My wife is a reborn big boss

"Tell me about it." Bai Xuanji regained her seriousness and was about to get down to business.

"Yes." Lu Wudao nodded: "The top six on the Heavenly Ranking remain unchanged: Qu Wuming, He Jinxi, Ye Yuxi, Sheng Yeyun, Sikong Tiezhu, and Ouyang Ergou."

"Wait a minute!" Wu Qiong interrupted, "How do you know the secular names of Master Ziyang and Abbot Xuankong?"

"Is there a problem with what His Majesty told me?" Lu Wudao asked expressionlessly.

[We're already being lenient by sparing your life, and you actually dare to question us!]

"Ahem." Bai Xuanji's expression was somewhat unnatural. "Ah Qiong, this is what you told me before, have you forgotten?"

Wu Qiong asked in surprise, "I told you? When? How could I forget... Did I really tell you?"

That shouldn't be the case; he should have only told Xiaobai about this.

"That's right! It was you, Ah Qiong, who told me!" Her Majesty the Empress affirmed.

In fact, in his previous life, Taiqing and Shaolin participated in the siege against the Demonic Sect. In a fit of anger, Wu Qiong spread the names of Master Ziyang and Abbot Xuankong everywhere, and even wrote a play about the two of them fighting over a nun, which was performed everywhere.

The play is called "The Monk, the Taoist, and the Nun," and it mainly tells a tragic love story about a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk vying for the affections of a nun...

In the end, the monk and the Taoist priest got together...

"Alright...maybe I remembered wrong." Wu Qiong said with an awkward smile to Lu Wudao, who was glaring at him angrily, "Please continue, boss."

"The seventh on the Heavenly Ranking is the deceased Bai Luo, and the eighth is Ximen Chui, the sect leader of Yunxiao Sect. The ninth is..." Lu Wudao continued his report.

"Wait!" Wu Qiong couldn't help but interrupt him again: "Boss, what did you say the eighth person on the Heavenly Ranking is called Ximen Chui? Snow?"

"His name is Ximen Chui." Bai Xuanji, while having Cao Zhengchun and Ren Pingsheng calm down the glaring Lu Wudao, answered Wu Qiong's question: "Aqiong, don't you know him?"

"..." Wu Qiong certainly knew, after all, when he was short of money back then, he also copied the list and sold it to various sects.

He just remembered that he had clearly copied Ximen Chuixue's name, but it seems he copied it wrong because he copied too many. Hopefully, this fellow Ximen Chuixue won't mind...

As for why he was a planner in his previous life but didn't know who was on the list.

This is quite normal. Before he transmigrated, the game was in the testing phase, and the names on the leaderboard were all those who participated in the test, so they were all strange names.

For example, the number one on the Heavenly Ranking is "Beat Your Head Up," the number two is "Not Spicy Pete," the number three is "567," and so on...

Hmm? Wu Qiong's eyes sharpened as he suddenly noticed something he hadn't paid attention to before.

The current timeframe is several years before the game's start, but many players on the current leaderboard have disappeared from the game.

Some of them cultivate in seclusion within sects, while many more can only be found in the game's background story. Although it's said in the game that they are making way for the players, but...

This is no game. A group of experts, even those at the Innate or "Daoist Natural Realm," have suddenly vanished without a trace? Did they all ascend to the other shore and break through the void? There's a "Void-Penetrating Realm" between the "Daoist Natural Realm" and the "Void-Breaking Realm."

What exactly happened during those blank years? For the first time, Wu Qiong felt that the situation was out of his control.

No, it wasn't the first time. In fact, the story started to change the moment I met Xiaobai.

Why did Bai Xuanji, the final boss of the third and fourth expansions, enter the martial arts world ahead of schedule? Bai Xuanji, the final boss of the fifth expansion, also ascended the throne ahead of schedule.

What story lies behind this? Wu Qiong narrowed his eyes, lost in deep thought.

Lu Wudao's report continued:

"Bai Luo is dead, and the Heavenly Ranking should be filled by someone from the court. As for who should fill the position, Your Majesty, please decide."

Bai Xuanji frowned and pondered for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Raise Ximen Chui by one place, and also raise the ninth and tenth places by one place. Then put me in the tenth place. Old Lu, you will remain in the eleventh place. As for Old Cao and Old Ren, it is not convenient for them to be exposed to the world for the time being, so they will not be on the list."

Wu Qiong snapped out of his deep thought and asked, "Tenth? You defeated Bai Luo one-on-one, he's seventh and you're tenth, will people believe that if word gets out?"

"Ah Qiong, you don't really think that's his true strength, do you? Besides, He Jinxi and the other two didn't actually use their full strength either." Bai Xuanji's expression was complicated.

"That's so exaggerated and you're still saying you're going all out? Don't try to fool me, I'm not very educated." Wu Qiong didn't believe it.

Susanoo, a forty-meter-long ship-slaying sword, and a drill that pierces the sky—they've all used it, and now Bai Xuanji is telling him this isn't even their full strength? What a joke! What would their full strength look like then? Raze the imperial palace to the ground with a single punch?

"Hmph, if the 'Dao Fa Zi Ran Realm' were to unleash their full power, even the Great Zhou Imperial City would cease to exist. Bai Luo was poisoned and believed he had powerful allies by his side, so he couldn't go all out. He Jinxi and the other two also had their concerns." Lu Wudao said irritably, "Boy, as the successor of the 'Sword Master,' you don't even know this?"

The taciturn Ren Pingsheng and the smiling Cao Zhengchun, the head of the Eastern Depot, also looked curious. As for Lu Xiaohuang, she was trying her best to minimize her presence, lest Bai Xuanji really make her serve Wu Qiong in bed.

"How would you know?" Wu Qiong couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Do you think my master could say, 'Come, come, let me show you the true power of the Void Realm,' and then slash out a black hole ten miles in diameter with a single sword strike? I would have died countless times by now!"

Moreover, in the game of my previous life, strength was mainly determined by level. An 80-level player could instantly kill a 70-level player. If you, a low-level character with blue or green gear, were to encounter an opponent with a full set of orange gear, how could you possibly break through their defense? As for the sky full of skill effects, they couldn't even break through the ground texture. Who knows how the experts in this world are so abnormal!

"Hehe." Lu Wudao gave a forced smile.

[Wouldn't it be better if you were dead already, so you wouldn't be trying to steal my little cabbage!]

"Alright, Ah Qiong, say no more." Bai Xuanji couldn't help but sigh softly, rubbing her forehead.

This poor guy is paralyzed in bed and still dares to talk back like that. Isn't he afraid of being beaten to death by Lu Wudao?

Lu Wudao ignored Wu Qiong and continued, "The rankings after the Heavenly Ranking have not changed. As for the Earthly Ranking, they are all just a bunch of small fry. The Earthly Ranking was originally established by the imperial court to win over those small and medium-sized forces, so there has been no change."

That's right. Those incredibly powerful geniuses all rose directly from the Human Ranking to the Heaven Ranking. Because the Earth Ranking doesn't include those with the Innate Realm, the people on the list are either former Human Ranking contestants who are over thirty and still haven't broken through to the Innate Realm, or leaders, patriarchs, and elders of small and medium-sized sects and martial arts families. It's less about letting them enter the Earth Ranking and more about letting the forces behind them ascend to the Earth Ranking.

"Then there's the rankings, and there have been quite a few changes in this week's rankings."