A Year of Great Undertakings - Book 6, Chapter 96: Specter’s Garden (1/2)

Specter’s Garden was actually just a long stretch of plains

However, these plains were special in that they were covered in fragrant flowers,it one of the most beautiful places on the continent This was also where the “garden” part of its name came from

However, the characters before “Garden” were not nearly as inviting

The place was known as Specter’s Garden because over 80 percent of the flowers here were poisonous

In fact, alle species of poisonous flowers that existed on the continent could also be found here

All kinds of rare poisonous flowers grew and blosso multicolored connected rows The overall spectacle was quite dazzling

The only other place that could compare in terms of toxicity was the Thousand Poisons Mountain

Apparently, however, Specter’s Garden had not always been like this

The Neanderthals had once lived here

The Neanderthals were a race that had already gone extinct When they still roaardens and forests, and they called themselves children of nature The Neanderthals used to live peaceful lives in Specter’s Plains, until one day, a young Neanderthal brought an unidentified flower back home

That flower had been planted in a corner of the plains

From that day onwards, the plains slowly yet inexorably transformed

The Neanderthals were subjected to untold tor year By the time that they discovered the patch of poisonous flowers, it was too late

This patch of flowers e it Eventually, the cloud completely sed up the Neanderthals’ habitat This was partly where the name “Specter’s Garden” came from, because the place was filled with far too many sorrowful spirits of deceased Neanderthals

Soinal flower the youth had planted was actually the mother of all poisonous flowers, an itein Race’s poison-type members

Others claimed that the floas actually a trap of the Astrals, and that they had masterminded this calamity to claim the Neanderthals’ territory Of course, the Astrals vehemently denied these accusations

There were all kinds of different speculations about the mysterious flower that had created the Specter’s Garden But there was one thing that was for certain: after the Astrals claimed the territory for themselves, they carefully cultivated the poison instead of neutralizing it

Because they weren’t afraid of poison

Their ethereal body caainst most poisons

Of course, this didn’t necessarily mean that the Astrals were coe poisons that were exceptionally potent against consciousness-based lifefore to Astrals if they weren’t prepared Though the Astrals did have their oays of coping, it doesn’t need to be mentioned here

In any case, as one of the Gloodom’s four forbidden territories, Specter’s Garden’s er was its poisonous, multicolored miasma

Even so, this poisonous environainst the Boundless Sect

Su Chen hadn’t spent all that ti

After Kelesda had surrendered to Eternal Night, the recipe for Fate’s Hands’ antidote had naturally fallen into Eternal Night’s lap

And since Su Chen was attacking the Astrals on behalf of Eternal Night’s desire to obtain the Iht would be so selfish as to keep the recipe to hih the recipe was incoainstSu Chen’s work He hadn’t been just idling around — he had already discovered a way to neutralize an additional portion of the poisons that Fate’s Hands’ antidote couldn’t handle If Specter’s Garden contained 10,000 different types of poisons, then the Boundless Sect could already handle 9,900 of the hundred poisons couldn’t be coested still played a large role in its lethality — after all, it would be crazy to assue In addition, human cultivators had developed physical bodies that had a certain level of innate resistance to poison As such, it was iroup of people with merely a drop

And poisons that could not be neutralized or deconstructed were only so because they were extremely rare and hard to find in the first place

As such, the hundred re poisons that were the most difficult to neutralize were also the rarest ones Even if the Boundless Sect did stue they would inflict would be lih Specter’s Garden was considered completely off-limits to most people, it posed very little threat to the Boundless Sect

Despite all their precautions, Su Chen had still decided to send Ye Fenghan in as a spy to probe the Astrals and see if they had prepared any other welcoifts for them

He wouldn’t underestimate his opponents this ti their civilization had stood for

Ye Fenghan couldn’t help but sigh in aazed out at the sea of flowers in front of him Specter’s Garden truly lived up to its reputation

Colorful flowers blossomed everywhere, each species a different color or forh these floere incredibly poisonous, they were also extremely beautiful This kind of idyllic yet deadly scenery could only be found here

If one teerous this place was , it would have truly been a luxury to live in this place

Unfortunately, the Astrals had no way of appreciating its beauty

After discarding their physical bodies, the world before therey and bland

“What a pity Theto the people who are least appreciative of thehed la beside hi to the beauty of these surroundings, then you’re correct But even if the Astrals could appreciate beauty, they would have long grown tired of this scenery after tens of thousands of years Aren’t you huo one step further…… If this place belonged to humans, then you all probably would have destroyed it already”

Even though he was being controlled, his own soul was still intact — just like the other puppets

Ye Fenghan was momentarily taken aback It was true that he hadn’t considered this