The mouth of the statue was very spacious. It functioned as a giant door, and in its throat was a set of stairs that descended into the dark depths of the statue.

That was where the Deep Sea Sorrow’s water came from.

Flowing from bottom to top.

As expected, there was more to the statue than met the eye.

Su Chen sent out the single Catastrophe Bug again, using it to blindly search for a path forward as he carefully followed it down.

Once he reached the bottom of the flight of stairs, he was greeted by a large tunnel that was lined with thorny brambles.

Su Chen quickly realized that these brambles were incredibly tough, as he had a hard time tearing them apart. Even his flames could not burn them away.

At that moment, an unidentified object shot out of the brambles, narrowly missing Su Chen’s face.

Su Chen tilted his head and nimbly dodged it, but the thing actually twisted around in midair and shot towards Su Chen yet again.

Su Chen jabbed out with his finger, and the air pressure coming off of his finger slammed into the item.

The object immediately burst open and fell from the air. A faint green liquid seeped out from it and onto the ground. Only then did Su Chen realize that the “object” was actually a large...