Wu Xie/History

## History

### Early Years

Wu Xie was born on March 5, 1977, to Wu Yiqiong and an unnamed mother. His father's family was involved in grave robbing for many generations. Wu Xie's grandfather, Wu Laogou, was a member of The Mystic Nine, a powerful group of grave-robbing families in Changsha. Wu Xie's father was the firstborn son of Wu Laogou. Wu Xie has two uncles, Wu Erbai and Wu Sanxing. Wu Xie is particularly fond of his third uncle, Wu Sanxing, and much of the novels involve Wu Xie chasing after him. He was named Wu Xie, a homophone of innocent, by his grandfather in the hopes that he would stay pure and clean from the family business.

Wu Xie often read his grandfather's journal as a young child and became interested in grave robbing because of it. Though he comes from a grave-robbing family, his father was a geological engineer, and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy family in Hangzhou. Before exploring the Seven Star Palace tomb, his family never let him join grave-robbing expeditions.

As the only child of his generation, Wu Xie was jointly raised by his parents and uncles. He had a very sheltered and privileged childhood. However, unknown to Wu Xie, all of his interests and habits, even his handwriting, were purposely cultivated to be identical to another person, Qi Yu.

Wu Xie studied architecture at Zhejiang University, one of the leading universities in Asia. After graduating, Wu Xie owned an antique shop, Wushanju, where he bought and sold valuable books. Wu Xie is well known in the antique book trade and his own shop was doing well during this time. Around 1999-2002, Wu Xie's grandfather passed away.

### Warring States Silk Book

By 2003, Wu Xie still owned the antique shop and it wasn't doing as finically well. In February, a strange man entered the antique shop on the recommendation of Wu Xie's friend, Lao Yang. The man asked Wu Xie to determine the authenticity of a volume of the Warring States Silk Book. Wu Xie reluctantly agreed, because of Lao Yang. While looking at the silk, he noticed that one of the sheets had the image of a man with a foxlike face that appeared three-dimensional. Wu Xie managed to take pictures of it and went over to Uncle Three's to discuss the item.

Uncle Three deciphered the photos and discovered the location and geography of a tomb. Wu Xie insisted on joining his uncle and even threatened to take back the photos if he couldn't join. His uncle agreed but told him to stay above ground and obey his commands. Wu Xie believed when the time came, his uncle would not be able to stop him from going down. Wu Xie, his uncle, Pan Zi, Big Kui, and Zhang Qiling traveled to the tomb.

### Seven Star Lu Palace Tomb

Wu Xie and the others met with an old man and a boatman to take them to the cave specified in the Warring States Silk Book. While on the boat in the cave, the boatman disappeared and left them alone with corpse-eating insects. Wu Xie became injured while fighting the insects. As they tried to escape the cave, they came across the soul of a woman in a white dress. Zhang Qiling warned the others not to look back. Wu Xie obeyed but looked at the reflection in the water only to find to his horror that something was clinging to his back. He went to turn around but was knocked out by someone before he could.

The thing on Wu Xie's back was the soul of the woman in white and she tried to use Wu Xie's positive chi to leave. After resting, they were able to find another entrance to the tomb and the group began looking inside. Wu Xie eventually became separated from the group but met up with Pan Zi and Pangzi while struggling against corpse-eaters. Zhang Qiling rescued the group who then had to flee from a Blood Zombie. As they fled, they eventually came across the main chamber of the tomb.

In the main chamber was a Nine-Headed Snake Cypress that started attacking the group. Wu Xie ended up being dragged down to the stone platform and stared into the Green-Eyed Fox Corpse. He began hallucinating and a fight broke out between him and Pangzi. During the struggle, Wu Xie used the belt he got from the green-eyed fox corpse to strangle Pangzi. The belt was weak and the part that said The Ruler of Yinxi landed straight into Wu Xie's mouth. Suddenly, a cloud of mist appeared before his eyes and he woke up to find himself still on the platform with Pangzi strangling him. He grabbed the purple-enameled gold box and hit Pangzi in the head twice.

Wu Xie met up with Pan Zi and Uncle Three. He managed to set off a mechanism that revealed a bronze coffin. Inside the coffin was a man wearing a Jade Burial Armor that had kept him alive for centuries. Pangzi tried to take it off but was almost killed by Zhang Qiling who was trying to protect them. Zhang Qiling then strangled the man in the armor and told everyone the answer to all their questions was in a scroll near the platform.

After reading the scroll, the severed blood corpse's head started moving and the king of corpse-eaters crawled its way out. The corpse-eater took flight and Big Kui grabbed onto it instinctively. His body immediately turned blood red. Wu Xie wanted to help him, but Zhang Qiling stopped him telling him that if he touched Big Kui he would die as well. All of the corpse eaters started attacking them and everyone desperately tried to climb out of the tomb.

Big Kui managed to grab onto Wu Xie's hand and it took on the same blood-red color Big Kui had. Big Kui pulled Wu Xie downward and he even tried to strangle him. Wu Xie managed to fight him off but his hand started going numb. He almost gave up but the rash had only spread up to his arm and was quickly fading away. He and the others managed to escape the tomb.

Later, Uncle Three inspected the scroll they read in the tomb which turned out to be fake. Uncle Three believed Zhang Qiling swapped out the scroll and left a fake one for Wu Xie to read. Wu Xie remembered the purple-enameled box he had grabbed. It was a puzzle box that needed an eight-numbered password. Wu Xie decided to use the number 02200059 he saw earlier in the tomb and the box opened.

### Xisha Underwater Tomb

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### Qinling Mountains

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### Heavenly Palace on the Clouds

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### Tamutuo

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### Banai, Guangxi

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### Zhang Jialou

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### 2007 Desert Visit

At the end of 2007, Wu Xie worked with the Remote Sensing and Aerial Photography Archaeological Center of the National Museum. The two had a joint archaeological activity in Alashan Meng, covering the Badan Jilin Desert. He stayed there for two to three months before returning back to the city.

### Looking into Zhang Qiling's Past

After Zhang Qiling went into the Bronze Door for ten years, Wu Xie wanted to investigate more about his past. He got information about the Zhang family from Jin Wantang which eventually led him to Motuo, Tibet in 2010. Once in Motuo, he came across an oil painting of Zhang Qiling. After inquiring into the painting's origins, Wu Xie went to a nearby temple where the original painting was located. There, he heard a story about Zhang Qiling from Old Lama.

While Pangzi was still in Banai, he realized that Wu Xie was being followed and monitored. He quickly traveled to Motuo, Tibet where Wu Xie was and tried to figure out what was going on. Pangzi was able to initially outwit the monitoring party but soon, he and Wu Xie were caught in a hallucination.

The monitoring party was the Zhang Family who wanted to test the two of them. They wanted Wu Xie's help to recover the bronze bell that Zhang Qiling had placed in the mountains. Although they initially refused, they agreed to help after hearing more about Zhang Qiling from Zhang Haike.

Wu Xie, Pangzi, Zhang Haixing, and Feng set off into the cold mountains. Once they arrived at their destination, they discovered a copy of the Bronze Door and an intricate pattern nearby. Wu Xie used his qilin blood to try to figure out a pattern on the floor. Zhang Haixing sent Pangzi away and finally revealed herself to be working for the Wang Family. She made further cuts on Wu Xie to figure out the pattern only to realize that there was a Fighting Corpse nearby. It began to attack everyone and broke Wu Xie's arms. Pangzi, Feng, and Wu Xie eventually escaped from both Zhang Haixing and the fighting corpse.

After things settled down, Pangzi tried to reset Wu Xie's arm. In attempt to distract him from the pain, Pangzi confessed that Zhang Qiling came to see him before he set off for the Bronze Door and told him something. Pangzi was reluctant to tell Wu Xie what he said, so Wu Xie used Yun Cai in a desperate attempt to find out more about Zhang Qiling. Pangzi caved and said that if Wu Xie were to find three things in Tibet, then he was supposed to give him something. The first thing to find was the statue of Zhang Qiling, but since Wu Xie still hadn't found the two other things, Pangzi wouldn't tell him what they were. Pangzi also wouldn't tell him what he was supposed to give him but he did hint that it had something to do with Wu Xie and not Zhang Qiling. Since, *Tibetan Sea Flower* was never finished, it is unknown what Zhang Qiling planned to give Wu Xie.

### Gutong Jing

While under the guise of Guan Gen, Wu Xie met an author named Lan Ting who told him about the mysterious Gutong Jing. He sent Huang Yan to investigate it but when Huang Yan came back from that place he was not the same. Huang Yan became injured and before dying, carved a seven-fingered pattern into Li Cu's back.

Wu Xie brought Li Cu to Gutong Jing. They, along with Wang Meng, went under the guise of photographers and joined another group. While they travelled, they found a bunch of cameras that had been damaged badly. They were able to recover some of the photos and found someone that looked like Wu Xie in them.

Wu Xie, Li Cu, and Wang Meng went out onto one of the Haizis. While there, the haizi started moving with them still in it. When it stopped moving, the three were in a place with white sand and a bunch of military vehicles. As they were investigating the trucks, a Nine-Headed Snake Cypress started attacking them. Both Wu Xie and Wang Meng were pulled under the sand and were separated from Li Cu. Li Cu went back home with the help of Hei Yanjing who was watching over them from afar.

### Uncle Three's Text Message

In *Restart*, Wu Xie retired to Fujian, but Uncle Three sent him a text message with an address on it and a locker number. Wu Xie admitted that he became obsessed with finding out about all the secrets his uncle kept from him but let it go because he was afraid that his own identity may even be a lie. Eventually, Wu Xie decided to investigate and set out with Pangzi. They found out about an acquaintance of Wu Sanxing's named Yang Daguang. Yang Daguang had many cassette tapes that recorded the sound of thunder on them.

Wu Xie spent the next two months obsessively listening to the cassette tapes. He believed Yang Daguang had recorded some of the thunderstorms with Uncle Three in search of a tomb. One day it started to rain and thunderstorm. As Wu Xie was outside, he recognized the thunder and stood in the rain for 15 minutes until Pangzi dragged him inside. He rushed into his room, got the tape recorder and went back in the rain to record the thunder.

The two thunder recordings started to synchronize until the two overlapped perfectly. The fact that both of thunderstorms, separated by more than ten years, were exactly the same was absolutely impossible. Both Wu Xie and Pangzi tried to come up with some theories. They decided to investigate Yang Daguang more and went to his hometown where only his family grave was left. While there, they discovered clues that lead them to the South Sea King's Tomb.

### The South Sea King's Tomb

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## References

1. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 3
2. ↑ Restart, Chapter 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cavern of the Blood Zombies, Chapter 2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sand Sea, Chapter 9
5. ↑ Tibetan Sea Flower, Chapter 7