Sensing Di Tian's confusion, the Life Core immediately began to explain:
"I am the newly born Tree Spirit of the Tree of Life, and also the Life Core of the Douluo Plane, possessing a natural awareness that allows me to perceive past and future crises.
If destiny had followed its original trajectory, passively drifting along, it would have led to a great calamity — one of certain death.
However, the course of fate was drastically altered when my former self perished — specifically, when you forcefully extracted me during the bombardment of Shrek Academy by a Level-12 stationary soul-guided cannon shell.
Calling you 'benefactor' is nothing but the result of karmic fate."
After speaking, she gave Di Tian a graceful bow to express her gratitude.
Facing her, Di Tian scrutinized this humanoid manifestation of the Life Core, mentally retracing the chain of events.
The predecessor of the Tree of Life had been a golden ancient tree that grew for twenty thousand years within Shrek Academy, once giving birth to a Tree Spirit named Old Jin. Ultimately, it perished during the bombing of the academy by the Level-12 stationary cannon, its energy exhausted, and its body withering alongside Yun Ming.
Given that the ancient golden tree could produce a spirit, there was no reason that a tree regrown from its seed — one that symbolized the plane's very essence of life — couldn't do the same.
Even ten-thousand-year spirit herbs can gain sentience; how could the Tree of Life — the core of a plane — not do so?
And yet Di Tian clearly knew that, in the original timeline, this tree spirit — now appearing as a nature-born elf — had never existed.
The one who had originally seized the position of Life Core was Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Empress — dissected by the Myriad Beast King, fused with countless Blue Silver Grasses, and having her life essence sucked by the Seven Immortal Herbs.
So yes, calling him her savior wasn't wrong.
Just as Di Tian sorted out the cause and effect, the Life Core spoke again, as if their minds were in sync:
"Since you've left the Douluo Star in the cave of the new God Realm for so long, I assume you've planned for it. I'll fully cooperate. Whatever you wish to say or do, you are free to proceed."
With that, she extended her hands, baring her chest and expressing a vast openness, radiating an aura of inclusion and the breath of all living beings. The fundamental rules and order of the Douluo Plane began to appear around her.
"Lord."
The current Plane Master, the Mountain Dragon King, wasn't as eloquent as the Life Core. He was a classic example of "actions speak louder than words" — silent and steadfast.
With a simple and respectful title, the rules of the Douluo Plane, activated under the Plane Master's command, appeared clearly before Di Tian.
Every rule was distinct and held absolute authority within the plane.
Di Tian didn't hesitate in the slightest. With the Plane Master and Life Core assisting him, much of the burden was lifted.
He began to manipulate the plane's natural laws, rewriting the fundamental order of the Douluo Plane.
Every change to these rules would cause profound transformations to the world.However, only beings at the extreme pinnacle of power could sense the nuances of such changes.
To ordinary beings, these were like melodious harp strings played by a master musician.
The first law Di Tian rewrote was the one causing spirit beasts to drop spirit rings and spirit bones upon death — a foundational reason why the spirit beast race was driven to the brink of extinction.
Next, he rewrote the cultivation system of human soul masters:
Humans no longer needed to hunt spirit beasts for spirit rings; instead, they could condense rings by compressing their own soul power.
This meant the remaining Spirit Pagoda would soon lose its foundation and fade into history.
Then he rewrote the rule for spirit beasts awakening intelligence:Instead of waiting ten thousand years to gain sapience, they would now gain awareness from birth, with intelligence growing alongside cultivation.
This rule was copied from other life planets Di Tian had observed — aligning spirit beast development with that of other beast or fairy races he'd seen.
Due to this, spirit beasts would now naturally evolve into two forms:
Beast Form – displaying their raw bloodline traits.
Humanoid Form – akin to the transformations seen in century-old fierce beasts, mostly human in appearance but retaining some beastly features.
For example:
Ghost Shadow Cat–type spirit beasts would likely keep their furry cat ears and a hidden tail.
Bright White Tigers would retain their tiger-like...
Di Tian continued rewriting various rules of the Douluo Plane — all went smoothly, until he reached the matter of humans and soul masters, where things got tricky.
Originally, following a principle of "returning the favor in kind," he had planned to reverse the spirit ring/soul bone mechanism:
Rewrite the rules so humans would drop soul rings and bones upon death, and spirit beasts could absorb these to cultivate.
But he quickly rejected this tit-for-tat model.
From his elevated perspective, he could see farther.
Everything in the world should be governed by order — no need to plant landmines out of petty revenge.
Having cast aside this vengeful notion, he also discarded the idea of banishing all humans and soul masters to other planets.
This wasn't an emotional decision, but a strategic one.
The potential of soul tool technology was immense — and Di Tian had chosen it as the cornerstone for the new God Realm's development.
Just look: in the original timeline, once the Douluo God Realm's suppression vanished, and with Plane Master Tang Hao dormant, the soul tool tech exploded in growth.
From Dai Yuhao's era to the present, it took ten thousand years.
From now to ten thousand years in the future, same time span — but the development speed was worlds apart.
Looking ten thousand years backward, soul tech was like a baby learning to walk.
Looking ten thousand years forward, it evolved from a mischievous child into a superintelligent AI, achieving interstellar colonization and travel.
But then, after the return of the gods led by Tang San, the rapidly advancing interstellar soul tool tech seemingly hit a mysterious bottleneck.
The reason was… thought-provoking.
It was clear that if Di Tian's new God Realm supported soul tool development, its growth would far surpass the original timeline.
(End of Chapter)