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.

the hemlock,

the truth… I came

would come

to be

never mentioned the price even

was someone that did business for a

look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

of how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the price immediately and

Eye of Insight, after all, was

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 on the

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

actions, even calling out to

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

was obvious that something was

down the

eyes were not working well enough, he would

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

fat man looked visibly relieved when

spiritual sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch was

indeed, something wrong

itself laid in the section that

so

divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was

iron was a lot heavier than

why the hemlock was heavier

the loophole, Caspian knew what

hemlock up to the

his mind to purchase

you to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

it’s not!” the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s hard

a well-read

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

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

struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass

young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand with

lot of the time the fires are put out

a lot of coincidences to yield a piece

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