Chapter Summaries

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.