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.

exactly the kind of hemlock Caspian

Or so it seemed.

in the hemlock, the fat man put on an

eh? Let me tell you the truth… I came across it

come in handy

seemed to be thinking on Caspian’s

mentioned the price even

someone that did business for a long

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

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

after all, was

chance upon the shop

hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the fat cultivator’s face, made

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

actions, even calling out to other cultivators that passed by his

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

that something was

the

well enough, he would have to use his divine

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

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

not long before Caspian realized that his

something wrong with

itself laid in the section that

opening so thin it was hardly

sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was

a lot

the hemlock was heavier than

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew

hemlock up to the

to purchase

brought you to me, young man!

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough to source as

like a well-read young

sure you’d know it takes at least two hundred years of

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

fire must follow for lightning to pass

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

put out with rain barely after they have

yield a piece of

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