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.

kind

Or so it seemed.

as Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the

you the truth… I came across it

would come

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking on

the price

someone that did business

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

wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the price

of Insight, after all, was something he

upon the shop again after

hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of

in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the calloused

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

the man’s gaze would

was obvious that

the

well enough, he would have to use his

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

sense as he noticed the fat man

not long

indeed, something

the section that was

was an opening so thin it was hardly

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

was a

why the hemlock was heavier than

the loophole, Caspian

to the stall owner and asked,

in his mind to purchase and smiled so

brought you to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook his

“Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough to

seem like a well-read

takes at least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon

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

it’s been struck, a devastating fire must follow

know, young man, that lightning

time the fires are put out with rain

takes quite a lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock

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