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

Or so it seemed.

as Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock,

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

that would come

seemed to be thinking on Caspian’s

mentioned the price even

that did business for a

nodded,

how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the

after all, was something he wanted to

would not chance upon the shop again after passing

hemlock up, on top of

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

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

to see that the man’s gaze would

that

the hemlock, Caspian

working well enough,

that of cultivators of the same

divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked visibly

not long before

something wrong with the

the

was an opening so thin it was

divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock

iron was a lot heavier than

the hemlock

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew

held the hemlock up to the stall

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

young man! I won’t

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

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

like a well-read

know it takes at least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to

has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among

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

lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand

lot of the time the fires are put out

a piece

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