Firmament

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Firmament (天幕)
Alias(es)	Void Firmament 4
Affiliation	“Douluo Firmament: Role-Playing Game System,” which forcibly binds Lin Fan as its player 1
Occupation/Role	Cross-world broadcast interface for role-playing instances, counterpart comparisons, and continent-wide voting 1 4 5
Status	Active during the third instance, featuring Lin Fan as Huo Yuhao 45 47
Reach	Douluo Continent; extends into the Divine Realm during the Tang San instance 1 38
First Appearance	Appears during Tang San’s Martial Soul Awakening in Holy Soul Village 1

Appearance

• Sky-spanning screen: First manifests with a thunderous crash, darkening the clear sky before unfurling a vast screen of light threaded with starlight 1.
• Comparison interface: Displays the roleplayer and real-world counterpart side by side, accompanied by gold labels and towering voting bars 4 5.
• Changing illumination: Emits golden light during blessings and settlements; later projections also feature blood-red coloration, pure-white light, and an ice-blue aurora 8 36 39 45.
• Disconnection effects: Flickers with an electrical rasp as its images fade. The second instance ends with a glass-like shattering sound and a rain of white light 37 45.

Abilities & Functions

Cross-World Broadcasting

The Firmament makes Lin Fan’s role-playing actions visible to audiences outside his instance, despite his belief that he is playing a single-player game 1 38.

• Continent-wide reception: Reaches ordinary farmers and level-99 experts alike. Its light passes through rock and walls into Heaven Dou’s underground prison 1 16.
• Private-scene exposure: Broadcasts intimate farewells, quiet remarks, and Lin Fan’s criticism from within the system space 11 22 38.
• Technical visualization: Produces a holographic cross-section of Lin Fan’s meridians and Soul Power during his compression experiment 2.
• Readable knowledge displays: Enlarges cultivation manuals, meridian diagrams, and Hidden Weapon designs across the sky so spectators can study them 39 42.
• Real-world coverage: Switches from the instance to the Royal Death Prison during the real Yu Xiaogang’s forced soul search 26.
• Divine Realm access: Broadcasts simultaneously to the mortal world and Divine Realm during the second instance 38.

Counterpart Comparison

Comparison mode distinguishes Lin Fan’s portrayal from the person living in the audience’s reality 4.

• Identifies the real Yu Xiaogang by name, cultivation level, achievements, and personality labels 4.
• Places Lin Fan’s transformation of Luo Sanpao beside the real Yu Xiaogang’s unstable level-29 Soul Power and plagiarized theories 4.
• Later broadcasts provide alternate examples of Tang San’s generosity and Huo Yuhao’s independence, prompting audiences to reassess their real-world counterparts and institutions 39 46 47.

Universal Voting & Settlement

The first Universal Vote asks which version of Yu Xiaogang deserves the title of “Grandmaster.” Supporting the eventual winner promises Soul Power purification or constitution improvement 5.

Vote / Settlement	Chapter	Documented Result
First-instance clearance requirement	1	Lin Fan must obtain more than 85% of the continent’s approval votes.
First Universal Vote	5	Lin Fan’s approval exceeds 99%; early supporters visibly receive golden light and physical benefits.
First staged settlement	8	Announces 89.2% for the Firmament representative and 10.8% for the real counterpart, triggering “Staged Heavenly Dao Nourishment.”
Final first-instance vote	36	Closes at 99.9% for Lin Fan and 0.1% for the real Yu Xiaogang.

• Staged nourishment: More than 90% of the continent’s lower classes receive Soul Power or strength improvements. One farmer trapped at level nine for forty years reaches level ten 9.
• Final reward: Supporting commoners and low-ranking Soul Masters receive Mortal Energy Control Authority, broken genetic limits, and knowledge of modern science and industry 36.
• Final judgment: The Heavenly Dao condemns the real Yu Xiaogang, removes his fate and right to reincarnate, and erases his body and soul 36.

Cross-World Materialization

Creations inside the Firmament can take physical form at corresponding locations in reality. The discovery establishes a correspondence of laws rather than confirming the spatial passage Xue Ye had suspected 22 24.

Manifestation	Chapter	Real-World Effect
Blast furnace	24 25	Begins as a translucent phantom beneath Tack Town, absorbs surrounding earth and rock, then becomes solid after Lin Fan’s victory.
Blueprints and formulas	25	Weapon plans and gunpowder formulas appear beside the furnace.
Landmines	25 26	A mine kills a Spirit Hall Soul King attempting to seize the blueprints, causing nearby forces to halt.
Fortifications	30	Bunkers, barbed wire, machine guns, and reinforced-concrete plans manifest; automatic fire destroys a charging Soul Douluo and his force.
Railway network	32	Rails force their way into reality and spread outward; the armored train’s whistle crosses the dimensional boundary.

• Materialized objects are not merely images: they can be touched, contested, and used lethally 24 25 30.
• At least the blast furnace remains after the first projection disappears 38.

Dimensional Inaccessibility

• Tang San cannot decipher the Firmament’s laws even with God King cultivation 38.
• His attempt to erase it with divine power fails because its plane is beyond his reach 39.
• Physical force therefore does not prevent the broadcast from exposing restricted knowledge or undermining his public authority 39 42.

Instance Transitions

The associated system loads new characters, calculates portrayal results, and disconnects Lin Fan when an instance ends 1 37 38 45.

• The first logout explicitly separates Lin Fan’s consciousness and severs the spacetime anchor between worlds 37.
• The Firmament disappears at instance completion but returns for subsequent projections 37 38 45.
• Its disappearance does not reverse the changes already produced in the audience’s world 38 45.

Background / History

First Instance: Young Yu Xiaogang

The system binds Lin Fan after detecting his desire to reconstruct Yu Xiaogang’s character. While he inhabits a twenty-year-old Yu Xiaogang, the Firmament appears over the real continent during Tang San’s awakening and broadcasts Lin Fan’s original forum criticism 1.

Its early coverage shows Soul Power Compression and Luo Sanpao’s transformation into a Golden Sacred Dragon. The dragon’s bloodline pressure reaches through the screen, forcing low-ranking Beast Martial Soul users to their knees 2 3.

Comparison mode and voting turn the spectacle into a public judgment of the real Yu Xiaogang. As Lin Fan develops firearms, the broadcast spreads his recipes to commoners, inspires armed uprisings, and prompts imperial bans and executions 4 5 13 14 15.

The materialization of the Tack Town furnace draws Heaven Dou, Spirit Hall, and major sect leaders into a struggle over industrial technology. Subsequent broadcasts show Lin Fan’s forces defeating elite Soul Masters and Qian Xunji, followed by Bibi Dong’s establishment of the Spirit Republic and the Martial Soul Federation’s founding 24 25 33 34 36.

The final settlement erases the real Yu Xiaogang and empowers Lin Fan’s supporters. When Lin Fan logs out, the Firmament vanishes amid continent-wide mourning, while the real furnace continues operating 36 37 38.

Second Instance: Young Tang San

The Firmament reappears across a parallel future ten thousand years later, reaching both Douluo Continent and the Divine Realm. It opens by broadcasting Lin Fan’s criticism of Tang San before showing his six-year-old portrayal distributing secret techniques freely 38 39.

The projection publicizes the Mysterious Heaven Skill, a peaceful Soul Spirit contract, and the location and medicinal uses of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s Immortal Herbs. These disclosures provoke anger toward the Tang Sect, Shrek Academy, and Tang San’s control of knowledge and resources 42 43 44.

After Lin Fan reaches 100% Sage Roleplay, the Firmament shatters. Its effects continue: crowds topple Shrek’s Sea God statue, the Tang Sect’s Hidden Weapon monopoly collapses, and Tang San is condemned to imprisonment 44 45.

Third Instance: Huo Yuhao

The third projection begins under an ice-blue aurora and identifies Huo Yuhao as its featured character. The real eleven-year-old Huo Yuhao recognizes his own face in Lin Fan’s defiant counterpart 45.

The Firmament broadcasts Lin Fan’s rejection of Tang Sect recruitment and his decision to seek the Sun Moon Empire rather than Shrek. His demonstration of an ambient-energy-absorbing necromantic Soul Tool core excites Jing Hongchen and prompts a search for its creator 46 47.

Watching this alternative path, the real Huo Yuhao destroys his Tang Sect Sleeve Arrow, removes his Shrek uniform, and leaves both institutions 47.

Relationships

• Lin Fan — Roleplayer whose actions supply the broadcasts. He repeatedly mistakes the experience for an isolated single-player game 1 38 39.
• Heavenly Dao — Invoked by voting announcements as the source of rewards; delivers the first instance’s final condemnation and mass empowerment 5 8 36.
• Yu Xiaogang — First real-world comparison target. The projection exposes his failings, while rulers mistakenly attribute Lin Fan’s technological knowledge to him 4 9 16.
• Bibi Dong — Devoted viewer who commits real-world Spirit Hall forces to protecting Lin Fan’s manifested railways and pleads to accompany him when the projection ends 32 37.
• Tang San — Second instance’s real-world counterpart and unsuccessful attacker. The broadcasts contribute to collapsing faith in him and his loss of divine authority 39 42 44.
• Huo Yuhao — Third instance’s real-world counterpart. Lin Fan’s projected choices lead him to reject Shrek and the Tang Sect 45 46 47.
• Qian Daoliu — Orders an investigation into the power behind the Firmament; no answer to that investigation is established in the provided events 7.