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- 1 Tomb Raiding: The Divine Tomb of Nanling 盗墓之南陵神墓 My name is Qin Hao. I was born into a family of tomb raiders, and my grandfather was a legendary successor of the Mojin tradition, famous throughout the trade. On the day I was born, my grandfather made a rule: from then on, he'd quit the trade for good. My father was to leave it behind as well, and the Qin family donated all its wealth and moved to a remote mountain village to make a living. My father said it was all for my sake! When I was born, I had a strange birthmark on my back. They say i 615Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Tracking the Tomb's Shadow 墓影追踪 Tomb raiding and battling corpse-demons, making a living by robbing graves. Across the land of China lie countless coffins and tombs. The secrets of feng shui, the heavens, and the earth are profound and unfathomable, beyond the reach of ordinary people. So we must give it everything we've got and uncover the truth. As for what happens in the tombs, let me tell you the story in full! 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 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
- 4 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
- 5 Caves Beneath the Sea of Sand 沙海地窟 To find his brother, who mysteriously vanished six months ago, Xiao Rui sets off on an adventure to the underground caves of the Sand Sea. 20Reads7.3Score614d adds
- 6 Tales of Tomb-Raiding Mysteries 盗墓诡事录 A series of stories that really happened, presented to readers as the autobiography of a man released from prison after serving his sentence, revealing little-known tales from the world of tomb raiding... 13Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 7 The Golden-Splitting Formula: The Hidden Treasure Map 分金诀：盗藏天图 Tomb raiders plunder the secrets of immortality, robbing the dead in the Ninefold Underworld. When the sky lantern shines and the ghost-blowing lantern is lit, the master geomancer uses gold to locate the tomb. A qilin map showing a corpse on its back draws Meng Kai into a world of intrigue and tomb raiding. He enters ancient tombs, takes on zombies, battles evil corpses, and hunts ghosts. But gradually, he discovers that what lies buried in the mausoleums isn't human at all... Tomb raiding is d 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Southern School’s Dragon-Seeking Field Notes 南派寻龙手札 Tomb raiding is divided between the northern and southern schools. The northern school specializes in using “techniques” to split mountains and break through armor, while the southern school excels at using “arts” to decipher tombs. I was just starting out when someone set me up. My master gave his life to save me, and from then on, I became a southern-school tomb raider. The dreaded Tomb of King Tan, coffin boats suspended from cliffs thousands of feet high, the treacherous Tomb of Ten Thousand 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Strange Tales of Tomb Raiding 盗墓志异 Fifty years ago, a clan of tomb guardians was wiped out, and the legend of the ghost-faced tiger tally began circulating among the people. Twenty years later, a mysterious wealthy merchant offered a hundred million for the tally, bringing tomb raiding to a fever pitch. The era of tomb raiding reached its peak, with raiders running rampant and fighting over burial treasures, all eager to get their hands on the ghost-faced tiger tally. Later, the government stepped in repeatedly and protected many 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Records of the Northern Fiend’s Tomb Raids 北煞盗陵录 In the bitter winter of 2002, Xiang Feng, a boy from a mountain village in the Northeast, cuts off a finger and swears an oath to join the northern tomb-raiding gang Silver Fox in hopes of saving his sick mother. On his first expedition, to a blood-soaked Western Zhou tomb, his teammates are poisoned and undergo corpse transformation. Only he is spared, after touching the bizarre markings on a bronze tripod. A black line appears on his right arm and spreads toward his heart. The line turns out t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 After Several Reincarnations, I Revived My Beloved from a Past Life in a Tomb 几世轮回我在盗墓中复活前世爱人 A brand-new tomb-raiding universe! New settings, new battles, and a new style! It’s definitely unlike any tomb-raiding story you’ve read before. Blending tomb raiding, the supernatural, transmigration, immortality, Taoist magic, and more, the protagonist Xu Ran leads his two apprentices, Yi Shiyi and Hua Yang, through ancient tombs, uncovering the stories behind them and gradually solving a host of mysteries, including their own origins and Xu Ran’s most important mission: bringing his beloved b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 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—14d adds
- 13 Strange Tales from the Bottom of the Lake 湖底奇谭 The ninth novel in the Miao Junru Archaeological Adventure series. On the eve of victory in the War of Resistance, Miao Junru is returning to Chongqing from Wuyuan, Huizhou. While crossing Poyang Lake, he encounters an American special forces unit captured by the Japanese. Behind this seemingly ordinary incident lies a vast conspiracy targeting China. After a fierce battle with an ancient underworld ape at Laoye Temple, Miao Junru and an unidentified secret agent from the Military Statistics Bur 36Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 14 Whispers from the Abyssal Tomb 深渊墓语 In 1982, a letter from Shanghai shattered my peaceful life in Panjiayuan, Beijing. The official story was that it was merely a well-preserved Han dynasty cliff tomb. But my grandfather's cinnabar notes warned me: it was a sinister tomb where the corpse-raising pit lay, patrolled by the ghost soldiers of the Bo people. One wrong step, and death was all but certain! The female expert from Shanghai who came along was full of scholarly enthusiasm, while the herbalist girl from southern Sichuan carri —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Northern and Southern Tomb Raiders 南北派盗墓贼 [Tomb Raiding, Suspense, Jianghu, First Person] In the mysterious underground world, ancient tombs are riddles no one can solve, and a source of treasure in the hearts of countless people. Some raid tombs for money, but I am a tomb raider willing to do whatever it takes to escape my family's curse. In the dark underground world, I embark on a life-or-death race against time. I spent more than eight years in the military. To escape my family's curse, I had no choice but to take this thorn-strewn 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 The Tomb of Eternal Life 永生墓 “Beneath the Tomb of Eternal Life, none shall pass into the Yellow Springs. The living suffer; the dead ascend to immortality.” The mysterious dragon shadow in the Sanxingdui sinkhole, the undying demon flower in the Three Thousand Mirage Seas, the golden evil bones in Helan’s Coffin Mountain, the reincarnation demon pagoda in the ancient Jialan Temple. They search for the cause and effect behind immortality and reincarnation, and uncover mysterious events buried for ages… 293Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 17 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 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 In Search of Dragons: Raiding the Tombs of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors 寻龙记：盗穿三皇五帝 Searching for the Dragon is a tomb-raiding adventure novel set in the Kunlun Mountains. It tells the story of the protagonist and various factions competing for the Dragon Soul Jade, ultimately protecting the dragon veins of Huaxia. 3Reads—Score214d adds
- 19 A Record of the Four Arts of Tomb Raiding 摸金四诀纪实 In the secretive world of tomb raiding, the inheritance of the Mojin Xiaowei is no fantastical legend, but a contest of practical skills. With rigorous realism, The Four Mojin Principles: A Factual Account lays bare the true face of folk tomb raiding in China. It begins with family precepts passed down through generations, while bronze compasses and silk maps trace the fate of the Mojin clans. Uncle Three’s four-part method of “observing, listening, questioning, and examining,” Uncle Two’s centi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 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—14d adds
- 22 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—14d adds
- 23 Tomb Raiding: Strange Encounters in the Tomb 盗墓风云之墓室奇遇 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 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—14d adds
- 25 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
- 26 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
- 27 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
- 28 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
- 29 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
- 30 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.” 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Tomb Raider's Notes: Tales from Northeast China 盗墓手扎之东北往事 The later chapters get increasingly fantastical and exciting, with thrilling adventures. The earlier part is a little more subdued, so please bear with it. Chen Feng is an ordinary man who will gradually grow and achieve great success. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Tomb Raiding: Clouds Over the Sea, Dust No More 盗墓之云海避尘 A priceless pearl can preserve a corpse for a thousand years, while a mysterious force can keep someone asleep forever. A beautiful, charming woman and a strong, resolute man. They are a band of professional tomb raiders, but they aren’t after treasure. They seek the secrets that have lain dormant for hundreds of years! 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Secrets of the Mountains and Seas 山海密藏 In 1980, Jiang Yun's family's antique shop was swindled away in a setup. Desperate to repay the enormous debt, he unexpectedly received a map to a hidden treasure in the South China Sea. On one side lay generations of his family's accumulated wealth. On the other, a treasure fraught with danger. Jiang Yun and his Second Uncle set off for the South China Sea... From then on, one strange thing after another began to happen: sea demons, ghost ships, ghouls, forbidden lands of humanity, secrets of t 633Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Terrifying Underground World 恐怖的地下世界 I could have lived a perfectly peaceful life, but buying a ring from a street stall in the park kicked off a whole series of adventures… It was a hair-raising journey, with death close at hand more times than I can count, as I followed in the footsteps of the ancients. 934Reads—Score10114d adds
- 35 Yin-Yang Talisman 阴阳符 In 1996, the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Chronology Project got underway. The veils shrouding the most obscure era in history began to lift, while a conspiracy that had started around the same time slowly unfolded. Having just graduated and entered the working world, he accidentally took one step onto a road with no end and no return, and into the answers to the endless mysteries buried in the river of history... 170Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 36 Moving Mountains and Commanding Ridges 搬山御岭 Whether you turn to tomb raiding out of desperation or in the hope of getting rich overnight, once you take it up, you're a thief. A thief is a thief. No matter how you dress it up or how many stories you tell, a thief is still a thief. Once you've done it, you'll never shake that label. I fell in with the wrong crowd by a twist of fate. After all the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations, I managed to make a little something of myself. If you'd like, I'll tell you my story, slowly and from 9Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 37 Northern School Tomb Raiding: The Gravedigging Peddler 北派盗墓之掘地货郎 He only wanted to settle down, get married, and have children, but somehow ended up in the tomb-raiding business. Watch as a man who only wants a quiet life encounters one incredible adventure after another. An unremarkable doggerel poem hides a tomb raider’s life’s work and fortune. See how this seemingly ordinary man raids tombs, hunts for treasure, and deciphers the clues hidden in the poem. Watch him grow step by step into a seasoned tomb raider. But what awaits him: a paradise of riches, or 2Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 38 Restarting 1998: The Intrigues of King Yiqu's War Chariots 重启1998：义渠王战车风云谲 In the fall of 1998, a golden war chariot belonging to the Xirong Yiqu King was discovered in a Xirong tomb at Yuanjiashan in Licheng. But overnight, the chariot vanished without a trace. Police officer Luo Chucheng led a team to investigate. Later, the golden chariot surfaced in Macau, and Luo Chucheng went there alone to deal with all kinds of people. In the end, he uncovered the truth. But after the truth came to light, Luo Chucheng and Su Canrong both transmigrated back to 1998. The blind sp 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Ghost City of Jingjue 精绝鬼城 Legend has it that in ancient times, a meteorite fell from the heavens in the far west of Huaxia. The mysterious energy within it was forged into three "Twin Fish Jade Pendants" by an ancient deity known as the "Queen Mother of the West." These pendants were no mere ornaments. They were ultimate devices capable of "mirroring and copying" living beings and even, to a certain extent, "reversing time and space." The Queen Mother of the West used them to create the powerful guardian known as the "Sn 10Reads—Score614d adds
- 40 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
- 41 With Spiritual Energy Depleted, How Can I Improve My Cultivation? 灵气枯竭，如何提升修为？ (Tomb raiding + supernatural horrors + ominous places of great danger + cultivation + flirting) A slow-paced urban cultivation story set in a world where spiritual energy is drying up. On his way to breaking through to the next cultivation level, the protagonist encounters one bizarre event after another. He explores mysterious ancient tombs and ventures into eerie places of deadly danger… As his cultivation improves, his body begins to show some unusual changes. Whenever he meets a pure, belove —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Above the Snowfields 雪域之上 In 1969, as preparations were made for a possible war with the Soviet Union, an engineering unit entered the Kunlun Mountains under secret orders. There, they stumbled upon an astonishing secret hidden in the mountains... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Northern School: Murder in the Tomb Passage 北派：墓道追凶 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Jianghu + Treasure Appraisal + Deduction] I was just a low-ranking police officer in a remote county town. An accident changed my life: my mentor was murdered, and my friend was in danger. To avenge them, I quit my job and joined a northern tomb-raiding crew, fighting fire with fire. But things only grew stranger: mysterious writing, the origins of dragon veins, underground palaces… After more than a decade of tomb raiding, I came to understand one thing: the jianghu i 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Tomb of the Underworld 幽冥冢 I admit that what I’m about to tell you is hard for most people to imagine, and may overturn many of their beliefs. What unknown secrets lie buried in the dark underground ruins? For thousands of years, they have drawn one wave of explorers after another. Did those ancient fallen civilizations really exist, or is our history concealing something...? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Shan Hai Mystery 山海谜踪 A series of bizarre and extraordinary events unfolds around the search for the legendary Eight Mirrors of the Qin King. Why do those behind the scenes need the mirrors? What secrets are they hiding? What dangers will Lin Jian and Nian Yao face? The story that follows will reveal all. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Legendary Master of Chishui Spirit Wine 赤水灵酿之传世酒宗 The Chishui River has flowed for a thousand years, giving birth to world-famous liquor and nourishing secret brewing arts unknown to the world. In 1988, Du Shaokang, the thirty-year-old young heir to Zuixianfang, a century-old distillery on the riverbank, returns home as a brewer bearing the scars of city life. The inheritance was interrupted during a turbulent era, and he is unexpectedly drawn into a thousand-year struggle over the “Secret Treasure of the Liquor Ancestor.” One strange event fol 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 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
- 48 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
- 49 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
- 50 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
