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.

kind

Or so it seemed.

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

I came across

come in handy

cultivator seemed to be thinking

never mentioned the price even

did business for a long

nodded,

and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the price

after all, was something he wanted

not chance upon the shop again after passing the

on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on the fat cultivator’s face, made Caspian

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

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

see that the man’s gaze would flicker to him

was obvious that

the hemlock,

not working well enough, he would have

stronger than that of cultivators of the same

he noticed the fat man looked visibly relieved when

it was not long before Caspian realized that his hunch

indeed, something wrong with

laid in the section that was

so

Caspian even discovered that the hemlock

a lot heavier

hemlock was

the loophole, Caspian knew

held the hemlock up to the stall owner

had it in his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly

young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian

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

like a well-read young

hundred years of growth for hemlock to

keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition among other competing

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

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

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

to yield a piece of hemlock that has passed through

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