Recaps

Jiang Sui prepared a mischievous birthday gift for Su Hang, while he planned Sovereign Dominion’s rise through the team ranks and advised Liuli on a gift for her crush. The chapter ended with Jiang Sui bringing Su Hang his present.

• Jiang Sui vowed that she and Sovereign Dominion would someday defeat Imperial Emperor and Imperial Crown.
• Jiang Sui prepared a birthday box containing odd trinkets, including a toy snake that Su Hang feared.
• Su Hang reviewed Sovereign Dominion’s new mission to reach national-team rank within 120 days and asked Liuli to organize the upcoming team matches.
• Liuli asked Su Hang for gift advice for a friend’s crush, describing a man who liked Honor of Kings and used an Emperor Hero avatar.
• Su Hang suggested an Imperial Emperor Steed model, then learned Liuli was considering buying the limited-edition BMW motorcycle instead.
• Jiang Sui entered Su Hang’s room and presented him with a birthday gift.

On his birthday, Su Hang was pranked by Jiang Sui and fainted after discovering the white snake in her gift was real. After Huyan Ya explained the snake was harmless, Su Hang left to meet Huyan Ya’s sister, whose message and knife left the girls worried.

• Jiang Sui gave Su Hang a series of absurd birthday gifts, including a fake snake that startled him.
• Su Hang found a real white snake in the gift box, mistook it for a toy, and fainted when it flicked its tongue.
• Jiang Sui said she had pinned the snake under a Leifeng Pagoda figurine, and Huyan Ya identified it as a harmless pet snake.
• Huyan Ya told Su Hang that her sister was waiting for him at their usual place, and he left carrying a golden mask.
• Jiang Sui explained that Su Hang and Huyan Ya’s sister had known each other for seven years, then froze when Huyan Ya mentioned her sister had brought a knife.

Su Hang and Huyan Lan fought over their childhood rivalry as Emperor Hero and the Shadow Beasts, and Su Hang finally transformed into Imperial Emperor Armor. He left the confrontation ready to throw the punch he had waited twelve years to deliver.

• Huyan Lan challenged Su Hang on a mountain road and attacked him with a sharpened iron cleaver, fists, and kicks.
• Huyan Lan recalled how Su Hang had played Emperor Hero as a child and insisted that defeating him would prove the Shadow Beasts’ greatness.
• Su Hang told Huyan Lan that meeting her had forced him to abandon his dream of becoming Emperor Hero.
• Huyan Lan admitted she had pretended they were friends to torment Su Hang after she could not defeat him physically.
• Su Hang put on a golden Emperor Hero mask, called out “Imperial Emperor Armor. Combine!”, and declared that he had waited twelve years for his punch.

Su Hang nearly killed Huyan Lan during their fight, then reset her dislocated arms and camped with her for the night. As they talked about Honor of Kings, Huyan Lan described her hatred for a player named Imperial Emperor, unaware that it was Su Hang’s old account.

• Su Hang broke Huyan Lan’s broadsword and stopped his punch just before it hit her face, then reset her dislocated arms.
• Huyan Lan persuaded Su Hang to camp with her so her sister would not see her swollen face, and they told their sisters they were safe.
• In their sleeping bags, Su Hang and Huyan Lan discussed their histories with Honor of Kings and their player accounts.
• Huyan Lan said she wanted to kill a player named Imperial Emperor, while Su Hang ruled out being that player because their accounts used different zones.
• Huyan Lan fell asleep before explaining her grudge, and Jiang Sui messaged Su Hang that the boy he rescued from the tiger would visit the next morning.

Su Hang welcomed Hu Baobao, the eight-year-old boy he had rescued from a tiger, into his home, where Hu Baobao met Jiang Sui and Huyan Ya and delivered a thank-you letter from his father. As Su Hang prepared for a team match, Hu Baobao joined him to play Honor of Kings and revealed his username: Hu.

• Hu Baobao ate nearly an entire cake and first claimed he was twenty-eight before admitting to Jiang Sui that he was eight and showing her his toy ID card.
• Su Hang and Huyan Lan arrived, and Hu Baobao greeted Su Hang and gave him a thank-you letter from his father.
• Su Hang invited Hu Baobao to stay for lunch, then asked Huyan Lan to keep him company while he prepared for his Honor of Kings team match.
• Hu Baobao refused to play with Huyan Lan because his father had warned him that girls with pierced ears were bad people.
• Su Hang invited Hu Baobao to join his team match, and Hu Baobao logged in and gave his username as Hu.

Su Hang gathered players for Sovereign Dominion’s first team match, but Tai Sui failed to show up, so Su Hang demoted him and started a livestream to recruit a replacement. He introduced the team’s core members to a huge audience and was about to reveal the next one.

• Hu Baobao revealed that his in-game ID, Hu, was a valuable single-character ID, and Huyan Lan showed that her alternate account was named Feng.
• Su Hang invited Hu Baobao and Huyan Lan to the team lobby, but Hu Baobao asked his father to play while he watched through screen sharing.
• Jiang Sui ignored Su Hang’s repeated QQ messages because she was cooking with Huyan Ya and had claimed she did not play Honor of Kings.
• Su Hang demoted the absent Tai Sui, started a livestream, and told viewers he was the student who had rescued a child from a tiger.
• Su Hang introduced himself as Sovereign Dominion’s captain and Liuli as its first vice captain before turning to the elite member section.

Su Hang introduced Tai Sui as a core member of Sovereign Dominion and recruited a player named [Long] for a team match. The dragon, phoenix, and tiger IDs brought back memories of his former friends, while elsewhere a masked captain searched for Imperial Emperor, intending to kill him before Phoenix could.

• Su Hang announced that Tai Sui had been demoted to an elite member of Sovereign Dominion and invited livestream viewers to fill the team’s last spot.
• A player with the single-character ID [Long] joined Su Hang’s room, while Chaofeng told Baxia that their boss had come to Jiangcheng hoping to find Imperial Emperor.
• Chaofeng revealed that the boss wanted to kill Imperial Emperor before Phoenix could, not protect him.
• Su Hang recognized that [Long], [Feng], and [Hu] recalled his former friends Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord, with whom he had once fought alongside.
• Su Hang reflected that his three friends had founded powerful teams after leaving Imperial Crown, then started matchmaking with the new group.

Su Hang chose the recently nerfed Sun Quan for Sovereign Dominion’s match, while Saobai and Chunbai joined Jiutianhu’s returning GFS Team for a livestream match. The teams entered the loading screens and recognized Exalted Emperor on the opposing side.

• Su Hang picked Sun Quan despite viewers warning that the nerfed marksman was weak early, and Liuli chose Zhang Fei to support him.
• Long, Feng, and Hu selected Zhao Yun, Wang Zhaojun, and Lian Po for Sovereign Dominion, whose opponents were GFS Team.
• Jiutianhu hosted Saobai and Chunbai on GFS Team’s comeback livestream, and Saobai agreed to play one team match before his KPL match.
• Saobai, Chunbai, and Jiutianhu selected Mulan, Shangguan Wan'er, and Han Xin, while two veteran GFS members picked Di Renjie and Liu Shan.
• Jiutianhu saw that GFS Team’s opponent was Sovereign Dominion, then froze when Saobai pointed out Exalted Emperor’s name.

During a team match, Su Hang discovered that Huyan Lan, Hu Father's Lian Po, and the random Zhao Yun player [Long] had unfathomable or rapidly rising skill, leading him to suspect Long had the rare Replication Talent. Huyan Lan independently realized that Su Hang, Hu, and Long seemed to rival her own Champion Emperor-level skill, while both she and Su Hang wondered why Hu and Long felt familiar.

• Su Hang examined his teammates' play and found he could not gauge Huyan Lan's or Hu Father's true skill, though he could identify Liuli's Zhang Fei as a top-tier national-server roamer.
• Su Hang saw Zhao Yun [Long] rise from ordinary national-server level to top-tier national-server level, then become impossible to assess, and concluded that Long had the Replication Talent.
• Su Hang judged that Long, Feng, and Hu together would be nearly unbeatable as opponents, so he decided to recruit them into the Sovereign Dominion Team after the match.
• Huyan Lan wondered why she could not see through Su Hang's skill, then discovered she also could not assess Hu Father's Lian Po or Long's Zhao Yun.
• Huyan Lan suspected that Su Hang, Hu, and Long rivaled her skill and wondered why Hu and Long felt familiar, as if she had matched with them long ago.

Silver Dragon failed to replicate Su Hang’s Sun Quan, while Su Hang and Zhao Yun caught Jiutianhu’s Han Xin and took first blood. Jiutianhu then watched his team’s mid and clash lanes get dominated, leaving him dumbstruck and under heavy pressure.

• Silver Dragon discovered that he could not replicate Exalted Emperor’s Sun Quan despite his powerful Replication Talent.
• Su Hang predicted Han Xin’s ambush, and he and Zhao Yun killed Han Xin to claim first blood.
• Jiutianhu’s livestream viewers accused Exalted Emperor of cheating after Sun Quan and Zhao Yun found Han Xin in the bush.
• The enemy Wang Zhaojun predicted Chunbai’s Shangguan Wan’er during her ultimate and killed her in lane.
• Jiutianhu saw Saobai’s low-health Mulan trapped under his tower while the enemy Lian Po held the clash-lane minion wave, then turned to look at Saobai and froze.

During the match, Saobai and Jiutianhu realized that Lian Po and Wang Zhaojun were comparable to Champion Emperor players, while Zhao Yun seemed even more terrifying. Unable to challenge them directly, GFS decided to target Exalted Emperor's Sun Quan instead.

• Saobai warned Jiutianhu that Lian Po was stronger than Fly at his peak and could rival a Champion Emperor.
• Saobai said Lian Po was even stronger than Huranlang and might match Mountain Lord, leaving Jiutianhu terrified that GFS would lose without a kill.
• Chunbai revealed that Wang Zhaojun was also comparable to a Champion Emperor, and Saobai confirmed Chunbai's fear by pointing out his trembling legs.
• Jiutianhu sensed that Zhao Yun was even more terrifying than Lian Po and Wang Zhaojun.
• Saobai chose to gather GFS's strength and gank Exalted Emperor's Sun Quan, whom they considered the easiest target.

Su Hang realized that the enemy team had surrounded him in farm lane after he lost focus, and he believed Sun Quan could not escape. Just as the five enemies dove beneath the tower and nearly killed him, Liuli's Zhang Fei arrived and stopped their assault with his ultimate.

• Su Hang admired Zhao Yun's farming, Huyan Lan's Wang Zhaojun's predictions, and Lian Po's intimidating pressure, which reminded him of Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord.
• Su Hang noticed all five enemies had vanished from the map and concluded they were heading for farm lane, too far from Long, Feng, and Hu for them to arrive in time.
• Su Hang judged that retreating or fighting would likely get both Sun Quan and Liuli's Zhang Fei killed, and he blamed his distraction for the dire situation.
• Liu Shan, Di Renjie, Han Xin, Mulan, and Shangguan Wan'er dove beneath the farm lane tower and used their skills to reduce Su Hang's Sun Quan to critical health.
• Liuli transformed Zhang Fei and roared, controlling all five enemies just as Shangguan Wan'er was about to take flight.

Su Hang and Liuli wiped out the enemy team after Liuli’s Zhang Fei stunned all five opponents, earning Su Hang’s Sun Quan a pentakill. Humiliated, Saobai and Jiutianhu abandoned their plan to hunt Su Hang and decided to target Liuli instead.

• Liuli’s Zhang Fei shielded Su Hang’s Sun Quan, then circled behind the enemy team and used her ultimate to control all five opponents.
• Su Hang’s Sun Quan killed Han Xin, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan’er, Mulan, and Liu Shan, securing a pentakill and a team wipe.
• Su Hang praised Liuli, who said she had recognized his bait and arrived in time to save him.
• Jiutianhu and Saobai watched their failed ambush end in a team wipe, and Saobai concluded that Su Hang had deliberately lured them in.
• Saobai proposed targeting Liuli’s Zhang Fei, dismissing Jiutianhu’s concern that Imperial Emperor might retaliate.
• Jiutianhu agreed to hunt Liuli and declared that even the Heavenly King could not protect her.

With the match nearly won, Su Hang abandoned the Overlord fight to rescue Liuli’s Zhang Fei from all five enemies and wiped them out. Liuli was moved that Su Hang had protected her, and he explained that it was natural for a captain to protect his vice-captain.

• Su Hang’s team prepared to take the Overlord while Su Hang and Liuli cleared minion waves in opposite lanes.
• The enemy team ganged up on Liuli’s Zhang Fei, and she fled toward her tower as her teammates focused on the Overlord.
• Liuli remembered Imperial Emperor’s lesson about a support protecting teammates and thought of his promise, “Liuli, I've got your back! Got it?”
• Su Hang Teleported to Liuli’s tower, and Liuli shielded them both before jumping behind him as he charged the five enemies.
• Su Hang’s Sun Quan defeated all five enemies, earning a team wipe and leaving Liuli stunned that he had come specifically to save her.
• When Liuli asked why he rescued her, Su Hang said she was Sovereign Dominion’s vice-captain and that protecting her was natural for the captain.

After Su Hang’s team won, Saobai learned that Liuli was under Imperial Emperor’s protection and was forced to make NBW apologize. At Sun Mo’s repair shop, he encouraged a promising young employee to pursue esports, then discovered that a damaged motorcycle belonged to Su Hang.

• Su Hang told his livestream viewers that relying on their own skills mattered most, then prepared to finish the game after wiping out the enemy team.
• After GFS was shut out, Jiutianhu received abuse over targeting Liuli and asked Saobai whether they should apologize.
• Wangsun called Saobai and warned that NBW could be removed from the KPL unless they publicly apologized to Liuli, so Saobai agreed.
• At the Shen Monkey Auto Repair branch, Sun Mo assembled a motorcycle engine blindfolded with one hand and gave a promising roamer a contact to pursue a place on Beijing WB.
• Sun Mo spotted a badly damaged violet CFMOTO 450SR, learned its owner was Su Hang, and reacted with surprise.

After recruiting Long and Huyan Lan to Sovereign Dominion, Su Hang turned to Hu Baobao and asked whether his father would join the team. Huyan Lan also asked Su Hang to look after her younger sister if she ever ended up in prison, though Su Hang took her warning as a joke.

• Su Hang invited Long to join Sovereign Dominion as a core member and vice-captain, and Long accepted on the condition that Su Hang would unconditionally take his side in the future.
• Su Hang ended his livestream, and Huyan Lan teased him about Liuli before learning that he did not have a girlfriend.
• Huyan Lan asked what kind of woman Su Hang liked; his answer moved her, and she agreed to join Sovereign Dominion.
• Huyan Lan asked Su Hang to care for her younger sister if she ever went to prison, while hinting that something might happen in the future.
• Su Hang asked Hu Baobao whether his father was interested in joining Sovereign Dominion.

Hu Xiao agreed to join Su Zhou’s Sovereign Dominion Team while continuing his search for Imperial Emperor, whom he vowed to kill. Sovereign Dominion’s viral promotional video drew huge attention, but the arrival of three major teams ended its run as the scene’s standout team.

• Hu Xiao agreed to join Su Zhou’s Sovereign Dominion Team after his son asked him to repay Su Zhou for saving him.
• Anya and Minglang reported that their search in Japan had failed to find Imperial Emperor, and Hu Xiao vowed to kill him in real life.
• Netizens discussed Sovereign Dominion’s victory over GFS and Saobai’s public apology to Liuli.
• Sovereign Dominion’s first Douyin video went viral by showcasing its core members and strict recruitment requirements.
• Three major teams appeared and ended the contest over which Honor of Kings team had the best promotional video.

Fly worried that Exalted Emperor and Sovereign Dominion’s powerful lineup could take his Supreme King Title at Clash of Kings, and admitted he was afraid he could not beat Exalted Emperor. He found an old selfie video that revealed his decade-long split personality disorder was about to be cured.

• Twilight of the Gods released a promotional video introducing its nine famous core members, including Silver Dragon and the still-mysterious Qiuniu.
• Fly and Xiaopang discussed how Huahai also could not gauge Sovereign Dominion’s three vice captains, leading Fly to fear their strength ahead of Clash of Kings.
• Fly realized that even with strong teammates, he was not confident he could defeat Exalted Emperor and asked Xiaopang to leave him alone.
• Fly looked through photos of his 2017 championships and found an unfamiliar selfie video dated August 5.
• In the video, a young man told Fly that his ten-year struggle with split personality disorder was about to be completely cured.

Fly learned that Chou Ox was his secondary personality and agreed to let him control their body at Imperial Crown’s tenth-anniversary gathering in exchange for help winning the Supreme King Title. Meanwhile, Huahai joined Qingrong’s Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes Team, but new news about Twilight of the Gods assisting AG’s Yinuo and Zhongyi left Qingrong stunned.

• Chou Ox revealed to Fly that he was Fly’s secondary personality, had played Honor of Kings while Fly slept, and had endured years of fading consciousness to meet Aries and Imperial Emperor.
• Chou Ox offered to help Fly defeat Exalted Emperor and retain his Supreme King Title if Fly let him control their body at Imperial Crown’s tenth-anniversary gathering to meet Aries and Imperial Emperor.
• Fly accepted the bargain and deleted Chou Ox’s video.
• Huahai agreed to join Qingrong’s Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes Team after deciding Exalted Emperor’s new recruits made his help unnecessary.
• Huahai showed Qingrong news that Twilight of the Gods was helping AG’s Yinuo and Zhongyi win King Titles, and Qingrong froze in surprise.

Yinuo and Zhongyi learned that Twilight of the Gods would support them in the Clash of Kings with elite teammates, while Yinuo vowed to face Exalted Emperor as a rival on the field. Su Hang reviewed Sovereign Dominion’s growing expenses, docked Tai Sui’s wages, and faced Huyan Lan’s complaint that her pay was too low.

• Yinuo told Zhongyi that Twilight of the Gods, now AG’s third-largest shareholder, would help them pursue King Titles in the Clash of Kings.
• Zhongyi saw that his teammates included Chiwen, Baxia, Coiled Dragon, and Charter, while Yinuo’s lineup included Pulao, Jin Ni, Chaofeng, and Yazi.
• Yinuo said he expected to win the Supreme King Title but considered Exalted Emperor and Sovereign Dominion potential obstacles, and he vowed to defeat Exalted Emperor fairly.
• Su Hang reviewed Sovereign Dominion’s 629,000-yuan monthly bill and told Liuli to dock Tai Sui’s wages for missing team matches.
• Liuli returned 100,000 yuan of her pay to help the new team, then Huyan Lan complained that her 100,000-yuan monthly wage was too low.

Su Hang paid Sovereign Dominion's new members and then rushed to help Jiang Sui after she called to say someone had bullied her. Earlier, Jiang Sui had lost a one-yuan coin to a silver-masked youth, and Baxia tried to settle the dispute with an Honor of Kings match.

• Feng and Hu refunded most of their salaries, while Long asked Su Hang to cover the salary tax.
• Su Hang recalled Silver Dragon's penny-pinching and compared him with Jiang Sui before answering her distressed call.
• Jiang Sui fought with a silver-masked youth over a one-yuan coin, but Baxia and a short-haired beauty helped him take it.
• Baxia offered Jiang Sui a hundred-yuan bill as an apology, but she refused it and demanded her coin back.
• Baxia proposed an Honor of Kings match to decide whether he would help retrieve the coin, and Jiang Sui agreed.

Jiang Sui lost a one-on-one match to Baxia, who refused to return her coin until Su Hang intervened. After Baxia proposed settling the dispute with another match, Su Hang discovered Jiang Sui had been hiding her Honor of Kings skill and she began confessing.

• Baxia defeated Jiang Sui in their Guan Yu match and gave her a hundred-yuan bill instead of returning her coin.
• Jiang Sui cried out for help, and Su Hang appeared and confronted Baxia.
• Baxia explained how the dispute began, and Su Hang demanded that his boss return Jiang Sui's one-yuan coin.
• Baxia proposed a one-on-one Honor of Kings match to settle the matter, and Su Hang became interested when Jiang Sui said Baxia was highly skilled.
• Su Hang noticed Honor of Kings on Jiang Sui's phone and questioned her, prompting her to admit that she had lied to him.

Su Hang challenged Baxia to a Dharma solo match for the one-yuan coin, and both players revealed their skill through their early-game tactics. The chapter ended with Su Hang landing a Phantom Flash Kick that sent Baxia crashing into a wall.

• Baxia claimed to be an Overlord-level player, so Su Hang challenged him to a one-on-one match to decide who got the coin.
• Su Hang and Baxia both chose Dharma and began the match, while Su Hang recognized that Baxia was hiding King-Titled-level skill.
• Su Hang assured Jiang Sui he would win, while Baxia planned to use a tank build and wait for his Shadow Battle Axe.
• At level four, Su Hang blocked Baxia's tower, then charged in, punched him, and used Flash to send him flying into a wall.
• Baxia recognized Su Hang's move as a Phantom Flash Kick.

Su Hang used Leo Dharma to defeat Baxia with a reworked Double Ultimate combo, then revealed an even more difficult Triple Ultimate combo to win the match. Baxia realized his opponent was a genuine top-tier King-Titled Player with hand speed comparable to a Supreme King Title player.

• Leo Dharma used Phantom Flash Kick and Double Ultimate to secure First Blood against Baxia's Dharma.
• Su Hang explained to Jiang Sui that the new Dharma could still perform Double Ultimate, though it required five actions per second, and claimed he could manage the theoretically impossible Triple Ultimate.
• Baxia carefully played under his tower and bought the Firmament to survive Su Hang's combo.
• Baxia activated the Firmament after Leo Dharma's second ultimate, but Su Hang used Triple Ultimate to kill him and destroy the first tower.
• After the defeat, Baxia recognized Su Hang as a top-tier King-Titled Player with Supreme King-level hand speed.

Su Hang faced Chaofeng in a one-on-one King of Glory match after Baxia failed to return Jiang Sui’s coins. The chapter ended with both players choosing high-burst mid-lane mages and Su Hang locking in a hero Jiang Sui did not expect.

• Su Hang defeated Baxia, but Baxia refused to return Jiang Sui’s coins until Chaofeng arrived.
• Chaofeng’s gaze at Su Hang triggered memories of her traumatic past, and she realized that his punch could kill or cripple her.
• Baxia explained the dispute, and Chaofeng challenged Su Hang to a one-on-one match with the coins still at stake.
• Su Hang and Chaofeng agreed to play mid-lane heroes, with one kill deciding the winner.
• Chaofeng chose a mage with the highest burst damage, while Su Hang selected a twin-tailed hero that Jiang Sui urged him to switch from.