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.

in the hemlock, the fat

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

come in handy with

to be

mentioned the price

that did business

nodded,

much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would

Eye of Insight, after all, was something he wanted

not chance upon the shop again after

he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief

his hands yet again, fingertips running over the

actions, even calling out to

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

that

the hemlock,

working well enough, he would

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

a brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before

indeed, something wrong

the section that was

so thin it was hardly

even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of refined

iron was a lot

why the hemlock

the loophole, Caspian knew

up to the stall owner and

fat man realized Caspian had it in his mind to

to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook his

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

seem like a well-read

two hundred years of growth for hemlock

keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other

fire must follow for lightning to

young man, that lightning and thunder usually

time the fires are put out with rain barely after they have started to

a lot of coincidences to yield a piece

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