master was watching me... 235Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 40 Sin 罪 A death-row inmate’s monologue on the eve of his execution. From stealing and robbing, to stumbling into the underworld, going to prison for his lover, then tomb raiding, heading to the Miao borderlands in search of an antidote, and being poisoned with a Gu curse... And the strange adventures that followed. The story moves quickly at first, but gets better and better as it goes on. If you’re interested, please let me tell you the whole tale. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Notes of a Yin Merchant: I Only Buy the Most Cursed Things 阴商笔记：我只收大凶之物 I'm a dealer in occult goods. I had only recently taken over the shop my grandfather left me when I bought a string of human-bone prayer beads from tomb raiders. I never expected a beautiful woman to show up at my door the very next day... 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Lost Dragon City: Searching for Dragons in Lop Nur 失落龙城：我在罗布泊寻龙 [Spy thriller | Adventure and mystery | Lost civilization | Lovecraftian horror | A family’s mission] Legend has it that before Lop Nur became known as the “Ear of the Earth,” a highly advanced prehistoric civilization once existed there. The Commentary on the Waterways Classic says: “Dragon City was once the land of the Jianglai, a great nation of the Hu. The waters of Lake Lop Nor overflowed and swallowed the kingdom. Its foundations remain, vast and immense. Leave through the western gate at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Secret Burial Heavenly Tome 秘葬天书 Emperors and ministers relied on the Daoist art of geomancy to find their final resting places. Every imperial tomb is a miniature of its age, embodying the highest craftsmanship of that era. My great-grandfather left behind an ancient book called The Secret Burial. It covers an astonishing range of subjects, with especially detailed explanations of feng shui and mountain terrain, finding dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, locating stars, and secret burial customs. By chance, this ancie 58Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 44 The Walking Corpse Files 走尸档案 I knew a group of people like this, and accidentally became one of them. They knew ancient secret arts for finding people through corpse refinement. With a person's birth date and time and an item belonging to someone who had gone missing, they used divination, the Eight Gates and Hidden Armor, and the arts of ghosts and spirits to make nowhere safe for the missing, whether living or dead! 640Reads8.1Score10314d adds
- 45 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 391Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Secret Record of Tomb Robbing 摸金秘记 [A premium, exclusive Tomb Raiding novel] [Zhang Jia Sishu's latest masterpiece of 2016, set to become the ultimate Tomb Raiding novel!] The appearance of an exceptionally beautiful female corpse shattered my ordinary life. Armed with a family-inherited secret art of Tomb Raiding, I opened an ancient imperial mausoleum sealed for a thousand years, seeking rare treasures buried underground and unraveling a mystery beyond anyone's reach. 184Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 47 Don't Compare Tomb Raiders! The Guanshan Taibao Have No Taboos! 别拿摸金比！观山太保百无禁忌！ My name is Jiang Jiuhe. My ancestors were the Guanshan Taibao, who built and guarded imperial tombs to keep tomb raiders away. But by the time the duty passed down to me, I'd spent twenty-five years on guard and still couldn't get a decent meal. I looked at our ancestral copy of The Guanshan Guide to Mysteries and spat. To hell with the ancestral rules! In this world, starving to death is no better than gambling everything, even your life. But I never imagined that by tearing it up, I would be r 666Reads—Score10614d adds
- 48 Secret Records of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓秘录 [Hardcore Tomb Raiding]+ [Suspense at Full Throttle]+ [Utter Terror] Before my master disappeared, he sent me only a stone shard carved with a black dragon coiling around a coffin, along with a bloodstained prophecy: “When the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin stirs, the nine lineages return to their source; when the black dragon opens its eyes, the secret map will emerge.” To find my master, I set out with the black dragon shard and my childhood friend Wu Nianjiu for a suspected Liao-dynasty tomb benea 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Tomb-Raiding Notes 倒斗笔记 By a twist of fate, I had no choice but to join a tomb-raiding crew, setting out on a legendary life. I've been to legendary places such as ghost ships, ancient cities in the Western Regions, noblemen's tombs, and imperial mausoleums. I've also seen all kinds of eerie things that no one else will ever see: stiff corpses, human-shaped burial figures, facial ulcers... The list goes on! That's when I discovered that there really are unbelievable ultimate secrets in this world! 661Reads6.0Score10014d adds
- 50 Adventure Livestream: My Gods Are a Little Different! 直播探险：我的神明有亿点不同！ After an accident, Lin Qi transmigrates to a parallel world and activates the Live-Stream Exploration System! From then on, Lin Qi embarks on a journey to find the mysterious, bizarre, terrifying mythical beasts from legend, the kind that make your sanity plummet. From the snow monsters of the Himalayas to the mysterious temple deep in Lop Nur; from the dragon tribe in the Mariana Trench to Ning'en, a humanoid behemoth in the deep waters of Antarctica; death worms, lizard people, butterfly peopl 175Reads—Score—14d adds
