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.

the hemlock, the fat man put on

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

that would come in handy

seemed to be thinking

never mentioned the

did

take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he

of Insight, after all, was something he wanted

upon the shop again after passing

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

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

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

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

obvious that something

down the hemlock,

not working well enough, he would have to

than that of cultivators of the

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

it was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch was

indeed, something wrong with the

laid in the section that was

so

the hemlock was stuffed with a

was a lot heavier than

hemlock was heavier than

discovering the loophole, Caspian

up to the stall owner and asked, “How

to purchase and

to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in

a well-read

you’d know it takes at least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon a lightning

keep from

been struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to

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

time the fires are put out

coincidences to yield a

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