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

Or so it seemed.

interested in the hemlock, the fat man put on

tell you the truth… I came

that would come

to be thinking on

mentioned the

did business for

let me take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

the hemlock, he would have asked for the

Eye of Insight, after all, was something he wanted

chance upon the shop again after

on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the

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

fat cultivator appeared nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators that

that the man’s gaze would flicker

was obvious that something

the hemlock,

not working well enough, he would have to use his divine

stronger than that of cultivators of the same

use divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked visibly relieved when he

brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before

was, indeed, something wrong with

problem itself laid in the section that

an opening so thin it

Caspian even discovered that the

iron was a lot heavier than

the hemlock

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew what

the stall

it in his mind to purchase and

to me, young man!

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

grows deep in the forest,

like a

least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon a lightning

to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other

a devastating fire must

man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand

the time the fires are put out with

lot of coincidences to yield a

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