Treasures of the Land

The male lead was once a top mercenary who grew weary of killing and retired to a remote mountain, harboring a patriotic heart. From then on, he travels across dangerous places at home and abroad, ancient tomb secret realms, black market auctions, and multinational treasure strongholds, joining forces with two close friends and a beloved to seek neither fame nor fortune, but only to return lost Chinese national treasures to their homeland. Throughout, he battles international treasure-theft syndicates, foreign forces, and cultural relic smugglers, protecting the nation's cultural lifeline as an ordinary man. — Description from novelcodex.org