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"A celestial dog devouring the sun?" As he listened to Zhuge Yuan's words, Li Huowang's brow furrowed tightly while staring at the pitch-black sky above.

"Could it be an eclipse?" Li Huowang guessed chaotically.

But Li Huowang quickly dismissed that possibility. Back when he was in the first grade of elementary school, he had the fortune to witness an eclipse.

Even if it were an eclipse, the sun in the sky wouldn't be completely black, but would merely have a halo left, and definitely would not turn this utterly dark.

"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang," the intense sound of gongs, accompanied by Top Scholar Lv's chant-like shouts, rang out above Niuxin Village. "The celestial dog is devouring the sun—quick, strike the gongs and drums to scare off the celestial dog!"

The sound had not been alarming at first, but once it began, the entire village was instantly thrown into a panic.