As soon as those words fell, whether it was the Yang Family Twin Sages or the Snow Infant Clan's Body Integration Cultivators, all felt a greater sense of urgency as they peered into the depths of the Stone Cocoon Secret Realm.
And... a restless eagerness to make a move!
If there had been only one faction, they could have waited for the cultivator's breakthrough to fail and then swooped in to pick up the spoils.
But with three factions arriving at once...
One step behind, and there would be nothing left to seize.
It was also at this moment.
After the surrounding atmosphere had remained deathly still for half a day.
The breakthrough phenomenon deep within the Stone Cocoon Secret Realm finally changed. The spiritual-energy vortex that had swept across most of the secret realm suddenly stalled, swaying on the verge of collapse as though it were about to disperse.
"Did that cultivator fail to break through?"
In an instant, the three factions reached the same conclusion.
Although there was another possible interpretation of this phenomenon, none of them believed that some randomly encountered "great Body Integration Cultivator" in this backwater wilderness could possibly have hopes of breaking through to the Mahayana Realm.
Yet perhaps out of wariness, not a single person from the three factions dared to openly go and seize the "inheritance" left behind by the cultivator whose breakthrough had failed.
One day.
Two days...
Time slowly passed.
Just as the "spiritual-energy vortex" had collapsed by nearly half and the three factions grew increasingly tense, like drawn swords and bent bows, a faint yet unmistakable Body Integration aura was suddenly squeezed out by the distant "heavenly-tribulation pressure" like an uninvited guest.
Ignoring the terrifying heavenly tribulation poised to descend nearby, the moment its aura was exposed, it immediately