"It just didn't win." The Wine Gourd curled its lip.
"So, did the Chaos Gourd end up in Little Wine Emperor's hands?" Lin Shen could not be bothered to play word games with the Wine Gourd. He only wanted to know who had ultimately profited.
"No." The Wine Gourd shook its head. "For someone like Little Wine Emperor, not winning counted as losing. So he gave the Small Universe he had collected to that strange person."
"What exactly is this Small Universe?" Lin Shen had heard that Little Wine Emperor liked collecting planets. Presumably, this Small Universe was related to that.
"The Small Universe was made from planets Little Wine Emperor collected using the Wine-Fighting Cup. They transformed into a Small Universe within the cup. That Small Universe contained many exceptionally special planets, all carefully selected by Little Wine Emperor."
After hearing the Wine Gourd's explanation, Lin Shen thought, Just as I suspected. Little Wine Emperor truly was no ordinary figure. To gather the stars of the universe within a wine cup—such divine ability already carried a few traces of a Great Emperor's bearing.
"Could the half-man, half-iron monster Little Wine Emperor encountered have been Old Iron? How many people in this world could win a Small Universe from Little Wine Emperor? If Old Iron truly is the Ancient World King, then it is entirely possible."
As Lin Shen pondered further, something suddenly occurred to him.
Among the Seven Treasures Gourd, the Purple Gold Red Gourd had been given by the Jade Emperor to the Antarctic Chang Sheng Great Emperor, becoming the Antarctic Chang Sheng Great Emperor's Great Emperor Divine Artifact.
The Jade Emperor had kept the Heavenly Emperor Gourd in the Divine Firmament Palace, enshrined atop the divine throne, only for it to later be stolen by Little Wine