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All About Daomu Biji’s PingXie Pairing – Part 2: Excerpts from Sequels
Continuing with Part 1: PingXie Excerpts from Main Story, here are some precious PingXie excerpts from various Daomu Biji sequels. Due to the fact that Men You Ping and Wu Xie never appear together in the three sequels Tibetan Sea Flower, Sand Sea and Ten Years Later (since Men You Ping is behind the Bronze Gate during that period), these so-called PingXie moments are actually told only from Wu Xie’s perspective. In a way, it’s a study into his emotions and sentiments regarding Men You Ping. And here’s an honest warning: Majority of these moments are just angst. With one glance, you could tell the oil painting wasn’t created by…
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Daomu Biji: Tibetan Sea Flower Novel – Book 2 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe 藏海花 2Tibetan Sea Flower (Book 2) Pangzi put a dynamite to the bronze gate and successfully blew up a part of the gate. Right after that, Wu Xie and Pangzi were attacked by some dark shadows, but the two couldn’t quite make out what they were. It turned out that those were lumps of muds that shot out from the ground after the bronze gate was destroyed. The mud was extremely thick, feeling almost like chewing gum. A hole the size of more than ten men was formed on the bronze gate. Behind the gate was absolute blackness. Shining a torch light onto…
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Daomu Biji: Tibetan Sea Flower Novel – Book 1 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe 藏海花 1Tibetan Sea Flower (Book 1) So, hello guys, Michelle is finally back to the Daomu Biji summary business (￣▽￣) I actually had to re-read the whole thing to do this summary, for I realised that I remember very little about the sequels. Ouch, my brain cells… But anyway, enjoy~ Wu Xie started by briefly telling the story of his grandfather, Wu Lao Gou. Wu Lao Gou was a successful tomb robber who left behind a very strange will. He passed away like a normal old man. In Wu Xie’s memory, on his deathbed, Wu Lao Gou said this to his children: “I…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 9 Summary (Part 2)
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe 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…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 9 Summary (Part 1)
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 9: 大结局The Grand Finale (Part 1) Wu Xie, with the help of a face transformation artist introduced by Xiao Hua, put on a mask of Third Uncle and assumed his identity. In a few weeks, Pan Zi taught him how Third Uncle carried himself and acted around his underlings. It was also during this period that Wu Xie understood Pan Zi must be going through a hard time, emotionally and financially, as Third Uncle was missing. As the D-Day arrived, Xiao Hua and Huo Xiuxiu also arrived from Beijing to render help. Wu Xie met with most of Third Uncle’s partners and…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 8 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 8: 邛笼石影Deadly Mansion, Mystic Cave Wu Xie figured that there must be at least some official records of the archaeological trip to Banai kept somewhere. After asking around, he went to the archives room at a major university in Hangzhou and discovered a section being mysteriously sealed off with a simple notice “Research Lab of XX University hereby seals this place, 6th July 1990”. Wu Xie was shaken to find out one thing: The notice was written in his own handwriting! Digging up further, Wu Xie found a file recording in detail the survey of the lake in Banai, Guangxi. The survey’s…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 7 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 7: 阴山古楼Ancient Mansion Down Under Men You Ping was treated in the hospital and recovered fragments of his memories. Wu Xie decided to help Men You Ping trace back his past, not forgetting to drag Pangzi along on the trip. They first tried to find out where Men You Ping came from. With the help of a bald man surnamed Chu who claimed to know about Men You Ping’s origin, Wu Xie learnt that the first person in the tomb robbing community to have met Men You Ping was Chen Pi A Si. Around 5 or 6 years ago, while following a…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 6 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 6: 谜海归巢Homecoming Michelle’s note: This is the shortest part of the whole Daomu Biji Main Story, lasting only about 20 chapters. Also, this part is exactly where the official English books stop. The upcoming volume 7 will be the start of the untranslated portion of Main Story. Finally! One of Third Uncle’s underlings discovered a vertical, narrow tunnel leading to further down underground. As Uncle Three had been missing for a while, his old underlings were no longer around except for Pan Zi. This new group of underlings were new people who did not have much respect for Third Uncle – they…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 5 Summary (Part 2)
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 5: 蛇沼鬼城Ghost Kingdom Of The Snakes (Part 2) It started raining heavily as the group entered the oasis, so they climbed up a tree to seek shelter from the rain. On the tree were lots of blood-sucking bugs that bit Wu Xie and Pangzi all over the place. Men You Ping discovered the corpse of a large python densely covered by these blood-sucking bugs. Opening up the belly of the python, they found a human corpse inside. While the group was studying the corpse, two large pythons crawled out and attacked them. Pan Zi successfully shot down one, but the other bit…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 5 Summary (Part 1)
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 5: 蛇沼鬼城Ghost Kingdom Of The Snakes (Part 1) After rescuing Third Uncle from Heavenly Palace On The Clouds, Wu Xie was determined to not let him go missing again. However, at a slip of a moment, Third Uncle tricked Wu Xie and ran away. Fortunately, Second Uncle arrived just in time to stop Third Uncle’s escape. Under Wu Xie’s pressure, Third Uncle started telling his version of the story. A year before the trip down to the tomb of Xi Sha, Third Uncle secretly went to a tomb at Biao Zi mountain in Changsha. Upon his arrival, he found a group of…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 4 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 4: 云顶天宫Heavenly Palace On The Clouds Michelle’s Note: Starting this volume, the amount of tomb robbing jargons and Chinese references, hence the explanatory footnotes, would increase exponentially as the novel enters its ‘intensive’ stage. To not tamper with your reading enjoyment, I will try my best to lower the amount of footnotes to as few as possible. This volume acts as the opening to the actual overarching plot of Daomu Biji. A grand mystery is slowing unfolding – so stay tuned and enjoy! Lao Hai came to Wu Xie to inform him that a copper fish was being auctioned off. He then…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 3 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 3: 秦岭神树Qinling’s Sacred Tree Lao¹ Yang, a good friend of Wu Xie since young, was released from prison. He met up with Wu Xie and told him about how he discovered a mysterious bronze tree in Qinling. A few years ago, when Lao Yang was exploring an ancient altar in the area, he found a tree branch made entirely of bronze. He thus believed that there must be a tomb not too far off from the location and asked Wu Xie to come with him to find that tomb. Lao Yang was wearing an earring taken from a corpse near the altar.…
