Time flew by, and in the Realm of Gods, five years passed in the blink of an eye. William stood in the air of his divine domain, stretching out and finally relaxing his long-tensed mind.

  "Finally, it’s over." William thought about the work he had recently completed, a smile slowly forming on his face, unable to hide the joy.

  Just half a month ago, he had finally obtained his first complete transcendent gene template. When the achievement was made, William didn’t relax. Instead, he immediately threw himself into optimizing and adjusting the transcendent gene further.

  Now, he had completed all the optimization work on this transcendent gene template.

  He lightly swayed and transported himself to the Divine Exchange Continent, where he redeemed a small bucket of Life Spring Water at the Ministry of Education’s resource exchange station, then hurriedly returned to his divine domain.

  Once back, he stood by the Queen Ant, feeling a mix of anxiety and excitement. He fed the Life Spring Water to the Queen Ant and felt the water beginning to take effect inside her.

  William began the process of integrating the only transcendent gene template he held into the Queen Ant. He had already mentally rehearsed the entire process many times, and everything progressed much smoother than expected. There were no accidents during the fusion of the gene template.

  Looking at the Queen Ant, who had fallen into a deep sleep and was beginning her metamorphosis, William held back his excitement and patiently waited.

  The most important function of the Split-Eye Worm’s transcendent gene template was its ability to separate organs from the body while still allowing them to be fully controlled by the main entity’s transcendent power. This was a phenomenon that, in William’s previous world’s knowledge system, couldn’t be explained. However, in this world, there was related content addressing it.

  Simply put, although the body was separated, the soul still controlled the detached body parts. Under the influence of transcendent power, these organs continued to be controlled by the soul. While this was unscientific, it was magical.

  After waiting for a month, the Queen Ant finally completed her metamorphosis. The 40 separated egg sacs connected to her body had completely detached and became independent organs.

  William was ecstatic because this meant the biggest obstacle that had limited the development of his insect swarm had been overcome.

  With only one Queen Ant among his core followers, William had been very cautious in making genetic adjustments to her, fearing that any mistake could lead to the extinction of his core followers. But now, everything was different. The detached egg sacs, each carrying the Queen Ant’s genetic template, allowed William to make adjustments without worrying.

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  If anything went wrong, it would only result in the death of a single detached egg sac, much like an organ failing in a body, without any effect on the Queen Ant herself, who no longer had any physical connection to the detached parts.

  "Now, I’ve solved the problem of not being able to adjust the Queen Ant’s genes. Some of the ideas I’ve been preparing can now be implemented." With this thought in mind, William no longer hesitated. He chose one of the independent egg sacs and began the genetic adjustment process.

  He had already planned this genetic adjustment in his mind. The egg sacs were originally capable of feeding, digesting, and producing eggs on their own. Essentially, they were unconscious copies of the Queen Ant.

  This was similar to what William had seen in his previous life, the Zerg’s core construction building, the Hatchery — the main base of the Zerg.

  Now, what he was doing was upgrading these individual egg sacs using the genetic knowledge he had mastered, increasing their size, enhancing their feeding capabilities, improving digestion, and boosting their egg-laying efficiency.

  This genetic adjustment was the result of decades of accumulation for William. After feeding the egg sac a bottle of Life Spring Water, he infiltrated it with his divine consciousness, extracting one gene template after another from his genetic library, fusing them into the egg sac's gene chain.

  Without the previous concerns, William worked swiftly. In less than a day, he completed the fusion of over a hundred gene templates.

  Looking at the cocoon-like egg sac in front of him, everything developed just as he had expected. The changes to the egg sac had no effect on the Queen Ant.

  He patiently waited for the results. A month later, when the new egg sac, now a hatchery, broke free from its cocoon, William was filled with excitement.

  It was a six-sided, fleshy structure, with an independent larva incubation pod at each corner. It could incubate over 10,000 larvae every day. The top had a circular feeding port, surrounded by sharp spiral teeth that extended toward the center, grinding any food thrown into it into fragments for easy digestion and absorption.

  It stood over 10 meters tall, its dark red surface covered in thick blood vessels that pulsated rhythmically like breathing.

  At the bottom, the flesh roots burrowed deep into the ground, drawing elements and nutrients from the soil. Once fully grown, as per William's design, its roots would extend 50 meters underground, forming a vast network to continuously supply nutrients to the main body above.

  After half a year of observation to ensure everything was functioning well, William then upgraded all the other egg sacs in his divine domain.

  After upgrading the egg sacs, William didn’t stop. He approached the first completed hatchery, took out a high-level Bloodline Card, and prepared to use it.

  He had never dared to use the Bloodline Card on the Queen Ant directly before, but now, facing the hatchery that had completely detached from the Queen Ant, he had no more concerns.

  The transcendent Bloodline Cards came in three levels: low, middle, and high. Low-level cards had a 30% success rate, middle-level cards had a 50% success rate, and high-level cards had a 70% success rate.

  But now, with the hatchery completely independent from the Queen Ant, William had no reservations. As long as he could give the hatchery a transcendent bloodline, successfully embedding a transcendent gene into its genetic chain, he could bypass the Queen Ant’s flawed genetic control ability and directly create a hatchery that could produce transcendent Zerg units.

  Although this method could only produce Zerg units with specific transcendent abilities, and the abilities granted by the Bloodline Cards were somewhat random, it still allowed William to bypass many previous obstacles and opened a transcendent path for his insect swarm. He would no longer need to wait for the possibility of divine transformation after lighting the divine fire.