Houtu held out her palm and stared blankly at that drop of pure primordial mother liquid.
"Is this your answer to me?"
Houtu could sense the resolve in Tongtian's gaze after his breakthrough.
She understood that this was something Tongtian had to do.
Otherwise, the Primordial Great World would be swallowed whole by other powers!
Yet only now had Houtu begun to feel a stirring of affection for the Dao Companion she had so hastily joined herself to.
Tongtian, too, felt that he had let Houtu down.
He had become Houtu's Dao Companion in haste, without so much as a grand wedding ceremony, much less a proper status for her.
Everything seemed to have been for the sake of reestablishing the Earthly Dao and protecting the Primordial Great World!
Somewhere along the way, he had even forgotten their pledge as Dao Companions.
"Houtu, I, Tongtian, have wronged you. Ninety-nine years from now, I will put everything in this world in order and come to the Earthly Dao myself to marry you!"
Tongtian fixed Houtu with a burning gaze.
This Ancestral Witch Houtu was now also the Dao Ancestor of the Earthly Dao.
The forthrightness and courage she had inherited from the Witch Clan drew Tongtian deeply to her.
If he had previously allied with Houtu merely to reestablish the Earthly Dao, he now sincerely wished to become her Dao Companion!
Houtu was overjoyed at his words and nodded emphatically.
"All right. I'll wait for you!"
Tongtian nodded, then raised his head to look toward the sky beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens. In the blink of an eye, he had left the Earthly Dao.
He had no more than a hundred years. He had to make every moment count!
His first stop was Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun of the Heavenly Dao resided!