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

Or so it seemed.

in the hemlock, the fat man put on

Let me tell you the truth… I came across

come in handy with

to be thinking

never mentioned the

someone that did

nodded, bringing the hemlock closer

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

all, was something he

would not chance upon the

on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the fat cultivator’s face, made Caspian think

again, fingertips running

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

gaze would flicker to him

that

the

well enough, he would have

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

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

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

was, indeed, something wrong

the section that

an opening so thin

Caspian even discovered that the hemlock

was a

the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew what

the stall owner and asked,

Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so

you to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

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

a

you’d know it takes at least two hundred years

it has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition

fire must follow for lightning to pass

you’d also know, young man, that lightning and thunder

lot of the time the fires are put out with

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

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