Reborn as the Silver Dragon King, Kidnapping the Goddess of Life at the Start

A violent jolt of pain dragged Gu Yue back to consciousness.

In his previous life, he had been a programmer who had poured his heart and blood into developing a Dayun autonomous food delivery system, ensuring it could exceed the speed of sound while balancing delivery capacity and efficiency.

As its developer, he had felt duty-bound to take it onto the road as its first tester.

The result was obvious: after the Dayun crashed off an elevated roadway and into a high-rise at supersonic speed, incidentally sending an unlucky youth who had been at home hammering away at his keyboard and drinking ice-cold cola flying, he lost consciousness.

Before he could rejoice at surviving the disaster, an icy killing intent spread down his spine.

"Pfft."

He instinctively coughed up a mouthful of blood and looked down, only to freeze in shock.

Instead of human arms and legs, he saw a silver dragon's body, silver-white from head to toe, with enormous dragon wings rising from its back.

A huge, scarlet sword wound across his back was a horrifying sight, and a violent killing presence was eating away at his life force.

"Daddy... it hurts so much. Our body is going to break apart..."

A faint, soft, childish voice, trembling with tears, suddenly rang out in his mind.

There in his Sea of Consciousness, a little girl who looked about five or six years old was curled up, her silver hair framing purple eyes brimming with tears as she gazed at him.

The next instant, countless memories flashed through his mind.

In the Divine Dragon Realm, the God Star ceremony had failed, and the Dragon God had gone mad and slaughtered his own kind. At the final moment, he had regained his senses and stabilized the Divine Realm, only to lay down the curse, "The beast race shall not become gods." He had then willingly met the Asura Demonic Sword and been cleaved in two with a single stroke.

His golden half had already been sealed, while this newly born silver dragon body of his had sustained a fatal wound from the Asura Sword, and its life force was rapidly ebbing away.

So the little girl before him was Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena?

He had transmigrated to hundreds of thousands of years before the start of Douluo I, becoming the Silver Dragon King who had just split off from the Dragon God?!

And two souls shared the same body?

But the next moment, the pain in his back dragged him out of his thoughts again.

The Asura God's sword wound... I could die at any moment?

Gu Yue's heart shook violently, and he scented death drawing near.

Enduring the searing pain, he raised his head and looked up at the heavens.

Brilliant nine-colored light circled across the vast sky.

The Dragon God had not yet left.

Asura, Good, and Evil, the only three God Kings who remained, along with all the human gods, were watching the figure of their former Dragon God master. None dared make the slightest move.

Even though the Dragon God had been split apart, he was still alive and could still go mad again.

In other words, for this moment, while the Dragon God had yet to leave, he was absolutely safe.

Yet the memories of the original story churning through Gu Yue's mind were sounding the alarm.

He knew what would happen next.

In a little while, the Dragon God would leave everyone with a sorrowful "Farewell, Divine Realm," before flying out of the Divine Realm and vanishing into the vast universe.

And once the Dragon God disappeared, all the hatred born of the dragon race starting a great war and slaughtering countless gods would fall upon the only surviving dragon in the Divine Realm today-him, the Silver Dragon King.

Once he lost the protection of the Supreme God King, the overwhelming killing intent of the Divine Realm's gods would strike back in an instant.

When that happened, he, a Silver Dragon King burdened with grievous injuries, would surely be torn apart on the spot by the enraged gods, meeting the miserable end of having both body and soul destroyed.

This moment was the only window of safety; the next was an abyss of eternal damnation.

Life or death would be decided in the few brief moments before the Dragon God left.

He had to flee the Divine Realm at once!

But with this grievously wounded body, even if he escaped to a lower realm, he feared he would struggle to recover even after hundreds of thousands of years.

Throughout those long years, he would have to keep his heart in his throat, guarding against discovery by the Divine Realm. Once exposed, he would be doomed.

To break out of this predicament, he had to seize enough life force to suppress the Asura Sword's wound before leaving the Divine Realm.

"I'm going for it!"

A glint of madness flashed through Gu Yue's eyes.

This was his only chance to take advantage of the situation.

Forcing down the agony in his back, Gu Yue decisively took control of the Silver Dragon King's body.

Divine power erupted from within him, and his dragon claw tore through the void, snatching the Super Divine Artifact, the Dragon God Core, from the nine-colored light.

At the summit of the heavens, the Dragon God clearly had not expected the silver half that had split from him to pull such a move.

The nine-colored light paused, and a sigh filled with complicated feelings followed:

"Ah... so be it."

The Dragon God did not move to take it back. Instead, he gave the silver dragon below a long, deep look, and his sorrowful voice rang throughout the shattered Divine Realm, now only a tenth of its former size:

"Farewell, Divine Realm..."

As his words faded, the nine-colored light became a brilliant meteor, tearing through the sky and flying into the depths of the vast universe.

The Dragon God was gone.

The only protection there was shattered completely in that instant.

Gu Yue no longer had anything to protect him.

Life and death hung by a hair. If he was even half a step too slow, once the gods reacted, they would blast him to nothing in their fury.

In the face of this desperately urgent threat to his life, Gu Yue's purple dragon eyes instantly locked onto the source of the most tremendous life force.

There stood a towering ancient tree, radiating vitality from every part of its body.

Beneath the ancient tree, a woman in a long emerald-green dress was gazing at the battlefield with a mournful expression.

She was the Goddess of Life, a half-step God King.

Although her divine power had nearly run dry because of the great war in the Divine Realm, her life force was still considerable.

As the strongest surviving god of the law of life in the Divine Dragon Realm, only her source could mend the wound inflicted by the Asura God's sword and secure his future.

"Get over here!"

Gu Yue pushed the spatial ability the Silver Dragon King had inherited from the Dragon God to its limit. Drawing on the lingering might of a Supreme God King that had yet to fade from him, he seized the Goddess of Life at the last moment and uprooted the entire Ancient Tree of Life along with her.

"Rumble."

A vast rift opened in space, and Gu Yue plunged headlong into it, taking the Goddess of Life and the Ancient Tree of Life with him.

"No-! Xiao Lu!"

On the Divine Realm's battlefield, the God of Destruction, drenched in blood, roared in heartbreak and fury, his eyes nearly splitting.

Ignoring the injuries he had sustained fighting the dragon race, he charged forward, purple Divine Lightning of Destruction surging around him.

"Abomination, don't you dare run!"

The Asura God could no longer concern himself with the agreement to treat the dragon race kindly. He had slain many dragons in the bloody battle just now, and seeing his friend captured, he unleashed his God King Realm divine power with a thunderous burst.

A scarlet sword beam that blotted out the sky locked onto the closing spatial rift.

The two attacks came crashing down.

With deadly intent closing in behind him, Gu Yue did not dare look back.

He shielded the unconscious Goddess of Life behind him and faced the descending attacks.

The move made both gods hesitate at once, afraid to strike for fear of hitting her.

If they let their attacks land, the Goddess of Life would surely be killed along with him.

"Disperse!"

Shocked and furious, the God of Destruction forcibly dispersed the Divine Lightning of Destruction he had unleashed, while the Asura God deflected the sword beam he had sent out.

But the dragon's body was simply too enormous.

Even the aftermath struck the silver dragon's back.

Gu Yue felt another stab of pain in his back, and great splashes of dragon blood scattered through the spatial passage.

But he gritted his teeth, smashed headlong through the planar barrier, and fell toward an unknown lower realm.