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

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the

me tell you the truth… I came across

come in

cultivator seemed to

never mentioned the

was someone that did business

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

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

all, was something he wanted to

not chance upon the shop

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

again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed the fat cultivator‘s

to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to

to see that the man’s gaze would

obvious that

down the hemlock,

were not working well enough, he would have to

much stronger than that of cultivators

use divine sense as he noticed the fat

sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized that his

something

the section that

opening so thin it was

divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the

a lot heavier

the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

loophole, Caspian knew

up to the stall owner and asked, “How

fat man realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his pupils

me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

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

seem like a well-read young

at least two hundred years of

it has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition

devastating fire

man, that lightning and thunder usually come

are put out with rain

a

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