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.

kind of hemlock

Or so it seemed.

the hemlock, the fat man put on

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

that would come in

seemed to be thinking on

mentioned the price

that did business

Caspian nodded, bringing

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

all,

not chance upon the shop again

on top of the brief flash of panic he

his hands yet again, fingertips

appeared nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to

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

that something

down the

not working well enough, he would

than that of cultivators of the same realm as

decided to use divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked visibly relieved when he put the

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

indeed, something

itself laid in the section that was

so

the hemlock was stuffed with a

was a lot heavier

why the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

Caspian knew what to

held the hemlock up to the stall owner and asked,

realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled

me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

not!” the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s hard

like a well-read

know it takes at least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to

has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among

importantly, once it’s been struck, a devastating fire must

sure you’d also know, young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand with

fires are put out with

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

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