The Silver Sheath Worms—under ordinary circumstances, Qin Fengming could not tell which were female and which were male. Whether by appearance or aura, these beetles were all exactly alike.
Unless they were about to mate, there was no way to distinguish which beetles were female.
When Silver Sheath Worms were about to mate, the females themselves would emit a strange aura. It carried a faint fishy odor, and with careful identification, one could still determine which Silver Sheath Worm had emitted it.
That was precisely why, in the past, whenever Qin Fengming released the Silver Sheath Worms to fight, he had never worried about whether any females would be lost.
But at this moment, his heart was filled with worry.
One had to know that the last time the Silver Sheath Worms mated and hatched, there had been only a little over a thousand females.
Even if the number of females had surged after that hatching, reaching several thousand, Qin Fengming had often released the beetles against enemies before. During the battle with the Blazing Flame Insects, in particular, he had lost a great many beetles.
If most of those lost beetles had been females, then the number of females he currently possessed would undoubtedly have been drastically reduced. How many females would remain by then was something Qin Fengming did not know.
He also understood that this was not something he could control.
As he took a hundred Silver Sheath Worms into the Spirit Beast Bracelet, another group of beetles began to show signs of instability.
Qin Fengming did not stop. His divine sense enveloped the entire swarm, and he acted one after another, causing beetle after beetle to vanish.
As each beetle entered the Spirit Beast Bracelet, Qin Fengming immediately waved his hand, and beetle after beetle appeared