Di Tian didn't understand what additional quality the Life Lake had gained. He couldn't perceive the specific situation, only that the Life Lake felt different from before.
However, connecting it to the recent cooperation with Su Ming and the key point therein, he blurted out, "It's the Life Core! The Life Lake has regained its status as the Life Core!"
Di Tian hadn't expected Su Ming's efficiency to be this high. They had just reached a cooperation agreement, and Su Ming had already returned the Life Core to them.
He couldn't believe it. Entering the Life Lake, he asked the Silver Dragon King to personally verify.
The answer matched his speculation: the Star Dou Great Forest had once again become the Life Core of the entire Douluo Star.
After Di Tian left, the Silver Dragon King remained alone in the dilapidated space, a thoughtful glint flashing in her vertical pupils.
"This Su Ming... to have such a profound understanding of the Life Core, capable of influencing its choice..."
She was still pondering this when, not long after, Di Tian returned, his expression somewhat strange. "Reporting to the Master, it appears Su Ming just went to Shrek. The Golden Ancient Tree was forced to condense something called a Seed of Life, and then the Golden Ancient Tree's life force also greatly diminished."
Di Tian's words made the Silver Dragon King retract her previous conclusion.
I see.
What a simple and crude solution.
The Silver Dragon King was speechless.
If she had known it would work this way, she could have done it herself.
Thinking this, she paused, then refuted her own thought.
"No, behind Shrek is that shameless Sea God. I truly cannot act against Shrek Academy. Di Tian cannot truly bring about its destruction either. Only Su Ming, who also has the attention of a God King, can coerce Shrek and force the Golden Ancient Tree to condense the Seed of Life."
Having reasoned this through, the Silver Dragon King became composed again.
"I lack nothing now."
With the Seed of Life in hand, Su Ming headed straight for the Mingdou Mountain Range.
Though his travels spanned nearly half the continent, in reality, less than a day had passed.
By the time he returned to the Mingdou Mountain Range, the Body Sect had just finished relocating.
In less than a day, the entire sect had moved to a rare flatland area within the continuous mountain range, vacating the core battlefield location. The sect was being rebuilt on a small peak not far away.
According to Du Busi, since Su Ming was advocating for attacking another plane, the Body Sect should bear the brunt. The sect would be established at the location closest to the battlefield.
After all, the unknowns of engaging another plane were too great. Su Ming's choice of plane seemed too random, and Du Busi worried the opponent might be too strong, causing excessive impact on the Douluo Plane.
But since this was the method Su Ming chose for his breakthrough, Du Busi would naturally offer his full support.
In fact, not a single Body Sect disciple was afraid; they were all excited.
Conquering an alien plane!
It sounded incredibly thrilling.
The group with Body-type Martial Souls trusted themselves the most. Absorbing heaven and earth vital energy to transform into spirit power, then nourishing their own bodies rather than an external Martial Soul's concept of plundering external resources to strengthen oneself was deeply ingrained in their bones, something they inherently identified with.
When Du Busi announced Su Ming's decision, the sect disciples cheered and raised their hands. Those who crved battle were howling with excitement.
Returning to the Mingdou Mountain Range, Su Ming didn't have much trouble finding the new sect location.
He looked at the plain below. It was nearly circular, with a diameter of at least fifty kilometers, surrounded by several prominent mountain peaks. One was where the Body Sect was located—the closest and the highest.
Apart from the Body Sect's peak, there were five other peaks suitable for establishing outposts. Su Ming dispatched disciples to survey these five peaks and allocated them.
"Battle Armor Association! Mecha Association!"
The two associations Su Ming proposed to Mingde Hall were allocated one peak's largest besides the Body Sect's, capable of accommodating many buildings. Apart from the two associations, there was some open space that could be used to establish research institutes like Mingde Hall's.
"Spirit Beast Race!"
Su Ming also prepared a peak for the Spirit Beast race.
As for the remaining three peaks, he had ideas for them too: one for the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, one for the War God Hall, and the last to be given to Shrek based on their performance.
These three peaks obviously weren't to be given out now.
Two of the organizations hadn't been established yet, and one couldn't be given openly.
Shrek Academy secretly belongs to Su Ming, but on the surface, it was still under Tang San's banner. Su Ming couldn't appear too lenient towards Shrek.
Of course, Shrek Academy belonging to Su Ming didn't mean Su Ming was friendly towards its current members.
The position was something Su Ming earned himself in Douluo 3, not something Yan Shaozhe and the others had conferred upon him. Naturally, Su Ming wouldn't treat Yan Shaozhe and his ilk with any special courtesy because of that.
After allocating the territory, Su Ming had nothing else to do and could only sit cross-legged in meditation, waiting for the war to end.
Time flowed.
Xu Tianran, having been notified by Su Ming, had to end the war as quickly as possible.
The Star Luo Royal Family was called to talks and explicitly informed that if they continued to resist stubbornly, the Sun Moon army would completely abandon peace negotiations.
Throughout the Sun Moon army's campaign, they hadn't actually slaughtered cities. The Tianhun Royal Family wasn't exterminated, nor was the Douling Royal Family specifically hunted down. They merely conquered territories and incorporated them into Sun Moon Empire's administration.
Originally, the same attitude was held towards the Star Luo Empire.
Now it changed.
Xu Jiawei keenly sensed something was wrong but was unwilling to simply become a fallen monarch.
Then, he died.
Xu Jiu Jiu and the rest of the Royal Family were all executed.
Within a mere month, the remaining territories of the Star Luo Empire were occupied by the Sun Moon army, which rapidly disseminated spirit tools and improved people's livelihoods.
With the war's end, Xu Tianran of the Sun Moon Royal Family, in his capacity as the Sun Moon Emperor, began forming a Spirit Master army, requiring cultivation above Spirit King.
The purpose was unknown.
But the treatment was extremely high. Upon enlistment, all soldiers would receive three pieces of Thousand Refined, Spirit Awakened metal from blacksmiths affiliated with the Sun Moon Royal Family'nd this was just the enlistment benefit.
When the news spread across the continent, it immediately caused a massive uproar in the Spirit Master world.
The war was over, Sun Moon had unified the continent, so they were getting bold?
Forming an army at this time—asn't it to counter the Body Sect?
Some Spirit Masters felt uneasy, but others signed up, coveting those three pieces of Thousand Refined metal.
The existence of Battle Armor was already known in the Spirit Master world. Although most Spirit Masters hadn't yet accessed methods to create Battle Armor, they knew spirit metal was the key.
With spirit metal, even using ordinary spirit tool crafting methods to etch core formations could boost a Spirit Master's strength by at least one rank!
A full set of Battle Armor had eleven components, requiring roughly eleven pieces. Three pieces were already a lot.
While Sun Moon was forming its Spirit Master army, Shrek Academy was also urgently screening its elite students.
However, whether the news had leaked or not, many students were recalled by the forces behind them. These forces were also forming squads of Spirit Kings and above. In the end, Shrek Academy only managed to assemble a force of a hundred people.
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