Heavenly Screen

Biodata

Appearance

• Turns the azure sky into a golden, mirrorlike expanse, spilling golden light across the continent 1.
• Stretches across untold thousands of miles, with lightning appearing within it as images emerge 2.
• Presents changing viewpoints, close-ups, three-dimensional character images, and accompanying information panels 4 6.
• Delivers announcements through a voice described as the voice of the Heavenly Dao 2 15.

Background

The Heavenly Screen appeared as Lin Feng’s consciousness awakened inside the Xuanming Coffin after ten thousand years. Its opening announcement warned that a terrifying catastrophe was approaching the current plane and declared that it would broadcast developments live. It subsequently identified Hades’s awakening as the danger and urged the continent to prevent his resurrection 1 2 11.

Its source remained unexplained. Even Qian Daoliu did not know where it came from and advised Spirit Hall’s worships against acting rashly. Although its announcements use the voice of the Heavenly Dao, his suggestion that the phenomenon embodies the Heavenly Dao’s will is presented as a question, not an established explanation 2.

Abilities & Functions

Continent-Wide Live Broadcasting

The Heavenly Screen allows geographically separated audiences to follow the same events through images and sound 1 3.

• Broadcasts the Underworld fleet’s movements, battles in Heaven Dou Imperial City, and events inside Hades’s temple 3 6 13.
• Transmits speech from the battlefield across the continent, including declarations and named attacks 9 20 23.
• Changes its viewpoint to highlight individual participants and developments during combat 4 6.
• Enables distant viewers to recognize danger, but does not provide a demonstrated means of contacting those onscreen: Tang San spots the Flash Rider approaching Ma Hongjun yet cannot warn him 6.

Identity and Power Disclosure

The screen publishes names, affiliations, ranks, energy measurements, and techniques that viewers do not already know 4 6 15.

• Appears to answer audience curiosity by displaying Lion King’s and Silver Lion’s profiles after viewers question their identities; deliberate mind-reading is not confirmed 4 6.
• Supplements Lion King’s profile with footage of Seven Injuries Tribulation flattening a small mountain before returning to the live march 4.
• Corrects Yu Xiaogang’s speculation that Scorpion Woman might be Hades’s wife by identifying her as a guardian 14 15.

Catastrophe Warnings and Countdown Notices

The Heavenly Screen connects its broadcasts to a public warning campaign against Hades’s revival 2 11.

• Identifies obtaining the key to the Xuanming Coffin as the condition for Hades’s awakening 2.
• Announces the Underworld warriors’ mission to retrieve the Xuanming Key from the Heaven Dou Empire 3.
• Issues a 100-day resurrection countdown after Lion King obtains the key, warning that Hades will become a supreme deity when it ends 11.
• Declares stopping the resurrection to be the continent’s only chance to end the catastrophe 11.
• Reveals Thunder Mountain Range as the first stop on the route toward the Underworld 12.

Viewing Concealed Battlefields

The Heavenly Screen can display events inside Scorpion Woman’s Dark Heavenly Screen, despite the technique concealing its interior from outside observers 21.

• Shows Scorpion King approaching behind Yu Yuanzhen while he cannot locate her 21.
• Gives remote viewers a clearer view of that encounter than the trapped combatant himself possesses 21.
• The Dark Heavenly Screen is Scorpion Woman’s separate combat technique, not the continent-wide broadcasting phenomenon 21.

Major Broadcasts

Reactions and Influence

• Lin Feng — Resents having his resurrection exposed and initially regards the claim that he will plunge the continent into darkness as slander. He later acknowledges that becoming a God King would place the continent’s lives under his control 1 2.
• Qian Daoliu — Treats the screen’s unknown origin as a reason for caution and urges the worships to wait rather than act impulsively 2.
• Bibi Dong — Orders an investigation into the empires’ reactions, then uses the broadcasts to observe the Underworld and plan Spirit Hall’s response 1 4 14.
• Yu Yuanzhen — Dismisses its account of a ten-thousand-year-old Underworld and holy war as fabricated nonsense 3.
• Tang San and the Heaven Dou leadership — Respond to the countdown by planning to recover the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and stop Hades’s resurrection, with imperial military support promised to Tang San 11 12.