Supreme sword sect was the largest sect in the Mysterious Firmament continent, it controlled vast lands with greatest of the empires to lowest of the woods, even the emperors have to bow to the envoys of the Supreme Sword Sect, all the sects from rank 2 to rank 9 have to bow to it. Here heaven and earth reverberated with only one name-"Supreme Sword sect"
In one of the the branches of Supreme Sword Sect which is located for away from the main sect , in the Nine valley country...
Fang Chen was a elder of Supreme Sword sect in one of it's branches, that too he was just a outer elder here in this branch, Nine Valley country is just a rank 7 country , so the Supreme sword sect branch here is not that impressive.
The highest cultivation for outer sect elders here is mid level Foundation building stage, while inner sect elders here are at late level Foundation building stage, while the sect leader stationed here is just a peak level Foundation building stage.
Fang Chen was initially from earth , he was transmigrated from earth to this world of supernatural, when he was on earth he always dreamed of something like this happening, he was born to a merchant family and lucky enough to be admitted into a branch of Supreme Sword Sect, and thought his chance for domination has come, but reality face slapped him , he was just a low level talent, it was his luck that he was born into a country like Nine Valley country where he was a above average talent , else he would not even have the chance to join a sect like Supreme Sword Sect.
The face-slapping of reality did not end here, the world here is very dangerous, he is not brave like he thought he was , once when he was young he faced a centipede 10 feet in size , any normal human on earth would be disgusted at it's sight, because people here have less preconceptions of such a thing it might be normal for them, but as a 21st century scholar how could he not scared shitless watching it.
He had to see the passing away of his parents, and his siblings while he still looked young due to taking a pill from his sect.
He had to kill , he had to see that even the righteous sword sect do lot of shady things, though he was not naive , and battles happened all over the world for interests, be it earth or this world, seeing with your own eyes is just something else.
Now he is 120 years old, with mid level foundation building, and still has 80 years of lifespan left, but with his talent reaching Soul Condensation realm has a very low chance.
Fang Chen was lying in his pavilion and was looking into his Origin Core , it was like a blue vast sea, with a large lush green tree with huge leaves with size more than 1km2 area at the center, taking roots in the sea spread all over, it had six roots which was spread all over the sea.
Every one's Origin core has a spirit sea which had a physical manifestation like this, it depended on one's interpretation of dao , their nature, their cultivation technique etc, it can be human form , it can be a mountain, a fire, a star , or anything for that matter.
Since Fang Chen cultivated Evergreen lifespan technique , because he has wood affinity and was , this particular technique extended one's lifespan, a normal foundation building cultivator has only 150 years of lifespan , but with this technique he had 200 years of lifespan.
Fang Chen was facing a huge dilemma , he couldn't break into late foundation building because he needed vast vitality for the Evergreen Tree to grow , he had exchanged for all his contribution points and wealth for growing the sixth root of the Evergreen tree. He is left penniless now.
He could only sigh , he did not delve deeply into other arts such as formation , alchemy etc , as someone who did not have foundation or generational wealth or inheritance in the branch sect, by unspoken rule he did not have qualifications to learn such arts, even though he was now a foundation building stage elder and could buy techniques from the related to such auxiliary arts, without guidance such arts are huge money swallowing pits, he would be doomed before he could think, any chance of entering Soul condensation stage will be turned into dreams , by wasting his decades of his effort in such arts, which is not even guaranteed to succeed. As for the sword arts of Supreme sword sect only main branch and some talented individual of side branches could cultivate it, or it's technique would have been long been plagiarism.
Fang Chen cultivated mainly Evergreen Lifespan technique and Star gazing technique which is a technique to predict future events, it is not that accurate, but it's accuracy increases as range of the prediction decreases ,and as the people involving in the prediction decrease and have as much low cultivation or similar cultivation compared to him.
Today was the day when the branch sect admits new disciples once in a decade.
Fang Chen took a deep breath and moved towards the academy square, because he was looking forward to taking disciples this time ,and even a child of his Fang family who was sufficiently talented was attending, he already checked the boy's talent and it was only left for him to officially accept him as his disciple and nurture him.