Section 68: Opening the Hundun Sea

Under pressure from Chu Yun and the Wine Hero King, the Immortal Pouch King finally revealed the full details of the secret to becoming an emperor.

"Once a Spirit Beast Master reaches the Marquis rank, they must find their own unique Dao. Walking that road to its end brings one to the peak of the King rank. Compressing and refining one's insights into that realm creates divine abilities and Dao methods. But to reach the Emperor rank, one must build upon that road, embracing all rivers as the sea embraces every stream, for only tolerance makes greatness, and construct the embryonic form of a world. That small world is a supreme-grade Immortal Pouch."

"A supreme-grade Immortal Pouch is a small world that can exist entirely independently, possessing a complete self-sustaining cycle. A high-grade Immortal Pouch cannot be wholly independent; it requires a constant supply of matter from the outside and must absorb ambient essence itself. But a supreme-grade Immortal Pouch need not absorb any external matter at all and can be entirely self-sufficient. This is because the laws within a supreme-grade Immortal Pouch outnumber those in a high-grade Immortal Pouch many times over, and are many times more complete."

"Once a King reaches the peak and refines divine abilities and Dao methods, they can begin forging a supreme-grade Immortal Pouch. The materials required for one are more than a hundred times those needed for a high-grade Immortal Pouch. This King spent over ten full years preparing those materials. I failed two or three times along the way before finally creating the prototype pouch of a supreme-grade Immortal Pouch."

"With the prototype pouch, one can open up a Sea of Chaos and then use one's own divine abilities and Dao methods to prop up a space. Over the long years to