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 Caspian

Or so it seemed.

Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man put

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

that would come in handy with

cultivator seemed to be thinking on Caspian’s

never mentioned the price even

was someone that did

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock,

Insight, after all, was something he

the shop again after passing the

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

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

to other cultivators that passed by

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

that

the

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

that of cultivators of the same realm as

to use divine sense as he noticed the fat man

long before Caspian realized that

something

the section that was charred

so

that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of

iron was a lot heavier

hemlock was heavier

Caspian knew what

up to the stall owner and asked, “How

to

you to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

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

seem like a well-read

two hundred

has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other

struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to

you’d also know, young man, that lightning

put out with rain barely after

a piece of hemlock that has passed through lightning,

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