Novels like Tracking the Tomb's Shadow
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Tracking the Tomb's Shadow, best match first.
- 101 National Treasure 国家宝藏 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I 39kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
- 102 Tomb Raiding: I Awakened Four Bloodlines from the Start 盗墓:开局激活四系血脉。 [No Female Lead + Don't Read If You Dislike This] This is not a blood-pumping wish-fulfillment novel! If that's not your thing, please leave now! Seriously, don't complain. Thank you. The era and historical setting are both fictional! Please don't apply the story to modern society! After the amnesiac youth Su Qingchen transmigrated, he became another amnesiac young man in a different world: Blue Star. When Su Qingchen saw himself on a film set, dressed in costume, he thought he was on a showbiz 3.5kReads9.3Score432Shelves
- 103 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Obtained the Bloodline of a True Dragon 盗墓:开局获得真龙血脉 People light the candles, ghosts blow them out, and the Mountain-Moving Taoist descends into the tomb. When a mysterious heir appears, one who has mastered the secret arts of all four tomb-raiding schools, the entire tomb-raiding world is turned upside down. Third Uncle: "Ninth Master is the strongest tomb raider I've ever met!" Fatty: "I've never been scared going into a tomb with my senior brother!" Naive: "Ninth Master showed me that tomb raiding can be as easy as sightseeing!" Zhang Qilin: " 45.6kReads9.0Score3.9kShelves
- 104 Tomb Raiding: I Dance on the Heads of the Nine Gates 盗墓我在九门头上蹦迪 [Tomb raiding + comedy + everyone’s darling] She was rescued from a muddy pit and sat high upon a divine altar for hundreds of years. Then the times changed, and she was forced to leave the altar and enter the mortal world. Little Chenchen thinks this new home is pretty darn great! There are schemes all over this little city, and Little Chenchen loves it! See how she turns that era upside down! From a six-year-old toddler to a graceful young woman, she gradually learns the warmth and bustle of e 3.4kReads9.4Score408Shelves
- 105 Tomb Raiding: I’m the Stillborn Baby Who Slept for Three Thousand Years! 盗墓:我,沉睡三千年死婴! Chu Tian is reborn into the world of Tomb Raiders: Restart and Listening to Thunder. From the start, he climbs out of a coffin and meets Wu Xie and Pangzi for the first time~ He is an experiment in the Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou’s quest for immortality! In this life, he is the stillborn child of the Zhang family, dead for three thousand years! In this life, he is the son of the Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou! In this life, he is the one the Zhang family has protec 2.6kReads9.1Score372Shelves
- 106 Tomb Raiding: To Secure My Grad School Recommendation, I Rolled a Campus Beauty into a Mess in the Tomb 盗墓:为保研,墓里把校花卷麻了 The campus belle posted her dating criteria: “If you want to pursue me, come tomb raiding with me. If you’re afraid to die, don’t bother.” Her schoolmates said, “Pursuing you could cost us our lives!” Ye Fan, meanwhile, was role-playing Zhang Qiling. He decided to raid a tomb in hopes of finding a shortcut to graduate school. Campus belle: A shut-in simp like you thinks you can pursue me? Campus belle: Does this impossibly aloof guy really like me? Campus belle: You save me every time, then say 14.3kReads8.3Score1.5kShelves
- 107 Tomb Raiding: The Corrupted Qilin Tattoo 盗墓:邪化麒麟纹身 [South Sea Return to the Ruins, Under One Person + tomb raiding + Old Nine Gates + the Qilin boy + century-old families + exposure + immortality + the uncanny] The soldier, the actor, and the immortal led astray. The rakish devil laughs like a Buddha. The beauty who reads fortunes plays a game that reaches the heavens. This is a story that belongs to the Old Nine Gates. 10.7kReads9.2Score788Shelves
- 108 Forbidden Zone Expedition: My Teammates Are Qilin Xiao Ge and Bao'er Jie 禁地探险:队友麒麟小哥,宝儿姐 [Tomb raiding + exploration + livestreaming + survival + no female lead] Ye Ran transmigrated to a parallel world and was selected for the globally streamed show Forbidden Zone Expedition. He awakened the System from the start. By earning Emotion Points, he could draw all kinds of god-tier skills! One teammate was a quiet, aloof Qilin brother with countless secrets weighing on him. The other was Sister Bao, who carried a shovel and spent all day thinking about burying people! Zhang Qilin: “Step 5.2kReads9.4Score630Shelves
- 109 The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 [Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra 99.7kReads9.4Score18.4kShelves
- 110 Tomb Raiding: The Ninth Gate’s Beloved Mystic 盗墓:九门团宠是神棍 [Tomb Raider fanfiction, young Taoist, disguises herself as a boy, doted on by everyone, starting with The Mystic Nine] Proceed with caution: This is not a wish-fulfillment story! The protagonist grows over time and comes of age after Chapter 79. Qi Baye had a little granddaughter whom he raised by his side from the time she was born. He personally chose her name, deciding that whether the baby was a boy or a girl, she would be called Qi Lechuan. After her father, Qi Yu, disappeared while on the 6.3kReads9.4Score849Shelves
- 111 Tomb Raiding: The Immortal Cursed to Live Forever 盗墓:身怀诅咒的长生者 [No female lead + two male leads + several couples. Please don't read if that's not your thing!] “Ah Qi, I don't want you to get hurt.” “Old Qing, take care of yourself.” “Little Brother, I'm here to take you home.” “Wu Xie, take me home.” “Tianzhen, Little Brother, it's raining. Hurry back!” “You guys, be careful, whatever happens.” Muchen Pearl, Ten-Year Promise, Retirement 5.8kReads9.5Score786Shelves
- 112 Tomb Raiding: I Tore Down the Golmud Sanatorium 盗墓:我拆了格尔木疗养院 [No Female Lead + Cheerful Protagonist + Comedy] Wu Mo transmigrates into the ultimate tomb-raiding world and becomes Wu Xie’s younger brother, gaining a tomb-raiding sign-in System. Ding! Sign-in successful. Reward granted. 1: Azure Dragon bloodline 2: Tomb-trap mechanisms 3: Corpse control With these skills at his disposal, Wu Mo starts running wild in the tomb-raiding world. He blows up the Golmud Sanatorium, beats up Hei Xiazi, and tests his strength against Xiaoge. He saves A Ning in the S 25.6kReads9.4Score2.2kShelves
- 113 Transmigrate to the Song Dynasty: The Empire's Mighty Rise 穿越之大宋雄风 A wondrous transmigration, invincible from the start. See how our protagonist, Wu Yue, recruits the heroes of Liangshan, gets up close and personal with Li Shishi, defeats mighty bandits and sweeps away powerful invaders. See how we Han people conquer the world. 872Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 114 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
- 115 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 743.2kReads9.4Score41.2kShelves
- 116 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子,鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 117 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏! A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 113kReads9.5Score12.3kShelves
- 118 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves

















