"The so-called Mother Insect is a true member of the Insectoid Race!" Huang Tong explained. "This Mother Insect possesses an extraordinary divine ability. It does not produce offspring, yet in special places, it can imprint and gestate Larval Insects identical to itself! Ah, imprinting and gestating is similar to the character-imprinting techniques of Confucian cultivators. However, these Larval Insects are not physical entities, but rather phantoms or empty shells. Once there are enough Larval Insects, the Mother Insect will lead them forth, as though there were that many Mother Insects. When the Larval Insects attack an enemy, the Mother Insect hides among them and delivers a fatal blow amid the chaos! Of course, because these Larval Insects are phantoms imprinted and gestated into being, they possess no souls..."
"That must be it!" Xiao Hua nodded. "I do not believe there can be living beings in this world without souls! Moreover, if these Mayflies came from the upper realm, they absolutely could not have flown into the Three Great Continents in swarms. It could only have been one or several Mother Insects breaking through the realm barrier, then imprinting and gestating so many Larval Insects within the void!"
"Yes, so annihilating these Larval Insects... merely treats the symptoms, not the root!" Huang Tong continued. "Only by finding and killing the Mother Insect can we annihilate the Mayflies at their root!"
"Sigh, forget about treating symptoms and not the root!" Xiao Hua pointed at the Creation Sect disciples annihilating Mayflies and said, "My Creation Sect disciples are so valiant, yet even they struggle against these Larval Insects. Right now, we have not even thought of a way to treat the symptoms!"
Huang Tong seemed to have already formed a plan. He smiled. "If my guess is correct, for the Three Great Continents