Sky Screen

Biodata

Appearance

• Form: A vast golden screen manifested across the heavens following a thunderclap 1.
• Display: Ancient characters imbued with divine resonance; later comparisons include simulated images of future events 1 40.
• Voice: An ancient voice, neither discernibly male nor female, reads its announcements aloud 1.
• Transitions: Surges of golden light, changing lettering, and thunderous sounds accompany new comparisons 10 19.

Origin and Arrival

The Sky Screen appeared simultaneously in the Anime and Manga Worlds, identifying each world's inhabitants by their respective space-time. Its opening announcement described its arrival as the manifestation of a “mysterious will,” without explaining its creator or purpose beyond the comparisons 1.

Ye Han wondered whether his Creation God System had caused it, but this remained speculation. He ordered the Utopia Federation to observe without acting rashly and considered whether the event might offer a solution to his shortage of faith power 1.

Its arrival also alarmed the Anime World's strongest factions. Bibi Dong stopped Yue Guan from attacking it, while Gu Yuena and the ferocious beasts awakened beneath the Lake of Life to investigate 1 2.

Comparison System

Rankings and Criteria

• Potential, not merely current strength, determines placement. The Clear Sky Sect's divided membership and demoralized condition are explicitly considered limitations on its future potential 33.
• Faction foundations include inherited Martial Souls, resources, membership, secret techniques, and ancestral legacies 19 33 35.
• Core-member assessments compare both combat strength and conduct 19 36 37.
• Original-future comparisons show each faction's “Most Glorious Moment,” rather than events necessarily occurring in the present 24 40.
• Round victories earn points. The Sky Screen announces interim scores and a final result for each faction comparison 19 37 47.
• Higher placement promises richer rewards under the opening rules 1.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's comparison uses four rounds, with moral character assessed separately. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Clear Sky Sect comparisons use three rounds, combining core members' combat strength and character 7 10 16 37.

Documented Results

The Sky Screen formally introduces the Soul Beast ranking after concluding the Clear Sky Sect comparison 47.

Abilities & Skills

Cross-Time Broadcasting

The Sky Screen presents information to both worlds simultaneously 1.

• Its initial announcement reaches the minds of every living being and identifies whether they belong to the Anime or Manga World 1.
• It displays the two versions of a faction in sequence, allowing viewers to compare their foundations, members, and futures 19 35 37.
• Its audience includes humans, Soul Beasts, and beings concealed within the divine-power world beneath the Lake of Life 2.

Revelation of Secrets and Original Futures

Its disclosures extend beyond publicly known information to hidden motives, secret plans, and future events 9 11 38.

• Private motives: Exposes Yu Tianheng's pursuit of Dugu Yan as an attempt to gain Dugu Bo's support, and reveals Tang Xiao's concealed sympathy for Tang Hao 9 38.
• Future betrayals: Reveals Yu Luomian's collusion against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan before his Manga World counterpart admits to having acted on such intentions 9 10.
• Military secrets: Publicizes Spirit Hall's planned attacks on the Upper Three Sects and its future establishment of an empire 11 39 40.
• Cultivation knowledge: Explains Pagoda evolution, the Bone Dragon's spatial potential, and the origins and functions of the Clear Sky Sect's ancestral formation 19 23 35 37.
• Future reconstructions: Shows scenes with dialogue, actions, and descriptions of participants' thoughts 40 43 44.

Reward Bestowal

The Sky Screen grants tangible cultivation benefits to a winning faction's ruler or representative. A golden pillar descends from it when Ning Fengzhi receives his reward 30.

Divine Presence

Its aura exceeds what several powerful observers can comprehend, though these reactions do not establish a named cultivation realm for the Sky Screen 1 2.

• Snow Empress cannot perceive even a fraction of its mysteries despite possessing 780,000 years of cultivation 1.
• Bibi Dong judges its aura more terrifying than that of the Rakshasa God 1.
• Qian Daoliu describes its aura as countless times more terrifying than the Angel God's 2.
• Gu Yuena believes that neither the Five Great God Kings nor the Dragon God could accomplish its cross-world feat 2.
• Yue Guan and Yu Yuanzhen prepare to attack it on separate occasions, but both are stopped before striking; neither incident demonstrates its durability 1 3.

Effects on the Story

Personal and Sect Consequences

• Dugu Yan rejects Yu Tianheng after his motives are exposed; Dugu Bo sets out to confront him and retrieve his granddaughter 9.
• Manga World Yu Luomian is imprisoned after the revelations alert Yu Yuanzhen to his intentions 9 10.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect searches for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after learning that its herbs can overcome the Pagoda Martial Soul's limits 18 19.
• Anime World Gu Rong reconsiders his cultivation after seeing his counterpart combine spatial abilities with defense 23.
• Yu Xiaogang's authority is repeatedly challenged when the screen contradicts his predictions and theories. He responds by accusing its rankings of being bogus or rigged 5 23 32 38.
• Anime World Tang San learns his father's identity following the broadcast of Manga World Tang San introducing himself as Tang Hao's son 40 41.

Political Consequences

The exposure of Spirit Hall's future campaigns gives other factions advance warning and makes further aggression politically riskier. Qian Daoliu refuses an immediate attack on the Clear Sky Sect, noting that the earlier revelations have already turned outside powers against Spirit Hall 11 34.

Qian Renxue fears that subsequent broadcasts could expose her Heaven Dou infiltration. Bibi Dong instead hopes to use Spirit Hall's eventual reward to achieve godhood and conquer the continent 2 11 31 40.

Trivia

• Chapter 47's final announcement calls the Clear Sky Sect the “ninth-ranked” faction, although its placement was explicitly announced as eighth 31 47.
• The absence of Tang Chen from the initial Clear Sky Sect assessment causes viewers to fear that he is dead. Tang Xiao cautions that omission does not prove death, and later broadcasts reveal information about his divine examination 34 35 42.