Omnipotent Heavenly Dao-chan, please help me build my foundation

After explaining to Bai Qiuran, the Machine God replaced the Laboratory environment where the Insect Race Empress and several other Zerg were imprisoned with Void, and through some means, stimulated and awakened the Zerg that had fallen into a dormant state.

These Insect Race, including the Empress, were very irritable. Upon awakening, they immediately broke free from the Iron Bed that Restraint them, dismantled the parts, and began to drift in the Void, trying to find other members of their kind besides themselves.

The Machine God opened several Spatial Passage, connecting the spaces of their Laboratory together, and then, with a thought—

A Metal Collar around the Insect Race Empress's neck suddenly lit up, and countless golden lightning bolts were released from the Runes engraved on it, scorching the Empress's entire body. The Empress was also in great pain from this sudden whipping. While struggling, she used a part of the back of her wing to vibrate in all directions.

With the reminder from the Machine God, Bai Qiuran Tang Ruowei Jiang Lan, and the others clearly saw faint Energy Wave emanating from the Empress and spreading throughout the simulated Void.

These Energy Wave were extremely faint in color and very inconspicuous. If it weren't for the Machine God's reminder and careful observation, Bai Qiuran and the others really wouldn't have been able to detect these fluctuations.

Upon receiving this fluctuation, the other Tool Bug immediately took flight. They quickly passed through the Spatial Passage opened by the Machine God and arrived at the Empress's location. After gathering in front of the Empress, they immediately began to act, using their sharp and powerful forelimbs to cut off the Metal Collar around the Empress's neck and devouring it in no time.

Even though the carrier was eaten, the Runes still possessed power. Streams of Golden Thunder burst forth from the bodies of these Tool Bug, scorching them to a crisp. However, the insects withstood the shock, and countless Rune Patterns corresponding to and restraining the Golden Thunder Runes appeared on their bodies.

Then, these Tool Bug crawled towards the Empress, and a strange network of communication seemed to be formed between them, with the Empress as the main body. Some kind of information was fed back to the Empress through them, and the Empress's body began to mutate. Her outer skin began to peel off, and on the newly grown skin underneath, the same Runes used to resist the Golden Thunder appeared.

The golden lightning that had been coiling around the Empress and tormenting her disappeared completely after these Rune Patterns grew out, and the Empress successfully resisted them.

"The Insect Race Empress may specialize in command and strategic thinking. She doesn't possess the Insect Race's own rapid evolutionary capabilities. However, this Empress can extract optimized genes from her subordinate 'Tool Bug through some means and evolve them in that direction, continuously improving her own abilities. This ability not only affects the Empress herself but can also transfer genes to other, unoptimized Zerg. In the Zerg's combat system, the Empress uses these Tool Bug to probe the enemy. Once they evolve, the Empress can manipulate them to achieve the evolution of the entire Zerg population in a short time."

The Machine God explained, "But don't worry, even true Tool Bug have their limits in terms of endurance and adaptability. Otherwise, the Empress could simply keep throwing Zerg into dangerous places like the Void River or Void Storm and create an invincible Insect Race army in a very short time."

What is the upper limit of this adaptability?

Bai Qiuran asked.

"There are two limitations. The first limitation is that the insects can combine adaptive genes from the substances they have previously devoured and absorbed. For example, the reason why those insects evolved into Fortress Bug to resist the Killing Array set up by the Immortal Realm is because they had devoured the Rune Weapons of the Eden Frontier World and had Runes System. They were able to combine them to create defenses against the great array."

The Machine God explained, "The second limitation is that they cannot adapt to attacks exceeding the Immortal Emperor-level. We speculate that this may be related to the overall nature of their species. No matter how many times their numbers multiply, the number of their Empress and Special Individual remains constant. No matter how many insects below multiply, it only increases the number of groups led by each Special Individual. For new Special Individual to appear, the old Special Individual must perish."

"Is that so?"

Bai Qiuran looked at Jiang Lan, who understood and replied, "Back then, Jiang Lan Qiuran, you asked me to use the lowest level of Toxins, which was basically some basic medicinal Toxins that I had never synthesized before, and I didn't use my full strength either. The Poisonous Technique I activated at that time was probably around the Immortal Venerable level."

"I see."

Bai Qiuran nodded.

"Looks like I overestimated them... Now that we know how to communicate with them, how do we lure out the rest of the insects?"

"This brings us to another aspect. The insectoid Hierarchy is constant; as long as the Empress lives, there can only be one Empress. However, during the evolutionary process, when faced with other races, the insectoids are occasionally forced into a desperate situation that even the Empress cannot escape. At this point, the Empress will issue an order to all the Insect Swarm except herself, voluntarily relinquishing Empress position. Then, the other individuals in the Insect Swarm will attempt to evolve into the Empress in descending order of their Hierarchy. The first insectoid to complete its evolution will kill the others that are still evolving and become the new Empress."

The Machine God explained, "If there's even a one in a billion chance that the original Empress survived the calamity, she will try to reclaim her race. At that time, she will send a signal to all the surrounding Insect Swarm to attract them. Then, under the watchful eyes of the Insect Swarm, the old and new Empress will fight one-on-one. Whoever is stronger will devour the other and become the true Empress."

"May I ask a question?"

Bai Qiuran her hand to interrupt the Machine God.

"How did you arrive at this conclusion? Where did you conduct this kind of Empress -on -Empress experiment?"

The three main researchers— Machine God, Jiang Lan, and the Heavenly Dao Will— exchanged glances. Then, the Heavenly Dao Will pointed to the Empress on the screen and said, "This Empress is not the one you sent back. You are not the only one who understands the Time Law. The Will of Heavenly Dao is omnipotent, understand?"

"Understood."

Bai Qiuran and said, "Then, when will the Omnipotent Heavenly Dao-chan sacrifice herself to fulfill my grand ambition of Foundation Establishment?"

The Heavenly Dao Will remains silent.

"Hey! Can you hear me?"

At this moment, the image of Immortal Emperor Le Zhentian suddenly appeared on the other side of the light screen. Judging from the arrangement behind him, he should currently be in the private Study Room of the Central Immortal Palace.

"Grandmaster is here too, that's perfect."

Le Zhentian glanced at the screen, then, on behalf of the Machine God and the Heavenly Dao, explained their plan to Bai Qiuran.

In short, they imitated the Empress's Challenge Signal and created an Energy Wave Emitter with the same frequency. Bai Qiuran then take this device and wander around in the direction the insects were fleeing. Then, anyone would Precise Control their Insect Race Empress and challenge the newly born Empress to a duel. Once they won, the Insect Race would be under their control.