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- 1 The Folk Treasure Hunter 民间憋宝人 A medicine gatherer's strange experience. Dog treasure is black, ox treasure is yellow, the corpse ginseng doll sleeps on a red bed. The earth-white dragon, the middle of a donkey's hoof, the hundred-foot centipede that stills the black wind. I am a medicine gatherer who travels deep into the mountains in search of hidden treasures. This world is full of secret places untouched by human hands, where rare natural treasures grow. The methods of treasure hunting are beyond imagination: strange arts 251Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Treasure-Hunting and Spirit Reading: Master and Disciple Roam the World 憋宝相灵：师徒走江湖 Chen Laobie, heir to the Southern School's treasure-hunting tradition, and his apprentice Lin Xiaoman roam north and south in search of spiritual treasures, turning heaven and earth into their arena and human nature into their game. From a brutal ambush on the salt flats of eastern Ji to a sinister scheme in the water towns of Jiangnan, then a powerful hunt orchestrated by hypocritical gentry in Hangzhou, master and apprentice face danger at every turn. Beneath the water, they encounter a deadly 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Have You Ever Held It In? And You're Writing a Book! 你憋过宝吗？你就写书！ Read the signs of heaven and earth, divide the waters, seal spirits, nurture treasures, and suppress evil. The treasure seeker can sense spirits, lead sheep, and coax treasures out of hiding. Find a treasure, and it goes into the Imperial Treasury. A hundred years ago, thirteen gates to the grotto-heavens appeared out of nowhere, suspended above the mountains and rivers and anchoring the four seas. From that moment on, a whole new era set sail! There were martial arts techniques that could keep 885Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 4 Treasure Hunting and Sheep Towing 憋宝牵羊 A prequel to the novels The Art of Tomb Raiding and Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Treasures. Clouds cloak a thousand mountains, and the earth gives birth to all things. Between Heaven and Earth, amid the sources of mountains and rivers, there is an innate spiritual energy. When this energy gathers around a dragon, it nurtures a heavenly spirit; when it gathers in a burial site, it forms an earthly treasure; when it gathers in a formation, it gives birth to strange herbs. There is a group of peopl 5.2kReads7.6Score379Shelves
- 5 The Treasure Hunter 憋宝人 The skin shed by a black fish as it transforms into a serpent can be stretched over a drum to carry its sound a hundred miles. The bowl atop a river imp's head can revive the dead when used to hold medicine. The pearl spat out by a giant serpent, the Marquis Sui's Pearl, is worth a fortune. The immortal herb that a yaksha gives you can grant eternal life when eaten. In the eyes of us shepherds, also known as treasure seekers, these heavenly treasures are all fat sheep. Sheep come in red and blac 3.3kReads8.4Score371Shelves
- 6 The Years I Spent as a Shepherd 我当羊倌那些年 A noodle shop packed with customers uses eels dug out of graves. A scrawny yellow dog is willing to develop gallstones for the sake of its master. A man-eating catfish has a water-swallowing pearl in its belly, while the teeth of an ancient corpse have turned to jade. As an heir to the grave-robbing treasure-seeking trade, I transmigrate through mountains and forests in search of heavenly treasures. People call those of our trade shepherds… 2kReads8.1Score243Shelves
- 7 Explorer of the Forbidden Zone 禁区探险家 There are 12 deliberately erased “forbidden zones” on Earth’s surface. Hidden inside them is a prehistoric super-civilization far beyond modern technology. Some want to protect it, some want to destroy it, and some want to use it to rule the world. Searching for the truth behind a missing teammate’s disappearance, the protagonists venture into one terrifying forbidden zone after another. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Treasure Hunting the World 寻宝天下 A treasure-hunting adventure novel. Yao Feiyu is sold by his girlfriend to a compound to have his kidneys harvested. As a cold blade slices into his flesh, his blood splashes onto an antique ring worn by a tycoon. A treasure-hunting spirit cat and a pocket dimension appear in his mind! He only wanted to keep a low profile and hunt for treasures, but every Tom, Dick, and Harry gets in his way! What a joke! I'll wipe out his entire family with one blow and take all the gold for myself! But before 2kReads6.5Score190Shelves
- 9 X-Ray Vision for Appraising Jade 透视赌石鉴宝 [Underdog’s rise + Antique appraisal + Gemstone gambling + X-ray vision + Cathartic revenge + Power fantasy] Lin Chao is an ordinary office worker who accidentally discovers that the goddess he secretly loves is being bullied by the company manager. He beats up the manager, leaves the company, and gets hit by a car. When he wakes up in the hospital, he has gained X-ray vision. From then on, his life is unstoppable: money, beautiful women, luxury cars, and mansions are all his! [A cathartic power 25Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 10 Gambling on Stones! 赌石！ [Jade Gambling] [Feel-Good Revenge] After being framed by a rich heir, betrayed by his girlfriend, and scorned by everyone, Lin Fan hits rock bottom and unexpectedly awakens X-ray vision. With a single glance, he can see through the rough outer shells of raw jade and perceive the spiritual energy in all things. From then on, one cut leaves him broke, the next makes him rich. He rises to power in the jade gambling world, with Imperial Green of glass-like quality, exquisite blood jade, heirloom ja 16.3kReads7.1Score335Shelves
- 11 Golden Eyes: The Jade Gambling King 黄金瞳：赌石王 [Stone Gambling + Appraisal + X-Ray Vision + Revenge + Underworld] On the brink of death after being hunted by his enemies, he accidentally awakens the Golden Eye through his family’s ancestral jade. From then on, he can see through solid stone and recognize every rare treasure under the sun. The stone-gambling family that stole the Lin family heirloom years ago has now become an industry giant. They sneer at me: “You think you’re good enough to gamble on stones?” That is, until I open three pie 1.2kReads6.8Score101Shelves
- 12 Golden Eyes: King of Antiques and Gemstone Gambling 黄金瞳：鉴宝赌石王 [Stone gambling] [Rise to power] [Satisfying read] [Tycoon] [Bargain hunting] [Antique appraisal] [Face-slapping] Ye Fan’s life hits rock bottom: he loses his job, falls into debt, and gets abandoned. Then a fragment of a mysterious ancient jade streaks across his eyes. When he wakes, the whole world has changed. In the scrap yard, stones bloom with the radiance of Imperial Green wherever his fingers point. At ghost-market stalls, his sharp eyes reveal a genuine Tang dynasty Buddha hidden in a p 90Reads7.1Score129Shelves
- 13 Why Are You Looking Around with Those X-Ray Eyes Instead of Gambling on Jade? 透视眼不去赌石，乱看什么呢 [X-ray vision + stone gambling + scratch-off tickets + antique appraisal + bargain hunting + tycoon + farming + livestreaming + rags-to-riches comeback] On his way to take out a loan, he was sent flying when a woman driver slammed on the gas and hit him. By sheer luck, he gained X-ray vision. From then on, A stunningly beautiful rich woman chased after him, eager to get close. The campus belle won his heart through his stomach with her cooking, and a breathtakingly beautiful CEO wanted to hand h 5.7kReads8.3Score709Shelves
- 14 After My Ex Cheated on Me, I Struck It Rich on Gemstones 被前女友绿后，我赌石暴富 [X-Ray Vision + Appraising Treasures + Stone Gambling + Underdog's Comeback + Underworld + Treasure Hunting + Tomb Raiding] After He Jianghai caught his girlfriend cheating, the other man retaliated by blinding him. When He received a corneal transplant donated by a kind stranger, he unexpectedly gained X-ray vision! From then on, he rose to the top and became a winner in life. [An exhilarating underdog comeback story, well worth a read!] 965Reads7.0Score101Shelves
- 15 Heavenly Eye: King of Stone Gambling 透视天眼：赌石王 [Jade gambling] [Power fantasy] In a single night, his family was ruined, his company went bankrupt, and his father died with a grudge in his heart. He fell from the heights of success and became a lowly apprentice in the jade market, struggling amid endless mockery and despair. Then the jade pendant passed down through his family merged with his eye, unexpectedly granting him the power to see through everything and discern the glow of treasures! From then on, no flawed jade or hidden treasure c 793Reads6.8Score102Shelves
- 16 X-Ray Vision: Gambling on Jade and Appraising Treasures 透视眼赌石鉴宝 [X-ray vision + stone gambling + antiques appraisal + underdog comeback + bargain hunting + antiques] While making a delivery, deliveryman Su Ming came across a beautiful woman whose faucet was broken. As he helped her fix it, he suddenly gained X-ray vision. From then on, his life was like a cheat code, carrying him all the way to the top. 2.2kReads7.6Score292Shelves
- 17 The King of Jade Gambling 赌石王 [Stone gambling + multiple female leads] On his way to work on his electric scooter, Mo Yu crashes into a BMW. The bad news: He crashed into a BMW! The good news: It belongs to his boss. Beautiful boss: “What the hell? Who dares hit my BMW!” Taking a closer look: “Oh, it’s just my workhorse!” Afterward, Mo Yu does odd jobs for his beautiful boss after work every day to pay for the repairs, and accidentally gains X-ray vision and a pocket dimension... From then on, his life is one lucky break aft 3.3kReads7.7Score425Shelves
- 18 The Master of Jade Gambling With X-Ray Vision 透视赌石高手 [Stone gambling + antique appraisal + casinos + an ordinary man's rise + multiple heroines + scratch cards + farming + everyday life] At a company team-building event, he accidentally spots his stunning female boss using the restroom in a small grove. By a twist of fate, he awakens the power of X-ray vision. From then on, he uses his X-ray vision to appraise antiques and find hidden treasures, win big with scratch cards, dominate the casinos, discover valuable antiques and paintings, and gamble 790Reads6.3Score103Shelves
- 19 X-Ray Eyes: Appraising Treasures and Gambling on Jade 透视眼鉴宝赌石 [Underdog comeback + X-ray vision + treasure appraisal + stone gambling + satisfying wish fulfillment + bargain hunting + tomb raiding] Zhang Wei is a miserable low-level wage worker. Unable to pay his rent, he works for his landlord in lieu of payment. While fixing the landlord’s faucet, the landlord’s husband comes home. Zhang Wei hides in a closet and accidentally cuts his finger on a nail, awakening his X-ray vision. From then on, his life takes off. Money, beautiful women, luxury cars, mans 351Reads7.8Score132Shelves
- 20 Divorced in Middle Age, I Strike It Rich Through Stone Gambling, and My Ex-Wife Regrets It 中年离婚，赌石暴富，前妻后悔 [Stone Gambling + Antiques Appraisal + Underdog’s Rise + X-Ray Vision + Tycoon + Farming + Everyday Urban Life + No Harem] Unable to bear their frugal, impoverished life any longer, he decided to take a chance for his family. He used years of savings to open a hot pot restaurant with a friend, only to get cheated by that friend, lose everything, and end up owing a huge amount in loan-shark debt. When a gang boss came to collect, his wife immediately asked for a divorce, and he left with nothing. 1.7kReads7.6Score182Shelves
- 21 The Antiquities Restorer 做旧师 [Entirely handmade, with no AI whatsoever + Behind-the-scenes industry secrets + Authentic antique identification with images and text + National vendettas and family feuds] If you want to truly understand the antiques trade, start by making fake antiques! Start by learning to age forgeries! My name is Mei Jiu. I was just a temporary odd-jobber on a film crew, but after I helped them repair a broken bowl, I was promoted to assistant prop master. I fix props, so why are they asking me to make fak 40.4kReads9.2Score4.9kShelves
- 22 Treasure-Hunting Livestream: Everywhere I Look, I See Hidden Treasures 直播捡漏：我眼中到处是宝藏 A sudden accident leaves Xiao Ran in an impossible predicament, but also grants him an unbelievable superpower. With this miraculous ability, Xiao Ran sets out on an extraordinary treasure-hunting adventure in a foreign land, finding hidden bargains along the way. This book is also known as "Live-Streaming Treasure Finds: Clearing Out the West's Wealth", "Finding a Bargain Feels Great, and Finding Bargains Forever Feels Even Better", "Scammed by Americans: My Revenge with X-Ray Vision", "Live-St 41.3kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
- 23 The Human Emperor's Bloodline, Five Senses Ascended 人皇血，五感升 (X-Ray Vision, Bargain Hunting, Jade Gambling, Miracle Doctor, Underdog’s Rise) Betrayed, heartbroken, caught in a sudden car accident... Courier Lin Yixian is cheated on by his girlfriend, then hit by her lover’s car! At death’s door, he unexpectedly gains extraordinary abilities, including X-ray vision and mind reading! Lin Yi first uses his X-ray vision to clean out lottery shops and earn his first fortune. Then he finds hidden treasures in the antiques market and wins a beauty’s heart. After 1.6kReads7.2Score164Shelves
- 24 A Legendary Life in the Era 年代传奇人生 A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains of the 1960s. With the pocket dimension and gear from his previous life, he takes his friends hunting and exploring. The early story centers on hunting, with cross-province searches for family, treasure hunts, and battles against spies woven in. They explore fortresses, raid tombs, and get caught up in other thrilling adventures. Novel pets include a wolverine, a big black horse, a yellow-throated marten, reindeer, and a mantis. 62.9kReads7.7Score9kShelves
- 25 The Rat King Forced Me to Cultivate, and I Got Rich Across Worlds by Snagging Bargains 鼠王逼我修仙，我靠捡漏暴富万界 [Ordinary Mortal's Treasure-Hunting Cultivation] [Treasure Hunts and Mysteries] [Secret-Realm Expeditions] [Unearthing Treasures Across the Myriad Worlds] [Laid-Back Immortal Cultivation] [Secret-Realm Dungeon Adventures] [Lighthearted and Relaxed] Qin Lie: “Immortal, demon, or Buddha, I don't care. Anyone who gets in the way of my treasure hunt and path to immortality dies!” Treasure-Hunting Mouse: “Kid, you've got a big mouth!” Qin Lie: “If we can't kill them, we'll just run!” From antique s 12.7kReads8.1Score1.3kShelves
- 26 Playing the Ancient Immortal Path 玩古仙途 Ancient artifacts conceal strange secrets, and ordinary mortals dare knock on the gates of immortality. Young Fang Chen seeks out mysterious relics buried by time, and comes across a jade pendant with its own space. Through the struggles of the apocalypse, he parts layer upon layer of mist. Is the world a prison, or a game? Wherever he looks, a road lies ahead! He cultivates immortality all the way, and in the end, the young man attains the Great Dao! 1.9kReads6.2Score137Shelves
- 27 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.3kReads—Score107Shelves
- 28 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8kShelves
- 29 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5kShelves
- 30 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 948.8kReads9.6Score117.8kShelves
- 31 Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能：我有一面复刻镜 [Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th 117kReads9.6Score13.4kShelves
- 32 EN Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 141.6kReads9.6Score14.7kShelves
