At that moment, Hans, the Phantom Sword Saint, who was fighting the overlords in the distance, was suddenly jolted.

He sensed that the life-saving scroll he had left for his disciple had been activated.

This scroll was left to his apprentice before, and it is not usually activated on its own.

A protective shield will only be passively activated when the user's life is in mortal danger, and then the user will be teleported to a safe location.

The fact that this scroll has been activated means that John must have encountered great danger, and was seriously injured, or even on the verge of death.

Hans had lost interest in fighting; he had reached the end of his career, and this apprentice was his only hope.

"Lord City Lord, the life-saving scroll I left for my disciple has been activated, which means they also encountered great danger on their retreat. There's no point in us continuing to resist here; let's retreat first!"

Hans solemnly said something to the lord of Forest City.

At this moment, even the powerful figures on the field were finding it difficult to hold on.

After all, there were more overlords than monsters, and with the added harassment from elite monsters, they were finding it very difficult to hold out.

"Alright, everyone, let's begin the retreat!"

The city lord of Forest City nodded and then addressed the crowd.

The strongest among the elves, dwarves, and orcs also agreed to this decision.

...

Meanwhile, after obtaining the storage ring, Zhao Zian immediately ran back to his lair.

This ring contains a whole bunch of magical herbs.

Aside from the most precious Dragon Blood Grass, there are about a hundred other medicinal herbs with ordinary medicinal effects and lower spiritual energy concentrations!

John picked up the scraps at the back of the group, or rummaged through the corpses of dead monsters.

Although they were just ordinary medicinal herbs, the sheer quantity made up for it.

The combined spiritual energy fluctuations of these herbs are much higher than those of Dragon Blood Grass.

Furthermore, the Qi and Blood Fruit that was initially snatched from the Ice Wolf was also a top-grade spiritual medicine.

Zhao Zian's Zerg army directly obtained two top-tier spiritual herbs this time.

Among them, Dragon Blood Grass is the most valuable of all medicinal herbs.

On average, other overlord-level magical beasts yield only one top-tier spiritual herb, and some, if unlucky, get none at all...

Hehehe...

Murder and arson bring wealth and power...

Zhao Zian quickly ordered the Zerg army to transport the storage ring to his own nest.

However, after snatching the ring, a problem arose.

Although one can use their mental power to see what's inside the ring, the owner still needs to come in person to retrieve the elixir.

Strangers cannot open someone else's storage ring at will.

Zhao Zian's thoughts shifted.

The queen ant swallowed John's finger whole.

Let the queen ant be tainted with John's scent, devour his finger, and incidentally acquire some of John's genes.

Then he smeared the blood that had flowed out onto the ring.

Finally, Queen Ant Xiao Yi used her mental power to sense the ring.

Sure enough, it opened successfully.

The medicinal herbs exploded all over the ground instantly!

Fortunately, the ant nest was dug very deep, making it difficult for spiritual energy fluctuations to spread out; otherwise, it would have definitely attracted countless magical beasts to fight over it.

Currently, the queen ant population has grown to over 100.

Zhao Zian ordered them to consume all the ordinary spiritual herbs, using them as energy to produce combat units.

The most precious dragon blood grass was intended to be saved for Xiao Yi.

I heard those overlords say that this Dragon Blood Grass can help them obtain some dragon bloodline and greatly enhance their potential.

If my Zerg army were to acquire even a trace of dragon blood, I wonder what it would evolve into...

Currently, there is abundant energy, not only elixirs but also many animal carcasses.

Previously, the dominant creatures manipulated a beast tide to attack the human camp, intending to seize the Dragon Blood Grass.

There were countless animal carcasses left near that battlefield.

There were also many corpses of black iron and bronze level magical beasts, as well as elite magical beasts.

Some overlord-level creatures even perished in that battle, and several human powerhouses also fell.

Once the elixirs are digested, the corpses can allow the Zerg army to grow stronger.

Zhao Zian brought up the interface for gene modification.

Previously, food was scarce and energy was insufficient, so the specialized genes were only modified in ordinary worker ants and soldier ants.

We have plenty of energy now.

Zhao Zian plans to equip all combat units with specialized genes.

First is the queen ant.

The current queen ant is too small, making it very difficult for her to produce eggs for large Zerg units.

Specialized genes are directly fused with the queen ant's genes.

Leaving aside the first one (the initial queen ant dug up in the real world).

Xiao Er (the queen of the native black ants).

There are also three special queen ants: Little Red (originally the queen of the red imported fire ant).

Normally, a queen ant is about three to four centimeters long.

After being infused with specialized genes, its body size began to grow rapidly.

It has now reached a length of over 30 centimeters.

It's already the size of a small washbasin.

Now, the eggs for producing large Zerg can be sprayed out continuously like a machine gun...

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The jet bugs, on the other hand, became even more terrifying.

The enormous formic acid glands on my back look like they could explode at any moment.

Her figure also became more bloated, and her body length was about 15 centimeters.

Its shell is very thin, so its defensive capabilities are still very poor.

However, the gigantic formic acid glands can spray out a large amount of formic acid in an instant.

The total amount of ammunition stored was roughly equivalent to more than half a bottle of cola.

This is much more potent than the previous one or two drops of formic acid.

The spraying distance has also been greatly increased. Previously, it could only spray a little over a meter, but now it can spray tens of meters!

However, when it came to the flying ant combat unit, the specialized gene fusion went wrong.

Flying ants are normally larger than ordinary worker ants.

After being specialized, ordinary worker ants grow to about 12 centimeters in length.

Flying ants can reach 15 centimeters in length.

In addition to the exoskeleton armor, and the body's internal organs and muscles, etc...

It is very heavy.

However, the wings of flying ants are a fusion of bee genes, and their wings are very similar to those of bees.

When they are small, it's fine; the bee's wings are more than enough.

However, once the size increases, the thin structure of a bee's wings is completely unable to support such a huge weight.

If these two genes were to be forcibly combined, it would result in flying ants having the size but being completely unable to fly.

Zhao Zian's first thought was to replace the wings of a bird.

However, the genetic fusion of bird wings also presents a problem.

Insect genes and bird genes are prone to rejection.

Zhao Zian could only think in other directions.

Fortunately, there are several existing solutions that he can refer to.

Flying Dragon!

Hey, I have an idea.

Zhao Zian plans to copy the design of the Mutalisk from StarCraft.

But then again, how can the work of scholars be called plagiarism?

This can only be described as borrowing...