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- 1 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
- 2 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
- 3 The Gold-Grabbing Captain and Guo Pu's Lost Coffin 摸金校尉之郭璞遗棺 After Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi explored the Longling Labyrinth in Shaanxi, they unexpectedly learned the whereabouts of Guo Pu's tomb. Thus begins an astonishing adventure! This story is purely an artistic adaptation. Any similarities are purely coincidental! 263Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 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
- 5 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
- 6 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
- 7 Tomb Raiding: Strange Encounters in the Tomb 盗墓风云之墓室奇遇 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 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
- 9 The Sunken Sand Tomb: The Nanhai King’s Mausoleum and the Mermaid Coffin 沉沙诡墓：南海王陵与人鱼棺启 Beneath the deep sea, the Nanhai King's tomb stands silent, sealed away for a thousand years... Legend has it that a mermaid sleeps in the depths of the tomb, imprisoned inside a strange coffin covered in incantations, condemned to never be reborn! Duan Lieyang and his companions are experts in underwater tomb raiding, but they cannot foresee the terrifying journey ahead, one that will transcend life and death and test the limits of human nature. Tomb raiding has become more perilous than ever: 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Ghost's Messenger 鬼遣人 “Offer the three sacrificial animals and fine grain to the ghosts and gods.” At eighteen, I happened by chance to meet a half-baked Taoist priest and got swept into a quest to uncover an ancient sacrificial rite. It all began when I took in a “Lord.” 108Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Last of the Tomb Raiders 盗门余孽 In the ancient business of tomb raiding, there are eight other schools besides Faqiu, Mojin, Banshan, and Xieling. They roam the mountains and underground, each with their own methods and inherited traditions. I am the sole inheritor of the Xianjia Taibao bloodline. After getting caught up in the affair by chance, I discovered that behind a perilous ancient tomb lay a top-secret file successively sealed away by the Japanese army and the People's Liberation Army. And beneath the tomb, an even gre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Tomb Raiding: The Secret Realm of Tianshu and the Seven-Star Lamp 北派盗墓：七星灯之天枢秘境 In 2003, northern China stood at a delicate turning point between old and new. The tide of reform and opening up was reshaping traditional industries, while thousand-year-old tombs buried deep underground still concealed secrets and temptations yet to be unearthed. Across this vast region, stretching from the black soil of the Northeast to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Gansu, a special group of “dragon seekers” plied their trade. They inherited the ancient 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 13 The Monster Umbrella Maker 妖怪簦匠 Li Xunzhi, a human boy who wants to become a monster, wanders into a monster village and meets Shenzhu, a young monster who wants to become human again. While staying there temporarily to learn how to make umbrellas, Li Xunzhi gradually realizes that he has value too, while Shenzhu learns to come to terms with the past. Together, they untangle their own emotional knots and solve the mysteries surrounding the villagers, ultimately freeing the land and its people from a thousand years of captivity 27Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 14 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 844Reads—Score18014d adds
- 15 My Tomb-Raiding Diary 我的倒斗日记 At eighteen, Zhang Tianniu gets caught up in a mysterious tomb-raiding crew with his childhood friend Gou Dazhi while trying to raise money for his critically ill mother. From an ancient tomb in Yinshan Hall to a Ming dynasty underwater tomb, they face sinister creatures such as black-haired stiff corpses, six-tentacled abyssal octopuses, and thousand-faced corpse centipedes. They also discover that the rumors about his father meeting his end at Yinshan Hall twenty years ago were true. As the cr 141Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 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—14d adds
- 17 The Lost Dragon Vein, 1995 龙脉迷踪1995 1. Central Plains Imperial Tomb Belt (Henan, Shaanxi) 2. Jiangnan Earthen Mound Tomb Complexes (Jiangsu, Zhejiang) 3. Southwestern Cliff Burial System (Sichuan, Guizhou) 4. Northern Liao and Jin Tombs (Inner Mongolia, Liaoning) 5. Western Regions Hu Tombs (Xinjiang, Gansu) This work neither glorifies tomb raiding nor simply condemns it. Instead, it tries to understand the complex choices people make in that gray area. When a flashlight illuminates a mural from a thousand years ago, when a finger —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Don't Compare Tomb Raiders! The Guanshan Taibao Have No Taboos! 别拿摸金比！观山太保百无禁忌！ My name is Jiang Jiuhe. My ancestors were the Guanshan Taibao, who built and guarded imperial tombs to keep tomb raiders away. But by the time the duty passed down to me, I'd spent twenty-five years on guard and still couldn't get a decent meal. I looked at our ancestral copy of The Guanshan Guide to Mysteries and spat. To hell with the ancestral rules! In this world, starving to death is no better than gambling everything, even your life. But I never imagined that by tearing it up, I would be r 666Reads—Score10614d adds
- 19 Tomb Raider’s Strange Compendium: Terror and Madness in the Tomb 盗墓诡鉴：墓中恐怖也疯狂 Thirty years ago, a group of tomb raiders broke into a tomb belonging to a yellow fox spirit and stole a golden robe and a ghost casket. Almost all of them died underground, and the few who survived vanished without a trace... Thirty years later, a tortoiseshell hides a secret. As a new generation takes the place of the old to solve the mystery of that long-ago case, I too am drawn into one layer of eerie events after another... The corpse god’s death curse among the shaman tribes, the ice corps 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Sin 罪 A death-row inmate’s monologue on the eve of his execution. From stealing and robbing, to stumbling into the underworld, going to prison for his lover, then tomb raiding, heading to the Miao borderlands in search of an antidote, and being poisoned with a Gu curse... And the strange adventures that followed. The story moves quickly at first, but gets better and better as it goes on. If you’re interested, please let me tell you the whole tale. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Tomb Raiding: My Years with an Unorthodox Crew 盗墓：我在野路子团队里的那些年 People say tomb raiding has two schools: the southern school specializes in underwater caves, while the northern school handles earthen sites. In fact, there's a third school: the unorthodox kind. People online say that unorthodox tomb raiders are reckless and die young, but that's not always true. Some of them are every bit as good as the professionals. 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Roving the Underworld with the Appraisal System 带着鉴宝系统闯江湖 [Antique Appraisal + Martial World + Suspense] Gao Chen, a vocational college student, enters the world of antiques and martial arts with the help of an antique-appraisal System, where he witnesses the ups and downs of human life. Gang wars, martial-world feuds, and contests between martial artists: Gao Chen watches every detail of this world like a recording device. Schemes, traps, and plots within plots: one snare after another proves to Gao Chen that the martial world is far more complicated 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Corpse Village Puppeteer 尸乡偃师 Fifteen years ago, the once-prosperous Qi family was consumed by fire overnight. He was the last child of this family of tomb raiders. Now, after fifteen years, he has returned to the path of tomb raiding, determined to uncover the mysteries hidden in ancient tombs. Why did the Shang dynasty's master craftsman sacrifice his eldest son and bury him beneath a long street? Did Emperor Taishu of Shang achieve the immortality he sought? What did the Gu family members see when they ventured into the Q 222Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 I Told You to Raid Tombs, Not Start a Livestream on the Spot! 让你盗墓，你竟然现场开直播！ In life, we walk many roads. Some are sweet, like the days of youth; others are bitter, like old age and illness. Liu Chuanfeng is walking a road of no return. Yao the Foreman went in, and Wang the Foreman went in too. In the end, even the most cautious, Xiang the Foreman, went in. Liu Chuanfeng seems to be on that road as well. Take care of every step while you can! In 2023, a live broadcast of a tomb-raiding expedition was caught in the act by the cops. Following the clues, they uncovered a ne 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 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. 138Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 26 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... 82Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 27 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
- 28 My Life as a Tomb Raider 我盗墓的人生 Don't talk to me about some damn love story. All I want now is to make money! What's the point of envying other people? We need to take action too. Whether it's robbing people or raiding tombs, once the money's in our hands, we'll have everything! Stop worrying all day about who loves you and who cares about you. That's all nonsense. Here's a rule of thumb for you guys: men follow women, women follow money, and money follows men. Keep that cycle going if you want to live like a proper human bein 874Reads6.9Score10014d adds
- 29 A Tomb Raider's True Account 盗墓者的纪实 After thinking it over for a long time, I finally decided to write this book. It is told in the first person. I came into contact with ancient tombs when I was very young, and after becoming addicted to gambling, I plunged into the abyss of tomb raiding to pay off my debts. Our crew traveled far and wide, encountering inexplicable things, as well as human indifference and greed. I also experienced the temptations of money, the ferocity of wild beasts, and every side of society. This book covers 2.7kReads6.9Score17914d adds
- 30 Secret Records of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓秘录 [Hardcore Tomb Raiding]+ [Suspense at Full Throttle]+ [Utter Terror] Before my master disappeared, he sent me only a stone shard carved with a black dragon coiling around a coffin, along with a bloodstained prophecy: “When the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin stirs, the nine lineages return to their source; when the black dragon opens its eyes, the secret map will emerge.” To find my master, I set out with the black dragon shard and my childhood friend Wu Nianjiu for a suspected Liao-dynasty tomb benea 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 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
- 32 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… 81Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 33 Tomb Raiding: I Awaken the Azure Dragon Bloodline and Claim the Legacies of the Four Factions 盗墓：觉醒青龙血脉领取四派传承 Lin Mo is an ordinary overworked modern-day employee who unexpectedly transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world that combines every version of the settings from The Grave Robbers' Chronicles and Candle in the Tomb. He becomes the senior fellow apprentice of the young Wang Pangzi; they studied under the same veteran tomb raider before losing touch. The moment he transmigrates, he awakens the [Tomb-Raiding Overlord System] and acquires the Azure Dragon bloodline. The System's ultimate goal is to ma 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Tomb Raiding: Starting with the Bloodline of Bai Ze 盗墓，从获得白泽血脉开始 [Multiple female leads, light System presence (the System won't play a big role, just a little, and will only appear occasionally.)] Tan Feng transmigrates to the Golmud Sanatorium in the tomb-raiding world, where the System grants him the bloodline of Bai Ze from the start. See how he leaves his mark on this world of tomb raiding. Xiao Ge: A good teammate. Wu Xie and Pangzi: An indispensable four-man team. A Ning: A bastard you can't help loving and hating. Xiu Xiu: Brother Feng is someone you 9kReads—Score1.3k14d adds
- 35 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles of a Loser 屌丝盗墓笔记 [Tomb raiding + suspense. No fantasy, no System, guaranteed to be good! If you don't like it, roast me!!!] Would you dare go tomb raiding for a million yuan in blood money? Who really built Sanxingdui? Did the ancient divine tree Jianmu really exist? Has the bird-bodied, human-headed monster come back to life? Has Genghis Khan become a zombie? What secrets lie inside the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? … Keyboard tomb-raiding king Jiang Xing is getting serious this time! 1.5kReads8.2Score10014d adds
- 36 Even Thieves Have Principles: Wu Lao'er's Tomb-Raiding World 盗亦有道：吴老二的盗墓江湖 (Tomb Raiding + Jianghu) (Fictional story, please do not imitate) (Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself.) Times are tough, and my pockets are empty. With nowhere else to turn, I shoulder a Luoyang shovel and venture into a remote mountain tomb. Evil spirits in the tomb, unscrupulous fellow tomb raiders, patrolling militia: danger after danger closes in. Everyone says tombs conceal riches, but I know all too well that making money underground usually means gambling with your life. 18.1kReads—Score84214d adds
- 37 Tales of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓往事 My name is Yao Yuan. I used to be a tomb raider. In December 2014, after the shocking nationwide Red Mountain Case was solved, I was arrested at Tianyi Hotel in Ningcheng, Chifeng. I was ultimately sentenced to six years in prison for crimes including looting ancient cultural sites and tombs and trafficking in cultural relics. Now I have served my sentence and been released, ready to start a new life. If you're interested, why not hear me tell the stories of tomb raiding that happened to me? 553Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 38 The Legend of Lao Wu 老五的传奇 In 1980s China, there was a mysterious and thrilling world: the tomb-raiding underworld. In this world lived a young man named Han Wu, nicknamed Lao Wu. His fate was entwined with tomb raiding from the moment he was abandoned at the age of one. Following his master, Lao Wu saw creatures he'd never encountered before and the legendary zongzi. One tomb after another seemed to follow the workings of fate... So what if the Four Great Families are involved? I'm Lao Wu. My boss taught me how to raid t 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 North Wind Duke's 21st Book 北风王爵第21本书 Zhang Wen transmigrates into the world of "The Lost Tomb", armed with the "Nabao Art". In an age of spiritual energy depletion, when cultivation has declined to its final days in the early years of the new nation, he carves out a path of his own! Hu Bayi, the legendary tomb raider? Zhalu Shao, leader of the Mountain Moving faction? To him, the rare treasures of ancient tombs are all priceless cultivation treasures. The Faqiu Seal suppresses evil spirits, the dragon bones of the "I Ching" gather 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Legend of the Tomb Raider (Complete in 6 Volumes) 盗墓者传奇（全6册） In the chaos of the late Ming dynasty, Feng Lengqing, a young villager, is accidentally drawn into a mysterious and unpredictable tomb-raiding feud and becomes the closed-door disciple of Shui Tianbo, leader of the Tao Sha Sima sect. Ten years later, Feng Lengqing and Shui Ling unexpectedly discover the tomb of King You of Chu, dating back to the Spring and Autumn period, in Mount Jiuyi. To find the thousand-year-old jade marrow needed to save Shui Tianbo, Feng Lengqing and Shui Ling join forces —Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 41 Tomb King of the Imperial Capital 帝都墓王 The Mo family tomb-raiding syndicate is the only force descended from the Faqiu Zhonglang tradition. Beneath the capital's turbulent surface, the family battles over the clan head's position, while tomb raiding brings thrills and danger and tangled relationships grow ever more complicated. Can Mo Xunhun, the Mo family's illegitimate son, fight his way through every obstacle? 248Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 42 Secrets of the Black Dragon: A Feng Shui Tomb-Raiding Chronicle 玄龙秘藏：风水盗墓录 Beneath the land of Huaxia lies the “Nine Twists of the Dragon Vein.” Deep within each twist are secret burial sites dating from antiquity through the Ming and Qing dynasties, holding the secrets of feng shui, tales of immortality, dynastic treasures, and forbidden curses. Folk feng shui masters are divided into three factions: the “Tomb Guardians,” who protect the dragon veins and the order of ancient tombs; the “Tomb Raiders,” who use feng shui to find tombs and make a living; and the “Evil-Br —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Strange Tales of Tomb Raiding in the Southern School 南派盗墓异事 [Real Tomb Raiding + No AI] My name is Zhou Quan, and I'm from Guangxi. Here I recount the supernatural and bizarre events that really happened during my tomb-raiding adventures. I've read a few web novels in my spare time, and it seems AI-written web novels are everywhere these days. I want to tell this story from the perspective of someone who was actually there, as a record of things past. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 I'm Not a Tomb Raider 我不是盗墓者 I'll tell you a secret: history is alive. Li Bai's friends and the emperor's fellow players may still be right here among us. The strange beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas have never left, either. It all began with an extraordinary encounter I had on the Tianshan Mountains. An old man gave me his memories. Now, the story begins. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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
- 46 The Ghost Tomb's Gate 鬼墓之门 People have human tombs, and ghosts have ghost tombs. The realms of the living and the dead are opposite in order, and only their tombs connect, forming a passage between two worlds. People turn into ghosts through tombs, while ghosts use tombs to ensnare the living. Ghost tombs have no physical form. They can be opened only at midnight, when day gives way to night and yin and yang are in balance. When roosters crow backward and all things are reversed, yin and yang become one, and the ghost tom 225Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 47 Bloodline Awakening: The Lost Tomb 血脉觉醒，古墓迷踪 Right after graduation, Fang Yaoyang is drawn into a thousand-year-old mystery and forced to swallow a mysterious pill. His awakened bloodline feels more like a curse. To find an antidote and his missing father, he ventures deep into an ancient tomb, solves a deadly astrological formation, and battles uncanny creatures. But behind the tomb, undercurrents swirl among international organizations, guardian clans, and government forces. And Fang Yaoyang himself turns out to be the most important pie —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 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—14d adds
- 49 A Grave Robber's True Records 盗墓贼的真实笔录 No romance. A true account of grave robbing. Follow my perspective and see the most authentic world of tomb raiding. Want to get rich? Rob a tomb. Make ten thousand yuan overnight: that was life back in our day. One trip into a tomb could earn you tens of thousands at the very least, or hundreds of thousands, even over a million. There’s not much startup capital needed for this line of work, and it’s more thrilling than gambling. There are no traps or ghosts in these tombs. The ones you need to 32.8kReads7.6Score2.6k14d adds
- 50 The Nether Mausoleum 幽陵 A fleeting dream, a glance at passing scenes; eight thousand ghosts emerge from this realm. The Dragon Palace's blue waters are the real world; immortals point out the ancient kings of Shu... With nothing but a treasure-hunting verse, the Xiling Divine Manual, Bai Ze accidentally tore through a veil that had concealed secrets for millennia. The ancient age of slash-and-burn farming, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Yanzi creating the heavens, Fuxi making humankind: all seem both real and 556Reads8.2Score—14d adds
