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.

exactly the kind of hemlock Caspian

Or so it seemed.

as Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the

you the truth… I came across it in a forest that

would come in handy with

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking

never mentioned the price

did

me take another look…” Caspian nodded,

the hemlock, he would have asked for the price immediately and

of Insight, after all, was something he wanted to

not chance upon the shop again after passing the

hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of panic he saw

yet again, fingertips running over the calloused

even calling out to other cultivators that passed by his stall to take a

to see that the man’s gaze would flicker

obvious that something was

down the hemlock, Caspian

working well enough, he would have

divine sense was much stronger than that of cultivators of the same realm

noticed the fat man looked visibly

a brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch was

indeed, something wrong

the section that was

an opening so thin it

sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock

was a

why the hemlock was

the loophole, Caspian knew what

hemlock up to the stall owner

his mind to purchase and

young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

“Hemlock grows deep

like a

you’d know it takes at least two hundred years of

hundred years, it has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other

struck, a devastating fire

that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand

the fires are put out with rain barely after they have

coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock

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