Chapter 1082 — The Deadlock of a Hundred Thousand Years

" The townsfolk shrieked in panic and fled in all directions. The great bird landed not far beyond the town and crouched there, a mountain that had suddenly sprung from the earth.

Upon its back stood a palace of the deities, and bound to a pillar before the palace was a man with his chest bared and a great spear lodged in it, at the very point of death. Yue Tianzun was about to step forward and ask, but Shen Mu raised a hand to stop her, shaking his head: "I know the one in the palace, and the man bound to the pillar is no good sort either—let them be. " A woman came out of the palace, a long whip in her hand, and set upon the man bound to the pillar with crack after crack of savage lashing until his body was a mass of wounds.

Even after all that, her anger was not spent; she produced a bull-ear dagger, carved flesh from the man's chest, then pried open his jaws and forced him to eat his own meat.

"I have heard of them!

" Yue Tianzun exclaimed in astonishment: "I always knew there was a pair of oddities in the Origin Realm—the woman comes out day after day to beat the man, tormenting him in every way imaginable. At last I have lived to see them. " Just then the deity sent to scout returned, and saluting Yue Tianzun and Ling Tianzun, reported: "This disciple has learned that the demigods are searching for a man named A Chou.

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