King of Tomb Raiders

King of Tomb Raiders is a long-running adventure and mystery novel by the writer Feitian. It began serialization on 17K.com in 2006, and a simplified-Chinese edition was published by China Friendship Publishing Company in May 2007. The complete work runs to nine volumes and about 2.7 million characters. The story unfolds from a first-person-style adventure perspective: the protagonist, Yang Feng, is a novice yet extraordinarily resourceful, brave, and gifted—able to communicate with supernatural mysterious forces without being harmed by them. His elder brother, Yang Tian, is hailed as the "King of Tomb Raiders" but vanished mysteriously fifteen years earlier. To find his brother, Yang Feng ventures into mysterious and eerie ancient tombs around the world—the Egyptian pyramids, a submarine divine tomb off Japan, the seabed of Bermuda, the Epang Palace of the Qin emperor, the Arctic ice cap, and more. In the burial chamber of the Great Pyramid of Khufu he witnesses the terrifying sight of the "Solar Boat"; beneath the frozen ice cap he encounters horrifying creatures from five hundred million years ago; and along the way he contends with various factions and survives countless brushes with death. As clue after clue is uncovered, he finally learns that his brother Yang Tian became trapped in another realm while pursuing a series of ancient divine artifacts—and that these artifacts are bound up with the safety of the entire Earth. The work fuses tomb-raiding adventure, supernatural mysterious forces, and mystery-detective reasoning into one, with scenes spanning the globe. It is one of the more widely circulated Chinese online adventure novels of the 2000s.