Actually, Chu Ge felt he was neither that cold nor that heartless. At least, he was quite fond of Chu Tiange and Yan Qianlie; he liked Xuanji and wanted her to take over next; he also liked Dabei and was planning to have him ascend to handle affairs in the Buddha Kingdom. It was only because having people power up and ascend one after another was bad for the story's structure that he was holding off a little.
When Chu Tiange's storyline involved the Buddha Kingdom, Dabei would still need to come up and help. That would also be a more suitable time for his entrance.
People were people, after all. They still had biases in their values and positions, their likes and dislikes, their loves and hates.
How was he supposed to balance that with being the Heavenly Dao? Honestly, Chu Ge did not know. Right now, he did not want to consider so many philosophical questions about being human or being heaven. All he knew was that he needed to protect himself and Qiu Wuji.
Everything served that goal. He just had to do it. What was the point of thinking about all that other stuff?
Chu Ge had never considered himself an Immortal who needed to examine his heart and seek the Dao. Instead, he identified rather more with being an Esper in the Mortal World. Even he did not know exactly why he identified differently with the two. Perhaps it was because he had lived in this world since childhood and regarded it as more real.
And each world had things that belonged to it. The Four Symbols from the book were better off returning to the book instead of wandering around the Mortal World.
He just wondered how things were progressing with his father and