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 Caspian

Or so it seemed.

Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man put on

the truth… I came across it in a forest that was

would come

to be thinking

mentioned the price

someone that did business

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer to

hemlock, he would have asked for the price immediately and paid

Eye of Insight, after all,

upon the shop again after passing the

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

in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed the fat cultivator‘s

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

the man’s gaze would flicker to him every

that something

the

well enough, he would have to

stronger than that of cultivators of the same realm

as he noticed the fat man looked visibly relieved when

it was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch

something wrong

itself laid in the section that was charred

so thin it

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

a

was why the hemlock was heavier

the loophole, Caspian knew

to the stall owner and asked,

in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his

you to me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook his

deep in the forest, it’s

like a well-read

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

keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other

a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass through

lightning and thunder usually come hand

out with rain barely

a lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock that has passed through

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