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 hemlock

Or so it seemed.

in the hemlock, the fat man put on

hemlock, eh? Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in

would come

seemed to be thinking on Caspian’s

mentioned the price

was someone that did business for a

let me take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer to his

and needed the hemlock, he would have asked

of Insight, after all, was something he wanted to

the shop

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

over in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed the

actions, even calling out to other cultivators that passed

man’s gaze would flicker to him

was obvious that

down the

were not working well enough,

that of cultivators of the

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

brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before Caspian

indeed, something

problem itself laid in the section that

opening so thin

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

a

why the hemlock was heavier than

the loophole, Caspian knew what

the hemlock up to the stall owner and asked, “How

fat man realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his pupils were barely

to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook

not!” the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep

like a well-read young

least two hundred years

two hundred years, it has to keep from pests and absorb

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

young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand with

lot of the time the fires are put out with rain

a lot of coincidences to yield a

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