The Buried Tree Devil

✨ Title: The Buried Tree Devil

ℹ️ Alternative Title: Dao Mu Bi Ji: Qin Ling Shen Shu

🌎 Country of Origin: China (Mainland)

🍿 Format: Anime or Cartoon (🦊)

📕 Series: The Grave Robber Chronicles (aka The Lost Tomb)

🕵️ Detective(s): Wang Pang Zi, Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling

🗓️ Aired: April 4, 2021

🌐 Original Language: Chinese

#️⃣️ Number of Seasons: 1

✅ Series Status: Completed

⏳Length️: 12 Episodes

🔥Rating: PG-13 (Teens 13 and Older)

⚔️ Violent Content: Mild

🫣 Foul Language: Mild

💋 Sexual Content: None

💯 Overall Assessment: Teen Friendly

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Wu Xie, weary from his previous forays into mysterious ruins, returns to Hangzhou, seeking a moment of peace. That tranquility is soon broken by a call from his childhood friend Lao Yang, whose voice carries tales of secrets buried deep within the Qinling Mountains. Drawn by the promise of ancient ruins and unfinished stories, Wu Xie accepts the invitation, embarking on an expedition with Lao Yang into fog-shrouded hinterlands, where river valleys hide wonders few have ever witnessed.

Their journey unfolds beneath the shadow of towering peaks and among relics that whisper of civilizations lost to time. Wu Xie and Lao Yang tread paths winding past giant salmon swimming in underground rivers and stand before an ancient sacred tree whose roots thread through the heart of the mountain. Beneath the perpetual intrigue, secretive Zhang Qiling moves unseen, lending help from the darkness, as the companions’ passage through legend and labyrinth in the Qinling Mountains brings them ever closer to the mysteries at the soul of the Grave Robbers’ Chronicles.

The Grave Robber Chronicles

✒️ Author: Xu Lei (Nan Pai San Shu)

🗓️ Publication Date: 2007

#️⃣ There are many prequel, sequel, and side stories in the Grave Robber Chronicles universe, but this show is specifically based on the Qinling Sacred Tree arc, found in Volume 2 of the original story.

The best place to find information about the original Chinese edition and the direct translation by Merebear is the translator’s website here. The first few volumes of the main story has been adapted into a series of English Translated volumes and one graphic novel. There is no official English publication of the prequels or sequels.

⚠️ Please Note: The shows do not directly align with either the original Chinese or the English editions. Nor do the English editions directly align with the original Chinese. Parts are spliced together, cut out, or otherwise edited to create the various adaptations.