The Bugs had a characteristic: after the insects under their command died, their Mental Strength returned to the Brain Bug, and even to the Bug God that represented the collective consciousness of the entire Bug race.
This was also why they could reproduce without end and never fear sacrifice.
Power was always accumulating, and the race continuously grew stronger through reproduction.
For reasons unknown—whether because of the West Sea Team or something else—the Bugs in the Starship Troopers world experienced by the Central Continent Team had evolved to their current, uncontrollable state.
Their numbers had continued to swell, reaching into the hundreds of millions upon hundreds of millions.
That was precisely why this Brain Bug's Mental Strength had reached such a formidable level.
"Still, it came at just the right time."
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Uchiha Gen's lips.
He directly ignored the Brain Bug's mental attack.
Uchiha Gen was now at the peak of Fourth-Stage Intermediate in Gene Lock, with a cultivation realm at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
Even among Fourth-Stage Advanced experts, his overall strength ranked among the powerful. He was not far from the limits of the Fourth Stage.
Although the Fourth-Stage Intermediate Brain Bug was powerful enough to shatter mountains and continents with a single thought, the gap between it and the current Uchiha Gen was still far too great.
Setting aside the differences in abilities and mechanisms, even in terms of raw numbers, it was behind by hundreds or thousands of times.
Its mental attack could not be said to have no effect on Uchiha Gen at all, but it was of little significance—at most, it was like someone suddenly shouting beside his ear and startling him.
At that moment, a spatial gate appeared behind Uchiha Gen. His figure vanished from where