Sunspot Tribe

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Sunspot Tribe
Original Name	黑子族群
Species/Race	Branch of the Shadow Clan
Occupation/Role	Starry Sky great-clan branch; dominant military power in the Blazing Flame Nebula
Status	Active; severely destabilized after the destruction of its Southern Star Core Stone of Destiny during its war with the Wolf Pack Civilization 1292 1293
First Appearance	786

Background / History

The Sunspot Tribe derives its power from the Shadow Law and the combined Rules of Shadow and Illusion. It entered the Radiant Sun Star System tens of thousands of years ago, established nine powerful veins, and nearly displaced the Radiant Sun Tribe as the system's overlord. Each vein was commanded by Celestial Venerable-level experts, while even ordinary members possessed at least Celestial Realm strength. 786 816

Its Radiant Sun contingent was ultimately defeated after a protracted conflict. The survivors retreated to Venus, where a century-long war devastated the planet; the Sunspot War Emperor delayed the Radiant Sun Lord at immense cost, preventing the tribe from being reduced to less than a tenth of its strength. 836

The invasion force in the Radiant Sun Star System was only part of the wider tribe. The main body fought alongside its parent clan in the struggle for the Blazing Flame Star Core and steadily expanded its holdings, occupying two major and twelve smaller Star Core fragments by this period. Its total military power was estimated at roughly two to three tenths of the Blazing Flame Nebula's strength. 874 1000

The tribe later consolidated control over the Southern and Northern Star Cores, absorbing or forcing the submission of seventeen Nebula Great Clans. At its height, it held three Main Star Cores, sixteen surrounding fragment foundations, and territory in the Western Star Core—resources assessed as equivalent to sixty percent of a late Level Seven Star Core. 1189 1220

Organization

Division	Command / Function
Black One / Black Lineage Master	Supreme leader of the Sunspot Tribe; possesses a vast Fate Altar and hidden strength beyond the tribe's overt power. 1106
Nine Veins	The tribe's principal lineages, each with its own military forces and Heavenly Lord command. 816 1074
Black One–Black Three	Stationed across the Southern and Northern Star Cores. 1074
Black Four–Black Five	Expanded the tribe's influence among scattered stars and chaotic-region forces beyond the Star Cores. 1074
Black Six	Monitored Heaven Forbidden Mountain and the Heaven's Mandate Clan. 1074
Black Seven–Black Nine	Directed operations targeting the remaining Star Core territories. 1074
Lineage Masters	Rulers beneath the Heavenly Lords; capable of controlling infiltrated bodies through soul replacement. 878
Meteorite Black Guard	Titled elite army divisions. Their commanders include Dimension Second Step powerhouses. 1283 1288
Void Breaking Array Army	Six titled elite divisions deployed with the main force. 1288
Black Tide Army	Six titled elite divisions used in major frontline engagements. 1288
Sunspot Royal Army	Elite troops whose historical peak battle-loss ratio reached six hundred to one during the conquest of the Southern Star Core. 1184

Military Strength

Force / Deployment	Recorded Strength	Notes
Radiant Sun Star System contingent	About 800 members	Every member was at Triple Celestial Realm; included over 200 Venerable Realm experts and five Celestial Venerables. 874
Black Fourth Lineage	Over 10 trillion troops	Each soldier was a Quasi-Celestial Realm expert; sufficient to repel an ordinary Nebula Great Clan. 1106
Black Six and Black Nine deployment	85 trillion Sunspot troops, including 8 trillion Quasi-Celestial Realm Royal Army; 70 trillion vassals	Stationed in the Western Star Core conflict. 1206
First Lineage	900 trillion troops	Included 120 trillion Royal Army soldiers. 1277
Second Lineage	500 trillion troops	Included 40 trillion Royal Army soldiers after recovering earlier losses. 1277
Full mobilization against the Wolf Pack Civilization	Nearly 20 million trillion troops	The tribe committed its entire military strength after war was declared. 1277

Abilities & Military Methods

Shadow Law

The Sunspot Tribe's Origin Strength is the Shadow Law, a power described as more profound than the Soul Law and seemingly detached from ordinary space. 786

• Can evolve phantoms of powerful external experts and command them in battle.
• Grants invisibility, intangibility, attack weakening, void creation, enemy killing, and the ability to seize bodies. 789
• A surviving trace can parasitize a new host and re-evolve into a Sunspot Tribe or Shadow Clan expert. 786
• Can create vast numbers of clones and replicate powerful existences. 786
• At its rumored peak, can project across nebulae, star clusters, and cosmic galaxies. 786

Shadow Beasts and Soul Techniques

The tribe can cultivate or control Shadow Beasts and employ their souls as expendable military resources.

• Blood Soul Returns to Origin allows a combatant to absorb the remnant souls of allied Shadow Beasts for a massive increase in power. 1203
• The technique permanently consumes the absorbed souls and carries severe karmic consequences for anyone who kills its user. 1203
• Sunspot forces have used the mass self-destruction of Shadow Beasts to annihilate attacking elite forces. 1202

Battle Arrays

Sunspot formations compensate for numerical disadvantages and can restrain even Forbidden Existences.

• Shadow Array — rapidly assembled by elite troops to concentrate military strength against powerful individual opponents. 1286
• Dark Tide Prison Heaven Array — suppresses and confines enemies; used alongside the Royal Army to trap Quasi-Giants. 1286
• Dark Asura Array — activated during the defense of the Southern Star Core main camp. 1286
• Illusory Chaos Heaven Array — conceals troops in an untouchable alternate space and disrupts Heaven Clan Dao Rhyme and related techniques. 1290

Equipment and Strategic Assets

• Sky-Shooting Bow — Titan-class clan-protecting heavy weapon once wielded by a Shadow Clan direct descendant; defended the Southern Star Core main camp. 1286 1287
• Stone of Destiny — immense focal point of the tribe's fortune and destiny, supported by its Sea of Fortune and Fate Heavy Artifacts; destroyed by the Wolf Master. 1287 1292
• Sea of Fortune — vast reservoir of the tribe's accumulated destiny, capable of manifesting fortune dragons to suppress invaders. 1287
• Southern and Northern Star Core Wills — Star Core Wills refined into exclusive protector wills for the tribe. 1287
• Shadow Embryos and soul seeds — methods used to implant Lineage Masters into replacement bodies and permit Heavenly Lords to summon their agents across space-time. 878 1074

Relationships

• Shadow Clan — Parent Starry Sky great clan; the Sunspot Tribe is one of its branches and inherited its Shadow-based methods. 874 1074
• Radiant Sun Tribe — Longtime rival in the Radiant Sun Star System. The Sunspot Tribe nearly supplanted it before suffering a major defeat and retreating to Venus. 816 836
• Wolf Pack Civilization — Temporarily allied with one Sunspot branch, but later became an irreconcilable enemy. Their war culminated in the Wolf Master's attack on the Southern Star Core main camp and the destruction of the Stone of Destiny. 1120 1277 1292
• Ember Radiance System — Entered an alliance with both the Sunspot Tribe and the Wolf Pack Civilization after Black One's future deductions. 1221
• Radiant Day System — Targeted by seven Sunspot lineages in the Eastern Star Core under a proclamation accusing it of treachery and illegitimate rule. 1201
• Heavenly Cunning Beast Clan — Allied with Black Three Heavenly Lord in exchange for the promise of its ancestral land and a tenth of the Eastern Star Core as a fief. 1277
• Ice Cold Council — Infiltrated by the Sunspot Tribe as part of an effort to threaten the Wolf Pack Civilization's left flank. 1285

War with the Wolf Pack Civilization

The Sunspot Tribe and Wolf Pack Civilization formally declared war after their conflicting interests became irreconcilable. The Sunspot Tribe mobilized nearly 20 million trillion troops, while Black Three Heavenly Lord secured vassal support through promised territory and rewards. 1277

During its march, the tribe annihilated minor factions in its path and used their inhabitants as Blood Food rather than incorporating them into its rule. This practice made many neutral forces fear the tribe and hope for a Wolf Pack victory. 1278 1281

The Sunspot Tribe's conventional military strength proved exceptionally difficult to overcome. Its forces endured thousands of years of fighting on the Southern Star Core's first fragment, inflicted hundreds of billions of casualties on the Wolf Pack Civilization's vanguard, and used the fragment as bait for a larger encirclement. 1278 1279

At the Sixth Fragment, Black Six Heavenly Lord and his entire lineage fought to destruction. The Sunspot Tribe lost over 260 billion troops without a single survivor, yet its main force soon arrived with tens of millions of trillions of soldiers, fifteen titled elite armies, and the banners of Black One, Black Two, and Black Three. 1288

While the main armies clashed, the Wolf Master infiltrated the Southern Star Core with four Quasi-Giants. His assault overcame the main camp's arrays and Sky-Shooting Bow before shattering the tribe's Stone of Destiny. The collapse injured Sunspot troops and vassals across the battlefield, devastated morale, and forced Black Three Heavenly Lord to rely on deception and the deployment of Black Two and Black Three factions to stabilize the front. 1285 1286 1292 1293

Notable Quotes

“Black tide rolls the firmament, true blood burns ten thousand shadows!
Comrades are all brothers, shed blood and go to the battlefield!”

— Sunspot Tribe battle song 1277

Trivia

• Among the Shadow Clan's six great branches, the Sunspot Tribe is described as the weakest, but also the most united. 1277
• The tribe's former peak conquest of the Southern Star Core achieved a battle-loss ratio of six hundred to one. 1184
• The Sunspot War Emperor disappeared for nearly a century following the conflict in the Radiant Sun Star System. 854