Ao Tu walked through the long river of the past.
His own will united good and evil, bringing forth a stronger power.
Normally, only after becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal, when one's attainment was forever secured and one's being was whole and unified, would the cultivation of good, evil, and self emerge.
Yet this had happened to Ao Tu ahead of time.
It was utterly unprecedented.
Ao Tu himself knew nothing of it.
He had only the cultivation of a Golden Immortal and could not glimpse the realms above Great Luo at all, so naturally he could not detect what had happened.
Ao Tu only knew that he had gained a powerful force, and that he could use it to walk a little farther into the river of the past.
Heaven's Mandate, the Dark Bird.
Yu the Great tamed the floods.
The Five Emperors established the human order.
The Battle of Zhuolu.
The Three Sovereigns governed the world.
Ao Tu's advance grew increasingly difficult, and his power once again reached its limit.
He saw Suirenshi teaching people to drill wood for fire; Fuxi unveiling the Congenital Eight Trigrams; Shennong tasting the hundred herbs and planting the five grains.
If he stirred a ripple here, could the waves it raised in the long river of the past inflict enough backlash upon Maitreya Buddha, who blocked the future?
Ao Tu was somewhat uncertain.
He did not know just how powerful Maitreya Buddha was.
Or how much damage this backlash could do to him.
Judging others by himself, Ao Tu felt that the ripples a mere Golden Immortal like him could stir would probably still be too small.
Could he walk a little farther forward?
He did not seek to gravely wound Maitreya. So long as he could cause him a little more