An entire year passed very quickly and so much had changed in that single year. Adam along with the rest of his friends had progressed massively and all of them were anticipating their reunion.
However, while Adam was focused completely on his training and acquiring knowledge without worrying about what was happening outside in the outside world, there had been many big events.
Cole and Angela despite being the family heads of two large cultivation families that had quite large territories and many members, were completely invested in the Sentinels Faction.
It wasn't only because Adam was an incredible individual that was their friend and would have a great future, but also because of how fast and well the faction was doing and also how capable Chase and Elizabeth were.
Elizabeth was extremely skilled at management, leadership and organisation, while Chase had a likeable personality that was easy to get along with, but was also a very powerful and capable fighter, which also made him a great leader.
Both worked coherently and built the Sentinels Faction rapidly with the support of the Maxwell and Epstein Families along with their own capabilities that were astonishingly high.
The Sentinels Faction wasn't one that was merely gathering useless people and wasting time and resources seeking to take control of worthless territories.
What Elizabeth and Chase were hoping to achieve as the first two public leaders of the Seintels was bigger than that and was according to Adam's wishes.
They wanted to form a great power that could defend the world and their territory from any dangers and although they didn't know much about the universe when compared to Adam, they knew that there were many dangers around the world that they had to prepare for.
It was important for the faction to be capable and independent in all departments and other than cultivating and or managing and improving the faction, Chase and Elizabeth, just like Adam, didn't take any time off to rest.
Cole, Angela and Wayde were also the same with their own duties in their families along with their training and cultivation, however despite juggling many things at once, they were all able to make great advancements in their cultivation.
Although in terms of power, skill, knowledge, versatility, potential and everything else, they couldn't be compared to Adam, they were all progressing at rates that had never been seen before in New York.
It could even be comparable to that of the ancients, but that was only natural with their decent talent gradings, abundant resources and great drive.
However, it started to slow down and their progress seemed to be quite limited for some of them.
Wayde was nearing the peak of the Advanced Cultivation, Angela was nearing the mid-level of the Advanced Cultivation Level along with Elizabeth, who would have been at a higher cultivation level than her if it wasn't for needing to study many different skills and techniques.
Elizabeth worked the most out of all of them and not only wanted to redeem herself for Adam, but also make the most of the constitution that she had inherited from her ancestor.
Not only was she cultivating, studying and training to make up for the missed time and improve her foundations, she was also managing a large faction.
Chase and Cole reached the higher parts of the Advanced Cultivation Level and although their cultivation levels were still lower than Wayde, their power and skill had surpassed his.
Cole, Chase and Elizabeth showed the most talent and potential and Angela was closely behind, making them an incredible group of youths that were all making rapid progress.
Wayde was by no means jealous or upset by it and get proud and also grateful to Adam who was the biggest cause for the change in him and Angela and also the reason he was able to meet such amazing youths.
With the help of the Maxwell and Epstein Families, the Sentinels Faction spread over quite a lot of New York and mostly in the territory of the Maxwell and Epstein Family, but also on some of the other family territories.
They had hackers and stealthy cultivators that worked under Elizabeth and she also had many people working closely under her who would manage their assets and distribute wealth to each department of the faction.
There was the Research Department, which focused on gathering knowledge and also making advancements in modern technology as well as trying to fuse it with the research they did on cultivation.
Along with that, there was the Alchemy Department, Infirmary Department, Armoury, Treasury, Production Department, Business Department and the Library Department.
Each of them had many members that also included some from the Maxwell and Epstein families, who were granted the role by their family heads, and each department required large funding along with cultivation resources.
Other than those different parts of the faction, there were also two combat units, one that was led by Chase and the other that was led by Elizabeth.
Each of the members of the unit was hand-picked and had great potential, skill and were making great progress under the tutelage of their unit leaders.
The Sentinels Faction in a single year had grown to a point that they were becoming a threat to the great families and with the complete cooperation of two great families, that were also allied, the three groups had become a great threat.
They had hundreds of millions in assets and were also making much more money and trading cultivation resources using their numerous departments to do so and Elizabeth had made it her priority to make it a faction that could always be independent.
With all the departments there was no need to rely on an outside source and had swallowed most of the small organisations, groups and families that had anything to do with cultivation.
Force wasn't used, but it was impossible to refuse them with their reputation and growth speed, and most were willing to join, hoping to get a piece of large pie that was endlessly growing.