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

Or so it seemed.

in the hemlock, the fat man

I came across it

would come in handy with

cultivator seemed to be

mentioned the price

that did business

nodded, bringing the

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

of Insight, after all, was

chance upon the shop again

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

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

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

man’s gaze

was obvious that something

the hemlock,

enough, he would have to use his

stronger than that of cultivators

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

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

something

laid in the

an opening so thin it was

divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the

iron was a lot heavier

why the hemlock was

discovering the loophole, Caspian

to the stall owner and asked,

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

to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

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

like a well-read young

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

to keep from

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

young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand with

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

coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock

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