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 of hemlock Caspian looked

Or so it seemed.

in the hemlock, the fat man put on an uncaring

hemlock, eh? Let me tell you the truth… I

that would come in handy with

cultivator seemed to be thinking on

the price

someone that did business for a

nodded, bringing the

Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would

Eye of Insight, after all,

not chance upon the shop again

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

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

calling out to other cultivators that passed by his

Caspian was able to see that the man’s gaze would flicker to

was obvious that something

down the hemlock,

well enough, he would have to

stronger than that of cultivators of

he noticed the fat man looked

was not long

something wrong with the

itself laid in the

so thin it was

that the hemlock was stuffed with

was a

the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

the loophole, Caspian knew what to

to the stall owner and asked, “How

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

young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in

seem like a well-read

it takes at least two hundred years

has to keep from pests and absorb enough

a devastating fire must follow

man, that lightning and thunder

the fires are put out with rain barely after they have started

quite a lot of coincidences to yield a

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