Chapter Summaries

Yugong Youjing, Xue Ji, and Zashiki arrived at Su Hang’s home, where Su Hang nearly attacked them before learning they had come to help. Yugong Youjing explained that he had left the Hundred Demons after discovering Su Hang’s identity and refused to join an attack on his cousin’s husband, though he and Su Hang clashed over his past attempt to sacrifice Liuli.

• Su Hang destroyed Yugong Youjing’s wheelchair and nearly punched him before Yugong Youjing revealed he was Shura and had come to help.
• Zhou Keyu invited Yugong Youjing, Xue Ji, and Zashiki inside, where they introduced themselves and verified their King of Glory accounts.
• Su Hang asked why Yugong Youjing had called himself the former captain of the Hundred Demons, and Yugong Youjing said he had left the team after Nurarihyon revealed Su Hang was Imperial Crown Imperial Emperor.
• Yugong Youjing said he had left because Su Hang was married to his cousin Liuli and he would not join forces against her husband.
• Su Hang reminded Yugong Youjing that he had once tried to kill Liuli and sacrifice her to Yousu Fox God, prompting Yugong Youjing to draw his sword and confront him.

Yugong Youjing brought his core team to join Sovereign Dominion, though Su Hang insisted on binding him with a billion-yuan contract and a ten-billion-yuan breach penalty. After Su Hang paid the signing fee, Yugong Youjing began questioning whether Su Hang’s evil nature was different from Nurarihyon’s.

• Yugong Youjing explained that Yugong Liuli was completing a month of seclusion at Yugong Shrine and admitted he had known about Yugong Nishang’s identity in Imperial Crown.
• Yugong Youjing revealed that Great Tengu had taken Yugong Nishang hostage and fled to Huaxia, and Zhou Keyu suspected their defection was a pretense for revenge against Su Hang.
• Yugong Youjing announced that he and his core team would join Sovereign Dominion and help take revenge on Imperial Crown and punish Nurarihyon.
• Su Hang ordered Zhou Keyu to prepare a billion-yuan contract with a tenfold breach penalty, and Yugong Youjing signed it under threat.
• Su Hang paid Yugong Youjing the billion-yuan signing fee, and Yugong Youjing asked Xue Ji to identify whether Su Hang was telling the truth when he answered questions.

Su Hang described his plans to punish Imperial Crown’s traitors and refused Yugong Youjing’s offer to help him escape to the United States. He agreed to challenge Yugong Youjing in a wager match to take back Imperial Crown, leaving them ready to resume their one-on-one duel from ten years earlier.

• Su Hang told Yugong Youjing he would imprison and torture Imperial Crown’s eight other core members, and said he would kill anyone who obstructed his revenge.
• Yugong Youjing offered to help Su Hang escape to the United States with a forged passport, but Su Hang tore it up and insisted that Yugong help him reclaim Imperial Crown.
• Zhou Keyu asked how they would take back Imperial Crown, and Su Hang proposed forcing the team to sign a wager agreement.
• Yugong Youjing recalled that he and Su Hang had tied in their previous one-on-one challenge and proposed continuing their duel.
• Su Hang accepted Yugong Youjing’s challenge to test their King of Glory skills.

Yugong Youjing and Su Hang began their long-awaited Ukyo Tachibana solo match while Xue Ji and Zhou Keyu argued over whether Phoenix had always been loyal to Su Hang. They made a bet about absolute loyalty, and the chapter ended as the first kill announcement rang out, leaving the duel’s result unclear.

• Yugong Youjing and Su Hang picked their Ukyo Tachibana skins and began their solo match.
• Xue Ji insisted Phoenix had remained loyal to Su Hang, while Zhou Keyu argued that absolute loyalty did not exist.
• Xue Ji and Zhou Keyu bet on whether Phoenix had ever betrayed Su Hang, with Xue Ji asking Zhou Keyu to acknowledge that absolute loyalty existed if she won.
• Zashiki recalled that Great Tengu had defected with Young Master Nishang and had spoken of being someone’s dog who would die in their place.
• A First Blood announcement sounded, and Zhou Keyu, Xue Ji, and Zashiki froze as they saw the result.

Su Hang defeated Yugong Youjing in a solo match and proposed forcing Nurarihyon to wager Imperial Crown against Sovereign Dominion. He left the group considering a five-on-five match as the wager’s format.

• Su Hang's Ukyo Tachibana killed Yugong Youjing under the tower, and Yugong admitted that Su Hang had dodged all his attacks with an unprecedented combo.
• Su Hang reminded Yugong that their past tied record came when Su Hang was exhausted, then rated Yugong Champion Emperor on Ukyo Tachibana and King Title on other heroes.
• Su Hang proposed a wager with Nurarihyon in which the winning team would absorb the losing one and become King of Glory’s top team.
• Xue Ji reasoned that Nurarihyon would accept because Imperial Crown needed to absorb Sovereign Dominion before Su Hang's commercial ventures raised its valuation.
• When Zhou Keyu doubted anyone could beat Su Hang one-on-one, Su Hang asked how the wager would change if it were a five-on-five match.

Su Hang planned to force Nurarihyon to sign the wager agreement by entering Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor, despite the danger of Imperial Crown changing the competition rules. He rejected his friends’ pleas to wait and declared that he would risk everything to take revenge quickly.

• Zhou Keyu assessed Sovereign Dominion’s lineup against Imperial Crown’s and doubted that Sovereign Dominion could win a 5V5 match.
• Su Hang said Sovereign Dominion had to make Nurarihyon believe it would lose so that he would sign the wager agreement.
• Su Hang announced that he would compete in Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor at the Bird’s Nest on August 31 to pursue the Champion Emperor title.
• Zhou Keyu, Xue Ji, and Yugong Youjing warned that Nurarihyon could alter the rules and urged Su Hang to delay his revenge.
• Su Hang crushed a can and insisted that he was willing to die if it meant quickly taking revenge on Imperial Crown’s betrayers.

Coca-Cola named Imperial Emperor its brand ambassador, and Sovereign Dominion announced that Shura and other former Hundred Demons members had joined the team. Lin Ying, revealed as Nurarihyon and Imperial Crown’s acting captain, planned to use the team’s power to swallow Sovereign Dominion and exploit Imperial Emperor’s commercial value.

• Coca-Cola announced it would sponsor Imperial Emperor and the Sovereign Dominion Team, prompting netizens to anticipate a rivalry with Pepsi-backed Imperial Crown.
• Sovereign Dominion announced that Shura, Snow Woman, Zashiki, and other Hundred Demons members had joined its roster.
• Netizens investigated Nurarihyon’s oppressive contracts, resurfacing videos from streamers who said he had victimized them, and flooded the Hundred Demons account until it was banned.
• Lin Ying angrily condemned Shura for joining Sovereign Dominion and resolved to swallow the team to imprison Imperial Emperor under an oppressive contract.
• Lin Ying joined Imperial Crown’s senior management call, declared himself its acting captain, and threatened to expose Imperial Emperor if his own identity as Nurarihyon was revealed.
• Lin Ying urged Imperial Crown’s veteran vice captains to devise a plan to take revenge on Imperial Emperor and swallow Sovereign Dominion.

Lin Ying adopted Phoenix’s plan to use the Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor tournament to force Imperial Emperor into a wager match, while deciding to challenge him in a solo match himself. He planned to turn Imperial Emperor’s defeat into a public spectacle and become a god in the King of Glory community.

• Silver Dragon and Mountain Lord argued over whose revenge plan to present until Phoenix silenced them and proposed wagering Imperial Crown against Sovereign Dominion in a five-versus-five match.
• Lin Ying approved Phoenix’s plan and ordered Yuejing to announce it online before the Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor tournament.
• Lin Ying announced that he would enter the tournament and challenge Imperial Emperor in a solo match, hoping to crush his confidence.
• Phoenix recognized Lin Ying’s motive but agreed to cooperate with him to take revenge on Imperial Emperor.
• After the meeting, Lin Ying imagined Imperial Emperor’s public defeat and declared his ambition to become the Great God, Nurarihyon.

Sovereign Dominion and Imperial Crown declared war, then agreed to settle the conflict through Exalted Emperor’s Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor wager. Imperial Crown changed the competition to a 5v5 match and revoked Sovereign Dominion fans’ tickets, while Sovereign Dominion announced that four of its players would compete online.

• Sovereign Dominion declared war on Imperial Crown, and Imperial Crown immediately declared war in return, threatening to use its billion fans against brands that sponsored Sovereign Dominion.
• At the Chengdu AG Super Play Club training base, Menglei told Yinuo and Zhongyi that Imperial Crown was the truly evil team, though AG had accepted its investment to avoid being suppressed.
• Exalted Emperor wagered the Sovereign Dominion Team on a Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor challenge, promising to submit to Imperial Crown if he, Imperial Emperor, and Ghost Emperor Shura failed to win the Champion Emperor title.
• Imperial Crown accepted the wager and changed the challenge from a 1v1 duel to a 5v5 match, voided Sovereign Dominion fans’ tickets, and announced a lineup led by its Three Champion Emperors and Jueying.
• Sovereign Dominion announced its lineup, with Ghost Emperor Shura, Snow Woman, Xiang Yang, and Zashiki-warashi competing online while Exalted Emperor and Imperial Emperor would attend the venue.

Su Hang flew alone to compete in Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor, leaving Yugong Youjing and Zhou Keyu to support him from Jiangcheng. On the eve of the tournament, students gathered to watch the livestream, where Lin Ying’s presence among Imperial Crown’s core members revealed that he was the team’s captain, Jueying.

• Su Hang told Yugong Youjing and Zhou Keyu that they would be safer competing online, and Zhou Keyu promised to prepare a feast when Su Hang returned victorious.
• Yugong Youjing and Zhou Keyu wished Su Hang success as he left Jiangcheng International Airport alone.
• On August 31, students across Jiangcheng gathered in Honor of Kings’ official livestream room to watch Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor and discuss their support for Su Hang.
• Jiangcheng No. 1 High School students learned that Lin Ying had obtained supreme VIP tickets in Imperial Crown’s fan section and questioned his supposed poor background.
• White Fatty revealed that Lin Ying was sitting with Imperial Crown’s core members and identified him as the team captain, Jueying.

At the opening of Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor, Imperial Crown’s masked core members argued over revealing their identities, and Jueying agreed to unmask them if he defeated Exalted Emperor in a one-on-one duel. Fly returned from buying food as Yaodao and Xiaopang noticed Babaili was missing and wondered why Fly seemed in better spirits; Fly left for the restroom, saying he would be gone a long time.

• Nine masked Imperial Crown core members took their seats at the Bird’s Nest, where Jueying urged them to reveal their faces.
• Yuejing proposed that the members unmask only if Jueying defeated Exalted Emperor in a one-on-one duel, and Jueying accepted the condition.
• Xiaopang worried when Fly did not return from McDonald’s, but Fly came back carrying food and reassured him.
• Yaodao and Xiaopang noticed that Babaili was missing from the front row and speculated about where he had gone.
• Fly said his improved mood would make sense after Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor, then left for the restroom and told the others not to bother him.

Imperial Crown’s Three Champion Emperors made a spectacular entrance before the third Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor competition, and the first challenger, Jueying, was revealed to be the young Lin Ying. Exalted Emperor’s introduction met silence until someone began clapping from the dark east VIP passage, leaving Ying Kai frozen.

• Ling'er and Ying Kai welcomed the audience to the third Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor competition and introduced the Three Champion Emperors.
• Lian Po, Wang Zhaojun, and Zhao Yun arrived on their Champion Emperor thrones amid Imperial Crown’s elaborate entrance animation.
• Ying Kai introduced Jueying, and the core members recognized the young challenger as Lin Ying, prompting speculation about Nurarihyon’s identity.
• Ying Kai introduced Exalted Emperor, but the Imperial Crown crowd stayed silent until someone clapped from the east VIP passage.
• Ying Kai saw who was clapping and froze.

Su Hang entered Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor with Sovereign Dominion and confronted the Imperial Crown members he intended to punish. After Tencent vice president President Yao showed Su Hang deference, both team captains signed their wager agreement, and the competition began.

• Su Hang walked onto the stage applauding himself as Imperial Crown's fans watched in silence, and he vowed to take revenge on Yin Long, Hu Xiao, Phoenix, Lin Ying, and Imperial Crown's other core members.
• Su Hang faced the crowd in Sovereign Dominion's uniform, which displayed Coca-Cola as the team's sole sponsor.
• Host Ling'er welcomed President Yao to witness the wager agreement between Jueying's Imperial Crown and Su Hang's Sovereign Dominion.
• President Yao greeted Jueying, then respectfully conveyed Director Ma's regards to Su Hang and his grandfather, unsettling Jueying.
• Su Hang and Jueying signed the wager agreement, and President Yao declared the third Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor competition open.

As Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor drew over one hundred million viewers, Li Jiu rejected pressure to favor the Imperial Crown and publicly predicted that Exalted Emperor had over a ninety percent chance of defeating Jueying. He wagered his career against Jueying’s victory, challenging Imperial Crown fans to cheer for Exalted Emperor if he won.

• Tianyun, Li Jiu, and Pingzi discussed the enormous viewership and pressure from their superiors to favor the Imperial Crown, but Li Jiu urged fair commentary.
• Pingzi and Tianyun chose to follow the superiors’ orders, and Li Jiu accepted their decision before the broadcast began.
• Li Jiu, Pingzi, and Tianyun introduced the 1v1 match between Jueying and Exalted Emperor, whose winner would earn the right to challenge the Three Champion Emperors.
• Imperial Crown fans dominated the livestream comments and attacked viewers supporting Exalted Emperor.
• Li Jiu predicted that Jueying had less than a ten percent chance of beating Exalted Emperor, provoking a flood of insults from Imperial Crown fans.
• Li Jiu wagered that he would apologize, resign, and leave commentary forever if Jueying won, while Imperial Crown fans would cheer for Exalted Emperor if Exalted Emperor won; the fans accepted.

Lin Ying tried to lure Su Hang back to Imperial Crown with money and the captaincy, then argued that loyalty was worthless compared with profit. As Lin Ying revealed that he had once stolen Su Hang’s phone and deliberately helped bring down Imperial Crown, Su Hang slowly reached for his hand.

• Lin Ying offered Su Hang the Imperial Crown captaincy and a ten-billion signing fee if he conceded the Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor match, but Su Hang told him to get lost.
• Lin Ying threatened Su Hang, and Su Hang recalled giving him a smartphone ten years earlier and accused him of staging the phone’s return.
• Lin Ying admitted that he had stolen Su Hang’s phone as a child, then used a fabricated act of honesty to win Su Hang’s sympathy and get him to buy a smartphone.
• Lin Ying claimed that profit governed all relationships and said Imperial Crown’s members and fans had betrayed Su Hang for the benefits he could provide.
• Lin Ying recalled joining Imperial Crown as Jueying, seeing its loyalty-based community grow, and deciding it had to be overthrown before it could destroy profit-driven teams.
• Lin Ying invited Su Hang to abandon loyalty and join him, promising supporters would gather behind him again, and Su Hang slowly reached out his hand.

Su Hang rejected Lin Ying’s attempt to shake his resolve and challenged him to a Lady Sun duel, hoping to win Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor and reclaim Imperial Crown. The match was about to begin with Jueying using a tanky Weaken build against Su Hang’s critical-hit Purify build.

• Su Hang decided he had to win Crowned and Proclaimed Emperor so he could punish Imperial Crown’s traitors in secret and avoid killing them on the livestream.
• Lin Ying failed to persuade Su Hang to surrender, and the two entered a 1v1 duel after agreeing to use Lady Sun.
• Jueying chose Lady Sun with the Lovers of Time skin, tank inscriptions, and Weaken, while Su Hang chose Lady Sun with the Doomsday Mecha skin, critical-hit inscriptions, and Purify.
• Pingzi and Tianyun questioned Su Hang’s choice of hero and summoner skill, while Li Jiu argued that Jueying’s turtle-style build put him at a disadvantage.

Exalted Emperor’s Lady Sun used an astonishing streak of critical hits to defeat Lin Ying’s Jueying with a limit Purify under the tower, drawing accusations of cheating from Imperial Crown fans. Li Jiu defended the play and predicted Exalted Emperor would use his small gold lead to crush Jueying as the duel continued.

• Lin Ying’s Lady Sun tried to clear the first wave while Exalted Emperor’s Lady Sun attacked him with critical hits from a critical-hit arcana build.
• Exalted Emperor chased Lin Ying under his tower, repeatedly diving as Lin Ying retreated and tried to defend himself.
• Lin Ying committed to a fight under the tower, but Exalted Emperor used Purify to negate incoming damage and killed him with a critical hit at one percent health, claiming first blood.
• Commentators praised Exalted Emperor’s limit play while Imperial Crown fans accused him of cheating over his unusually frequent critical hits.
• Li Jiu said tournament phones made cheating impossible and defended Exalted Emperor’s critical-hit build, then predicted his hundred-gold lead would let him crush Jueying.

Su Hang’s Lady Sun dominated Jueying by freezing the minion wave, building a huge gold lead, and chasing him all the way to his crystal for a kill. The commentators and viewers reacted to the one-sided fight, then turned toward the match as something startling happened.

• Su Hang reflected that maxing his final gaming talent, Meta Understanding, would cost him the last fifth of his life, then used Lady Sun’s ultimate to keep Jueying from farming.
• When Jueying’s Lady Sun tried to clear the wave with Weaken, Su Hang landed a series of critical hits and forced him back under the tower, widening his lead to over a thousand gold.
• Su Hang dove the tower, pursued Jueying toward the crystal while taking tower damage, and killed him with an extreme-range critical shot after Jueying turned to fight.
• Pingzi, Tianyun, and Li Jiu discussed Su Hang’s aggressive kill, while Imperial Crown fans struggled to defend Jueying’s performance.
• After Li Jiu told the others to look at the match, Pingzi and Tianyun jolted in shock and exclaimed, “What the hell?”

Exalted Emperor used a fountain dive and a last-second equipment swap to kill Jueying and survive, winning the solo match. He earned the right to challenge the Three Champion Emperors in the 5v5 team match.

• Exalted Emperor healed with Bloodweeper and trapped Jueying in his crystal base as minions threatened to destroy Jueying's tower.
• Exalted Emperor rolled into the fountain just as Jueying respawned, then used Purify to avoid its fatal damage.
• Exalted Emperor's critical attacks killed Jueying, and he rolled out of the fountain after buying Destiny to survive the damage.
• Pingzi announced Exalted Emperor's solo victory and his qualification to challenge the Three Champion Emperors in the team match.

Su Hang defeated Lin Ying in the one-on-one match, and Lin Ying turned his anger toward the upcoming team match and his own Imperial Crown players. After Lin Ying cleared the preparation room to be alone with Huyan Lan, a scream came from inside, leaving the team members unsure what had happened.

• Su Hang beat Lin Ying in the one-on-one match and taunted him, while Lin Ying vowed that Imperial Crown would win the 5V5 match.
• Lin Ying returned to Imperial Crown’s preparation room, where Yuejing mocked his defeat and dismissed his threat to banish him.
• Huyan Lan said Imperial Crown’s five players could win by choosing their signature heroes, and Lin Ying offered to help her take revenge on Imperial Emperor in real life.
• Lin Ying mistook Huyan Lan’s offer to test his strength for a romantic advance and ordered everyone out of the room.
• Yuejing and the other Imperial Crown members gossiped in the corridor as a bloodcurdling scream came from inside the room.
• The preparation-room door opened as the Imperial Crown members debated whether to check on Lin Ying.