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

Or so it seemed.

seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man put on an

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

would come in handy with

to be

never mentioned the

that did

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer to his

Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would

Eye of Insight, after all, was something

would not chance upon the shop again after passing

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

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

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

able to see that the man’s gaze would flicker

obvious that something was

down the hemlock, Caspian

were not working well enough,

than that

decided to use divine sense as he noticed the fat

sweep, it was not long before Caspian

was, indeed, something

in the section that was

an opening so thin

sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was

a lot

the hemlock was

discovering the loophole, Caspian

up to the stall

man realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and

me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

“Hemlock grows deep in

like a well-read

it takes at least two hundred years of growth

years, it has to keep from pests and absorb

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

lightning and thunder usually

lot of the time the fires are put out with

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

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