Xiao Qing's betrayal, along with the actions of her group, made Rainbow Bear and Sugar Bear realize the selfishness and inherent exclusivity of humans, leading them to conclude that humans were not worthy of their trust. Instead of befriending humans to exchange for mutual benefits, it was much safer to control them through certain means to obtain what they needed.

  Thus, after Chen Qiang happily fell asleep with his two children and his new wife, Rainbow Bear silently took his life in his sleep and transformed him into a mindless puppet to be controlled. On the bright side, now that Chen Qiang had become a puppet, he no longer had to worry about Xiao Qing and his children. Especially his wife, Xiao Qing. Because now, they could finally live together without any worries and never be separated again!

  Later, through repeated adjustments of the amnesia and hallucination witchcraft, Rainbow Bear and Sugar Bear not only completely erased the memories of Xiao Qing and the others from the minds of the surviving children but also finally found the best way to control the new villagers who joined Candy Village. They ultimately developed Candy Village into the scale of the present Candy Town.

  It was at this time that Rainbow Bear and Sugar Bear realized that their ability to discover new survivors again and, with the cooperation of the new generation of survivors, to build a healthy social system was undoubtedly closely related to the protection of the spirit of the forest.

  Therefore, Rainbow Bear and Sugar Bear established an extremely important sacrificial day in their later lives, through a series of specialized sacrificial rituals to express their reverence and gratitude to the spirit of the forest, and hoped that the spirit of the forest would continue to bless the residents of Candy Town to live and work in peace and contentment.

  Up to this point, everything in Candy Town seemed to be getting back on track and developing in the right direction. However, the reality was not so, because Rainbow Bear's plan towards Sugar Bear made it difficult for life to return to normal.

  Speaking of Sugar Bear, although he managed to survive with Rainbow Bear's timely treatment and could continue to cultivate after a period of rest, he was still severely weakened by the dual blows of toxins and external injuries. Sugar Bear's increasingly weak body made it harder for him to maintain his human form, and he gradually transformed into a half-human, half-bear figure.

  To avoid suspicion from the townspeople due to his appearance, he stayed hidden in his room, wrapped in a large cloak, completely disappearing from the sight of the townspeople.

  For Sugar Bear at this time, healing his internal injuries had become far more important than cultivation and processing honey. Given Sugar Bear's decline in realm, if he did not heal his injuries in time, it would definitely reduce the efficiency of the secret method of processing honey, thereby severely affecting the supply and demand balance of Candy Town.

  It would also prevent him from consolidating his cultivation due to the impact of internal injuries, causing most of his cultivation achievements to be wasted. Moreover, it would lead to Sugar Bear's strength weakening again and again, and his realm dropping further and further.

  Fortunately, from the healing witchcraft he had comprehended, Sugar Bear had additionally grasped a kind of witchcraft that could be used to detoxify and strengthen the foundation. Sugar Bear only needed to extract a component from the petals of the sweetaurum flower, and then cast another witchcraft during the process of processing honey to obtain an amber-colored honey with a faint bitter taste.

  Finally, Sugar Bear just needed to make these honeys into detoxifying soft candies and take them on schedule to alleviate the pain brought by his internal injuries and effectively prevent his body from becoming weaker, thus ensuring that he could increase his strength through cultivation, heal his injuries as soon as possible, and recover his strength.

  Due to Sugar Bear's injuries, his efficiency in processing honey was inevitably affected. Coupled with the fact that Rainbow Bear, while dealing with Xiao Qing and the others, had accidentally comprehended Sugar Bear's witchcraft while absorbing his blood to survive.

  Therefore, Sugar Bear once again attempted to teach Rainbow Bear his witchcraft so that Rainbow Bear could master the witchcraft of processing honey and make up for the insufficient honey production caused by his own decline in strength during this period.

  Sugar Bear was overjoyed by this, and coupled with the fact that his comprehension ability had been enhanced after absorbing the power from Sugar Bear's blood. Thus, even though Sugar Bear had dropped in realm due to the activation of the puppet witchcraft, he still quickly mastered various witchcrafts, including the witchcraft of processing honey, amnesia witchcraft, and hallucination witchcraft, through Sugar Bear's teachings.

  Although the level of the new witchcrafts mastered by Sugar Bear was limited, it was enough for him to maintain the normal operation of Candy Town during Sugar Bear's period of weakness.

  With a weight lifted from his heart, Sugar Bear began his self-healing cultivation with peace of mind. Rainbow Bear, having acquired these skills, naturally became the center of attention for all the residents of the town.

  For the first time, Rainbow Bear experienced the satisfaction of being the sole focus of everyone's attention. At the same time, he was deeply fascinated by Sugar Bear's witchcraft power. He then made up his mind to comprehend Sugar Bear's witchcraft as much as possible, attempting to fuse their witchcrafts to create an even more powerful force.

  In this way, Sugar Bear could not only quickly return to his previous realm but also accelerate his cultivation speed, allowing him to cultivate into an immortal as soon as possible. By that time, Sugar Bear would surely let more people witness his strength, let more people submit to him, let more people worship him, and regard him as a deity.

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  In short, driven by various desires, Rainbow Bear gradually changed his attitude towards Sugar Bear. Now, Rainbow Bear regarded Sugar Bear both as a stumbling block on his path of growth and as the nourishment he must absorb on his journey.

  Thus, Rainbow Bear gradually harbored malicious intentions towards Sugar Bear. He wanted to seize more of Sugar Bear's power and then eliminate this only obstacle that could restrain him, so that he could gallop freely on the path of cultivation like an unbridled wild horse.

  Although Sugar Bear's current physical condition was very poor, even a dead camel is bigger than a horse, which made Rainbow Bear still dare not confront Sugar Bear directly.

  Therefore, Rainbow Bear decided to resort to the same trick again, planning to poison Sugar Bear with toxins once more and then defeat him while he was weak. So, Rainbow Bear took out a vial of poison that he had previously confiscated from Chen Qiang and divided it into several doses to poison Sugar Bear gradually.

  As for why Rainbow Bear did not directly use a full dose of poison to take down Sugar Bear, it was because Rainbow Bear wanted to have Sugar Bear teach him more of his witchcraft before the poison overcame him.

  Since Rainbow Bear controlled the dosage of each poisoning very precisely, Sugar Bear did not realize that his body was being invaded by toxins at first, and instead attributed the increasing weakness of his body entirely to his still-uncured internal injuries.

  However, as time passed, not only did Sugar Bear's injuries not improve, but his body became weaker and weaker. At this point, Sugar Bear finally realized that something was wrong. So, he began to repeatedly check his healing witchcraft and the formula for making detoxifying soft candies to determine whether there was any deviation in the use of these two that caused them to lose their healing effect on his internal injuries.

  Yet, Sugar Bear did not find any issues with the healing witchcraft and the formula for making detoxifying soft candies. But this check revealed something alarming—Sugar Bear detected a faint trace of toxins on several completed detoxifying soft candies. Upon examination, the toxins meticulously applied to the surface of the detoxifying soft candies were identical to the ones that had previously poisoned him.

  This discovery sent a chill down Sugar Bear's spine. The first thought that crossed his mind was that he and Rainbow Bear had not completely eliminated the previous villagers. It must have been one of the survivors who tampered with his detoxifying soft candies, aiming to render him defenseless once again due to poisoning.

  But he was certain that all the previous villagers were dead, wasn't he?

  Could it be that the children who survived back then were taking revenge on him?

  But that couldn't be possible, could it?

  Not to mention that the children who were not killed by him and Rainbow Bear were very young at the time, so most of them didn't even remember what had happened back then. Moreover, over the years, the two had cast amnesia witchcraft on them multiple times, which should have completely erased their memories of the past, right?

  Could it be that there was a problem with his amnesia witchcraft, causing some of them to retain their memories? Were they pretending not to remember the past events to lower their guard, so that they could have a chance to take revenge on them?

  Sugar Bear was convinced of this and decided to immediately reveal this astonishing discovery to Rainbow Bear. However, just as Sugar Bear was about to stand up despite his weak body, he slumped back down. Because just now, a thought that chilled him to the bone flashed through his mind—the person poisoning him might be Rainbow Bear!

  The reason why Sugar Bear initially suspected others was because the previous rebellion had shown him and Rainbow Bear the untrustworthiness of humans.

  Therefore, even though the two could now control the newly joined humans with amnesia witchcraft and hallucination witchcraft, they still remained wary of these humans. Coupled with his unconditional trust in Rainbow Bear, he did not consider Rainbow Bear as a suspect.

  But after calming down, Sugar Bear immediately realized that something was amiss. Because the ingredients for the detoxifying honey were all collected by Rainbow Bear alone and were only for his own use.

  Moreover, the person who made these honeys into detoxifying soft candies was Rainbow Bear and himself. The detoxifying soft candies were all stored in his room for his convenience. Besides himself and Rainbow Bear, no third person could come into contact with these candies. So, since the toxins were deliberately applied to the surface of the candies, the culprit could only be Rainbow Bear!

  Sugar Bear did not understand why Rainbow Bear would poison him, but he knew that since Rainbow Bear had decided to take his life, there was absolutely no room for reconciliation between them.

  However, Sugar Bear, who had always been loyal to Rainbow Bear, could not accept the fact that the person he trusted the most would betray him. So, he decided to further confirm whether Rainbow Bear was the poisoner before making any plans.

  Time quickly reached evening, and Rainbow Bear, as usual, entered Sugar Bear's room on time with some food to inquire about his recovery. The two first had a routine conversation, with Sugar Bear still enthusiastically guiding Rainbow Bear on the confusions he encountered in his witchcraft studies.

  Then, as they talked, Sugar Bear, dragging his weak body, paced to the door and asked Rainbow Bear to bring him a detoxifying soft candy, also suggesting that Rainbow Bear should take another one to consolidate his realm.

  As mentioned earlier, this kind of detoxifying soft candy was made using the witchcraft that Sugar Bear had comprehended, which could both detoxify and strengthen the foundation.

  Rainbow Bear, who had given up the puppet witchcraft during his cultivation and had dropped in realm due to the confrontation with Xiao Qing and the others, also needed to regularly take this kind of detoxifying soft candy to preserve the magical powers he had painstakingly cultivated.

  After their exchange, Rainbow Bear casually picked up four soft candies from the table and handed two of them to Sugar Bear. Sugar Bear smiled in return, but suspicion arose in his heart.

  As he unwrapped the two soft candies Rainbow Bear had given him, sure enough, both of them were the ones Sugar Bear had previously found to be coated with toxins. The two soft candies that Rainbow Bear kept were the ones that had not been tampered with.

  Sugar Bear naturally did not believe that the two toxic candies ending up in his hands was just a coincidence, so he immediately handed one of the candies back to Rainbow Bear and gestured for him to eat it first. As expected, Rainbow Bear just looked puzzled and asked Sugar Bear what this meant, but he refused to put the candy in his mouth. In the end, Rainbow Bear even pretended to slip and dropped the candy on the ground.

  Sugar Bear, who had witnessed Rainbow Bear's reaction, felt a sharp pain in his heart. He could hardly believe that the only family member he had grown up with and trusted the most would betray him. Driven by intense sadness and anger, Sugar Bear could no longer contain himself and finally erupted.

  Sugar Bear directly exposed Rainbow Bear's conspiracy and sternly questioned him why he would harm him?

  Seeing that his plot had been exposed, Rainbow Bear did not bother to argue further. Rainbow Bear openly spoke out the true thoughts that had been suppressed in his heart.

  Rainbow Bear admitted that he had always longed for the power that Sugar Bear possessed, which was admired by everyone, and had always desired to become a strong person worshipped by all the residents of the town. Then, Rainbow Bear bared his fangs and declared that since Sugar Bear already knew his intentions, he no longer wanted to pretend.