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

Or so it seemed.

the hemlock, the fat man put on

Let me tell you the truth… I came across it

come in handy

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking on Caspian’s

the price even

that did

nodded,

and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for the

of Insight, after all, was

not chance upon the shop again after

the abnormal weight that came into Caspian’s hands when he picked the hemlock up, on top of the brief flash of panic he saw on

over in his hands yet again, fingertips running over the calloused

even calling out to other cultivators

gaze would flicker to

that

the hemlock,

well enough, he would have to use his

sense was much stronger than that of

the fat man looked visibly relieved when he put

not long before Caspian realized that his hunch

was, indeed, something wrong with

itself laid in the

opening so

the hemlock was stuffed with

a

the hemlock was heavier than

Caspian knew what to

up to the stall owner and asked,

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

brought you to me, young

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian shook

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

like a well-read young

least two hundred years of growth for hemlock to summon

two hundred years, it has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition

devastating fire must follow

you’d also know, young man, that lightning

are put out with rain barely after they have started to

a piece of hemlock

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