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Haunted Houses’ Chronicles – Vol.1, Chapter 6
After I came back with the incense sticks, Qin Yiheng kept himself busy and refused to let me help. I stood to one side, watching him burning the paper money while murmuring something under his breath. He quickly completed the ritual, then turned to me and smiled, saying that he had read the tortoise shell wrongly just now because he wasn’t entirely sure of how to perform this divination. He mistakenly read the divinatory diagram¹ in the opposite way. There was in fact nothing in this house at the moment, but it had been left uninhabited for too long, causing a lack of human energy. That was why ‘unclean things’…
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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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Haunted Houses’ Chronicles – Vol.1, Chapter 5
For more than half a month, we stayed put. It was not that we didn’t want to continue, but there were not many leads to get hold of. We searched desperately but never managed to locate any reliable source. This couldn’t be helped, as looking for haunted houses was nothing like that of normal houses. News about haunted houses could only go through words of mouth. After all, whoever inherited the haunted house wouldn’t bluntly announce that the place was haunted, for he was still hoping to sell it away at as good a price as possible. Moreover, it wasn’t like every city would have a haunted house, and even…
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Haunted Houses’ Chronicles – Vol.1, Chapter 4
As it was getting dark, the two of us followed the familiar path to get to the villa. There were people in the neighbouring houses, but not much light was turned on. Besides, each house was separated from the next by quite some distance, so it was even more obvious how solitary and gloomy our villa looked. If I had known earlier that this place would give me so much trouble, even more so than the first house, I definitely would not have bought it. Qin Yiheng took the lead to push the door in and I followed right behind. If he stopped, I stopped; if he moved, I moved.…
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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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Haunted Houses’ Chronicles – Vol.1, Chapter 3
If you had lived in a house for a long time, it wouldn’t be difficult to walk to the toilet or the kitchen with your eyes closed, but the problem was that I had visited this villa only twice. It was too difficult to get downstairs, let alone reaching the main entrance. I moved forward step by step with my eyes closed, fearful that I might fall. At first, I could still hear the sound of Qin Yiheng walking, yet a few steps later, I suddenly realised that I could no longer hear any sound coming from him. I immediately panicked and wanted to open my eyes, but fortunately I…
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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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Haunted Houses’ Chronicles – Vol.1, Chapter 2
The first place we looked at was a villa in another city of the same province. The villa was relatively old, likely built in the early 1990s. The owner of the villa was a wealthy showoff surnamed Wang. It was a coincidence that Qin Yiheng and I met him. One day, Qin Yiheng chanced upon a House for Sale post on an online real estate forum and gave the poster a call just to try his luck, but he totally didn’t expect that he’d receive a response right away. Qin Yiheng then immediately made an appointment. This tycoon still carried the aura of someone who just became rich last night…
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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.…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 2 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 2: 怒海潜沙Sands Hidden In The Raging Sea After Wu Xie showed Third Uncle the copper fish taken from Lu Shang Wang’s tomb, Third Uncle presented him with another copper fish. Third Uncle told Wu Xie the story of an archaeological trip that happened 20 years ago in an underwater tomb near Xi Sha. In total, there were ten people joining in the trip – an archaeologist team consisting of nine people and Third Uncle himself. In the middle of the trip, a member of the team was suddenly found dead. A sea storm was on the way so the remaining nine, having…
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Daomu Biji Novel – Book 1 Summary
Table of Contents | Daomu Biji Universe Book 1: 七星鲁王宫The Seven-Star Palace Of Lu Shang Wang Fifty years ago, a group of four including Wu Lao Gou, his brother, father and grandfather raided a tomb located at Biao Zi mountain in Changsha. Wu Lao Gou’s brother dug up a silk script that originated from the Warring States Period. Tragedy took place as Wu Lao Gou’s brother came into contact with a crimson corpse-eating bug and got turned into a zombie-like creature, forcing Wu Lao Gou’s father and grandfather to set off a dynamite in defence. On his escape, Wu Lao Gou encountered a bloody mummy, shot it down and went…
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Daomu Biji (The Lost Tomb / Grave Robbers’ Chronicles) Novel English Summary – Masterpost
As of 2020, the official English translation of Daomu Biji novel is still incomplete (only the first 6 books have been released). In addition, as the title is not well-known outside of China, the English paperbacks seem to be not easily obtainable for fans living in certain countries. With that understanding in mind, I’ve decided to create summaries of all the books in English. These summaries are created & translated based on the actual raw content, my memory of the novel and resources that I gather from the internet. I hope they will help international fans have an easier understanding of the main events that take place in each book.…
