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 of hemlock Caspian

Or so it seemed.

Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man put

that hemlock, eh? Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in a

come

to

the

did business

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

the hemlock, he would have asked for the price immediately and

all, was

would not chance upon the shop

came into Caspian’s hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief flash

fingertips running over

appeared nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators that passed

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

was obvious that something was

the hemlock, Caspian

his eyes were not working well enough, he would have to use his divine

stronger than that of cultivators of the same

decided to use divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked

it was not long before Caspian

was, indeed, something

problem itself laid in the section that was charred

so thin it was hardly

even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of

a lot heavier than

hemlock was heavier than Caspian

the loophole, Caspian knew

the hemlock up to the stall owner and asked,

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

to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

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

seem like a

two hundred years of growth for hemlock to

has to keep from pests and absorb

a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass

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

the time the fires are put out with rain barely after they

of coincidences to yield a piece

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