Upon a brief thank you, the two men found themselves at the fat man’s stall perusing the goods laid out.

”Come take a look, see if there’s anything you fancy!” The fat cultivator’s eyes curved into crescents whenever he smiled.

It was easy to take a liking to him.

“Fair prices guaranteed!”

Caspian did not cast his sights onto the hemlock at first.

He pretended to look around, scanning the merchandise of the stalls next to that one.

There were antlers with stripes that glistened golden.

No one knew what creature they came from.

There were dry, shriveled fingers with pointy nails.

Potted plants bore colorful flowers but with leaves that were completely withered.

Caspian looked at all of them, reaching out to feel them from time to time if he wanted.

The fat man seemed equally uncaring of Caspian’s wandering.

None of these things were of any value, after all.

Caspian hardly gave them a second glance.

Upon putting down a shiv, Caspian moved to pick up the hemlock.

It sank with weight the second he picked it up.

Caspian’s eyes froze slightly.

‘It’s heavier than I expected it to be,’ Caspian thought to himself as he cast the stall owner a glance.

Instantly, Caspian was able to see the flash of panic that briefly overtook the fat man’s features when he picked the hemlock up.

Suspicion arose in Caspian immediately.

Instead of hurrying to inquire about the price, he began to analyze it.

The hemlock looked real and fine at first glance.

The chasm was struck by thunder.

Caspian, having absorbed the Bone of Thunder, knew more about lighting than the average cultivator.

The part of the hemlock that was charred black was caught in a forest fire caused by a lightning strike.

the kind of hemlock Caspian looked

Or so it seemed.

the hemlock, the fat man put

hemlock, eh? Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in a

would come in handy with

to be thinking

never mentioned the

that did business for

let me take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer

the context of how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked

after all, was something he

the shop again

the abnormal weight that came into Caspian’s hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of

turned the hemlock over in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed

appeared nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators that passed by his stall to

see that the man’s gaze would flicker to him every

obvious that something was

the hemlock,

his eyes were not working well enough, he would have to use his divine

stronger than that

to use divine sense as he noticed the fat man

not long before Caspian realized

indeed, something

laid in the section that was charred

so thin it

even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of refined

iron was a lot

was why the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

the loophole, Caspian knew what to

the hemlock up to the

his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his

to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian

deep

like a well-read

at least two hundred years of growth

hundred years, it has to keep from pests and

struck, a devastating fire must follow

lightning and thunder usually come hand

lot of the time the fires are put out

a piece of hemlock

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