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 of hemlock

Or so it seemed.

as Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat man

the truth… I came across it in a forest that was burnt into

come

seemed to

mentioned the

someone that did business for

take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock

hemlock, he would have asked

all, was something he wanted to

the shop again

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

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

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

see that the man’s gaze would flicker to

that something was

the hemlock, Caspian

his eyes were not working well enough, he would

than that of

fat man looked

it was not long before Caspian realized

indeed, something wrong with

problem itself laid in the section that was charred

so thin it was

even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece

a

hemlock

discovering the loophole, Caspian

hemlock up to the stall owner and asked,

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

you to me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough

seem like a

it takes at least two hundred years of growth for

it has to keep from pests

a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass through it

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

out with rain barely after they

lot of coincidences to yield a

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