The series was written by Xu Lei (Chinese: 徐磊), better known by his pen-name Nan Pai San Shu (南派三叔).

[1] The author has also written two sequels, Zang Hai Hua (Chinese: 藏海花), Sha Hai (Chinese: 沙海), which continued the leading character's story, neither of which were finished at the time of the author's announcement to retire from writing on March 22, 2013.

[2] The author returned to writing in 2019 with another unfinished sequel, Reboot: Thunder at the Distant Sea (Chinese: 重启之极海听雷).

Along with Ghost Blows Out the Light, Daomu has contributed greatly to creating a craze and subsequent market in the Greater China area for novels focusing on grave-robbing that also deal with the supernatural.

In the present, the young grandchild of the sole survivor, Wu Xie, discovers a secret within his grandfather's notes.

In December 2020, the third season of the 2015 adaptation, titled Ultimate Note, aired with an all-new cast, aside from the returning cast of Wang Meng, Zhang Ri Shan, Yin Nan Feng, Chen Pi A Si, Jin Wan Tang from Sha Hai and Hendry Cox from The Lost Tomb 2.

Split into two seasons with 62 episodes total, it adapted the sequel novel Reboot: Thunder at the Distant Sea (重启之极海听雷).

Another short web series spin-off, Echo of Moonfall (月陨回声) was released, focusing on the side characters from Reunion: The Sound of the Providence.

Chronologically, it takes place before the extra-story novel Moving Forward Through the Flowery Night: The End Comes Without A Sound and after the two Reunion sequels.