Transmigrated Again? Before Douluo I Begins
Consciousness returned to Gu Yue like a drowning person breaking the surface, and he jerked awake.
He slowly opened his eyes, his blurry vision gradually clearing.
The last thing he remembered was reaching out to touch the illusory stream of light in his Sea of Consciousness.
The horrifying sensation of being shattered had nearly made him think he would be torn apart on the spot.
Before long, he noticed something strange.
The agonizing pain that had constantly tormented his nerves had vanished without a trace.
Gu Yue froze for a moment, then hurriedly examined himself.
The sword wound left by the Asura God Sword on his back had already healed.
Every scale on his silver dragon body gleamed brilliantly, and the divine power within him surged endlessly like a vast ocean.
His cultivation had also returned completely to the Half-Step God King level.
"WTF? Where the hell did that take me?"
Gu Yue was utterly stunned.
He knew better than anyone how troublesome the injuries left by the Asura God were. Merely taking one sip from the Goddess of Life could never have healed them in such a short time.
After all, Gu Yuena had said during Ultimate Douluo that she had not even been at God Level when she awakened. Only after going to Dragon Valley, obtaining the Dragon God Core, and replenishing her power had she recovered her God Level strength.
In other words, those injuries had tormented her for hundreds of thousands of years without ever healing.
Full of questions, Gu Yue quickly sent his consciousness into the Sea of Consciousness, intending to ask little Gu Yuena what had happened.
The moment he entered, the sight before him left him stunned again.
Little Gu Yuena, who had been clutching her head and crying out in pain, was gone.
In her place stood a girl of fifteen.
The girl wore a long silver-white dress. Her ankle-length silver hair cascaded down her back like a galaxy in the heavens, and her clear purple eyes were lively yet carried a hint of ethereal grace.
At the sight of Gu Yue, the girl's clear eyes lit up. She trotted over and spoke in a clingy tone:
"Daddy, you're finally awake!"
Gu Yue involuntarily took half a step back. Looking at the girl before him, he stammered:
"Are you Nana? How did you suddenly grow so big?"
"What are you talking about?" Gu Yuena tilted her head. "Haven't we been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years?"
Gu Yue was a little bewildered. He pressed on, "Then what did you... what did we do during those hundreds of thousands of years?"
Little Gu Yuena blinked her clear purple eyes and answered as though it were obvious:
"Before you went to sleep, didn't you tell me to figure out a restriction that could seal the Goddess of Life and let her recover her divine power on her own to help heal us?"
"Afterward, I figured out the restriction and drew on her divine power at regular intervals to heal our injuries. Other than that, since you didn't give me any other instructions, Daddy, and she and I didn't have much to talk about, I spent most of the time sleeping and healing, just like you."
When Gu Yue heard that, his vision went dark, then darker still.
Had hundreds of thousands of years gone to waste just like that?
Had his grand plan spanning hundreds of thousands of years died in the womb before it even began?
He left the Sea of Consciousness and turned to look around the space.
Beneath the Ancient Tree of Life, the Goddess of Life sat quietly cross-legged, her presence only at the Limit Douluo level.
When she saw Gu Yue looking at her, a barely concealed resentment appeared in her eyes.
"You're awake."
Clearly, she had stayed there throughout those long years and had probably been stifled out of her mind.
Gu Yue ignored the Goddess of Life, the doubts in his heart growing stronger.
He released his divine sense and sent it outward to investigate.
The outside world no longer bore the landscape of ancient times. Instead, there was a vast, clear lake-the Lake of Life in the Great Ferocious Land of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Besides Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi JI, the Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, the Scarlet King, the imprisoned giant fat silkworm, and the other Ferocious Beasts, there was also a five-thousand-year-old Hakimi-the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. They were all there.
Gu Yue spread his divine sense farther, across the entire continent.
Out on the boundless ocean, the existence of Sea God Island meant that the Sea God Poseidon had gathered faith, become a god, and ascended long ago.
On the continent, the Angel God had swept away evil, leaving behind an inheritance and Spirit Hall.
The Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan were collectively known as the Upper Three Sects, and the two great empires stood opposed to each other...
The current point in the timeline was clearly just before the beginning of Douluo I.
"That can't be right, can it?"
Gu Yue frowned deeply.
I know the whole plot, I have the Dragon God Core in my grasp, and I've got the Goddess of Life under my thumb. How could I possibly have done nothing? Let the Sea God and Angel God become gods without a hitch? If I'd intervened in the affairs of the continent, there's no way things could have developed exactly as they did in the original story.
But the problem was that Gu Yuena really had figured out the restriction on the Goddess of Life, proving that what had been done in the past could indeed affect the future.
"Wait..."
A flash of inspiration exploded in Gu Yue's mind, and he quickly connected all the clues.
In the past, apart from instructing little Gu Yuena to study the restriction, I never came up with any concrete ideas, much less put a long-term plan into action.
Without ideas or action, I couldn't affect the future. My future self was like a game character left on auto, dutifully sleeping and healing at the bottom of the lake throughout those long years, following the original Silver Dragon King's path.
The same went for little Gu Yuena. She just mechanically carried out the one instruction she'd been given, occasionally taking a sip from the Goddess of Life to heal, and spending the rest of the time asleep.
And more importantly, nothing about the situation on the Douluo Continent changed. It converged completely with the original story, which means the timeline has a tendency to converge. Does the timeline only lead to the original story's predetermined outcome?
The Silver Dragon King's cultivation might only be at Half-Step God King, but his spiritual power was indeed at the God King realm, letting his mind race.
He sensed the illusory stream of light deep within his Sea of Consciousness and understood, as if by instinct, that he could return to his original era simply by touching it again.
To determine whether all these conjectures were actually correct, he would have to wait until he had dealt with matters here, transmigrate back, and then transmigrate again to test them.
But the question is, why did I transmigrate to before the main story of Douluo I began this time?
He pondered for a long time but found no answer.
Gu Yue decided to take a look at the outside world first. His vast God King-realm divine sense enveloped the entire Douluo Star.
In just an instant, he found a road within the Heaven Dou Empire, where two lovely figures in the bloom of youth stood side by side.
One girl wore a long, pale-blue dress, her dark hair cascading like a waterfall. Her face was fresh and unworldly, with a purity untouched by the mortal world. She was Ah Yin, the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor in human form.
Beside Ah Yin stood a woman in a long, moonlight-colored dress, her features dignified and radiant. She was Tang Yuehua.
Tang Yuehua had left her sect to look for her two elder brothers, Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, who were tempering themselves on the continent. She had been traveling with them lately.
In the Clear Sky Sect, where martial strength reigned supreme, everyone looked down on her because her Martial Soul had undergone a malign mutation, leaving her Innate Soul Power permanently stuck at rank nine. The sect elders had even mocked her as a money-losing burden.
Recalling the cold looks and ridicule she had suffered in the sect, Tang Yuehua felt stifled. Without saying much to Tang Xiao or Tang Hao, she had gone out alone to clear her head and get some air.
She had not expected to run into Ah Yin, who was also traveling, along the way.
The two women were similar in age and temperament and felt like old friends at first sight. The more they talked, the more they hit it off, and before they knew it, they had reached this secluded stretch of road.
Suddenly, a strange laugh shattered the peace of the mountain wilderness.
"Jie jie jie! I cleared this mountain, and I planted these trees."
Several bandits armed with sharp blades sprang from the bushes, their greedy eyes roaming over the two women.
"Where did you little beauties come from? How dare you wander around in the middle of nowhere? Be good and leave your valuables, then have some fun with us brothers. Jie jie jie..."
Although Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, she was pure and gentle by nature, and most of the people she had met before had been kind. For the moment, she was unwilling to hurt anyone lightly.
Tang Yuehua, meanwhile, had only rank-nine Soul Power and no fighting strength to speak of. But as the older of the two, she instinctively shielded Ah Yin behind her, her face turning slightly pale.
Several miles away, two men were racing along.
Tang Xiao and Tang Hao looked anxious. They had just discovered that their younger sister was missing and were frantically searching everywhere for her.
"Well, well..."
Gu Yue watched the scene through his divine sense.
"At this point in time, there's room to maneuver."
Gu Yue was about to consider whether he could make a play here for his grand plan spanning hundreds of thousands of years, but the voice that came out when he spoke left him frozen.
It was a crisp, pleasant, soft, and sweet loli voice.
Using little Gu Yuena's method of taking human form, Gu Yue hurriedly transformed.
He wore a slightly loose silver-white dress, and his petite, delicate body only reached an ordinary person's chest. He was a short-legged little loli with silver hair and purple eyes.
"Nana!"
Gu Yue raged in the Sea of Consciousness. "Why have you grown into a young lady, but this body still looks like a little pipsqueak when it takes human form?"
Gu Yuena gave it serious thought.
"This body was already a Half-Step God King when it was born. Its cultivation hasn't changed since then, so to truly grow into an adult form, I'm afraid it would have to reach the God King realm or take human form and cultivate anew."
The corner of Gu Yue's mouth twitched. Was that why Gu Yuena had been a little loli after taking human form during The Legend of the Dragon King?
A scene involuntarily appeared in his mind:
Still in loli form, he lounged sideways on a throne with his legs crossed and one cheek propped on one hand. Below him, Di Tian and the other Soul Beasts bowed and addressed him as their lord in unison, while he spoke with the disdainful expression of a bratty little demon girl:
"You bunch of small fry can't even handle something this simple. You really are small fry~"
The more he imagined it, the more his scalp tingled. He did not want that!
Fortunately, he was now a Half-Step God King, and divine power quietly circulated within him.
Light wove and shifted around his body.
His originally petite, childish loli figure transformed into a stern-looking man with silver hair falling over his shoulders.
Gu Yue looked at himself in the water mirror and finally nodded in satisfaction.
Although his true form was still a loli, appearances were a lifelong matter.
He now had a brilliant idea. His grand plan spanning hundreds of thousands of years would begin with God King Tang and end with God King Tang.
After all, once Tang San became a god, the Divine Realm would be at its weakest.
Tang San had dragged the Asura God down a notch, while the Gods of Kindness and Evil had run off without giving their successors Super Divine Artifacts.
He had also captured the Goddess of Life, leaving only four God Kings in the Divine Realm. Once Tang San became a god, only the God of Destruction would be capable of shouldering the burden.
And so, this first, provisional step in his grand plan would start with God King Tang's biological mother.
Silver light flickered, and ripples spread through space as Gu Yue headed toward Ah Yin.