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- 1 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
- 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 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… 4Reads8.3Score214d adds
- 4 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
- 5 The Ghost Tomb's Enigmatic Lamp 诡墓迷灯 Three months ago, Ninth Uncle found me and took me to a strange, wondrous place. Since then, eerie things have kept happening, and terror has followed me everywhere. I want to run. I want to leave. But it’s too late. I can give up everything, but not you! I can escape from anything, but not my fate! It turns out everything was destined from the start! 66Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 6 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
- 7 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 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 8 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
- 9 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—14d adds
- 10 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—14d adds
- 11 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—14d adds
- 12 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—14d adds
- 13 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. 54Reads7.4Score914d adds
- 14 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
- 15 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 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 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—14d adds
- 17 The Tomb Raider's Immortality Notes 盗墓长生笔记 Can a thousand-year-old wild ginseng really make people live forever? The year I graduated from college, my grandfather fell seriously ill. To keep him alive, I set out on a dangerous path, hunting for wild ginseng in the mountains. But I unexpectedly got caught up in the bizarre theft of an ancient tomb by grave robbers. 111Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 18 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
- 19 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
- 20 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
- 21 Black Eyes from the Sky 天降黑瞳 Gu Xiang is an utterly ordinary antique shop owner who somehow inherits the family business from his father, Gu Fu, taking over the shop at No. 88 Wolong Street. As a child, he heard that his ancestors had been Touching Gold Captains. Then, one day, he casually bought a treasure in the shop. His black eyes awakened, beginning the legendary life that belonged to him. Mummies, blood corpses, hairy zombies... The Ancient City of Jingjue... A mysterious door... And so begins an extraordinary 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 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
- 23 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 32Reads8.4Score214d adds
- 24 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
- 25 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
- 26 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—14d adds
- 27 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—14d adds
- 28 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—14d adds
- 29 The Haunted Ancient Village 幽灵古村 Read the new book, Yin-Yang Geomancer, now: Chapter 1, The Tomb-Raiding Gang An accident during an expedition led them into a bizarre ancient village. At the village inn, there was a soul-stirring sound in the middle of the night, a strange white figure by the bed, an old woman whose whole family had died horribly, and a girl who kept a mysterious white fox. There was a mysterious spirit-summoning ritual, an ancient and horrifying sacrifice, and an old well shrouded in strange legends. After ret 1.4kReads6.7Score10014d adds
- 30 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
- 31 Tomb Raiding: The Book of Birthdays 盗墓之生辰簿 [The secret of reincarnation from a hundred thousand years ago, in the most gripping tomb-raiding tale yet.] (A road haunted by a hundred ghosts, a journey of ten thousand miles, battles against monsters, tombs to break into, a book of birth dates, and a rite of reincarnation.) Have you ever seen a centipede that glows? Its scientific name is the Hundred-Light Bug, a spiritual creature used by feng shui masters to guard tombs. Was the corpse hanging on the cross part of an ancient sacrifice? Are 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Forbidden Code (Original Title: Ancient Tales of the Yellow River) 禁忌密码（原名：黄河古事） The great river flows ever eastward, nurturing China's most ancient and brilliant civilization. For thousands of years, countless people have tried to uncover its secrets, yet no one knows what truly lies hidden in its waters. Corpses embracing boats, ghosts sailing vessels, strange stone coffins sunk beneath the riverbed, nameless bodies rising from the dead... A river diver who grew up along the Yellow River takes you back thirty years, to an era brimming with bizarre mysteries and thrilling t 168Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Tales of the Tomb Gate Hunt 墓门狩记 Xu Changsheng is cursed with the fate of a lone star. At seventeen, he brings death to all thirteen members of his family, leaving only his distant granduncle, Zhang Facai, alive. Zhang Facai encounters a sinister supernatural affair at the Liu family estate in Changbai Mountain and is rescued by Linghu Shou, a mysterious tomb-raiding officer from the Northern School. Linghu Shou chooses Xu Changsheng and takes him to Harbin, where he joins a band of extraordinary people on an expedition into th 58Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 34 Recollections of the Tomb-Raiding Years 追忆盗墓年月 In the early years of the Republic, tomb robbing was all the rage. The trade was split between northern and southern factions, each further divided into more than a dozen gangs, with countless complications within every group. The ancient tombs were strange and uncanny, their twists and turns shrouded in mystery, and every one of them perilous! The suspicious tomb of Fengdu will reveal a hidden chapter of human history... 601Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 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.” 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Dragon-Sealing Art 锁龙诀 My line of work isn’t exactly respectable. My name is Zhang Yimao, and I make a living buying and selling animal specimens and handicrafts. That’s what I do in public, anyway. In secret, I’ll deal in anything that can make money. But I never imagined that one day my fate would become entangled with a legendary divine beast like the dragon. Later, I joined an expedition team heading into the vast, remote mountains, only to stumble into an even greater crisis... 198Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 39 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 3.1kReads—Score12714d adds
- 40 The Grave Digger 掘徒 Grave robbers, tomb diggers; Official thieves take the big haul, common thieves the small; Gold ingots lie beneath the Luoyang shovel; The living guard the tombs, the ghosts watch over the graves; The ancestral teachings are passed down through the generations; Quicksand, trapdoors, and stone doors that seal the way. A conspiracy by a mysterious organization, driven by an entanglement of money and desire, forced me to begin a journey into the underground world. Through one life-and-death adventu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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
- 42 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
- 43 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
- 44 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 22Reads—Score214d adds
- 45 Tomb Raiding: Strange Encounters in the Tomb 盗墓风云之墓室奇遇 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 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
- 47 The Secret History of the Tomb Raiders 发丘秘史 Moving mountains and draining ridges, discovering ancient tombs and searching for buried gold: the Four Great Tomb-Raiding Schools, once the most renowned in history. As the saying goes, “Faqiu has its seals, Mojin its talismans, Banshan its arts, and Xiling its armor.” Legend has it that during the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Four Great Schools destroyed: “Destroy the seals and talismans to eliminate Faqiu and Mojin; strike down the mounted bandits to suppress Xili —Reads—Score—14d 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 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... 102Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 50 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
