Jade Embroidery Valley.
True to its name, more than three hundred years ago, this had been a place where a hundred flowers bloomed, a paradise on earth, like a flawless piece of jade set into the land of Qi and Lu.
But after the three sects surrounded and slaughtered the Flower-Transplanting Sect and burned it down, Jade Embroidery Valley had become a wasteland.
Every tree, flower, and blade of grass had gone up in flames.
Although it had later been rebuilt, the villagers of Wild Ghost Village had tragic backgrounds. Staying alive took everything they had; they had no interest in tending flowers and grass.
Instead, to guard against intruders, they had planted the valley with poisonous trees, flowers, and grasses and raised many venomous insects. These bred a green, deadly miasma that shrouded the entire secluded valley.
Beneath the poisonous miasma stood swathes of purple "Upas Trees," blue "Heartbreak Grass," and gray "Rotbone Flowers"...
The dark, chilling colors of all these poisonous plants made the present-day Jade Embroidery Valley look utterly sinister.
Jia Shiyi had taken secret medicines year-round, so the valley's poisonous miasma and fumes had no effect on him.
He passed unimpeded through the woods and entered Wild Ghost Village, at the valley's center, where the miasma was thickest.
The village was small, with only a little over two hundred households.
After three hundred years of inheritance and experimentation, each household had its own means of making a living.
Some raised poisonous pets, some cultivated poisonous flowers and grasses, and some concocted poisons...
Each of the Eight Demons had possessed a legacy of their own. Among the experimental subjects they had captured were people with inherited family knowledge, including quite a few with Poison Master techniques.
With certain secret formulas for medicines and poisons, Wild Ghost Village