Chapter 1564 — The Attempt Comes to Nothing
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Yet the Empress and Lady Yuanmu paid him no heed at all, but attacked each other like lunatics, fighting with all their might to put one another to death!
Shen Mu steadied himself, recalled the Calamity Sword, and struck at the bizarre woman with a single move — Breaking Calamity.
His swordsmanship was exquisite beyond compare; sword light after sword light split apart the two women's divine powers, and more than a dozen wounds appeared on the Empress's body.
"Little harlot!"
The Empress flew into a rage and tried to dodge Shen Mu's Calamity Sword, only to find her own flesh unresponsive — one of her legs had lost all feeling and was under Lady Yuanmu's control!
She was dodging Shen Mu's sword light, while Lady Yuanmu was steering her body to meet it head-on.
"Venerable Mu, help me kill her!"
The Empress suddenly turned her face — revealing Lady Yuanmu's features — and cried to Shen Mu in wild excitement, "Kill her, and I will raise you up to be the Heavenly Emperor!"
The Empress abruptly turned back and snarled, "You little slut, colluding with an outsider!"
Her face suddenly contorted, her features shifting violently, and the red mole at the center of her brow darkened and turned black.
Lady Yuanmu had seized the front, and she tittered, "Sister, the one you hate most is me, and now you have no choice but to share a body with me!"
The Empress's face shifted to the back of her head, and she screamed, "Ancient Taiji gods, what have you done to me?"
She raised a hand and struck her other face hard, and it was at once a bloody mess.
Lady Yuanmu, stung by the pain, flew into a rage and leaned back — and the Empress's face was instantly brought onto the tip of Shen Mu's sword.
The Empress shrieked, swept out a hand, and space split open to reveal a Guixu Abyss; she flashed into it and fell in.
The two women battled furiously within the abyss; suddenly the abyss vanished and reappeared several dozen li away, spat them out, and Shen Mu at once soared up onto the Ship of Salvation and gave chase.
But then the two women in that one body suddenly struck as one, each tearing the other's face off!
Shen Mu was horrified; he halted the golden ship and did not pursue.
A Guixu Abyss opened and swallowed the blood-drenched head, leaving the Empress's headless body.
"Little harlot, you're finally dead!"
The Empress's laughter came from the headless body; before it faded, a face suddenly grew from the palm of one of her hands — Lady Yuanmu — and from another palm grew the Empress's own face.
The two women kept fighting, battering the headless body into a bloody pulp.
Shen Mu shuddered with dread, and then saw the headless body suddenly roll into the abyss; the abyss closed, then abruptly appeared again in the distance.
The Empress came staggering out of the abyss, and she had actually grown two heads, crammed onto one neck, one left and one right, again dealing each other murderous blows.
They vanished once more and appeared once more, and the Empress and Lady Yuanmu had become a monster crawling on the ground, with no legs, each with her own upper body, each using her hands as feet, racing over the earth and still slaughtering one another!
Shen Mu's eyes went wide, and he saw the Empress fall into the abyss once more; when they next appeared, their bodies had undergone another bizarre change.
They had become a monster with three legs and one body, with only a single upper half, staggering and lurching as they fought.
Shen Mu drove the Ship of Salvation forward, and saw that the woman's two faces had grown upon a single face: of its four eyes, one pair sat above and one pair below; beneath the nose was another nose, and beneath the mouth another mouth.
From the two mouths poured every kind of venomous word, cursing and reviling each other.
Shen Mu gave chase, and saw that the Empress and Yuanmu could never separate, nor could they finish each other off; and so they fought and changed all along the way, growing ever more grotesque.