Chapter 398: Top Cultivator Ranking

"Have you guys ever heard of the Top Cultivator Ranking?" asked Elizabeth after seeing that their leader meeting was nearing an end.

All of them shook their heads and she had a nervous expression on her face as she revealed what it was and mostly targetted what she was saying at Adam.

"The Top Cultivator Ranking is made up of the top 10,000 most powerful, capable and famous cultivators around the world and the list was accessible to all and managed by an unknown organisation" she revealed.

"Adam is currently in the 10,000th position and the cultivator that you took the position of is likely to challenge you or seek to battle you. This ranking is very important to some and by getting on the ranking the administrators of the list are acknowledging your power, but also placing a target on your back" she continued.

"Along with that, it was your identity as Adam that was revealed and linked to the mysterious figure Death" she added nervously, expecting Adam to become angry or worried.

Everyone looked over to Adam to see his reaction, but to their surprise, he had a smile on his face and was calm.

"Anyone that wants to come after me can come, as long as their intention truly is to battle me. Those that harm those around me, my faction or mess around in my territory will be crushed and it is that simple" said Adam.

"But what about your identity being revealed?" asked Cole and Elizabeth knowing how important it was to Adam to stay anonymous.

Elizabeth remembered how Adam reacted when his identity was revealed upon their first meeting and when she thought about it, she never imagined she would be able to be in the position she was in and it was all thanks to Adam.

"Just relax guys, I don't care about it much. My identity has already been known by many and I have nothing to hide. Those that want to come after me will have another thing coming" 

"As for Sarah and Emma, I will leave their monitoring and protection to you Cole, and we will also go visit them after we are finished here" stated Adam.

His reaction was extremely surprising as someone that was previously very paranoid, but it seemed that the change was more to do with everything that he knew, experienced and was capable of.

One could only fear the unknown and what they couldn't handle, but Adam had no reason to shy away from anything and as long as the risk was calculated and handlable, he would never back away.

Adam didn't want to stay on the topic for longer but his experience, intelligence and instincts were telling him that there was more to the Top Cultivator Ranking than what met the eye.

Seeing that Adam had handled it well and that she had no reason to worry, Elizabeth handed Adam a phone that had all the important contacts that he would need on it and it was also linked to the cell towers and servers owned by their faction.

They were independent and untraceable and also gave Adam access to all the information that Elizabeth and the faction had.

After reading through the report that she had prepared on the Top Cultivator Ranking, Adam's suspicions were confirmed and he had managed to understand a lot from it.

It was evident to Adam that the unknown organisation in control of the list was actually the ancients and since it was a record of the most powerful cultivators, their ulterior motive was clear.

It would allow for them to place attention on individuals and it allows them to monitor the movements of powerful cultivators around the world, while it also allowed them to keep tabs on any threats or potential members.

The power of information was greatly undervalued and they could use the list to instigate conflict and battles between different members of the ranking to get rid of any dangerous individuals or threats that were unwilling to cooperate with them.

The ancients numbered in the tens of thousands, which was a large amount considering their power, but wasn't a large amount considering their power and capabilities.

However, that was to be expected from such talented and capable individuals that lived long, fulfilling and busy lives, barely leaving them enough time to have children and also allowing them to have children at very old ages.

Along with that, breeding and seeking to find the best match in order to increase one's status, power or the talent of their child was present in most relationships between cultivators and the ancients had laws and customs of their own.

The Top Cultivator Ranking was an intelligent way for them to understand the power level of humanity outside of their members and place targets on any of those that were threats to the potential peace that they believed they had made and maintained in the world.

Adam was also pretty sure that they would contact all the members on the list to make them aware of their existence and try to recruit any individuals that they saw as worthy, and he was sure that he would fit that category.

He was young, capable, independent and had already made his own name and that of his faction known, making him a potential threat to the ancients, or someone worthy of them recruiting.

Despite that, he knew he was still far from truly being someone that can rival or threaten them, from what he had heard and could estimate, for the time being.

He was also sure that not many of those on the rankings were ancients and that the truly powerful cultivators were hidden in the shadows.

Even if they were to contact him, it would merely be out of cautiousness, to intimidate him or to get him to become a subordinate of one of the great powers of their secret lands.

It added another factor that he had to take into account before making any public movements, but Adam was not planning to allow the watch of the ancients to hold him back.