Chapter 1564 — The Attempt Comes to Nothing
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"Crush them with the golden ship and end their suffering!"
Shen Mu drove the golden ship; it sped up and hurtled at the two women. Just as it was about to strike, the two women suddenly stopped fighting and raised their hands together to brace against the Ship of Salvation.
Crunch!
Their four arms broke at once; the golden ship struck their chests and sent them flying backward with bones snapped and sinews shattered.
Shen Mu swung his sword down to take their lives, when suddenly the bizarre body grew madly, sprouting four arms, and the Empress and Lady Yuanmu struck together in one blow!
Shen Mu gave a muffled grunt; man and sword alike were hurled backward, slamming into the towers of the golden ship, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
The two women fell to fighting again, and fled, soon escaping Jade Capital City and vanishing from sight, leaving only their curses drifting from afar, fainter and farther with each moment.
Shen Mu slid down from the tower, struggled to his feet, coughed violently several times, and was appalled.
If the Empress and Yuanmu joined hands, that would be the power of a Dao-Achiever — yet these two women cared only for killing each other, each wanting to destroy the other and have the body to herself!
"How did the Empress and Lady Yuanmu come to this?" he wondered, at a loss.
Just then he saw the two ancient Taiji gods, supporting each other, sneaking furtively toward the outskirts of the city.
Boom!
The Ship of Salvation came down with a crash in front of them. The Sun God and the Moon Goddess hurriedly looked up and saw Shen Mu at the prow, and both ancient gods squeezed smiles onto their aged faces.
"Venerable Mu..."
Shen Mu was about to seize the two ancient gods and haul them aboard, when a flash of golden light from the ship lifted the two aged gods up.
The two ancient gods could not resist, and the next moment they landed on the golden ship.
Shen Mu was puzzled: "Does this ship understand my mind so well?"
"Venerable Mu, we have never once opposed you all this time; please spare us your sword," the Sun God said hastily.
Shen Mu's expression eased, and he said, "I have always shown the two of you consideration as well. But what exactly happened with the Empress and Lady Yuanmu?"
The two ancient gods exchanged a glance and sighed together. "We used the Dao of Taiji to forcibly merge them, never expecting that both Yuanmu's and the Empress's minds and consciousness would remain, fused into one..."
"Can they still be separated?" Shen Mu asked.
"We merged their bodies and merged their primordial spirits; their souls are now one, and their minds and consciousness are wholly merged as well."
The Moon Goddess hesitated, then her vital essence became a twin lotus on a single stem, which she placed in Shen Mu's hand. "Venerable Mu, can you turn this twin lotus into two separate lotuses? They cannot be separated."
Shen Mu stared at the twin lotus, his expression growing stranger by the moment. "You mean that there is in fact only one person inside the Empress now, not two?"
The two aged ancient gods nodded.
"The reason she is like this is that you fused Yuanmu's consciousness and the Empress's consciousness into one."
Shen Mu went on: "Within her mind there is both the Empress's mind and Yuanmu's mind, only she does not know it. She believes she is the Empress."
The Sun God said, "Or rather, she believes she is Yuanmu."
"In other words..."
Shen Mu hesitated, then ventured, "The Empress has gone mad?"
The two ancient gods looked at each other, their old faces full of misery, and each nodded. "She has gone mad. Our experiment failed..."
Shen Mu was dumbstruck. The ancient Taiji gods had created a mad Dao-Achiever?