Chapter Summaries

Sovereign Dominion dominated Twilight of the Gods, but Yinuo devised a Han Xin backdoor plan to steal a win. Pulao reached Sovereign Dominion’s crystal base with Destiny, only for the music driving him to cut off as he began the attack.

• Sovereign Dominion took both dragons and destroyed Twilight of the Gods’ clash-lane towers, including the high-ground tower, while building a large lead.
• Yinuo proposed funneling resources to Pulao so his Han Xin could buy Destiny and backdoor Sovereign Dominion’s exposed farm-lane base.
• Pulao acquired Destiny and headed for the farm-lane high ground as Twilight of the Gods attacked Sovereign Dominion’s crystal base to hold their opponents’ attention.
• Yazi’s Lu Bu interrupted Phoenix’s Gan & Mo’s recall with his ultimate, allowing Pulao to destroy the high-ground tower and enter the crystal base with a minion wave.
• Pulao began attacking the crystal, but the powerful music in his ears abruptly stopped, leaving him stunned.

Su Hang led Sovereign Dominion to defeat Twilight of the Gods and win the fourth Supreme King Title, while Fly accepted Chou Ox’s role in Imperial Crown and received an urgent meeting reminder. The chapter left Fly wondering what decision threatened Imperial Crown’s survival.

• Su Hang’s Ukyo Tachibana killed Pulao’s Han Xin after exposing the backdoor attempt, and Sovereign Dominion pushed through to destroy Twilight of the Gods’ crystal.
• Yugong Youjing reconsidered his judgment of Exalted Emperor, while Su Hang explained that he had baited Lu Bu into wasting his ultimate.
• The commentators announced Exalted Emperor as the fourth Supreme King Title winner, and Fly accepted losing the title with support from Yaodao and Xiaopang.
• Fly agreed to act as Chou Ox, participating in major Imperial Crown decisions while Chou Ox stayed away to avoid accelerating his personality fusion.
• Fly received an alarm reminding him to attend Imperial Crown’s meeting about the team’s survival and to vote against the proposal.

Su Hang accepted the Diamond Award Stele and explained that the Three Champion Emperors were now his loyal vice captains on Sovereign Dominion. Backstage, Zhou Keyu realized Su Hang was the rival who had overshadowed him since childhood, and his despair deepened until a familiar voice asked why he had lost their acting final.

• Su Hang accepted the Diamond Award Stele and thanked his teammates, fans, and himself during the ceremony.
• Su Hang said Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord were Long, Feng, and Hu, Sovereign Dominion's vice captains, as long as they stayed loyal to him.
• Tianyun announced the successful conclusion of the fourth Clash of Kings tournament.
• Zhou Keyu compared childhood photos and realized Exalted Emperor was Su Hang, his lifelong rival.
• Zhou Keyu recalled how Su Hang had beaten his faithful Emperor Hero performance with a simple scene and broke down, asking why he had lost.
• A familiar voice in the dressing room asked Zhou Keyu if he wanted to know why he had lost.

Su Hang revealed to Zhou Keyu that he was Imperial Emperor and persuaded him to help investigate the conspiracy within Imperial Crown. The chapter ended with Su Hang identifying the culprit as one of the eight core members, excluding Wangsun.

• Su Hang met Zhou Keyu in the dressing room, where Zhou recognized him as Imperial Emperor, captain of Imperial Crown.
• Su Hang explained why Zhou had failed to portray Emperor Hero and showed him Imperial Emperor's game account and a replica of the Imperial Ring.
• Su Hang pressured Zhou to help by threatening to revoke Imperial Crown's authorization for Zhou's drama, then promised to support his acting career if he agreed.
• Su Hang told Zhou that Silver Dragon had been manipulated by someone secretly plotting to seize control of Imperial Crown.
• Su Hang asked Zhou to join Imperial Crown undercover and investigate its core members, revealing that the hidden conspirator was among the eight core members excluding Wangsun.

Xue Ji revealed that Great Tengu was Xu Dog · Hanlu and analyzed Imperial Crown’s anonymous war vote, concluding that Nurarihyon was likely hiding among four core members. Great Tengu joined the meeting determined to block a vote for war, while Xue Ji privately questioned whether his loyalty had shifted from Yugong Youjing to Imperial Emperor.

• Xue Ji admitted she had drugged Great Tengu and searched his messages to rule him out as Nurarihyon, then revealed she knew he was Xu Dog · Hanlu.
• Xue Ji reasoned that Nurarihyon likely wanted war with the Three Champion Emperors and had secretly voted against the previous resolution while pretending to support it.
• Xue Ji narrowed the likely suspects to Huranlang, Yujingzi, Jueying, and Shejun, and identified Zi Rat · Shejun as the most suspicious.
• Xue Ji predicted Nurarihyon would push for war and vote in favor at the coming meeting, creating a five-to-three majority unless Great Tengu switched sides.
• Great Tengu vowed to oppose Nurarihyon’s scheme and joined Imperial Crown’s voice meeting as the midnight bell tolled.
• Xue Ji reflected that Great Tengu’s words showed loyalty to Imperial Emperor rather than Yugong Youjing, and decided that she alone would remain loyal to His Highness.

Fly joined the Imperial Crown voice meeting as Chou Ox and used an elaborate burst of insults to hide his unusual behavior. The core members then debated whether to wage war against the Three Champion Emperors, and Great Tengu feared Shejun was maneuvering the team toward war as a secret ballot began.

• Fly joined the Imperial Crown voice meeting as Chou Ox and surprised the core members by behaving politely toward Ganglie.
• When the others questioned Chou Ox's strange manner, Fly took a call from Yaodao and came up with a way to conceal his identity.
• Chou Ox unleashed a ten-minute torrent of insults at Ganglie, who began crying, while Great Tengu realized Chou Ox had been saving up his outburst.
• Wangsun opened a meeting about whether Imperial Crown should go to war against the Three Champion Emperors, and Shejun argued forcefully in favor.
• Ganglie changed his position and supported war, leaving Great Tengu afraid the proposal would pass in the secret ballot.
• As Wangsun called for the secret ballot, a private message from an Imperial Crown core member appeared to Great Tengu.

Great Tengu persuaded Jueying to oppose war with the Three Champion Emperors by claiming Shejun might be Nurarihyon, leaving the vote tied. Fly examined Imperial Crown’s vast organization and suspected that someone besides Imperial Emperor had built its management system.

• Great Tengu told Jueying that Nurarihyon had infiltrated Imperial Crown and suggested Shejun was the traitor, and Jueying agreed to vote against war while reporting the infiltration to Imperial Emperor.
• The vote ended in a four-to-four tie, so Wangsun scheduled another meeting for when Yuejing came online.
• Fly realized Chou Ox’s vote had helped prevent the resolution to go to war with the Three Champion Emperors from passing.
• Fly explored Imperial Crown’s group chats and records, discovering its thousands of loyal members, extensive benefits, and matchmaking program.
• Fly wondered how Imperial Emperor could manage the team while honing his gaming skills and suspected the core member who posted announcements had perfected Imperial Crown’s organization.

At the Atlantis Hotel beach, Su Hang discussed loyalty and romance with Yin Long and Hu Xiao as the Sovereign Dominion team gathered in swimsuits. Yugong Liuli nervously stepped forward in Jiang Sui’s too-tight swimsuit, then suddenly lost her balance.

• Su Hang told Yin Long and Hu Xiao that absolute loyalty was the quality he wanted in a partner, even to the point of dying for him or searching for him forever.
• Huyan Lan arrived in a black bikini and knocked Yin Long into the sand after he insulted her.
• Jiang Sui asked to wear a swimsuit, but Su Hang threatened to break her legs, and Huyan Lan reminded her that the public beach could draw unwanted attention.
• Yugong Liuli arrived wearing Jiang Sui’s spare swimsuit beneath a team jacket and admitted it was too tight.
• Jiang Sui learned that Yugong Liuli’s chest was larger than hers, and Yugong Liuli stepped forward before suddenly pitching forward.

Su Hang caught Yugong Liuli before she fell on beach rocks, but his intimate examination of her back dimples made her faint. Watching from the hotel, Yugong Youjing nearly killed him in anger, then chose to prioritize meeting Imperial Emperor and bringing Liuli back to Japan.

• Su Hang swept Yugong Liuli into his arms before she struck the beach rocks, startling Jiang Sui and impressing Huyan Lan, Yin Long, and Hu Xiao with his speed.
• Su Hang commented on Liuli's figure and touched her back dimples; she pleaded with him to stop, then fainted when Jiang Sui supported her.
• Yugong Youjing saw Su Hang touch Liuli on television, flew into a rage, and split the screen with his bamboo sword.
• Great Tengu and Xue Ji urged Yugong Youjing to consider their mission and the risks of killing Su Hang in Huaxia; Xue Ji suggested that meeting Imperial Emperor mattered more.
• Yugong Youjing restrained himself from killing Su Hang for now, deciding to focus on bringing Liuli back and meeting Imperial Emperor, whom he said had saved Su Hang.

Sovereign Dominion tried to choose a beach activity, but the group drifted back to Honor of Kings despite Jiang Sui's protest. When Jiang Sui begged to join their five-person team, Huyan Lan revealed a mode that could accommodate far more players.

• Yugong Liuli apologized for worrying everyone, and Huyan Lan deleted her swimsuit photos except for one embarrassing picture of her with Exalted Emperor that Liuli kept.
• Jiang Sui held a vote for a beach activity, and the group rejected Honor of Kings, beach volleyball, and Hu Xiao's competitive eating contest.
• Jiang Sui swore that they would sit on the beach rather than play Honor of Kings, but an hour later she found the others playing with Su Hang and Yugong Liuli.
• Jiang Sui demanded to join the five-person team, and Yugong Liuli gave up her spot for her.
• Huyan Lan said that more than five people could play Honor of Kings together and opened a mode that could fit ten or twenty players.

Su Hang organized a 10V10 Divine Prayer Battlefield match, while Zhou Keyu tried to grow his livestream audience as part of his plan to investigate Imperial Crown. Exalted Emperor invited Zhou Keyu to play, drawing viewers to the stream, and Zhou Keyu accepted.

• Huyan Lan split the group into opposing teams, with Hu Xiao, Yin Long, and Jiang Sui choosing to challenge Su Hang while Yugong Liuli joined his side.
• Zhou Keyu livestreamed under the name Xiang Yang and reflected on his plan to gain popularity and rise through Imperial Crown’s streamer promotion path.
• Zhou Keyu recalled that his father had sworn allegiance to Imperial Crown and warned him that the team’s loyalty could turn into a backlash against Imperial Emperor.
• Zhou Keyu realized that he had developed loyalty to Su Hang despite resenting him, and wondered why he was helping investigate the Imperial Crown power grab.
• Exalted Emperor invited Zhou Keyu to a 10V10 match, causing his viewers to surge, and Zhou Keyu accepted the invitation to capitalize on the attention.

Su Hang invited his friends to a 10v10 match and rejected a teammate’s attempt to gain a core position through declarations of loyalty. Liuli removed the teammate from the room and arranged his departure from Sovereign Dominion before the group began choosing heroes.

• Su Hang invited Zhou Keyu’s smurf account, Xiang Yang, to fill the last spot in the room.
• Protect Goddess Xiao Yang asked Su Hang to make him a core member, but Su Hang challenged him to break up with his girlfriend to prove his loyalty.
• Liuli kicked Protect Goddess Xiao Yang from the room and asked Sovereign Dominion’s management to process his departure with a year’s salary as compensation.
• Laoda, God of Crashing, joined the room, and the group discussed heroes for the 10v10 match.
• Su Hang chose a front-row position and got an idea after Liuli selected Guiguzi.

Su Hang’s opponents ambushed his Marco Polo in the bottom lane and chased him back to the crystal, forcing him and Liuli to farm the jungle. Huyan Lan predicted their route and led a search party into the enemy jungle, but her team’s encirclement was a distraction, and the chapter ended with their own crystal under attack.

• Huyan Lan’s team used Teleport to send six heroes to Su Hang’s bottom lane, where Tai Sui’s Taiyi stunned him and Liuli’s Guiguzi sacrificed herself to help him escape.
• Liu Shan disrupted the tower, and the enemy team chased Su Hang all the way to his crystal before withdrawing and taunting him in chat.
• Su Hang decided that he and Liuli should farm jungle monsters because the lanes were unsafe.
• Huyan Lan predicted Su Hang would farm the jungle and led six players to search it while four others guarded the lanes.
• Huyan Lan’s team surrounded the enemy red jungle, but Li Yuanfang spotted Sikong Zhen and Huang Zhong instead of Su Hang and Liuli.
• Huyan Lan realized her team had fallen for a trap when an alarm announced that her crystal was under attack.

Su Hang and Yugong Liuli plundered the enemy jungle and cleared all four minion waves, then taunted Huyan Lan’s team before teleporting home. Huyan Lan split her team to search both jungles, and Li Yuanfang detected someone in the enemy blue-buff brush as a male voice rang out.

• Su Hang explained that he had farmed the enemy jungle while Huyan Lan’s team was away, and he planned to take more resources before leaving.
• Su Hang and Yugong Liuli cleared the four lane waves at the enemy base, and Su Hang sent the enemy team a taunting message before teleporting home.
• Huyan Lan’s team debated where Su Hang would strike next, then split into groups to search the enemy jungle and defend their own.
• Huyan Lan led Silver Dragon, Mountain Lord, Tai Sui, and Mickey Mouse through the enemy jungle while Liu Shan’s group searched their own jungle.
• Li Yuanfang detected someone in the enemy blue-buff brush, and a carefree male voice called out, “I send you away~ A thousand miles away!”

Su Hang and Yugong Liuli outplayed Huyan Lan’s team in the jungle, then let the opponents gain confidence by winning a middle-lane fight with their mechas. As Huyan Lan’s group rushed Huang Zhong, a second Guiguzi suddenly pulled all ten enemies together and froze them.

• Yugong Liuli’s Guiguzi pulled five enemies into Su Hang’s Marco Polo, who earned a penta kill in the enemy’s blue buff jungle.
• Su Hang predicted the enemy would use mechas and said he planned to reach ten kills before piloting the ten-minute boss, Supreme Divine Dominion.
• Huyan Lan’s team mounted three Eternal Guard mechas and led a coordinated middle-lane assault, destroying the opposing mechas and killing several players.
• Huang Zhong baited Huyan Lan’s group into chasing him near the enemy’s second middle-lane tower.
• A second Guiguzi suddenly pulled Huyan Lan, Yin Long, Hu Xiao, and the rest of their team together, and Frost Impact froze all ten enemies.

Su Hang’s team wiped out all ten opponents with a coordinated ambush, giving his Marco Polo a ten-kill streak and a major gold lead. At ten minutes, both teams fought over Supreme Divine Dominion, and the chapter ended with Zhou Keyu unsure who had claimed the boss.

• Huang Zhong baited the enemy team into grouping up, and Liuli’s Guiguzi pulled all ten opponents together for Su Hang’s Marco Polo to kill with his ultimate.
• Huyan Lan rallied her team to hold out for Supreme Divine Dominion, while Zhou Keyu realized Huang Zhong’s bait had enabled the ten-kill play and noticed his stream had passed a million viewers.
• Supreme Divine Dominion spawned with 150,000 health, and Su Hang directed his team to build defensive lines around the boss pit as the enemies approached.
• When the boss’s health fell to 10,000, the enemy team broke through the defenses and a team fight erupted; Phoenix’s Mai knocked Zhou Keyu’s Sikong Zhen out of the air.
• As Supreme Divine Dominion’s health reached kill range, both teams unleashed their key skills on the boss, and Zhou Keyu wondered who had secured it.

Zhou Keyu's successful 10v10 livestream earned him an invitation to the Wu Horse Alliance, while Lin Ying helped his journalism club choose Nurarihyon as a topic. The chapter ended with Lin Ying realizing Nurarihyon was the picture on his QQ alt account.

• Zhou Keyu led Exalted Emperor's team to victory in the 10v10 Divine Prayer Battlefield, drawing two million livestream viewers.
• Zhou Keyu declared his ambition to serve Imperial Crown and received an invitation to join the Wu Horse Alliance.
• Lin Ying and the journalism club agreed to write about Japanese yokai for their next issue.
• Lin Ying's clubmates debated whether to feature Nurarihyon or Xue Ji, and Lin Ying chose Nurarihyon.
• Lin Ying revealed that Nurarihyon seemed to be the anime profile picture on his QQ alt account.

Su Hang reflected on why he wanted Sovereign Dominion to defeat Imperial Crown and decided he would lead the new team to bring down his old one if Imperial Crown had become corrupt. Yugong Liuli then revealed she was returning to Japan to marry and said farewell to Exalted Emperor as she was summoned to leave.

• Su Hang reviewed his system panel and wondered what reward he most wanted from completing the Nation's Number One Team challenge.
• Su Hang saw Sovereign Dominion nearing a showdown with Imperial Crown and resolved to lead Sovereign Dominion against his former team if it had become like the Hundred Demons Team.
• Yugong Liuli told Su Hang she loved Sovereign Dominion and cherished the memories she had made with everyone.
• Yugong Liuli explained that she was going back to Japan to get married and would not be able to return to Huaxia.
• Xue Ji arrived to take Yugong Liuli away, and Yugong Liuli tearfully said farewell to Exalted Emperor.

Su Hang and Yugong Youjing searched separate beaches for Shura and Imperial Emperor, respectively, without realizing they had repeatedly crossed paths. After missing their appointments, they recognized each other as the people they had been seeking and approached to exchange names.

• Yugong Youjing ordered Xue Ji to secure Liuli under house arrest at Yugong Tower, then went to the beach to meet Imperial Emperor.
• Su Hang searched the eastern beach for Shura while Yugong Youjing searched the western beach for Imperial Emperor, but neither found the person they sought.
• Su Hang and Yugong Youjing bumped into each other repeatedly as they switched beaches, each focused on finding his appointment.
• After the tourists left, Su Hang and Yugong Youjing realized the person they had repeatedly encountered might be Shura and Imperial Emperor, respectively.
• Su Hang and Yugong Youjing turned toward each other, walked out of the darkness, and began asking each other's name in unison.

Su Hang convinced Yugong Youjing that he had a severe mental illness and arranged to send him to a psychiatric hospital. Yugong Youjing nearly signed the admission form before suddenly freezing.

• Yugong Youjing introduced himself as Yugong Liuli’s older brother and became furious when Su Hang called her Liuli.
• Su Hang used three trick questions to persuade Yugong Youjing that he had a severe mental illness.
• Yugong Youjing recalled watching executions for years and believing that his accumulated pressure had caused a mental breakdown.
• Su Hang promised that treatment could help and showed Yugong Youjing an admission form for Yang Yongxin’s psychiatric hospital.
• Yugong Youjing prepared to sign the form electronically but suddenly froze.