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.

was exactly the kind of hemlock

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the fat man put on an

Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in a forest that

come

to be thinking on Caspian’s

mentioned the

that did business for a long

look…” Caspian nodded,

context of how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would

Eye of Insight, after all, was

chance upon the shop again after

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

he turned the hemlock over in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the calloused

to other cultivators that passed by his stall to

man’s gaze would

was obvious that something was

the hemlock,

well enough, he would have to

was much stronger than that of

to use divine sense as he noticed the fat

long before Caspian realized that his hunch

was, indeed, something wrong with

in the

an opening so thin it

even discovered that the hemlock was

a lot heavier than

why the hemlock was

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew

to the stall owner and asked, “How

realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and

brought you to me, young man! I won’t

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian

grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough

a well-read

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

it has to keep from pests

been struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass through it

young man, that lightning

lot of the time the fires are put out with

lot of coincidences to yield a

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