The game had reached the eight-minute mark.
Su Hang's Yuan Ge had the highest gold in the match, far ahead of everyone else. It was no exaggeration to say that any prey he set his sights on simply couldn't escape his grasp.
Even though the enemy Taiyi could grant his allies a second life, it was no use. Killing them again was just a matter of lifting a hand.
Su Hang's Yuan Ge solo-killed the enemy Lady Sun over and over, driving his record to a miserable 0/5, just one step away from a super-feeding record.
His teammates watched with their hearts in their throats.
That was Gu Shi, the current number-one marksman on the peak leaderboard, a superstar said to rival the top Group S KPL marksmen. Yet Exalted Emperor had beaten him beyond recognition. If word got out, wouldn't it set the Honor of Kings community ablaze?
At that moment, Dian Wei, Daji, and the others finally understood the timeless truth: beyond every person was someone greater, and beyond every heaven was another heaven.
"There are gaps even between great players."
"In Boss Exalted Emperor's hands, Gu Shi is like a toy, completely at his mercy. This is hilarious."
"It's not just Gu Shi. Even Ting An and Sang Jie don't dare show their faces in front of the great Exalted Emperor. That's genuinely amazing."
"Boss Exalted Emperor's gaming skills are so astounding they shake the world. I'm curious-his main account must be famous in the Honor of Kings community, right?"
Dian Wei's words woke them from their dream.
For Exalted Emperor to play Yuan Ge at such a pinnacle of mastery, he definitely couldn't be a nobody. Although the Honor of Kings community had tens of thousands of great players, only a handful stood at the very top.
They must have heard of Exalted Emperor's main account.
"It's about time to end the game."
Su Hang used voice-to-text. "Everyone, take the newly spawned Dark Tyrant and get ready to end in one push."
"One push?"
Hearing that, Dian Wei, Daji, and the others froze.
Although they had already smashed through the farm lane, pushing down the enemy crystal in one go was still somewhat unrealistic. Only if they wiped out the enemy team would they have a chance of flattening everything in one push.
"Boss Exalted Emperor, how about we wait a little longer? It's true we've caught up in gold, but we're still a bit worse than them in team fights. It won't be too late to fight once we've snowballed our gold lead."
Dian Wei was very calm now. After all, if he hadn't gotten carried away in that early-to-mid-game team fight, they wouldn't have fallen behind.
"The longer the night, the more dreams. There are too many variables."
Su Hang decisively rejected Dian Wei's suggestion. "Go ahead and start the fight. I'll cover you!"
Those words instantly filled everyone with confidence.
Dian Wei was brimming with confidence: The great Exalted Emperor has already gone that far. If we keep shrinking back, won't we look far too petty?
Daji was raring to go: I'll settle the score, one ambush at a time, for everything they did to me early on.
Zhang Fei's fighting spirit soared to the clouds: Let's go, brothers! With Boss Exalted Emperor covering us, we can roll up our sleeves and be the landlords for once.
At ten minutes, the enhanced dragon spawned.
Su Hang and the others quickly headed to the Dark Tyrant pit and focused it down in an instant, giving the enemy no chance to steal it.
On their way to the enemy's farm-lane high ground,
Su Hang used his first skill to summon his puppet and transform it into the enemy Jiang Ziya. He cleared the mid-lane minions and reached level fifteen.
"I bestow divine power!"
The puppet Jiang Ziya walked over to Yuan Ge's main body, raised his golden staff, and released the power to bestow godhood.
"Thank you for the godhood. I won't let you down!"
The cap on Su Hang's Yuan Ge's level and attributes was lifted.
His teammates' eyes widened at the sight.
"Holy moly, Yuan Ge's puppet can turn into Jiang Ziya and bestow godhood on himself?"
"Damn! What do you call this? Solo Leveling? That's freaking awesome. It's my first time seeing it."
"Yuan Ge, Yuan Ge gets godhood-primordial spirit, activate!"
"Exalted Emperor's primordial spirit."
His teammates made a huge fuss, but Su Hang thought nothing of it.
Su Hang and his teammates gathered beneath the farm-lane high ground, poised to strike.
The enemy waited in full readiness under their tower.
"Attack!"
As soon as Su Hang sent the attack signal, Zhang Fei charged in first, diving under the tower and blasting out his ultimate to scatter the crowd. His teammates Dian Wei and Arthur followed in single file.
The three burly men threw the enemy's defensive formation into disarray, relying on their tankiness to turn the enemy crowd upside down.
Skill effects flew everywhere, and the scene descended into utter chaos.
"So you're the little monkey who kept ambushing me early on, huh?" Daji also charged into the tower. Seeing the monkey leap in on his staff, he flicked his tail and unleashed a two-three-one combo, no explanation needed.
But to his surprise, the monkey switched to Destiny at the last possible moment, successfully avoiding the fatal damage.
"I'm cooked!" Daji's face filled with horror and his heart jolted as the monkey's Golden Cudgel erupted from beneath his feet!
"Don't be afraid. I'm here."
The next second, a slender figure flashed into view in front of Daji.
It was Su Hang's Yuan Ge!
He flung out two threads, their intersection locking around the monkey's throat and claiming the kill!
Daji was thrilled. "Boss Exalted Emperor! Good thing you were here."
"Keep up with me."
"Got it!"
Su Hang quickly went to reinforce Zhang Fei, Dian Wei, and Arthur. This was a tower-dive team fight, after all, and even with the Dark Tyrant buff, the three of them couldn't withstand the combined damage from the enemy, the defensive tower, and the crystal.
But Su Hang had accounted for all of it.
The enemy Sikong Zhen activated his ultimate, thunder roaring with overwhelming force as he built up Mamba power.
That was when Daji's value in a team fight became clear.
He tossed out his second skill, Charm. Even the Thunder Dharma King had to be hard-controlled for a few seconds.
Those few seconds let Su Hang and the others focus Sikong Zhen down so quickly that the enemy Taiyi Zhenren didn't even get his resurrection off.
Su Hang used his ultimate to leap forward, then fired four hidden weapons with his second skill, Paper Luan, instantly killing the enemy Jiang Ziya from half health.
Once an army broke, it collapsed like a mountain.
The only ones left, Lady Sun and Taiyi Zhenren, fled in disarray.
But.
How could he let the duck already in his mouth fly away?
"Dian Wei, charge straight into the fountain!"
"Got it, Boss Exalted Emperor!"
"The beast sleeping within my body has awakened."
With his passive fully stacked, Dian Wei was like a primordial beast. He stomped with his second skill, dashed with his first, and charged straight into the enemy fountain. His enormous battle axe swung, and a single blow claimed Taiyi Zhenren's life.
But the fountain's fatal damage came crashing down on him too.
Just as Dian Wei thought he was certain to die,
Yuan Ge's puppet suddenly charged into the fountain, transformed into Taiyi Zhenren, and unleashed his resurrection ultimate!
"Holy shit! Just in time, Boss Exalted Emperor!"
Dian Wei was overjoyed. He revived and got back up, and with enough gold, quickly bought Destiny and ran out of the fountain.
Lady Sun had just begun to feel grateful for surviving the ordeal.
Su Hang's Yuan Ge arrived outside the fountain and flung out two threads. Their intersection locked around Lady Sun's throat, and he, having just recovered to half health, dropped dead on the spot.
"I have a habit of killing them all."
A stirring kill announcement rang through the canyon as Su Hang's Yuan Ge claimed a triple kill. With that, the entire enemy team had been wiped out, while not one of his allies had fallen. The minion wave reached the crystal, and Su Hang and his four teammates began attacking it.
"Yes, yes!"
"We won, we won, brothers!"
"Boss Exalted Emperor, add me as a friend! Add me!"
Amid his teammates' excited shouts, the enemy crystal exploded.
"Victory!"
On the match results screen, all four teammates gave him a like.
With a rating of 14.3, Su Hang's Yuan Ge outperformed 99.99% of players in the same rank, taking the match's gold medal MVP and an extra star.
Looking at the enemy Lady Sun's miserable super-feeding record,
Su Hang clicked his tongue twice. "I just happen to have been playing farm lane lately. Running into me was really rotten luck for you."
He clicked to report Lady Sun.
Success!