She crouched down and carefully examined a plant with seven-colored petals. The expression on her face shifted from surprise to disbelief, then from disbelief to something difficult to describe.
"This is... the Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flower."
Her voice trembled slightly.
The Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flower was a top-tier poisonous plant-type Soul Beast that, according to the Federation's records, had long since gone extinct.
For every additional color its petals gained, its toxicity doubled.
Seven colors marked perfection, eight marked supremacy, and nine marked the pinnacle.
Yet Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers were everywhere in this patch of land.
Three-, four-, and five-colored flowers were abundant, while six- and seven-colored ones were hardly rare.
There were even several that had already reached eight colors, their petal edges faintly gleaming with the luster of a ninth.
Nine Absolutes.
Even a powerful Soul Master who came here...
Would first have their judgment of their surroundings affected by illusions, then continually breathe in the poisonous mist emitted by the Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers. Death would be all but certain.
Because the Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flower's poison...
Was among the deadliest in the world.
Even a Titled Douluo who absorbed it would meet certain death.
But while it was a terrifying presence to other Soul Masters, to the Zheng Family it was an extremely precious Rare Treasure.
All it took was for a member of the Zheng Family with the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul to absorb a single Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flower, and their Martial Soul would undergo a transformation, greatly increasing their strength.
The Zheng Family had once cultivated Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers.
But by coincidence...
They had also disappeared two thousand years ago.
And now, they had appeared here...
Zheng Yiran raised her head and