This flesh-and-blood planet, formed from densely packed Bug fragments, had a diameter of over ten thousand kilometers. The Ten-Tails took root upon the enormous flesh planet and began growing rapidly.
Unlike before, when the Divine Tree itself had grown only to a limited height of a few hundred meters and used most of the nutrients it absorbed to nurture Divine Tree Fruit.
This time, under Uchiha Gen's urging, the Divine Tree grew toward a realm beyond ordinary imagination.
At this moment, densely packed Bugs in the starry sky were still charging toward Uchiha Gen.
The Bugs rushing at him were continuously sliced into fragments by the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion that Uchiha Gen kept unleashing, then seized and bound by the Divine Tree's branches, becoming nourishment for its growth.
Every second, millions upon millions of Bugs were killed.
Yet there were simply too many Bugs in the starry sky. They stretched beyond sight, with no sign of diminishing.
When the Starship Troopers world mission had just ended, the number of Bugs in that world had already reached the scale of hundreds of millions of millions.
After that, members of the Central Continent Team entered that world one after another to train, advancing its time by more than a century through relay-like succession.
A century without natural enemies, combined with the Bugs' terrifying reproductive capacity and the long lifespans of these evolved Bugs.
By now, the Bug population in the Starship Troopers world had grown exponentially from its previous foundation.
But Uchiha Gen did not care.
For an existence at his level, without opponents of the same rank or a formation that united the power of every individual, sheer numbers held little meaning.
They posed no threat to him whatsoever.
Bathed in the sunlight of the starry sky, Uchiha Gen's Chakra