Chapter 1084: Top ten gatekeeper

Ye Zhongming paid the most attention to the country's overall strength rankings as it was a good way for him to judge Cloud Peak’s strength.

He knew Five Ring Money would do some tricks, like placing Cannibal Chain and them at a lower ranking. But Ye Zhongming could evaluate the other factions.

This was very helpful in judging other things.

Like Resistance Zone. Although they suffered huge losses in that operation and, a few battle squads were about to be wiped. They even lost a seven-star evolved. But the entire resistance zone was still leading. Moreover, they weren’t dead yet and were just injured.

Of course, Ye Zhongming was satisfied with Cloud Peak’s position, but that didn’t mean he was content. He knew that Cloud Peak was lacking in many areas. The rankings reminded him that the path ahead was long and arduous.

He didn’t feel dispirited and was more pumped up.

Ye Zhongming looked forward to the heights to which he could bring Cloud Peak.

“Boss, there!”

Zhao Xiangxue whispered to him. Although she joined an organisation like Chameleon that was always in the darkness, she was young. She was excited to come out with Ye Zhongming. Ye Zhongming also hoped that Gao Yi and herself weren’t too cold here, so she returned to her peacetime self.

Ye Zhongming looked toward where she pointed and saw the final ranking where many people were gathered-- individual combat strength rankings!

There were a hundred people on it!

“No one is the smartest, and no one will fight to be second in terms of skills.” Ye Zhongming looked at the ranking. As the rankings spread in the world, no one knew what storms it would cause.

Unwilling to lose and chasing the rankings were a function of humans. There would definitely be people who cared about the rankings.

The reason was fame!

Just a title? It was useless?

If you thought that way, then you were totally wrong!

Why was there Forbes? Why was there the Hurun Report? Why did they release the rankings? To tell people who was rich? Were those people on the list just so that people could recognize their faces and names?

Of course not; there was a reason.

The top 20 in this ranking were meaningful as these 20 exceeded level six.

“20th, Liu Xuanzhi, seven star evolved, Cannibal Chain Northeast Manager.”

“19th, Leng Ran, seven star evolved. Soul Merchant Deputy Chief.”

“18th, Zuo Jinxuan, seven star evolved, Resistance Zone.”

“17th, Deacon Bai, Seven star evolved, Five Ring Money.”

“16th, Zhang Hetai, seven star evolved, Resistance Zone.”

“15th, Wugang, seven star evolved, Glory Army.”

“14th, Xia Bai, seven star evolved, Cloud Peak.”

“13th, Deacon Water, seven star evolved, Five Ring Money.”

“12th, Nine Dragon, seven star evolved, wanderer.”

“11th, Wen Zhong, seven star evolved, Resistance Zone.”

Ye Zhongming was familiar with many names: Zuo Jinxuan, Zhang Hetai, and Wen Zhong. He had also heard of Leng Ran and Wugang.

So, their appearance made Ye Zhongming think that this ranking was valuable.

Ye Zhongming and Xia Bai were among the first batch of people to reach seven stars. Based on that situation, he felt they might be the top three.

But he wasn’t arrogant to think that he was first, even if he lived a second life.

The reason was simple. Like novels, you might become rich even if you knew what would happen. You might end up like Bill Gates, but you can’t stop people like Buffet, Steve Jobs, Bezos etc from appearing. You can’t do everything and occupy all domains.

Take a step back. Even if you occupy all the promising domains, the traditional domains can’t be something you could take over. People had hundreds of years of family history and tradition that couldn’t be broken. There were the Rockefellers, Rothschild, Morgan, etc.