Recaps

Cao Yu bought the Investiture of the Gods and God-Beating Whip, but learned that he could not use them until the Star Luo Empire’s national fortune reached 90%. He left the Evil Forest to build that fortune, promising Tian Meng and Elder Yi divine positions once his plan came to fruition.

• Cao Yu found the Investiture of the Gods in the upgraded system shop and bought it for three trillion Gold Soul Coins, spending his accumulated wealth.
• Cao Yu discovered that the Investiture of the Gods could only be unlocked when the Star Luo Empire’s national fortune reached 90%, though it stood at just 46%.
• The system told Cao Yu to improve the people’s happiness, living standards, civilization, and productivity, prompting him to accept that he would have to rule wisely.
• Cao Yu rose into the air and left the Evil Forest, while his level-one-hundred strength startled Tian Meng and Electrolux in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Cao Yu told Tian Meng and Elder Yi that he would create divine positions through national fortune and promised there would be places for them, though Tian Meng doubted his ability to rule wisely.

Cao Yu arrived in Sunrise City after reaching Level 100 and revealed that he had attained godhood through national fortune. He told the elders that he could eventually confer hundreds of divine positions, leaving them eager for the promised opportunity.

• Cao Yu reunited with Xuan Zi and the elders, who told him that Xu Tianran had hanged himself after the Sun Moon Empire’s defeat.
• Cao Yu revealed his Level 100 cultivation, startling Xuan Zi and the elders and drawing congratulations from Dai Hao, the surrendered commanders, and other officers.
• Kong Deming accepted that the Sun Moon Empire could no longer resist and reassured its Soul Engineers that Cao Yu would find them a place.
• Dai Hao told Cao Yu that Sunrise City and other cities had been taken over, Xu Tianran would receive a state funeral, and Xu Tianran had asked him to protect Xu Tianzhen.
• Cao Yu explained to the elders that his godhood came through national fortune and that, once his divine spark formed, he could grant hundreds of divine positions.

Cao Yu avoided meeting Xu Tianzhen after the Holy Spirit Cult was defeated, while Sunrise City buried Xu Tianran and mourned the Sun Moon Empire’s fall. In Star Luo City, Princess Vina, Duke Lin, and Duke Xuesha offered Xu Jiawei vast treasures, and Cao Yu arrived as they began their appeal.

• Cao Yu left the palace without seeing the grieving Xu Tianzhen, whose future he had asked Dai Hao to protect.
• On the fourth day, Sunrise City held Xu Tianran’s funeral and buried him in the imperial mausoleum.
• Princess Vina, Duke Lin, and Duke Xuesha sought an audience with Xu Jiawei in Star Luo City, bringing nearly half their national treasuries as gifts.
• Xu Jiawei and the elders joked among themselves before allowing the three nobles to speak.
• Cao Yu returned to the palace and Cheng Gang invited him to join Xu Jiawei and the nobles for tea.

Duke Lin, Duke Xuesha, and Princess Vina asked Xu Jiawei to restore the fallen empires, but he refused and ordered their treasuries confiscated. The Star Luo Empire then incorporated the former empires’ territory and unified the Douluo Continent, while Cao Yu prepared for the arrival of his many children.

• Cao Yu arrived at the palace meeting as Duke Lin, Duke Xuesha, and Princess Vina sought Xu Jiawei’s approval to restore their empires.
• Cheng Gang, Xu Tianshui, Liu Kongzhu, Lu Xuanshui, and Cao Yu opposed the restoration, and Xu Jiawei ordered the empires’ wealth confiscated and restricted former nobles’ military authority.
• Princess Vina and Duke Lin left the palace dejected after accepting Xu Jiawei’s decision.
• Xu Jiawei urged Cao Yu to stay home with Jiujiu and the others, and promised to arrange enough midwives for the deliveries.
• The Star Luo Empire incorporated the former Sun Moon Empire, Heaven Soul, and Dou Ling Empire territories, unifying the Douluo Continent.

After conquering the continent, Cao Yu promised Xu Jiawei that he would help him live forever. Months later, Cao Yu’s wives gave birth to thirteen healthy children, and the chapter ended with the Cao family happily caring for them.

• Xu Jiawei pointed out the lands he had conquered for Cao Yu and asked if Cao Yu wanted to live forever; Cao Yu promised to take him along.
• Cao Yu’s family gathered at the Cao Clan residence as his wives prepared to give birth, and Cao Yu waited outside with supplies for the children.
• Ma Xiaotao gave birth to a girl, followed by Tang Ya, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong'er, who each gave birth to a girl.
• Over the next few days, Jiang Nannan, Luo Yan, Xu Jiujiu, Wang Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress delivered children.
• Cao Yu gave the midwives generous red envelopes, and the Cao Clan welcomed visitors and held a banquet to celebrate the births.
• Several months later, Cao Yu and his family took turns holding the children, while the old master laughed as Xiao Qi and Xiao Jiu tugged his beard.

Cao Yu spent time with his many children before Xu Jiawei abdicated and passed him the throne. Cao Yu renamed the Star Luo Empire the Weiwu Dynasty and became Weiwu the Great, ruler of the continent.

• Ma Xiaotao kept Cao Yu from leaving for the night, and the chapter implied they had another child.
• Cao Yu settled a dispute between Cao Luoying and her younger brothers, while the children recalled his complaints about fishing with their great-grandfather.
• Ma Xiaotao spanked Cao Luoying for trying to get Cao Yu in trouble, and Cao Haoyun and Cao Shaowei secretly recorded it to embarrass her later.
• Years later, Xu Jiawei abdicated and passed the throne to Cao Yu.
• Cao Yu renamed the Star Luo Empire the Weiwu Dynasty and became Weiwu the Great.

In 2002, Xu Jiawei interrupted Cao Yu’s game and took over, leading the retirement squad to another defeat. In 2022, Cao Yu praised his sons for popularizing esports but ordered them to address dangerous and disgraceful behavior at tournaments.

• Cao Yu and the retired officials began a game of Honor, but Xu Jiawei caught Cao Yu playing and sent him back to review memorials.
• Xu Jiawei joined the game in Cao Yu’s place and insisted the others play another round despite their loss.
• In 2022, Cao Yu summoned Cao Luoying, Cao Zhixi, Cao Han, Cao Jin, Cao Xin, Cao Haoyun, and Cao Shaowei to discuss their work and the country’s progress.
• Cao Yu praised Cao Haoyun and Cao Shaowei for helping make esports popular and raising public happiness and national fortune.
• Cao Yu told Cao Haoyun and Cao Shaowei to regulate dangerous stunts and other misconduct linked to esports tournaments, and they agreed.

After Cao Yu suppressed a rebellion involving scientists who created infectious monsters, he kept the researchers to develop calamity weapons for use against alien civilizations. When the Weiwu Dynasty’s national fortune reached 90%, the system unlocked the Investiture of the Gods and sent him ascending to the Cosmic Heavenly River to establish the Immortal Realm.

• In 2030, rebellious dukes and nobles joined scientists to create infectious creatures, and Cao Yu ordered the army to crush the uprising.
• Cao Yu had the captured scientists turned into human pets and stored the infected corpses in his demiplane, intending to use their research against alien civilizations.
• Three years later, the Weiwu Dynasty’s national fortune reached 90%, and the system unlocked the Investiture of the Gods and instructed Cao Yu to establish the Immortal Realm.
• Cao Yu rose into space inside a golden beam as the people of the empire hailed his ascension to godhood.
• The system announced that Cao Yu had reached the Cosmic Heavenly River and told him to select a site for the Immortal Realm.

Cao Yu completed the Heavenly Realm, became the Heavenly Emperor, and gave divine positions to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Elder Yi. Three days later, a massive crowd gathered in the imperial capital as Cao Yu descended with a heavenly host, leaving his public investiture about to begin.

• Cao Yu used the Investiture of the Gods to build the Heavenly Realm and took the Jade Emperor's throne, becoming the Heavenly Emperor.
• Cao Yu changed the Heavenly Realm's time rules so time passed equally there and in the mortal world, and renamed himself the Weiwu Heavenly Emperor.
• Cao Yu invested the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as Great White Gold Star and Elder Yi as the Supreme Old Lord, then asked them to help with further investitures.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Elder Yi appeared before people in the empire, and rumors spread that Cao Yu would grant hundreds or thousands of divine positions.
• Three days later, a huge crowd gathered in the imperial capital, where Cao Zhixi livestreamed the scene as Cao Yu descended amid rainbow-golden light, heavenly soldiers, and winged horses.

Cao Yu descended to the mortal realm as the Weiwu Heavenly Emperor and appointed civil and military officials to the Heavenly Realm. The appointments continued through the Seven Star Lords of the Northern Dipper, while many positions remained undecided.

• The empire's people welcomed Cao Yu, whose rise to the Heavenly Emperor's throne astonished Cao Zhixi and her livestream audience.
• Cao Yu announced that he had established the Heavenly Realm and needed more than a hundred immortal officials, then ordered the Taibai Immortal Official to preside over the appointments.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appointed Cao Yanjun, Cao Xiang, Jing Hongchen, Xu Jiawei, the Four Heavenly Kings, Luo Lingyun, and thirteen Queen Mothers, who rose beside Cao Yu in golden light.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appointed Xiao Hongchen and Xu Sanshi as Heng and Ha, the Two Generals, and named Mu En, Xuan Zi, Sea God Pavilion elders, Yan Shaozhe, Bei Bei, Zhang Lexuan, and Immoral Dog to divine posts.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appointed Huo Yuhao as Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li and named several officials to the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions, leaving the remaining posts undecided.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appointed Cao Han, Cao Haoyun, Cao Shaowei, Cao Jin, Cao Xin, Cao Yan, and Cao Goudan as the Seven Star Lords of the Northern Dipper.

Cao Yu completed the divine investitures, promised the common people a path to earn heavenly ranks, and brought his friends and family to the Heavenly Realm. He explained that they had entered a separate realm and followed the path of immortality rather than the gods’ path.

• Bai Xiuxiu was invested as Chang'e, and Xue Hong's investigation revealed that she had studied alongside Cao Yu and once had a crush on him.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm invested Xuan Ziwen, Ji Juechen, Jing Ziyan, Zhang Xiaomin, and Su Xiao as the Five Dipper Star Lords.
• Cao Yu announced that trials would let people earn heavenly soldier positions and rise through military merit, strength, and influence.
• Cao Yu led his friends and relatives through their new homes in the Heavenly Realm, where they admired its palaces and the nine golden dragons above the Hall of Miraculous Mist.
• Cao Yu told the gathered officials that their realm was independent of the traditional Divine Realm and that they followed the path of immortality.

Cao Yu showed the immortals the vast star regions they would administer, and they watched a civilization perish as its planet exploded. The officials began taking over the universe’s inhabited worlds, then asked Cao Yu to improve the Heavenly Realm’s internet.

• Cao Yu projected the star map of the territories the Heavenly Realm would govern, and the immortals searched it for extraterrestrial life.
• Xuan Ziwen found a blue planet where volcanic eruptions destroyed a civilization, though several spacecraft carrying half-fish embryos escaped.
• Bai Xiuxiu asked to take over the star region, and Cao Yu approved her request while declaring intelligent beings in their territories to be their subjects.
• The officials discovered many kinds of alien civilizations, and Cao Yu told them that countless unknown regions remained beyond their mapped territories.
• Several days later, some immortals set out to administer star regions while others complained that slow internet disrupted their Glory games.
• Cao Yu agreed to establish a new Heavenly Realm network that could transmit messages throughout the universe under their rule.

Cao Yu went to the Star Dou Great Forest to find dragons for the vacant Dragon King divine positions and overwhelmed its Ferocious Beasts with his godly presence. He forced Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena into human form and offered her and the others a choice between submission and death, promising true godhood if they submitted.

• Cao Yu left the Heavenly Realm and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where his presence pinned the Soul Beasts and Ferocious Beasts to the ground.
• Cao Yu demanded that Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts submit or die, then threatened to cut off Xiong Jun’s paws.
• Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena emerged from the lake and demanded that Cao Yu release the others, but he immobilized her and transformed her into human form.
• Cao Yu offered Gu Yuena and the Ferocious Beasts divine positions as true gods if they submitted to him.

Cao Yu forced Gu Yuena and the Ferocious Beasts to submit, then appointed them as true gods and brought them to the Heavenly Realm. Years later, Cao Yu and Gu Yuena escaped an attack by faith-based gods and headed back to gather heavenly troops for a counterattack.

• Cao Yu offered the Ferocious Beasts true god positions in exchange for submission, and the Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, and Chi Tian accepted first.
• Cao Yu used the Investiture of the Gods to appoint Xiong Jun as the God of Great Strength, Chi Tian as Tail Fire Tiger, and the Myriad Demon King as Earth Mansion Star.
• Gu Yuena agreed to surrender if Cao Yu spared the others, and Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Zi JI also submitted.
• Cao Yu appointed Gu Yuena as the East Sea Dragon King, Zi JI as the West Sea Dragon King, Di Tian as the North Sea Dragon King, and Bi Ji as the Immortal Lady of the Azure Firmament Who Responds Throughout the World.
• Three years later, Cao Yu and Gu Yuena recounted how faith-based gods had tried to make Cao Yu establish temples and arrange eighty-one tribulations on Douluo Star.
• Cao Yu and Gu Yuena headed back to gather heavenly troops and attack the gods who had threatened them.

Cao Yu prepared the Heavenly Realm for war against the Buddhas, recruited Thanos and his followers, and launched an invasion. The fighting began with Cao Yu’s forces stripping the enemy of their magical treasures, while Cao Yu confronted Tathagata Buddha, Past Buddha, and Present Buddha.

• Cao Yu assigned Cheng Gang and other officials to guard the rear, while Elder Yi led the undead army to destroy the Buddhas’ faith temples.
• Cao Yu learned that Thanos planned a universal purge, then made Thanos and his followers submit and brought them into his campaign.
• In 2036 of the Weiwu Era, Cao Yu and the immortal officials led over five hundred thousand heavenly soldiers against the Buddhas, while Elder Yi and Thanos’s forces attacked from the rear.
• Cao Yu used the Treasure-Felling Coin to collect the Buddhas’ magical treasures, weakening their forces as Immoral Dog led the charge.
• Cao Yu confronted Tathagata Buddha, Past Buddha, and Present Buddha in their giant forms, rejecting their calls to join or submit to Buddhism.