After a fierce battle, the main force finally broke through the layers of gates and the tide-like stitched monsters, arriving in a vast, magnificent cavern so immense it was almost terrifying. The sight left everyone dumbfounded.
Their previous guess had been correct. The entire main peak of the sacred mountain... was hollow beneath. It had been excavated into an unprecedentedly enormous base.
The cavern was cone-shaped, and the exit through which they had entered was an alloy platform halfway up its walls. Many similar alloy platforms could be seen around the cavern. Huge mechanical rails and conduits snaked and intertwined across the rocky walls, connecting the platforms and forming an orderly transportation system. Countless unmanned machines scurried along the rails, busily carrying out their assigned tasks. At the center of the cavern stood a massive warship, towering before them like a giant tower reaching the heavens. Its hull was coated in pitch black, and a series of black crystalline plates, resembling sails, unfolded across its surface. Several strange red-glowing rings could be seen around its middle. Countless crisscrossing metal supports surrounded the warship, with mechanical devices operating at their ends, constantly repairing or inspecting the black warship. This was a busy maintenance site, and all the work was already nearing completion.
Hao Ren guessed that those supports had probably stood there for thousands of years.
This warship was slightly smaller than the black warship they had seen on Aeolus planet before, but since it had been built by giants, its size was still unimaginably huge. Perhaps a third of the sacred mountain's entire volume had been used to contain this behemoth.
When everyone reached the cavern, the warship was undergoing a series of terrifying launch preparations. The red rings around its middle pulsed rhythmically, while engine nozzles and antigravity generators