Episode 22 (The Lost Tomb 2.5)

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## Episode 22

### Air date

July 25, 2021

**Episode 22 (The Lost Tomb 2.5)** is the twenty-second episode of the television series The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note.

## Story

Eager to move forward, Ning hurries the others along but with Wu Sanxing and Wu Xie hurt, Wu Sanxing asks for a delay. Ning refuses. Suspicious of Wu Sanxing and Chen Pi Ah Si, she keeps a close eye on them. Wu Xie struggles with his injuries and is confronted by Chen Pi Ah Si, telling him if he is not careful he will die in the palace. Wu Xie checks the note he got from Chen Pi Ah Si and finds out it is from Zhang Qiling, informing him he went further but asking Wu Xie to turn around and leave as it will be too dangerous from now on.

Huo Xiangu, aware of her betrayal of the Mystic Nine, tries to refuse Hendry Cox' company but is backed into a corner and forced to sign a contract. While they were talking, Huo Xiuxiu escapes from her room. When Huo Xiangu finds out her granddaughter left, she goes into shock.

Wu Xie confronts his uncle about what he found out in the last months and his suspicions about Wu Sanxing not being who he says he is, revealing he thinks Chen Pi Ah Si is actually his uncle. Wu Sanxing tells him he is wrong and refutes his claims. Wu Sanxing asks Wu Xie to reveal Wu Xie's two copper fishes to Ning's team, as one of her men can read Jurchen script.

Ning suggests working together and reveals she went to the Paracel Underwater Tomb to retrieve two items: the Ghost Seal, an imperial seal, supposedly able to summon an army from the netherworld, and the structural maps of the Heavenly Palace. Ning and her team believed that Wang Zanghai robbed King Lu Shang’s tomb and replaced the ghost seal with one of the snake brow copper fish. Then, Wang Zanghai put the ghost seal in his own tomb. However, when they searched Wang Zanghai's tomb, the ghost seal could not be found. She shows Wu Xie photos of the murals in Paracel Underwater Tomb, showing some parts of the building process of the Heavenly Palace. This shows Wu Xie, Wang Zanghai was forced to built the Heavenly Palace, as well as that the tomb on top of the palace was already on the mountain before Wang Zanghai arrived.

Wu Xie reveals the copper fish to her and they get Tang Dao, one of Ning's team, to translate the hidden writing. While translating the writing, Wu Sanxing presents the last copper fish, revealing to Wu Xie that he and Chen Pi Ah Si are working together, as Chen Pi Ah Si was originally the owner of the third fish.

Tang Dao reveals the fish hold a message from Wang Zanghai, revealing how he was taken by the people of Eastern Xia to build the Heavenly Palace and taken to the Bronze Gate, an underground gateway, supposedly holding a miracle and being guarded by the human-faced owls. The Bronze Gate is supposedly located at the bottom of the mountain.

Wu Sanxing breaks down and is taken care of by Wu Xie. Wu Xie asks him whether Chen Pi Ah Si is really Xie Lianhuan but Wu Sanxing tells him to be quiet before anyone gets suspicious. Once Wu Xie is gone to explore possible exits with the rest of the team, Wu Sanxing hands the antibiotics he got from the doctor to Pan Zi and tells him some things should not be revealed. Pan Zi hands the antibiotics to Chen Pi Ah Si.

Wu Xie finds stone circles at the side of the coffin which can be turned and Wang Pangzi and Wu Xie start turning the stone. They hear a mechanism in the background but do not see anything happening. After talking to the others, Wu Xie realizes there are four stone plates which can be taken from the turning tables and put into the back of the four stone statues at the sides of the chamber. They remove the stone plates showing different animals and put them in the back of the statues but nothing happens. In that moment, Chen Pi Ah Si gives them a hint to fengshui and Wu Xie realizes the animals represent the four cardinal directions: Green Dragon of the east, White Tiger of the west, Rosefinch of the south and Black Tortoise of the north.

They put the plates into the right order and the mechanism activates, opening a hidden door.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Wang Pangzi
* Pan Zi
* Ning
* Jason
* Wu Sanxing
* Chen Pi Ah Si
* Huo Xiangu
* Zhang Qiling (voice)
* Xie Lianhuan

## Locations

* Heavenly Palace
* Huo manor

## Items

* Turning stone discs
* Snake Brow Copper Fish