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

Or so it seemed.

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

Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in

come in handy with

to be thinking on Caspian’s

the price

that did business

Caspian nodded,

much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he

after all, was something

upon the shop

top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the fat cultivator’s face,

turned the hemlock over in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the

nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators that passed

see that the man’s gaze would flicker to him every once in a

obvious that

down the hemlock, Caspian

enough, he would have to use his

divine sense was much stronger than that of cultivators of

fat man

it was not long before Caspian realized

something wrong with the

in the

an opening so thin it

that the hemlock was

a lot

hemlock was heavier than

the loophole, Caspian knew what

to the stall owner

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

to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook his

grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough

a

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

from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other competing

struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to

lightning and thunder

the time the fires are put out with rain barely after they have started

to yield a

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