Chronicles of the Strange Park

Description

Zhanhao is a dedicated cultivator who wishes to reach the top spiritual level before he turns 18. But all cultivators know that the road to leveling up is filled with ups and downs. Zhanhao's challenge comes one day when his father goes missing and he finds himself in "Mystery Land", where he can complete missions to gain special power to break through, but if he fails a mission, the punishment is death.

Original Webcomic

Official Translations:
English (Dropped), English, Thai

Gardens, isolated from the world, home to the mystical. What resides within their walls? Gods and deities? Charming vixen spirits? Ghouls and apparitions? An amalgamation of fiends, demons, beasts, and spectre, the Mystic Gardens descend and stir the world into chaos. Amidst countless creations and endless dangers, can the millions struggle to survive within the Gardens construct a safe haven for themselves?

Type

Manhua

Related Series

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Associated Names

Garden (Startled Rabbit)

Gui Yuan Lu

Records of the Mystic Gardens

SeaIed Record Of the Forbidden God

Trick Garden

ผจญภัยสวนพิสดาร

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Latest Release(s)

c.164-185 by NotARealScans 9 months ago

c.161-163 by NotARealScans 9 months ago

c.160 by NotARealScans 10 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

185 Chapters (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (37 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.07 / 10.0

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Last Updated

December 5th, 2024 10:00pm PST - 5 months ago

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Genre

Action Fantasy Martial Arts Shounen
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Author(s)

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Artist(s)

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Year

2020

Original Publisher

ACQQ

Serialized In (magazine)

N/A

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Webcomics

Webnovel (Dropped at ch.95)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #697

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Monthly Pos #1711 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3353

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6 Month Pos #4768

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Year Pos #6255

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On 61 wish lists

On 22 completed lists

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Good enough.

by MmMmMhhhhh
8 months ago

Rating: 7.8 / 10.0

The world building and the art style are so good, unique and compliment each other well enough that it could offset most of the nuisances related to the plot (which can feel a bit too mystical sometimes) or to the downgrade in art quality, which are common plagues of any web-comic in this industry nowadays.

The story felt kinda boggy in the end chapters, probably because a lot more knowledge had to be dumped on the reader to make the cancellation a proper ending. That's not really prejudicial but it is still noticeable.

After the start of the new plot chapter 67, the art quality stopped being consistent and rather decreased gradually until the end.
It is not great in fights anymore or simply lacks details in some chapters, sometimes it's great in fights again but for the most part it's not. The art is still great, don't get me wrong, but we can still observe a slight drop in quality.

I attribute this to the rush of publicising weekly, downgrading the quality of chapters that were supposed to have more details in them (fighting scenes for example) than relatively easier ones (lore explaination, etc.), and that's a shame honestly, whith such gorgeous art...

Maybe the manhua didn't even have a weekly schedule (I doubt it) or artist didn't have good enough support (that's more likely).

All in all, this is very good.
It's a shame the story didn't continue, as it's apparent it had more to say, but well, it is still a very good show.

... Last updated 8 months ago

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Interesting

by PZcolo
4 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

A really new approach to cultivation, many describe manhua in that way and then when you read it you are left with complete disappointment, it was just more of the same. This one is, really different. I won't get much into it because I don't understand it well enough yet, but lets just say that while there are cultivation realms, that's just one of the aspects of cultivation, the MC for example has weak cultivation but is decently strong in the beginning. Then there are the mystic gardens which the best analogy I can make is that they are manifestations of their "sea of consciousness". Even how the MC cultivates is fresh, he doesn't know stuff or finds secret skills, he tries to develop his own cultivation path and skills.
The world in itself is also interesting, the first image you get is not all there is to it, I won't spoil it. And the author slowly introduces concepts and builds the world in (so far) a coherent way. Even the characters can't be talen at face value, be it the MC or the FL.
Main flaws might be the art which is not the standard and is thus not for everyone, the pace which is a bit unstable because there are ocasional info dumps or lots of text among the action and the lack of empathy of the characters, specially the MC, he's a sociopath, luckily there's a catch but most of the chars are very apathetic.
Overall, I want to read more, it's too soon to tell, but so far the world interesting describes it pretty well.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Personally- I love it. It has its faults tho

by EjjiNami
5 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

as of chapter109
PZcolo’s description is 100% accurate.

Pros:
-very original world building, the story DOES feel different from most of the stuff I’ve read
-if you’re a fan of sociopathy and perfectionism, it’s portrayed well here imo. Personally I absolutely loved the feeling of unease I got when seeing that no one really cared when important characters in the story were getting hurt and everything just kept moving on as if “yeah, not a big deal. Anyway…”

Cons:
-The author is not the best at pacing… Dropping walls of text into a single panel almost always worsens the reading experience. On a positive note, it only happens every once in a while, it’s by no means the standard.
-the art can be a bit shaky sometimes

It’s ironic how highly I’m rating this comic despite its faults. I truly am enjoying it tho
I really hope the author’s skills improve with time. I’ll likely update my comment if I feel like this has happened

... Last updated 3 years ago

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