Recaps

At a major level and gold disadvantage, Exalted Emperor fought Xuanran’s Charlotte and retreated beneath his tower, while professional players speculated that his Flash might enable Charlotte’s legendary Fourteen Light Slashes combo. Xuanran held back from diving the tower, but Exalted Emperor suddenly called out a Swift Light Triangle Sword as Xuanran turned away.

• Xuanran used Weaken to reach level four first and freeze the minion wave, leaving Exalted Emperor behind in level and gold.
• Fly told Yaodao that Flash might let Exalted Emperor perform Charlotte’s Fourteen Light Slashes, a combo proposed by the Captain of the Imperial Crown but never demonstrated in a match.
• By six minutes, Xuanran had reached level ten and built a substantial lead over Exalted Emperor, who was level eight and behind in equipment.
• Xuanran activated Weaken and fought Exalted Emperor, reducing his health to a sliver while losing about half his own.
• Exalted Emperor retreated beneath his tower and recovered some health from minions, while Xuanran chose not to dive after him.
• As Xuanran turned to leave, Exalted Emperor called out, “Swift Light Triangle Sword!”

Su Hang’s Exalted Emperor defeated Xuanran with Charlotte’s Fourteen Light Slashes, then rejected Xuanran’s expectation of humiliation. At the venue, Yun Shu confronted Su Hang about blocking her, and he explained that he had ended their contact after her training course because her feelings for him had been distorted by the method.

• Su Hang’s Exalted Emperor used a minion wave and a flash-auto sequence to chain two Seven-Star Light Sword skills and kill Xuanran’s Charlotte, winning the duel by first blood.
• Spectators recognized the move as Charlotte’s immortal technique, Fourteen Light Slashes, while Xuanran admitted he had failed to perform it in private practice.
• Su Hang refused to mock Xuanran and told him the strong should help the weak, leaving Xuanran stunned before Yinuo reassured him about the upcoming team match.
• Huahai praised Su Hang, who was surprised to find Yun Shu in the streamers’ viewing seats.
• Su Hang ordered Yun Shu to turn around, then asked her to be honest about why she had approached him.
• Yun Shu asked why Su Hang had blocked her on WeChat, and Su Hang said he had told her they would delete each other’s contact information after her fitness course ended.

Yun Shu added Su Hang on WeChat while hoping he could introduce her to the captain of her Imperial Crown Team, and the one-on-one challenges concluded with Su Hang and Zhongyi advancing. As Zhongyi prepared to face the Wolves in the final team match, Su Hang assembled his own team and worried that Liuli would not show up.

• Yun Shu insisted on adding Su Hang on WeChat so she could introduce him to her fitness-minded friends and possibly meet her team captain through him.
• Su Hang told Huahai and Yun Shu that he had never been in a relationship and preferred a pretty, good-tempered girl with sound values, making Yun Shu excitedly believe she fit his captain's preferences.
• Zhongyi defeated defending Jungle Overlord Xiaopang, while challenges in the other lanes failed, and Su Hang drew the order for the final team matches.
• AG and the Wolves fielded their all-star starting lineups for Zhongyi and Xiaopang's Bo1 team match as Tianyun announced the rules and began the match.
• Su Hang told Huahai that their roamer would be comparable to a KPL pro, while the mid laner and farm laner were uncertain, and Huahai offered to call eStar players instead.
• Su Hang checked his friends list and saw that both Yugong and Liuli were offline, leaving him worried that Liuli would stand him up.

At Yugong Shrine, Yugong Liuli finished the sacred sake ritual and logged into Honor of Kings to watch Exalted Emperor compete for the Overlord title. Meanwhile, Yugong Nishang prepared to join the same match, revealing that he was Yuejing, a top-ranked player obsessed with winning over the Captain of the Imperial Crown.

• Yugong Liuli performed the shrine dance with Yugong Nishang, then watched him leave and checked whether she could make it to the Overlord Feast.
• Yugong Liuli learned that Exalted Emperor had reached the final team match with a retired KPL jungler and two randomly recruited teammates.
• Yugong Nishang stayed outside the shrine to play Honor of Kings and ordered his driver to summon a Kabukicho host within twenty minutes.
• Yugong Nishang checked his profile and saw that the Captain of the Imperial Crown still had not accepted his lovers request, despite their one-sided intimacy reaching ninety million points.
• Noon Horse · Jueying tagged Yuejing in the Imperial Crown Team group and told him to prepare for Exalted Emperor's match, and Yugong Nishang replied enthusiastically.

AG crushed Wolves in a one-sided match, with Zhongyi claiming the Jungle Overlord title and AG becoming the first all-Overlord team in KPL history. As Exalted Emperor walked onto the stage, Fly and Yaodao concluded that only the Captain of the Imperial Crown could defeat AG and completed the title of glory as “One Emperor, Three Emperors, Five Kings, and Seven Overlords.”

• AG took Wolves’ high-ground towers, secured the Dark Tyrant and Shadow Overlord, and defeated Wolves in a one-for-five fight before destroying their crystal at nineteen minutes.
• Zhongyi celebrated winning the Jungle Overlord title, while Xiaopang left the stage in tears after losing it.
• Fly comforted Xiaopang, and Yaodao encouraged him to train and try to win the title back next year.
• Fly told Yaodao that AG’s all-Overlord lineup had ended the Big Three’s era and would be difficult for any team to challenge.
• Yaodao suggested that he and Fly help Exalted Emperor, but Fly said only the Captain of the Imperial Crown could defeat AG.
• As Exalted Emperor walked onto the stage, Fly and Yaodao added the Captain of the Imperial Crown to the collective title of glory.

Exalted Emperor faced AG in the Overlord Feast final challenge and revealed that Huahai and the Whale Overlord Liuli would help his team. The audience and AG were stunned as the team match began to take shape, with two of Exalted Emperor’s three online teammates still unidentified.

• Tianyun introduced Exalted Emperor as the final challenger, and the AG fans jeered at him.
• Exalted Emperor said one teammate would join him in person and three would play online.
• Huahai appeared onstage to help Exalted Emperor, shocking the audience and making Yinuo and his AG teammates wary.
• Tianyun announced that Exalted Emperor’s other three teammates would participate online, prompting AG fans to mock them.
• The game lobby showed Liuli, a VIP 10 player, joining Exalted Emperor’s team as support, and the audience recognized her as the Whale Overlord.

Su Hang’s team drew astonished reactions when Liuli, the Whale Overlord, agreed to support him, and the audience assumed his remaining teammates would be ordinary players. Yuejing then appeared in the mid position and was recognized as Mao Rabbit of Imperial Crown, while the crowd spotted Wang Chao in the farm-lane slot.

• Huahai asked Su Hang how he had persuaded Liuli to join, and Su Hang said he had simply invited her after adding her as a game friend.
• Yinuo and Xuanran recalled that Brother Pei had persuaded veteran Overlords and King-Titled Players not to help Su Hang, and they concluded his remaining teammates would be obscure players.
• Fly reasoned that Huahai and Liuli were the limit of Su Hang’s connections because he had met them in recent streams.
• Yuejing took the mid position, and veteran players identified him as Mao Rabbit, the renowned Imperial Crown player.
• The audience looked at the farm-lane slot and recognized Wang Chao, leaving the venue stunned.

Jueying, the Imperial Crown vice captain, joined Exalted Emperor’s team alongside Yuejing, leaving AG stunned by their opponents’ star-studded lineup. Yinuo calmed his teammates by deciding to target Exalted Emperor as the team’s weakest link.

• The audience erupted when Jueying arrived at the Overlord Feast, and Su Hang recalled how he had trained Jueying into an elite player and once removed Yuejing as vice captain for imposing an absurd team rule.
• Su Hang saw Jueying assigned to the farm lane and was pleased that Yuejing and Jueying would back him up in the match.
• Huahai celebrated the strength of the lineup: Exalted Emperor and Liuli were Overlords, Yuejing was an Uncrowned King, and Jueying was an Uncrowned Emperor.
• AG’s players reacted with alarm as Yinuo and Zhongyi identified Yuejing and Jueying as Imperial Crown core members and formidable opponents.
• Yinuo argued that AG’s teamwork could counter the opponents’ uneven individual strengths, then proposed targeting Exalted Emperor as the weakest player on the opposing team.

The commentators discussed the Imperial Crown Team’s influence and the rumored split between its captain and three former leaders over joining the KPL. As the final team match began, AG targeted Exalted Emperor with bans against Mulan and Diaochan, and Su Hang vowed to answer their focus on him.

• Li Jiu and Xiaosa noted that Imperial Crown had far more viewer support than defending champions Chengdu AG.
• Li Jiu recounted that Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord had left after clashing with the Captain of the Imperial Crown over whether the team should enter the KPL.
• The teams began the hero ban-pick phase, and Imperial Crown banned The Luminous and Donghuang Taiyi.
• AG banned Mulan and Diaochan, targeting Exalted Emperor and drawing an angry reaction from the audience.
• Su Hang recognized AG’s targeted bans, and Huahai warned that AG would keep focusing on him during the match.
• Su Hang said AG had picked the wrong person to target.

AG and Imperial Crown selected their lineups for the Overlord title match, with AG heavily targeting Exalted Emperor’s clash-lane heroes in the bans. Exalted Emperor chose Guan Yu despite the matchup concerns, then stunned everyone by switching his summoner skill to Flash.

• AG picked Gongsun Li and Su Lie, while Imperial Crown answered with Di Renjie and Master Luban for the bottom lane.
• AG banned Charlotte, Yuan Ge, and Sikong Zhen, bringing its targeted bans against Exalted Emperor’s clash-lane heroes to five.
• Imperial Crown picked Lam for Huahai and Chang'e for mid, while AG chose Cao Cao for Xuanran and Wang Zhaojun for mid.
• Exalted Emperor selected Guan Yu despite Huahai’s concern that AG’s crowd control would stop him from entering fights, and he claimed he was the number one Guan Yu player in the country.
• Commentators and spectators questioned Guan Yu’s value against Cao Cao, Su Lie, and Wang Zhaojun, then reacted with shock when Exalted Emperor switched from Sprint to Flash.

Su Hang played Guan Yu with Flash in the professional match, then took Huahai’s blue buff while preparing for a clash-lane fight. The chapter left Huahai wondering what Su Hang’s plan was as the level-four wave arrived.

• Fly and Yaodao debated whether Exalted Emperor had chosen Flash Guan Yu to fool around or to attempt an immortal technique.
• Su Hang checked mid for an invasion, pressured Pei Qinhu and Wang Zhaojun, then cleared the top wave and predicted the enemy jungler would gank the clash lane at level four.
• Su Hang joined Huahai in the blue jungle and took experience from his camps before insisting on claiming the blue buff.
• Huahai used Smite to leave the blue buff at low health, and Su Hang finished it, gaining the buff and nearly reaching level four.
• Su Hang told Huahai to collect the health pack at the first tower before the fight, while Huahai headed toward the clash lane and wondered what Su Hang intended.

Su Hang’s Guan Yu used a surprise level-four engage to help Huahai’s Lam defeat Pei Qinhu and Cao Cao, giving their team an early advantage. He revealed that he had brought Flash to test a Guan Yu combo he had developed, leaving Huahai eager to see it.

• Su Hang’s Guan Yu took Huahai’s blue buff, reaching level four after gaining experience from a single minion.
• Su Hang’s Guan Yu used his ultimate and Flash to push Xuanran’s Cao Cao and Zhongyi’s Pei Qinhu under the tower, where Huahai’s Lam helped secure two kills without a death.
• Xuanran and Zhongyi realized Su Hang had reached level four because he took Lam’s blue buff, and Zhongyi decided to help Yinuo more often.
• Huahai praised Su Hang for leaving him the kills and buffs, while Su Hang said he had brought Flash to test a Guan Yu combo he developed in training.

Su Hang led his hastily assembled team to secure the Tyrant and prepare to pressure AG’s farm-lane tower. As the teams gathered for a potential fight, Exalted Emperor’s Guan Yu remained hidden deep behind AG’s lines, and Su Lie was about to discover him.

• Fly and Yaodao discussed Exalted Emperor’s Flash Guan Yu and AG’s plan to build Yinuo’s Gongsun Li’s farm-lane advantage.
• Su Hang convinced Huahai to take the Tyrant so the team could use its numbers advantage to gank Gongsun Li.
• Huahai’s Lam secured the Tyrant with support from Chang’e and Master Luban after AG’s Pei Qinhu and Su Lie contested it.
• The challengers gathered four players in the farm lane to pressure AG’s first tower, while AG assembled its defenders there.
• The commentators and audience spotted Exalted Emperor’s Guan Yu hidden behind AG’s lines, and Dashuai’s Su Lie entered the blue-side jungle to search for him.

Yinuo’s team defended their farm-lane tower and nearly won the fight, but Exalted Emperor’s Guan Yu revealed his flank and turned the battle into a devastating defeat for them. Guan Yu secured a triple kill, Cao Cao also fell, and AG was left at a major disadvantage.

• Yinuo ordered his team to fight under the tower after Dashuai checked the blue-side jungle and found no sign of Guan Yu.
• Chang’e initiated the fight, and Dashuai’s Su Lie and Changsheng’s Wang Zhaojun disrupted the attackers while Xuanran’s Cao Cao pressured Di Renjie.
• Lam killed Wang Zhaojun as Chang’e and Master Luban retreated with low health, leaving Yinuo’s team poised to chase the survivors.
• Exalted Emperor’s Guan Yu charged out from behind the defenders and used his ultimate to kill Gongsun Li and Pei Qinhu and knock Su Lie into his second life.
• Guan Yu killed Cao Cao as he tried to escape, completing a triple kill and swinging the match heavily against AG.

After Su Hang’s flank gave his team a major advantage, he explained that his Guan Yu combo was a stronger version of Polar Sandstorm. When the team debated whether to finish the match conservatively or aggressively, Su Hang called himself conservative but said the aggressive plan was too conservative.

• Yaodao and Fly praised Su Hang’s Guan Yu flank and triple kill, while Fly suspected Su Hang had not yet reached his limit.
• Su Hang apologized to Huahai for arriving late, and Huahai praised his high-ground flank and asked about his combo.
• Su Hang said his triple-kill combo was his own Pro Max version of Polar Sandstorm, inspired by Su Dafeng’s technique.
• Liuli asked the team whether to finish at fifteen or twenty minutes, and Jueying argued for caution while Yuejing pushed for aggression.
• Huahai proposed waiting for the eighteen-minute enhanced dragon, but Su Hang said he considered the aggressive plan too conservative.

Su Hang and Huahai planned a risky ten-minute push that would let AG win a high-ground fight and then turn the game around. After AG wiped out nearly all the challengers and charged toward their clash-lane high ground, a voice suddenly rang out from the brush beside the red buff.

• Su Hang told Huahai he intended to take the Dark Tyrant at ten minutes and push straight to victory, then explained a self-injury ruse to provoke AG into winning a high-ground fight.
• At ten minutes, the challengers took the Dark Tyrant and attacked AG's mid-lane high ground while Pei Qinhu was away pushing a lane.
• AG defended its high ground and won the fight four kills to zero, with Gongsun Li, Pei Qinhu, and Cao Cao killing four challengers.
• Yinuo and his AG teammates celebrated their victory in the fight and rushed toward the challengers' clash-lane high ground.
• As AG passed through the red-buff jungle, a domineering voice came from the brush beside the red buff.

Exalted Emperor’s Guan Yu ambushed the defenders and used an unprecedented combo to wipe out all five, earning a pentakill. Fly recognized a resemblance between Exalted Emperor and the legendary Imperial Emperor, leaving him shaken.

• Yinuo and his teammates were caught in Guan Yu’s crowd-control chain and killed as Guan Yu scored a pentakill.
• The audience and commentators erupted in shock when Exalted Emperor’s Guan Yu’s combo wiped out the opposing team.
• Fly and Yaodao debated the combo, and Fly inferred that it modified Polar Sandstorm by making three skills share a charge bar.
• Fly told Yaodao that Exalted Emperor’s play reminded him of the legendary Imperial Emperor.

At Huyan Ya’s fifteenth birthday party, Jiang Sui gave her a box of live Teddy dogs and accidentally caused Zhang Che to get bitten. The celebration was interrupted when Zhang Che discovered that Jiang Hang was on TV at the Honor of Kings Overlord Feast.

• Zhang Che gave Huyan Ya a stuffed bear, and their classmates teased him about confessing his feelings for her.
• Huyan Ya hinted that she liked Jiang Sui, who arrived with a box of live Teddy dogs as her birthday gift.
• Huyan Ya accepted Jiang Sui’s gift and gave her a bank card with two hundred thousand yuan, but one of the Teddies bit Zhang Che when he tried to pet it.
• Huyan Ya asked why Jiang Hang had not come to the party and mentioned that her older sister wanted to see him.
• Zhang Che showed everyone a Douyin video and announced that Jiang Hang was at the Honor of Kings Overlord Feast.

Su Hang won the Clash Lane Overlord title and the tenth Strongest Overlord title at the Overlord Feast, then revealed that he had competed to win the Gold Badge for his younger sister. Jiang Sui watched the livestream in disbelief as the ceremony ended with Su Hang explaining his reason for competing.

• Jiang Sui and the guests at the reception room watched the Overlord Feast livestream and recognized her brother competing.
• Su Hang and Huahai defeated AG Super Play after Su Hang's risky ambush and five-player combo secured the match.
• Tianyun announced Su Hang as the Strongest Overlord, and Secretary Wei presented him with the Gold Badge.
• Su Hang thanked his fans, teammates, and himself during his acceptance speech.
• Su Hang told the audience he had entered the tournament to win the Strongest Overlord Gold Badge for his younger sister.

At a birthday party, Jiang Sui learned that Huyan Lan was an elite Honor of Kings player after telling her about Su Hang’s Overlord Feast achievements. Huyan Lan revealed she was a Champion Emperor known as Phoenix, as Jiang Sui left to see her brother the next day.

• Su Hang told the livestream audience to take care of themselves and not catch a cold, moving Jiang Sui to tears at Huyan Ya’s birthday party.
• Huyan Lan arrived at the party, comforted Huyan Ya, and asked why Jiang Sui was crying.
• Jiang Sui explained that Su Hang had entered the Overlord Feast to fulfill her Gold Badge dream and had won the Clash Lane Overlord title and Strongest Overlord honor.
• Huyan Lan said she was better than Su Hang at Honor of Kings, and Jiang Sui learned that her brother was coming back to Jiangcheng the next day.
• Huyan Lan told Huyan Ya she was one of only three Champion Emperor players and that players called her Phoenix.

After Yinuo broke down over AG’s failure to keep every player an Overlord, Menglei helped him recover and decide to apologize to Exalted Emperor. Just as AG prepared to meet him, the Silver Dragon, captain of Twilight of the Gods, arrived at the training base.

• Menglei broke into the wrecked training room and found Yinuo sobbing and blaming himself for failing AG.
• Menglei reminded Yinuo that AG had already achieved its dream, and Sister Fei’s message helped Yinuo stop blaming himself.
• Yinuo apologized to the team for his behavior and asked Menglei to arrange a meal with Exalted Emperor so he could apologize for targeting him.
• Maoshen said Huahai had invited them to meet Exalted Emperor, and the AG group began getting ready to go.
• Jiucheng ushered in two unfamiliar attendants, followed by the silver-masked young man who introduced himself as the captain of Twilight of the Gods, Silver Dragon.

At a Chengdu hotpot restaurant, Su Hang accepted AG’s effort to reconcile after its recruitment manager, Pei Qian, was exposed for embezzlement. Su Hang agreed to compete in the Clash of Kings but rejected offers from AG and eStar, announcing that he would form his own team.

• Yinuo apologized to Su Hang for targeting and stream-sniping him, while Menglei offered AG’s public apology and compensation.
• Su Hang demanded an in-person apology from AG’s recruitment manager, Pei Qian, who begged for forgiveness after losing his uncle Pei Gou’s protection and being caught embezzling club funds.
• Su Hang agreed to reconcile with AG on the condition that Pei Qian disappear from his sight, and Menglei promised Pei Qian would go to prison.
• Menglei asked whether Su Hang would pursue a King Title in the upcoming Clash of Kings, and Su Hang said he would compete to test his skills against strong opponents.
• Menglei offered AG’s team and Huahai offered eStar’s team, but Su Hang refused to represent either club and announced he would start his own team.

Su Hang created the team Sovereign Dominion and recruited Liuli as its first member. As he began streaming to find three more core members, something on the livestream startled him.

• Jiang Sui dressed as a Lolita maid and used a recorded clip to persuade Su Hang to give her the Strongest Overlord Gold Badge in exchange for doing things for him.
• Su Hang gave Jiang Sui the badge and asked her to buy several cases of sugar-free cola.
• Su Hang created the team Sovereign Dominion with four core members and invited Liuli to join as vice captain.
• Liuli accepted Su Hang's invitation and applied to join Sovereign Dominion.
• Su Hang started a livestream to seek the team's remaining core members, then froze in surprise midway through greeting his viewers.

Su Hang’s stream drew a huge audience and gifts from famous King's Canyon streamers congratulating him for winning the Strongest Overlord title. He explained his Guan Yu combo, then promised to demonstrate it in a ranked match for skeptical viewers.

• Su Hang began streaming, and the viewer count quickly climbed to one million as fans congratulated him on his Strongest Overlord victory.
• Famous King's Canyon streamers sent Su Hang expensive gifts to thank him for restoring the streamer community's reputation at the Overlord Feast.
• Su Hang saved a screenshot of the gift leaderboard and decided he would handle returning the gifts himself while Jiang Sui helped recruit players for his new team.
• Su Hang named his Guan Yu combo the Frost Flying Horse Plunge and explained that it required using three skills within half a second before activating Frost Impact.
• Su Hang explained that the combo required six inputs per second, described how practice had increased his own input speed, and offered to demonstrate the move in a ranked match.

Su Hang announced Sovereign Dominion’s entry into the Clash of Kings and set strict requirements for new members. In a hundred-star ranked match, he was teamed with Fly, and the two picked each other’s signature heroes to test their skills; the loading screen revealed a National Champion Team opponent.

• Su Hang told his livestream viewers he had founded Sovereign Dominion to compete in the Clash of Kings and explained the team’s entry requirements.
• Su Hang declined an offer of sponsorship because his income was enough to cover the team’s expenses.
• Su Hang was assigned the Farm Lane and preselected Guan Yu, while Fly, matched in the fourth slot, also preselected Guan Yu.
• Fly offered Su Hang the Clash Lane and Guan Yu, but Su Hang let Fly keep Guan Yu and picked Ma Chao for the Farm Lane.
• Su Hang and Fly agreed to judge each other’s play, with Su Hang using Ma Chao and Fly using Guan Yu.
• While checking the opponents’ summoner skills on the loading screen, Su Hang spotted a National Champion Team trophy and froze.