Recaps

Su Hang and Yugong’s Su Lie coordinated to ambush Meng Ya and Mozi, giving Marco Polo first blood before Su Hang’s teammates conceded kills elsewhere. Su Hang accepted that he could not rely on most of his team, but trusted Su Lie.

• Su Hang noticed that Yugong played Su Lie with the habits of a highly skilled national-server player and followed his plan to ambush the enemies stealing the Crimson Golem.
• Su Lie stunned Meng Ya and Mozi against a wall, then flashed in front of Marco Polo to block Mozi’s cannon while Su Hang pursued Meng Ya.
• Su Hang dodged Mozi’s attack and killed Meng Ya, earning first blood; the viewers praised the pair’s teamwork.
• Su Hang complimented Yugong, who said Su Hang was only the second player to understand his approach and rhythm.
• Ma Chao killed Sun Ce, then Yao killed Xiao Qiao, giving back Su Hang’s team’s early advantage.
• Su Hang decided he could expect little from his teammates except Su Lie.

Nuanyang and Zimo tried to gank Exalted Emperor’s Marco, but Yugong’s Su Lie anticipated their ambush and helped Marco kill them both. Nuanyang was left shocked, wondering how Su Lie had found them.

• Marco killed Meng Ya and Mozi, giving Exalted Emperor’s farm lane an early lead.
• Nuanyang told Zimo to join him in ambushing Marco from the enemy’s blue-side jungle brush.
• Yugong’s Su Lie charged into the brush and knocked Nuanyang and Zimo into the air.
• Marco used his ultimate on Nuanyang and Zimo, while Su Lie blocked Mozi’s attempt to interrupt him.
• Marco killed Nuanyang’s Yao and Zimo’s Ma Chao, leaving Nuanyang stunned by Yugong’s ability to predict their ambush.

Su Hang and Su Lie dominated the match, but their teammates repeatedly ignored warnings and died, leaving the pair to face the enemy team’s Dark Tyrant attempt. Su Hang raced toward the pit, determined to contest the objective despite the odds.

• Su Hang praised Su Lie’s game sense, and Su Lie said Su Hang ranked second among the expert players he had fought alongside.
• At seven minutes, Su Hang’s Marco Polo led the game in kills and gold while Su Lie protected him and their team overwhelmed the enemy farm lane.
• Sun Ce and Sun Wukong ignored Su Hang’s warnings and attacked Nuanyang’s Yao, who killed Sun Wukong and then Sun Ce.
• Zimo’s Ma Chao killed Xiao Qiao, leaving Su Hang and Su Lie with three teammates who were all 0-6.
• Su Lie warned that the enemy was starting the Dark Tyrant, and Su Hang rushed to the pit, urging his team to give everything they had.

Exalted Emperor’s Marco Polo and Su Lie ambushed Nuanyang’s team at the Dark Tyrant, turning a two-versus-five fight into a pentakill and team wipe. Nuanyang tried to deny that they would lose, but Exalted Emperor had already reached their high ground.

• Nuanyang led his team to attack the Dark Tyrant while Zimo worried Exalted Emperor might contest the dragon.
• Exalted Emperor charged into the pit with Su Lie as the Dark Tyrant knocked Nuanyang’s team into the air.
• Exalted Emperor froze all five enemies, and Su Lie’s ultimate launched them into Marco Polo’s barrage.
• Exalted Emperor claimed the Dark Tyrant, a pentakill, and a team wipe.
• Zimo warned Nuanyang that they were likely to lose, and Nuanyang heard that Exalted Emperor had reached their high ground.

Su Hang reached Legendary King at 102 stars with an all-win, all-MVP record, then befriended the expert support Yugong. Yugong was secretly the purple-haired young woman who admired the legendary leaderboard player she called Senior, and she hoped to team up with him again in the S40 season.

• Su Hang won his final match with Su Lie's help, reached 102 stars, and ended his livestream after celebrating his all-win, all-MVP achievement.
• Su Hang inspected Yugong's profile, suspected the support might resemble a gifted player he had met before, and accepted Yugong's friend request.
• The purple-haired young woman, whose account was set to male, chatted with Su Hang as Yugong and exchanged offers to help each other in the game.
• After Su Hang went offline, the young woman checked the leaderboard and wished to match on the same team as Senior again in the S40 season.

An account named Exalted Emperor stunned Honor of Kings players by reaching Legendary 100 Stars with a perfect win rate and an all-MVP record, prompting speculation about the hidden Champion Emperors. At the RW Xia training base, Fly ruled out Exalted Emperor as a Champion Emperor and revealed that the remaining player he had not challenged was a woman.

• Honor of Kings players debated Exalted Emperor’s identity after his perfect climb and learned that the community’s top honors were three Emperors, five Kings, and seven Overlords.
• Fly posted that Exalted Emperor was not a Champion Emperor player.
• At the RW Xia training base, Xiaopang discovered that Yaodao had been the King-Titled player who tested him during special training.
• Yaodao asked Fly why he was certain Exalted Emperor was not a Champion Emperor, and Fly said there was no possibility.
• Fly explained that the Champion Emperor player he had not challenged was a woman.

At eStar, Huahai and Wanmo realized Exalted Emperor had not yet revealed his signature role after dominating as a jungler and farm-laner. Su Hang accepted a challenge to earn a gold national badge for a mid-lane hero within three days, after Jiang Sui asked him for proof that her brother was the number one Baturu.

• Wanmo reacted to Exalted Emperor's perfect 100-star run, and Huahai said his dominance rivaled Fly's.
• Huahai pointed out that Exalted Emperor had shown equal strength as a jungler and farm-laner without revealing his signature role.
• Su Hang received a system mission to earn national badge honors for a hero before the season ended.
• Su Hang decided to start from zero hero power and earn a gold national badge within three days, before the July rankings were finalized.
• Jiang Sui explained that she had bragged to a merch collectors' group that her brother was the number one Baturu and wanted a screenshot of a gold-badge mid-lane hero.
• Su Hang promised to earn a gold national badge for a mid-lane hero in three days and asked Jiang Sui which hero's badge she liked best.

Yinuo erupted over Nuanyang’s failure to stop Exalted Emperor and considered replacing him as his hidden weapon. After learning Exalted Emperor planned to earn a national badge on a mid-lane hero in three days, Yinuo decided to use a former King-Titled Player to block his path to the Overlord Feast.

• Yinuo ended his call with Nuanyang and smashed his phone, furious that Nuanyang had failed to defeat Exalted Emperor.
• Pei Qian urged Yinuo to cut ties with Nuanyang and offered to find a former King-Titled Player to serve as his hidden blade.
• Zhongyi explained that Exalted Emperor needed either a joint recommendation or a million followers to qualify for the Overlord Feast, and the group thought he was still far from the follower threshold.
• Zhongyi discovered that Exalted Emperor’s livestream challenge was to earn a national badge on a mid-lane hero from zero experience in three days.
• Yinuo recalled that Exalted Emperor had already achieved an apparently impossible hundred-star run, then told Pei Qian to arrange for a King-Titled Player to stop him.

Su Hang announced that he would earn a national No. 1 mage badge and matched against streamers Lü Dehua and Yun Shu. Yun Shu, a former Imperial Crown Team member trying to protect her national No. 1 Pei Qinhu badge, matched against Su Hang and heard him begin to say something about Lü Dehua.

• Su Hang told his livestream viewers he would earn a mage hero’s national No. 1 badge before the month’s rankings closed, then matched with Lü Dehua and Yun Shu.
• Yun Shu showed viewers her transformation after working out in Jiangcheng and said her fitness coach charged ten thousand yuan per session.
• Yun Shu checked that her Pei Qinhu had fourteen thousand Glory Power and was only tenth nationally, so she planned to grind ranked matches for MVPs.
• Yun Shu’s viewers recalled her history with the Imperial Crown Team, where she had played under the ID [Aries] before leaving.
• Yun Shu picked Pei Qinhu after matching against Exalted Emperor, then heard Su Hang start saying, “Lü Dehua is seriously C--”

Su Hang locked in Gan & Mo and began pursuing a major national badge on the popular mage, then used a calculated play to put Wang Zhaojun behind in mid lane. After spotting Dehua on the enemy team and seeing their Ying being bullied by Lu Bu, Su Hang prepared to intervene.

• Dehua recognized Yun Shu in the draft and refused to give Xijianchui his phone, locking in Lu Bu despite learning that Exalted Emperor was on the enemy team.
• Su Hang chose Gan & Mo, unlocked Gan's Long-Victorious God of War skin, and announced he would try for a major national badge in three days.
• Su Hang cleared the first mid wave faster than Wang Zhaojun and caught Sun Bin's bomb with Flash, then knocked Wang Zhaojun away so the bomb killed two low-health allied minions and gave Sun Bin their experience.
• Su Hang cleared the next wave and saw their Ying being suppressed under the tower by Dehua's Lu Bu, so he decided to teach Lu Bu a lesson.

Dehua dominated Ying early, but Su Hang’s Gan & Mo predicted his movements and killed him for first blood. Su Hang then killed Wang Zhaojun and turned his attention to Pei Qinhu, who had just scored a double kill.

• Zhuzi revealed that Dehua used to belong to Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes, astonishing Xijianchui.
• Dehua tried to dodge Exalted Emperor’s Gan’s swords while retreating, but Gan repeatedly hit him at the swords’ intersection.
• Gan predicted Dehua’s ultimate and Flash, landed all four enhanced swords, and killed him for first blood.
• Su Hang explained that countering unpredictable movement meant attacking by instinct, then killed Wang Zhaojun beneath her tower with another full set of swords.
• Pei Qinhu killed Di Renjie and Sang Qi for a double kill, and Su Hang judged that he had skill.

Su Hang used a coordinated bait to help Exalted Emperor's Gan & Mo ambush Yun Shu's team, steal the Tyrant, and wipe out all five enemies. After the team celebrated the triple kill, Su Hang headed toward the enemy fountain with Sang Qi and announced they would dive it.

• Yun Shu gathered her team to take the Tyrant while the enemy Baili Xuance and Ying approached the pit.
• Xuance and Ying dove into the pit, drawing Yun Shu's team into a fight while Exalted Emperor's Gan & Mo secretly positioned himself behind the wall.
• Exalted Emperor's Gan & Mo killed Yun Shu, Lu Bu, and Goya with an eight-sword combo and stole the Tyrant.
• Sang Qi and Di Renjie arrived and killed the fleeing Sun Bin and Wang Zhaojun, completing a team wipe just over four minutes into the match.
• Su Hang led Sang Qi toward the enemy fountain and revealed that he planned to dive it for three assists.

Su Hang’s Gan & Mo fountain-dived Yun Shu’s team for a triple kill, leaving them demoralized as he continued dominating the match. Yun Shu later taunted him to delay the game, and Su Hang decided to indulge her by hunting her down.

• Exalted Emperor’s Gan and Sang Qi fountain-dived Yun Shu, Dehua, and Goya, killing all three while Yun Shu’s team watched in horror.
• After Sun Bin died to Gan & Mo and the enemy team discussed surrendering at six minutes, Yun Shu urged her teammates to keep fighting.
• At six minutes, Su Hang checked the scoreboard and towers, predicting his team would end the match shortly after eight minutes.
• Yun Shu stole Su Hang’s blue buff, but he killed her Pei Qinhu with his ultimate and a slap.
• Yun Shu later taunted Su Hang with recall spam, biting into a mid-lane minion wave before leaping away to waste time.
• Su Hang recognized Yun Shu’s plan to stall for her team’s late-game heroes and said he would give her some proper training.

Su Hang led his team to crush Yun Shu and Dehua’s side, then planned an overnight climb to earn Gan a city-level badge. After the match, Yun Shu recognized Exalted Emperor as her former fitness coach, Su Hang, but reaffirmed her devotion to Imperial Crown’s captain.

• Su Hang repeatedly ambushed Yun Shu’s Pei Qinhu, then led his team to destroy her and Dehua’s crystal at eight minutes and thirty seconds.
• Su Hang finished his first match on the new account with a 15/0/7 record, reached Legendary King with 105 stars, and set a goal of playing 45 ranked matches before noon.
• Yun Shu admitted that being defeated by Su Hang’s Gan had awakened her masochistic feelings and searched for Exalted Emperor’s livestream.
• Yun Shu recognized Exalted Emperor as Coach Su, who had helped her transform her figure.
• Yun Shu opened the profile of Imperial Crown’s captain and reaffirmed her nine-year love for him.

Players and professional Honor of Kings figures were stunned as Exalted Emperor climbed to 218 stars and posted an enormous Gan performance score. At eStar, Qingrong visited Huahai to discuss the Imperial Crown Team’s record-breaking power and revealed that Exalted Emperor was the reason it had surpassed Qingrong’s team.

• A viral Douyin video showed Exalted Emperor reaching 218 stars in Legend and pushing Gan’s ranked performance score past its cap, prompting players to await his Peak Tournament results.
• Wanmo and Huahai reviewed Exalted Emperor’s match history, and Huahai noted that his mid-lane performance slightly exceeded his results in other roles.
• Qingrong arrived at eStar’s training base, signed Wanmo’s shirt, and asked Huahai to talk about the Imperial Crown Team.
• Qingrong told Huahai that the Imperial Crown Team had become the first grassroots team to exceed three million team power.
• When Huahai asked how the Imperial Crown Team had passed Qingrong’s team, Qingrong answered that Exalted Emperor was responsible.

Qingrong tried to recruit Huahai into Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes so they could challenge the Imperial Crown Team, while Exalted Emperor continued his extraordinary climb in Peak Competition. At RW Xia’s training base, Fly and Yaodao encouraged Xiaopang to focus on his August Overlord Feast match against Zhongyi, leaving Xiaopang asking how Exalted Emperor fit into the plan.

• Qingrong told Huahai that Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes was moving to the Android QQ server and wanted to recruit strong players to bring down the Imperial Crown Team.
• Huahai refused Qingrong’s offer because joining Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes would put him at odds with the powerful Imperial Crown Team.
• Qingrong revealed that two other teams also planned to challenge the Imperial Crown Team, whose captain Phoenix shared a history of exile with two other Champion Emperor players.
• At RW Xia’s training base, Xiaopang, Fly, and Yaodao watched Exalted Emperor reach 1,950 Peak Competition points and place ninety-eighth nationally on the Gan & Mo leaderboard.
• Yaodao teased Xiaopang and ordered him ten portions of grilled meat, while Fly urged Xiaopang to focus on facing Zhongyi at August’s Overlord Feast.
• Xiaopang asked Fly what they should do about Exalted Emperor.

Fly explained why Exalted Emperor was likely aiming for the Mage Overlord title, then revealed that Phoenix and Mountain Lord had once been expelled from Imperial Crown in an incident called the Three Emperors' Rebellion. He left Xiaopang and Yaodao on the verge of hearing the identity of the third Champion Emperor.

• Fly told Xiaopang that Exalted Emperor's Major National Badge challenge might conceal his plan to pursue the Mage Overlord title.
• Yaodao asked whether Fly was targeting the Champion Emperor title, and Fly recalled his friendship with retired Farm Lane King Citong.
• Fly revealed that Phoenix and Mountain Lord had served as Imperial Crown vice-captains before the team expelled them after an offline gathering in 2016.
• Fly explained that Phoenix and Mountain Lord founded their own teams and that their departure became known as the Three Emperors' Rebellion.
• Fly said the third Champion Emperor had also come from Imperial Crown, and Xiaopang and Yaodao recognized the player's two-character ID as Fly began to confirm it.

After streaming for 23 hours, Su Hang aimed to break 2,000 Peak points before ending his session, but his final match began with a teammate banning Gan & Mo. His teammates realized he was Exalted Emperor, and he learned he had matched against the streamer Citong.

• Su Hang reached 1,985 Peak points and found his Gan ranked 72nd nationally after accounting for challenge-match Glory Power.
• Su Hang rejected viewers' pleas to rest and queued for one last Peak Tournament match.
• Su Hang's fifth-slot teammate banned Gan & Mo, then explained that he and other teammates had been beaten by Exalted Emperor's Gan in past matches.
• Su Hang revealed that he was Exalted Emperor, startling his teammates and prompting them to apologize for their earlier comments.
• Su Hang asked viewers which mage they wanted him to play and learned that his opponent was the streamer Citong.

Citong returned to streaming after losing weight and entered the Peak Tournament with Maoshen and Grandpa Ge, where they encountered Exalted Emperor. As Exalted Emperor’s team banned his main, Gan & Mo, the chapter ended with him picking Diaochan.

• Citong showed off his transformation and six-pack during his livestream, while Maoshen teased him about losing weight to pursue Tianyun.
• Citong began a Peak Tournament match with Maoshen and Grandpa Ge, and the enemy team’s first pick was Exalted Emperor.
• Grandpa Ge praised Exalted Emperor’s extraordinary but hard-to-measure talent, comparing him to the Grinding Overlord, and Maoshen resolved to recruit him for AG.
• Citong remembered that AG had paid him to snipe Exalted Emperor, but decided to tell Maoshen after the stream.
• After a teammate mistakenly banned Exalted Emperor’s main, Gan & Mo, Exalted Emperor picked Diaochan.

Su Hang’s Diaochan made a risky bot-lane tower dive to rescue his teammates, then used precise skill timing to turn the attack against Citong’s Lady Sun and Donghuang Taiyi. The chapter ended as Diaochan marked both enemies with true damage and Su Hang ordered the marks to explode.

• Su Hang reassured the nervous Sun Quan player with a sugar-free cola joke and promised to support him against Citong.
• At two and a half minutes, Su Hang teleported Diaochan to bot lane to help Sun Quan and Zhong Kui, who were being suppressed by Lady Sun and Donghuang Taiyi.
• Zhong Kui missed his hook on Lady Sun, and Su Hang abruptly dove under the enemy tower despite Donghuang still having his ultimate.
• Donghuang controlled Diaochan while Lady Sun attacked, but Su Hang escaped lethal damage with a timed ultimate and second skill, marking both enemies with true damage.
• Su Hang’s Diaochan re-entered tower range to join Sun Quan and Zhong Kui, then marked Lady Sun and Donghuang again as his teammates retreated.
• Su Hang moved Diaochan out of tower range and said, “Explode!”

Su Hang’s Diaochan wiped out Citong and Donghuang with a tower dive, prompting Maoshen to judge her skill equal to his own at his peak. At the four-minute dragon trade, Su Hang headed toward the Overlord pit and revealed that the three enemies there—not the dragon—were his real targets.

• Su Hang’s Diaochan triggered a chain of true-damage explosions under the tower, killing Lady Sun and Donghuang and earning First Blood and a Double Kill.
• Citong regretted having used Flash, while Grandpa Ge explained that Su Hang had baited him into overcommitting; Maoshen said Su Hang’s Diaochan rivaled him at his peak.
• At four minutes, Su Hang’s team began the Tyrant while Citong’s team sent three players to start the Overlord.
• Su Hang took the blue buff and headed toward the Overlord pit, telling his teammates a tough fight was coming.
• Su Hang spotted Lady Sun, Gao Jianli, and Xiahou Dun attacking the Overlord and declared them his real targets.

Su Hang's Diaochan outplayed Citong's team in the Overlord pit, earning a triple kill with a perfectly timed Perpetual Motion Machine. Citong and his commentators realized Su Hang had baited him through psychological warfare, while Maoshen suggested that Su Hang had practiced the technique extensively.

• Su Hang entered the Overlord pit with low health as Citong's Lady Sun, Gao Jianli, and Xiahou Dun attacked him.
• Su Hang activated Diaochan's ultimate and used her second skill to dodge Lady Sun's shots, then detonated marks to kill Lady Sun and Gao Jianli.
• Su Hang chased down Xiahou Dun as he escaped, completing a triple kill.
• Grandpa Ge explained that Su Hang had baited Citong into attacking by exploiting his instinct to repay every grudge.
• Maoshen proposed that Su Hang had mastered the Perpetual Motion Machine through extensive training, and Citong froze as he considered how many repetitions it would take.

Citong realized that hard work, not lost talent, was the key to becoming stronger again as Su Hang’s Diaochan gained a huge lead. Su Hang wiped out four enemies hiding near the Tyrant pit, leaving only Lady Sun to defend their middle high ground.

• Maoshen told Citong that Exalted Emperor had practiced Diaochan’s Perpetual Motion Machine tens of thousands of times, and Grandpa Ge estimated Citong had only a ten percent chance of winning.
• Citong remembered his past KPL success and decided to draw motivation from his hardworking 2022 self.
• At eight minutes, Su Hang’s team held a commanding lead, and he told viewers to practice Diaochan’s Perpetual Motion Machine in training camp.
• Su Hang spotted that all five enemies had disappeared, warned his teammates away from the Tyrant pit, and approached its nearby brush alone.
• Donghuang Taiyi and three teammates ambushed Su Hang, but he used a famous blade and Diaochan’s Perpetual Motion Machine to kill all four.
• Su Hang’s teammates pushed toward the enemy middle high ground while Su Hang recalled, leaving Lady Sun as the only defender.

Citong’s Lady Sun scored a quadra kill in a desperate base defense, but Exalted Emperor’s Diaochan still destroyed his crystal and won the game. After Exalted Emperor praised him as a worthy opponent, Citong showed Maoshen evidence that Pei Qian had paid him to snipe Exalted Emperor and recruit players to do the same, prompting Maoshen to rush back to Chengdu.

• Citong’s Lady Sun killed Zhong Kui, Sun Quan, Zhu Bajie, and Yun Ying in a last-stand defense beneath the high-ground tower.
• Exalted Emperor’s Diaochan teleported to Citong’s crystal and destroyed it with the cannon minion, securing victory.
• Exalted Emperor liked Citong’s post-game screen with the message “A worthy opponent!” instead of mocking him.
• Citong told Maoshen that Pei Qian had offered him a hundred-thousand-yuan contract to snipe Exalted Emperor in the Peak Tournament.
• Maoshen read Citong’s chat history, learned Pei Qian had also planned to recruit Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest players, and ordered Grandpa Ge to book him the earliest flight to Chengdu.

Su Hang discovered that Jiucheng, the current No. 1 Gan & Mo player, had joined a team connected to his three old close friends, who had returned to the game after nine years. At the AG training base, Maoshen confronted Pei Qian over his attempt to sabotage Exalted Emperor, but a thin man arrived before the dispute was resolved.

• Su Hang checked Jiucheng's profile and recognized him as the player who had once challenged him for the national No. 1 Gan & Mo ranking.
• Su Hang saw that Jiucheng had joined Twilight of the Gods and found Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord leading teams in the Android QQ rankings.
• Su Hang realized his three old friends had returned to the region and expected to face him over their past humiliation.
• Maoshen accused Pei Qian of threatening Exalted Emperor and arranging for players to snipe him, then tried to attack Pei Qian with an air purifier.
• Zhan Yuwen, Menglei, Yinuo, Xuanran, and Zhongyi restrained Maoshen and removed Pei Qian from the training room.
• A thin man entered the AG training base, and his appearance calmed Maoshen.