At the moment Houtu glanced back.
There was actually a trace of tenderness, a touch of sweetness.
Over a million years ago, on the Heavenly Passage River, Lin Tian had devoured and refined the all-heaven forgetting emotions origin law, which belonged to Pan Gu's core origin of union with the Dao and had come from beyond the eternal ages, before the World-Opening.
From the very beginning, Lin Tian had been on the utmost alert toward this core origin of Pan Gu bestowed by the all-heaven will.
This so-called forgetting of emotions was, in truth, a silent, unseen dog leash. Once he fell into it, once all his emotions were worn away, then from the moment he became a being brimming with divinity, Lin Tian believed there would be little meaning left in being alive.
And so.
Lin Tian had been forced to return to the Solar System from before his transmigration and anchor his humanity anew.
Over a million years ago.
Lin Tian had roamed the Primordial World in three species forms: the Dutian Two-Principles Vine, the Hongmeng Fierce Bird, and the Yin-Yang Mirror Demon God.
Even though he had become Dao companions with Houtu after their time at All-Heaven Divine Peak.
Over more than ten million years.
The countless origin laws of the Primordial World had already been subtly influencing his emotions and choices.
Added to that were the different origin laws he had devoured and refined, which had ultimately worn away, step by step, Lin Tian's enjoyment of being "human."
Even over a million years ago, Lin Tian had felt no genuine affection for Houtu as his Dao companion.
In other words.
Over a million years ago, Lin Tian could sense Houtu's feelings for him.
Yet he could not respond to Houtu in kind.
Though Houtu had been