Supreme Tamer

Chapter 1767: Chapter 1624: The True Face of the Solar Eclipse!

The blazing sun shines, its boundless brilliance pouring down on Struggle Land, a terrain now impossibly vast and desolate.

Because of the catastrophic upheaval, many could no longer recall what season it was anymore.

On the migratory path from Struggle Land to the Northern Territory, a majestic caravan rolled forward, kicking up clouds of dust that hung thickly in the air.

The sunlit dust always brought a sense of unease, flashing conspicuously before them, obscuring vision, and forcing them to breathe cautiously.

"We’ve entered the boundary of the Northern Territory," proclaimed a general of the New Moon Palace army, addressing the migrating group arranged in a long procession.

This group began migrating early and rode incredibly swift mounts.

Some creatures, like Emperor-level or Dominator-level beings, stretched hundreds or even thousands of meters in size—colossal entities capable of ferrying tens of thousands of people atop their backs, resembling entire moving lands.

The Northern Territory used to be the domain of Soul Pets, brimming with dangerous forests and mountain ranges. After years of clearing, it gradually became habitable for humans, and it wasn’t uncommon to see adventurers from other territories searching for treasures and capturing creatures here.

The first wave of migrants to the Northern Territory numbered around three million, primarily builders and settlers tasked with constructing and improving the territory to accommodate future migrants.

"Look, is that the main city of the Northern Territory? It looks enormous!" exclaimed someone atop a Mountain Ridge Abyss Beast.

Mountain Ridge Abyss Beasts, Soul Pets with bodies over a thousand meters long, often hosted tents on their massive backs, creating the sensation of being on an island.

However, as they saw the main city of the Northern Territory, joy spread across their faces. They hurriedly packed up their tents with excitement, ready to settle into this new city.

At noon, sunlight fell from above, illuminating the main city of the Northern Territory.

The city was predominantly white, the walls a pale blue shade, stretching unbroken from one end of the horizon to the other, utterly immense. For those stepping beyond New Moon Land for the first time, the sight was astonishing—this city far outclassed Wanxiang City’s walls.

Everyone knew New Moon Land had a territory in Struggle Land’s northern reaches, but few expected its cities to radiate such grandeur. Those previously pessimistic about migration gradually found optimism rekindled as they gazed upon this mighty city.

Suddenly, a shadow began to creep across the horizon.

It grew massive, enveloping the sky entirely.

The migrating masses watched as darkness consumed the city beyond the main gates, devouring the radiant metropolis bathed in sunlight.

Before long, this horrifying darkness surged toward the three-million-strong migratory procession, the chilling sight plunging the people into panic.

The darkness was dense and overwhelming, rushing forth like a Death God’s cloak slowly swallowing everything in its reach.

Frozen in place, the migrants helplessly watched as the swift darkness consumed their sunlit world.

The solar eclipse that occurs every fifty years!!!

It’s a solar eclipse!!!

Raising their heads, they saw the blazing sun marked by a shadow that gradually expanded, consuming the fiery form bit by bit.

As the sun vanished, the vast land was overtaken by darkness where not even the faintest light could be seen!

Amidst this thick darkness, no one could see anyone else—even fire-wielding creatures failed to dispel the eclipse’s primal shadows.

...

In New Moon Land, Wanxiang City.

The city had inexplicably grown desolate, with dusty, empty streets, abandoned palaces, and eerily silent plazas.

Thus, as darkness crept over and swallowed the city’s light, it didn’t feel entirely abrupt.

Chu Mu perched upon a statue at the Nightmare Demon Palace’s pinnacle, staring up at the sky the moment darkness descended, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the crimson flame of Red Fire Day being consumed.

Red Fire Day bore a conspicuous black fissure. At first, the edges seemed bitten away, slowly forming into a curved doorway closing shut.

Solar eclipse...

The solar eclipse had come, at last.

Awash with a profound and indescribable torrent of emotions, Chu Mu felt his chest tighten with the weight of it.

The demon stirring from slumber—the one humanity feared enough to relinquish the entire western territory—was awakening beneath New Moon Land.

As its eyes opened for the first time, it would see New Moon Land.

If it unleashed blind hatred upon seeing human cities sprawled across its domain, the destruction would be instantaneous, rendering every city to dust.

Soon, Chu Mu foresaw a vast ocean swallowing this land beneath his feet. Wicked creatures would rampage unchecked, ruining millennia of painstaking effort poured into New Moon Land by its people.

...

"Chu Mu," Princess Jinrou called to him, sitting beside him.

Princess Jinrou seemed to have noticed something, her face bearing traces of astonishment. It took her a moment to collect herself.

"What’s wrong?" Chu Mu asked.

"I calculated it—this day and that day are the same," Bai Jinrou said.

"Which day?" Chu Mu didn’t grasp Princess Jinrou’s meaning.

"The day Yu Suo told us about—the day when only standing atop the Ten Thousand Dragon Abyss and looking upward reveals the Heavenly Palace," Bai Jinrou explained.

"Are you certain it’s the same day?" Chu Mu paused in shock.

Princess Jinrou nodded solemnly.

This day of the solar eclipse mirrored the day when the Heavenly Palace’s projection could be seen. This was no coincidence.

Rather, Yu Suo had subtly conveyed an extraordinary secret to Chu Mu that day without outright saying so!

"Let’s fly up to take a look," Chu Mu took Princess Jinrou’s hand and soared into the skies.

Only by reaching the heavens could they uncover the true face of the solar eclipse.

Ascending high, Chu Mu and Princess Jinrou breached the clouds.

Past the cloud-line, they pierced the cold, dark expanse of the Second Layer of Heaven, forging onward toward the resplendent world of the Third Layer, Star River.

The solar eclipse continued swallowing land, laying its shadow over the seas of the Sea Race and the Demon Land of the Demon Race.

As they flew higher, clusters of stars and meteorites began to emerge around them—some suspended quietly in the black night, others streaking brightly toward the Mortal World, or spinning in patterns defined by unknown trajectories.

Chu Mu and Bai Jinrou weaved past the chaos of these stars and meteors, their gaze locked on the distant flame of Red Fire Day.

Red Fire Day hung far away—so far that Chu Mu and Bai Jinrou had to find a clear sightline free of obstruction to uncover the solar eclipse’s source, the truth they suspected buried within.

"Chu Mu, over here!" Princess Jinrou motioned to a vantage point without cosmic debris, granting a clear sight of Red Fire Day!

Chu Mu landed beside her on a massive meteorite.

From the Third Layer of Heaven, Red Fire Day appeared incomprehensibly large, its blazing sphere dominating the view entirely.

Light rays, fierce and pure, radiated forth, falling on Chu Mu and Princess Jinrou—torrid and potent.

Initially, scholars believed the solar eclipse occurred when Red Fire Day temporarily ceased its burning.

A Red Fire Day devoid of fire would naturally fail to radiate light; those rays formed the energy source for the world below, and without them, life would inevitably diminish.

On the Third Layer of Heaven, observing Red Fire Day starkly disproved those theories.

Red Fire Day continued burning, uninterrupted, its fire visible and tangible to Chu Mu and Princess Jinrou, the scorching brilliance unyielding.

But if Red Fire Day hadn’t stopped burning, why couldn’t its light touch the Mortal World below? Why had darkness veiled the land?

Neither spoke a word—they knew the answer to the solar eclipse’s mystery was about to reveal itself.

Red Fire Day, the most exalted celestial body, hung motionless. It symbolized life’s ultimate source, its flames birthing existence itself.

A massive, ancient burning sphere scattering light over the Mortal World below, it gifted energy that fueled Spirit Items, Xuan Objects, Immortal Items, and bore Elemental Soul Pets.

Elements, embodying energy, gave rise to Elemental Soul Pets drawn from these energies.

The emergence of elemental creatures facilitated the birth of vital plant-derived species, reforming Mortal World’s environment and granting demon beasts the conditions for life.

The proliferation of demon beasts introduced mortality to the world, summoning forth the undead—Netherworld species formed from death itself.

Elements, plants, demon beasts, and undead intricately entangled to form the Soul Pets World.

And binding all this together was the infinite blaze of Red Fire Day.

Previously, humanity attributed the fading vitality and collapse accompanying solar eclipses to Red Fire Day’s temporary quenching.

Yet even amidst the eclipse, Red Fire Day burned on, unrelenting.

Which meant something was siphoning the foundational source of all energy maintaining existence...

...

At last, the object they awaited emerged!!

Beneath Red Fire Day’s blaze, it ascended, slowly rotating, blotting out and absorbing the energy sustaining life!

As the territory of the heavens twisted upward beneath Red Fire Day, Chu Mu and Princess Jinrou exchanged stupefied glances.

It was indeed that!!

Upon entering the Heavenly Palace at first, Princess Jinrou had marveled at how its resemblance to a massive disc stood vertically.

Now, she understood.

When it rotated horizontally, Red Fire Day would be blocked entirely!!

The twelve Great Arrays and thirty-six Smaller Arrays atop its surface greedily siphoned all light and energy, leaving none to reach the Mortal World...

This was the ultimate cause of the fifty-year solar eclipse!!!!

In other words, the Heavenly Palace governed and dictated the laws of life and survival across the Mortal World!!

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