Recaps

Su Hang organized a 10V10 Divine Prayer Battlefield match, while Zhou Keyu tried to grow his livestream audience as part of his plan to investigate Imperial Crown. Exalted Emperor invited Zhou Keyu to play, drawing viewers to the stream, and Zhou Keyu accepted.

• Huyan Lan split the group into opposing teams, with Hu Xiao, Yin Long, and Jiang Sui choosing to challenge Su Hang while Yugong Liuli joined his side.
• Zhou Keyu livestreamed under the name Xiang Yang and reflected on his plan to gain popularity and rise through Imperial Crown’s streamer promotion path.
• Zhou Keyu recalled that his father had sworn allegiance to Imperial Crown and warned him that the team’s loyalty could turn into a backlash against Imperial Emperor.
• Zhou Keyu realized that he had developed loyalty to Su Hang despite resenting him, and wondered why he was helping investigate the Imperial Crown power grab.
• Exalted Emperor invited Zhou Keyu to a 10V10 match, causing his viewers to surge, and Zhou Keyu accepted the invitation to capitalize on the attention.

Su Hang invited his friends to a 10v10 match and rejected a teammate’s attempt to gain a core position through declarations of loyalty. Liuli removed the teammate from the room and arranged his departure from Sovereign Dominion before the group began choosing heroes.

• Su Hang invited Zhou Keyu’s smurf account, Xiang Yang, to fill the last spot in the room.
• Protect Goddess Xiao Yang asked Su Hang to make him a core member, but Su Hang challenged him to break up with his girlfriend to prove his loyalty.
• Liuli kicked Protect Goddess Xiao Yang from the room and asked Sovereign Dominion’s management to process his departure with a year’s salary as compensation.
• Laoda, God of Crashing, joined the room, and the group discussed heroes for the 10v10 match.
• Su Hang chose a front-row position and got an idea after Liuli selected Guiguzi.

Su Hang’s opponents ambushed his Marco Polo in the bottom lane and chased him back to the crystal, forcing him and Liuli to farm the jungle. Huyan Lan predicted their route and led a search party into the enemy jungle, but her team’s encirclement was a distraction, and the chapter ended with their own crystal under attack.

• Huyan Lan’s team used Teleport to send six heroes to Su Hang’s bottom lane, where Tai Sui’s Taiyi stunned him and Liuli’s Guiguzi sacrificed herself to help him escape.
• Liu Shan disrupted the tower, and the enemy team chased Su Hang all the way to his crystal before withdrawing and taunting him in chat.
• Su Hang decided that he and Liuli should farm jungle monsters because the lanes were unsafe.
• Huyan Lan predicted Su Hang would farm the jungle and led six players to search it while four others guarded the lanes.
• Huyan Lan’s team surrounded the enemy red jungle, but Li Yuanfang spotted Sikong Zhen and Huang Zhong instead of Su Hang and Liuli.
• Huyan Lan realized her team had fallen for a trap when an alarm announced that her crystal was under attack.

Su Hang and Yugong Liuli plundered the enemy jungle and cleared all four minion waves, then taunted Huyan Lan’s team before teleporting home. Huyan Lan split her team to search both jungles, and Li Yuanfang detected someone in the enemy blue-buff brush as a male voice rang out.

• Su Hang explained that he had farmed the enemy jungle while Huyan Lan’s team was away, and he planned to take more resources before leaving.
• Su Hang and Yugong Liuli cleared the four lane waves at the enemy base, and Su Hang sent the enemy team a taunting message before teleporting home.
• Huyan Lan’s team debated where Su Hang would strike next, then split into groups to search the enemy jungle and defend their own.
• Huyan Lan led Silver Dragon, Mountain Lord, Tai Sui, and Mickey Mouse through the enemy jungle while Liu Shan’s group searched their own jungle.
• Li Yuanfang detected someone in the enemy blue-buff brush, and a carefree male voice called out, “I send you away~ A thousand miles away!”

Su Hang and Yugong Liuli outplayed Huyan Lan’s team in the jungle, then let the opponents gain confidence by winning a middle-lane fight with their mechas. As Huyan Lan’s group rushed Huang Zhong, a second Guiguzi suddenly pulled all ten enemies together and froze them.

• Yugong Liuli’s Guiguzi pulled five enemies into Su Hang’s Marco Polo, who earned a penta kill in the enemy’s blue buff jungle.
• Su Hang predicted the enemy would use mechas and said he planned to reach ten kills before piloting the ten-minute boss, Supreme Divine Dominion.
• Huyan Lan’s team mounted three Eternal Guard mechas and led a coordinated middle-lane assault, destroying the opposing mechas and killing several players.
• Huang Zhong baited Huyan Lan’s group into chasing him near the enemy’s second middle-lane tower.
• A second Guiguzi suddenly pulled Huyan Lan, Yin Long, Hu Xiao, and the rest of their team together, and Frost Impact froze all ten enemies.

Su Hang’s team wiped out all ten opponents with a coordinated ambush, giving his Marco Polo a ten-kill streak and a major gold lead. At ten minutes, both teams fought over Supreme Divine Dominion, and the chapter ended with Zhou Keyu unsure who had claimed the boss.

• Huang Zhong baited the enemy team into grouping up, and Liuli’s Guiguzi pulled all ten opponents together for Su Hang’s Marco Polo to kill with his ultimate.
• Huyan Lan rallied her team to hold out for Supreme Divine Dominion, while Zhou Keyu realized Huang Zhong’s bait had enabled the ten-kill play and noticed his stream had passed a million viewers.
• Supreme Divine Dominion spawned with 150,000 health, and Su Hang directed his team to build defensive lines around the boss pit as the enemies approached.
• When the boss’s health fell to 10,000, the enemy team broke through the defenses and a team fight erupted; Phoenix’s Mai knocked Zhou Keyu’s Sikong Zhen out of the air.
• As Supreme Divine Dominion’s health reached kill range, both teams unleashed their key skills on the boss, and Zhou Keyu wondered who had secured it.

Zhou Keyu's successful 10v10 livestream earned him an invitation to the Wu Horse Alliance, while Lin Ying helped his journalism club choose Nurarihyon as a topic. The chapter ended with Lin Ying realizing Nurarihyon was the picture on his QQ alt account.

• Zhou Keyu led Exalted Emperor's team to victory in the 10v10 Divine Prayer Battlefield, drawing two million livestream viewers.
• Zhou Keyu declared his ambition to serve Imperial Crown and received an invitation to join the Wu Horse Alliance.
• Lin Ying and the journalism club agreed to write about Japanese yokai for their next issue.
• Lin Ying's clubmates debated whether to feature Nurarihyon or Xue Ji, and Lin Ying chose Nurarihyon.
• Lin Ying revealed that Nurarihyon seemed to be the anime profile picture on his QQ alt account.

Su Hang reflected on why he wanted Sovereign Dominion to defeat Imperial Crown and decided he would lead the new team to bring down his old one if Imperial Crown had become corrupt. Yugong Liuli then revealed she was returning to Japan to marry and said farewell to Exalted Emperor as she was summoned to leave.

• Su Hang reviewed his system panel and wondered what reward he most wanted from completing the Nation's Number One Team challenge.
• Su Hang saw Sovereign Dominion nearing a showdown with Imperial Crown and resolved to lead Sovereign Dominion against his former team if it had become like the Hundred Demons Team.
• Yugong Liuli told Su Hang she loved Sovereign Dominion and cherished the memories she had made with everyone.
• Yugong Liuli explained that she was going back to Japan to get married and would not be able to return to Huaxia.
• Xue Ji arrived to take Yugong Liuli away, and Yugong Liuli tearfully said farewell to Exalted Emperor.

Su Hang and Yugong Youjing searched separate beaches for Shura and Imperial Emperor, respectively, without realizing they had repeatedly crossed paths. After missing their appointments, they recognized each other as the people they had been seeking and approached to exchange names.

• Yugong Youjing ordered Xue Ji to secure Liuli under house arrest at Yugong Tower, then went to the beach to meet Imperial Emperor.
• Su Hang searched the eastern beach for Shura while Yugong Youjing searched the western beach for Imperial Emperor, but neither found the person they sought.
• Su Hang and Yugong Youjing bumped into each other repeatedly as they switched beaches, each focused on finding his appointment.
• After the tourists left, Su Hang and Yugong Youjing realized the person they had repeatedly encountered might be Shura and Imperial Emperor, respectively.
• Su Hang and Yugong Youjing turned toward each other, walked out of the darkness, and began asking each other's name in unison.

Su Hang convinced Yugong Youjing that he had a severe mental illness and arranged to send him to a psychiatric hospital. Yugong Youjing nearly signed the admission form before suddenly freezing.

• Yugong Youjing introduced himself as Yugong Liuli’s older brother and became furious when Su Hang called her Liuli.
• Su Hang used three trick questions to persuade Yugong Youjing that he had a severe mental illness.
• Yugong Youjing recalled watching executions for years and believing that his accumulated pressure had caused a mental breakdown.
• Su Hang promised that treatment could help and showed Yugong Youjing an admission form for Yang Yongxin’s psychiatric hospital.
• Yugong Youjing prepared to sign the form electronically but suddenly froze.

Su Hang fought Yugong Youjing after discovering the swordsman intended to kill him, and he used the battle to gauge his opponent while defending himself. After surviving four forms of Yugong Youjing’s Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū, Su Hang put on his golden mask and charged, leaving Yugong Youjing stunned by the sight of Imperial Emperor.

• Su Hang revealed that he had tricked Yugong Youjing into signing a psychiatric admission agreement, provoking Yugong Youjing to attack him with his bamboo sword.
• Yugong Youjing unleashed his first four Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū forms, while Su Hang dodged them and suffered shallow cuts.
• Su Hang explained that he had been stalling to learn Yugong Youjing’s weaknesses and admitted that a sharpened sword would have badly wounded him.
• Su Hang put on his golden mask and declared that he was loyal to Imperial Emperor, causing Yugong Youjing to see Imperial Emperor’s image.
• Su Hang vanished as he stepped forward to go all out, leaving Yugong Youjing stunned.

Su Hang defeated Yugong Youjing in their masked duel, but Yugong struck him with his ultimate sword technique after Su Hang removed his mask. Yugong believed the wound would kill Su Hang and fled toward Japan, revealing to Great Tengu that he thought he had committed murder.

• Su Hang dislocated Yugong Youjing’s limbs while questioning him, and Yugong insisted he had never killed anyone.
• Yugong guessed that Su Hang’s mask enabled his immense strength, then attacked after Su Hang removed it.
• Yugong slashed Su Hang across the waist with Amakakeru Ryū no Hirameki and left, believing he had fatally wounded him.
• Su Hang revealed the blood was from a sugar-free cola can and said he would remember Yugong.
• Yugong spat blood in the Maybach, admitted he had broken ribs, and told Great Tengu to return to Japan because he believed he had killed someone.

After news revealed that Sovereign Dominion’s vice captain Liuli was the Yugong Family shrine maiden due to marry a god, the team struggled to manage the work she had handled. Su Hang delayed responding to the online speculation, and the leadership was left overwhelmed without Liuli.

• Douyin users recognized the Yugong shrine maiden as Liuli and tagged Sovereign Dominion, asking whether she was marrying a god.
• Jiang Sui, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao confirmed Liuli’s identity, while Hu Xiao offered to secure the wedding and Yin Long regretted not borrowing money from her.
• Jiang Sui ordered Yin Long, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao to handle their own duties, but they quickly became overwhelmed by the workload Liuli had managed.
• Jiang Sui found that Su Hang had spent three hours spacing out instead of approving team members, and he asked her to take over his work before leaving to buy cola.
• Su Hang told Jiang Sui not to respond to the online discussion yet, and after hours of struggling with the workload, Jiang Sui concluded that Sovereign Dominion’s leadership was paralyzed without Liuli.

Yugong Liuli returned to Kyoto after giving up her chance to escape to Huaxia rather than let her brother, Yugong Nishang, be executed for helping her. She admitted that although she had loved Imperial Emperor for ten years, she had fallen in love with Exalted Emperor, and she agreed that she wanted to see Imperial Emperor again.

• Yugong Liuli recalled that she had left the airport holding room and boarded a flight to Huaxia before turning back after Yugong Nishang urged her to return to Kyoto.
• Yugong Nishang visited Yugong Liuli in her room, apologized for costing her the chance to escape, and asked whether she had found Imperial Emperor in Huaxia.
• Yugong Nishang revealed that he was Mao Rabbit · Yuejing, an Imperial Crown core member, and admitted that he had read Yugong Liuli's diary.
• Yugong Liuli explained that she had loved Senior Imperial Emperor for ten years, but her feelings had faded after meeting Exalted Emperor.
• Yugong Liuli said she wanted to see Senior Imperial Emperor, and Yugong Nishang promised to tell his captain how she felt.

At Yugong Tower, Zashiki learned that Yugong Youjing had supposedly killed Exalted Emperor and offered to avenge the group leader. Yugong Youjing then worried about the lack of news coverage in Huaxia and concluded that he would likely evade extradition, though he regretted killing such a formidable opponent.

• Xue Ji changed Yugong Youjing’s dressing while Great Tengu told Zashiki that Exalted Emperor had badly injured him.
• Zashiki revealed that the Hundred Demons Night Parade Group’s members were all part of the King Hundred Demons Team and offered to kill Exalted Emperor for a fee.
• Great Tengu claimed Yugong Youjing had killed Exalted Emperor using Amakakeru Ryū no Hirameki, and Zashiki praised the group leader’s sword technique.
• Yugong Youjing approved a visit between Nishang and Liuli, explaining that surveillance and an electronic tracking anklet would keep Liuli monitored.
• Yugong Youjing wondered why Exalted Emperor’s death was absent from Chinese news and concluded that he could avoid extradition because Huaxia and Japan had no extradition treaty.
• Yugong Youjing regretted killing Exalted Emperor because he had wanted to keep him as a sparring partner.

Su Hang finished the work Liuli had left behind and discovered that she had logged into her Honor of Kings account on his spare phone. He found that Liuli had cleared the account’s real-name verification, leaving him wondering why as he noticed an undelivered message she had sent him.

• Su Hang completed Sovereign Dominion’s team work while Jiang Sui and the three vice-captains argued over a late-night snack.
• Su Hang logged into Honor of Kings and realized he was on Liuli’s account, which held over a hundred million tokens and numerous rare items.
• Su Hang discovered that Liuli had asked Tencent customer service to clear the account’s real-name verification the previous afternoon.
• Su Hang realized that verifying the account himself could give him ownership of an account worth at least thirty million yuan.
• Su Hang saw an undelivered WeChat message Liuli had sent to Exalted Emperor and began to read it.

Su Hang tried to contact Liuli after she asked him to play her Thousand-Star promotion match, but discovered that her accounts and remote robot were all inaccessible to her. He verified her Whale Overlord account with his own identity and began matchmaking, intending to repay her account’s value, but found her foreigner ID snapped in two.

• Liuli asked Su Hang to play a ranked match for her Thousand-Star promotion, and he discovered her account had one real-name verification chance left.
• Su Hang found Liuli’s accounts and SIM card logged into his spare phone, then realized her Little Liuli robot had lost its remote connection.
• Su Hang decided to verify Liuli’s Whale Overlord account with his identity and planned to deposit thirty million to compensate her for its value.
• Su Hang found Liuli’s foreigner ID inside the spare phone case, but it was broken and unusable, so he began the ranked match without settling how to repay her.
• Su Hang queued for Liuli’s Thousand-Star promotion match and found an opponent in five minutes.

Su Hang entered a ranked match using Liuli’s account and discovered how her past kindness had earned her teammates’ deep respect. Meanwhile, Zhang Daxian returned to streaming to support his former XYG teammates and prepared to help Xiudou reach Thousand-Star Rank, leaving viewers questioning his claimed strength.

• Su Hang was assigned to roam, then learned his teammates recognized Liuli and excitedly recalled matching with her before.
• The second-slot player told Su Hang that Liuli’s gifted skin and encouraging message had helped him through a difficult time in high school, and he vowed to help her reach a thousand stars.
• Su Hang realized Liuli had earned her teammates’ respect through kindness, but the system automatically locked in a support hero before he could choose.
• Zhang Daxian went live on Douyin, promoted Xiudou and Kuxie’s streams, and said he would help Xiudou push his 999-star account to Thousand-Star Rank.
• Zhang Daxian claimed his signature Luna could let him compete with national-server and Overlord players, and Xiudou declared him a Jungle Overlord.

Daxian matched against Liuli in a Thousand-Star promotion game and decided to repay her for gifting him a Luna skin by helping her win. His teammates revealed that Liuli had gifted them skins too, and Daxian also hoped to send her a wedding blessing after news suggested she was marrying Yousu Fox God.

• Daxian recalled how Liuli gifted him Luna’s Zixia Fairy skin in 2016, inspiring him to practice Luna.
• Daxian recognized Liuli on the enemy team and told Xiudou he intended to let her win her Thousand-Star promotion match.
• Xiudou, Kuxie, and the rest of Daxian’s teammates revealed that Liuli had gifted each of them skins, and all four teammates agreed to help her win.
• Daxian’s viewers criticized him for planning to throw the match, but he felt reassured when his teammates shared his decision.
• Daxian decided that helping Liuli win would also serve as a wedding blessing after news suggested she was the Yugong shrine maiden marrying Yousu Fox God.

Su Hang played Cai Wenji in Liuli's Thousand-Star King promotion match and unexpectedly dominated the early game with five kills. He went to scout the Overlord as the enemy team attacked it, and his bouncing orb reached the objective just before the chapter ended.

• Su Hang's Cai Wenji helped Yixing kill Diaochan for first blood, then stole Luna's blue buff with her second skill.
• Cai Wenji healed Luban No. 7 and secured kills on Hou Yi and Zhang Fei in the bottom lane.
• Cai Wenji helped Guan Yu and Sun Wukong win the clash-lane fight, killing Sikong Zhen and Luna for her fifth kill.
• At four minutes, Su Hang went to scout the Overlord while his teammates started the Tyrant.
• Cai Wenji cast her second skill toward the Overlord pit, and its orb bounced from Diaochan to Sikong Zhen to Luna and then onto the Overlord.

Su Hang used Liuli’s account to win a thousand-star promotion match, helping her reach 1,002 stars and tie for first on the national leaderboard. He then turned to Imperial Crown matters, approved Jueying’s plan to bring Xiang Yang into the core, and considered Jueying as a candidate for the team’s next captain.

• Su Hang’s Cai Wenji stole the Overlord, then helped win a team fight with a pentakill and destroy the enemy mid-lane high-ground tower.
• The opposing players congratulated Liuli on reaching Thousand-Star King, and Su Hang replied on her behalf before the match ended.
• Su Hang returned the players’ likes and sent them high-tier skins, then saw Liuli’s account gain three stars and reach 1,002 stars, tying for first place.
• Su Hang began gathering the thirty million yuan to buy Liuli’s account and decided to ask Wangsun for a ten-million advance from Imperial Crown’s funds.
• Su Hang read Jueying’s proposal to make Xiang Yang a core member if his following reached ten million, approved it, and recognized that it could help Zhou Keyu investigate Silver Dragon’s past power grab.
• Su Hang weighed Jueying’s strengths and his tendency to mythologize Imperial Emperor, then named him a candidate for Imperial Crown’s next captain.

Su Hang read Yuejing’s messages and learned that Yuejing’s sister, Yugong Liuli, had kept a diary about meeting him in King’s matches for nearly ten years and had fallen in love with his Imperial Emperor persona. Yuejing said Liuli was being forced by her family to take poison and die, then asked Su Hang to come to Kyoto, Japan, leaving Su Hang alarmed and wondering what was happening.

• Su Hang recognized the diary owner as the Cai Wenji who had ruined his promotion match and secretly topped up his old QQ account with Q Coins.
• Su Hang read that the diary owner had been matched with him more than fifty times and had grown devoted to him as Imperial Emperor.
• Yuejing revealed that the diary belonged to his older sister and asked Su Hang to meet her in person.
• Su Hang refused an in-person meeting because of Imperial Crown rules, then learned from Yuejing’s interrupted voice message that his family was forcing his sister to take poison and die.
• Yuejing told Su Hang to come to Kyoto, Japan, and identified his sister as Yugong Liuli.

After learning that Liuli's arranged marriage to the Yousu Fox God meant she would be poisoned and sent to the divine kingdom, Su Hang wrestled with whether he could risk trying to save her. He finally chose to go to Kyoto, Japan, and announced his intention to save Liuli.

• Su Hang realized Yuejing's sister Liuli was being forced to marry the Yousu Fox God and take poison, and he understood that Liuli had arranged for him to inherit her game account while cutting off contact.
• Su Hang considered whether to risk his life against the powerful Yugong Family, reasoning that he and Liuli were only friends and that she might not risk herself to save him.
• After recalling Liuli's ten-year diary of every match she had played with Imperial Emperor, Su Hang decided that Liuli's loyalty was reason enough to try to save her.
• Su Hang emerged from his room in Sovereign Dominion's uniform with a suitcase and told Jiang Sui, Yin Long, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao that he was going to Kyoto, Japan, to save Liuli.

After learning that the Yugong Family planned to force Liuli to poison herself and marry a god, Su Hang decided to go to Kyoto to save her despite the warnings and fear of his companions. He left Huyan Lan, Hu Xiao, and Yin Long shaken after asking them to look after Jiang Sui.

• Su Hang explained that Liuli’s family planned to make her take poison and serve a god, and Jiang Sui immediately offered to go with him to Kyoto.
• Hu Xiao and Huyan Lan warned that Yugong Xiong’s military power and the million worshippers of the Yousu Fox God would make a rescue nearly impossible.
• Jiang Sui pleaded with Huyan Lan and Yin Long to help Su Hang, but they refused or admitted they were afraid, leaving her furious and in tears.
• Su Hang apologized for Jiang Sui’s outburst, gave Huyan Lan a bank card with ten million, and asked her, Hu Xiao, and Yin Long to look after his sister.
• Hu Xiao, Huyan Lan, and Yin Long tried to dissuade Su Hang from confronting the Yugong Family and the Kyoto underworld, but Su Hang stopped and turned around.

Su Hang flew to Kyoto to rescue Liuli, determined to face the danger despite his fear. At the airport, Yin Long, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao joined him, and the reunited Sovereign Dominion team prepared to save her.

• Su Hang decided to rescue Liuli even though doing so meant making an enemy of Kyoto, and flew from Jiangcheng to Kyoto.
• On the plane, Su Hang realized he needed allies and remembered that his grandfather, Su Zhou, lived in Kyoto.
• After arriving at Kyoto International Airport, Su Hang found Yin Long, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao waiting to help him.
• Su Hang and his teammates reaffirmed their loyalty to Sovereign Dominion and vowed to save Liuli together.
• Yin Long asked how they would rescue Liuli, and Su Hang began to explain his plan.