This move—Ancient Geo Dragon Dive—had been used before when Azhdaha was chasing Zhu Yuan, Seth, and Qingyi.
They knew all too well how powerful it was.
Especially the moment it burst out from underground—it could shatter the earth across a wide area.
Azhdaha, Dragon King, wasn't trying to strike Sam Li.
It was trying to shake him off—get him off its horn so it could face him in a true one-on-one fight.
Sam Li didn't follow him underground this time.
He simply leapt off Azhdaha's horn, landing steadily once the beast had burrowed below.
The moment Sam Li touched down, massive boulders began raining from above, crashing around him.
One rock hurtled straight toward him—
Sam Li calmly raised a hand, caught it midair, and transformed it into a several-meter-long Geo Spear.
Seconds later, Azhdaha's movement underground came to a halt.
The earth split open in front of him.
Like a massive fish breaching the surface, Azhdaha burst from the ground and landed with a thunderous crash.
It lowered its head, glaring down at Sam Li.
"Morax, what tricks do you still have left?"
Sam Li, unfazed, replied with a calm smile,
"By all rational standards, I should be asking you that. Still got anything left, Azhdaha? If you're tired, why not sit and have some tea?"
Azhdaha took them as mockery—and flew into a rage.
"I still have one move left—to kill you!"
Before the words were even out of its mouth, Azhdaha spun and unleashed it.
Crouching Dragon's Tail.
Despite its massive size, Azhdaha's attack was unbelievably fast.
In the blink of an eye, its dozens-of-meters-long tail came sweeping in.
The tail had absorbed a massive amount of Geo energy. It glowed gold, crackling with force.
As it sliced through the air, it triggered explosion after explosion.
The tip of the tail had already broken the sound barrier.
If it hit downtown New Eridu, it would level blocks of buildings like a sickle cutting wheat.
Even that mountain from before—it'd be sliced clean in two.
"Morax—let's see how you handle this!"
Azhdaha, seemingly afraid Sam Li might escape, poured even more strength into the attack.
But Sam Li didn't run.
Instead, he raised both hands—ready to meet the blow head-on.
The tail slammed forward.
Sam Li threw out his arms—
and at the very last moment, wrapped them tightly around Azhdaha's massive tail.
The sheer force dragged him dozens of meters through the dirt before he finally came to a stop.
Even Sam Li couldn't fully arrest the momentum right away—
that was how overwhelming the power behind the strike was.
Still, he held on. And under his grip, the tail's momentum gradually slowed... then stopped.
Azhdaha immediately sensed something was wrong.
It had expected to fling Sam Li away—or crush him with that single strike.
Instead, it felt like it had slammed into a mountain.
The tail moved... then locked up.
It couldn't move any farther.
Azhdaha tried to whip it again—
but the tail was stuck, like it was clamped in place.
and saw, to its fury, Sam Li holding it fast.
Burning with rage, Azhdaha tried to launch a new attack.
But Sam Li acted first.
"Old friend, you're tired. Let me help you stretch a little."
he gripped the tail even tighter, spun his body with all his strength, and hurled Azhdaha to the side.
At first, it seemed impossible.
But in the next instant...
Azhdaha, Dragon King, began to move.
It was being dragged—thrown.
"Let go, you ant! I weigh a million tons! You can't possibly overpower me!"
But before it could finish the sentence—
its body was already being pulled.
Azhdaha, Dragon King, was stunned.
Panicking, it dug its claws into the earth to stop the slide.
The speed only increased.
It had no time to resist, no way to strike back.
Sam Li had fully swung it.
Azhdaha's massive body was spinning through the air, doing loops like a ragdoll.
It tried to grab hold of something—anything.
Only Sam Li's grip, and the whirling sky.
Sam Li released his grip.
Azhdaha's enormous form tore through the sky—
and slammed into a distant mountain.
It struck with earth-shattering force, creating a massive crater.
That mountain, once hundreds of meters high, lost nearly a hundred meters in an instant from the impact.
Nicole, Billy, Caesar, Piper, and the others stood frozen, eyes wide, mouths open in utter disbelief.
They couldn't comprehend it.
How much raw strength did it take to throw a monster like that?
Nicole was speechless.
Billy couldn't even begin to guess.
Not even the largest, most advanced machines could manage one percent of what Sam Li had just done.
Piper was stunned. "He really threw it. Sam Li's serious."
Caesar was in a daze. "Is he even human?"
From the beginning, this fight had defied all understanding.
First the floating boulders...
Then nearly toppling a mountain...
Now he had thrown a hundred-meter-tall beast through the sky by the tail...
It was more insane than anything in Mecha Giants vs. Hollow Titans.
If Caesar hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed it.
Billy seemed to notice something.
He pointed toward the distance. "Look—what's that?"
"Meow—let me check, my vision's better," Nekomata chimed in. "Wait a sec... it looks like a whole bunch of Bangboos, nya?"