If this were the Dou Yi era, the life core would undoubtedly have been the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Its rank would have resided there too.
However, ever since Tang San had acquired the Golden Ancient Tree, this Son of Nature, placed it outside the Star Dou Great Forest, and established Shrek Academy there, the competition for the rank of life core had begun.
By the Dou Er era, that rank was already wavering.
On one side was the flourishing Golden Ancient Tree, into which successive Sea God Pavilion Masters had merged their lifetime's power.
On the other was the core of the steadily declining Star Dou Great Forest, whose life energy the Silver Dragon King absorbed to recover, whose energy the ferocious beasts absorbed to cultivate, and from whose life gold a Golden Hawksbill Turtle had secretly bitten off a chunk.
With the balance wavering like this, barring any surprises, the rank of life core would inevitably fall to the Golden Ancient Tree.
Now, that core had indeed begun to favor Shrek Academy.
Through the rank of life core, Su Ming had pushed this process forward.
At the same time, he had used the rank of the "false Pioneer Sea God" worshipped by Shrek Academy, which he had obtained in the future, to infiltrate the present-day academy's fortune.
Under his manipulation, Shrek Academy's development quietly began to change.
He inscribed the essence of the faith he had obtained from the future into it.
[Shrek Academy worships the Sea God and believes in the Sea God's pioneering spirit of opening new frontiers.]
Once this underlying logic was written in, the convictions of Shrek Academy's people would gradually be influenced as well.
The current generation's beliefs were already deeply rooted; they worshipped Tang San.