Chapter Summaries

Su Hang matched both of his accounts onto the same team against Sovereign Dominion’s vice captains and spent talent points to max out Teamwork before confirming the match. His opponents recognized Imperial Emperor and reacted with old grievances, while Jiang Sui decided to help her brother defeat him.

• Su Hang discovered that his two accounts had matched together against Long, Hu, Feng, Liuli, and Wansuiye, a formidable team of high-ranked players.
• Su Hang used talent points to max out Teamwork, gaining a solo-queue skill bonus that he believed would let him control both accounts without losing focus.
• Jiang Sui recognized her brother and Imperial Emperor on the opposing team, then confirmed the match so she could help her brother defeat Imperial Emperor.
• Yin Long recognized Imperial Emperor and vowed to settle their nine-year-old grudge over their broken brotherly bond.
• Huyan Lan recognized Imperial Emperor and swore to make him suffer for ending their in-game relationship and cutting off contact.
• Hu Xiao recognized Imperial Emperor and vowed to find him so they could die together as friends.

Yugong Liuli was matched against Imperial Emperor while Exalted Emperor appeared on Imperial Emperor’s team, deepening her confusion about whether they were the same person. At Wuhan eStar’s training base, Qingrong, Huahai, and Wanmo watched the match and wondered how Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor would fare against Sovereign Dominion’s powerful vice captains.

• Yugong Liuli recognized Imperial Emperor on the opposing team and recalled the clues that had made her suspect Exalted Emperor was her senior, then resolve to give the match her all.
• Wanmo, Huahai, and Qingrong discovered that Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor had been matched together against Sovereign Dominion’s four vice captains.
• Qingrong said Feng’s mid-lane skill reminded him of a Champion Emperor, leading Huahai to suspect that Sovereign Dominion’s other vice captains might be just as strong.
• Huahai suggested that Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor could be compared by who earned the better match-rating badge and more bonus stars.
• Qingrong said the identities of Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor’s teammates had been uncovered, then reacted with shock when he recognized the last one.

Qiuniu matched onto the same team as Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor in a high-stakes promotion match, prompting the Gods team to urge him to carry and win MVP. Su Hang prepared to control both of his accounts with a Baili Shouyue and Mozi combo as the match began.

• Jin Ni, Yazi, Chaofeng, and Yinuo decided Qiuniu should play his hardest and aim to carry the match, since he had been assigned his main role while Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor had not.
• Qiuniu locked in Ma Chao, and Su Hang noted his confidence in choosing a hero with many counters.
• Su Hang's teammates Beiming Youyu and Huiyaoji asked for his advice, and he told them to pick Xiahou Dun and Wang Zhaojun.
• The enemy team chose Guan Yu, Diaochan, Jing, Meng Ya, and Zhang Fei, while Su Hang selected Baili Shouyue for Imperial Emperor and Mozi for Exalted Emperor.
• Su Hang arranged his two phones and prepared to control both accounts as the countdown ended.

Su Hang controlled Imperial Emperor’s Baili Shouyue and Exalted Emperor’s Mozi simultaneously in a one-thousand-star promotion match, drawing millions of spectators and overwhelming the enemy farm lane. After securing two quick kills, he turned his attention toward Jing’s blue buff.

• Beiming Youyu and Huiyaoji saw that millions of players were watching Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor’s promotion match and worried about making a mistake.
• At Wuhan eStar’s training base, Huahai grew angry at viewers mocking Exalted Emperor for playing support, while Qingrong and Wanmo reminded him that Mozi was central to the Shouyue-Mozi combo.
• Su Hang controlled Shouyue and Mozi together, landed Mozi’s cannon and Shouyue’s snipe on Wansuiye’s Meng Ya, and secured first blood at 35 seconds.
• Su Hang and Mozi’s tower dive left Liuli’s Zhang Fei vulnerable, and Mozi killed him at 45 seconds.
• After the two quick kills, Su Hang dragged the minimap toward the enemy blue jungle and declared that Jing’s blue buff was his.

Su Hang’s Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor dominated farm lane with flawless Shouyue–Mozi coordination, while Hu’s Guan Yu solo-killed Qiuniu’s Ma Chao and impressed the enemy team. After his teammates fell in other lanes, Su Hang focused on reaching the enemy high ground by six minutes.

• The Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue and the Exalted Emperor’s Mozi invaded the enemy blue jungle and combined their skills to kill Wansuiye’s Meng Ya with a blind snipe.
• Yazi, Chaofeng, Jin Ni, and Yinuo marveled at the duo’s coordination and Shouyue’s overwhelming lead in farm lane.
• Hu’s Guan Yu trapped Qiuniu’s Ma Chao in the Teleport array and solo-killed him, prompting Qiuniu to tell Jin Ni that Hu’s skill rivaled Mountain Lord’s.
• Jin Ni told her teammates that Sovereign Dominion’s Long and Feng might also be comparable to Champion Emperors.
• Su Hang recognized Hu Xiao’s strength, then saw the enemy Diaochan solo-kill Huiyaoji’s Wang Zhaojun and erase his team’s early advantage.
• Su Hang set a goal of reaching the enemy farm-lane high ground in six minutes and prepared to overwhelm Meng Ya and Zhang Fei with Shouyue and Mozi.

Jiang Sui struggled through repeated deaths as Meng Ya while Su Hang and the enemy team’s Imperial Emperor dominated the farm lane. After Jiang Sui charged out and died again, her teammates revealed they had used her as bait to draw Su Hang into a trap, leaving him surrounded and facing the possible collapse of his promotion match.

• Jiang Sui’s Meng Ya was killed repeatedly by Exalted Emperor’s Mozi and Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue, while her teammates argued over their losing lanes and Yin Long delayed his gank.
• Jiang Sui told Liuli’s Zhang Fei to leave farm lane and help the others, then resolved to prove herself by taking on the enemy duo alone.
• Exalted Emperor’s Mozi caught Jiang Sui outside her tower and killed her, bringing her record to 0/7/0.
• Liuli revealed that the team had used Jiang Sui as bait for four minutes to make Su Hang lower his guard, and explained that Jiang Sui’s microphone had been left on.
• Su Hang realized all four enemies had disappeared from the minimap and were closing in on his Shouyue and Mozi; he calculated the danger to his team’s objectives and decided to use his last resort.

Hu and his teammates trapped Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue and Exalted Emperor’s Mozi at the farm-lane tower, and everyone expected the two players to die. They began recalling together, but as the four enemies unleashed their ultimates, the chapter ended before their escape was resolved.

• Long’s Jing, Feng’s Diaochan, Liuli’s Zhang Fei, and Hu’s Guan Yu closed in on Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor from three directions.
• Huahai asked Gemini to predict a way out, but Gemini said the two players had no chance of survival.
• Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor started recalling simultaneously, shocking the players and viewers watching the broadcast.
• As the recall countdown reached its final seconds, Hu, Long, Liuli, and Feng unleashed their ultimates toward the brush where the two were hiding.

Su Hang used a perfectly timed recall to survive an enemy ambush, then exploited the opponents’ missing ultimates to secure both dragons and push mid. After the enemy traded kills and towers in the clash lane, Su Hang destroyed their farm-lane high-ground tower, but a sudden warning revealed that his own high ground was under attack.

• Su Hang recalled at the last moment, dodging four enemy ultimates, then signaled that Guan Yu, Jing, Diaochan, and Zhang Fei had used theirs.
• Qiuniu, Beiming Youyu, and Huiyaoji secured the Overlord and Tyrant while Su Hang’s team took the enemy mid-lane tier-one tower.
• Su Hang killed Meng Ya and destroyed the enemy mid-lane tier-two and high-ground towers as the enemy team attacked the clash lane, killing Ma Chao, Wang Zhaojun, and Xiahou Dun and taking his team’s upper tier-two tower.
• Su Hang destroyed the enemy farm-lane high-ground tower, but the enemy team did not appear at its fountain after recalling.
• A King of Glory announcement warned Su Hang that his team’s high-ground tower was under attack.

Su Hang canceled his recall and charged at Meng Ya while Mozi took flight to help defend the crystal. Watching the enemy’s coordinated push, Yugong Liuli suspected that Yin Long, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao were the Champion Emperors Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord, and she joined the assault believing Su Hang was doomed to lose.

• Su Hang saw Guan Yu, Jing, Diaochan, and Zhang Fei pushing toward his clash-lane high-ground tower and decided to recall to defend the crystal.
• Wansuiye’s Meng Ya rushed to interrupt Su Hang and Mozi’s recalls, so Su Hang canceled his recall and attacked Meng Ya while Mozi flew toward the enemy push.
• Yugong Liuli recalled how the enemy had planned their coordinated clash-lane assault and recognized how closely their playstyles resembled Imperial Emperor’s.
• Yugong Liuli concluded that Yin Long, Huyan Lan, and Hu Xiao might be Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord, the three Champion Emperors.
• Yugong Liuli leaped Zhang Fei into the high-ground tower’s range and hoped her intuition about Su Hang’s likely defeat was wrong.

Long, Feng, and Hu wiped out Imperial Emperor’s teammates and pushed toward the red crystal, while Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue raced to destroy their blue crystal with a super-minion wave. Both crystals were on the verge of falling when a hero voice line interrupted the apparent endgame.

• Long’s Jing instantly killed Wang Zhaojun with a Z-Shaped Jitter plus Strangulation Technique, clearing the way for the push.
• Feng’s Diaochan used her Perpetual Motion Machine maneuver to kill Ma Chao and Xiahou Dun, while Hu’s Guan Yu and Liuli’s Zhang Fei destroyed the Clash Lane high-ground tower.
• At the Chengdu AG Super Play Club training base, the players expected Imperial Emperor to lose, but Jin Ni spotted Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue on the enemy middle-lane high ground.
• Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue killed Wansuiye’s Meng Ya, then used his super-minion wave and faster attack speed to damage the red crystal as Long, Feng, and Hu attacked the blue crystal without minions.
• As both teams’ minions reached their respective crystals and the outcome appeared imminent, a hero voice line rang out: “Fight! To be worthy of being remembered by the human race for generations!”

Exalted Emperor’s Mozi chained his control abilities to hold off the enemy team while Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue destroyed their crystal, winning the thousand-star promotion match. As Huahai and Qingrong debated which player would earn the better rating, the ratings screen appeared and left them stunned.

• Exalted Emperor’s Mozi used his ultimate and Frost Impact to keep Hu’s Guan Yu, Feng’s Diaochan, Long’s Jing, and Liuli’s Zhang Fei controlled long enough for Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue to destroy the crystal.
• Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor won the thousand-star promotion match, prompting celebration in the Imperial Crown livestream and among the players watching.
• Yazi objected to people celebrating the Gods’ enemies, but Pulao and the others argued that the achievement belonged to all Honor of Kings players, and Yazi relented for the day.
• At Wuhan eStar’s training base, Huahai, Wanmo, and Qingrong discussed the players’ ratings and made bets on who would earn MVP and the higher-level badge.
• Huahai bet that Exalted Emperor’s Mozi would earn MVP and a top-tier lane rating, while Qingrong bet on Imperial Emperor’s Shouyue; when the ratings screen appeared, Huahai and Qingrong froze in surprise.

Su Hang won his 1,000-star promotion match on both accounts, but Huyan Lan became enraged after losing and tried to kill him with a cleaver. The blade stopped just before reaching his neck, leaving Huyan Lan stunned and the reason for its sudden halt unexplained.

• Su Hang won the promotion match, reaching 1,001 stars on Exalted Emperor and 1,002 stars on Imperial Emperor.
• Huyan Lan realized Su Hang had defeated her and felt betrayed because he had not let her beat Imperial Emperor.
• Huyan Lan recalled how Imperial Emperor and Su Hang had failed to value her or answer her messages, and her eyes turned black with killing intent.
• Huyan Lan broke into Su Hang's bedroom, picked up a cleaver, and raised it over him as he slept.
• Huyan Lan's cleaver stopped 0.01 centimeters from Su Hang's neck, then fell as the darkness faded from her eyes.

Huyan Lan assumed Su Hang cried because he had failed to defeat Imperial Emperor, then realized he had acted out of concern for her. After putting the sleeping Su Hang to bed, she joined the others, who accepted their loss and reassured Jiang Sui.

• Huyan Lan saw Su Hang crying in his sleep and believed he regretted losing the chance to earn MVP against Imperial Emperor.
• Huyan Lan recalled Su Hang’s guilt after their mountain fights and concluded he had tried to defeat Imperial Emperor to free her from her obsession with revenge.
• Huyan Lan picked Su Hang up, was bitten by him, and tucked him into bed before leaving his room.
• Huyan Lan lied to Hu Xiao, Yin Long, Jiang Sui, and Little Liuli about breaking the door, then punched Yin Long when he teased her.
• Hu Xiao said the group would try to beat Imperial Emperor another time, while Huyan Lan and Hu Xiao reassured Jiang Sui that she was not to blame for their loss.
• Yin Long realized that the Grinding Overlord was Jiang Sui, a fifteen-year-old about to start high school, and wondered whether her brother knew.

Jiang Sui and the Sovereign Dominion team agreed not to tell Su Hang about his loss to Imperial Emperor, but Little Liuli revealed she might not make it to Clash of Kings. After the thousand-star match drew huge attention online, netizens revisited a poll of the Honor of Kings players they most wanted to meet, whose top three were about to be revealed.

• Yin Long realized Jiang Sui had hidden that she was the Grinding Overlord, and Huyan Lan warned him not to expose her.
• Jiang Sui, Huyan Lan, Hu Xiao, and Yin Long discussed Su Hang's loss and agreed to avoid mentioning Imperial Emperor while he recovered for Clash of Kings.
• Jiang Sui listed Sovereign Dominion's lineup, then asked Little Liuli when Liuli would arrive; Little Liuli apologized and said she might not be able to come.
• News of Imperial Emperor and Exalted Emperor reaching 1,000 stars spread across social media, and reports said more than 50 million people had watched their match.
• Netizens debated Exalted Emperor's chances at Clash of Kings and returned to Weibo's poll of the players they most wanted to meet, which listed Mountain Lord fifth and Phoenix fourth before teasing the top three.

Yugong Nishang challenged his parents’ decision to sacrifice Yugong Liuli as the Yousu Fox God’s wife, but Liuli accepted the fate she believed she had been born to fulfill. She began explaining the Yugong family’s origin and the story of Yousu and Yugong Hu, whose sacrifice to save her husband left the tale unfinished.

• Online voters praised Liuli for giving away King of Glory skins for ten years and anticipated her appearance at the Clash of Kings.
• At Yugong Shrine, Yugong Nishang protested that his parents were condemning Liuli to a life of service and death as the Yousu Fox God’s wife.
• Madam Gūji slapped Nishang and defended Liuli’s fate as a sacred duty owed to the Yousu Fox God.
• Yugong Liuli arrived, asked her parents to leave, comforted Nishang, and told him not to resist their decision on her behalf.
• Liuli explained that Xu Fu brought 500 boys and girls to Japan, including Yousu, who met and married Yugong Hu, the ancestor of their family.
• Liuli recounted how Yugong Hu gave up her chance to become a god and sacrificed her body to save Yousu after he swallowed poison.

Yugong Liuli explained that the Yugong Family’s wealth and longevity came from a centuries-old pact with the Yousu Fox God, and that she was expected to sacrifice herself for another thousand tons of gold. She asked Yugong Nishang to care for himself, then revealed her own wish, leaving him stunned.

• Yugong Liuli wrote that the Yousu Fox God had promised to protect the Yugong Family in exchange for the sacrifices of reincarnations of Yugong Hu.
• Yugong Nishang learned that his family had thirty trillion yen in assets, including a solid-gold statue and a thousand tons of gold beneath its altar.
• Yugong Liuli told Yugong Nishang that her sacrifice would bring the family another thousand tons of gold.
• Yugong Liuli asked Yugong Nishang to take good care of himself, and he wept.
• Yugong Nishang asked Yugong Liuli what she wished for, and he froze after reading her answer.

Su Hang woke after sleeping for 24 hours and revealed that his family genealogy named him as the twenty-first reincarnation of the legendary Yousu. He then discussed Sovereign Dominion’s Clash of Kings roster with his teammates, who began agreeing to appear in the tournament.

• Jiang Sui and the others told Su Hang that he had slept for a whole day, and Jiang Sui brought him Lord Xu's Drink.
• Su Hang claimed his ancestors were nobility and showed his teammates the Warring States Su Clan Genealogy.
• Su Hang explained that the genealogy identified him as Yousu’s twenty-first reincarnation, though he dismissed the claim as superstition.
• Jiang Sui told Su Hang that Sovereign Dominion’s official account managers wanted the Clash of Kings roster announced soon.
• Huyan Lan and Hu Xiao agreed to show their faces in the tournament, and Su Hang asked Yin Long whether he would join them.

Su Hang assembled Sovereign Dominion for a team match after Liuli withdrew from Clash of Kings and Yin Long hesitated over showing his face. The team entered a match against the national champion Imperial Crown Team, and Su Hang recognized its Mulan player as Imperial Emperor.

• Yin Long asked for a day to decide whether to join the roster, while Su Hang said Huyan Lan could cover his birthmark with makeup.
• Jiang Sui told Su Hang that Liuli could not compete because her wedding had been moved up, so Tai Sui would take her support position.
• Su Hang explained that the team match would test Sovereign Dominion's coordination and help complete his system mission for talent points.
• Su Hang streamed the match, told viewers Liuli would not compete, and promised to call her after the stream to try to persuade her.
• Su Hang and his teammates queued as Sovereign Dominion, then discovered their opponents were the national champion Imperial Crown Team and recognized Imperial Emperor on its roster.

Su Hang realized the enemy team’s Imperial Emperor and the Three Champion Emperors were actors from the hit short drama Imperial Emperor's Counterattack Glory. The chapter shifted to the drama’s livestream, where Zhou Keyu discussed playing Imperial Emperor and began a match with the cast, leaving Wen Ning asking what he thought Imperial Emperor was like in real life.

• Su Hang recognized the enemy players’ names and affinity links, then concluded their accounts were imitations rather than the real Imperial Crown Team.
• Livestream viewers identified the enemy team as actors from Imperial Emperor's Counterattack Glory, and Su Hang asked about the short drama.
• On the drama’s official livestream, Zhou Keyu and Wen Ning talked about Zhou’s acting career and remembered Su Hang as a talented child actor who had retired for the prize money.
• Zhou Keyu started a team match to promote the drama’s sequel and selected his top-ranked Mulan, explaining that he had learned to play by becoming Imperial Emperor in character.
• Wen Ning asked Zhou Keyu what he believed Imperial Emperor was like in real life.

Zhou Keyu confidently deduced Imperial Emperor’s real-life profile, then spotted the opposing Sun Ce player named Exalted Emperor and suspected he had found him. As Su Hang’s team entered the match, the vice captains raged about a short drama’s portrayals of them, while Su Hang recalled a child-star contestant famous for finishing a bottle of cola in six seconds; he then reacted with shock when the enemy Mulan finally moved.

• Zhou Keyu deduced that Imperial Emperor was a fit young man with a younger sister, and claimed he could recognize him in a game.
• Wen Ning and Zhou Keyu saw the opposing Sun Ce’s ID, Exalted Emperor, and Zhou Keyu froze in surprise.
• Su Hang learned from the barrage that Imperial Crown had made a short drama, while Huyan Lan, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao angrily criticized its portrayals of Phoenix, Dragon Emperor, and Mountain Lord.
• Jiang Sui reminded Su Hang of his childhood acting competition, and Su Hang recalled the rival child star who could finish a bottle of cola in six seconds.
• Su Hang took Sun Ce to the clash lane, watched the enemy Mulan remain still, and froze when Mulan suddenly moved.