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.

in the hemlock, the fat man put on an uncaring

tell you the truth… I came across it in

come in handy

to

never mentioned the

did business for a

let me take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

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

all, was something he wanted

the

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

again, fingertips

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

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

was obvious that

down the hemlock, Caspian

working well enough,

stronger than that of

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

brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized that his

something wrong with the

itself laid in the section that was

so thin

sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a

was a lot heavier

hemlock was heavier than

loophole, Caspian knew

hemlock up to the stall owner and asked, “How

had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so

brought you to me, young man! I won’t

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook

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

like a

sure you’d know it takes at least two hundred years of growth for

to keep from pests

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

man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand

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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