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**The Seven Star Lu Palace (七星鲁王宫)** is the first tomb robbed by Wu Xie in the *Daomu Biji* novel *Cavern of the Blood Zombies.* It is also the first tomb the iron triangle robbed together.

Wu Sanxing's team consisted of Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, Pan Zi, and Big Kui. Jude Kao's team consisted of unnamed people and Wang Pangzi.[*citation needed*]

## Structure

### The Carcass Cave

The entrance to the cave was only about four inches wider than the boat Wu Sanxing and his team were on. The height was also extremely small making the whole cave cramped and difficult to navigate. It had a circular entrance which indicated that it was a water robbers' cavern. The cave wasn't formed naturally and was excavated by a military or the Ruler of Dead Soldiers robbing the tomb.

Corpse-eating insects fed on the corpses in the dumping ground. Because of all of the corpses, some of the insects had grown to an abnormally large size. The insects had a sealed copper hexagonal wind chime embedded in their tails. The bells inside the wind chime gave off a hypnotic noise when heard in the vast open cavern.  The water robbers' cavern was already there when the tomb owner built his tomb since the cavern is on the map from the Warring States Silk Book. This is also means that the corpse eaters with the hexagonal wind chimes were there before the Warring States Period. Normally, building a tomb where so many robbers' tunnels were is a violation of Feng Shui.

The corpses in the dumping grounds, gave off a green light and had a grey film over them. There was also a crystal coffin, tinged with green, mounted perpendicularly on the cave's wall, looking as if it were floating in midair. A woman in a white dress was inside and an identical coffin was on the opposite side, this one empty. Her soul was roaming the tomb and she could use a person's positive chi to leave.

### Main Tomb

The corridor between the sacrificial tomb and the real tomb was a kilometer long. The maze-like paths that connected with the corridor all eventually led to the underground palace where the hydra cypress tree was. The ancients planted the tree there a long time ago since its diameter indicated that it was at least a thousand years old.

#### Northern Entrance & Corridor

The tomb walls made out of brick in the northern entrance were covered in vitriol to deter grave robbers. The floor was made out of flagstone engraved with ancient writing. There were eight oil lamps on the wall to represent longevity. In the middle of the room was a large four legged square vessel with the heavenly bodies engraved on it. On the opposite side of the northern entrance was a corridor that led to another room. The body inside the vessel was decapitated and wore jade bracelets. The owner of the coffin was immensely powerful.

The corridor curved downward with carvings on both sides of the wall. After walking thirty minutes, the tunnel curved upward. There was a grave robbers' tunnel excavated by Jude Kao's team. After another 15 minutes of walking, the tunnel became wider and a vast jade door was at the end. The jade door had an unknown trap. Next to the door were two black statutes of hungry ghosts, one of which held an imperial seal.

#### Seven Deceptive Coffin Room

The jade door led to a room with seven coffins arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper. The ceiling was covered with murals and there were two ear chambers on either side of the room. The coffins were carved with inscriptions of King Lu Shang's life. The coffins were actually a trap called *Seven Deceptive Coffins*. Out of the seven coffins, only one was real while the other six were traps which were triggered when the coffin was opened.

#### Underground Palace/Main Chamber

The underground palace was a gigantic natural cave the size of a soccer field. It had a huge crack in its ceiling where just enough moonlight shone through to make the cavern's outline visible. Many small caves were inlaid on the surrounding walls. A tree, about ten stories high, was in the middle. Covering it was a large number of vines as thick as telephone poles that covered almost everything. Their tendrils hung down with some of them swinging midair with the rest on almost every surface in the cave. Both human and animal corpses were hanging down from the branches.

In the middle was a jade platform with two corpses laying on it. There was a female corpse with no signs of decay and next to her was a green-eyed fox corpse with a bronze mask with a face of a fox. His eyes were a green color. In his hands was a box made of purple-enameled gold. The female corpse had a Copper Key inside of her mouth.

#### Coffin

A huge hole in the tree was behind the stone platform. Inside the hole was a bronze coffin fixed in place with chains that had been attached to a tree branch. They opened the outer bronze coffin which revealed the inner coffin. The coffin had a jade covering coated with lacquer with jade stones around its edges. Inside the jade wrapping was a wooden coffin that was covered with paintings. The paintings told the life of the Ruler of Dead Soldiers. A mechanism could be triggered that would prop up the corpse inside the coffin. The corpse was wearing Jade Burial Armor.

## References

1. ↑ Volume 8, Chapter 82 ("The fourth story takes place in the Seven Star Lu Palace in Shandong."); Volume 1, Chapter 3; Wu Xie's Private Notes, Chapter 13; Wu Xie's Private Notes, Chapter 32
2. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 3
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Print), Chapter 4, Page 39
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Wu Xie's Private Notes, Chapter 15
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 5
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 6
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 9
8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 10
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 18
10. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 19
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 20
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 23
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 24
14. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 25