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

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the fat man put on

truth… I came across it

that would come in handy

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking on Caspian’s

never mentioned the price even

did business for a

nodded, bringing the hemlock closer

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

Insight, after all, was something he

the shop again after

Caspian’s hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of panic

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

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

was able to see that the man’s gaze would flicker to

that something

down the hemlock, Caspian

working well enough,

than that

decided to use divine sense as he noticed the fat

not long before Caspian realized that

was, indeed, something

the

was an opening so

sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was

iron was a lot

why the hemlock was heavier

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew what to

hemlock up to the stall owner and asked,

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

smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the

like a well-read young

least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon a

it has to keep from pests

fire must follow for lightning to pass

sure you’d also know, young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand

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

takes quite a lot of coincidences to yield a piece of hemlock that has

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