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 of hemlock Caspian looked

Or so it seemed.

seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man

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

come in

cultivator seemed to be thinking

mentioned the price

did business

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

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

Eye of Insight, after all, was something he wanted

chance upon the shop again after passing the

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

again, fingertips running

cultivator 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

that something

down the

were not working well enough, he would

sense was much stronger than that of cultivators of

the fat man

not long before Caspian realized that his hunch

something wrong with

the section that

an opening so thin it

sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was

was a

why the hemlock was heavier than

the loophole, Caspian knew

held the hemlock up to the stall owner

Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly

brought you to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

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

seem like a well-read young

takes at least two hundred years of growth for hemlock

two hundred years, it has to keep from pests and

been struck, a devastating fire must follow

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

of the time the fires are put out with rain

quite a lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock that has passed through lightning, you

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