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.

the kind of hemlock Caspian looked

Or so it seemed.

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

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

come

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking on

the price even

was someone that did

nodded, bringing the hemlock closer to his

context of how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the price immediately and

all, was something

upon the shop again after passing

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

again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed the fat cultivator‘s

calling out to other cultivators that passed

see that the man’s gaze would flicker to

was obvious that something was

the hemlock, Caspian

eyes were not working well enough, he

much stronger than that of cultivators of

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

not long

indeed, something wrong

laid in the section

an opening so thin it

his divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of

iron was a lot heavier

was why the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

Caspian knew what to

to the stall owner and asked, “How

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

young man!

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

deep in the forest, it’s hard

seem like a well-read young

you’d know it takes at least two hundred

to keep from pests

struck, a devastating fire

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

the time the fires are put out with rain barely after

lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock that has passed through lightning,

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