Wheel and Sea Realm

## **Background**

The **Wheel and Sea Realm** (轮海秘境) was established by Heavenly Emperor Huāng to allow a new cultivation system for future Immortal Kings to be born in the broken Heaven world, the Shrouding the Heavens World. The Wheel and Sea Realm, containing life and death where the sea is death and the wheel is life, uses the self as the "seed" to birth Dao.

## **Introduction**

Sea of Bitterness, Wheel of Life, Divine Bridge, Paramita; these four great realms were all perfectly explained within the Dao Scripture’s Wheel Sea Volume. Cultivators can refine an "tool" per realm with their divine patterns of the Wheel and Sea Realm. Top cultivators would pursue a complex and profound singular "great tool" throughout the Wheel and Sea Realm for the higher and stronger cultivation foundation, such as Great Emperor. This point is explained in the Dao Scripture’s Wheel Sea Volume.

### Sea of Bitterness (苦海)

Cultivators first had to establish their Sea of Bitterness, gradually expanding it. Only then could they sense their Wheel of Life, because the two of them were so inextricably connected.

Then an endless Life Qi would curl above the Sea of Bitterness, overflowing throughout the body to nourish the flesh, bones, and organs. It would increase the power of the body to surpass ordinary mortals. This was the first realm discussed within the Wheel Sea Volume – the Sea of Bitterness.

The Sea of Bitterness drowned the Wheel of Life. One above and one below, the two of their existences overlapped upon each other. Each year, another mark would be left upon the Wheel of Life. Once it was covered in scars, it would completely shatter, and that would be the time that a person’s longevity ended, the time of their death.

Minuscule divine patterns are condensed and usable at this stage once the Sea of Bitterness grows large enough. Minimally, divine patterns can now be used to refine a "tool" for external use.

### Spring of Life (命泉)

The only way to change this was to establish a channel through the Sea of Bitterness to its very bottom, connecting to the Wheel of Life, allowing an ocean’s worth of Life Qi to flourish and prevent the Sea of Bitterness’s erosion. Only then could one’s longevity change.

This quantitative change would then cause a qualitative change. Vigorous Life Qi would turbulently surge, and in the end condense to become liquid, forming the divine Spring of Life and forcing itself into the Sea of Bitterness.

A small opening of the Spring of Life would form upon the dull Sea of Bitterness, a connection to the Wheel of Life. The divine spring would be allowed to bubble forth, and that was the second realm of the Wheel and Sea Volume – the Spring of Life.

Only in such a way could a cultivator obtain an energy source, and only then could they fully use all kinds of mystical arts and divine abilities, allowing them to possess an immeasurable might. This was the most crucial part of a cultivator’s evolution. As long as the divine energy spring was endless, one’s power would be infinite.

In reality, the so-called divine rainbows that cultivators rode on were actually just the divine light flowing from their Spring of Life. After reaching the Spring of Life realm, one could use divine rainbows to fly across the sky and countless other amazing mystical arts, with greater duration the higher the cultivation.

### Divine Bridge (神桥)

The human body was endlessly mysterious. Powerful cultivators didn’t wish to remain trapped within their Sea of Bitterness. They wished to explore to other mysterious unknown places within the human body, and thus there was also a process to surpass the Sea of Bitterness.

The Dao Scripture’s mystical arts possessed a dominating “pressing forward” manner. Although the Sea of Bitterness was endless, there was no need to turn back; what was needed was to use all of one’s power to break through its confines.

In order to reach their goals, cultivators needed their body to transform; they had to form a Divine Meridian within the Sea of Bitterness to aid in breaking through their body’s limits, in order to reach the other end of the Sea of Bitterness.

This was a long and arduous process. The further one pushed past these restrictions, the stronger one would become. In the end, by rising above the Wheel and Sea, and forming heaven and earth’s Divine Meridian, one could release their endless potential, allowing one to reach the third realm of the Wheel and Sea Volume – the Divine Bridge.

For a cultivator to reach such a stage, they must be absolutely resolute and completely unwavering. Only then could one see through the hazy fog and illusions in order to find the other side of themselves.

### Paramita (彼岸)

During this course of events, not only did the body need to transform, the spirit also had to sublimate. Only once spirit and body united and broke through their restraints and transcended the self together could one find one’s true root. Using the Divine Bridge as a rainbow, cross over the powerful Sea of Bitterness and reach the fourth realm of the Wheel Sea Volume – Paramita.

Upon reaching Paramita, one’s flesh, organs, and bones would all turn dull, and one would be reborn in a new way. One would shed their body nine times, becoming a completely new existence like a butterfly being born from a cocoon.

Sea of Bitterness, Spring of Life, Divine Bridge, Paramita; the distance between each of them was as great as the heavens, and wanting to break through each was extremely difficult. Each realm had many particular details that had to be dealt with and settled before there was even a chance of transforming.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *STH* Chapter 77
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *STH* Chapter 98
3. ↑ *STH* Chapter 110~111