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 hemlock Caspian

Or so it seemed.

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

I came across it in a forest that was burnt

come in

cultivator seemed to be

mentioned the

was someone that did business for a long

me take another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing the hemlock closer to his

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

after all, was

not chance upon the shop again after

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

he turned the hemlock over in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the

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

man’s gaze would flicker to him every once in a

obvious that

down the

well enough, he would have

sense was much stronger than that of cultivators of

the fat man looked visibly relieved when

sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch was

something wrong with the

itself laid in the section that was charred

was an opening so

Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a

a lot

was why the hemlock was heavier

discovering the loophole, Caspian knew what

the

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

young man! I won’t

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook his

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

seem like a

hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon a lightning

those two hundred years, it has to keep from pests and

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

young man, that lightning

fires are put out with rain

to yield a piece of hemlock

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