The Mystic Nine

Series Title: Grave Robbers’ Chronicles (aka Lost Tomb; aka Daomu Biji)

Book Title: The Mystic Nine (aka Old Nine Gates; Lao Jiu Men)
Author: Xu Lei
Original Language: Chinese
Translation Language: English
Downloadable Version (last updated 2/18/2023): pdf and epub

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Summary (from Wikipedia)

During the Republic Era, the town of Changsha was guarded by nine families known as the “Old Nine Gates” (or the “Mystic Nine”). They were incredibly powerful families who wielded supreme power over everything in Changsha.

In 1933, a mysterious train pulled into Changsha station. The leader of the Nine Gates, Zhang Qishan, was also the army commander of Changsha station and started to investigate with Qi Tiezui. They discovered a highly suspicious mine just outside of Changsha.

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I found that Xingiu has already translated some of this 4 years ago if you are more interested in their version. Their stuff is here. The stuff in the pdf/epub is all the Mystic Nine stuff (Vols 1 & 2, Chen Pi’s extra, and the 20 Misc Mystic Nine extras).

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• Introduction: About the Mystic Nine
• Chapter 1 Ghost Car
• Chapter 2 Qi Tiezui
• Chapter 3 Tomb A, Number Four, Eastern Room
• Chapter 4 The Last Car
• Chapter 5 Iron Coffin
• Chapter 6 Hold the Gong
• Chapter 7 Two-Finger Probing
• Chapter 8 Ghost Coffin at Sunset
• Chapter 9 Dragon Bone Burial
• Chapter 10 Black-Haired Lacquered Coffin
• Chapter 11 January Flowers Bloom February Red
• Chapter 12 Full Moon on the Xiangjiang River
• Chapter 13 Mount Up
• Chapter 14 Three Drumbeats
• Chapter 15 Corpse Moth
• Chapter 16 The Expert Who Nailed the Weasel Spirit
• Chapter 17 The Nineteen Spices of Xiangxi
• Chapter 18 Into the Mountains
• Chapter 19 Nine Ghosts Stepping on a Lotus
• Chapter 20 Upside Down Immortal
• Chapter 21 Leishan Xiaoguo
• Chapter 22 Everlasting Tower
• Chapter 23 Yushui Hehuan
• Chapter 24 Black Water Corpse Jar
• Chapter 25 Taut Thread Splitting the Jar
• Chapter 26 Underground Corpse River
• Chapter 27 Hot Pepper Ba Ye Chicken Soup
• Chapter 28 Two-Faced Ancients
• Chapter 29 Face on the Mural at the Empty Grave
• Chapter 30 Two-Faced Queen of the West
• Chapter 31 Outside the Mine
• Chapter 32 Face Down Corpse
• Chapter 33 To Turn Over
• Chapter 34 The Sound of Opera Outside the Mine Shaft
• Chapter 35 The Feng Shui Situation
• Chapter 36 Splitting the Big Coffin