Chapter Summaries

Qingrong tried to recruit Huahai into Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes so they could challenge the Imperial Crown Team, while Exalted Emperor continued his extraordinary climb in Peak Competition. At RW Xia’s training base, Fly and Yaodao encouraged Xiaopang to focus on his August Overlord Feast match against Zhongyi, leaving Xiaopang asking how Exalted Emperor fit into the plan.

• Qingrong told Huahai that Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes was moving to the Android QQ server and wanted to recruit strong players to bring down the Imperial Crown Team.
• Huahai refused Qingrong’s offer because joining Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes would put him at odds with the powerful Imperial Crown Team.
• Qingrong revealed that two other teams also planned to challenge the Imperial Crown Team, whose captain Phoenix shared a history of exile with two other Champion Emperor players.
• At RW Xia’s training base, Xiaopang, Fly, and Yaodao watched Exalted Emperor reach 1,950 Peak Competition points and place ninety-eighth nationally on the Gan & Mo leaderboard.
• Yaodao teased Xiaopang and ordered him ten portions of grilled meat, while Fly urged Xiaopang to focus on facing Zhongyi at August’s Overlord Feast.
• Xiaopang asked Fly what they should do about Exalted Emperor.

Fly explained why Exalted Emperor was likely aiming for the Mage Overlord title, then revealed that Phoenix and Mountain Lord had once been expelled from Imperial Crown in an incident called the Three Emperors' Rebellion. He left Xiaopang and Yaodao on the verge of hearing the identity of the third Champion Emperor.

• Fly told Xiaopang that Exalted Emperor's Major National Badge challenge might conceal his plan to pursue the Mage Overlord title.
• Yaodao asked whether Fly was targeting the Champion Emperor title, and Fly recalled his friendship with retired Farm Lane King Citong.
• Fly revealed that Phoenix and Mountain Lord had served as Imperial Crown vice-captains before the team expelled them after an offline gathering in 2016.
• Fly explained that Phoenix and Mountain Lord founded their own teams and that their departure became known as the Three Emperors' Rebellion.
• Fly said the third Champion Emperor had also come from Imperial Crown, and Xiaopang and Yaodao recognized the player's two-character ID as Fly began to confirm it.

After streaming for 23 hours, Su Hang aimed to break 2,000 Peak points before ending his session, but his final match began with a teammate banning Gan & Mo. His teammates realized he was Exalted Emperor, and he learned he had matched against the streamer Citong.

• Su Hang reached 1,985 Peak points and found his Gan ranked 72nd nationally after accounting for challenge-match Glory Power.
• Su Hang rejected viewers' pleas to rest and queued for one last Peak Tournament match.
• Su Hang's fifth-slot teammate banned Gan & Mo, then explained that he and other teammates had been beaten by Exalted Emperor's Gan in past matches.
• Su Hang revealed that he was Exalted Emperor, startling his teammates and prompting them to apologize for their earlier comments.
• Su Hang asked viewers which mage they wanted him to play and learned that his opponent was the streamer Citong.

Citong returned to streaming after losing weight and entered the Peak Tournament with Maoshen and Grandpa Ge, where they encountered Exalted Emperor. As Exalted Emperor’s team banned his main, Gan & Mo, the chapter ended with him picking Diaochan.

• Citong showed off his transformation and six-pack during his livestream, while Maoshen teased him about losing weight to pursue Tianyun.
• Citong began a Peak Tournament match with Maoshen and Grandpa Ge, and the enemy team’s first pick was Exalted Emperor.
• Grandpa Ge praised Exalted Emperor’s extraordinary but hard-to-measure talent, comparing him to the Grinding Overlord, and Maoshen resolved to recruit him for AG.
• Citong remembered that AG had paid him to snipe Exalted Emperor, but decided to tell Maoshen after the stream.
• After a teammate mistakenly banned Exalted Emperor’s main, Gan & Mo, Exalted Emperor picked Diaochan.

Su Hang’s Diaochan made a risky bot-lane tower dive to rescue his teammates, then used precise skill timing to turn the attack against Citong’s Lady Sun and Donghuang Taiyi. The chapter ended as Diaochan marked both enemies with true damage and Su Hang ordered the marks to explode.

• Su Hang reassured the nervous Sun Quan player with a sugar-free cola joke and promised to support him against Citong.
• At two and a half minutes, Su Hang teleported Diaochan to bot lane to help Sun Quan and Zhong Kui, who were being suppressed by Lady Sun and Donghuang Taiyi.
• Zhong Kui missed his hook on Lady Sun, and Su Hang abruptly dove under the enemy tower despite Donghuang still having his ultimate.
• Donghuang controlled Diaochan while Lady Sun attacked, but Su Hang escaped lethal damage with a timed ultimate and second skill, marking both enemies with true damage.
• Su Hang’s Diaochan re-entered tower range to join Sun Quan and Zhong Kui, then marked Lady Sun and Donghuang again as his teammates retreated.
• Su Hang moved Diaochan out of tower range and said, “Explode!”

Su Hang’s Diaochan wiped out Citong and Donghuang with a tower dive, prompting Maoshen to judge her skill equal to his own at his peak. At the four-minute dragon trade, Su Hang headed toward the Overlord pit and revealed that the three enemies there—not the dragon—were his real targets.

• Su Hang’s Diaochan triggered a chain of true-damage explosions under the tower, killing Lady Sun and Donghuang and earning First Blood and a Double Kill.
• Citong regretted having used Flash, while Grandpa Ge explained that Su Hang had baited him into overcommitting; Maoshen said Su Hang’s Diaochan rivaled him at his peak.
• At four minutes, Su Hang’s team began the Tyrant while Citong’s team sent three players to start the Overlord.
• Su Hang took the blue buff and headed toward the Overlord pit, telling his teammates a tough fight was coming.
• Su Hang spotted Lady Sun, Gao Jianli, and Xiahou Dun attacking the Overlord and declared them his real targets.

Su Hang's Diaochan outplayed Citong's team in the Overlord pit, earning a triple kill with a perfectly timed Perpetual Motion Machine. Citong and his commentators realized Su Hang had baited him through psychological warfare, while Maoshen suggested that Su Hang had practiced the technique extensively.

• Su Hang entered the Overlord pit with low health as Citong's Lady Sun, Gao Jianli, and Xiahou Dun attacked him.
• Su Hang activated Diaochan's ultimate and used her second skill to dodge Lady Sun's shots, then detonated marks to kill Lady Sun and Gao Jianli.
• Su Hang chased down Xiahou Dun as he escaped, completing a triple kill.
• Grandpa Ge explained that Su Hang had baited Citong into attacking by exploiting his instinct to repay every grudge.
• Maoshen proposed that Su Hang had mastered the Perpetual Motion Machine through extensive training, and Citong froze as he considered how many repetitions it would take.

Citong realized that hard work, not lost talent, was the key to becoming stronger again as Su Hang’s Diaochan gained a huge lead. Su Hang wiped out four enemies hiding near the Tyrant pit, leaving only Lady Sun to defend their middle high ground.

• Maoshen told Citong that Exalted Emperor had practiced Diaochan’s Perpetual Motion Machine tens of thousands of times, and Grandpa Ge estimated Citong had only a ten percent chance of winning.
• Citong remembered his past KPL success and decided to draw motivation from his hardworking 2022 self.
• At eight minutes, Su Hang’s team held a commanding lead, and he told viewers to practice Diaochan’s Perpetual Motion Machine in training camp.
• Su Hang spotted that all five enemies had disappeared, warned his teammates away from the Tyrant pit, and approached its nearby brush alone.
• Donghuang Taiyi and three teammates ambushed Su Hang, but he used a famous blade and Diaochan’s Perpetual Motion Machine to kill all four.
• Su Hang’s teammates pushed toward the enemy middle high ground while Su Hang recalled, leaving Lady Sun as the only defender.

Citong’s Lady Sun scored a quadra kill in a desperate base defense, but Exalted Emperor’s Diaochan still destroyed his crystal and won the game. After Exalted Emperor praised him as a worthy opponent, Citong showed Maoshen evidence that Pei Qian had paid him to snipe Exalted Emperor and recruit players to do the same, prompting Maoshen to rush back to Chengdu.

• Citong’s Lady Sun killed Zhong Kui, Sun Quan, Zhu Bajie, and Yun Ying in a last-stand defense beneath the high-ground tower.
• Exalted Emperor’s Diaochan teleported to Citong’s crystal and destroyed it with the cannon minion, securing victory.
• Exalted Emperor liked Citong’s post-game screen with the message “A worthy opponent!” instead of mocking him.
• Citong told Maoshen that Pei Qian had offered him a hundred-thousand-yuan contract to snipe Exalted Emperor in the Peak Tournament.
• Maoshen read Citong’s chat history, learned Pei Qian had also planned to recruit Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest players, and ordered Grandpa Ge to book him the earliest flight to Chengdu.

Su Hang discovered that Jiucheng, the current No. 1 Gan & Mo player, had joined a team connected to his three old close friends, who had returned to the game after nine years. At the AG training base, Maoshen confronted Pei Qian over his attempt to sabotage Exalted Emperor, but a thin man arrived before the dispute was resolved.

• Su Hang checked Jiucheng's profile and recognized him as the player who had once challenged him for the national No. 1 Gan & Mo ranking.
• Su Hang saw that Jiucheng had joined Twilight of the Gods and found Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord leading teams in the Android QQ rankings.
• Su Hang realized his three old friends had returned to the region and expected to face him over their past humiliation.
• Maoshen accused Pei Qian of threatening Exalted Emperor and arranging for players to snipe him, then tried to attack Pei Qian with an air purifier.
• Zhan Yuwen, Menglei, Yinuo, Xuanran, and Zhongyi restrained Maoshen and removed Pei Qian from the training room.
• A thin man entered the AG training base, and his appearance calmed Maoshen.

Maoshen learned that AG could not remove Pei Qian without Pei Gou agreeing to sell his costly shares, so Jiucheng proposed seeking help from the wealthy Twilight of the Gods team. The chapter ended with Jiucheng preparing to defend his national number one Gan badge from Exalted Emperor.

• Jiucheng told Maoshen he had known Pei Qian was targeting Exalted Emperor but had no power to intervene.
• Maoshen urged Menglei and Jiang Yafei to remove Pei Qian, but Menglei explained that buying Pei Gou's shares would cost at least three hundred million.
• Jiucheng said Twilight of the Gods could raise the money, and Menglei agreed to contact Silver Dragon about acquiring Pei Gou's shares.
• Jiucheng asked to use AG's first team's training room the next night so he could livestream his push for Gan's national number one badge.
• Jiucheng revealed that Exalted Emperor had reached 2,449 points, one point behind him, and vowed to defend his ranking.

Yinuo rejected Pei Qian’s attempt to turn him against Maoshen and ordered AG to prepare for Exalted Emperor’s participation in the Overlord Feast. Su Hang accepted the invitation and began preparing for another Peak Tournament stream as the event’s challenges approached.

• Pei Qian urged Yinuo to distrust Maoshen, but Yinuo defended Maoshen and threatened to turn against Pei if he spoke ill of him again.
• Yinuo showed Pei Qian that Exalted Emperor had reached a million Douyin followers and confirmed he would enter the Overlord Feast, prompting Pei to arrange preparations.
• The Overlord Feast organizers invited Su Hang to the Chengdu event on August 2, and he confirmed his participation.
• Su Hang reviewed the event’s rules, learned challengers would first compete online before facing the lane Overlords, and planned to gather teammates if needed for a five-on-five battle.
• Su Hang started streaming the Peak Tournament to keep pursuing national number one Gan, then froze as he looked up at the stream.

Su Hang drew a huge audience on ranking night and pushed to claim both the national number one Gan ranking and the top Peak Tournament mid-lane spot. After reaching 2,602 points and finding Jiucheng just one point behind him on both leaderboards, Su Hang chose to start his final match immediately rather than wait.

• Su Hang promised his viewers he would take first place in both the national Gan rankings and the Peak Tournament mid-lane leaderboard.
• Su Hang won a series of Peak Tournament matches with Gan & Mo and raised his score to 2,602 points.
• Su Hang checked the leaderboards and found himself first in both, with Jiucheng only one point behind on each.
• Su Hang learned Jiucheng was still matchmaking, while viewers urged him to wait before playing his final match.
• Su Hang dismissed the cautious advice, started matchmaking, and found a match.

Jiucheng entered a Peak Tournament match hoping to reclaim the national number one Gan spot, only to discover that his four teammates were veteran Overlords and Su Hang was on the opposing team. Su Hang learned the enemy roamer was a former support Overlord, then found out his own fifth pick was an Overlord too.

• Jiucheng resolved to win his final Peak Tournament match and defend his national number one Gan title.
• Jiucheng entered a match as the blue-side first pick and discovered that all four teammates were former Overlord players.
• Maoshen told Jiucheng that Su Hang, the Exalted Emperor, had been matched against him.
• Su Hang chose not to ban Gan, wanting to face Jiucheng at his strongest.
• Su Hang learned that Jiucheng’s roamer was the 2022 support Overlord, Watching Over Her.
• Su Hang asked his fifth pick about their support experience and learned they were an Overlord too.

Su Hang’s opponents banned five difficult mages, so he picked Heino as a safer, sustained-damage answer to Jiucheng’s Gan. As the match began, Dolia’s familiar movements made Su Hang suspect he recognized the player behind her.

• Jiucheng’s team banned five mages and selected Gan, leaving Su Hang with only simpler mage options.
• Su Hang chose Heino, whose range, sustained fighting, and escape ultimate could help him contend with Gan.
• Su Hang’s team locked in Dolia, and she shared her skins with him, but both players entered the match using default skins.
• The game began, and Su Hang noticed Dolia’s positioning and wondered whether he knew the player behind her.

Yugong Liuli suspected that the Heino on her team might be the Senior she admired, while Jiucheng's team dominated Exalted Emperor's side by taking their towers. Maoshen realized the enemy's repeated retreats might be part of a plan when he saw Exalted Emperor's Heino at the mid-lane high-ground tower.

• Yugong Liuli worried that her Dolia and Heino had accidentally formed a default-skin couple, then recognized Heino's movements as resembling a default-skin Marco Polo.
• Jiucheng and Maoshen explained why they banned flashy mages and predicted that Exalted Emperor would play a tanky Heino build.
• Jiucheng's team secured first blood and a double kill, then began systematically taking Exalted Emperor's towers.
• By six minutes, Jiucheng's team had destroyed every outer tower, while Exalted Emperor's side offered little resistance.
• Maoshen questioned why Exalted Emperor's team kept surrendering towers and grew alarmed when he saw Heino appear at the mid-lane high-ground tower.

Su Hang explained why his team had surrendered its outer towers, then used Heino’s ultimate, refreshed by Dolia, to restore a destroyed high-ground tower and repair another. When the enemy attacked the top and mid high grounds at once, Su Hang sent his teammates to protect bottom and positioned Heino between the other two towers, hinting that he would save them too.

• Su Hang told his teammates and livestream viewers that surrendering the outer towers would preserve morale and concentrate their defense on the three high-ground towers.
• At eight minutes, Su Hang let the enemy destroy the top high-ground tower, then used Heino’s ultimate to rewind it to full health.
• Dolia refreshed Heino’s ultimate, allowing Su Hang to restore the bottom high-ground tower after enemy minions damaged it.
• At eleven minutes, the enemy attacked the top and mid high grounds with a Shadow Overlord, and Su Hang ordered Meng Tian, Ao Yin, Da Siming, and Belia to clear bottom first.
• Su Hang positioned Heino between the threatened top and mid towers and began casting his ultimate as their health fell.

Jiucheng's team nearly destroyed two high-ground towers, but Su Hang's Heino revived both at once by positioning his ultimate to cover them together. After Jiucheng handed command to Maoshen, Su Hang recognized the enemy's improved macro play and decided his team would have to fight before fifteen minutes instead of waiting for the Tempest Dragon.

• Jiucheng sent his team to pressure the clash-lane and mid-lane high-ground towers, but hesitated when the enemy gathered on the farm lane.
• After the Zhuge Liang player persuaded Jiucheng that Su Hang was bluffing, Jiucheng ordered a split push and both towers fell.
• Su Hang's Heino used his ultimate to revive both towers at full health, and Maoshen realized Heino had positioned at the edge of his ultimate's range to cover them together.
• Jiucheng admitted Su Hang had outmaneuvered him and handed command to Maoshen.
• Su Hang assessed his team's equipment and noticed the enemy's improved macro play, then decided to fight before fifteen minutes and glanced at Dolia, who had reached level fifteen with a full gold circle.

At fifteen minutes, Su Hang’s team contested the Shadow Overlord while the enemy attacked, and Su Hang’s Heino held off four opponents before Dolia refreshed his ultimate for their time-stop combo. They wiped the enemy team and secured the Overlord, but all three of their high-ground towers fell, leaving Su Hang determined to force another fight before the Tempest Dragon spawned.

• Su Hang ordered his team to steal the Shadow Overlord as Jiucheng’s team pursued the Dark Tyrant.
• Nezha revealed Su Hang’s team and targeted Da Siming while Gan, Zhong Kui, Hou Yi, and Zhuge Liang rushed at Su Hang.
• Su Hang used Heino’s abilities to withstand the four enemies, then rewound to his marker as Dolia refreshed his ultimate.
• Su Hang used Heino and Dolia’s Chord of Fate to freeze the enemy team, killed Hou Yi, and helped his teammates defeat Nezha and secure the Shadow Overlord.
• Su Hang’s team wiped out the remaining enemies, but all three of their high-ground towers fell while they failed to clear the minion waves.
• Su Hang decided to pick off an enemy and force a team fight before the Tempest Dragon spawned, selecting his first target.

Su Hang’s Heino and Dolia worked together to protect each other while their team fought Jiucheng’s squad for the Tempest Dragon. After Dolia saved Heino from Hou Yi’s ultimate, Heino rescued her and wiped out three enemies, leaving Su Hang’s team poised to take the dragon and finish the game.

• Exalted Emperor’s Heino helped Jiucheng’s opponents win a fight, then his team ambushed and killed Jiucheng’s Gan before the Tempest Dragon spawned.
• Jiucheng’s team counterattacked, killing Ao Yin, Meng Tian, and Da Siming while Heino and Dolia survived and retreated.
• Jiucheng’s team tried to stop Heino and Dolia from recalling as allied super minions threatened their crystal, but Dolia blocked Hou Yi’s ultimate so Heino could return and clear the wave.
• Zhuge Liang and Nezha targeted Dolia, but Heino teleported in, froze the enemies with his ultimate, and killed Nezha, Hou Yi, and Zhuge Liang.
• Su Hang told his team to take the dragon and end the game.