Chapter Summaries

Fly explained that Chou Ox had split off as a second personality from his older brother, then joined Menglei and Huahai in commentating the second Imperial Crown intra-team match. Imperial Emperor’s team completed its lineup with the unpopular Zhao Huaizhen, leaving the commentators and viewers shocked as the game approached.

• Fly told Menglei and Huahai that Chou Ox was a secondary personality split off from his older brother, and described his own past experience with the disorder.
• Fly, Menglei, and Huahai began commentating the second Imperial Crown intra-team match, with Imperial Emperor’s team on red and Jueying’s team on blue.
• Huahai explained that the teams could not reuse heroes from the first match, and both sides quickly chose their lineups.
• Imperial Emperor’s first four picks left his team without a frontline, prompting the commentators and viewers to expect him to choose a tank for the clash lane.
• Imperial Emperor picked Zhao Huaizhen, the fallen genius, surprising Menglei, Huahai, Fly, and the viewers.

Imperial Crown viewers doubted Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen pick against Yujingzi’s Yun Ying, while Xu Lin prepared to tease his captain with a broken-engagement joke. As the match began, Xu Lin sent the message in all-chat and waited to see Imperial Emperor’s response.

• Fly, Huahai, and Menglei explained that Zhao Huaizhen had been repeatedly nerfed and doubted he could carry Imperial Emperor’s team.
• Viewers noticed Yujingzi had picked Yun Ying, Zhao Huaizhen’s supposed partner, and joked that she should break off their engagement.
• At the Si She Reptile Pet Shop, Xu Lin sold Jiang Sui a toy snake and exchanged WeChat details with her before returning to his game.
• Xu Lin started the match as Yun Ying and typed, “[All] (Yujingzi · Yun Ying): Zhao Huaizhen, I'm breaking off the engagement!”
• Xu Lin’s teammates laughed at the taunt, and he wondered how Captain Imperial Emperor would react.

Su Hang used Zhao Huaizhen and a coordinated feint to steal Yun Ying’s blue buff and secure first blood. The commentators warned that Imperial Emperor’s team still faced lane disadvantages, while Fly wondered why he had been watching Yun Shu so closely.

• Su Hang ordered Aries’s Pei Qinhu to invade the enemy red zone while Zhao Huaizhen waited near the blue buff.
• Aries revealed Pei Qinhu in the red zone, drawing Zhang Fei away and giving Su Hang an opening to approach Yun Ying’s blue buff.
• Su Hang’s Zhao Huaizhen stole the nearly defeated blue buff after Yun Ying had used Smite.
• Hanlu’s Shi caught Yun Ying with her skills, and Zhao Huaizhen killed her to claim first blood.
• Fly, Huahai, and Menglei praised the ambush but noted Imperial Emperor’s team remained disadvantaged in several lanes.
• Fly watched Aries’s Pei Qinhu and wondered why he had been focused on Yun Shu.

Yun Shu’s Pei Qinhu was caught in a failed gank on Jueying’s Hou Yi, but Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen arrived just in time and used the supposedly fixed Three Thousand Lightning Movement to kill Hou Yi. The match and livestream audience were left stunned as experts wondered how Imperial Emperor had revived the combo.

• Yun Shu led Shejun and Ganglie into a gank on Jueying’s half-health Hou Yi, but Hou Yi dodged their attack and stunned Pei Qinhu with his ultimate.
• Shejun and Ganglie abandoned Yun Shu when Yuejing’s Zhuge Liang came to support, leaving Pei Qinhu trapped under enemy pressure.
• Imperial Emperor teleported to the farm lane and told Yun Shu to run toward the minion wave, then used Zhao Huaizhen’s ultimate to control Zhuge Liang’s water dragon.
• Imperial Emperor moved rapidly toward the enemy tower with Three Thousand Lightning Movement and killed Jueying’s Hou Yi with the redirected water dragon.
• The Imperial Crown livestream audience and studio analysts reacted in shock, questioning how Imperial Emperor had performed a combo the developers had fixed years earlier.

Su Hang revealed a faster, easier Three Thousand Lightning Movement and claimed he had created a true Zhao Huaizhen sorcery combo he could use in the match. As Imperial Emperor’s team fell behind after Aries’s mistakes, Fly unexpectedly felt guilty toward Imperial Emperor.

• Su Hang explained that Huaizhen’s Three Thousand Lightning Movement now required only three inputs per second, then teased a faster technique and said he had developed a true sorcery combo.
• At four minutes, Imperial Emperor’s team took the Tyrant while Jueying’s team took the Overlord; Jueying’s stronger jungler kept control of the match.
• At eight minutes, Jueying’s Hou Yi and Zhuge Liang killed Aries’s Pei Qinhu, then Jueying’s team took the Tyrant and pushed down an outer tower.
• At ten minutes, Aries recklessly contested the Dark Tyrant’s Smite and died, leaving Imperial Emperor’s team to surrender its outer towers and retreat into defense.
• Livestream viewers blamed Yun Shu’s poor performance and Chou Ox’s decision to select her, while Fly wondered why he felt guilty toward Imperial Emperor.

Jueying's team took the Shadow Overlord and pushed into Imperial Emperor's crystal base after winning a team fight and gaining a major lead. The livestream audience believed Imperial Emperor was about to lose the second game.

• At 14 minutes, Jueying's team attacked Imperial Emperor's farm lane high ground, and Zhao Huaizhen used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to kill Yuejing's Zhuge Liang before Yujingzi's Yun Ying scored a double kill.
• Jueying's team destroyed the high-ground tower and moved to take the Shadow Overlord, while its players discussed replacing Aries and speculated about Exalted Emperor joining the next game.
• Yujingzi's Yun Ying secured the Shadow Overlord, and Jueying's team charged toward Imperial Emperor's crystal base.
• The livestream commentators and viewers judged that Imperial Emperor had little chance to recover, as Jueying's team pushed with the Vanguard Overlord and all five players.

Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen turned the defense of the crystal base into a team wipe, eliminating the enemy’s Zhuge Liang, Hou Yi, and Lu Bu. With the rest of Imperial Emperor’s team pushing the top lane and stopping the surviving defenders, they destroyed the enemy crystal and won.

• With the enemy team attacking their crystal, Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen used his ultimate to rush the backline and kill Yuejing’s Zhuge Liang.
• Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen repeatedly attacked Jueying’s Hou Yi through his defensive items and effects, killing him despite Huranlang’s Lu Bu and Wangsun’s Zhang Fei intervening.
• Yun Shu’s Pei Qinhu and her teammates arrived, killed Yujingzi’s Yun Ying and Wangsun’s Zhang Fei, and chased Huranlang’s Lu Bu while Imperial Emperor’s Zhao Huaizhen finished him off.
• Ganglie, Yun Shu, Shejun, and Hanlu destroyed the enemy’s top-lane high-ground tower and pushed toward the crystal.
• Hanlu’s Shi and Shejun’s Di Renjie stopped Yuejing’s Zhuge Liang from clearing the minion wave, and Imperial Emperor’s team destroyed the crystal to win.

Su Hang celebrated Imperial Crown’s civil-war sweep and joined the team as they distributed cash rewards and prepared to announce performance rankings. He learned the MVP prizes totaled ten million yuan and that the team’s cash flow had grown to about a billion, then faced the prospect of paying consolation money despite winning both matches.

• Su Hang celebrated winning both civil-war matches as MVP and accepted Yujingzi’s invitation to join the 10V10 Divine Prayer Battlefield room with the Imperial Crown members.
• Wangsun said Su Hang had earned two MVP cash prizes, but Su Hang offered to split the rewards among the nine members.
• Wangsun revealed that the MVP prizes totaled ten million yuan and that the winning team would receive another five million; Su Hang regretted offering to share the money.
• Jueying recalled that Su Hang had paid consolation money to the losing team in the first civil war, but Hanlu said the members did not need money in real life.
• Wangsun announced that the team would rank members by their performance across both matches and award the top three the title of Uncrowned Emperor, the next three Uncrowned King, and the bottom three Uncrowned Overlord.

Wangsun announced the tenth Imperial Crown internal competition rankings, and Su Hang awarded Yujingzi the Uncrowned Champion Emperor title despite his tie with Huranlang. The competition ended, but the team asked Wangsun to reveal Su Hang’s overall rating, which had not yet been announced.

• Wangsun announced the bottom rankings, naming Babaili, Ganglie, and Hanlu the Uncrowned Overlords, then named Yuejing, Wangsun, and Shejun the Uncrowned Kings, with Shejun as the Strongest Uncrowned King.
• Wangsun announced Jueying as the Uncrowned Third-Place Emperor, and Jueying thanked the team and Su Hang.
• Wangsun reported that Huranlang and Yujingzi had tied with overall ratings of 9.8, so Su Hang had to choose which player would take first place.
• Huranlang and Yujingzi deferred to each other before Su Hang awarded Yujingzi the Uncrowned Champion Emperor title and Huranlang the Uncrowned Runner-Up Emperor title.
• Wangsun declared the competition concluded, but Yuejing reminded everyone that Su Hang’s rating had not been announced, and Su Hang told Wangsun to reveal it.

After Imperial Crown’s tenth internal match, Su Hang told Yujingzi how to perform Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies and asked why he had reached out. Xu Lin learned that Su Hang was going offline for a while, then discovered White Lady was missing and suspected she had crawled into Jiang Sui’s birthday gift box.

• Wangsun announced Imperial Emperor’s overall rating of 15.2, bringing Imperial Crown’s tenth internal match to a close.
• Yujingzi asked Su Hang about Zhao Huaizhen’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies, and Su Hang explained how to perform the technique before asking about Yujingzi’s real reason for messaging.
• Xu Lin asked Su Hang why he had named him Uncrowned Champion Emperor, and Su Hang told him to lead Imperial Crown while he was away from the team.
• Xu Lin looked forward to the team’s tenth-anniversary gathering, then searched his reptile shop for White Lady after realizing she had disappeared.
• Xu Lin remembered Jiang Sui’s visit with an open birthday gift box and suspected White Lady had crawled inside it.

Jiang Sui prepared a mischievous birthday gift for Su Hang, while he planned Sovereign Dominion’s rise through the team ranks and advised Liuli on a gift for her crush. The chapter ended with Jiang Sui bringing Su Hang his present.

• Jiang Sui vowed that she and Sovereign Dominion would someday defeat Imperial Emperor and Imperial Crown.
• Jiang Sui prepared a birthday box containing odd trinkets, including a toy snake that Su Hang feared.
• Su Hang reviewed Sovereign Dominion’s new mission to reach national-team rank within 120 days and asked Liuli to organize the upcoming team matches.
• Liuli asked Su Hang for gift advice for a friend’s crush, describing a man who liked Honor of Kings and used an Emperor Hero avatar.
• Su Hang suggested an Imperial Emperor Steed model, then learned Liuli was considering buying the limited-edition BMW motorcycle instead.
• Jiang Sui entered Su Hang’s room and presented him with a birthday gift.

On his birthday, Su Hang was pranked by Jiang Sui and fainted after discovering the white snake in her gift was real. After Huyan Ya explained the snake was harmless, Su Hang left to meet Huyan Ya’s sister, whose message and knife left the girls worried.

• Jiang Sui gave Su Hang a series of absurd birthday gifts, including a fake snake that startled him.
• Su Hang found a real white snake in the gift box, mistook it for a toy, and fainted when it flicked its tongue.
• Jiang Sui said she had pinned the snake under a Leifeng Pagoda figurine, and Huyan Ya identified it as a harmless pet snake.
• Huyan Ya told Su Hang that her sister was waiting for him at their usual place, and he left carrying a golden mask.
• Jiang Sui explained that Su Hang and Huyan Ya’s sister had known each other for seven years, then froze when Huyan Ya mentioned her sister had brought a knife.

Su Hang and Huyan Lan fought over their childhood rivalry as Emperor Hero and the Shadow Beasts, and Su Hang finally transformed into Imperial Emperor Armor. He left the confrontation ready to throw the punch he had waited twelve years to deliver.

• Huyan Lan challenged Su Hang on a mountain road and attacked him with a sharpened iron cleaver, fists, and kicks.
• Huyan Lan recalled how Su Hang had played Emperor Hero as a child and insisted that defeating him would prove the Shadow Beasts’ greatness.
• Su Hang told Huyan Lan that meeting her had forced him to abandon his dream of becoming Emperor Hero.
• Huyan Lan admitted she had pretended they were friends to torment Su Hang after she could not defeat him physically.
• Su Hang put on a golden Emperor Hero mask, called out “Imperial Emperor Armor. Combine!”, and declared that he had waited twelve years for his punch.

Su Hang nearly killed Huyan Lan during their fight, then reset her dislocated arms and camped with her for the night. As they talked about Honor of Kings, Huyan Lan described her hatred for a player named Imperial Emperor, unaware that it was Su Hang’s old account.

• Su Hang broke Huyan Lan’s broadsword and stopped his punch just before it hit her face, then reset her dislocated arms.
• Huyan Lan persuaded Su Hang to camp with her so her sister would not see her swollen face, and they told their sisters they were safe.
• In their sleeping bags, Su Hang and Huyan Lan discussed their histories with Honor of Kings and their player accounts.
• Huyan Lan said she wanted to kill a player named Imperial Emperor, while Su Hang ruled out being that player because their accounts used different zones.
• Huyan Lan fell asleep before explaining her grudge, and Jiang Sui messaged Su Hang that the boy he rescued from the tiger would visit the next morning.

Su Hang welcomed Hu Baobao, the eight-year-old boy he had rescued from a tiger, into his home, where Hu Baobao met Jiang Sui and Huyan Ya and delivered a thank-you letter from his father. As Su Hang prepared for a team match, Hu Baobao joined him to play Honor of Kings and revealed his username: Hu.

• Hu Baobao ate nearly an entire cake and first claimed he was twenty-eight before admitting to Jiang Sui that he was eight and showing her his toy ID card.
• Su Hang and Huyan Lan arrived, and Hu Baobao greeted Su Hang and gave him a thank-you letter from his father.
• Su Hang invited Hu Baobao to stay for lunch, then asked Huyan Lan to keep him company while he prepared for his Honor of Kings team match.
• Hu Baobao refused to play with Huyan Lan because his father had warned him that girls with pierced ears were bad people.
• Su Hang invited Hu Baobao to join his team match, and Hu Baobao logged in and gave his username as Hu.

Su Hang gathered players for Sovereign Dominion’s first team match, but Tai Sui failed to show up, so Su Hang demoted him and started a livestream to recruit a replacement. He introduced the team’s core members to a huge audience and was about to reveal the next one.

• Hu Baobao revealed that his in-game ID, Hu, was a valuable single-character ID, and Huyan Lan showed that her alternate account was named Feng.
• Su Hang invited Hu Baobao and Huyan Lan to the team lobby, but Hu Baobao asked his father to play while he watched through screen sharing.
• Jiang Sui ignored Su Hang’s repeated QQ messages because she was cooking with Huyan Ya and had claimed she did not play Honor of Kings.
• Su Hang demoted the absent Tai Sui, started a livestream, and told viewers he was the student who had rescued a child from a tiger.
• Su Hang introduced himself as Sovereign Dominion’s captain and Liuli as its first vice captain before turning to the elite member section.

Su Hang introduced Tai Sui as a core member of Sovereign Dominion and recruited a player named [Long] for a team match. The dragon, phoenix, and tiger IDs brought back memories of his former friends, while elsewhere a masked captain searched for Imperial Emperor, intending to kill him before Phoenix could.

• Su Hang announced that Tai Sui had been demoted to an elite member of Sovereign Dominion and invited livestream viewers to fill the team’s last spot.
• A player with the single-character ID [Long] joined Su Hang’s room, while Chaofeng told Baxia that their boss had come to Jiangcheng hoping to find Imperial Emperor.
• Chaofeng revealed that the boss wanted to kill Imperial Emperor before Phoenix could, not protect him.
• Su Hang recognized that [Long], [Feng], and [Hu] recalled his former friends Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord, with whom he had once fought alongside.
• Su Hang reflected that his three friends had founded powerful teams after leaving Imperial Crown, then started matchmaking with the new group.

Su Hang chose the recently nerfed Sun Quan for Sovereign Dominion’s match, while Saobai and Chunbai joined Jiutianhu’s returning GFS Team for a livestream match. The teams entered the loading screens and recognized Exalted Emperor on the opposing side.

• Su Hang picked Sun Quan despite viewers warning that the nerfed marksman was weak early, and Liuli chose Zhang Fei to support him.
• Long, Feng, and Hu selected Zhao Yun, Wang Zhaojun, and Lian Po for Sovereign Dominion, whose opponents were GFS Team.
• Jiutianhu hosted Saobai and Chunbai on GFS Team’s comeback livestream, and Saobai agreed to play one team match before his KPL match.
• Saobai, Chunbai, and Jiutianhu selected Mulan, Shangguan Wan'er, and Han Xin, while two veteran GFS members picked Di Renjie and Liu Shan.
• Jiutianhu saw that GFS Team’s opponent was Sovereign Dominion, then froze when Saobai pointed out Exalted Emperor’s name.

During a team match, Su Hang discovered that Huyan Lan, Hu Father's Lian Po, and the random Zhao Yun player [Long] had unfathomable or rapidly rising skill, leading him to suspect Long had the rare Replication Talent. Huyan Lan independently realized that Su Hang, Hu, and Long seemed to rival her own Champion Emperor-level skill, while both she and Su Hang wondered why Hu and Long felt familiar.

• Su Hang examined his teammates' play and found he could not gauge Huyan Lan's or Hu Father's true skill, though he could identify Liuli's Zhang Fei as a top-tier national-server roamer.
• Su Hang saw Zhao Yun [Long] rise from ordinary national-server level to top-tier national-server level, then become impossible to assess, and concluded that Long had the Replication Talent.
• Su Hang judged that Long, Feng, and Hu together would be nearly unbeatable as opponents, so he decided to recruit them into the Sovereign Dominion Team after the match.
• Huyan Lan wondered why she could not see through Su Hang's skill, then discovered she also could not assess Hu Father's Lian Po or Long's Zhao Yun.
• Huyan Lan suspected that Su Hang, Hu, and Long rivaled her skill and wondered why Hu and Long felt familiar, as if she had matched with them long ago.

Silver Dragon failed to replicate Su Hang’s Sun Quan, while Su Hang and Zhao Yun caught Jiutianhu’s Han Xin and took first blood. Jiutianhu then watched his team’s mid and clash lanes get dominated, leaving him dumbstruck and under heavy pressure.

• Silver Dragon discovered that he could not replicate Exalted Emperor’s Sun Quan despite his powerful Replication Talent.
• Su Hang predicted Han Xin’s ambush, and he and Zhao Yun killed Han Xin to claim first blood.
• Jiutianhu’s livestream viewers accused Exalted Emperor of cheating after Sun Quan and Zhao Yun found Han Xin in the bush.
• The enemy Wang Zhaojun predicted Chunbai’s Shangguan Wan’er during her ultimate and killed her in lane.
• Jiutianhu saw Saobai’s low-health Mulan trapped under his tower while the enemy Lian Po held the clash-lane minion wave, then turned to look at Saobai and froze.