Chapter 166: Underground Mountain of Corpses

Seeing the rhinoceros die, the Caesar Bear grew even more enraged. It roared loudly and hammered against the honey jar, urging the bee bear to pour out more honey quickly.

However, there was hardly any honey left in the jar. The bee bear was struggling to lift the container, trying to pour out the very last drops from the bottom.

Not expecting the Caesar Bear’s violent pounding, the bee bear lost its balance and could no longer steady the jar. The massive honey jar, with the Caesar Bear still clinging to it, tumbled straight off the viewing platform and crashed heavily onto the exact spot where the honey had been poured earlier.

At this moment, the Caesar Bear was completely enveloped in golden honey, and its body began to slowly melt. Only the black scepter transformed into the bear's right paw, which rapidly expanded. Simultaneously, various candies and pastries from around the arena flew toward the scene, adhering to the honey and gradually forming a ten-meter-tall humanoid giant.

Using the honey jar as its heart, the golden honey as its blood, chocolate as its muscles, the enlarged bear right paw as its right hand, cream pastries as its skin, and various candies for facial features, the giant looked quite formidable.

Once the giant was formed, the surrounding biscuits and pastries did not stop flying over; instead, they flew faster and faster, beginning to assemble a thick layer of armor on the outside of the giant's body.

This armor resembled heavy Western-style plate armor, with waffles as the base, various cookies as decoration, and candies acting as gemstones for embellishment, making it look quite magnificent.

However, what attracted Liu Zong's attention the most was the design of the armor. On the chest was a giant bear head, representing the true form of the Caesar Bear, while the shoulder guards featured a tiger head and a rhinoceros head, which presumably belonged to the tiger and rhinoceros that Liu Zong had previously defeated.

After the armor was completely formed, a snake-shaped scepter appeared in the giant's left hand, and a crown composed of countless gummy bear heads materialized in its right hand.

Placing the crown upon its head, the giant swung the scepter from its left hand directly toward Liu Zong. A streak of white light transformed into the shape of a golden-ringed water snake in mid-air and shot straight at Liu Zong with such blinding speed that he had no chance to dodge.

At that very moment, Bai Qi, who had been absent from the arena until now, suddenly stepped in front of Liu Zong. Raising his trident high, a curtain of water materialized around the two of them and blocked the attack.

Then Bai Qi said, "That opponent has already reached Level 3. Leave this to me. Go down to the basement beneath the arena; that is where the corpses of the gummy bears are processed, and it is also the source of that fellow's power. You must cut off all of this as quickly as possible, otherwise this creature's vitality will continuously regenerate, and even I might not be able to defeat it."

Liu Zong glanced at the armored giant charging toward them. Without wasting words, he summoned his armored knight, leaped onto the small train, and headed in the direction Bai Qi had indicated.

Bypassing the main gates of the Gummy Bear Arena, Liu Zong spotted a staircase that led in two directions—upward toward the spectator stands for the gummy bears to watch the battles, and downward, which must be the source of the armored giant's power as Bai Qi had mentioned.

Having found the entrance, Liu Zong did not pause to survey his surroundings. He drove the small train straight down. Following the descending staircase, he realized just how deep it went, winding back and forth for a full hundred meters.

Through the gaps in the stairwell, Liu Zong saw massive amounts of syrup slowly rising from the depths. There was no need to ask; this syrup was clearly the energy source for the giant above, constantly replenishing its life force.

Upon seeing this, Liu Zong did not hesitate. He swept his spear horizontally across, forcibly cutting through the threads of syrup.

Liu Zong's initial actions could not completely halt the upward flow of the syrup, but he was not discouraged. Whenever he encountered the syrup threads, he lashed out with his spear, infusing his strikes with the effects of rhythmic breathing and deep visualization. Gradually, under this barrage of blows, some of the syrup threads were severed completely and could no longer reconnect.

Through these repeated attacks, Liu Zong cast aside his caution.

At first, he merely stood atop the nose of the small train, but as the staircase undulated up and down, Liu Zong began leaping directly between the steps. The spear in his hands always thrust or swept from unexpected angles, each strike carrying immense power or specialized elemental properties.

It was precisely this power and these attributes that allowed the syrup threads to be gradually severed, preventing them from transmitting energy upward any longer.

After darting back and forth through the stairwell for roughly ten minutes, Liu Zong finally reached the lowest level of the arena.

This was an underground space no smaller than the arena above. In this vast expanse, a mountain piled high with gummy bear corpses and syrup loomed directly before them.

There were no living creatures to be found upon this small mountain, and Liu Zong could even sense that the place was saturated with an overwhelmingly dense aura of the undead.

Liu Zong understood that this was the lingering resentment left behind by the gummy bears that had fought endlessly in the arena over the past few days. Under normal circumstances, he might have tried to gather these resentments for his own use, but now he lacked the time; he had to find his opponent's weak point.

Looking around, Liu Zong leaped directly onto the mountain of corpses. He found that walking on this mountain was even more difficult than traversing the Cream Ridge. Back then, the Cream Ridge was merely composed of cream, feeling like walking through a swamp.

However, on this mountain, it was impossible even to lift one's feet properly. The mound was choked with sticky syrup, and every single step required immense effort. Most importantly, Liu Zong had no idea where the object of his search was located.

After taking a few steps up the mountain, a thought flashed through Liu Zong's mind. He had not come here to search for something, but to destroy something.

Liu Zong directly retrieved the gummy bear king part he had obtained earlier, which was currently balled up into a lump of black gummy candy.

Lifting his hand, Liu Zong calmly said, "Though there are only four pieces, it is already enough. There is still one piece remaining up there, and right now I need to locate the final piece. So go and find it."

With that, Liu Zong loosened his grip, and the lump of black gummy shot forward, flying straight toward the center of the gummy mountain.

Liu Zong followed closely behind the black gummy. With every step he took, the spear in his hand vibrated incessantly, yellow sand accumulating at its tip while a fierce whirlwind grew stronger and stronger.

Finally, the black gummy stopped at a certain spot. Without hesitation, Liu Zong thrust his spear directly downward.

With this thrust, the powerful whirlwind blasted away the gummy bear corpses blocking the surroundings, opening up a giant crater in the mountain.

Before Liu Zong could even leap down, the surrounding gummy bear corpses collapsed, sealing the newly opened hole, but by that time, Liu Zong had already plunged into the opening.