Novels like Real Tomb Raiding: The Black Ghost Awl
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- 51 Tomb Raiding: I Join Little Brother Begging with a Bowl from the Start 盗墓：开局跟小哥一起摆碗要饭 [No female lead] [The young brother character in the early chapters may not match expectations. Please don’t read if that bothers you!!!!] Xu Yushu transmigrates to a world of tomb raiding and, from the start, begs for alms alongside the Qilin Little Brother. Along the way, he also takes in a monk named Aoye as a lackey. The monk knows the Great Heavenly Dragon Palm and the Great Brahma Mantra. To find the Gate of Hell, the three of them embark on an unusual tomb-raiding adventure. This new Iron 460Reads—Score190Shelves
- 52 Tomb Raiding 倒斗 [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself.] [Tomb raiding + treasure appraisal + mystery + underworld adventures] [The comic drama of the same name is now available on various short-drama platforms. Go watch it there.] In the old days, “dou dao,” or “turning over the bucket,” was underworld slang for tomb raiding. More than twenty years ago, a moment's poor judgment led me to join a small outfit at the bottom of the trade. They say that once you enter the jianghu, you plunge into an ocean 9.8kReads9.0Score626Shelves
- 53 Tomb Raiding: Shocking! From the Start, I Entered a Tomb, and Then... Nothing? 盗墓：震惊！开局下墓，没了？ Bai Tian, heiress to the tomb-raiding Bai family, went with her family to an ancient village. Before they could even enter a tomb, the whole family was wiped out, and she was offered up as a sacrifice to the “Prince” beneath the ground. At the last moment, she awakened a System, but it couldn't change her fate of being buried alive. [Gentle reminder: This story isn't angsty. Xiaoge is in it, there's a family of three, a System, and a laid-back life.] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Sand-Sifting Chronicles: Memoirs of a Lingnan Tomb Raider 淘沙鉴：一个岭南盗墓者的自述 [Tomb Raiding + Suspense + Antique Appraisal + Feng Shui] My name is He Shouyi. I’m a tomb raider sentenced to fifteen years in prison, and the fourth-generation appraiser of the Jiao Si lineage. I’ve lost count of how many tombs I’ve entered in this lifetime. Our lineage has five signature skills: reading thunder to locate tombs, identifying soil by its vegetation, dating it by its smell, pinpointing locations from traces, and spotting fakes to identify treasures. On a rainy day, stick a copper 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Tales of Strange Northern Tomb Raids 北派盗墓诡事录 In the early twenty-first century, I was just a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. Determined to make something of myself, I threw in my lot with a northern tomb-raiding gang and set out on a road of no return. I traveled far and wide across the north and south, saw ancient tombs where the dead came back to life, and learned just how treacherous people in the underworld could be. From an ignorant boy to a weathered middle-aged man, the strange people and events I've encountered 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 I Got the Highest Score in the County, Yet Turned to Tomb Raiding to Pay My Tuition 我考了全县第一却去盗墓赚学费 Zhao Yiming came first in the county on the college entrance exam, but his father told him to apply to a junior college. Zhao secretly changed his application and ultimately chose archaeology after seeing his Third Uncle make money selling antiques. When his father found out, he flew into a rage and ordered Zhao to retake the exam. Zhao firmly refused, but with no money for tuition, he could only silently give in to his father’s plans. When Third Uncle heard the news, he recommended Zhao for a s 7.9kReads—Score267Shelves
- 57 Tomb Raiding: I'm Really Not a Zombie 盗墓我真不是粽子 Gu Changqing transmigrated into the world of Tomb Raiding. When he woke up, he found himself in a tomb chamber in the Lu Palace. Zhang Qiling mistook him for a zongzi and slashed at him the moment he saw him! He climbs the ancient tower with Wu Xie and dives into the South Sea! He catches zongzi and feels up black stockings! Sorry, I got off track! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles of a Loser 屌丝盗墓笔记 [Tomb raiding + suspense. No fantasy, no System, guaranteed to be good! If you don't like it, roast me!!!] Would you dare go tomb raiding for a million yuan in blood money? Who really built Sanxingdui? Did the ancient divine tree Jianmu really exist? Has the bird-bodied, human-headed monster come back to life? Has Genghis Khan become a zombie? What secrets lie inside the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? … Keyboard tomb-raiding king Jiang Xing is getting serious this time! 1.6kReads8.2Score100Shelves
- 59 Tales of the Northern School's Wandering Taoist 北派散土往事 [Tomb Raiding + Antiquities Appraisal + The Ways of the Underworld + Everyday Life] [Tomb raiding is illegal. Don't try it yourself!] I'm Lu Jiufeng. I never wanted fame; I just wanted to stay alive. What I'm about to tell you is about the dark days I lived through myself. Believe it or not, this is what the underworld is really like. (Lights a cigarette.) Before you come in, understand this: the road through the underworld is long, and once you enter, there's no turning back... 94.3kReads8.8Score8.7kShelves
- 60 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... 561Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 61 Tomb Raiding Series: Like a Dream, Just Like Before 盗墓系列：如梦如初 Master Ba said it was an ill-fated bond, a bond cursed by one word. “I said their fates were intertwined, but I never knew it was only that one word that bound them together.” I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of what others say, or of gain and loss, or of regrets. The only thing I fear is that years from now, I'll lose my way and become lost., Meng Ruchu 5Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 62 A Century-Old Mystery, a Millennium-Old Secret, and a Fated Legend 百年之疑，千年之秘，传说的宿命 [No System] [Hardcore Exploration] [Mind-Bending Puzzles] [Tightly Woven Logic] Everyone in this book is smart, every mystery gets an answer, and every strange phenomenon has a scientific explanation. If you're tired of mindless power fantasies, welcome to the world of hardcore exploration! To uncover the truth lost among the lines of longitude and latitude, I led my team across forbidden zones around the globe, setting foot in taboo places untouched by sunlight. From Solomon's Temple, silent f 319Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 63 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Could Command Spirits and Dispatch Generals 盗墓：开局就能拘灵遣将 Ye Ling transmigrates to the fantastical world of tomb raiding. From the start, he gets a sign-in upgrade to a mutated version of Spirit Communion and Spirit Command: You have the Five Immortals of the Northeast, who never cross the Shanhai Pass. I have Ye Ling and his host of immortals, sweeping proudly across the world. All manner of ghosts and monsters are spirits; even Zhong Kui would call them divine. When great enemies come, I look down on the world. False gods from time immemorial are no 16Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 64 With a Luoyang Shovel in Hand 手握洛阳铲 The two protagonists learned martial arts from their grandfather from a young age. Their father left and never returned, leaving behind only a diary of his explorations of ancient tombs. By a stroke of fate, Su Le's master gave him the “Heavenly Official Blade,” a weapon said to ward off evil and slay wicked spirits. Meanwhile, Su Can found the “Purple Gold Sword,” sharp enough to cut through iron, in a bronze coffin tomb! The two protagonists continued to hone their skills, eventually mastering 6.5kReads8.8Score497Shelves
- 65 Tomb Raiding: My Years with the Northern School 盗墓：我在北派那些年 [Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure appraisal] I'm a poor kid from the countryside in Henan. I dropped out of middle school, and after an accident, I joined a tomb-raiding gang. That was when the gears of fate began to turn. Over the years, I've faced countless dangers, seen countless treasures, and learned just how hard it is to read people's hearts. Geese leave their calls behind as they fly by; people leave their names behind as they pass through life. I've written down my story in the hope 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 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. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 I Was Too Invincible in My Past Life, So I Was Forced to Become Everyone's Idol 前世太无敌，我被迫成了全民偶像 [Live Streaming + Mind-Bending Mysteries + Supernatural Suspense + No Heroine + Tomb Raiding + Antiques Appraisal + Spiritual Qi Revival + Not a Power Fantasy] After transmigrating into a parallel world with a severely fractured civilization, Yang Tian became a treasure-hunting streamer. A malicious smear campaign forced him to end his livestreams. At the lowest point of his career, he was saddled with a gambling-addicted younger brother who was a complete liability, and somehow ended up with an 94Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 68 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? 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Tales of Feng Shui and Tombs 风水墓事 My name is Gu Xiaochuan! I went to move a woman’s grave, and then… 8.6kReads8.7Score809Shelves
- 70 A Southern School Tomb Raider's Notes 南派盗墓手记 In the late Qing and early Republican eras, the country fell into chaos, sparking the largest and most sensational wave of tomb raiding in history. People of the time called the oracle bones of Yinxu, the Dunhuang manuscripts, and the wooden slips from the sands of Loulan the three great discoveries of the Republic, as they traced the origins of civilization. In the West, a fervent wave of research into Eastern artifacts followed. Then, in the seventeenth year of the Republic, a deafening blast 1.4kReads6.8Score181Shelves
- 71 The Dragon Bone's Secret Hoard 龙骨诡藏 Others raid tombs to find gold and treasure, but I get entangled with a vengeful spirit instead. My grandfather, Chen Xuanli, vanished in the Ailao Mountains. I entered the mountains with a dragon-bone divination disk, only to accidentally awaken a century-old female spirit. From then on, danger closed in at every turn: perilous underground palaces, ruins left by ghost soldiers, and secret Japanese military caches. The Fatty smashes through evil with his shovel, the Yin sisters set up formatio 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 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... 695Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 73 Dragonbrush's 30th Book: Writing the World 龙笔写天下第30本书 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Western School's The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 西派盗墓笔记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Supernatural] A child born under an ill omen is one Heaven dares not claim and Earth dares not nurture. When I was born from a corpse’s belly, a yellow immortal fox worshipped the moon and the wild beasts wailed. It was decided then that I would spend my life dealing with the dead, never seeing the light of day. To escape this fate, I joined forces with my taciturn master and a jovial fat man, forming the West Faction’s iron-triangle tomb-raiding team. Over the years, I 1.4kReads8.8Score127Shelves
- 75 Old Ninth, the Tomb Raider 盗墓老九 [Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure hunting] A centuries-old mystery ordained by Heaven, the fabled ancient kingdom of Loulan, the secrets behind the ancient Silk Road, and even the Black Mountain, where legend says the rocks, plants, rivers, and soil are all black, shrouded year-round in an air of death... I was just an antique dealer in Panjiayuan, but somehow I got swept up in one strange adventure after another. It all began with my grandfather, a eunuch from the previous dynasty... 317Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 76 The Gate of Tibet: Forbidden Ground of Sky Burials 藏地之门：天葬禁域 The black nightmare in Yunnan may have come to an end, but for Hou Zirui, Niu Chenyang, and Cheng Tianshun, an even more terrifying journey is just beginning. When all three are drawn into the same bizarre dream one after another, they finally realize they have never truly escaped the strange forces that have been haunting them. In the dream, dark clouds blanket the sky as vultures circle like a black vortex above a sky-burial platform drenched in blood, where broken corpses lie piled like mount 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 A Zombie? Leave It to Me! 有粽子？放着我来！ Take a look! This man is called Xing Ze, an utterly ordinary person who has transmigrated into a drama. He’s here for just three things: Raiding tombs, raiding tombs, and more tomb raiding! The purple lotus manifests, driving away all evil; He steps into the uncanny and walks the cycle of reincarnation; He searches for his lost three hun and six po souls! A shared universe of Ghost Blows Out the Light and The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. No BL, no character pairings, no harem. The protagonist 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 78 Tomb Raiding: With the Glory System, I Go on a Killing Spree in the Zhang Clan 盗墓：荣耀系统，我在张家杀疯了 [Not entirely handcrafted. If that bothers you, don't come in; just take a look at the setting] [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles fanfic · System-driven · Ruthless · Two Heroines · Fateful Bonds Across Eras] [#The Grave Robbers' Chronicles #System-driven #Ruthless #Zhang Haiqi #Zhang Haixing #No Playing Babysitter] Zhang Haijie transmigrates into the world of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles and becomes a collateral member of the Zhang family’s Hai generation. From the start, he binds himself to the [ 2.8kReads—Score274Shelves
- 79 A Little Tomb Raider from the Northern School 北派小小盗墓贼 [Tomb raiding + mystery + treasure appraisal] [First person!] There are no ghosts here, only one Wang's adventures in the underworld. In the early 21st century, I was struggling to make ends meet when I met an old man on Antique Street. Listening to him brag was what got me into tomb raiding. I once ended up a beggar, spent time on the wrong side of the law, and even made a name for myself in the tomb-raiding business. Grab a seat, everyone, and listen as I tell you some old stories from the und 2.7kReads7.7Score227Shelves
- 80 Tomb Raiding: The Tender Five Eavesdrop on My Thoughts from the Start 盗墓：开局被嫩牛五方偷听心声 Yan Xu never dreamed that after using the bathroom at home one morning, he would close the door and open it again to find himself transported by a dumbass System to the Wu family’s old residence! From then on, he had a domineering CEO for a father and a bunch of hapless brothers. In the Lu Palace, Yan Xu stole Zhang Qiling’s moment and dissolved Iron Mask Man with corpse-melting liquid. [Thanks for the support, bro!] In the underwater tomb, Yan Xu sailed a luxury yacht worth hundreds of millions 64Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 81 After Losing My Job, I Joined a Big Shot on Tomb Raids 失业后，我跟着大佬去盗墓 The three of us, complete “amateurs,” unearthed a jade disc from inside Guo Shengtong’s coffin. The GPS coordinates carved into it pointed to an extraterrestrial ruin beneath the Great Yu sacrificial altar in Baode County, Shanxi. And Zhu Xi had already written about all of this in a secret letter to his lover, Miss Hu, eight hundred years ago. When a Peking University archaeology traitor, a Tongji University feng shui architect, and the heir to an antiques family joined forces, they found not 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Tomb Raiding: I Marry the Immortal Maiden and Recruit the Six Fiends of Pingshan from the Start 盗墓：娶妻仙姑，开局收瓶山六凶 [Tomb-Raiding Crossover + Invincible + Chinese Martial Arts + Taoist Arts + Spatial Powers + Beast Taming + Zombies + No Saintly Protagonist] Wu Jiang transmigrates into a world combining several tomb-raiding stories, becoming the older brother of the young Wu Laogou and the future strongest ally of Xie Di Tianzhen. This world has not only the ancient tomb at Pingshan, Zhelong Mountain in southern Yunnan, Snake Swamp Ghost City, and the mysterious Bronze Gate, but also bloodlines that grant long 30.1kReads6.4Score3.1kShelves
- 83 Tomb Raiding: I Sign In for a Thousand Years in a Giant Bronze Coffin 盗墓：我，青铜巨棺中签到千年 When Lu Bei opened his eyes, everything before him was pitch-black. “Congratulations, Host, on awakening the Ancient Tomb Sign-In System.” He had transmigrated to another world, and at that moment he was lying in a coffin inside a tomb... 45Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 84 The First Book of This World 本物天下的第1本书 An ancient book in tatters leads someone by chance onto the path of tomb raiding and treasure hunting. After numerous twists and turns, secrets buried for millennia come to light. Ancient tombs of astonishing scale and mystery, the Mirror of Longing forged by Master Huayang in the Jin dynasty for the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the eternal bond between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi, and the pipa of the courtesan Li Sisi all feature in this thrilling tale, packed with suspense and tangled love and 58Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 85 Tomb Raiding: Building the Moving Mountain Clan 盗墓：打造搬山家族 After being reborn, Jiang Chen discovers that he has become the clan head of a small village deep in the mountains. To escape poverty and backwardness, he plans to lead the villagers in working hard to build a better life. Just then, a mysterious woman arrives in the village and tells him that its people are true descendants of Zagrama. After hearing this, Jiang Chen finally understands why he and his fellow villagers all have a faint eye-shaped mark on their backs. It turns out that he belongs 218Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 86 Tomb Raiding: Hey, Little Brother, Take Me with You When You Disappear! 盗墓：小哥，失踪带我一起呗！ [Tomb Raiding + Pairing + Two Powerful Leads + Little System] My name is Lin Mu. The Mu in “bathing in the spring breeze,” and the Lin in “the forest’s finest tree.” But why am I in this unfamiliar place? I was just cursing out my boss for exploiting his employees. How did I end up here? And what’s this little white blob in my head? Oh, it’s a System here to give me a golden finger… Heh, what golden finger? It’s just a lousy System, though I guess it was only fooling me because I’m too kindhea 4Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 87 The Nine Nether General of the Gold-Touching Captains 摸金校尉之九幽将军 In the 1980s, a trio of tomb raiders decided to quit the trade and turn to honest business. But when the three went to Xi’an to collect antiques and relics, a man named Ma Laowa set them up, nearly costing them their lives. By chance, they entered the underground palace of the Qin king and narrowly escaped death, bringing a gilt iron box out of the tomb. The gilt iron box contains a golden book, a national treasure of Western Xia that has survived thousands of years without damage. Its emergence 2.6kReads9.3Score420Shelves
- 88 Gu Watch 蛊观 [Folklore and the Supernatural + Urban Superpowers + Gu Poison Mysteries + A Young Man’s Coming of Age + Family Revenge] Want revenge? Want to change your fate? Want to take back everything that should have been yours? Then come raise gu. Each talisman bears a karmic debt; each gu can end a life of suffering. The upper three talismans can alter life and death, the middle three can transform the body, and the lower three can change the heart. Which will you choose? The Life-Bearing Talisman takes 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Tomb Raiding: I Dug Up the Yiling Patriarch 盗墓：挖到了夷陵老祖 [Before reading, please check the author’s notes. I get new ideas all the time, and the order of the film and TV adaptations may change. Let me say it again: this is fanfiction, so don’t confuse it with the original!] After Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, died at Nightless City, he transmigrated through time thirteen years later and met a group of tomb raiders. What amusing things will happen when the ancestor of demonic cultivation meets the ancestors of tomb raiding? (This is purely for my o 19Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 90 Northern School Tomb Raiders: Raise the Coffin, Make a Fortune 北派盗墓:升棺发财 [Tomb Raiding and Treasure Appraisal + Jianghu Adventures] I have seen an immortal corpse in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, encountered a giant moray eel in the South Sea, and witnessed a mysterious ghost city in the desert. Over the past ten years, I have lost everything and found myself in peril time and again, surviving by the skin of my teeth. I have some hard-won experience from making my way through the world of tomb raiders, so I dare to tell you about this dangerous underworld. 5.3kReads8.7Score342Shelves
- 91 I Told You to Raid Tombs, Not Start a Livestream on the Spot! 让你盗墓，你竟然现场开直播！ In life, we walk many roads. Some are sweet, like the days of youth; others are bitter, like old age and illness. Liu Chuanfeng is walking a road of no return. Yao the Foreman went in, and Wang the Foreman went in too. In the end, even the most cautious, Xiang the Foreman, went in. Liu Chuanfeng seems to be on that road as well. Take care of every step while you can! In 2023, a live broadcast of a tomb-raiding expedition was caught in the act by the cops. Following the clues, they uncovered a ne 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Tomb of Spirits 灵墓 The tide of the world is vast and unstoppable. Those who follow it prosper; those who oppose it perish! An ancestral book of paintings gradually unveils the secrets behind Eastern mythology. This twisted, unpredictable myth begins when the production brigade organizes the villagers to repair a river. 3.1kReads8.6Score379Shelves
- 93 Feng Shui Master Lai Xuan 风水大师赖玄 In a bustling city's noisy corner, an antique shop called Xuan Zhai always closes early. Its owner, Lai Xuan, is a laid-back, mild-mannered young man. He usually either turns his old antiques over in his hands or dozes on a reclining chair. Only the few customers who have ventured into the abyss know that when he occasionally opens his eyes, he can see what ordinary people cannot: baleful energy between buildings, people's fortune and misfortune, and even the "qi" flowing deep beneath the earth. 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Tomb Raiding: Dragon-Snake Martial Arts, Unbreakable Even Before the Divine! 盗墓：开局龙蛇国术，见神不坏！ [High Martial] + [Tomb Raiding] + [System power fantasy] Su Chen transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world and gains Dragon-Snake martial arts from the start. He had planned to live a quiet life, opening a martial arts school and settling for a comfortable existence. To his surprise, the authorities recruit him to infiltrate a tomb-raiding gang! On top of that, the System awards points whenever he enters a tomb. He can exchange them for special abilities, martial arts, potions, weapons, bloodlines 6.4kReads7.5Score299Shelves
- 95 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Choose to Take Over the Ninth Gate Buddha Lord’s Body 盗墓：我，开局选择夺舍九门佛爷 From the start, he transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world and successfully takes over the body of the Ninth Gate's Buddha Lord. He then encounters the Ghost Train incident. Just as he's worrying about how to reach the ancient tomb in the mine, a God-tier System awakens... “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully bound the System!” “Ding! Choice One: Explore the ancient tomb in the mine. Reward: Qilin bloodline.” “Ding! Choice Two: Don't explore. Reward: ten gold bars.” “I choose One. 459Reads5.2Score101Shelves
- 96 Tomb Raiding: Merging with the Qiongqi Bloodline from the Start! 盗墓：开局融合穷奇血脉！ [Tomb Raiding + god-tier bloodline + no female lead + ruthless and decisive + showing off!] Ye Qing transmigrates into a vast world of tomb raiding and starts with the bloodline of Qiongqi, an ancient ferocious beast. He also gains the ability to fuse bloodlines and grow stronger! Subdue the Queen of Jingjue and gain eternal life through his bloodline! Subdue the Queen Mother of the West and gain 500 years of life! Subdue Qin Shi Huang, evolve his bloodline, and gain the bloodline of an ancient 1.2kReads6.7Score108Shelves
- 97 Tomb Raiding: My Life in the Underground Palace Underworld 摸金：我的地宫江湖生涯 Told in the first person, the story follows Chen Chang'an, a down-on-his-luck young man from the suburbs of Xi'an, born into a family of traditional architecture experts. In the early twenty-first century, to pay for a seriously ill family member's medical treatment and restore his family's reputation, he is forced into the unfathomable world of tomb raiding in the Guanzhong region. 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 My Years as a Tomb Raider 我当摸金校尉的那些年 Forty years ago, a great flood exposed an ancient tomb from the Warring States period. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather led me back into the tomb. A ghost village deep in the mountains, black-haired zongzi, yin-yang child servants... My companions and I escaped death again and again, yet still couldn't get out of this cursed land! What caused both groups of tomb raiders to die horrific deaths? And what was it that scared my grandfather out of his mind? Never dig when dang 12.9kReads8.4Score934Shelves
- 99 Snatching Immortality 抢仙 [Mystery and adventure + occult battles + a nontraditional path to immortality + ruins around the world] I've practiced Daoism for twenty years and watched my master ascend with my own eyes. Becoming an immortal has become an obsession. But the Heavenly Dao has run out of opportunities for me. I'm just one step away, yet the gap is as vast as heaven and earth. The chance to become an immortal should be somewhere between the highest heavens and the deepest underworld, but I can find it nowhere. I 50Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 100 The True Story of a Folk Tomb Raider 一位民间盗墓者的真实经历 [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself.] [Tomb raiding + suspense + antiques appraisal + underworld] I come from a village in central China. To save my younger sister and father, I was forced into the tomb-raiding trade. The haunted tomb of Muzha Ridge, the Loulan royal mausoleum, the lost tomb in Longling, an ancient pagoda, a Yuan dynasty tomb with a zombie... Over sixteen years of tomb raiding, I witnessed the dangers of human nature, feng shui and the occult, all sorts of people, a 512Reads7.1Score—Shelves
