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 of hemlock Caspian looked

Or so it seemed.

as Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man

the truth… I came

would come

to be thinking

mentioned the price even

did business for a long

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer

Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock,

all, was something he

chance upon the shop again

on top of the brief flash of panic he saw

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

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

gaze would flicker

was obvious that something

the hemlock, Caspian

his eyes were not working well enough, he would have to use his divine

was much stronger than that of cultivators of

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

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

was, indeed, something wrong

laid in the

was an opening so thin

Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with

iron was a lot heavier than

the hemlock was heavier than

loophole, Caspian knew what to

the

man realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his

to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook his

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

a well-read

at least two hundred years of growth

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

once it’s been struck, a devastating fire must follow for

also know, young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand

of the time the fires are put out with rain barely after they

lot of coincidences to yield a

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