Novels like With a Luoyang Shovel in Hand
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- 1 The Two Tomb Raiders, Unmatched in the World 摸金双雄，世无双 Su Le and Su Can are brothers versed in the secrets of feng shui. They can read dragon veins by the stars' paths and break mysterious formations with the Eight Gates and Nine Palaces. The River Diagram maze beneath Kunlun's foundations... The tomb of the ancient Bai Min kingdom in a primeval secret realm... The two brothers are masters of their craft. Sword and blade work as one: they break through with martial skill and penetrate the hidden realms with their arts. In tomb expeditions amid blood 251Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Descendant of the Tomb Raiders 摸金后裔 [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not break the law.] From my grandfather’s last words, I learned that I was descended from a family of tomb raiders. My parents had also disappeared while tomb raiding when I was very young... From my initial confusion to my gradual growth, my companions and I crossed the line between life and death, experiencing the tangled forces of wealth, betrayal, friendship, and love. Every choice changed our fate. Will I ultimately uncover the truth behind my parents’ disappear 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 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
- 4 The Ghostly Blindfold 鬼蒙眼 One night, Liu Zhiwei took a shortcut and ended up haunted by an evil spirit. Misfortune piled up, and he wound up drowning in debt. With no other choice, he and his equally hard-up friend Wu Cheng risked their lives to excavate Japanese tombs. Little did they know that they would go further and further down the road of grave robbing. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 You Can Read Mountains and Find Burial Sites, Yet You Say You Can't Track Dragons? 能看山定穴，还说不会寻龙？ [Tomb Raiding]+ [Civilization Advancement]+ [National Fate]+ [Heaven-Defying Talent]+ [Spiritual Qi Revival] After transmigrating to a parallel world, he learns that each nation’s level of civilization and its duration are determined by a monument ranking. Worse still, during the final month of every year, rifts in space and time appear along every nation’s borders, and countless abyssal monsters rage out of them! The lower a civilization’s level, the more rifts appear and the stronger the monst 6Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 6 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
- 7 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! 90Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Tomb Book: Bonus Chapters 墓书番外 A remarkable book records the locations of ancient tombs throughout the land. With it, one can plunder endless treasures from countless tombs, drawing hordes of tomb raiders in search of riches. It also reveals the legendary story of four brothers living through a time of chaos... 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 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
- 10 Tomb Raiding: The Faqiu General 盗墓：发丘中郎将 Tomb raiders have talismans, while Mound-Pacifying officers have seals. Bai Ze, the last living Mound-Pacifying Celestial Officer of his age, enters the world of tomb raiding. What will set his adventures apart? 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 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
- 12 The Tomb Book Series: Undying Blood 墓书系列之不死之血 (This book is written purely for love.) Young Lin Xun sets out on a tomb-raiding adventure to find an herb that can cure the deadly poison inside him. The road is fraught with hardship, but he also meets many companions along the way. With their help, he slowly grows stronger and eventually becomes a powerful tomb raider. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 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
- 14 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
- 15 Ghost Lantern: The Secret Mausoleum of the Funeral Home 鬼点灯之义庄秘陵 They say ghost lights often appear in desolate places, among ancient tombs and shadowy woods. As the saying goes, where ghost lights glow, dark shadows fall! They warn anyone who comes near to leave at once. Do not disturb the spirits sleeping in their tombs! 365Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 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—14d adds
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 Life in the Burial Ground 葬地生 When a fragment of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon surfaces, a deadly game spanning a thousand years quietly begins! The life-and-death secrets of ancient tombs, a companion's betrayal, and the human choices people make when offering sacrifices to survive. With the ultimate secret pointing toward... can they make it out of the tomb alive? Will they become the next immortals, or remain trapped forever in an underground world riddled with mechanisms? 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 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
- 22 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
- 23 The Ancient Map of the Nine Provinces 上古九州山河图 In the 1950s, with strong support from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the History Department of Peking University established the country's first archaeology program. It admitted undergraduate archaeology students and began training the first generation of archaeologists for the People's Republic of China. Chinese archaeology flourished, and in the 1970s, excavations at Yin Ruins unearthed a mysterious artifact d 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Souls Reborn in the Haunted Tomb 幽冢重魂 Lin Du, an ordinary graduate student in history, sneaks into a restricted archaeological site late at night to investigate the mystery of his advisor’s disappearance. When he touches the jade disc inside a newly unearthed Tang dynasty tomb, his consciousness is instantly dragged into a dark abyss. When he “wakes” again, he has become a corpse in a coffin: Li Xuanxi, the last prince of the Dashun Dynasty. A thousand years ago, the prince was buried alive on the outskirts of the imperial mausoleum 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Notes from the Ancient Tomb 古墓笔记 In the early years after Liberation, a band of tomb raiders broke into an ancient tomb and were nearly wiped out. What on earth did they bring back with them? Decades later, their descendants followed the clues to an old course of the Yellow River, only to uncover a place of great ill omen known as Dragon's Blood. Every step inside the ancient tomb brought a new terror: the bronze-cornered golden coffin, the corpse-washing river, the blood python demon, the Taiji immortal angler, the blood-eyed 453Reads—Score10514d adds
- 26 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
- 27 Tomb Raiding: I've Been Destined for Great Things Since Childhood 盗墓：从小就是干大事的人 The autobiography of a master sand-reader. [Tomb Raiding] + [Feng Shui] My name is Shaozi. I went to Yunnan hoping to make a fortune gambling on jade, but Li Buping dragged me into Tomb Raiding instead. On my first trip into a tomb, we pulled a piece of blank cloth from the back of an ancient corpse’s head. On the second, the dense rows of hanging coffins overhead nearly drove us to kill one another. On the third, in a Shang-Zhou tomb, we dug up three stitched-together monsters with beast heads 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Tomb Book Series: Gazetteer 墓书系列之州志 [Tomb Raiding, Family, Everyday Life, Rural Life, Romance] After tomb raiders broke in, two families faced utter ruin. Both fathers were murdered inside the ancient tomb. One woman lost her husband; one family was torn apart. And the evil kept spreading. Two men who had grown up together like brothers severed their bond; a love story that had been sealed with a token suddenly came to an end; a search that began with so much hope ended in despair. This is a book about tomb raiding, but it no long 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 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
- 30 Tomb Raiding: A Match of Wits with the Wang Family 盗墓之与汪家对奕 No female lead, no romance The protagonist, Li Yang, is the Lord God of the Space-Time Bureau. He unexpectedly arrives in the tomb-raiding world and begins a battle of wits with the hidden forces of the Wang family. Who is the person behind the Wang family? And whose blurred face is it in the illusion? As he changes their fates again and again, his injuries grow more and more severe. Under the calm surface of the lake, undercurrents surge. Who will be the true winner before dawn? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Deep-Sea Mystery Map 深海迷图 Retired soldier Jin Zhongyi is tricked by his friend Jiao Ba into boarding a fishing boat under the pretense of going on a deep-sea fishing trip. He has no idea that they're really setting out to salvage an ancient shipwreck. A family heirloom, a nautical chart from the Ming Dynasty, sets off a series of eerie events and a terrifying voyage, launching a thrilling expedition focused on treasure hunting, with exploration as a bonus. Following the family-inherited Ming Dynasty nautical chart, the s 449Reads7.2Score10514d adds
- 32 Tomb Raiding: Infinite Sign-Ins to Build an Eternal Clan! 盗墓：无限签到，打造永恒世家！ [Tomb Raiding][Tomb Raiding Crossover][Family] Yun Shize transmigrates into a world combining many Tomb Raiding stories and becomes the young head of a family known for retrieving corpses from the Yellow River. This world is home not only to spectacular and sinister tombs, but also to zombies and ghosts running rampant. Fortunately, he gets the Immortal Clan System from the start. As long as he trains his clansmen and strengthens the family, he can earn sign-in rewards. With the System's help, t 1.2kReads—Score10614d adds
- 33 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Have Kunlun Qilin Blood and the Queen of Jue Kingdom 盗墓：开局昆仑麒麟血，精绝女王 [Tomb-Raiding Crossover] [System] [Transmigration] [Multiple Heroines] Chen Xuansheng arrives in person in the tomb-raiding world of the 1980s. He begins stranded in Panjiayuan, until the appearance of a bronze fragment from Wild Man Valley fully awakens the Qilin blood in his body. [Bloodline Tomb-Suppressing System activated!] A single drop of Qilin blood can suppress corpse worms, subdue red hou, and break tomb curses! He subdues a red hou in Wild Man Valley, conquers the Corpse-Scented Demon 4.9kReads—Score62014d adds
- 34 Tomb Raiding Livestream: My Surname Is Ying, Like Ying Zheng's Ying 直播盗墓：我姓嬴，赢政的嬴 Ying Jing transmigrated into the tomb-raiding world by accident and obtained the bloodline of the Ancestral Dragon, Yin-Yang Eyes, and the Reincarnation Sword from the start. To awaken the power of his bloodline, he had no choice but to keep entering tombs to collect the energy attached to antiques. By a twist of fate, he saved quite a few members of the Old Nine Gates. From then on, the heads of the Old Nine Gates all treated Ying Jing as an honored guest. Years later, at Wu Xie's invitation, h 2.1kReads6.2Score13014d adds
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 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
- 38 The Guanzhong Tomb Raider's Notes 关中盗墓手札 One embroidered shoe, half a debt to the King of Hell. Qin Xin, an apprentice at an antiques shop, gives in to greed and breaks his master’s iron rule against buying goods of dubious origin, secretly accepting a strange Ming-dynasty embroidered shoe made of plain satin. But just after the deal is done, the seller mysteriously drowns in a shallow stretch of water barely waist-deep, right before everyone’s eyes. A woman with blood streaming from every orifice comes for his life in his dreams, clos 380Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Memoirs of a Tomb Rat 土耗子回忆录 I was born into an ordinary family and was an intern at a vocational school. I had hoped to live a quiet, uneventful life, but my classmates’ ridicule, my teacher’s humiliation, and the upheaval at home sent me down the irreversible path of tomb raiding. By a twist of fate, I became an unorthodox tomb raider, known to others as a “dirt rat.” [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Underworld + Treasure Appraisal] 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Paranormal Investigation Notes 探灵笔录 A fortune-teller said I was a child sent by a hundred ghosts, and that I was destined to deal with the dead all my life. So I chose to become a forensic pathologist, working at the boundary between life and death. In ancient times, people called this profession a coroner’s. We were considered ill-omened and ranked among the lowest of occupations. Over the years, I’ve handled all kinds of bizarre and uncanny cases. I’ve recorded these terrifying incidents, which no living person should get involv 31Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 41 Tomb Raiding: How to Raise an Angel 盗墓：论一个天使的养成 [Two Male Leads] [Transmigration] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] This story has two male leads. If you don't like shipping couples, please don't bash it. The protagonist is named Mu Ming, a lucky fellow chosen by the "old man" of the Heavenly Dao. System 101 helps Mu Ming and, just like him, is a pretty funny System. Later, he will go exploring caves with the trio of protagonists and earn quest rewards. Everyone can decide who the protagonist ends up with. 101 is also an option. The protagonist has a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: The Moon Sets Over the Nine Gates 盗墓笔记：月落九门 Zhang Xingyue discovers that she has transmigrated into the world of The Lost Tomb, becoming the long-lost daughter of the Zhang family patriarch. The bronze bracelet on her wrist, engraved with half a qilin, is her only connection to this world. Stranger still, she has bonded with a “God-Tier Sign-In System,” and every sign-in brings her an endless surprise. Amid the blood corpses in the Palace of the Wounded King, she narrowly escapes death and unexpectedly joins forces with Little Wu, Fatty, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 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
- 44 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern Shaanxi 陕北盗墓笔记 [Tomb raiding, daily life, hardship, growth] This is a story about tomb raiding, feng shui, and the underworld. These are people who once lived ordinary lives but were forced by hardship to take up tomb raiding. They have no experience, only their miserable lives. Watch how they use those wretched lives to forge a legendary future. In 1999, a shocking incident took place in Suiping City, in northern Shaanxi. The tomb of Meng Tian, located right in the heart of the city, was completely emptied 574Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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
- 46 Tomb Raiding: I Woke Up Kissing Wu the Puppy 盗墓：一睁眼就亲到吴小狗 (Multiple male leads + scheming protagonist + unreliable System) Wu Yu wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into his favorite novel. Penniless, he is adopted by Third Master Wu, grows up alongside Wu Xie, and resolutely accompanies him on a journey to solve mysteries. Wu Yu: Whatever happens to Wu Xie happens to me. Wu Xie: With you here, there's nothing we can't solve. Zhang Qiling: Whatever happens to you happens to me. Black Glasses: You can't just have your way with me and then abandon 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Ultimate: An Extraordinary Three Plus One 终极之非常三加一 Jin Changyu has a special constitution and a complicated background. By a twist of fate, she finds Zhang Qiling. Adores money and values her life, she has no choice but to team up with the Tomb Raiding Trio for the sake of her future, setting off with them on a new adventure. Through one rescue after another, the four grow familiar with each other and gradually become close friends who understand and appreciate one another... "This story is lighthearted and funny, with no angst or messy romance. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Traditional Martial Arts and Tomb Raiding: Tales from Republican-Era China 国术摸金：民国盗墓轶事 In the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, the world is in turmoil. The destitute youth Lin Yan inherits half of an ancestral tomb-raiding talisman, a Xingyi boxing manual, and a secret feng shui scroll. To bury his grandfather, he ventures into a deadly tomb, using martial arts to break evil and feng shui to locate dragon veins. He shakes corpse demons with Ming Jin, breaks mechanisms with An Jin, and subdues imperial mausoleums with Hua Jin. From ancient tombs in Jinmen to witch tombs in 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Tomb Raiding: I Guarded Your Innocence for Ten Years 盗墓：守你十年天真 [No breaking up Ping Xie or Hei Hua; original story with two male leads and a CP] It must be rare to meet someone who has been through the same things as you in this life, so I want to protect his innocence. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Diary of Raising a Loving Husband 盗墓笔记：娇夫养成日记 [Sweet Romance + Beloved by All + 1v1 + Fighting for Love + Happy Ending, No Angst] After being adopted, the little dragon became Qi Jiaojiao (Qi Jiao), and his two elderly caretakers doted on him endlessly. As a dragon raised under the red flag and a successor to socialism, after lazing around for a while, Qi Jiaojiao decisively led his caretakers into the embrace of Motherland China. He declared: “All 10.45 million square kilometers of this vast land are my domain, and all 1.3 billion people a 4Reads7.0Score—14d adds
