When he first heard of Lin Xiao's deeds, even this elder of Heaven's Secret Pavilion was profoundly shaken.
One had to know that Heaven's Secret Pavilion was the greatest intelligence organization under heaven and published all manner of rankings.
This world possessed not only the four great rankings of Heaven, Earth, Man, and Hidden Dragon.
There was also the Black List, which stood apart from the four great rankings and recorded peerless fiends and brutal bandits who had slaughtered people until the fields ran red.
Of course, the list people most relished discussing was still the Peerless Beauties List.
The rankings published by Heaven's Secret Pavilion were updated once a year and replaced every ten years. After all, ten years marked an era, and some of the geniuses on the Hidden Dragon Rankings had to be removed.
These rankings also occasionally underwent minor changes. As deeds spread or someone suddenly rose to prominence, certain portions of them would shift.
For example, monstrous talents like Lin Xiao, who burst onto the scene out of nowhere and immediately rewrote the rankings by defeating established experts, or those who stirred up major incidents, would be recorded anew by Heaven's Secret Pavilion.
Heaven's Secret Pavilion was now facing the publication of its new rankings.
And Lin Xiao, a peerless monster, had appeared at just the right moment.
Heaven's Secret Pavilion had noticed Lin Xiao some time ago.
They simply had not attached too much importance to him. Though Lin Xiao's achievements were uncommon in this world, they had happened before. But after Lin Xiao arrived in Stability Prefecture, astonishing news began arriving wave after wave.
First, he alone suppressed the entire martial world of Stability Prefecture and defeated Qiu Li, the veteran chief of the Iron Palm Gang.
Then he destroyed Zhang Zhantian of