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 Caspian

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the fat man put on an uncaring

the truth… I came across it in a

would come

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking

never mentioned the

was someone that did business for

take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer

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

of Insight, after all, was

the shop again after passing

hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top

the hemlock over in his hands yet again, fingertips

fat cultivator appeared nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators that

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

was obvious that something was

the

eyes were not working well enough, he

divine sense was much stronger than that of cultivators of the

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

it was not long

was, indeed, something wrong with the

in the section that was

an opening so thin it

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

a lot heavier than

was why the hemlock was heavier

loophole, Caspian knew what

up to the stall owner and asked, “How

had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his pupils were

you to me, young man! I won’t

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook

“Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s

like a well-read

least two hundred years of

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

been struck, a devastating fire must

young man, that lightning and thunder

time the fires are put out with

lot of coincidences to yield a

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