A whole day had passed, and "Devouring the Spirit of the World" remained in a special state that couldn't be fast-forwarded.
Moreover, just when Ren Suo had fallen asleep, a plot event happened, resulting in him only seeing it after he got up the next day. Therefore, although 24 hours had passed, less than 13 hours had elapsed in the game——real time was actually moving faster than game time.
The Nine-Tailed Fox had returned to the Embassy once, where Old Zhao notified her that they were engaged in emergency consultations with the Flourishing Sakura Country, but other nations were also interfering, and given that Flourishing Sakura was a multi-party state, even the Prime Minister had to be influenced by various consortia, hence the delay in progress.
