Chapter Summaries

During the match, Saobai and Jiutianhu realized that Lian Po and Wang Zhaojun were comparable to Champion Emperor players, while Zhao Yun seemed even more terrifying. Unable to challenge them directly, GFS decided to target Exalted Emperor's Sun Quan instead.

• Saobai warned Jiutianhu that Lian Po was stronger than Fly at his peak and could rival a Champion Emperor.
• Saobai said Lian Po was even stronger than Huranlang and might match Mountain Lord, leaving Jiutianhu terrified that GFS would lose without a kill.
• Chunbai revealed that Wang Zhaojun was also comparable to a Champion Emperor, and Saobai confirmed Chunbai's fear by pointing out his trembling legs.
• Jiutianhu sensed that Zhao Yun was even more terrifying than Lian Po and Wang Zhaojun.
• Saobai chose to gather GFS's strength and gank Exalted Emperor's Sun Quan, whom they considered the easiest target.

Su Hang realized that the enemy team had surrounded him in farm lane after he lost focus, and he believed Sun Quan could not escape. Just as the five enemies dove beneath the tower and nearly killed him, Liuli's Zhang Fei arrived and stopped their assault with his ultimate.

• Su Hang admired Zhao Yun's farming, Huyan Lan's Wang Zhaojun's predictions, and Lian Po's intimidating pressure, which reminded him of Silver Dragon, Phoenix, and Mountain Lord.
• Su Hang noticed all five enemies had vanished from the map and concluded they were heading for farm lane, too far from Long, Feng, and Hu for them to arrive in time.
• Su Hang judged that retreating or fighting would likely get both Sun Quan and Liuli's Zhang Fei killed, and he blamed his distraction for the dire situation.
• Liu Shan, Di Renjie, Han Xin, Mulan, and Shangguan Wan'er dove beneath the farm lane tower and used their skills to reduce Su Hang's Sun Quan to critical health.
• Liuli transformed Zhang Fei and roared, controlling all five enemies just as Shangguan Wan'er was about to take flight.

Su Hang and Liuli wiped out the enemy team after Liuli’s Zhang Fei stunned all five opponents, earning Su Hang’s Sun Quan a pentakill. Humiliated, Saobai and Jiutianhu abandoned their plan to hunt Su Hang and decided to target Liuli instead.

• Liuli’s Zhang Fei shielded Su Hang’s Sun Quan, then circled behind the enemy team and used her ultimate to control all five opponents.
• Su Hang’s Sun Quan killed Han Xin, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan’er, Mulan, and Liu Shan, securing a pentakill and a team wipe.
• Su Hang praised Liuli, who said she had recognized his bait and arrived in time to save him.
• Jiutianhu and Saobai watched their failed ambush end in a team wipe, and Saobai concluded that Su Hang had deliberately lured them in.
• Saobai proposed targeting Liuli’s Zhang Fei, dismissing Jiutianhu’s concern that Imperial Emperor might retaliate.
• Jiutianhu agreed to hunt Liuli and declared that even the Heavenly King could not protect her.

With the match nearly won, Su Hang abandoned the Overlord fight to rescue Liuli’s Zhang Fei from all five enemies and wiped them out. Liuli was moved that Su Hang had protected her, and he explained that it was natural for a captain to protect his vice-captain.

• Su Hang’s team prepared to take the Overlord while Su Hang and Liuli cleared minion waves in opposite lanes.
• The enemy team ganged up on Liuli’s Zhang Fei, and she fled toward her tower as her teammates focused on the Overlord.
• Liuli remembered Imperial Emperor’s lesson about a support protecting teammates and thought of his promise, “Liuli, I've got your back! Got it?”
• Su Hang Teleported to Liuli’s tower, and Liuli shielded them both before jumping behind him as he charged the five enemies.
• Su Hang’s Sun Quan defeated all five enemies, earning a team wipe and leaving Liuli stunned that he had come specifically to save her.
• When Liuli asked why he rescued her, Su Hang said she was Sovereign Dominion’s vice-captain and that protecting her was natural for the captain.

After Su Hang’s team won, Saobai learned that Liuli was under Imperial Emperor’s protection and was forced to make NBW apologize. At Sun Mo’s repair shop, he encouraged a promising young employee to pursue esports, then discovered that a damaged motorcycle belonged to Su Hang.

• Su Hang told his livestream viewers that relying on their own skills mattered most, then prepared to finish the game after wiping out the enemy team.
• After GFS was shut out, Jiutianhu received abuse over targeting Liuli and asked Saobai whether they should apologize.
• Wangsun called Saobai and warned that NBW could be removed from the KPL unless they publicly apologized to Liuli, so Saobai agreed.
• At the Shen Monkey Auto Repair branch, Sun Mo assembled a motorcycle engine blindfolded with one hand and gave a promising roamer a contact to pursue a place on Beijing WB.
• Sun Mo spotted a badly damaged violet CFMOTO 450SR, learned its owner was Su Hang, and reacted with surprise.

After recruiting Long and Huyan Lan to Sovereign Dominion, Su Hang turned to Hu Baobao and asked whether his father would join the team. Huyan Lan also asked Su Hang to look after her younger sister if she ever ended up in prison, though Su Hang took her warning as a joke.

• Su Hang invited Long to join Sovereign Dominion as a core member and vice-captain, and Long accepted on the condition that Su Hang would unconditionally take his side in the future.
• Su Hang ended his livestream, and Huyan Lan teased him about Liuli before learning that he did not have a girlfriend.
• Huyan Lan asked what kind of woman Su Hang liked; his answer moved her, and she agreed to join Sovereign Dominion.
• Huyan Lan asked Su Hang to care for her younger sister if she ever went to prison, while hinting that something might happen in the future.
• Su Hang asked Hu Baobao whether his father was interested in joining Sovereign Dominion.

Hu Xiao agreed to join Su Zhou’s Sovereign Dominion Team while continuing his search for Imperial Emperor, whom he vowed to kill. Sovereign Dominion’s viral promotional video drew huge attention, but the arrival of three major teams ended its run as the scene’s standout team.

• Hu Xiao agreed to join Su Zhou’s Sovereign Dominion Team after his son asked him to repay Su Zhou for saving him.
• Anya and Minglang reported that their search in Japan had failed to find Imperial Emperor, and Hu Xiao vowed to kill him in real life.
• Netizens discussed Sovereign Dominion’s victory over GFS and Saobai’s public apology to Liuli.
• Sovereign Dominion’s first Douyin video went viral by showcasing its core members and strict recruitment requirements.
• Three major teams appeared and ended the contest over which Honor of Kings team had the best promotional video.

Fly worried that Exalted Emperor and Sovereign Dominion’s powerful lineup could take his Supreme King Title at Clash of Kings, and admitted he was afraid he could not beat Exalted Emperor. He found an old selfie video that revealed his decade-long split personality disorder was about to be cured.

• Twilight of the Gods released a promotional video introducing its nine famous core members, including Silver Dragon and the still-mysterious Qiuniu.
• Fly and Xiaopang discussed how Huahai also could not gauge Sovereign Dominion’s three vice captains, leading Fly to fear their strength ahead of Clash of Kings.
• Fly realized that even with strong teammates, he was not confident he could defeat Exalted Emperor and asked Xiaopang to leave him alone.
• Fly looked through photos of his 2017 championships and found an unfamiliar selfie video dated August 5.
• In the video, a young man told Fly that his ten-year struggle with split personality disorder was about to be completely cured.

Fly learned that Chou Ox was his secondary personality and agreed to let him control their body at Imperial Crown’s tenth-anniversary gathering in exchange for help winning the Supreme King Title. Meanwhile, Huahai joined Qingrong’s Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes Team, but new news about Twilight of the Gods assisting AG’s Yinuo and Zhongyi left Qingrong stunned.

• Chou Ox revealed to Fly that he was Fly’s secondary personality, had played Honor of Kings while Fly slept, and had endured years of fading consciousness to meet Aries and Imperial Emperor.
• Chou Ox offered to help Fly defeat Exalted Emperor and retain his Supreme King Title if Fly let him control their body at Imperial Crown’s tenth-anniversary gathering to meet Aries and Imperial Emperor.
• Fly accepted the bargain and deleted Chou Ox’s video.
• Huahai agreed to join Qingrong’s Phoenix Crown and Rosy Robes Team after deciding Exalted Emperor’s new recruits made his help unnecessary.
• Huahai showed Qingrong news that Twilight of the Gods was helping AG’s Yinuo and Zhongyi win King Titles, and Qingrong froze in surprise.

Yinuo and Zhongyi learned that Twilight of the Gods would support them in the Clash of Kings with elite teammates, while Yinuo vowed to face Exalted Emperor as a rival on the field. Su Hang reviewed Sovereign Dominion’s growing expenses, docked Tai Sui’s wages, and faced Huyan Lan’s complaint that her pay was too low.

• Yinuo told Zhongyi that Twilight of the Gods, now AG’s third-largest shareholder, would help them pursue King Titles in the Clash of Kings.
• Zhongyi saw that his teammates included Chiwen, Baxia, Coiled Dragon, and Charter, while Yinuo’s lineup included Pulao, Jin Ni, Chaofeng, and Yazi.
• Yinuo said he expected to win the Supreme King Title but considered Exalted Emperor and Sovereign Dominion potential obstacles, and he vowed to defeat Exalted Emperor fairly.
• Su Hang reviewed Sovereign Dominion’s 629,000-yuan monthly bill and told Liuli to dock Tai Sui’s wages for missing team matches.
• Liuli returned 100,000 yuan of her pay to help the new team, then Huyan Lan complained that her 100,000-yuan monthly wage was too low.

Su Hang paid Sovereign Dominion's new members and then rushed to help Jiang Sui after she called to say someone had bullied her. Earlier, Jiang Sui had lost a one-yuan coin to a silver-masked youth, and Baxia tried to settle the dispute with an Honor of Kings match.

• Feng and Hu refunded most of their salaries, while Long asked Su Hang to cover the salary tax.
• Su Hang recalled Silver Dragon's penny-pinching and compared him with Jiang Sui before answering her distressed call.
• Jiang Sui fought with a silver-masked youth over a one-yuan coin, but Baxia and a short-haired beauty helped him take it.
• Baxia offered Jiang Sui a hundred-yuan bill as an apology, but she refused it and demanded her coin back.
• Baxia proposed an Honor of Kings match to decide whether he would help retrieve the coin, and Jiang Sui agreed.

Jiang Sui lost a one-on-one match to Baxia, who refused to return her coin until Su Hang intervened. After Baxia proposed settling the dispute with another match, Su Hang discovered Jiang Sui had been hiding her Honor of Kings skill and she began confessing.

• Baxia defeated Jiang Sui in their Guan Yu match and gave her a hundred-yuan bill instead of returning her coin.
• Jiang Sui cried out for help, and Su Hang appeared and confronted Baxia.
• Baxia explained how the dispute began, and Su Hang demanded that his boss return Jiang Sui's one-yuan coin.
• Baxia proposed a one-on-one Honor of Kings match to settle the matter, and Su Hang became interested when Jiang Sui said Baxia was highly skilled.
• Su Hang noticed Honor of Kings on Jiang Sui's phone and questioned her, prompting her to admit that she had lied to him.

Su Hang challenged Baxia to a Dharma solo match for the one-yuan coin, and both players revealed their skill through their early-game tactics. The chapter ended with Su Hang landing a Phantom Flash Kick that sent Baxia crashing into a wall.

• Baxia claimed to be an Overlord-level player, so Su Hang challenged him to a one-on-one match to decide who got the coin.
• Su Hang and Baxia both chose Dharma and began the match, while Su Hang recognized that Baxia was hiding King-Titled-level skill.
• Su Hang assured Jiang Sui he would win, while Baxia planned to use a tank build and wait for his Shadow Battle Axe.
• At level four, Su Hang blocked Baxia's tower, then charged in, punched him, and used Flash to send him flying into a wall.
• Baxia recognized Su Hang's move as a Phantom Flash Kick.

Su Hang used Leo Dharma to defeat Baxia with a reworked Double Ultimate combo, then revealed an even more difficult Triple Ultimate combo to win the match. Baxia realized his opponent was a genuine top-tier King-Titled Player with hand speed comparable to a Supreme King Title player.

• Leo Dharma used Phantom Flash Kick and Double Ultimate to secure First Blood against Baxia's Dharma.
• Su Hang explained to Jiang Sui that the new Dharma could still perform Double Ultimate, though it required five actions per second, and claimed he could manage the theoretically impossible Triple Ultimate.
• Baxia carefully played under his tower and bought the Firmament to survive Su Hang's combo.
• Baxia activated the Firmament after Leo Dharma's second ultimate, but Su Hang used Triple Ultimate to kill him and destroy the first tower.
• After the defeat, Baxia recognized Su Hang as a top-tier King-Titled Player with Supreme King-level hand speed.

Su Hang faced Chaofeng in a one-on-one King of Glory match after Baxia failed to return Jiang Sui’s coins. The chapter ended with both players choosing high-burst mid-lane mages and Su Hang locking in a hero Jiang Sui did not expect.

• Su Hang defeated Baxia, but Baxia refused to return Jiang Sui’s coins until Chaofeng arrived.
• Chaofeng’s gaze at Su Hang triggered memories of her traumatic past, and she realized that his punch could kill or cripple her.
• Baxia explained the dispute, and Chaofeng challenged Su Hang to a one-on-one match with the coins still at stake.
• Su Hang and Chaofeng agreed to play mid-lane heroes, with one kill deciding the winner.
• Chaofeng chose a mage with the highest burst damage, while Su Hang selected a twin-tailed hero that Jiang Sui urged him to switch from.

Chaofeng faced Su Hang in an Angela duel, believing her skill could match a Supreme King Title player, but she could not predict his constantly changing movement. Su Hang revealed he was switching among the personal movement habits of Imperial Crown’s core members from ten years ago, then attacked using Silver Dragon’s old habits.

• Chaofeng judged Su Hang to be at least a Supreme King Title player and vowed to beat him after reaching level four.
• Su Hang reassured Jiang Sui that Chaofeng’s prediction-based Angela would be easy for him to defeat.
• As both Angelas reached level four, Chaofeng noticed Su Hang switched between rank-based movement habits faster than she could predict.
• Chaofeng realized Su Hang was using neither rank-based nor his own habits, but movements resembling the captain’s.
• Su Hang explained to Jiang Sui that he was switching among the personal movement habits of Imperial Crown’s twelve core members from ten years earlier.
• Su Hang dived under the tower, stunned Chaofeng’s Angela, and attacked using Silver Dragon’s movement habits from ten years ago.

Yin Long tried to flirt with Huyan Lan, who rejected him and damaged his Rolls-Royce with a machete. He then went to meet Baxia and Chaofeng, where he recognized a young man in a white shirt as his former captain, Imperial Emperor.

• Yin Long flirted with Huyan Lan and claimed to be rich, but she demanded ten billion yuan and called him a broke-ass loser.
• Huyan Lan threatened Yin Long with a machete and split the golden hood ornament on his Rolls-Royce Cullinan.
• Baxia called Yin Long and told him to bring the coin he had picked up to where he had found it.
• Yin Long arrived and saw Baxia and Chaofeng crouching beside the little girl who had fought him for the coin.
• Yin Long recognized the young man in a white shirt and called him Captain.

Jiang Sui and Su Hang confronted the silver-masked man who had taken her coin, and he revealed himself as Long, vice captain of the Sovereign Dominion Team. Su Hang brought Long home to confirm his identity, where Huyan Lan recognized him as the man who had harassed her and threatened him with a cleaver.

• Jiang Sui held Baxia and Chaofeng hostage until their boss returned her coin, while Chaofeng wondered why Su Hang's playstyle resembled Yin Long's.
• The silver-masked man arrived, called Su Hang “Captain,” and identified himself as Long, vice captain of the Sovereign Dominion Team.
• Su Hang took Long to his home, where Huyan Lan was waiting with Jiang Sui.
• Jiang Sui and Huyan Lan recognized Long as the man who had taken Jiang Sui's coin and harassed Huyan Lan.
• Huyan Lan threatened Long with a cleaver, and Su Hang asked her to wait while he verified whether Long was truly Sovereign Dominion's vice captain.

Su Hang confirmed that the frightened Yin Long was Sovereign Dominion’s vice captain Long and arranged a Luna duel between him and Huyan Lan, who was Feng. As the match began, Su Hang predicted its winner based on a comparison with Silver Dragon and Phoenix, leaving Jiang Sui startled.

• Yin Long logged into his account, and Su Hang, Huyan Lan, and Jiang Sui confirmed that it belonged to Sovereign Dominion’s vice captain Long.
• Huyan Lan stopped Su Hang from testing Yin Long herself and revealed that she was Feng, Sovereign Dominion’s other vice captain.
• Su Hang chose Luna for the duel because both Long and Feng were national-server Luna players.
• Long and Feng entered the match using Zixia Fairy and Love of My Life skins, while Jiang Sui asked Su Hang which of them would win.
• Su Hang compared their skills to Silver Dragon and Phoenix and pointed to one player as his predicted winner, shocking Jiang Sui.

Yin Long and Huyan Lan fought an even early duel in the Luna mirror match, then recognized traces of Phoenix and Silver Dragon in each other’s play. They waited for a decisive late-game fight, which began when Long encountered Feng in the red-buff jungle.

• Yin Long and Huyan Lan cleared their waves and met in mid lane, where they traded Luna ultimate chains before retreating with nearly identical health.
• Su Hang explained that a lucky critical hit had given Huyan Lan a slight health edge, while Jiang Sui wondered why she had not pressed her attack.
• Huyan Lan recognized Silver Dragon’s habits in Yin Long and decided to defeat him as a substitute for settling their old rivalry.
• Yin Long saw Phoenix in Huyan Lan’s play and resolved to fight seriously for first blood.
• Su Hang explained that the duelists were waiting for full builds and that the final battle would depend on who entered Flow State first.
• At nearly eight minutes, Long encountered Feng in the red-buff jungle, and Su Hang announced that the final fight had begun.