Still Alone! (Thanks to A C Beneath Qingcheng Mountain for the character summon!)

Everything within this jade pendant concerned spirit plants that Spirit Fields could not cultivate or grow.

It was divided into three parts.

The first part: Compendium of Forbidden Plants.

The second part: Forbidden Arts and Secret Techniques.

The third part: Records of Strange Tales.

Xu Changqing could not help reading aloud, "Fate-Reversing Blood Lotus: grows where volcanic craters meet frigid pools, in places where yin and yang are reversed. When it blooms, it causes spiritual energy to flow backward for ten li around it, making the spiritual power within cultivators run contrary to its course?"

The very first forbidden plant made him draw in a sharp breath.

Next came the second:

Soul-Eroding Mandrake

Its petals were dark purple, their surfaces covered in spiderweb-like silver veins. At the center of its stamen floated a translucent "heart" that constantly beat, each pulse emitting a sound like an infant's cry.

It took root in lands of extreme yin, absorbing sinister yin energy and the lingering resentment left behind after cultivators died.

Whenever the new moon arrived, the mandrake unfurled its petals and released purple mist. Wherever the mist spread, metal objects rapidly rusted, and spirit stones lost their luster.

The mist contained "Soul-Eroding Spores." Whoever inhaled them would have their Spiritual Sense parasitized, gradually losing their independent consciousness and becoming puppets controlled by the mandrake.

An Evil Cultivator had once used it to control an entire sect, reducing hundreds of cultivators to walking corpses. Thus, it had been classified as a Class-A forbidden plant.

There were more after that: Ten-Thousand-Bone Withered Vine, Illusory-Heart Demon Lingzhi, Spirit-Devouring Parasitic Pagoda Tree, Delusionless Poison Fungus, and so on...

One could tell from the names alone just how wicked they were.

In short, each was more dangerous than the last.

Most of them were even exclusive to