The Heavenly Ladder rankings listed the overall standings across all the years.
The names on it belonged to the chosen throughout the ages.
Now, He Pingsheng had taken first place.
Though this He Pingsheng had actually been inscribed by Wang Dun.
First place: Human Race, He Pingsheng!
Second place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Holy Maiden Beichen.
Third place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Chiming.
Fourth place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Full Moon.
Fifth place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Feng Wanxi.
Feng Wanxi, who had originally climbed to fourth place, had now fallen to fifth!
Yet just as everyone's attention rested on the stone stele's rankings, the rankings shimmered with a hum and changed again.
First place:
Second place: Human Race, He Pingsheng.
Third place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Holy Maiden Beichen.
Fourth place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Chiming.
Fifth place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Full Moon!
Sixth place: Celestial Phoenix Race, Feng Wanxi!
With that, Feng Wanxi was pushed straight out of the top five!
"What is going on?"
Almost everyone paled with shock at the rankings.
Why had first place turned blank?
That was right!
First place had turned blank, with nothing there at all!
There was no name, no information whatsoever.
Smack! Someone slapped his forehead. "I know... this is He Pingsheng... this one is the real He Pingsheng!"
"He Pingsheng didn't inscribe his own name on the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder, but the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder recognized that he'd reached the top anyway, so it gave him first place. But since there was no name, it became a blank!"
At this point, the others finally caught on too.
The entire Chosen Square erupted into an uproar again.
Countless eyes turned toward the Phoenix Race.
The Phoenix Race had gone to such pains, exhausted every scheme, and even shamelessly played dirty, only for everything to