Daomu Biji Novel – Book 9 Summary (Part 2)
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Book 9: 大结局
The Grand Finale (Part 2)
It was an incredibly large ball of pure black meat covered in fur, with no eyes, nose or mouth. Wu Xie and Pangzi retreated in the other direction, until they reached a 90-degree turn. Turning over, they faced a mountain cave.
Pangzi rushed into the cave to find the large mirror that he told Wu Xie about. The mirror was made of brass, about 7 meters in diameter and entirely submerged in a water pool. As they shined their torchlight into the mirror, the image of Zhang Family Mansion appeared, but there was only the lone mansion standing there amid a gloomy dark light while Men You Ping’s team was nowhere to be seen.
Wu Xie and Pangzi climbed to the top of the cave to understand the principles behind the mirror: how did the Zhang Family Mansion appear here? After searching around, they found a complex system of channeling passages and mirrors that was used to direct sunlight into the mansion, which was the reason why the brass mirror under the pool could reflect the image of the mansion.
At this point, a whirlpool was suddenly formed, sucking Wu Xie and Pangzi into the bottom of the pool. It was then that they realised the system of passages and mirrors had dual roles: They also controlled the flow of air into this cave, which was how the whirlpool was created. Reaching the bottom of the pool, Wu Xie and Pangzi were further sucked into the quicksand, but after the sand reached Wu Xie’s neck, he stopped sinking because something was stuck right below him. It turned out that there were loads of animal skeletons buried inside the quicksand. They must have fallen into this pool via the channeling passages.
As Wu Xie and Pangzi crawled out of the quicksand and saw a stone staircase leading up to a bronze door, a giant Mi Luo Tuo appeared from the top of the cave and started attacking them. The two tricked the Mi Luo Tuo into smashing down the door for them, then followed the tunnel behind the door to finally reach their destination – the Zhang Family Mansion.
Entering the first floor, Wu Xie and Pangzi located lots of equipment left behind by Men You Ping’s group. Everything here was covered in alkaline dust that wasn’t so poisonous to kill people on the spot, but if one inhaled it for a prolonged period, it would become lethal. There were four giant columns in the middle of the floor, each engraved with a Kylin similar to that of Men You Ping’s tattoo.
After looking around, Wu Xie and Pangzi found no path to go to the next floor, so they climbed up the columns to try poking through the ceiling, but they ended up activating a mechanism that lowered a staircase down from above.
Breaking into the second floor, they found thousands of iron statues that were used as a form of funerary art to be buried together with the dead. These statues were the same as what they found at the bottom of the lake previously. Wu Xie deduced that the statues were made from the remnants of dead Mi Luo Tuo.
Following Men You Ping’s footprints to enter the third floor, the two found thousands of iron boxes hanging on the ceiling, all of which contained right hands with two unusually long fingers, the most distinguished characteristic of Zhang family members. It seemed that the corpses with no right hands that they picked up from the bottom of the lake earlier were Zhang family members.
The fourth floor had an area of several thousands square meters and was divided into thousands of small rooms, each containing a coffin. Reading the plaques that summarised the life of the person inside the coffin, Wu Xie and Pangzi could tell that they were people with high position or had made great achievements in the Zhang family. For other members, only their right hands were cut off and kept on the third floor.
As they checked out the different plaques, the two concluded that the Zhang family was so large that it was divided into a number of branches. One of the plaques even noted that the person inside lived till the age of 170, so long life was another characteristic of Zhang family members. The Zhang family had made many significant contributions to the ruling dynasties and stood behind major events in history, which might be the reason why the family maintained their existence through such a long period. The family likely had connections with and was protected by all sorts of great powers in the history of China1. They also seemed to have great influence in northern China, especially towards the area of Changbai mountains.
While searching around, Wu Xie and Pangzi located a luxuriously decorated room belonging to a man called Zhang Ruitong, where the coffin inside had been recklessly raided many years ago and some burial items in the coffin had been taken away. There was a small “Zhang Qiling” engraved right below the name Zhang Ruitong, and the plaque also mentioned he was selected to be “Zhang Qiling” at the age of 19. This meant that in each generation, someone would emerge as Zhang Qiling and from that moment on, the person would change their real name to Zhang Qiling. It was also noted that Zhang Ruitong died because of memory loss issues.
In the list of Zhang Ruitong’s offspring, Wu Xie pointed out the name “Zhang Qishan”, which was Zhang Da Fo Ye’s real name. This man in the coffin, Zhang Ruitong, was Zhang Da Fo Ye’s grandfather. So his earlier speculation turned out correct: Zhang Da Fo Ye was indeed a member of this Zhang family. As for his alias “Zhang Da Fo Ye”2, it was said that he buried a giant buddha statue in his backyard, whose origin was unknown. Wu Xie believed that it was Zhang Da Fo Ye who raided this coffin. Judging from the dents left in the coffin, the items taken away included two large-size hoops and a saber – to which Wu Xie and Pangzi both concluded that it must be Men You Ping’s ancient black-metal saber. The saber must have floated around in the black market and somehow ended up in Third Uncle’s shop.
As they were discussing, a corpse fell down through an opening on the ceiling. Pangzi climbed through the opening to discover Men You Ping’s group trapped in a chamber where toxic gas still lingered. Huo Xiangu and more than half of the group had died, while the other half was taking their last breaths. Wu Xie and Pangzi found Men You Ping breathing weakly in a corner of the room; he managed to stay alive till now by reducing his air consumption to the lowest point, hence inhaling less toxic gas than all the others.
Wu Xie and Pangzi made the difficult decision to only take Men You Ping with them, because it was impossible to bring everyone out and Men You Ping was also the only person who could likely survive. Pangzi helped Wu Xie decapitate Huo Xiangu so he could at least bring her head to Huo Xiuxiu. They decided to go out using the route that Men You Ping’s group went through rather than their original route, because that one was full of deadly Mi Luo Tuo.
Wu Xie carried the barely conscious Men You Ping on his back. When they reached a stone pillar with some mechanism inside, Men You Ping used his two special fingers to trigger an opening, which was enough for one person to go in at a time. This opening functioned similar to a modern lift and brought the three of them back to the lowest floor.
A coffin carried out by the previous archaeologist team lay on this floor. Wu Xie and Pangzi opened the lid and a mummy covered in a thick layer of hair jumped out to attack them. Defeating the mummy, the three entered a large chamber with two rivers running through it. They discovered several corpses at the bottom of the smaller river, and were shocked to also find Pan Ma’s corpse here! It seemed that Pan Ma had followed Men You Ping’s group around and ended up dead in this place.
They followed the river to arrive at a cave with a dense net of silk. Many hexagonal bronze bells were hung on the silk threads, and the toxic gas also began to emerge. Pangzi carried Men You Ping to safely pass through the net, but Wu Xie was hesitant so he told Pangzi to head out first.
After Pangzi left and when Wu Xie was about to jump over, he heard Pan Zi’s voice. Pan Zi was trapped in a rock crevice and couldn’t be saved anymore. Pan Zi offered to give Wu Xie his last protection: he would shoot at any bronze bells that blocked Wu Xie’s path, so that Wu Xie could pass through the silk net unharmed. After Wu Xie got out, Pan Zi killed himself with the same gun.
A few days later, Wu Xie woke up to find himself and the other two saved by Qiu Dekao. He learnt that Xiao Hua was seriously injured and had been taken to treatment, while Huo Xiuxiu completely collapsed upon receiving her grandmother’s head. It also turned out that the two missing hoops in Zhang Ruitong’s coffin were taken out by Men You Ping and were given to Qiu Dekao, to which Men You Ping simply concluded that “Qiu Dekao has achieved his ultimate purpose.”
Men You Ping quickly recovered and came to bid Wu Xie farewell, insisting that only he could continue this path and both Wu Xie and Pangzi must not tag along anymore. Wu Xie made a big fuss about this sudden farewell but Pangzi convinced Wu Xie that this, after all, had been Men You Ping’s journey alone. He and Wu Xie were just outsiders.
A few days later, when Wu Xie thought that everything was finally over, Yun Cai was found dead in a stream. Pangzi was completely devastated. No one could confirm it, but Wu Xie deduced that both A-Gui and Yun Cai had been secretly providing information to Ghostman, and Yun Cai ended up being silenced by Ghostman since she knew too much.
Wu Xie, still carrying Third Uncle’s mask, returned to Third Uncle’s house to find that Third Uncle had been emailing back and forth with a mysterious person through a Local Area Network. Wu Xie dug up further and discovered the person to be living in a bunker below the house.
As Wu Xie broke into this mysterious person’s underground bunker, he was caught red-handed. But this person recognised him as Wu Lao Gou’s grandson and spared his life because Wu Lao Gou used to give this person a great favour in the past.
Surviving the ordeal, Wu Xie decided to give his father a call to reminisce about the past. More than 40 years ago, Wu Xie’s grandfather, Wu Lao Gou, made a remarkable fortune for himself in Changsha with his quick wits and special skills regarding tomb robbing. He was known as the first person to be able to train dogs to locate tombs. It was also known that he was romantically involved with Huo Xiangu. Later, when Qiu Dekao betrayed everyone and Wu Lao Gou had to run away from Changsha, he was sheltered by the Xie family and got together with Wu Xie’s grandmother in Hangzhou. Among his three sons, Wu San Xing (Third Uncle) started to venture into tomb robbing at a tender age of 13, Wu Er Bai (Second Uncle) was the most studious and was involved with a number of businesses, while Wu Yi Qiong (Wu Xie’s father) kept himself busy with the redevelopment of Northern China before returning to Hangzhou in the 70s and raising Wu Xie.
Wu Xie called Second Uncle to ask for more clues regarding the mysterious person in the bunker, but Second Uncle seemed to avoid the question. Looking more closely, Wu Xie realised that the underground bunker was in fact connected to the house next to Third Uncle’s. The house owner informed him that this house had been rented out 19 years ago but no one actually stayed in it even though the rental fees were always paid every month. Luckily, he had on hands the renter’s phone number.
Wu Xie tried to give this number a call and was horrified to find that the number in fact belonged to his deceased grandfather!
As Wu Xie was contemplating how much his grandfather and Second Uncle knew about Third Uncle’s fake identity and the mysterious person in the bunker, the mysterious person called to inform Wu Xie that he had left behind a letter to reveal the truth behind everything that had happened till this point.
Wu Xie learnt the following facts from the letter. Firstly, Wu Lao Gou had rented or bought all the houses within this vicinity. The presence of the mysterious person was unknown to everyone, save for Wu Lao Gou and Third Uncle. Wu Lao Gou and the father of this mysterious person once had the common goal of destroying the enemies, but their methods of doing things were different. The mysterious person’s father was the one who sent the fake archaeologist team to replace Chen Wenjin’s and Huo Ling’s original team at Banai.
While the original team wanted to bring a corpse into the Zhang Family Mansion, the fake team stopped that mission and instead brought that corpse back to Hangzhou. Currently, the corpse was hidden somewhere around Third Uncle’s house. For the past 19 years, this mysterious person had been guarding this secret and receiving a lot of help from both Wu Lao Gou and Third Uncle.
At the end of the letter, the mysterious person told Wu Xie to stop everything he was doing and wait until 9:45 AM tomorrow, because the corpse and all related evidence would be destroyed by then. Who was ‘it’? How powerful were they? What did they want? These facts would be forever buried when tomorrow came. Everything would come to an end.
It was also revealed that since young, Wu Xie had been modeled after this missing person named Qi Yu, a key figure whose actual role and purpose remained unrevealed in the letter. Ideally, Wu San Xing should be the one to carry out the mission of taking down the enemies, but he probably couldn’t handle this responsibility anymore and tricked Wu Xie into becoming his replacement. When Wu Xie went on his first expedition to Lu Shang Wang’s tomb, news immediately rippled throughout the tomb-robbing community and things were set in motion. The enemies seemed to believe that Wu Xie was Qi Yu, and his presence was a significant factor in bringing these enemies to their downfall.
As he finished reading these lines, Wu Xie was so exhausted he fell asleep. When he opened his eyes the next morning, all the houses around him were on fire.
In the end, the Wu family emerged the victor in this clandestine battle.
Wu Xie returned to Hangzhou after taking the mask off. He helped Third Uncle take over his business under the pretense that Third Uncle was caught up in a very faraway place.
As for the others, Huo Xiuxiu took over as the head of the Huo family with the help of Xiao Hua. Due to what happened to Huo Xiangu, it became difficult for Wu Xie and Huo Xiuxiu to look at each other in the face. Qiu Dekao passed on 3 months later and a new generation of leaders fought to take over his immense wealth. Ya Jie, Third Uncle’s supposed lover, got married to another man but it was apparent that she still had lingering feelings for Third Uncle.
Wu Xie organised a small funeral for Pan Zi and buried him next to Da Kui. Pangzi remained in Banai to take care of the rice fields and live a quiet rural life beside his so-called father-in-law, in memories of Yun Cai.
And the last person Wu Xie wanted to talk about was Men You Ping.
1 year later, Men You Ping suddenly turned up at Wu Xie’s antique shop in Hangzhou. He simply said that “My time has come” and was here to say goodbye to Wu Xie before going to Changbai mountains.
Wu Xie stubbornly followed Men You Ping for several days and wanted to go with him till the end, but Men You Ping insisted that he must head back.
Under Wu Xie’s persistence, Men You Ping gave Wu Xie one of the two identical jade seals, one of which was snatched by them from the auction in New Moon Hotel. He told Wu Xie that if Wu Xie still remembered him 10 years later, Wu Xie could come to find him at the Bronze Gate. He revealed that behind the Bronze Gate lay a secret that the Zhang family had been guarding for the last hundreds of years. When the Zhang family finally weakened, Men You Ping, as the last family head of the Zhangs, sought the help of The Old Nine Gates but none of them kept to their promise. Therefore, he would be the one to guard the secret for the next 10 years. If The Old Nine Gates had actually honoured their responsibility, it would have been Wu Xie’s turn to go into the Bronze Gate this time.
Wu Xie was shocked to learn of this, but before he could react, Men You Ping knocked him unconscious. Wu Xie woke up a few hours later to find himself alone amid the snowy mountain. Wu Xie waited for 3 days to no avail before heading back to Hangzhou.
Back home, Wu Xie made further research and finally learnt that the Zhang family originated from Guandong (known nowadays as the North China Plain). Zhang Qiling was in fact a name given to only the head of the family, and this head was elected because the blood he carried was more powerful than any others. The family head would marry a lady also from the Zhang family, who had similarly powerful blood, to ensure the purity of their offspring. However, these intra-family marriages resulted in severe memory losses in the next generations.
During China’s Republican era, a branch consisting of Zhang Da Fo Ye’s father and uncles decided to detach themselves from the Zhang family. Zhang Da Fo Ye moved to Changsha and later on, he was requested by a government official to seek for the secret to immortality. Because of that, he gathered The Old Nine Gates and desperately tried to locate the Zhang Family Mansion, meanwhile looking all over the country for Zhang Qiling. In the 1960s, they finally found him.
Under Zhang Qiling’s lead, ‘the largest tomb robbery in history’ was spearheaded, but it ended up a failure, resulting in severe conflicts between Zhang Qiling’s and Zhang Da Fo Ye’s supporters. On the side of Zhang Qiling, there were mainly Wu Lao Gou, Huo Xiangu and Xie Jiu Ye. They helped protect Zhang Qiling from being assassinated by Zhang Da Fo Ye’s supporters and at the same time tried to take down the organisation formed by Zhang Da Fo Ye’s next generation. This organisation carried forward Zhang Da Fo Ye’s mission of finding the secret to immortality.
At this point, Wu Lao Gou also started his plan of withdrawing the Wu family entirely from this mess. Despite his efforts, his third son Wu San Xing got involved even further into the whole thing and emerged as the official person to take over his father’s unfinished business.
Zhang Da Fo Ye’s organisation used the second generation of The Nine Gates, including Huo Ling and Chen Wenjin, to dispatch an archaeologist team to Banai to transfer a corpse into the mansion, but the members either perished inside the mansion due to the toxic gas or were murdered by Pan Ma. At this point, Xie Jiu Ye jumped in and planted the fake team.
It was then revealed that the real Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling, who were part of the original team, in fact survived. When Zhang Da Fo Ye’s organisation initiated the trip to Xi Sha’s underwater tomb, they forged a fake order to summon the fake Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling to Heavenly Palace On The Clouds, while they themselves blended into the team at Xi Sha.
The struggle between Wu San Xing and Xie Lianhuan inside the underwater tomb, as told to Wu Xie later, was a lie. What actually happened was that Wu San Xing and Xie Lianhuan decided to join hands to overthrow Zhang Da Fo Ye’s organisation once and for all. After everyone else was knocked unconscious inside the tomb, Xie Lianhuan came back ashore under Wu San Xing’s identity, while Wu San Xing took the other members back to the nursing home in Golmud.
At this point, Wu San Xing and Xie Lianhuan worked closely together to sever any communication between the organisation and the nursing home. At the same time, the team dispatched to Heavenly Palace On The Clouds perished inside the endless loop of the chamber, together with Shun Zi’s father. However, since the corpses had dried up and were no longer recognisable, it remained unknown if the fake Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling actually died together with these people.
Things got complicated as the real Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling escaped from the nursing home by themselves and ventured to Ta Mu Tuo while trying to hide away from both the organisation as well as Wu San Xing and Xie Lianhuan. Xie Lianhuan went on to stay in the bunker below Wu San Xing’s house to guard the secret. Since then, Xie Lianhuan and Wu San Xing also took turns to appear in front of other people as Wu San Xing.
Meanwhile, Men You Ping returned to the Zhang Family Mansion but his memory loss kicked in. When he regained his consciousness, he had been captured and was later rescued by Chen Pi A Si.
When the ancient black-metal saber turned up at Wu San Xing’s antique shop, both Wu San Xing and Xie Lianhuan felt alarmed at how peculiar the situation had turned out. Right at this moment, Qiu Dekao decided that he wanted to get involved directly with the proceedings in China and sent Jin Wantang to bring the first silk script to Wu Xie.
Seeing the silk script, Wu San Xing realised that Qiu Dekao was now a grave danger that needed to be stopped and immediately initiated the trip to Lu Shang Wang’s 7-Star Palace.
And from then on, the cruel wheel of fate had started turning.
[Daomu Biji Main Story – The End]
Michelle’s note: That’s finally it, guys. I’ve specially put my sweats and tears into Volume 9 because of how intense and overloaded the amount of information is. I actually read the last few chapters for at least 4 times to make sure I don’t mix up between all those whos and hows and whichs and whats.
Thank you all so much for reading until here. I’ll hopefully see you soon in the next summary of the sequel Tibetan Sea Flower! (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
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Will Xiao Ge and Wu Xie end up together? or did they split up?
so do you know if chen wen jin and huo Ling are still alive? i mean we still don’t know where they are actually right?
Hi Legonyx,
Thank you for checking out these summaries! As to your question, the real Chen Wenjin is alive – she met Wu Xie, Pangzi and Men You Ping during the 5th book Ghost Kingdom of The Snakes. However, later during the 6th book, she entered the meteorite and was never seen again. It remains unknown until this day what happened to her inside the meteorite.
As for the real Huo Ling, she turned into a Forbidden Lady. She was the Forbidden Lady that Wu Xie encountered in the abandoned nursing home at Golmud.
As for the fake Chen Wenjin and fake Huo Ling, they joined the expedition team that went to the Heavenly Palace on The Clouds. It remains unknown whether they died there.
I hope this helps. Once again, thank you for reading until here! ^_^
If third uncle was responsible for imprisoning wen jing and co in the hospital, when were they experimented on by Wang family to test the “immortality pill”? Does that mean despite third uncle’s efforts to cut comms between wen jings team and Wang family, the latter still managed to infiltrate and experiment on them?
Hi X T,
Thank you for checking out these summaries. I think your deduction is reasonably correct – Wenjin and others still ended up being experimented on by the organisation despite Third Uncle’s efforts.
The thing is mystic nine showed fo ye as so upstanding I can’t believe he would agree to help find the secret to immortality. And I always read it that he discovered the presence of the Wang family but wasn’t able to stop them in his lifetime. So the greatest tomb raid in history , I think his team had been infiltrated by Wang family and escaped his command to attack Zhang qi ling. And then we are not sure what happened to fo ye after this but I think calling the attack by fo ye’s supporters makes you think he was the bad guy when he could have just lost control of the Wang family spies in his midst.
Hi X T,
Firstly, my apologies that this reply came rather late. I was away from this website during the past few months.
An important factor to take into account here is that Fo Ye worked for the army, and that China during the 1930s was going through a complicated political period. Fo Ye was likely under the pressure of someone higher up to locate the secret to immortality. As for whether he was the bad guy is a highly debatable topic – if we look from Zhang Qiling’s perspective, he may indeed seem like the bad guy. After all, he and Zhang Qiling stood on two opposite fronts – one wanted to guard the secret to immortality while one wanted to expose it. Fo Ye is a complex characer, so it’s always difficult to understand what was going on in his mind. Also, up till this day, the full story of Mystic Nine remains open-ended (yupe, the author hasn’t finished writing Mystic Nine yet), so we can’t be sure whether his army was infiltrated by the Wangs, or what was really the reason that drove him to spearhead the greatest tomb raid in history.
I understand that this isn’t the clearest piece of information, but Daomu Biji has never been very clear either, with so many endings unwritten and mysteries flying around 🙁 I hope this has helped somewhat though. Once again, thank you for checking out the summaries and for commenting! <3
thanks for summing it all up, but what happened to xiao ge after all this?
he going to next adventure in reunion: the sound of the providence
So xiao ge was the one in all flashbacks and everytime he didn’t know much about identity cause of mental issues (memory losses) developed in the Zhang family and as the Zhang wiling he was able to live for a long time and got to know everything happened around in his journey with Wu xie which was all actually planned by third uncle.
And actually all the families have to take part in protecting the bronze gate sending a successor from one of the families at a time for every 10yrs and due to the betrayal/withdrawal of the other families the then Zhang qiling i.e. xiao ge had to do it or burden all the time. Third uncle wanted to end this so that the specialities/secrets of the Zhang family and the mystic 9 don’t get out.
Zhang qiling was protecting something behind the bronze gate not letting it to be known outside what all say as ‘ultimate’ and a person must go to guard every 10yrs without fail.
Wait, what happens if no one goes?😯
Who is Men you ping ?
Zhang qiling, wu xie’s friend
I want to know what happen at the end to third uncle and that fake third uncle
Also did the immortality secret successfully destroyed
Hi Park Ri, to be honest, until today, no one knows what happened at the end to Third Uncle and the fake Third Uncle (Xie Lianhuan). We only know they disappeared, but where they disappeared to, or whether they’re even alive now, remains a huge mystery.
The secret to immortality remains intact. It was never leaked to anyone. The organisation was successfully destroyed before they got hold of this secret.
Did third uncle destroy the “it”
Hi Park Ri, Third Uncle didn’t destroy it. Wu Xie did it ^^
You can watch the drama Sand Sea (or Tomb of The Sea) to understand this better.
Thank you for the summary. I’m just curious about one thing. Is Zhang RiShan from the Zhang family? why did he live so long where he even outlived Fo Ye?
Hi Rhea,
I’m so sorry I only noticed your comment now T_T
Zhang Rishan is also from the Zhang family, however, not all Zhang family members have longer-than-average lifespan (aka delayed aging). If my memory serves me right, among all the Zhang family members that have appeared so far in canon, only Zhang Qiling and Zhang Rishan are confirmed to have this ability. This is because their blood is ‘more special’.
The Zhang family itself is a very huge family, with many different branches whose ‘blood qualities’ are all different. Zhang Da Fo Ye comes from a branch whose blood isn’t very special, that is why he dies at a normal age.
I hope this helps ^^
Hi! Thank you for the summary!
I have a question though: Are “it”, “the organization” and the Wang family fron Sand Sea the same thing?
From the show, the Wang family seems to be a really old organization, older than Fo Ye, so if that is the case, was Fo Ye used by them?
Hi Marina,
I’m so sorry that I only saw your question now.
At this stage, the identity of “it” is not fully revealed. We only learn at a later stage that “it” is in fact the Wang family, whose role and purpose is discussed further in Tibetan Sea Flower and Sand Sea.
The organisation consists of mainly the next generations of Zhang Da Fo Ye + some people relating to Qiu Dekao who wants to find the secret to immortality.
It it unlikely that Fo Ye has any relationship with the Wang family, or at least up till today, I don’t recall that such information has been disclosed (if someone knows better, please feel free to reply to this). He and the Wang family have two different purposes, so I don’t think that they have reasons to work together.
I hope this helps 🙂 And I’m sorry again for the late reply!
Hi Michelle, really need your help.
1. Isn’t the author Xu Lei(written on book 1-6 translated English version in Amazon) Who is Nan Pai Shan Shu then?
2. Most importantly did Wu Xie meet Xiao Ge after the 10 years and did Xiao Ge follow him back home?
Hi Rozita, to reply to your questions:
1. Xu Lei and Nan Pai San Shu are the same person. Xu Lei is his real name, also known in English as Kennedy Xu. Nan Pai San Shu （南派三叔）is his pen-name, which is also the most common way that the fans refer to him.
2. Yes, they did meet again on Changbai mountains after 10 years. This reunion is described in the sequel book Shi Nian (Ten Years Later). And yes, Xiao Ge followed Wu Xie home. Wu Xie, Xiao Ge and Pangzi then lived happily ever after together lol. Two years post the event in sequel Ten Years Later, we have the sequel Chong Qi (Reboot), which has been adapted into the drama Reunion: The Sound of The Providence featuring Zhu Yilong in 2020.
I hope this helps ^^~
Thank you. Btw, here n there the language in the translated story books involved cursing plus 4 letter word,
totally different from series. Since ive watched the ultimate note prior to reading the books, i am glad my dears Wuxie and Xiao Ge were not using them in the series (based on eng sub).
I might have to break some not-so-nice info to you, but in fact, they (most notably Wu Xie and Pangzi) curse pretty often in the books oops. So the English translation might actually be trying to be faithful to the raws ^^. I haven’t finished reading the official English books so I can’t be sure that they place all the curses at the right places though xD
Also, in a sense, the curse words they actually use are not so strong as ‘f**k’ or ‘motherf**ker’. It’s more along the line of ‘damn’ or ‘sh*t’. Culturally speaking, such curses are very common in Chinese shounen novels. It’s also part of the character building of Wu Xie and Pangzi, especially if you consider that they operate in a highly complex, borderline-illegal and morally-grey environment – the tomb robbing / antique trading community, which is almost a sort of gangster community.
Thanks for the info. Good to understand 😀
Oh, by the way book 7 onwards (english translation) is still not available for purchase? I mean not the online version. If not yet, just in case, you notice they are out in the market, pls trigger me. The last 6 were bought from Amazon.
Nan Pai Shan Shu is the author of the book, the readers in china gave him that nick- name.
Hi finny, allow me to clarify a bit that Nan Pai San Shu is his pen-name since the very beginning, the readers didn’t create that name for him ^^
Then it was at the end at tomb of the sea, zhang rishan and wu xie worked together to end this evil scheme and defeat ‘it’. In a way, it could be implied that ‘it’ was using zhang foye . To start this endless scheme.
Thank you so much for this summary Michelle, it both answered questions and left even more undiscovered haha, such is the life of falling into this Daomu Abyss. I started watching the lost tomb back in 2015 when it first aired. I was hella confused lol but somehow managed to finish it. Then Mystic Nine happened and I became truly gone for the legend and intrigue behind these powerful families. How they were related and how Wu Xie was connected and just how huge this Daomu world was. I am Taiwanese but have lost much of my mother tongue due to lack of use so your summaries are so helpful, thank you, I’ve really enjoyed your Tumblr and your blog. Wishing you all the best for 2021.
Hi Meisian, this comes late but thank you for reading this too. I’m very glad it has helped you understand this gigantic series a bit better. All the best for your 2021 too (＾∇＾)
is the zhnag qiling that zhang da fo ye found in 1960s for the largest tomb raiding men you ping or another zhang qiling??that ghostman??
Hi Lisa, yes the Zhang Qiling that was found by Zhang Da Fo Ye is Men You Ping. Only one Zhang Qiling, ie head of the Zhang family, will exist at a time.
Ghostman’s real name is also Zhang Qiling, but he has nothing to do with the Zhang family at all xD The guy just happens to carry the same name.
ohh i see…
And also, after his turn for 10 years, whose turn is it gonna be? Who replace him?
It’s actually nobody’s turn ^^ In sequel Sea of Sands, Wu Xie successfully destroys the Wang family, which essentially stops the the whole big conspiracy surrounding the Bronze Gate and no one else needs to guard it anymore.
Watching the drama Tomb of The Sea may help you understand this better. The whole destruction of the Wang family is a very intricate plan that Wu Xie harbours for many years, and the result unfolds nicely in this sequel.
i thought so too but in reunion the sound of providence 2 there were wang family members shown so right now m hella confused TTATT
So the ending is no ending? Or is this novel still continuing?
Hi IxaraSong, this isn’t the ending. The novel is still ongoing until today with various sequels after Main Story. Please refer to this Order of DMBJ Novel post to know more details
Can xio ga died??plz comment me I will be waiting I’m so confused by seeing tomb of the sea
Hi Manzil, Xiao Ge is not immortal, he just lives longer than average humans ^^ It’s roughly estimated that by the timeline of Daomu Biji Main Story, Xiao Ge is about 100 years old, yet he always looks in his 20s.
During the timeline of Tomb of The Sea, all the appearances you see of Xiao Ge are flashbacks, since he’s technically staying behind the Bronze Gate by that time to fulfil his 10-year duty of guarding the gate.
oh lord what is the ultimate TT_TT
Hi Lisa, that is exactly the biggest question that no one can ever answer. It’s suspected that the author himself doesn’t know either (￣▽￣)……
OH LORD am the only one who wants to kidnap the author and ask him all the answers
Thank you for this. I really want to know how this end. Huhuhu. can’t get enough.
Just want to say super thanks for summarizing. I first became a huge fan of the reboot then proceeded watching Lost Tomb 1 and 2. I was so hooked I finished Tomb 2 (40 episodes) in one sitting only to find out that’ll end with a cliffhanger. Finding your summaries today is really helpful cause I’m was in tears with my curiously on how things ended. Now I can sleep soundly hahaha THANK YOUU!
And THANK YOU for reading them too! Welcome to an ancient fandom and a bottomless abyss, please do not hope to ever get out muahahaha (okay, that sounds cruel, but it’s a fact that Daomu Biji is a bottomless abyss…) I’m glad to hear that you find the series interesting so far. I might write up the summaries for the sequel/prequel parts very soon, so hope to see you around then~
I’m basically obsessed now haha I have not had enough sleep in the past 2 weeks- had a couple of nightmare after watching Sound of Providence too haha – and have been re-watching some episodes of the series. 🙂 Thanks again for helping us international fans enjoy this experience!