Both Sides Badly Hurt

No matter how exquisite Lin Tianyang's movement technique was, he still needed space to use it.

When more than half the space was occupied by a gigantic shark eight or nine hundred zhang long, the room he had to weave, dart, and shift was greatly compressed.

The Sea Shark Palace Lord's enormous jaws slowly opened and closed. His voice fell from the high sky like muffled thunder rolling in from the deep sea, carrying long-suppressed fury and savage delight:

"Fellow Daoist Lin, can you still run now?"

The instant he finished speaking, those massive jaws flew open, and a terrifying suction force erupted from their depths, sweeping all the surrounding air and clouds inside like an undersea whirlpool.

Lin Tianyang felt his body abruptly stall as the suction dragged him toward those jaws.

He snorted coldly and stamped fiercely against the void, anchoring himself in place. At the same time, he flipped his right hand, gathering a blazing mass of True Qi in his palm before hurling it into the giant shark's mouth.

The True Qi was incomparably condensed, burning with the heat of flame.

The flames exploded within the giant shark's mouth, and the scorching blast vaporized all the surrounding mist.

Yet the giant shark merely shook its head slightly. The explosion seemed not to have inflicted any real damage on it.

Its scales were simply too thick, its body simply too enormous. Ordinary attacks striking it were like a needle pricking an iron plate—painful, but nowhere near fatal.

Ao Li seized the opportunity. His body flashed, and a stream of azure dragon breath surged from the side, forcing Lin Tianyang to divide his attention and evade.

He avoided the dragon breath, but the giant shark's suction pulled him several degrees closer as a result.

Lin Tianyang drew a