A peak core formation expert had a life expectancy of 4,500 years and only if you had a gold core or purple core would you have one that was above that. A gold core would give 5,000 years and that number would increase depending on the type of gold core since quasi purple cores gave 6,000 years while those with a purple core had 7,000 years.
The fact that the living witness was from 5,000 years ago either meant he was a palace realm cultivator or at the very least was someone with a gold or purple core at the peak of core formation realm.
Regardless of which it was, it meant they were people of means, who should have been able to come forward much earlier in the past thousand of years since the Order's founding.
"While I did say he is a living witness, I used that term closely. It's more apt to call that someone a proxy or secret keeper.
I think it's better if I invite him in.." Yu Gen said as he nodded toward Xia Ting to open the small door to the side.
At his behest, Xia Ting went through the door and a second later came back in with an elderly man who was hunched over with white hair that was smoothly combed back, though, at the top of his head, one could see the hair had waned out and was thinner. His skin was wrinkled and filled with liver spots.
One look at him, and one would think he wasn't far off from sleeping forever.
He had a green tang jacket and matching pants, and in his hand was a smooth polished walking stick that had the dragon scales intricately carved onto it.
The old man slowly and steadily walked over to the center of the courtroom with Xia Ting cautiously walking beside him in case he fell.
"This is Tang Wenyan and is the fifth generation patriarch of the Tang family found in the Elm Wood Kingdom which is a rank 4 kingdom that has been in existence for the past 24,000 years.
The Tang family is currently a rank 5 clan and is situated within Gentle Fall County..." said Yu Gen.
"Senior Wenyan, could you please explain the matter you told me the other day? Don't leave anything out. You can just say it as you did the other day..." Yu Gen softly said as he led the old man by the arm to the middle of the courtroom where a sound amplification array gently lit up beneath his feet.
The old man nodded his head as he smiled.
"My name is Tang Wenyan and I'm the fifth patriarch of the Tang Family, but because of my current circumstances, I will be abdicating in a few months, and enjoy the last few years of my life.."
Tang Wenyan was at the tenth stage of the foundation establishment realm. Even though he seemed steady enough and even when he spoke, he was clear and firm in his speech. He had about 50 years left in his life expectancy.
The fact that he could walk, talk, and see while being over 1,000 years old and having little life left, was the strengthened physique brought about by his cultivation. Even after his death, it would take 100 years for his body to start decaying, and that time only got longer the more powerful the cultivator was.
Yang Qing even heard there was a mysterious realm that had a dead cultivator who if you judged by face value might seem alive. Their body was intact, the skin still retained the suppleness and rosiness one would have when they were alive. His hair was pristine black.By all accounts, he seemed like he was alive and just sleeping but he was in fact dead, and his body has been in that mysterious realm for over 100,000 years, and in that time, his body has not decayed even an inch.
Some cultivators did try to cut some part of him, but even ascendant-grade artifacts couldn't pierce his skin. When they tried to lift him, he seemed to weigh almost as much as the planet. Five domain experts tried to lift him up and failed.
Even dead, his body's strength remained. A cultivator's body in some circles could be considered a valuable treasure or precious ingredient for a lot of things.
"About five thousand years ago my great great grandfather had someone he liked very much during his younger years. The person he liked was a lady from the Shu family by the name of Shu Wen.
Shu Wen and my great-great-grandfather were promised to be wed, as an arrangement by the elders from the two families to bring the relationships closer. It was considered a good thing by both families, and even Shu Wen and my great great grandfather were in support of it. They had already developed feelings for each other, since our two families were close even before the marriage alliance was proposed.
The Shu family was not as powerful as us, since at the time the father to my great great grandfather was a core formation expert while the highest expert of the Shu family was only at the seventh stage of the foundation establishment realm.
The old timers of the Tang family were all in support of the union between the two despite the Tang family being more powerful, and my great-great-grandfather was praised for having enough talent to reach the core formation realm at the very least.
At 11 years old he already achieved a diamond body and had broken through to the qi refinement realm. With his talent, the Tang family could have arranged a marriage with the royal family of the Blue Spear Kingdom, which is where we originally were before we moved to the Elmwood Kingdom. But they chose the Shu family because of Shu Wen.
Other than an unmatched beauty, she had a special physique, the lunar butterfly physique that gave her an unseen aptitude when it came to alchemy and cultivation. She was two years younger than my great great grandfather, and at 9 years old she was already in the qi refinement herself.
A lot of hope and expectation was placed on the two of them, and the heights they could reach. However, all that was destroyed when Shu Wen was thirteen years old. She disappeared, one night along with the whole Shu family.
All 800 members, died, in a single night. The death was made to look to be the handiwork of a group of blood fiend cultivators, because of the manner in which the corpses were laid about, along with a blood refinement array that was found in their family grounds..."
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