Chapter 497 - 254: Angel Holy Artifact, Cosmic Divine Medicine

He entered the great hall and took a seat. The Empress, seated in the place of honor, looked at Chen Yu with her bright eyes. "Thank you for traveling all this way, Fellow Daoist Chen. Your progress in just a few short years is astonishing."

Hearing this, Chen Yu smiled faintly. "You flatter me, Empress. I’ve only made this progress due to some fortunate encounters."

"Then those must have been quite the fortunate encounters," the Empress said with a radiant smile.

Chen Yu looked at her and said, "Empress, let’s get down to business. What is it that you need me to do?"

After waiting several years for this meeting, Chen Yu had been very curious about what the Empress needed from him.

With the Empress’s power, she certainly wouldn’t need him for any ordinary matter.

Anything that required his help had to be a special request.

Based on his own recent advancements, he guessed that the Angel Race’s problem was most likely related to the races from Hell.

He couldn’t think of any other possibility.

The Empress looked at Chen Yu, considered for a moment, and said, "Fellow Daoist Chen, you should know something about the races from Hell, correct?"

’As expected...’

Hearing this, Chen Yu felt his guess was more or less on the mark.

He looked at the Empress and nodded. "I know a thing or two about the races from Hell. The Human Race has dealt with many space-time nodes that Hell established."

Hearing this, the Empress looked at him and said, "Yes. We have the same situation in the Angel Race, and there are no fewer than several hundred of them."

"That many?"

Chen Yu stared at the Empress, stunned.

’Several hundred Hell Space-Time nodes? Good heavens, why would the Hell races set up so many?’

’Are they planning to use the Angel Race as a stepping stone?’

Recalling what Feng Miaotian and the others had said about a Hell Demon God appearing among the Angel Race, Chen Yu felt there had to be another reason for these arrangements.

He just didn’t know what that reason was yet.

"Empress, I heard that Hell Demon Gods have appeared among the Angel Race. Is that true?"

Chen Yu asked.

The Empress looked at him and nodded. "Yes, it’s true. A Hell Demon God appeared in one of the space-time nodes six months ago, but it has already been dealt with."

"So far, no other Hell Demon Gods have appeared from the other nodes."

"Then why not destroy these space-time nodes?" Chen Yu asked, curious.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, the situation is not that simple. There are some Hell Space-Time nodes that even the Empress cannot destroy,"

Just then, the Grand Elder suddenly interjected.

’???’

Hearing this, Chen Yu looked toward the Grand Elder.

’Even the Empress can’t destroy the space-time nodes?’

’Is this some kind of joke?’

’I could destroy Hell’s space-time nodes with ease. How could the Empress, with her power, be unable to do so?’

’Are they being serious?’

"Grand Elder, you... you’re not joking, are you?" Chen Yu asked, looking at the Grand Elder with disbelief.

But the Grand Elder simply nodded with a grave expression.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s the truth."

"Of the several hundred space-time nodes, ninety-nine percent have been destroyed. However, there are three that we cannot destroy," the Grand Elder explained.

"In fact, the reason we invited you here, Fellow Daoist Chen, is to deal with destroying these three space-time nodes," the Empress said.

Hearing this, Chen Yu looked up at the Empress on her seat of honor, utterly speechless.

’You can’t even destroy them. And you think I can?’

’What a joke...’

Just as Chen Yu was about to say something, the Empress spoke first. "Fellow Daoist Chen, the situation isn’t what you think. You only need to accompany me to break open a Space-Time Secret Realm, enter it, and find a Holy Artifact left behind by a Great Emperor of my race."

"Once we have this Holy Artifact, we can completely shatter the three space-time nodes."

"..."

"Empress, if a single Holy Artifact is all it takes, it shouldn’t be that difficult for the Angel Race to find it, should it?"

Chen Yu was getting confused.

’Something about this doesn’t feel right.’

’If they already have a target, why do they need to wait for me to do it?’

The Empress looked at him and said, "Finding it isn’t difficult, no. However... the Holy Artifact’s location is protected by a special Barrier set by a Great Emperor. It can only be opened by a ’person of destiny’."

"...So, I’m the ’person of destiny’?"

Chen Yu pointed to himself as he looked at the Empress.

The Empress nodded.

"Yes. When I first met you, Fellow Daoist Chen, I sensed that connection of fate. That is why I made the agreement with you."

"..."

’How does that not sound like complete bullshit?’

Hearing this, Chen Yu strongly suspected the Empress was trying to pull one over on him.

Yet he couldn’t quite pinpoint what was wrong with her story.

Still, he had already made an agreement, and he had no intention of backing out.

Besides, his intuition told him that coming to the Angel Race to fulfill this agreement wouldn’t be dangerous.

It wasn’t an absolute certainty, but he had great faith in his intuition.

"Empress, what is this Holy Artifact left behind by the Great Emperor?"

Chen Yu asked.

"An Innate Emperor’s Weapon," the Empress replied.

"An Innate Emperor’s Weapon!"

Chen Yu’s heart jolted as he looked at the Empress.

’With that answer, I think I know what’s really going on.’

’Destroying the three space-time nodes is probably a pretense. The real goal is to obtain the Innate Emperor’s Weapon.’

"When the time comes, you break the Barrier and retrieve the Holy Artifact, and our agreement will be complete. After it is done, I have also prepared a gift for you."

As she spoke, the Empress’s fingertip sliced through the void, and a brilliant light illuminated the hall.

A golden fruit appeared before his eyes.

The golden fruit was as large as a watermelon.

Special patterns crisscrossed its surface, resembling soaring Dragon Shadows.

Faintly, he could almost hear the roars of true dragons.

"A Cosmic Divine Medicine!"

As Chen Yu stared at the golden fruit, his eye twitched. The blood in his veins felt like it was starting to boil.

This golden fruit seemed to have a powerful effect on him.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, this is a Cosmic Divine Medicine I once obtained in the Outer Domain. It is called the Tianlong Fruit, a Divine Medicine capable of breaking the limits of a divine physique, cleansing a True God Body, and significantly enhancing the physical body of a True God."

"Your physical body is already powerful, Fellow Daoist Chen. With the enhancement from the Tianlong Fruit, it will surely reach a new level," the Empress’s voice rang out.

Chen Yu looked at the Tianlong Fruit.

His physical body was powerful, but compared to his Divine Power, it was in a relatively weak state.

If not for this agreement, he would have already gone to the Outer Domain’s battlefields to hunt Alien Race True Gods and obtain the Source of Life to enhance his physical talent.

His physical body wasn’t weak by any means, but it was still outmatched by the boundless, vast Divine Power within him.

The repeated boons from the World Tree had broken his limits and enhanced his Divine Power to an unimaginably astonishing degree.

In comparison, even his True God Body, which had been tempered by a second Divine Tribulation, was still weak.

Now, with the boost from the power of faith, his Divine Power had once again broken through to a new limit.

The "weakness" of his physical body was even more apparent.

It might not be noticeable under normal circumstances, but it would be exposed in a true life-or-death battle pushed to the absolute limit.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, consider this Tianlong Fruit one part of your generous reward for this agreement. After you succeed, I will gift you two more, allowing your strength to reach yet another level," the Empress said.

The levitating Tianlong Fruit descended into his hand.

Looking at the Tianlong Fruit in his hand, Chen Yu found it truly difficult to refuse.

’For the Tianlong Fruit to provoke such a reaction from my body, the enhancement it provides must be significant!’