Azhdaha immediately felt the restraints binding him fall away. Excited, he opened his cavernous maw and roared wildly, ready to unleash his ferocity and teach those ants who had made him suffer so terribly a lesson. Then he would settle his score with Morax.
But after venting his fury, he suddenly noticed something amiss. There seemed to be something wrong with the space he was in.
It was a space with no end in sight. Aside from a few regular rectangular platforms beneath his feet, it was empty. There was no sun, no moon, and no other living creature.
At that moment, Azhdaha discovered to his astonishment that he could feel no response from the ley lines beneath his feet! As Teyvat's Geo Dragon King, he could draw endless power from the ley lines as long as his feet touched the earth. This was also one of the reasons he claimed to live as long as the earth itself.
With the earth as his reserve, he feared nothing, much less a prolonged battle. If anyone truly wanted to defeat or kill him, the very first thing they had to do was sever his connection to the earth. But with Azhdaha's mountainlike body, getting all four of his feet off the ground was simply unrealistic.
Back then, Rex Lapis and three adepti had fought together against the maddened Azhdaha, chipping away at him all the way from The Chasm to Nantianmen. The main reason they had successfully subdued him was actually that, during the battle, Azhdaha himself had remembered his contract with Morax. His reason had briefly returned, and he had willingly allowed himself to be sealed.
Otherwise, successfully sealing him would certainly not have been so easy. At the very least, there would have been casualties.
Realizing that his connection