Recaps

At the Chongqing Wolves base, Fly left for Chengdu to commentate Imperial Crown’s internal match despite his teammates’ fears. Xiaopang revealed that Fly had once struggled with mental health problems, then claimed his condition was split personality disorder.

• At Chengdu AG, Zhongyi showed off his in-game photo with Imperial Emperor, and Menglei revealed that Imperial Emperor had invited him to join Imperial Crown nine years earlier.
• Menglei confirmed he would commentate Imperial Crown’s internal match and left the AG players stunned with his old screenshot.
• At Wuhan eStar, Huahai exaggerated his invitation to commentate the match while Wanmo listened in disbelief.
• Xiaopang and Daozai worried that Imperial Crown might target Fly, but Fly reassured them and boarded a taxi for Chengdu.
• Fly pretended to be sick to send Xiaopang back for medicine, then left without him.
• Xiaopang told Daozai that Fly had once needed medication for mental health problems and identified his condition as split personality disorder.

At the tenth Imperial Crown Civil War Day livestream, commentators Menglei, Fly, and Huahai discussed predictions for the Captain’s first match, with streamers favoring him and KPL professionals backing the Vice Captain. Fly suddenly left the studio and logged into Honor of Kings, thinking the Captain and the others must be waiting.

• Menglei, Fly, and Huahai went live as the audience count rapidly passed two million, and Fly revealed that his friend Chou Ox · Babaili was an Imperial Crown core member.
• The commentators introduced the tenth Imperial Crown Civil War Day and read predictions: 189 streamers favored Imperial Emperor, while all 189 KPL players predicted a loss to Jueying and the others.
• Menglei said he personally favored Imperial Emperor but expected Jueying’s side to win, while Huahai deferred judgment until the BP phase.
• Fly predicted a complete victory for Jueying’s side, then showed signs of distress and left the studio for the restroom.
• After splashing cold water on his face, Fly’s pain vanished, and he logged into Honor of Kings, thinking the Captain and the others were waiting.

Su Hang’s team gathered for an Imperial Crown intra-team match, settled their roles, and heard that he planned to use a powerful new lineup system. The chapter ended as Su Hang began naming it: “Dolia plus...”

• The team members complained that Chou Ox was late, but Su Hang asked them to wait until Chou Ox joined.
• Chou Ox arrived and apologized, and Su Hang assigned Hanlu to mid, Shejun to farm lane, and Ganglie to roam.
• Ganglie and Chou Ox argued over clash lane, but both accepted Su Hang’s orders when Shejun reminded them of the team’s principles.
• Chou Ox asked to play jungle because his real-life physical condition prevented him from playing clash lane, and Su Hang agreed to take clash lane himself.
• The team discussed several established lineup systems, but Su Hang rejected them and announced that he had developed a new one.
• Su Hang began revealing the lineup’s name, saying, “Dolia plus...”

Imperial Emperor and Jueying entered the Imperial Crown civil war match with no bans, and commentators praised Jueying’s coordinated lineup while struggling to explain Imperial Emperor’s picks. Imperial Emperor shocked the livestream by choosing the reworked Erlang, whom Huahai declared incompatible with Dolia and certain to lose.

• Menglei and Huahai explained that both teams left the ban phase empty as a tradition of confidence in Imperial Crown civil wars.
• Jueying completed a lineup of Guan Yu, Jing, Shen Mengxi, Lady Sun, and Taiyi Zhenren, which Huahai praised as a strong dual-core composition.
• Imperial Emperor picked Luminous, Mai Shiranui, Goya, and Dolia, prompting Huahai to call the lineup a conventional pickup-team composition.
• Viewers speculated about which clash-lane hero Imperial Emperor would pair with Dolia before the team locked in Erlang.
• Huahai criticized the reworked Erlang’s damage and claimed Dolia and Erlang formed no composition, declaring Imperial Emperor certain to lose.

Su Hang led Imperial Emperor into an unusual opening, sacrificing the blue-side jungle to secure first blood against Jueying’s Lady Sun. As Jing took the abandoned jungle resources, the commentators judged Imperial Emperor’s strategy a major loss, but Su Hang headed toward mid lane to respond.

• Su Hang predicted Jueying would invade the blue side and ordered Imperial Emperor to give it up while he, Dolia, and Goya prepared a level-one dive on Lady Sun.
• Su Hang’s Erlang and his teammates killed Lady Sun beneath the farm-lane tower at thirty-nine seconds, earning first blood.
• Jing began clearing Imperial Emperor’s blue-side jungle, while Su Hang set out toward mid lane and vowed to make her pay for the resources.
• Menglei and Huahai praised the first-blood play but concluded that losing the blue-side jungle made Imperial Emperor’s opening a strategic disaster.
• Menglei noticed Su Hang’s move toward mid lane, and Huahai looked up in surprise.

Imperial Emperor's level-three Erlang used minions to evade attacks, then switched to Boots of Resistance to activate Dharma Heaven and Earth and secure a double kill against Jing and Shen Mengxi. Huahai explained the trick to viewers and addressed his brother Exalted Emperor, urging him to keep pursuing his goal of becoming the strongest player.

• Imperial Emperor's Erlang ambushed Yujingzi's Jing in mid lane with Hanlu's Mai, then used a minion to dodge Shen Mengxi's and Taiyi Zhenren's attacks.
• Imperial Emperor's Erlang switched to Boots of Resistance at low health, activated Dharma Heaven and Earth, and joined Mai in killing Shen Mengxi after already defeating Jing.
• Huahai explained that Boots of Resistance granted Erlang enough passive stacks to unlock his ultimate form at level three.
• Huahai recalled his brother Exalted Emperor's ambitions and urged him on livestream to keep striving to become the strongest Honor of Kings player.

Su Hang’s team maintained an early lead, but Yujingzi picked off Hanlu’s Mai just before the dragons spawned. Despite being outnumbered, Su Hang led his team to contest Tyrant, and a fight broke out at the pit.

• Su Hang warned his team about Yujing’s level-four Jing and called out his movements toward the farm lane.
• Hanlu reluctantly gave up a mid wave to support the farm lane, but Yujingzi ambushed his Mai with Z-Shaped Jitter and killed her with Strangulation Technique.
• Su Hang rejected Chou Ox’s suggestion to trade Tyrant for Overlord and promised his team would win the Tyrant fight even four against five.
• Menglei and Huahai expected Imperial Emperor’s side to trade dragons, but all four remaining players headed for Tyrant instead.
• Huahai watched in shock as Imperial Emperor’s side started fighting for Tyrant while a player down.

Su Hang’s Erlang stole the Tyrant and survived the enemy team’s assault, earning a quadra kill with Dolia’s ultimate refresh. Imperial Emperor’s team gained a decisive lead, but the casters warned that Huranlang’s Guan Yu could still threaten them with a flank.

• Su Hang’s Erlang entered the Tyrant pit, stole the objective, and controlled several enemies with Dharma Heaven and Earth.
• Guan Yu flanked and killed Goya while Su Hang used Eye of the Source to heal and attacked Lady Sun, who Taiyi Zhenren revived.
• Su Hang killed Lady Sun and Shen Mengxi, then used Dolia’s refreshed ultimate to survive Jing and Taiyi Zhenren’s attacks.
• Mai arrived and disrupted Jing and Taiyi Zhenren, allowing Su Hang to kill Jing and then Taiyi Zhenren for a quadra kill.
• The casters praised Su Hang’s performance and discussed how Huranlang’s Guan Yu might flank Imperial Emperor’s team later.

Imperial Emperor’s team secured a major lead, but Su Hang warned that Huranlang’s Guan Yu was waiting to ambush their high-ground push. After both teams obtained dragon buffs, Huranlang prepared to strike from the rear, while Su Hang unexpectedly recalled.

• Imperial Emperor’s team took the Shadow Overlord and used its push to destroy three of Jueying’s towers, widening their gold lead to 5,000.
• Hanlu noticed that Jueying’s team was yielding objectives and towers unusually easily, and Su Hang explained they were setting up Huranlang’s Guan Yu to ambush a high-ground fight.
• Su Hang said he had a risky plan and asked his teammates, “Are you willing to die for me?”
• At sixteen minutes, Imperial Emperor’s team secured both the Shadow Overlord and Dark Tyrant, then began pushing Jueying’s high ground.
• Huranlang positioned Guan Yu in the red-buff jungle behind Imperial Emperor’s team, waiting for a fight to begin as his teammates prepared to engage.
• As Jueying’s team prepared to start the high-ground fight, Su Hang’s low-health Erlang unexpectedly recalled to the fountain.

Jueying's team wiped out Imperial Emperor's side in a high-ground fight, but Imperial Emperor's Erlang arrived just in time to turn the chase into a solo pentakill. He stood alone among the fallen opponents as the canyon announced an Ace.

• Jueying's team seized the chance to attack, and Huranlang's Guan Yu shoved three enemies into the high-ground tower while Lady Sun killed Goya, Mai Shiranui, and the Luminous.
• Jueying's team chased the low-health Dolia as Imperial Emperor's Erlang rushed over to help her.
• Imperial Emperor's Erlang arrived and killed Shen Mengxi and Jing, while Dolia refreshed his skill before Lady Sun killed her.
• Erlang's ultimate refreshed, and he killed Lady Sun, Taiyi Zhenren, and Guan Yu in succession, scoring a pentakill.
• Imperial Emperor's team received the Ace announcement as Erlang stood among the fallen enemies.

Imperial Emperor’s Erlang wiped out Jueying’s team with a pentakill, giving his side the first game and match point. Chou Ox suddenly disconnected before the second game, recommending a player whose Imperial Crown membership had been revoked, while Fly woke up in the restroom confused.

• Imperial Emperor’s Erlang killed all five members of Jueying’s team and destroyed their high-ground tower, securing the first game for Imperial Emperor’s side.
• Huahai worried that his brother Exalted Emperor was nowhere near strong enough to challenge Imperial Emperor, but resolved that Exalted Emperor could grow into a Champion Emperor in the future.
• Chou Ox listened to his teammates praise the pentakill, then prepared to play a blue-collar jungler in the second game.
• When Menglei and Huahai searched the restroom for Fly, Chou Ox told Imperial Emperor he could not play, disconnected, and recommended a player whose Imperial Crown membership had been revoked.
• Menglei and Huahai found Fly in a stall, and Fly said he had apparently fallen asleep.

Yun Shu told her livestream viewers about her feelings for Imperial Emperor and her former master, Chou Ox, before learning she would take part in an Imperial Crown internal match. The chapter ended with Yun Shu excitedly announcing the news to her viewers.

• Yun Shu watched Imperial Emperor's penta kill and answered viewers' questions about her ideal man, saying she liked strong, hot-tempered men.
• Yun Shu admitted that Chou Ox had once made her heart flutter and explained that he had been her leader in Imperial Crown's Ox Alliance.
• Yun Shu revealed that she and Chou Ox had never met in person and that she could not return his feelings because her heart belonged to Imperial Emperor.
• Yun Shu received a message tagging her in Imperial Crown's main group, read it, and announced that she would participate in an internal match.

Yun Shu joined the Imperial Crown's internal match after Chou Ox recommended her, then clashed with Ganglie over his insult to her former alliance leader. She faced pressure from Shejun and Hanlu to apologize, but an authoritative voice interrupted just as she began to give in.

• Yun Shu entered the Imperial Crown's internal match as Aries and discovered she would play alongside Imperial Emperor and other core members.
• Shejun explained that Chou Ox had recommended Yun Shu to replace him as the team's jungler.
• Ganglie insulted Chou Ox, and Yun Shu defended her former alliance leader by trading angry retorts with Ganglie.
• Hanlu praised Yun Shu, but Shejun and Hanlu ordered her to apologize to Ganglie for challenging a core member.
• Yun Shu struggled to apologize under pressure until an authoritative voice suddenly rang out.

The Imperial Emperor defended Yun Shu from Ganglie, then assigned her to play jungle carry for the next in-house match. He planned a jungle-and-marksman dual-carry lineup and chose a fighter-tank, while Yun Shu settled on Pei Qinhu after he rejected her request to play Yun Ying.

• The Imperial Emperor sided with Yun Shu, and Shejun and Hanlu backed her account of Ganglie's provocation.
• Ganglie apologized to Yun Shu and kept his core-member status after the Imperial Emperor considered stripping it from him.
• The Imperial Emperor assigned Yun Shu to jungle carry, and she excitedly discovered that he had visited her game profile before worrying that he might see her linked lover account.
• The Imperial Emperor announced a jungle-and-marksman dual-carry lineup and rejected suggestions to use a tank support or the Da Qiao-Lao Fuzi system.
• The Imperial Emperor said a fighter-tank could set the pace and named his pick, while Yun Shu asked to play Yun Ying and then chose Pei Qinhu after he refused.

Su Hang recognized Yun Shu as Dai Qian and realized she seemed to have feelings for him, while preparing for an offline confrontation with Huyan Lan. During Imperial Crown’s internal match, viewers criticized Yun Shu’s selection, and Fly revealed that Chou Ox liked her but shared a body with his older brother.

• Su Hang recognized Aries as Dai Qian and suspected she was trying to confess her feelings to him.
• Su Hang recalled that Huyan Lan would visit the next day and thought about how much stronger he had become since their past fights.
• Imperial Crown’s internal match began with Yun Shu replacing Chou Ox in the jungle, prompting viewers to attack her and Huahai to defend her.
• Fly explained that Chou Ox had liked Yun Shu for nine years and appointed her to the match to help her gain attention.
• Fly revealed that Chou Ox and his older brother shared one body, with the older brother controlling it most of the time.

Fly explained that Chou Ox had split off as a second personality from his older brother, then joined Menglei and Huahai in commentating the second Imperial Crown intra-team match. Imperial Emperor’s team completed its lineup with the unpopular Zhao Huaizhen, leaving the commentators and viewers shocked as the game approached.

• Fly told Menglei and Huahai that Chou Ox was a secondary personality split off from his older brother, and described his own past experience with the disorder.
• Fly, Menglei, and Huahai began commentating the second Imperial Crown intra-team match, with Imperial Emperor’s team on red and Jueying’s team on blue.
• Huahai explained that the teams could not reuse heroes from the first match, and both sides quickly chose their lineups.
• Imperial Emperor’s first four picks left his team without a frontline, prompting the commentators and viewers to expect him to choose a tank for the clash lane.
• Imperial Emperor picked Zhao Huaizhen, the fallen genius, surprising Menglei, Huahai, Fly, and the viewers.

Imperial Crown viewers doubted Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen pick against Yujingzi’s Yun Ying, while Xu Lin prepared to tease his captain with a broken-engagement joke. As the match began, Xu Lin sent the message in all-chat and waited to see Imperial Emperor’s response.

• Fly, Huahai, and Menglei explained that Zhao Huaizhen had been repeatedly nerfed and doubted he could carry Imperial Emperor’s team.
• Viewers noticed Yujingzi had picked Yun Ying, Zhao Huaizhen’s supposed partner, and joked that she should break off their engagement.
• At the Si She Reptile Pet Shop, Xu Lin sold Jiang Sui a toy snake and exchanged WeChat details with her before returning to his game.
• Xu Lin started the match as Yun Ying and typed, “[All] (Yujingzi · Yun Ying): Zhao Huaizhen, I'm breaking off the engagement!”
• Xu Lin’s teammates laughed at the taunt, and he wondered how Captain Imperial Emperor would react.

Su Hang used Zhao Huaizhen and a coordinated feint to steal Yun Ying’s blue buff and secure first blood. The commentators warned that Imperial Emperor’s team still faced lane disadvantages, while Fly wondered why he had been watching Yun Shu so closely.

• Su Hang ordered Aries’s Pei Qinhu to invade the enemy red zone while Zhao Huaizhen waited near the blue buff.
• Aries revealed Pei Qinhu in the red zone, drawing Zhang Fei away and giving Su Hang an opening to approach Yun Ying’s blue buff.
• Su Hang’s Zhao Huaizhen stole the nearly defeated blue buff after Yun Ying had used Smite.
• Hanlu’s Shi caught Yun Ying with her skills, and Zhao Huaizhen killed her to claim first blood.
• Fly, Huahai, and Menglei praised the ambush but noted Imperial Emperor’s team remained disadvantaged in several lanes.
• Fly watched Aries’s Pei Qinhu and wondered why he had been focused on Yun Shu.

Yun Shu’s Pei Qinhu was caught in a failed gank on Jueying’s Hou Yi, but Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen arrived just in time and used the supposedly fixed Three Thousand Lightning Movement to kill Hou Yi. The match and livestream audience were left stunned as experts wondered how Imperial Emperor had revived the combo.

• Yun Shu led Shejun and Ganglie into a gank on Jueying’s half-health Hou Yi, but Hou Yi dodged their attack and stunned Pei Qinhu with his ultimate.
• Shejun and Ganglie abandoned Yun Shu when Yuejing’s Zhuge Liang came to support, leaving Pei Qinhu trapped under enemy pressure.
• Imperial Emperor teleported to the farm lane and told Yun Shu to run toward the minion wave, then used Zhao Huaizhen’s ultimate to control Zhuge Liang’s water dragon.
• Imperial Emperor moved rapidly toward the enemy tower with Three Thousand Lightning Movement and killed Jueying’s Hou Yi with the redirected water dragon.
• The Imperial Crown livestream audience and studio analysts reacted in shock, questioning how Imperial Emperor had performed a combo the developers had fixed years earlier.

Su Hang revealed a faster, easier Three Thousand Lightning Movement and claimed he had created a true Zhao Huaizhen sorcery combo he could use in the match. As Imperial Emperor’s team fell behind after Aries’s mistakes, Fly unexpectedly felt guilty toward Imperial Emperor.

• Su Hang explained that Huaizhen’s Three Thousand Lightning Movement now required only three inputs per second, then teased a faster technique and said he had developed a true sorcery combo.
• At four minutes, Imperial Emperor’s team took the Tyrant while Jueying’s team took the Overlord; Jueying’s stronger jungler kept control of the match.
• At eight minutes, Jueying’s Hou Yi and Zhuge Liang killed Aries’s Pei Qinhu, then Jueying’s team took the Tyrant and pushed down an outer tower.
• At ten minutes, Aries recklessly contested the Dark Tyrant’s Smite and died, leaving Imperial Emperor’s team to surrender its outer towers and retreat into defense.
• Livestream viewers blamed Yun Shu’s poor performance and Chou Ox’s decision to select her, while Fly wondered why he felt guilty toward Imperial Emperor.

Jueying's team took the Shadow Overlord and pushed into Imperial Emperor's crystal base after winning a team fight and gaining a major lead. The livestream audience believed Imperial Emperor was about to lose the second game.

• At 14 minutes, Jueying's team attacked Imperial Emperor's farm lane high ground, and Zhao Huaizhen used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to kill Yuejing's Zhuge Liang before Yujingzi's Yun Ying scored a double kill.
• Jueying's team destroyed the high-ground tower and moved to take the Shadow Overlord, while its players discussed replacing Aries and speculated about Exalted Emperor joining the next game.
• Yujingzi's Yun Ying secured the Shadow Overlord, and Jueying's team charged toward Imperial Emperor's crystal base.
• The livestream commentators and viewers judged that Imperial Emperor had little chance to recover, as Jueying's team pushed with the Vanguard Overlord and all five players.

Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen turned the defense of the crystal base into a team wipe, eliminating the enemy’s Zhuge Liang, Hou Yi, and Lu Bu. With the rest of Imperial Emperor’s team pushing the top lane and stopping the surviving defenders, they destroyed the enemy crystal and won.

• With the enemy team attacking their crystal, Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen used his ultimate to rush the backline and kill Yuejing’s Zhuge Liang.
• Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen repeatedly attacked Jueying’s Hou Yi through his defensive items and effects, killing him despite Huranlang’s Lu Bu and Wangsun’s Zhang Fei intervening.
• Yun Shu’s Pei Qinhu and her teammates arrived, killed Yujingzi’s Yun Ying and Wangsun’s Zhang Fei, and chased Huranlang’s Lu Bu while Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen finished him off.
• Ganglie, Yun Shu, Shejun, and Hanlu destroyed the enemy’s top-lane high-ground tower and pushed toward the crystal.
• Hanlu’s Shi and Shejun’s Di Renjie stopped Yuejing’s Zhuge Liang from clearing the minion wave, and Imperial Emperor’s team destroyed the crystal to win.

Su Hang celebrated Imperial Crown’s civil-war sweep and joined the team as they distributed cash rewards and prepared to announce performance rankings. He learned the MVP prizes totaled ten million yuan and that the team’s cash flow had grown to about a billion, then faced the prospect of paying consolation money despite winning both matches.

• Su Hang celebrated winning both civil-war matches as MVP and accepted Yujingzi’s invitation to join the 10V10 Divine Prayer Battlefield room with the Imperial Crown members.
• Wangsun said Su Hang had earned two MVP cash prizes, but Su Hang offered to split the rewards among the nine members.
• Wangsun revealed that the MVP prizes totaled ten million yuan and that the winning team would receive another five million; Su Hang regretted offering to share the money.
• Jueying recalled that Su Hang had paid consolation money to the losing team in the first civil war, but Hanlu said the members did not need money in real life.
• Wangsun announced that the team would rank members by their performance across both matches and award the top three the title of Uncrowned Emperor, the next three Uncrowned King, and the bottom three Uncrowned Overlord.

Wangsun announced the tenth Imperial Crown internal competition rankings, and Su Hang awarded Yujingzi the Uncrowned Champion Emperor title despite his tie with Huranlang. The competition ended, but the team asked Wangsun to reveal Su Hang’s overall rating, which had not yet been announced.

• Wangsun announced the bottom rankings, naming Babaili, Ganglie, and Hanlu the Uncrowned Overlords, then named Yuejing, Wangsun, and Shejun the Uncrowned Kings, with Shejun as the Strongest Uncrowned King.
• Wangsun announced Jueying as the Uncrowned Third-Place Emperor, and Jueying thanked the team and Su Hang.
• Wangsun reported that Huranlang and Yujingzi had tied with overall ratings of 9.8, so Su Hang had to choose which player would take first place.
• Huranlang and Yujingzi deferred to each other before Su Hang awarded Yujingzi the Uncrowned Champion Emperor title and Huranlang the Uncrowned Runner-Up Emperor title.
• Wangsun declared the competition concluded, but Yuejing reminded everyone that Su Hang’s rating had not been announced, and Su Hang told Wangsun to reveal it.

After Imperial Crown’s tenth internal match, Su Hang told Yujingzi how to perform Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies and asked why he had reached out. Xu Lin learned that Su Hang was going offline for a while, then discovered White Lady was missing and suspected she had crawled into Jiang Sui’s birthday gift box.

• Wangsun announced Imperial Emperor’s overall rating of 15.2, bringing Imperial Crown’s tenth internal match to a close.
• Yujingzi asked Su Hang about Zhao Huaizhen’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies, and Su Hang explained how to perform the technique before asking about Yujingzi’s real reason for messaging.
• Xu Lin asked Su Hang why he had named him Uncrowned Champion Emperor, and Su Hang told him to lead Imperial Crown while he was away from the team.
• Xu Lin looked forward to the team’s tenth-anniversary gathering, then searched his reptile shop for White Lady after realizing she had disappeared.
• Xu Lin remembered Jiang Sui’s visit with an open birthday gift box and suspected White Lady had crawled inside it.