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

Or so it seemed.

the hemlock, the fat

Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in a forest that was burnt into

would come in

seemed to be

never mentioned the price

was someone that did

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer

needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the

Insight, after all, was something he wanted to

the shop again after passing

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

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

nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators that passed by his stall to take a

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

obvious that

the hemlock, Caspian

not working well enough,

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

fat man looked

brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized

something wrong with

problem itself laid in the section that was

an opening so thin it

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

a lot heavier

hemlock was heavier

loophole, Caspian knew what to

hemlock up to the stall owner

realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly

to me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

not!” the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest,

like a

at least two hundred years of growth

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

it’s been struck, a devastating fire

you’d also know, young man, that lightning

out with rain barely after they have started

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

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