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.

was exactly the kind of

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the fat man put on

you the truth… I came

come

cultivator seemed to be thinking

never mentioned the

that did business for

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

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

Insight, after all, was something he wanted

would not chance upon the shop again after passing the

hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of panic he

fingertips running over

even calling out to other cultivators that passed by his stall

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

obvious that something was

down the

eyes were not working well enough, he

that of cultivators of

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

was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch was

was, indeed, something wrong with

the

opening so thin it was

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

a lot heavier

why the hemlock

loophole, Caspian knew what

hemlock up to the

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

brought you to me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook

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

seem like a well-read

know it takes at least two hundred years of

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

been struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass through

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

fires are put out with rain barely after they

quite a lot of coincidences to yield a

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