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.

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

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

come in handy

fat cultivator seemed to

never mentioned the price

that did business for

take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the

and needed the hemlock,

after all,

upon the shop again after passing the

into Caspian’s hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the fat

again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed the

out to other cultivators that passed by his stall to

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

was obvious that something was

the

enough, he

stronger than that of cultivators of the same realm as

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

was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch was

was, indeed, something

problem itself laid in the section

an opening so thin it was

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

was a lot

was why the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

discovering the loophole, Caspian

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

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?”

Caspian shook his

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

like a

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

from pests and absorb enough nutrition among

once it’s been struck, a devastating fire must

man, that lightning and thunder usually come

fires are put out with rain

a piece of hemlock that has

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