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 looked

Or so it seemed.

interested in the hemlock, the fat man put on an

me tell you the truth… I came

come in handy

cultivator seemed to be

never mentioned the price

was someone that did business

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

needed the hemlock, he

Insight, after all, was something he wanted to

upon the shop

hemlock up, on top of

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

nonchalant to Caspian’s actions, even calling out to other cultivators

able to see that the man’s gaze

obvious that something

down the hemlock,

working well enough, he would have to

stronger than that of cultivators of the

divine sense as he noticed the fat man looked visibly relieved when he put the hemlock

sweep, it was not long before

something wrong with the

problem itself laid in the section that was charred

opening so thin

Caspian even discovered that the hemlock was stuffed with a piece of refined

was a lot heavier than

why the hemlock was heavier than Caspian

Caspian knew

to the stall owner and asked, “How

it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his pupils

young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook

the fat man smiled, “Hemlock grows deep in the forest,

a well-read young

takes at least two hundred

it has to keep from

struck, a devastating fire must follow for lightning to pass through it

that lightning and thunder usually come hand

are put out with rain barely after

a piece of hemlock that has passed through

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