Novels like The Nether Mausoleum
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- 1 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
- 2 Ancient Rock: Imprint a Thousand Years, Carve All Things 古岩：印千年，刻万事 This book is also titled "Runshu, Why Are There So Many Villains Around You? Oh, Turns Out I'm One Too" A little spice-shop owner who had given up on ambition and started enjoying retirement early accidentally set off on a path with no return because of a bet. In the Qiu Dragon Tomb, demons guarded the dead while Qiu Dragons coiled around the pillars. Gazing at the bronze locks and golden coffin in the distance, someone remarked, “Nine bronze dragon pillars lock the golden coffin. Once it touche 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 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. 17Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 4 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—Shelves
- 5 The Mystery of the Tomb Raiders 盗墓疑云 In 1983, a close friend of mine was sent to Ganquan County, Yichuan, on an archaeological expedition. On the mudflats along the Yellow River, the team dug up a bronze bell sealed shut with cowhide. When the bell was accidentally opened, a woman's bones were found inside. From that moment on, strange things began happening one after another: Archaeologists died one by one, and human bite marks appeared on the bodies... Mongolian villagers slept on their knees, and time suddenly began running back 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Chronicles of Tomb Raiding in Western Hunan 湘西盗墓录记 - The cliffside cave-burial complex at Danshan, Chenxi - The thousand-year-old hanging coffin formation at Guizangpo, Xupu - The Han Dynasty marquis's tomb at Huxi Mountain, Yuanling - The thirty-six sinkholes of the Miao territory in Fenghuang,, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Haunted Supermarket 阴魂超市 One night, a strange woman came into the supermarket I run by myself. After buying a few things, she made me an utterly bewildering request. Honestly, it wasn't just hard to make sense of... 383Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Quick Transmigration: NPCs Never Give Up! 【快穿】NPC永不言弃！ [Male protagonist, no romance] [Amnesia and power-ups] [The protagonist is nonhuman at first] A stone from the start, and saving the world depends on teamwork?! Help! What do you do when you wake up and find yourself a stone beneath a treasured sword? Shi Yan says, “What can I do? I’ll just go with the flow.” But the brave hero is supposed to save the world, so why does he seem so dim? And why do all of you act like you know me so well? Who are you people? Arc One: Western Fantasy, Sword and Sor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Rural Tomb-Raiding Gang 乡村盗墓团伙 Lao Zhang, Pin Yu, Wang Youcai, Yi Xiaoling, and Wang Jiabei are drawn into the secret of an ancient tomb sealed away for years deep in Baishan after a chance discovery. Ghost soldiers marching along hidden paths, eerie wormholes, lost tombs, and events from thirty years ago emerge one after another. As the group ventures deeper into Telmo Mountain, they gradually discover that the real danger on this adventure has never been limited to what lies inside the tomb. It also comes from the secrets e 3.3kReads—Score132Shelves
- 10 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 12Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 11 The Spirit-Seeking Case Files 探灵追凶录 The older generation often says that if your birth chart is too heavy, your life will be too short. After my grandfather died, a spirit curse appeared, along with a younger sister who had no place in my memories. It was as though invisible hands were drawing me into an endless abyss... The faint figure of a Su family girl, an infant spirit in a coffin, a corpse in a cloud-patterned urn: in a deserted corner of the campus, they always whispered strange things in the dead of night... To seek the s 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 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
- 13 Reborn! The Years I Went to School with My Handsome Son 重生！和校草儿子当同学的那些年 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 2Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 14 The Yellow River Mystery Journal 黄河惊奇手札 The white fish in the Yellow River, the stone tortoise resting on the riverbed, the black boat drifting by at midnight, the red carp leaping through the Dragon Gate: these are stories passed down among the people who live along the Yellow River. 139Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 15 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 145Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 16 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
- 17 System Stew Is a Recipe for Fun! The Ultimate Trickster Plays by His Own Rules 系统乱炖欢乐多！最强老六路子野 Also known as: “A Sneaky Guy Like Me Gets a New Hilarious System Every Day” “The Strongest Spoilsport, Copying Other People’s Golden Fingers” (“The Crap God Is Here!”) [Shameless trickster + lighthearted comedy + not entirely serious] On the eve of a great crisis, in an era when “Hosts are as common as dogs and Systems are everywhere”... Yuan Man, a shameless young man with an SSS-rank talent who was hooked on pretending to be a useless slacker, got bound to a mysterious trash can that fell from 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 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 974Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 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 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 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—Shelves
- 21 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… 297Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 22 I Told You to Sleep in a Coffin to Recover, Not to Have Vengeful Ghosts Carry It 让你睡棺材养病，没让你厉鬼抬棺 I was born dead and raised by my adoptive father in a coffin. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter the Cave of Wronged Spirits, bow nine times to a coffin, and take a corpse as my master. I entered the Coffin Sect and, like generations of disciples before me, carried coffins to bury ghosts, spending my whole life entangled with every kind of bizarre evil spirit. The Nine Peaks Suppressing Corpses, coffins adrift on a sea of blood, a city built of bones, eight heirs vying for supremacy… In 2.3kReads—Score304Shelves
- 23 Eerie: Slander! I Really Was Just Passing By 诡异：诽谤！我真的是路过 [No female lead, no romance, supernatural horror, invincible protagonist, comedy] Who is Pei Shi? A suspect who crawled out of a pile of corpses? Or a mentally ill man with something wrong in the head? Neither. Pei Shi says: I’m a good person. I really am. After waking up one day, Pei Shi found himself back in the real world. The game had yet to arrive, and people thought he was mentally ill. But the supernatural had already invaded reality. As an outstanding student who hadn’t yet graduated fro 179Reads—Score101Shelves
- 24 The Rebellious Great Sage: Who Would Want This Lousy Job? 反骨大圣：这破班谁爱上谁上 [The author’s ramblings] My new novel is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel! I’m a new author, and my previous draft wasn’t good enough, so this time I’ve decided to rewrite it from scratch. My writing still needs work, so please bear with me, dear readers! If you finish it and think it’s any good, could you give it a rating? Praise or criticism, either is fine. Point out anything that needs fixing, and I’ll revise it one issue at a time. I’ll carefully read all your suggestions. A q 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Flesh-and-Blood Pact: I Face Another World with My Inner Demon 血肉魔契：我与心魔共临异世 After an accident sends him plunging into a cruel Western fantasy world, Jiang Xuye is left with nothing and cast into a perilous, untamed wilderness. To survive, he is forced to master uncanny flesh magic, devouring flesh and reshaping his own body as he struggles to stay alive beneath the claws and fangs of monstrous beasts and demons. With every increase in strength, his body becomes more and more inhuman. Deep in his soul, a heart demon of his own quietly awakens. It is his dark side, his 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 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—Shelves
- 27 Pilgrims Beneath the Yellow Springs 黄泉下的朝圣者 Lin Hai's older brother, Lin He, died mysteriously in 1979. Three years later, Lin Hai received a photograph of him and, by sheer chance, joined a treasure-hunting team. It seems there is a deeper mystery behind all of this... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 I’m Patient No. 017 at the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院当017号病患 I stand on the line between dawn and dusk, half-hidden in shadow. The blazing sun cannot reach me. I raise my eyes, only to plunge once more into a dead sea that speaks of loneliness. Time seems frozen by winter crows, and I am trapped in the bone-chilling water, unable to rise or sink. As my soul drifts away, I see a gaunt, bony hand trying to drag me out of the abyss. I embrace it, then watch its bewitching eyes as it sinks below. / I am not innocent. I am guilty. I cannot reach that sunlit pl 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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—Shelves
- 30 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. 1.6kReads8.8Score290Shelves
- 31 The Hidden Treasure 密藏 On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month of 1998, Qiu Ming receives a mysterious phone call telling him to pick up a file from a specified location the next day. The file comes from the distant Kunlun Mountains and records some of the Qiu family’s past, including part of the truth about his grandfather’s death. One passage in the file catches Qiu Ming’s attention. It concerns a hidden treasure kept secret by an ancient Western Regions kingdom. For generations, members of the Qiu family have 863Reads—Score182Shelves
- 32 A Sweet Little Slice of Country Life 乡土风小甜饼 [Soul Transmigration + BL + No Romance] Is it rustic? Who knows. Is it sweet? Who knows. “Zheng Tianxing,” an “ordinary” country boy whose life has been full of misfortune. 17Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 33 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: An Autobiography 盗墓笔记：自传 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Early Growth + Later Power Fantasy] My name is Wang Yifan, and I’m a college student. One day, I saw my girlfriend, “Meng Yao.” Not just one, but two identical Meng Yaos. I wanted to investigate the matter, so I sought out the Faqiu Sect. Then one day, after making thorough preparations, I ventured deep into the uninhabited wilderness of Lop Nur and witnessed one strange event after another: “Snow monsters?” “The Demon Tomb of Cancong?” “Instant teleportation?” “The Twi 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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
- 36 After Getting the King System, I Crush All the Supernatural Horrors 获得王者系统后，哥们碾压全诡异 (The rating just came in, so it’ll go up later.) [No CP!!! There may be plenty of one-sided crushes, but Ye Ge will never fall for anyone!!! King’s Canyon, no romance!!!] (A touch of ensemble cast + a happy ending for everyone) Rong Ye, a handsome, sharp-tongued college student with skin thicker than a city wall, is on his way home for the holidays when he somehow ends up on the haunted Route 444 bus after a reckless stunt. By the time he realizes something is wrong, the whole bus is already fil 24Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 37 After My Third Reincarnation, I Just Want to Be a Couch Potato 第三次转生后，我只想当咸鱼 [Twists + no female lead + innocent on the outside, dark within] After being reincarnated three times, Lian Rong’s greatest wish is to lie flat and live an easy life, but things never go as planned... Even a ruthless vengeful ghost can lose themselves in a love woven from lies and genuine affection... Behind a string of murders lies a faith entangled with desire and conscience... “Even the one who controls the rules is bound by them.” “It’s a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 After Entering a Horror Variety Show, the World's Will Went on a Rampage 穿入惊悚综艺后世界意志杀疯了 [Mainly a top, powerful top, irresistible charmer, feel-good read] [The protagonist will never fall in love with anyone. He is sweet on the surface but ruthless underneath, and is not exactly a good guy.] [The author's writing is terrible and the style is amateurish, so reader beware!] [The story itself isn't scary. The protagonist is simply too powerful, and my writing is too poor to create a frightening atmosphere from his point of view. Besides, the title can't be changed.] In the early year 12Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 39 Attacked by My Dog-Brother from the Start, I Unlock a Two-Person System in Fury 开局被狗兄弟袭击，怒开双人系统 Silly, wild imagination, System, two male leads, no female lead Attacked by his bro from the very start, he never expected to unlock a System! What? The Bro-to-Bro Mutual Aid: Invincible, Fly-to-the-Sky System. Wait, you can even create your own skills? How did you get started already! “I want to see whoever I look at turn into an idiot.” “Whoa, what the hell are you doing?” 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Feng Shui Master of the Nine Netherworlds 九幽风水师 “Place cinnabar on the acupoint, bury the corpse at the hour of the Tiger, seal the coffin with Xu earth. Wherever the Zi-Wu meridian is shifted by three inches, blood fiends will arise.” On the yellowed rice paper, the characters my grandfather had written in cinnabar bled a rusty dark red. I traced the crack along the edge of the bronze compass. Beneath it lay a book titled The Record of Geomancy in the Nine Hells. At midnight last night, the book, which should have been buried with my grandfa 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Secret Records of the Mountain Movers 搬山秘录 During Beijing's damp plum-rain season, Zhang Tian, a history graduate obsessed with antiques, happens upon a mysterious old man in Panjiayuan. Along with an ancient bronze mirror, he unexpectedly acquires a book called The Secret Records of the Mountain Shifters, its pages steeped in an eerie aura. Tucked between the yellowed sheets is half a jade pendant engraved with the Big Dipper. Phrases hidden in the notes, such as “Mountain Shifters specialize in breaking mechanisms,” seem to open a door —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Underworld Outsourcing Group: All My Clients Are Big Shots 地府外包群：我的甲方全是大佬 [No CP / Everyday Comedy / Workplace Wish-Fulfillment / Red Envelope Group / Sharp-Tongued Male Lead / Male Supporting Cast / Leveling Up] Zhou Shichu is an unemployed man from a family displaced by demolition in Shancheng. He sleeps until he wakes naturally every day, and his most strenuous exercise is moving from his bed to his computer. Then one night, he was pulled into a WeChat group called “Underworld Three Realms Outsourcing Services”... There, he met a bunch of immortals who were frantic 109Reads—Score101Shelves
- 43 The Darkest Forest: My Criminal Investigation Notes 至暗森林：我的刑侦笔记 Eighteen people who had never existed are found dead together in a minibus. Stranger still, it seems they had all been dead for twenty years… 80Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 44 Tales of Tomb Robbing 盗掘轶事 To find our missing informant, we broke into the “Nine-Orifice Jade Shroud” tomb of a Liao Dynasty imperial consort. Dunzi was poisoned by corpse venom as soon as he touched the coffin. His body began to rot, and he started babbling. Hu Anna searched through ancient texts and cried out, “This isn’t burial jade. It’s soul-locking jade!” Just then, blood began seeping from every jade plug, and a seductive woman’s voice came from inside the coffin: “Three hundred years... At last, a man has come to 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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 234Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 46 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
- 47 The Longevity Project 长生计划 A handsome young man has turned up at my house, mooching food and lodging without paying, all under the excuse that he’s lost his memory. Every sign points to the fact that he has been alive for a very long time... 465Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 Chasing the Wind by Moonlight 乘月追风 [Mystery and horror + supernatural + ghost stories + not a power fantasy + no heroine] Intern doctor Lu Zhuifeng's family is framed by villains, and from then on, all kinds of spirits and ghosts frequently possess him, forcing him to get involved in supernatural incidents. He has only one unreliable, half-trained young fortune-teller by his side. How will they overcome the crises they face? As they get drawn deeper into the fray, a filthy conspiracy begins to emerge... 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 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. 46Reads—Score—Shelves
