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

Or so it seemed.

hemlock, the fat man put

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

come in handy

seemed to be thinking on

the

that did business for a long

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

hemlock, he would have asked for the

Insight, after all,

the shop again

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

yet again, fingertips running over the calloused wood, Caspian observed the

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

able to see that the man’s gaze would flicker

was obvious that

down the

well enough, he would have to use his divine

was much stronger than that of cultivators of the

the fat man

not long before Caspian realized that his hunch

indeed, something wrong

problem itself laid in the section that was

an opening so thin it

his divine sense, Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece

iron was a lot heavier than

the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

Caspian knew what

hemlock up to the stall owner

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

me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

not!” the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest, it’s hard

like a

hundred years of

has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among

fire must follow for lightning to pass through it

young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in

put out with rain barely after they have started

yield a piece of hemlock that has

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