Sun Sinking Talisman

The Sun Sinking Talisman is one of True Morning Dao World's three great mysteries, alongside the Heavenly Incense Rune and Yin Death Region. Predating the True World itself, it hangs in a permanently dark region and once each century makes daylight planets fall into sudden night by absorbing surrounding light. Near its core it suppresses senses and cultivation, while under special conditions it activates as a gateway to All Spirits Hall. No cultivator is shown gaining control of it. (Chapters 1169, 1178–1182, and 1203)

History

An ancient mystery open to all

The talisman has remained in southwestern True Morning Dao World for countless years. Every hundred years it shines and forces the suns of planets currently in daylight to set, while planets already in night are unaffected. Its region absorbs other sources of light as well. Unlike Yin Death Vortex, the area is open, and unlike Heavenly Incense, it does not lure visitors with false breakthroughs. Cultivators may approach, copy, investigate, and attempt to master it, but no recorded effort succeeds. (Chapters 1169 and 1178)

Its reputation for safety is conditional. The talisman itself ordinarily permits visitors to leave and does not injure them, but its darkness seals divine sense, ordinary perception, and much of a cultivator's power. People have murdered companions there while everyone was reduced toward mortal vulnerability. The resulting deaths are attributed to intruders exploiting the conditions, not to a hidden attack by the talisman. (Chapter 1178)

The clone's refuge and Su Ming's trap

The independent clone who practices the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole chooses the talisman's region while fleeing Su Ming. He expects its suppression to erase Su Ming's advantage and give him a chance to devour the original body for freedom. Su Ming anticipates that choice, enters on the Resentful Wei—which moves comfortably through complete darkness—and expands a separate supreme treasure around the entire region as a closing cage. (Chapters 1177–1178)

Near the talisman, suppression reduces Su Ming from completed World Plane strength through lower stages until even Earth Cultivation becomes unstable. The clone's forbidden speed Art also fails early under the pressure. Su Ming can still sense his own clone and captures the independent soul, but this victory depends on planning, physical pursuit, the Resentful Wei, and an external seal rather than immunity to the talisman's rules. (Chapter 1179)

Offering, All Spirits Hall, and return

After Su Ming stores the clone's soul, the talisman detects the presence of an offering and announces the activation of All Spirits Hall. Because no offering remains available, it declares the ritual master himself the sacrifice and Relocates Su Ming away, severing his connection to his other bodies. He remains trapped for four years in the world connected to All Spirits Hall. His first interpretation is that removing the independent clone soul caused the punishment; a later revelation says the deeper activation condition was the Great Berserker Tribe's racial enlightenment on Su Ming. (Chapters 1179–1191)

All Spirits Hall is the source of Ancestral Spirit legacies, and the talisman is one half of the passage connecting that place to True Morning Dao World. After Su Ming undergoes the Great Berserker inheritance and works with the old man of Heavenly Spirit Tribe, a vortex shows the back of the Sun Sinking Talisman. They pass through it to return to the galaxy. The artifact thus functions as both threshold and suppressing trial, but Su Ming leaves without becoming its master. (Chapters 1181–1203)

During the invasion by Saint Defier and Dark Dawn, both forces surround the talisman and send cultivators to investigate and activate it. Their interest confirms that its mysteries remain unresolved even after Su Ming's passage. The final direct report leaves it fixed in place and contested, not removed, destroyed, or claimed. (Chapter 1273)

Abilities and properties

• Centennial light absorption: Once every hundred years, it shines and forces suns to set on worlds experiencing daylight. It also absorbs light from other luminous objects, producing a pitch-black galactic region. Night-side planets undergo no additional described change. (Chapter 1169)
• Sensory suppression: Divine sense cannot leave the body, ordinary sight becomes useless, and the environment is compared to sealing all five senses. Special familiarity with darkness or the ability to perceive one's own clone can partly mitigate navigation, but does not cancel the field. (Chapters 1177–1179)
• Cultivation suppression: Power falls progressively as one nears the talisman. Su Ming drops from completed World Plane Realm through successive stages until Earth Cultivation itself wavers. Physical power is somewhat less suppressed, though forbidden techniques become shorter and more damaging under the pressure. (Chapter 1179)
• Open but unmastered access: Visitors can normally enter and leave freely, investigate, copy, or attempt refinement. Countless attempts fail, and the corpus records no owner. Its ordinary field is “gentler” than the other two mysteries only because it does not itself attack visitors. (Chapters 1169 and 1178)
• Offering-triggered relocation: When the appropriate condition is met, the talisman activates All Spirits Hall, seeks an offering, and can substitute the ritual master if that offering is removed. It forcibly Relocates Su Ming despite his attempt to pull away. The exact trigger is initially misunderstood and later tied to Great Berserker racial enlightenment. (Chapters 1179–1191)
• Avanicaya scale: Su Ming judges the primitive three-character talisman to be an Avanicaya Realm supreme talisman, more terrifying than the separate white ring he uses around it. This is an assessment of its scale, not evidence that he can wield that full force. (Chapter 1179)

Ownership and custody