Novels like Forbidden Ground for the Living
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- 1 The Tang Dynasty Code 大唐密码 Along the way, I saw ancient beast spirits buried deep in the underground palace of an old temple, the legendary Weimolongren, and the sacred Kunlun Mountains hidden in myth. Along the way, I saw a Buddha who had attained nirvana in the snowy region, a sage who had transformed into a rainbow on a sacred mountain, and a Daoist master who had ascended from Kunlun. Along the way, I saw debts of gratitude left unpaid in a past life, karmic ties left unfinished, and promises that had never been fulfi 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 After Ten Thousand Years of Sign-Ins, I Became the Hidden Hand of the Cultivation World 签到万年我在修仙界苟成幕后黑手 Sign-In for Ten Thousand Years: I Become the Hidden Mastermind in the Cultivation World follows Su Han, who transmigrates to the cultivation world and quietly builds his power with the help of a sign-in System. While adventuring with Su Ling'er, he successfully opens a passage to the Spirit Realm. Once there, they battle a guardian beast at Spiritheart Peak, cleverly claim an Iceheart Lingzhi in Shadowspirit Woods, and get caught up in factional strife in Spiritwind City. They then endure countl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn as a Housekeeper: A Thorny Rose in the Manors' Secret War 重生保姆：豪门暗战里的荆棘玫瑰 Reborn as a Nanny: A Thorny Rose in a Wealthy Family's Power Struggle —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Reborn: I Build a Business Empire in the Modern World 重生归来，我在现代打造商业帝国 Reborn, I Build a Business Empire in the Modern Era 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Demon-Sealing Painting 锁妖画 During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Zhang Sengyou painted the finishing touches on a dragon, and dragon spirits and demons began appearing everywhere. People were terrified even to speak of dragons. Wu Daozi painted to seal away demons. A young disciple of his school took on a heavy responsibility and set out to explore the path of sealing demons and vanquishing evil! Huasheng2016's blockbuster adventure fantasy epic: a perilous journey of sealing demons and vanquishing evil, filled with 31Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 6 The Mystery of the Ancient Tomb 古墓迷踪 The Yellow Springs serpent demon in a mysterious ancient village; an evil-subduing mirror buried in endless yellow sands; an incorruptible ancient corpse entombed beneath a snowy mountain... What secrets lie hidden in those unknown ancient tombs? 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 After the Whole Family Reads Her Mind, the Ungrateful Daughter Goes Mad 全家读心后，白眼狼女儿发疯了 After the Whole Family Read Her Mind, the Ungrateful Daughter Went Mad 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 A Long Song Through the Years, Love’s Melody Everlasting 岁月长歌，爱韵绵延 A Long Song of the Years, Love's Melody Endures 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Tomb Raiding: My Years Robbing Ancient Tombs 盗墓：我倒斗的那些年 [Mystery] [Horror] [Smart Protagonist] In the 1980s, my grandfather entered a Western Han tomb. To his surprise, he found a child corpse. He was the only one who made it out alive, but the curse fell upon me. A feng shui master told me I wouldn't live past thirty. I've been plagued by bad luck ever since. Then I met my second uncle, whom I hadn't seen in years, and the gears of my fate began to turn. He led me back to that Western Han tomb, where headless female ghosts, blood corpses, zongzi, an 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Lamp Blower 吹灯者 Deep in a ravine on the Loess Plateau lie the secrets of a dynasty, sealed away when Cao Cao established the Gold-Touching Captains. Sixteen-year-old Qin Xiao accidentally awakens the yin-yang eyes inherited through the Qin bloodline when he touches a bronze compass in a collapsed Dragon King Temple. Those gray-white eyes can pierce the earth and glimpse the flow of qi meridians, revealing the ancient tomb complex known as the “Nine-Bend Linked Citadels,” formed when the Yellow River changed cou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 God of Fire 火神 Since the late Qing dynasty, Tianjin has been home to an endless stream of eccentric talents, known collectively as the “Seven Wonders and Eight Oddities.” Some excel in one extraordinary skill, while others are simply strange. Among them are both the righteous and the wicked, the good and the evil. Above the Seven Wonders and Eight Oddities stand the “Four Gods and Three Demons.” The Three Demons can wait for another time. The Four Gods are Dou Zhanlong, who knows every treasure; Cui the Taoist —Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 12 The Dragon-Seeking Mystery 寻龙诡藏 It all began in 1999, when Chen Yuan traveled from Shaanxi to Beijing's Panjiayuan to trade antique bronze fragments and met Liu the Fatty. “Boss, how much for this thing?” a deep voice called from above. Chen Yuan looked up and saw a burly, fat man squatting across from him. The man wore a wrinkled white undershirt, a gold chain around his neck, and held a handful of melon seeds, crunching away with relish. A funny tomb-raiding adventure novel —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Tomb Raiding: I Get Stronger by Touching Corpses After Burying the First Emperor Alive 盗墓，活埋始皇陵我摸尸就变强 Gao Yong was an ordinary tomb raider who only wanted to find riches in a mysterious ancient tomb. He never expected to be buried alive. But that was when the wheels of fate began to turn: at the brink of death, he unexpectedly activated the Corpse-Touching Power-Up System. Every time he touched an ancient corpse, his strength skyrocketed. Power, agility, swordsmanship, and all kinds of other formidable abilities came flooding in. Deep beneath the earth, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor was pac 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Tomb Raiding: Strange Encounters in the Tomb 盗墓风云之墓室奇遇 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Legend of the Gold-Touching Captain 摸金校尉传奇 Li Yi, an antiques shop owner and heir to a line of Mojin Captains, embarks on a thrilling adventure after discovering a mysterious ancient scroll. He forms a team with an archaeologist, an adventurer, and a computer hacker, then ventures into a mysterious ancient tomb, where they face peril after peril. After breaking an ancient seal, confronting guardian spirits, and escaping a collapsing tomb, they follow a new lead into a mysterious valley, where they uncover more astonishing secrets and hid —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 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—Shelves
- 17 Mythic Forbidden Zone 神话禁区 Beneath the firmament, divine treasures lie hidden and ghosts lie in wait. I stumbled upon the secrets behind the legends. I crossed the lands between the three rivers and six banks, stained the snowy plains of towering peaks with blood, and endured countless brushes with death as I fought against fate for my life. I survived, yet the world has no trace of me. 212Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 18 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—Shelves
- 19 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
- 20 The Forbidden Zone of the Living 活人禁地 My dad forced me to eat something I shouldn’t have. On the seventh day after he died, I saw him outside, playing a suona… 67Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 21 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—Shelves
- 22 Archaeological Notes 考古笔记 In a mountain village shrouded in an unknown conspiracy, people are unable to escape. Their story is about to unfold... In 1987, a rising star in archaeology suddenly died while surveying the Xing’an Mountains, burned to a crisp, clutching an archaeological journal in his hand. Thirty years later, a Beijing antiques dealer accidentally discovered the locations of several hidden tombs in his ancestor’s notes. Hoping to find the legendary, astonishing treasure, he invited the protagonist to join h 7Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 23 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—Shelves
- 24 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! 658Reads8.1Score103Shelves
- 25 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! 671Reads6.0Score100Shelves
- 26 Tales of the Strange in China 神州异事录 Ever since I was young, I’ve experienced all sorts of strange things beyond ordinary people’s wildest imagination. In particular, these eyes of mine can see the dead and all manner of yin entities… Now that I’m old, I have plenty of free time, so I’ve decided to look back on the things I’ve experienced. If life were a piece of music, I’d say it’s like the suona. Of all the instruments, the suona reigns supreme: it either sends you to heaven or plays at your wedding. Everyone gets to live a life 166Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 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
- 29 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—Shelves
- 30 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 936Reads6.6Score104Shelves
- 31 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—Shelves
- 32 Agent of the Supernatural 诡怪代理人 Comic artist Lin You suddenly gets a phone call informing him that he’s inherited an estate. In the blink of an eye, he becomes a rich second-generation heir. Grateful, he burns paper offerings and prays to the gods, never expecting to summon a ferocious ghost... 103Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 33 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 582Reads7.0Score107Shelves
- 34 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 There are many taboos passed down in everyday life. For example, never stick your chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice, and never look back when walking alone at night... But some people refuse to believe in them. The consequences? Death, or something worse than death! One taboo passed down by word of mouth in our village was never to touch the stone tablet beside the well. Then the village’s Eighth Master touched it, and terrifying events began happening one after another... 33Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 The Imperial Mausoleum of Qin 大秦皇陵 A mysterious Taoist priest and the soul of an emperor from a thousand years ago gradually uncover the mystery surrounding the First Emperor’s bizarre death a millennium earlier. Ghosts taking the place of the living, an ancient map made of human skin, an immortal village, the Nine Provinces Cauldron... What lies behind each of these mysteries? Who was the ultimate winner of the game played a thousand years ago? And what is the strange figure in a bamboo hat up to now, and what are they so determ 1.2kReads8.4Score200Shelves
- 37 Spiritual Qi Revival: Brother, You Want Me to Walk the Righteous Path?! 灵气复苏：兄弟让我走正道？！ [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Urban supernatural powers] Brotherhood between two male leads [Light ensemble cast] [No female lead] Not a romance, slow-paced Before the age of five, He Jiunian’s life was a blur. Blood followed him as he grew up, and he watched humanity survive in this world like puppets. Then he met someone who changed his life: Jiang He. He followed him forward, step by step, willingly becoming part of his plans in an attempt to be his most important pawn. “He Jiunian, who do you thin 1.4kReads—Score181Shelves
- 38 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! 7.9kReads8.6Score696Shelves
- 39 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... 103Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 40 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... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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—Shelves
- 42 Urban Ghost Stories: I Just Want to Be a Doctor 都市怪谈：我只想当个医生 Urban fantasy, doctor, horror, paranormal, invincible, feel-good, but not mindless! Huachuan is a master’s graduate of the medical school at one of Shanghai’s Project 985 universities! After graduation, he begins working at a top-tier hospital. His only wish in life is to be a good doctor! But one day, a mysterious stranger appears and tells him that he is actually a God of War who fell to the mortal realm. In order to help him recover his divine powers and memories, the Goddess Nuwa takes him t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 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 49kReads7.8Score4kShelves
- 44 Haunted 撞邪 Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.4kReads8.4Score326Shelves
- 45 The Bureau of Foreign Affairs' Strange Tales 外事局诡闻录 All the petty affairs of the world are interactions between people. Whether good or bad, they belong to the realm of internal affairs. Anything beyond ordinary human life, anything ordinary people cannot accept, belongs to external affairs. That is the meaning behind the name of the External Affairs Bureau. Skin-Human Ravine, the Five Barbarians' Ghost Cave, a thousand corpses vying to steal fortune, a mother and daughter possessed by yin spirits, a ghostly yang infant... I experienced all kinds 3.3kReads8.6Score262Shelves
- 46 The Nether Mausoleum 幽陵 A fleeting dream, a glance at passing scenes; eight thousand ghosts emerge from this realm. The Dragon Palace's blue waters are the real world; immortals point out the ancient kings of Shu... With nothing but a treasure-hunting verse, the Xiling Divine Manual, Bai Ze accidentally tore through a veil that had concealed secrets for millennia. The ancient age of slash-and-burn farming, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Yanzi creating the heavens, Fuxi making humankind: all seem both real and 543Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 47 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—Shelves
- 48 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. 1.1kReads8.8Score125Shelves
- 49 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—Shelves
- 50 The Imperial Tomb Guardian 皇陵守墓人 Last century, a team of archaeological experts discovered an ancient tomb in the Qinling Mountains and organized dozens of the country's top archaeologists to excavate it. Before long, however, the team mysteriously vanished without a trace, and none survived. After decades of research, Professor Wang Xuan discovered that the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor concealed a shocking secret. He led four students deep into a small county in the mountains of Bashu, embarking on an extraordinarily biz 5.2kReads5.9Score327Shelves
