Novels like Escape from the Ancient Tomb
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- 101 A Life Spurned by Another World 被异世界唾弃的一生 [Western fantasy + ensemble cast + no cheats + sword and magic + fictional world + some angst] My soul transmigrated to another world. No System, no dazzling start, and this isn’t a power fantasy. Give me a little patience, and I’ll give you a fantasy world unlike any other. This is the story of an ordinary modern office worker who must first survive in a world torn by chaos, then step over heaps of corpses on his way to becoming the Doomsday Demon feared by all. Reader advisory: The first two 4.9kReads9.0Score42214d adds
- 102 Tokyo: From the Start, I Save a Kimono-Clad Beauty and Win Over All of Tokyo 东京：开局救下和服美人，我熟韵满东京 Tokyo: From the Start, I Save a Beauty in a Kimono and Become a Master of Mature Charms Across Tokyo 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 EN After Five Billion Years as a Sun, I Became an Immortal Cultivator 当了五十亿年太阳，我修仙了 I was the sun for billions of years, and I was sick of living. Then I collapsed into a black hole. When I opened my eyes, I had become an infant in the cultivation world. They tested my spiritual roots, but the spirit stone showed no response. I felt like something was missing from my body, so... my spiritual roots grew on their own. They taught me spells. I learned them at a glance, and even optimized them while I was at it. They said I was too bloodthirsty. I said, "Everyone, please die he 136.5kReads8.4Score19.1k14d adds
- 104 Mirror, Mirror, Tell Me: Where Is the Scumbag Chasing Snow White? 魔镜魔镜告诉我，追白雪的渣男在哪里 Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror, Tell Me: Where Is the Scumbag Who’s Chasing Snow White? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 After We Parted, I Wasted My Youth in the Drizzle 一别烟雨负韶华 One Parting in Misty Rain, a Lifetime of Lost Youth 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin’s Secrets and the Triangle Star Pattern 丝路玉鉴：李烬秘事之三角星纹 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin's Secrets, the Triangular Star Pattern 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Tale of Li Chongan, Jade Keeper 丝路玉鉴：守玉丞李崇安传 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Story of Li Chong'an, Keeper of the Jade 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin's Good Fortune, the Stunning Beauty 丝路玉鉴：李烬幸事之绝色佳人 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: Li Jin's Good Fortune and the Peerless Beauty 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin's Destiny as an Undercover Agent in Chang'an 丝路玉鉴：李烬宿命之长安卧底 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: Li Jin's Fate as an Undercover Agent in Chang'an 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 I Transmigrated to the End of the Sui Dynasty, Became Yang Guang, Captured Xiao Meiniang, and Restored the Great Sui 穿越隋末成为杨广擒下萧美娘重现大隋盛世 Transmigrate to the end of the Sui dynasty, capture Xiao Meiniang with Yang Guang, and restore the Sui dynasty to its former glory 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Beggar God Emerges 丐神出世 The Beggar God Emerges 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Li Family Jade Pendant, Key to Hexi 丝路玉鉴：李氏玉坠之河西密钥 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Li Clan's Jade Pendant and the Secret Key to Hexi 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Immortal Path of the Pill 丹道仙途 [Mortal Cultivation] [Dual Cultivation of Alchemy and Formations] After transmigrating into the body of an ordinary disciple of an immortal sect, Fang Ping had assumed he had no hope of establishing his foundation. Fortunately, he unexpectedly obtained the Origin Cauldron, which could rewind failed pills into their original ingredients. This allowed him to embark on the path to immortality through alchemy. After ten thousand years of cultivation, he looked back and realized that, without even no 66.2kReads8.6Score5k14d adds
- 114 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Zhao Clan's Spells and the Secret Treasure of Anxi 丝路玉鉴：赵氏符咒之安西秘宝 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Zhao Clan's Talismans and the Secret Treasure of Anxi 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Mythic Dungeon: From the Start, I Led the Azure Ox for the Dao Ancestor 神话副本：开局我为道祖牵青牛 [Mythic Treasure Mirror binding successful.] [Current instance: Traveling west from Hangu Pass.] [Reward: A copy of the Dao De Jing personally written by a Sage.] [Current instance: Five-Finger Mountain.] [Reward: The 108 Transformations of the Tiangang and Disha.] [Current instance: The First Emperor’s Tribulation.] [Reward: Ancestral Dragon’s blood essence.] [Current instance: Investiture of the Gods] [Reward: The Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.] [Current instance: The War Between the Witche 60.5kReads8.6Score4.6k14d adds
- 116 Cultivation: Laying Low in the Herb Garden, Growing Crops and Seeking Immortality 修仙：苟在药园种田求长生 [Leisurely cultivation] + [keeping a low profile] + [no System] + [lighthearted and humorous] Master said: “For twenty years, you've been upholding justice to raise the prestige of our Qingyun sect and win people's hearts... You can't keep helping old folks find their sheep. Go do something proper, like slay demons and exorcise evil!” Jiang Yining: “Master, I'm not up to it. I need to hurry back and forth to tend the medicinal garden...” Junior brother said: “Eldest Senior Brother, let's go down 7.9kReads8.9Score53714d adds
- 117 The Guide to Concealed Beauties 藏娇引 Winter. The last of the snow. Her sword is moonlight. Her poison is honey. Her name is a secret. Purple robes, swift as lightning. A woman, like a poem. The world knows Princess Jinning, Zhao Qingli, only as a living portrait of a court lady, hidden deep within the palace. Little does anyone know that she is also the Sword God’s sole disciple and a once-in-a-century genius of the Tang Sect. Her sword is called Purple Lightning. When it leaves its scabbard, it flashes like a startled swan reflect 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Jujutsu Kaisen: Rewriting Causality, I Turned the Shibuya Deadlock on Its Head 咒术回战：因果逆写，我掀翻了涉谷死局 Jujutsu Kaisen: Rewriting Cause and Effect, I Turned Shibuya's Deadly Fate Upside Down 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 I Only Wanted to Roam the Martial World, but You Insisted I Become a Marquis 我明明想混江湖，你非逼我当侯爷 No transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger. An original fictional historical martial arts world, where the imperial court is not far above and the martial world is not far away. When Yi Yuntian was eight, he protected five-year-old Mu Xiaoxiao and was imprisoned by order of the foolish former emperor. After twelve years, the emperor’s wise son, Xuanyuan Yi, told me that his father had been somewhat out of line. He not only set me free, but also made me a marquis. What? You’re asking what I 539Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 120 Please Stop Cursing Me, There'll Soon Be No One Left in the Industry! 求求你别骂了，圈内都快没人了！ [After the first hundred chapters, the story's ideas are unlike anything else online!] [No Female Lead, No Flirting, I Swear + Sharp Critiques and Debates + A Master of One-Liners + The Modern-Day Lu Xun, a Mentor of Ideas + Idealism, a Peerless Patriot + An Adult Fairy Tale + Guaranteed Writing Quality] Bad movies shoved in your face, pretty young actors' expressionless performances polluting your eyes: in his fury, Jiang Li unexpectedly awakens the “Public Enemy of the Internet System” and be 8kReads8.7Score52314d adds
- 121 My Youth Was Like a Pile of Mud 我的青春，好似一摊烂泥 (Youth, School Life, Growing Up, Everyday Life, Redemption) Told in the first person, this is a coming-of-age story about a bad boy who matches wits with students and teachers at his school. They save one another and gradually grow up. My name is Fang Yuan. Ever since I was a child, I've been different from other people's kids. Girls say I'm as thick as a log, and my friends say I'm selfish. But I never thought there was anything wrong with that. Because I'm not a good person to begin with. W 156.1kReads9.5Score11.4k14d adds
- 122 Reborn in the Flames: From a World in Chaos to Glory 浴火重生：从乱世走向辉煌 The rating has just come in, and it will rise later. Rebirth + alternate history + no System + resistance-war espionage A hundred-year-old man, Wang Anqing, dies alone amid the chaos of war... Reborn in the resistance-war era, he must start over from scratch. Watch how this teenage boy grows step by step, makes up for the regrets of his previous life, and ultimately rewrites his fate and history. 6.9kReads9.2Score48014d adds
- 123 A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人 This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute 6.1kReads8.8Score56414d adds
- 124 Transmigrated as Fahai: I Know Everyone in This Story, So I'm Just Giving Up 穿越法海：全熟人剧本我直接摆烂 I Transmigrated into Fahai: With a Cast Full of Familiar Faces, I’m Just Going to Phone It In 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Just Arrived in Republican-Era China, I Have Nothing but Money 刚到民国，除了钱，一无所有 Su Ning transmigrated into a series of novels set in the Republic of China era. The good news: she had a System. Better yet, the System's reward pool held a full ten billion. Once she spent it all, Su Ning could return to the modern era and live happily as a billionaire. The bad news: the System was called "The Rich Are Heartless"... In the turbulent Republic of China, she had to play a villain who was rotten to the core. Determined to stay alive, Su Ning racked her brains to become relatives wi 94.8kReads8.7Score10.1k14d adds
- 126 Fierce Snow in Guandong 关东烈雪 Fierce Snowfall in Kanto 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 I Saved the Whole Village, but Couldn’t Protect My Brother 我救了全村，却没有保护好兄弟 I Saved the Whole Village, but Failed to Protect My Brother 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 From the Start: The Beautiful CEO Hires a Bodyguard 开局：美女总裁招保镖 New novel: Urban power fantasy + soldier king + miracle doctor + ancient martial arts + martial sage master + miracle doctor master After the soldier king returns to the city, he discovers that the woman his two masters arranged for him to marry is the very person his former commander ordered him to protect. His urban life remains tense... 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 EN My Steady Farming Path to Immortality 我的种田流修仙太稳健了 [Slice-of-life farming + steady cultivation + no female lead, multiple dao companions + System + hoarding hamster] While fellow prodigies from my sect are blinded by greed and slaughter each other over opportunities in secret realms, I have been watering my radishes with spirit spring water in the spirit fields for three hundred years. While demonic cultivator overlords blood-sacrifice a million cultivators, I am using demon-binding ropes made from immortal vines to build a fence around my spiri 92.6kReads8.3Score10.4k14d adds
- 130 My Spiritual Root Is Exposed from the Start, and My Fox Demon Junior Sister Practices Repaying Me 开局暴露灵根，狐妖师妹练习报恩 Why does everyone who transmigrates end up in the Acacia Sect, but Su Ji ends up in the Lovesick Sect? Well, at least it's a reputable sect. Wait a minute? What's with you people? Isn't this supposed to be a sect full of hopeless romantics? Why does everyone talk like an evil cultivator? “Master, he got married today. I want to go down the mountain and steal him away, then torture him to death in front of his wife...” “Elder, I pulled strings to become your disciple. Why won't you teach me anyth 10.2kReads9.0Score67814d adds
- 131 Frost Sword Sweeps Away the Breeze 霜剑扫清风 The whole village was drenched in blood and reduced to ruins in a single day. Young Zhang He escaped a mountain of corpses and a sea of flames, clutching an unparalleled manual to his chest. From then on, he was a fugitive with nowhere to go. To conceal his lethal skills, he went into hiding at Wudang, content to serve as a young kitchen acolyte. Smoke and fire could not dim his soaring ambition. With a woodcutter's knife in hand, he secretly trained in peerless inner arts. One day, the disc 1.8kReads8.3Score13514d adds
- 132 The Realm of Parting Sorrow 离恨天界 Of the thirty-three heavens, the Heaven of Separation and Regret stands highest; of the four hundred and four afflictions, lovesickness is the most bitter. Once towering above the Myriad Worlds and looking down on the six directions and eight wilds, the Heavenly Domain fell from splendor to ruin overnight after its Domain Lord mysteriously vanished. Its ten-thousand-year legacy teeters on the brink of collapse, while wolves from across the heavens circle hungrily, waiting to seize their chance. 24Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 133 Starcore Prison: A Pact of Steel and Blood 星核囚笼：机械与血契 Starcore Prison: Machine and Blood Pact 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The Heavenly Realm 天域 Shen Dong lives in seclusion deep in the mountains with his alcoholic father. He has made his living chopping wood since he was ten, though his father has secretly taught him a wealth of knowledge. When Shen Dong turns eighteen, his father passes away. Following his father’s dying words, Shen Dong goes down the mountain. At an inn, he meets Cai Qingquan, a transmigrator, who cheats him out of all his money. Later, the head chef arranges for him to enter Shenglin Academy. His outstanding literary 47Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 135 If I’d Known the Villain’s Daughter Had It This Bad, I Wouldn’t Have Entered This Book 早知反派女儿这么苦，这书我不穿 A dark-hearted girl x her cold, domineering CEO father, a story of redemption By a twist of fate, Huo Ning transmigrates into a story aimed at female readers and becomes the pitiful daughter of the villain. Before she arrives, the poor girl is abused by her own mother and treated like a toy by her mother's boyfriend. She dies on a snowy night. The villain in the book isn't much better off. The author uses him as a plot device, and all he wants is to break up the official couple. In the end, he d 15.9kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 136 Fallen Blossoms for You, Please Accept Them with a Smile 落花赠卿，请君笑纳 Falling Blossoms for You, Please Accept Them with a Smile 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Stop Pretending. You're Not a Normal Awakened One Either, Are You? 别装了，你也不是正经觉醒者吧？ (Also known as: How Can Li Bai Have Three Eyes? I’m Yang Jian!) After transmigrating, He Xu assumed he’d definitely become an Awakened, until he awakened the Calamity Sequence [Yang Jian]. From the day his third eye grew in, He Xu stopped feeling sleepy, but he became ravenous: the kind of hunger that made him want to eat people. He started delivering takeout in his spare time. While bringing food to others, he also picked out his own meals. He Xu had principles. He wouldn’t eat ordinary people, 252kReads8.2Score17.6k14d adds
- 138 Longevity: Starting as an Unorthodox Tianlong 长生：从另类天龙开始 Word has spread throughout the martial world that the Carefree Sect possesses secret martial arts capable of granting eternal life. Countless people have searched the world for it, unaware that this defying-the-heavens legacy has long since fallen into the hands of an unknown young man. Li Xiaoyao keeps a low profile amid the chaos of Tianlong. He seems ordinary, but the depths of his cultivation are unfathomable. He watches the martial world’s conflicts with cold detachment, yet is forced into 5.6kReads8.8Score27014d adds
- 139 Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我 That winter night, we sat around the charcoal brazier, the coals crackling as I huddled in a corner and listened to the adults tell a story about the sacred cypress at the village entrance. They said... The person who told me that story has passed away, but the chilling feeling it gave me is still etched in my memory. Now, I’ve adapted the story into a novel. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 丝路玉鉴：苏氏星象之陇右佛窟 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 丝路玉鉴：河氏水文之疏勒河谷 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 A Wild Ride From the Spider Cave to the Immortal Realm 从盘丝洞到仙界的狂飙 A little demon named Su Xiang’er burst out of the Cave of the Silken Webs. Born with the superpower to control objects, she turned Heaven upside down! The Jade Emperor was hopping mad, but there was nothing he could do about it. Unsatisfied with the immortal realm, this little terror ran off to the mortal world and started playing the markets, raking in a fortune. She not only took big names from the immortal realm, like Flower-Fruit Mountain, the Moon Palace, and the Dragon Palace, public, but 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Hogwarts: Somehow, I'm the Only Cultivator 霍格沃兹：居然只有我是修仙者 “Ye Feng! How many times have I told you not to use the Flying Sword spell to fly on your broomstick! And you’re absolutely not allowed to steal Hermione’s wand and use it as a chopstick along with your own wand!” This is the story of a transmigrator who single-handedly turned Hogwarts upside down; the story of Hogwarts' top brass frantically revising the school rules just to keep our protagonist in check; this... should be an interesting story. 16.5kReads9.0Score2k14d adds
- 144 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Lin Clan's Joinery Art and the Soul-Hanging Staircase 丝路玉鉴：林氏榫卯诀之悬魂梯 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Lin Clan's Mortise-and-Tenon Technique and the Soul-Hanging Ladder 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Global Survival: The Outlaw of a Magic Wasteland 全民求生：魔法废土世界的暴徒 [Signed for print publication, new setting, no golden finger, no heroine, pets, expansive worldbuilding, disasters, construction, transmigration, game, apocalypse] Everyone transmigrates to a magical wasteland. At the start, all they have is a drafty magic tent. Chopping wood at sunrise and building walls at sunset becomes the fate of billions of survivors. Tent → wooden cabin → stone fortress... Jiang Xun thinks that’s all there is to a shelter. Until he discovers another way to upgrade: powerf 65.9kReads8.4Score5.7k14d adds
- 146 I Scored 380 on the College Entrance Exam, Yet Ten Years Later I Outclassed the Top Students from Elite Universities 高考380分的我，十年后碾压985学霸 I Scored 380 on the College Entrance Exam, Yet Ten Years Later I Outclassed the Top Students from China's 985 Universities 32Reads—Score114d adds
- 147 An AI Torments a Thousand-Year-Old Vampire Until He Questions His Life 千年吸血鬼被AI虐到怀疑人生 A Thousand-Year-Old Vampire Gets Bullied by AI Until He Questions His Life 61Reads—Score214d adds
- 148 He Ended Up at a Widow's House 他穿到了寡妇家 Because of the wicked eldest uncle’s scheme, the original Wen Liang inexplicably died in a widow’s bed. Wen Liang from the apocalypse happened to transmigrate into his body, beat up the widow, then went back and gave the Wen family a thorough beating. But the people at the Wen family’s old home were like vampires, setting their sights on Wen Liang’s family. Later, the original’s younger sister, Wen Yu, was also framed by the eldest uncle and the widow, forced to become someone’s concubine, and d 2.9kReads—Score17714d adds
- 149 My Years as a Prisoner of War in World War II 我在二战当俘虏的那些年 My Years as a Prisoner of War in World War II 319Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Three Battles with the White Bone Demon? I, Old Zhu, Can’t Bear to Do It 三打白骨精？俺老猪舍不得 Three Fights Against the White Bone Demon? I, Old Zhu, Can’t Bear to Do It 80Reads—Score—14d adds
