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

Or so it seemed.

as Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man put

truth… I came

that would come

to be thinking on Caspian’s

mentioned the price even

that did business for a

nodded, bringing the hemlock closer to his

and needed the hemlock, he would

Insight, after all, was something

chance upon the

hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief

fingertips

calling out to other cultivators that passed by his

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

that something was

down the hemlock,

enough, he would have to use his divine

than that of cultivators

divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked

sweep, it was not long

indeed, something wrong with

the section

was an opening so

his divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of refined

iron was a lot heavier than

why the hemlock was heavier than

the loophole, Caspian knew what

the stall owner

Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly

to me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough to source

seem like a well-read young

know it takes at least two hundred years of

from pests and absorb enough

devastating fire must

know, young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand

out with rain barely after they have

a lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock that has passed through lightning,

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