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.

the kind

Or so it seemed.

in the hemlock, the fat

I

would come in

cultivator seemed to be thinking on

never mentioned the

was someone that did business

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for

Eye of Insight, after all,

the shop again after passing

on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the

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

calling out to other

the man’s gaze would flicker to him

that

the hemlock,

were not working well enough, he would have to

sense was much stronger than that of cultivators of the same

divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked visibly

was not long

was, indeed, something wrong with the

in the section

an opening so thin

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

a lot heavier

was why the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

the loophole, Caspian

up to the stall owner and asked,

man realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase

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 hard enough to

seem like a well-read

it takes at least two hundred

from pests and absorb

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

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

fires are put out with rain barely after they have started

a piece of

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