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- 51 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
- 52 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
- 53 Deduction in the Hunt: The Manor Mystery 我在狩猎中玩推理：庄园疑案 My name is Jiang Zhou, and my story began when I received an invitation from Yuming Manor. From that moment on, the course of my life was completely changed... A story of moral taboos, disgusting and perverse creatures, and terrifying hunting games. Every part of Yuming Manor drove me mad. I had to keep reasoning things out as I hunted, right up to the very end. And at the end of Yuming Manor, I found...! [This story contains some disturbing content. Please don't read if that bothers you.] 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 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
- 55 What Should I Do If the Household Guardian Spirit Comes Knocking? 被保家仙找上门了怎么办 Liu Yang, a web-novel writer who spends all his time at home, heads out one evening to grab something to eat and encounters a supernatural incident. Just as his life is in danger, he’s rescued by a handsome, aloof man with an absolutely stunning face. It turns out he’s descended from the family guardian spirit once worshipped by Liu Yang’s ancestors! The little immortal is gorgeous, but he eats like a horse. What’s Liu Yang supposed to do now that he’s latched on? Watching the balance in his Tao 70Reads—Score1014d adds
- 56 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
- 57 A Taoist's Travels 游方日事 [Heir to the Wandering Ones × Curse Bestowal × Travel Between Two Worlds] [Small-Town Mystery × Folk Horror × Apocalypse Survival] After leaving a psychiatric hospital, I become the owner of a little inn beside the train station. All I want is a quiet life, yet people keep forcing me to remember a secret: I can use curses to make the guilty pay for their crimes in blood. Then a young woman named Si Yuping comes to see me, calling me “senior brother” every other breath. She says there is another 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Apocalypse Descends: So I’m the Leader of the Mutants 末世降临：原来我是异种老大 In 2056, a solar storm swept across the globe, plunging the world into darkness for seven days and seven nights. Earth's ozone layer was destroyed, and solar radiation reached the ground. After that, the whole world changed. Then the crisis arrived, officially ushering in the Age of Death. A hundred years later, Fang Duonan, a boy from an ordinary border city, was supposed to go out and complete a task as required. But someone tried to kill him. When he woke up, he had a strange ghost hand attac 148Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 59 The Deep-Sea Mystery Map 深海迷图 Retired soldier Jin Zhongyi is tricked by his friend Jiao Ba into boarding a fishing boat under the pretense of going on a deep-sea fishing trip. He has no idea that they're really setting out to salvage an ancient shipwreck. A family heirloom, a nautical chart from the Ming Dynasty, sets off a series of eerie events and a terrifying voyage, launching a thrilling expedition focused on treasure hunting, with exploration as a bonus. Following the family-inherited Ming Dynasty nautical chart, the s 449Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 60 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
- 61 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Beyond the Pass 关外盗墓笔记 From a “master of antiquing” to the “Divine Eye Beyond the Pass,” one thought is all it takes for Xiao Xu to embark on a dangerous road of no return. In the perilous underground world, friendship and loyalty are cheap, while profit and betrayal are the order of the day. Only by letting go of desire can you make it out unscathed. 1.2kReads8.8Score12614d adds
- 62 The Years I Spent Raiding Tombs 我盗墓的那几年 I'm a mountain ranger roaming the Greater Khingan Range. The old forests have everything: the Donglin dogs of Soul-Drifting Ridge, the Cat-Faced Granny of Turning-Back Gully, the Faceless Yellow-Skinned Immortal, and the longworms, mountain sprites, and wolves that ride on people's shoulders. Close your eyes and listen to Uncle Ghost tell the terrifying stories of years gone by... 657Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Ghost Tomb's Gate 鬼墓之门 People have human tombs, and ghosts have ghost tombs. The realms of the living and the dead are opposite in order, and only their tombs connect, forming a passage between two worlds. People turn into ghosts through tombs, while ghosts use tombs to ensnare the living. Ghost tombs have no physical form. They can be opened only at midnight, when day gives way to night and yin and yang are in balance. When roosters crow backward and all things are reversed, yin and yang become one, and the ghost tom 225Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 64 Tomb Raiding: The Tides of Terror in the South Seas 盗墓之南洋惊潮 I ran into trouble in the western territories and couldn’t stay there any longer, so I went to seek refuge with my maternal uncle in Vietnam. I became an antiques appraisal expert in his business smuggling cultural relics, started a new life abroad, and joined the ranks of treasure hunters. That also gave me the chance to search for tombs underwater. But I never expected to stumble upon a great tomb in a border town. At its entrance was an unmistakably ancient mark: the family emblem of the Ghos 7Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 65 Adventure Journal 探险手札 The Yellow Springs snake demon in a mysterious ancient village; a mirror that wards off evil amid endless dunes; an ancient corpse buried beneath the snowy mountains, untouched by decay... My name is Xu Kaiyang, and I’ll take you on an unprecedented adventure! 7.8kReads8.6Score67014d adds
- 66 Searching for Dragon Pearls 寻龙藏珠 [First person + Suspense and exploration + Supernatural arts + Ensemble adventure + Ancient civilizations + No romance] To find my missing childhood friend, I accidentally wander into an underground cave, where a thousand-year-old drought demon bites me and leaves me afflicted with an ancient curse. The only way to suppress the curse and stay alive is to cultivate using Dragon Pearls. Thus begins my perilous and unpredictable quest to find dra 219Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 67 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 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Oh No, Did I Wake Up Too Soon? Am I the Boss Now? 坏了，起猛了，我成BOSS了？ What, you can summon minions? What a coincidence, so can I. What, you can transform a second time? What a coincidence, so can I. What, you can actually die? What a coincidence, I can too... Sorry, I really can't do that one. With his mask off, Pan Wuyou is sweet, adorable, and harmless. With his mask on, the plague doctor does whatever he wants, and sees no difference between human and beast. 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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
- 70 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
- 71 Tomb King: From Rookie to Tomb-Raiding Expert 盗王：从小白到倒斗高手 The pressures of life and an unexpected opportunity led me into the tomb-raiding business. In this line of work, I met the best boss I could ask for, the Fatty who trusted me most, and the person I loved most, Xiao Ya. Together, we went on countless tomb-raiding adventures, and in the end I became a famous figure in the trade: Master Cheng... 240Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Quelling Spirits in a Haunted House 凶宅镇灵 I'm an ordinary real estate agent. One winter, I took on a house, and in less than a week, three people died inside its kitchen refrigerator. With no other option, I called Li Tiandi, a specialist in handling haunted houses, for help. While hunting ghosts with him, I unexpectedly learned that I had the constitution of someone who could travel to the underworld. And so I began a life of buying and selling haunted houses with him. 183Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Life in the Burial Ground 葬地生 When a fragment of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon surfaces, a deadly game spanning a thousand years quietly begins! The life-and-death secrets of ancient tombs, a companion's betrayal, and the human choices people make when offering sacrifices to survive. With the ultimate secret pointing toward... can they make it out of the tomb alive? Will they become the next immortals, or remain trapped forever in an underground world riddled with mechanisms? 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 I Died, Only to Be Recruited by the Nation as the Human Emperor 刚死，就被国家捞去当人皇 [Two Male Leads, No Female Lead, Lighthearted, Ensemble Cast, Triple Personality, Just for Fun, More Slice of Life, Definitely a Slow Pace, Neither Brain-Dead nor Brain-Busting, Just Right for Mealtime] Chu Mingxin has transmigrated again, this time to a world much like Earth. At last, no more warring states in another world; at last, he's back in the modern era. Before he can even celebrate, a special government organization assigns him a position. Then comes a world-shattering shock: this worl 1kReads—Score10114d adds
- 75 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
- 76 Strange Tales from the Countryside 民间山野奇谈 An ancient tomb, an unknown creature, and an expedition that reveals a world utterly unlike our own. People like to explain supernatural events with talk of ghosts and spirits, but the wonders of certain things cannot be made clear in a few words. This is the story of an unknown nobody, a piece of history long since forgotten… 25Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 77 The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons 北派盗墓寻龙记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Adventure + Underworld + History] Adapted from true experiences. That year, I was no master appraiser fresh out of prison. I was just a poor kid who identified soil by smell and felt his way along tomb passages with his fingers. I drifted through a hazy youth and into middle age, enduring hardship and uncertainty all the way. Over half a lifetime, I witnessed all sorts of people from all walks of life, and heard tales of the underworld you have never heard before. If yo 51.3kReads7.9Score4k14d adds
- 78 City of Evil Spirits 邪灵都市 I've been dating my girlfriend for a year. This Lunar New Year, I went back to her hometown with her to meet her parents. I never expected… 465Reads6.8Score10314d adds
- 79 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 385Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 A Yin-Bodied Man Meets a Ghost 阴身撞诡 Drive out evil spirits, suppress demons and fiends, and every kind of magic appears within the Shanhai Tower! Hateful corpses, undying bones: when the Three Corpses are complete, the body becomes a vessel of yin meridians! After his uncle was killed by an evil spirit and nearly everyone in the village lost their lives, he realized that only by cultivating magic could he protect himself. Again and again, he found himself caught up in mysterious incidents and trapped in desperate situations. As an 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 From the Start, I’m an Invincible Office Drone, Yet the Male Leads Keep Confessing to Me 社畜开局，无敌的我总被男主表白 (The rating just came out, so it’ll gradually go up. Feel free to check it out.) [Infinite Flow + invincible mastermind + wild ideas (SCP Foundation, Cthulhu, proxy wars, and more) + going crazy + not mindless + protagonist is adored by everyone] “I’m a corporate slave, but I believe the world is beautiful.” As the supreme [Void]’s number-one lackey, the dream pretty boy of countless men and women across all worlds, the original artist of fate, the color of the deep cosmos... Ye Hua, the stronge 91Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 82 The Doomsday Maniac Only Wants to Raise a Kid 末日狂徒只想带娃 [Doomsday + natural disasters + dad + mutation + ruthless + no female lead + no saintly protagonist] After the cataclysm, human civilization suffers a devastating blow. Technology collapses, resources run scarce, disasters strike one after another, and creatures mutate. Everyone lives in fear. They sell themselves for a mouthful of water. They abandon their families for a bite to eat. Children are deemed useless and casually discarded. Yet one man chooses to do the exact opposite. “You can pick 10Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 83 Jade Curse 玉咒 My family has a blood curse passed down through the generations. None of the men in our family live past the age of fifty. The source of the curse turns out to be a living piece of ancient jade. 1.6kReads8.8Score31114d adds
- 84 The Corpse Village Puppeteer 尸乡偃师 Fifteen years ago, the once-prosperous Qi family was consumed by fire overnight. He was the last child of this family of tomb raiders. Now, after fifteen years, he has returned to the path of tomb raiding, determined to uncover the mysteries hidden in ancient tombs. Why did the Shang dynasty's master craftsman sacrifice his eldest son and bury him beneath a long street? Did Emperor Taishu of Shang achieve the immortality he sought? What did the Gu family members see when they ventured into the Q 224Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Tomb Raiding Tales from Republican China 民国盗墓往事 A long-lost memory brings a gripping story from the past to light. What I’m about to tell you is a secret from the Republican era… 3.5kReads8.8Score60914d adds
- 86 My Years as a Tomb Raider 我盗墓的那些年 Years ago, my father injured himself falling while gathering medicinal herbs in the mountains to pay for my tuition. With the mounting medical bills, I had no choice but to go tomb-raiding with someone. I thought I was just going to make a quick buck, never imagining I’d fall into an abyss so deep I could never climb back out. Over the years, the things I experienced while raiding tombs have often come back to me when I least expect it: a Peach Blossom Spring unlike any other, a tomb afflicted b 582Reads7.0Score10714d adds
- 87 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
- 88 The Nine Dragons Heavenly Coffin 九龙天棺 A pair of eyes in the thick fog of a canyon; a huge cavern beneath a tomb on a remote island; an ancient ghost city deep in the desert... What secrets have been hidden for thousands of years? After peeling back layer upon layer of mist, what kind of ending will we find...? 36Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 89 Ghost Curse 鬼咒 Stars are people too. Let me tell you about the times I followed my master and helped some Chinese celebrities change their fate. Changing someone's fate, of course, starts with raising a little ghost. 3kReads—Score63714d adds
- 90 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... 67Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Tales of Tomb Raiding in Southern China 南派盗墓往事 [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Suspense] In the 1990s, I was just a minor antique dealer who traded in bones. Then I mistakenly bought a burial object, and from that moment on, I embarked on a one-way journey across a thousand years... To find the answers, I had no choice but to wander between the worlds of the living and the dead, crossing mountains and seas and traversing deserts and wastelands. At the very source of it all, I finally uncovered the truth behind the baffling mystery... 1kReads7.3Score14114d adds
- 92 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 662Reads—Score10614d adds
- 93 I Asked My Master How Powerful He Was, and He Turned Off My System 我问师父有多强？转手关掉我系统 [The rating just came out and will rise] [The protagonist is a master + no System + no romance + invincible + multiple disciples] The author transmigrates into the novel he wrote. He has no cultivation, no golden finger, and no System, only a writing assistant. Whatever plot he wants, he can write it himself. Disciple: “Master, what realm are you really at?” Master: “I can turn off your System.” The disciple presses him: “Be more specific.” The master opens the writing assistant: “Whatever real 95Reads6.9Score1514d adds
- 94 The Archaeological Diviner 考古神算 The Archaeological Diviner is being adapted into a web drama. It's based on an IP novel. (Search for it and you'll see.) A professor in the archaeological world of Huaxia has a grandson named Li Bagua. Following his grandfather's wishes, Li Bagua goes into archaeology, but encounters all sorts of strange things during his work... Each archaeological expedition helps him grow more mature! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Traces of Yin 殷迹 An account of travels from the Ming dynasty and a carved black bird statue from the Shang dynasty are unexpectedly connected, pointing to the secret behind the cycle of civilization’s destruction. As dark clouds gather and the prophesied apocalypse arrives, will the legendary guardian deity of humanity appear? 572Reads8.7Score10614d adds
- 96 Tomb Raider’s Strange Compendium: Terror and Madness in the Tomb 盗墓诡鉴：墓中恐怖也疯狂 Thirty years ago, a group of tomb raiders broke into a tomb belonging to a yellow fox spirit and stole a golden robe and a ghost casket. Almost all of them died underground, and the few who survived vanished without a trace... Thirty years later, a tortoiseshell hides a secret. As a new generation takes the place of the old to solve the mystery of that long-ago case, I too am drawn into one layer of eerie events after another... The corpse god’s death curse among the shaman tribes, the ice corps 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 The Treasure Hunter with a Lucky Touch 桃运摸宝师 I left home when I was young and stumbled into the world of treasure hunting and spirit-reading. From Kunlun’s Hell to the South Sea Dragon Ruins, the Netherworld Ghostwood, and the Sea of Sand’s hidden nest... I traveled far and wide in search of secret treasures. Just as I thought I could take control of my own fate, Heaven played a cruel joke on me. I tried to escape, but only sank deeper and deeper... 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Divine Brows, Ghostly Ways 神眉鬼道 [Horror, no saintly heroine, no dragging things out, decisive and ruthless, exceptionally vicious ghosts] My name is Shan Qing. I had given up on the world, but by a twist of fate, I stumbled upon secrets hidden on its other side. The man-eating statue that vanishes from the school in the dead of night, the inscrutable old monk in the temple, the terrifying figure roaming the city streets... Vicious ghosts slaughter the world, and red fog pollutes the soul. Hell isn’t confined to the underworld. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Bloodline Awakening: The Lost Tomb 血脉觉醒，古墓迷踪 Right after graduation, Fang Yaoyang is drawn into a thousand-year-old mystery and forced to swallow a mysterious pill. His awakened bloodline feels more like a curse. To find an antidote and his missing father, he ventures deep into an ancient tomb, solves a deadly astrological formation, and battles uncanny creatures. But behind the tomb, undercurrents swirl among international organizations, guardian clans, and government forces. And Fang Yaoyang himself turns out to be the most important pie —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Tomb Raiding: Martial Arts Sign-In, My Ancient Tomb Strikes Back 盗墓：武道签到，我的古墓逆袭 Gu Shun was reborn into a world where tomb-raiding stories converged, and was fortunate enough to awaken a Martial Arts System, beginning an extraordinary legendary journey. All he had to do was visit the various ancient tombs and sign in to obtain rare treasures from the myriad heavens. From the start, he signed in for the Nine Yang Manual, instantly gaining formidable inner strength and the ability to summon nine blazing suns to subdue his opponents. From then on, he left his mark on places su —Reads—Score—14d adds
