Chapter Summaries

Su Hang recognized Lin Ying as the boy he had helped ten years earlier, prompting Lin Ying to resolve to face him in Honor of Kings. After parting from Su Hang, Lin Ying arranged with Imperial Crown · Huranlang to stream snipe Exalted Emperor the next night.

• Su Hang recognized Lin Ying’s childhood nickname and identified him in an old phone wallpaper as the boy who had returned his lost phone.
• Lin Ying thanked Su Hang for helping him as a child, and Su Hang learned that Lin Ying’s mother was receiving treatment in Beijing.
• Lin Ying struggled between repaying Su Hang’s kindness and honoring Imperial Emperor’s support, but Su Hang encouraged him to face their future match wholeheartedly.
• Lin Ying and his companions left Su Hang and went to a Lanzhou noodle shop, where Lin Ying earned a free meal by showing his Legendary 100 Stars rank.
• Lin Ying messaged Imperial Crown · Huranlang, and they agreed to stream snipe Exalted Emperor the following night.
• Hu Yang, the noodle shop owner, put away his phone and told his wife they would close the shop early the next night.

After Little Liuli revealed that her family had arranged her marriage to a man she had never met, Su Hang offered to help her find the Jiangcheng sweetheart she had also never met. Liuli gave Su Hang a limited-edition motorcycle as a belated birthday present, and the chapter ended when he suddenly threw a punch at something.

• Su Hang finished his livestream and found Little Liuli watching the stars on his balcony.
• Su Hang asked what was troubling Little Liuli, and she revealed that she would soon marry a man she had never met because of her family's mission.
• Little Liuli told Su Hang that she had fallen in love with someone from Jiangcheng whom she had also never met.
• Su Hang offered to use his connections to help Little Liuli find her sweetheart when she came to Jiangcheng for the Clash of Kings.
• Little Liuli said she would send Su Hang a limited-edition Imperial Emperor Steed motorcycle as a belated birthday gift and thank-you.
• Su Hang celebrated the gift, then suddenly threw a punch and shouted, "Screw you!"

Huyan Lan told Su Hang that a man had captured her heart nine years ago, leaving her unable to pursue a new relationship, and vowed to find him. She gave Su Hang an original Imperial Emperor Armor suit for his birthday, but his excitement was interrupted by a figure crawling out of a bedroom.

• Su Hang punched Huyan Lan when she appeared behind him, then gave her a chilled cola as she recovered.
• Huyan Lan told Su Hang she had started believing in love after working in the wedding industry, but felt unable to love someone because a man had stolen her heart in 2016.
• Huyan Lan said she would search for the man and take her heart back, while Su Hang realized her story echoed his revenge on Phoenix.
• Huyan Lan gave Su Hang a Porsche key and told him an original Imperial Emperor Armor suit was in her car's trunk.
• As Su Hang hurried toward the underground garage to inspect the suit, a dark figure crawled out of secondary bedroom No. 1.

Yin Long explained why he refused to return Su Hang's sister's coin: it was money he had earned himself, and he had once hoped it would let him become the younger brother of a powerful man. After revealing that he no longer needed that man's protection, Yin Long's mask fell off, leaving Su Hang stunned by his appearance.

• Su Hang coaxed Yin Long into explaining his refusal to return the coin by offering him instant noodles.
• Yin Long said a true dragon had promised to become his big brother if he earned a thousand yuan on his own, but his family's interference had made earning money difficult.
• Yin Long explained that he eventually collected exactly a thousand yuan in coins found on the roadside.
• Yin Long said he no longer wanted to be the man's younger brother because he had grown strong enough to stand beside him.
• Yin Long refused again to give up the coin, then his mask strap snapped and the mask fell off, shocking Su Hang.

Su Hang discovered Yin Long’s birthmark, then listened as Hu Xiao spoke about his loneliness and the good friend he had lost. Hu Xiao revealed that he had cut ties with his friend because the man refused to lead his gang, leaving Su Hang stunned.

• Yin Long fled to his room after Su Hang saw the large birthmark on his face.
• Su Hang went to the balcony with Hu Xiao, who said he had regained his old weight and would start dieting tomorrow.
• Hu Xiao told Su Hang he had been in the underworld and felt lonely despite having many brothers.
• Su Hang and Hu Xiao compared their past friendships with men who had joined the underworld and helped guide them.
• Hu Xiao said he had cut ties with his good friend after the man refused to become his gang leader, and Su Hang froze.

Hu Xiao told Su Hang why he intended to force his old friend to answer for refusing to join his gang, while Su Hang continued his climb toward 900 stars in Honor of Kings. As Su Hang entered the crucial match, he saw that his teammates were weak compared with his opponents, then froze when he saw the enemy bans.

• Hu Xiao told Su Hang he planned to find his old friend and force him to become his boss or die by his blade.
• Hu Xiao said he felt better after confiding in Su Hang, and Su Hang wondered why he felt pleased by the suffering of Hu Xiao, Yin Long, and Huyan Lan.
• Exalted Emperor's livestream drew two million viewers as Su Hang won three matches and reached 899 stars.
• Su Hang entered the match that could bring him to 900 stars and learned that his teammates had high Peak scores but limited skill.
• Su Hang considered changing lanes or choosing a suitable warrior or assassin, then froze when he saw the enemy's bans.

Su Hang faced a deliberately targeted match that forced him to play Gongsun Li against Ao Yin, then discovered the enemy team included Huranlang, Jueying, and three professional players. With his promotion to 900 stars and his account at stake, he prepared to use the system that had arrived ten years late.

• The enemy banned five clash-lane heroes suited to the farm lane, so Su Hang told his teammates to choose early-game picks and selected Sun Bin for late-game insurance.
• Su Hang chose Gongsun Li against the still-hidden enemy marksman, and the enemy locked in Ao Yin.
• The loading screen revealed that the enemy's Mulan and Ao Yin were Huranlang and Jueying on alternate accounts.
• Su Hang realized the enemy also had professional players Zhongyi, Dashuai, and Wanmo, while his own teammates were much weaker.
• Su Hang decided to summon his ultimate trump card: his system, which had arrived ten years late.

AG Super and eStar players reacted to Exalted Emperor being matched against an overwhelmingly powerful Imperial Crown lineup and doubted he could win. Huahai clung to hope, but Gemini said Exalted Emperor would need farm-lane skills equal to Imperial Emperor's clash-lane prowess, leaving Huahai convinced his friend was doomed.

• At the Chengdu AG Super base, Yazi, Chaofeng, and Baxia celebrated Exalted Emperor's difficult matchup against Huranlang, Jueying, Zhongyi, and Dashuai, while Jin Ni defended him and recalled a childhood dream.
• At the Wuhan eStar base, Huahai and Wanmo reacted with shock to the formidable opposing lineup, while Qingrong predicted Exalted Emperor would lose because of his weak teammates and farm-lane role.
• Huahai called Gemini for advice, and Gemini judged the teams' skills so uneven that even Imperial Emperor would struggle to win in Exalted Emperor's place.
• Gemini said Exalted Emperor could win only if his farm-lane skills reached the level of Imperial Emperor's clash-lane play, and Huahai despaired that his friend would leave the game forever.

After maxing out his game mechanics, Su Hang showed that his Gongsun Li could match his former clash-lane skill, saving Sun Bin and stealing a neutral resource from Jueying’s Ao Yin. Players at Chengdu AG Super Play Club suspected his precise play resembled the legendary Imperial Emperor.

• Su Hang allocated 100 talent points to game mechanics and felt a new sense of mastery while playing Gongsun Li in the farm lane.
• Taiyi and Jueying’s Ao Yin attacked Sun Bin, but Su Hang used Gongsun Li’s second skill to block Ao Yin’s lethal Fire Dragon Souls and save him.
• Su Hang left his umbrella near the bird of prey, then returned to it after stealing the resource with a precise attack.
• Yazi, Chaofeng, Yinuo, and Jin Ni analyzed Su Hang’s play at Chengdu AG Super Play Club, and Jin Ni identified him with the legendary Imperial Emperor.

Su Hang's Gongsun Li saved Lanling King, killed Jueying's Ao Yin, and escaped the enemy team's ambush. At Wuhan eStar Team's training base, Gemini said Su Hang's farm lane skills had risen far beyond merely matching a Champion Emperor player.

• Huranlang's Mulan killed Su Hang's Allain, and Su Hang agreed to swap lanes with Allain at four minutes.
• Su Hang and Sun Bin baited out Wu Zetian's ultimate while Lanling King waited to attack Ao Yin from the side.
• Lanling King nearly died after he ignored Su Hang's warning and attacked Ao Yin before Ao Yin used his ultimate.
• Su Hang's Gongsun Li pushed Primal Tank and Taiyi against the river wall, then blocked Ao Yin's Fire Dragon Souls and Wu Zetian's control orb.
• Su Hang killed Jueying's Ao Yin and escaped, leaving his teammates amazed by his play.
• Wanmo, Qingrong, and Huahai reacted to Su Hang's performance, and Gemini said his farm lane skills had surpassed merely rivaling a Champion Emperor player.

Su Hang swapped Gongsun Li into the clash lane and faced Huranlang’s Mulan, despite the unfavorable matchup. He outguessed Huranlang’s feints and killed him, leaving Gemini’s prediction that Su Hang’s skills rival Imperial Emperor’s looking justified.

• Gemini predicted that Su Hang’s farm lane skills could rival Imperial Emperor’s clash lane skills and that he could solo-kill Huranlang’s Mulan.
• Su Hang swapped lanes with Allain and advised him to play safely against Jueying’s Ao Yin.
• Su Hang brought Gongsun Li toward the minion wave to challenge Huranlang’s Mulan, drawing alarmed reactions from the livestream viewers.
• Huranlang’s Mulan attacked with a silence combo, but Su Hang dodged it and struck back with Gongsun Li.
• Su Hang read Huranlang’s feints and chose not to return to his umbrella as Mulan used Flash and swung her heavy sword backward.
• Su Hang landed a final umbrella dart, killing Huranlang’s Mulan.

Su Hang’s solo kill of Huranlang convinced the Chengdu AG players that Exalted Emperor could reach the fifth level of instantaneous mind games and might be hiding his true strength. As the players speculated about his past and future opponents, Jin Ni gave Zhongyi a cryptic answer about the ranked game.

• Su Hang laughed off the livestream viewers’ jokes and reviewed his solo kill, recognizing the psychological battle behind it.
• Yazi, Chaofeng, Yinuo, and the others concluded that Exalted Emperor had beaten Huranlang through fifth-level mind games, a feat previously associated with Imperial Emperor.
• Yinuo panicked that he had targeted Exalted Emperor and considered seeking revenge against someone who might be a godlike player.
• Yazi and Chaofeng speculated that Exalted Emperor’s farm-lane role was his true position and that he was an old powerhouse hiding behind the image of a teenage prodigy.
• Jin Ni imagined Exalted Emperor hunting his way toward Imperial Emperor, while the players debated whether Silver Dragon could defeat him.
• Zhongyi asked whether they could still win their ranked game, and Jin Ni told him to hide Exalted Emperor’s game ID before whispering an answer that left him stunned.

Su Hang pushed his team to force a fight before the enemy’s stronger late game, then revealed that he planned to pick off Taiyi Zhenren. The chapter ended as Taiyi’s tongue-and-Flash combo caught Gongsun Li, leaving Taiyi frozen.

• At six minutes, Su Hang directed his team to take the enemy’s side-lane towers and pressure mid, then decided they needed a team fight before the eight-minute mark.
• Jiang Ziya deified Su Hang’s Gongsun Li, and the team destroyed the enemy’s first mid tower after the opponents chose not to defend it.
• Su Hang explained that Jueying’s team was avoiding a risky fight and preparing to drag the match into the late game.
• After rejecting a tower dive and Lanling King’s pickoff proposal, Su Hang said he would start the fight by targeting Taiyi Zhenren.
• Su Hang’s team hid in a brush while Gongsun Li raced toward the enemy’s second mid tower, and Taiyi caught her with his second skill and Flash, freezing her.

Su Hang won the 900-star promotion match with a decisive Gongsun Li play, reaching 901 stars and making Exalted Emperor the second player in Honor of Kings history to surpass 900. He planned to push toward 1,000 stars next, but left it to fate whether Exalted Emperor or his old account, Imperial Emperor, would get there first.

• Su Hang used Gongsun Li's umbrella-return mechanic to bring Taiyi into the enemy team, where Taiyi died and left the opponents without their frontline.
• Su Hang's team launched a frontal assault, and Gongsun Li defeated four enemies to secure a quadra kill before the team destroyed the enemy crystal.
• Su Hang ended the stream after Exalted Emperor reached 901 stars with a 7/0/0 record and second place on the national leaderboard.
• Su Hang checked Liuli and the others' ranks and estimated they could reach 900 stars the next night, helping create enough players for a 1,000-star promotion match.
• Su Hang decided that fate would determine whether Exalted Emperor or Imperial Emperor reached 1,000 stars first.

Imperial Crown's core members met after Exalted Emperor's rise to 900 stars and concluded he could challenge Imperial Emperor's record. They debated recruiting Imperial Emperor's former allies to stop him, then learned Imperial Emperor had logged into the game.

• Douyin users debated whether Exalted Emperor could surpass Imperial Emperor after reaching 900 stars and defeating Huranlang and Jueying.
• Jueying, Huranlang, and the other Imperial Crown core members acknowledged that Exalted Emperor's skill matched Imperial Emperor's and that another snipe would likely fail.
• Wangsun said only Imperial Emperor, Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord could defeat Exalted Emperor, and Ganglie urged Yujingzi to contact the three former allies.
• Ganglie warned that Imperial Crown's sponsors and thousands of members depended on Imperial Emperor's status as the top player.
• Yuejing announced that Imperial Emperor had logged into the game.

At breakfast, Jiang Sui discovered that Su Hang had not secretly fed Yin Long, while Huyan Lan warned Su Hang that his deputy captains might face him in his thousand-star promotion match. Worried that a loss would hurt her brother, Jiang Sui came up with a plan to help him.

• Jiang Sui questioned Yin Long’s sudden energy and learned that Su Hang’s packet of crispy noodles had blown off the balcony before Yin Long could get it.
• Huyan Lan accused Su Hang of using the deputy captains as stepping stones and warned that she and Hu Xiao would not hold back if they were matched against him.
• Jiang Sui worried that Su Hang might lose his thousand-star challenge and decided to find a way to support him by reaching 900 stars herself.
• Jiang Sui realized she could help Su Hang by supporting him if they were teammates or throwing the match if they faced each other.

Jiang Sui tried to win a 900-star King of Glory account so she could help Su Hang during his push for Thousand-Star Rank, but Three-Eyed Jin Ni outbid her. With the auction countdown running and no money left, Jiang Sui received an unexpected payment.

• Jiang Sui found a 900-star King of Glory account being auctioned on Jiaoyimao and entered the bidding with the 300,000 yuan Huyan Ya had sent her.
• Jiang Sui and Three-Eyed Jin Ni outbid each other until Three-Eyed Jin Ni suddenly raised the price to 500,000 yuan.
• Jiang Sui learned that Imperial Emperor planned to push for Thousand-Star Rank that night and decided she had to win the account to help Su Hang or stop Imperial Emperor.
• Huyan Ya asked whether the auction mattered to Jiang Sui, then ended the call after Jiang Sui said it was more important than her life.
• Jiang Sui struggled to find a way to raise more money as the countdown continued, then heard her phone chime with an incoming payment.

Jiang Sui’s bid for a 900-star King account climbed to six million yuan as Huyan Ya and Hu Xiao helped fund her. With Hu Xiao’s four-million-yuan loan, Jiang Sui went all in against Three-Eyed Jin Ni, leaving the auction unresolved.

• Huyan Ya transferred Jiang Sui five million yuan to support her bid for the 900-star account.
• At the Chengdu AG Super Play Club training base, Jin Ni learned that Wansuiye had bid five million yuan, and Gods’ core members pooled three million yuan to help him compete.
• Jin Ni raised his bid to six million yuan, while viewers speculated that Wansuiye had reached his limit.
• Hu Xiao gave Jiang Sui four million yuan borrowed through Tiger Loan and explained that the platform belonged to his company.
• Jiang Sui returned to the auction and pushed her bid all in against Three-Eyed Jin Ni.

Fly discussed the race to reach a thousand stars and learned that a fraudulent loan had been approved after Tiger Loan’s facial recognition mistook a borrower for Mountain Lord. A call from Jin Ni led Fly to agree to help influence the race, after which he left the Wolves’ base to handle urgent trouble in his hometown.

• Fly predicted that Imperial Emperor would reach a thousand stars before Exalted Emperor because of his strength across more positions.
• Anya discovered that a borrower had obtained and transferred a four-million-yuan loan after Tiger Loan’s facial recognition mistook him for Mountain Lord.
• Fly received a call from Jin Ni, who asked him to help Exalted Emperor if they were matched on the same team and oppose Imperial Emperor if they were teammates.
• Fly agreed to Jin Ni’s request on the condition that Jin Ni play the kindergarten teacher and sing him ten songs.
• Fly told Xiaopang he had to go to his hometown and would not be home that night.

The news of Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor’s simultaneous 1,000-star challenge went viral, and netizens eagerly debated which player was stronger. Unaware of the frenzy, Su Hang reached 999 stars on both accounts and queued them at once to see which would play its promotion match first.

• Major news outlets reported that Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor might become the first Honor of Kings player to reach 1,000 stars, and the story spread worldwide.
• The official Armor Hero and Kamen Rider accounts posted a video depicting the two emperors clashing, which drew millions of likes and sparked arguments over who would win.
• Netizens called for Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor to face each other, pushing their matchup to the top of the trending searches.
• Su Hang reached 999 stars on his new Exalted Emperor account, matching his old Imperial Emperor account, and considered but rejected selling them.
• Su Hang queued both accounts simultaneously, planning to cancel one queue when the other found a match first and to let both queues expire if the accounts were matched against each other.