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

Or so it seemed.

Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat

eh? Let me tell you the truth… I came across it in a forest that was burnt

that would come in handy with

cultivator seemed to be thinking on

the

that did business for

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

needed the hemlock, he would have

after all, was

would not chance upon the shop

that came into 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, made Caspian

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

actions, even calling out to

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

was obvious that

down the hemlock,

enough,

that

the fat man looked visibly relieved

a brief spiritual sweep, it was not long before Caspian realized that

indeed, something wrong

itself laid in the section that was charred

an opening so thin it

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

was a

was why the hemlock was heavier than

loophole, Caspian knew

held the hemlock up to the stall owner and asked, “How

realized Caspian had it in his mind to purchase and smiled

you to me, young man! I won’t

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

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

like a

it takes at least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon

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

once it’s been struck, a devastating fire must

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

are put out with rain barely after

a

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