The Heavenly Blade Sword Master seemed completely unaware of his own transformation, and even Tie Dan, facing him, hardly noticed at first.
After all, both of them were fully focused on the sword fighting and magic, with their attention highly concentrated. Besides keeping an eye on the opponentās deadly moves and transformations, they also had to be aware of the slightest changes in the surroundings, leaving them really blind to the moment this change occurred.
But if Tie Dan remembered correctly, until the Heavenly Blade Sword Master used the first move of the Blood Talisman Divine Sword, he still appeared normal and humanoid. However, when he subsequently used the two swords, Jia Shen Sui Lei and Jia Shen Xuan Quan, his appearance became somewhat indistinct and indescribable.
Initially, Tie Dan even thought it was just an afterimage from the Heavenly Bladeās rapid movement, and later even assumed that he was seeing double from being injured by the sword power. It wasnāt until he steadied his stance and took a clearer look that he realized it.
What the hell? Heavenly Bladeās head seems to have split!
Split open, segmented like cell division.
Starting from the sword mark on the Heavenly Bladeās forehead pierced by the Sha Sword, a large amount of skin, blood, and blood vessels proliferated and expanded at a visible speed, tearing and growing toward both sides, forming two additional faces on the side cheeks.
Have you eaten rice cakes or mochi before? You draw a face on the dough and stretch it horizontally, pulling the skin and flesh with the tendons, almost like that feeling.
During the few lines of dialogue they exchanged, those two extra faces swelled and filled with blood, forming large bulges. Visibly, two heads protruded from the sides of the Heavenly Bladeās cheeks.
Complete with noses and eyes, mouths and teeth, though the skin and flesh hadnāt fully formed, the newly grown faces tore apart the face they shared, resembling three crimson blood-drenched, conjoined candied haws.
Tie Dan was well experienced, having seen stranger sights than this, so he maintained a poker face and stayed steady. However, his heart inexplicably began to race.
Is this form the result of the Sha Sword? But it doesnāt resemble Ning Lingshuang or Big Wind Pig at all?
Itās just a stab, not a slap, how could it create such a monstrosity?
If the opponentās head exploded and he died screaming, Tie Dan would assume it was the Sha Swordās doing.
But the eerie thing was, even with the two extra heads, Heavenly Blade didnāt seem to think anything was wrong!?
Come on, donāt you have any idea how youāve ended up like this? Arenāt six eyes making everything double for you? Donāt tell me this is some kind of Honzanās secret fighting Dharma Manifestation!
...Is it?
Could this actually be the second stage of Heavenly Blade?
Tie Dan was genuinely curious and pointed at him,
"Whatās that?"
Heavenly Blade Sanāer sneered,
"Hehehe! Such childish tricks, do you think Iād fall for them?"
Tie Dan,
"...No, I mean that thing clinging to the sides of your face."
Heavenly Blade Sanāer seemed to notice something amiss, glancing sideways with his six eyes, scanning his surroundings in all directions.
Wow, having no blind spots seems pretty good, ahem!
Tie Dan was almost blunt about it,
"Donāt you feel like thereās something extra on your cheeks?"
Unexpectedly, Heavenly Blade Sanāer divided his six eyes to look sideways, then glanced between each other, fell silent for a moment, and then coldly snorted,
"Hmph! Nonsense! Stop blabbering! Prepare for Soldier Disintegration!"
Tie Dan,
"...No, donāt you think itās strange to have three heads? This isnāt a Secret Skill of the Sword Sect, right?"
And to his surprise, Heavenly Blade Sanāer laughed along with his three voices, tearing off the face stretched and shattered by the three heads, revealing the ghastly white bones, bloody skeleton, and conjoined heads,
"Hahaha! What nonsense! Thereās nothing strange about everyone having three heads!"
Wh-What? Isnāt it strange for a person to have three heads?
Tie Dan was shocked and instinctively touched his own cheeks and shoulders.
No, that canāt be right? Humans should only have one head...right?
No, no, no! Not should, itās surely, of course, just one head...right?
For a moment, Tie Dan even began to doubt himself, and at that moment, facing this teacher-killing foe, this life-and-death opponent, he couldnāt care about anything else but was instead overcome with doubt.
How many heads should a person have?
One?
No, three!
Three... yes, isnāt three quite convenient?
Eyes watching all sides, ears hearing all directions, a 360-degree view without blind spots, able to see incoming swords from every direction, eliminating the chance of a backstab, and in case anything happens, the three of us can discuss it together, and even if two heads are chopped off, one can still survive...
Yes, yes, yes
Everyone
Should have three heads
Donāt you think?
Then Tie Dan absentmindedly felt his neck... and found only one head!
And then that head jumped up and gave him a slap!
Uh, it was Kun...
Kun, anxiously bouncing around, grimacing, seemed to be trying to convey something, but Tie Dan couldnāt quite understand.
Look at you, with just one Kunās head, no matter how you roll your eyes, you have only two eyes, communicating in binary, isnāt that highly inefficient? Look at him, with Heavenly Bladeās current six eyes, how high is his communication efficiency, if you too had three Kunās heads, six eyes...
Kun, I poke!
"Wow!"
Tie Dan was poked in the eyes by a double fin! He screamed in pain, suddenly unable to see anything!
Kunās strike was immensely powerful! The pain swept through Tie Danās entire body, bringing a wave of shivers! Cold sweat seeped from his spine, suddenly soaking him completely! This shocking pain snapped him back to reality!
Oh no! What was he doing! Surviving a deadly trial! Whatās he thinking about one head or two heads for!
Heās wide open now! Heavenly Blade is coming to kill him!
"Escape!"
In that split second, between life and death! Tie Danās body reacted instinctively, leaping away with an escape light!