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.

exactly the kind of hemlock

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the fat man put on an

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

would come in handy with

cultivator seemed to be thinking on

never mentioned the price even

was someone that did

look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock

Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the price immediately

Insight, after all,

would not chance upon the shop again after

hemlock up, 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,

to other cultivators that passed

the man’s gaze would flicker

that something was

down the

were not working well enough, he would

that

noticed the fat man looked visibly relieved when he put the hemlock

it was not long before Caspian realized

was, indeed, something wrong

itself laid in the section that

so thin it

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

a lot heavier

the hemlock was

Caspian

the stall

his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his pupils

brought you to me, young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian

the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the

a well-read

least two hundred

years, it has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other

fire must follow for lightning to

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

the time the fires are put out with rain barely after

a lot of coincidences to yield a piece

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