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.

hemlock, the fat man

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

come in handy with

to

the price

someone that did business for

Caspian nodded,

and needed the hemlock, he would have asked

after all, was something he wanted

not chance upon the shop again after passing the

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

fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed

appeared nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to

man’s gaze would flicker

obvious that

down the hemlock,

enough, he would have to use his divine

than that of cultivators

to use divine sense as he noticed the fat man

sweep, it was not long before

something

the

was an opening so

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

a lot heavier

why the hemlock was heavier

the loophole, Caspian

up to the stall owner

his mind to purchase and

brought you to me, young man!

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

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

like a well-read

two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon

two hundred years, it has to keep from

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

you’d also know, young man, that lightning and thunder usually come

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

takes quite a lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock that has passed

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