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.

was exactly the kind of hemlock Caspian

Or so it seemed.

Caspian seemed interested in the hemlock, the fat

I came across it in a forest that was

that would come in

fat cultivator seemed to be thinking on

the price even

that did business

another look…” Caspian nodded, bringing

wanted and needed the hemlock, he

Insight, after all, was something he

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

again, fingertips

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

was able to see that the man’s gaze would flicker to him every once in

obvious that something

the

working well enough, he would have to

than that

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

long before Caspian

was, indeed, something wrong with

the section that was charred

an opening so thin it was hardly

discovered that the hemlock was

a lot heavier than

why the hemlock was heavier than

the loophole, Caspian knew what

to the stall owner and asked,

his mind to purchase and smiled so brightly his pupils were

to me, young man! I

Five hundred spirit stones.

How’s that?”

much!” Caspian

grows deep in the forest, it’s hard enough to source

like a

it takes at least two hundred years

has to keep from pests and absorb

importantly, once it’s been struck, a devastating fire must

young man, that lightning and thunder usually come hand in

fires are put out with rain barely after

to yield a piece of hemlock that has

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