"Lu Cang, stop dragging this out."
Just as Lu Cang was about to say something else, the young man beside him spoke softly.
As he spoke, he gestured for Lu Cang to look into the distance.
There, atop Sacred Cloud Mountain, four figures sat upon its four tallest peaks.
Terrifyingly powerful auras radiated from those four figures. Vast quantities of immortal stones had been placed around them, and the stones were being consumed at an astonishing rate.
Their auras were rapidly rising.
Clearly, the four of them had already begun their breakthrough.
This was the most critical moment. If they were interrupted, at best, they would suffer grave injuries and be unable to break through again for ten thousand years. At worst, their meridians would be crippled, their foundations damaged, and they might even perish.
So, this was the best time for them to strike.
And that had been their purpose all along.
They had come specifically to stop these people from breaking through.
After all, they currently held a massive advantage on the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal battlefield. If these four successfully stepped into the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm, things would be dragged out for some time longer.
It was not as though they had never considered breaking through themselves, but they feared that these present-world prodigies would come and cause trouble.
Moreover, their breakthroughs were even more dangerous than those of these present-world prodigies.
They also required far more preparation.
With the protection of fate, the Heavenly Dao could not strike at them. But once they underwent Tribulation Transcendence, that would be the Heavenly Dao's home ground.
The might of the lightning tribulation at that point was easy to imagine. If they wanted to break through, they had to be cautious—cautious beyond cautious.
After all, within the