After nearly nine days, they had finally reached their destination.
The ruins lay within a gigantic basin, as though a bowl had been pressed into the earth, forming an enormous hollow.
It covered a vast area, with a diameter exceeding tens of thousands of li.
It was also extremely deep—there were likely around five thousand meters from the surface down to its bottom.
The environment inside was exceptionally harsh. Extreme heat, extreme cold, gravity, and all kinds of energies intertwined. Ordinary living creatures could hardly survive there.
The air was heavy with moisture, and thick fog hung everywhere.
There were almost no mammal-like creatures. It was a paradise for insects.
As the airship drew near, it was attacked.
A ten-meter-tall mantis-like creature suddenly flew up from below. It was unbelievably fast, and its scythe slashed into the airship in a single stroke.
As unbelievable as it was, that mantis's scythe had indeed cut through nearly eight layers of the airship's defensive shields.
The defensive formations aboard the airship should, in theory, have remained intact even against a full-force strike from a Hundred Million Dao Realm cultivator.
Yet they had nearly been split open by an insect.
Li Su aside, quite a few Taiyi cultivators were truly given a fright. Their expressions immediately turned far more solemn.
It was not that the mantis was at the Daluo Realm. In fact, it was precisely because it was not at the Daluo Realm that everyone found it troublesome and felt pressured.
Clearly, it was an overpowered creature.
What did overpowered mean? It meant possessing some kind of power that crossed realms.
Like Li Su himself: possessing Taiyi cultivation but a Saint's cultivation method, allowing him to unleash damage far beyond the Taiyi level.
And according to the intelligence, this thing was not a