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 hemlock Caspian

Or so it seemed.

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

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

that would come in handy with

to be thinking

the

that did business

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

the context of how much Caspian wanted and needed the hemlock, he would have asked for

of Insight, after all, was

chance upon the shop again

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

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

calling out to other cultivators that passed by his stall to take a

gaze would flicker to him

obvious that something

down the hemlock,

enough, he would

much stronger than that

noticed the fat man looked

was not long

indeed, something wrong

the section

was an opening so thin it

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

was a lot heavier

hemlock was

loophole, Caspian knew what

held the hemlock up to the stall owner and

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

young man! I won’t bamboozle

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

Caspian shook

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

a

sure you’d know it takes at least two hundred years

it has to keep from pests and absorb enough nutrition

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

lightning and thunder usually come hand in hand

put out with rain barely after they have started to

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