The Main God Favors the Brave

"Should I hold back some of my strength, then?"

At that moment, Zheng Zha asked.

Driven by his survival instincts, Zheng Zha felt that perhaps he should learn to hide his abilities as well.

"There's no need for you to do that. With your current strength, you haven't even fully brought out the enhancements you exchanged for."

"My advice is to use the Yu Tian Ring and Pulse King as little as possible. Fight with your own power. First, you can stimulate your potential in battle and quickly master your own strength. Second, under pressure, you might be able to unlock a higher-level Gene Lock sooner."

"The Main God favors the brave."

Uchiha Gen replied.

His Uchiha bloodline and Sharingan had come naturally, while the Wind Release Chakra Mode had been developed by himself. As long as he did not use them for Score Grinding or while normally clearing Horror movies, the Main God would not yet count that portion of his strength in its evaluation of the Central Continent Team.

Zheng Zha's current combat system, however, did not receive that treatment, because he had yet to break free from the framework of the Main God's Exchanges.

He had neither created his own skills nor fully brought out the power of his enhancements.

As they chatted, the two gradually approached the Alien Nest.

At that moment, Uchiha Gen and Zheng Zha turned a corner and saw a vast, empty hall.

More than fifty Xenomorphs had gathered there, packed densely together.

Whether judging by their size or their aura, these Xenomorphs were clearly far stronger than those they had killed at the beginning.

Each one was worth at least 300 reward points!

Faced with so many enemies, Uchiha Gen did not pause. Chakra clung to the soles of his feet as he ran along the walls and ceiling, bypassing the horde of Xenomorphs and charging toward the Alien Nest behind them.

He left Zheng Zha alone to face the swarm of Xenomorphs.

"Stimulate my potential?"

Looking at the numerous Xenomorphs, Zheng Zha murmured inwardly and charged forward with his fists raised.

He unleashed Konoha-Style Taijutsu. Bolstered by both Telekinesis and Chakra, a casual punch blew apart the head of the swiftest agile Xenomorph.

Then he grabbed two Xenomorph tails that lashed at him, hoisted them up with force, and swung them like massive hammers at two other Xenomorphs.

Overwhelming strength surged forth. In an instant, the four Xenomorphs that collided shattered across the floor, their acid blood splashing everywhere.

Compared to the Third-Stage Gene Lock Zheng Zha from the original timeline, who had still been injured while fighting four Xenomorphs in the Alien 4 Horror movie, he was now as fierce as a war god. Without suffering so much as a scratch, he had already killed five Xenomorphs.

At that moment, even more Xenomorphs pounced on him.

But Zheng Zha showed no fear and charged straight at them. In the blink of an eye, he tore apart another four Xenomorphs with his bare hands.

Although Xenomorph blood was highly corrosive, not a drop touched Zheng Zha. It was all blocked by Telekinesis.

Seeing too many Xenomorphs closing in around him, Zheng Zha directly used Telekinesis to control ten High-Explosive Bombs and hurled them at the surrounding Xenomorphs.

Boom!

The bombs roared, and flames and shockwaves scattered in every direction.

More than a dozen Xenomorphs were torn to pieces. Zheng Zha, who was right at the center of it all, also suffered serious injuries. The hair on his body was burned away by the flames, while the shockwaves made his blood and energy churn, even leaving many ruptures in his internal organs.

But Zheng Zha did not care. For someone with Troll Bloodline, these were only minor injuries.

Without stopping, he charged toward the remaining Xenomorphs.

The Xenomorphs knew no fear. Their genes did not even understand what fear was.

Even though more than twenty of their companions had died in a short time, the remaining Xenomorphs still charged at Zheng Zha with the same savage ferocity.

The remaining twenty Xenomorphs were even stronger—true warrior Xenomorphs.

Their purpose in life was to protect the Alien Queen. Each was worth at least 500 reward points.

Unfortunately, it was still futile.

Amid the fierce clashes, Xenomorph after Xenomorph was torn apart. A few wounds appeared on Zheng Zha's body, but they healed in an instant.

At that moment, the remaining Xenomorphs found an opening. Their hard, steel-whip-like tails wrapped around Zheng Zha's joints, preventing him from exerting strength, while they tore at his flesh with their fangs, trying to rip him apart by force.

"Aah!"

Using Telekinesis to block the Xenomorphs' tails and their snapping jaws, Zheng Zha roared in fury and struggled violently to break free.

Zheng Zha did not yet feel that his life was in danger. These Xenomorphs could not kill him, but he was dissatisfied with his current predicament.

With his strength, he should not have been reduced to such a sorry state by these weak Xenomorphs!

Even one against fifty should not have gone like this!

"Power, I command you to come out!"

Zheng Zha recalled the feeling he had experienced when fighting Wesker. The foundation he had built through two hundred days of training in the Resident Evil World was stirred awake. At that moment, the Second-Stage Gene Lock fully opened, and his body began to expand.

After enhancing his Troll Bloodline, Zheng Zha had already been enormous, standing a full two and a half meters tall.

Now, he expanded into a four-meter-tall giant. Terrifying power flooded through Zheng Zha's body and mind.

In an instant, he snapped the eight steel-hard tails binding his body. He gripped those thick Xenomorph tails in both hands and smashed them down upon the surviving Xenomorphs around him like a raging storm.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Violent bursts of air rang out. Within an extremely short time, every remaining Xenomorph was smashed into a mess of flesh and blood.

Only then did Zheng Zha awaken from that berserk rage.

"Was that the Second-Stage Gene Lock fully opened? There really was a lot of power I hadn't been able to use."

With the battle over, Zheng Zha examined his current state.

While in the Second-Stage Gene Lock state, he could control ninety percent of his body.

He discovered that both his Troll and Telekinesis enhancements still held great potential waiting to be unearthed.

He then controlled his body, squeezing every cell to begin extracting Chakra more deeply.

When he had first entered the Alien World, Zheng Zha had possessed only one-third of a Kakashi's worth of Chakra. But now, it began to surge wildly.

It soon surpassed Half Kakashi, reaching a full Kakashi's worth!

Without a Sharingan constantly activated twenty-four hours a day to drain him, this was such an enormous amount of Chakra that even casting a massive terrain-altering ninjutsu like the Ten Thousand Mile Earth Flow Rampart would not leave him panting!

However, the good times did not last.

Zheng Zha soon could not maintain the Gene Lock state any longer. His body shrank back to normal, and then the capillaries throughout his body ruptured, blood gushing from him as though it cost nothing.

But this time, his condition was much better. At the very least, he did not pass out immediately.

His Troll Bloodline began to take effect, repairing the injuries across his body.

Although Zheng Zha's combat strength had greatly declined for the moment, it would not be long before he fully recovered.