Chapter 102 – Drawing a Shaman Volume (2/2)

Shao Xuan first drew the outline of the totem on the blank animal skin roll in front of him.

The Shaman watched Shao Xuan draw the totem, and his smile became increasingly bigger. It was a nice totem, well drawn. It was much better than most of the drawings made by other people in the tribe. However, whether a Shaman could draw well was irrelevant. The lines and curls had very little to do with being a good Shaman.

“Over here.” Shao Xuan drew a line around the flames that were covering the two horns. “This should be the power of inheritance, right?”

“Yes. This is the power of inheritance.” The Shaman said satisfactorily.

As the Shaman was about to say something, he heard Shao Xuan continue: “And here…here…as well, over here…oh, wait a second, over here there was a little…wait…let me recheck…”

The Shaman was completely stunned, and he forgot what he was about to say.

As Shao Xuan kept making strokes here and there, it caused the Shaman’s face to twitch over and over.

As Shao Xuan was drawing more strokes, the facial expression on the Shaman’s face became more and more stiff. He seemed to be happy and sad at the same time. There were also other emotions mixed in. It was quite complicated.

If he was talking with someone else, the Shaman might think that he made an error. However, it was Shao Xuan, and the Shaman knew it deep in his heart that Shao Xuan was telling the truth.

He had so much power of inheritance, and so much talent but he wanted to be a warrior!

The Shaman was bitter at heart, and he literally wanted to rush to the fire pit and make a sincere salute in front of all the ancestors.

“Distinguished ancestors, how could someone with so much power of inheritance and talent not want to become the next Shaman?!”

If the Shaman was a little younger and more hot-tempered, he would’ve probably raised his cane and chased after Shao Xuan.

After comparing the blue flames in his mind with the ones he drew on the animal skin roll, Shao Xuan looked up at the Shaman: “Well, that’s all I got.”

“That’s all you got?” The Shaman clenched the cane as a thousand different emotions mixed in his heart. All the mixed emotions went down to a deep sigh.

Shao Xuan thought that it was not much, because the blue flames only took a small percentage of the whole flame. Shao Xuan heard the Shaman say that most of the people in the tribe did not have much power of inheritance. However, he had no idea what he meant with “not much”, so he drew all of them out. If he had known the Shaman’s standards earlier, he would definitely keep some of them to himself.

The Shaman stared at the totem with all the strokes on it, silently.

As Shao Xuan was wondering what happened with the Shaman, the Shaman started talking in a serious tone, “Excellent. Now it would be easier for you to draw.”

Shao Xuan listened to the Shaman’s explanation carefully about the method to draw a Shaman Volume.

“All the drawings on the Shaman Volumes are a combination of power of inheritance, consciousness, and lines. When these three factors mix and reach a balance, it becomes the Shaman Drawing. If the reader can use the power of inheritance and watch the drawing with consciousness, he would be able to interact with the consciousness of the drawing’s creator. If one could precisely control the power of inheritance, he could even feel the creator’s emotions and other senses at the time….”

It was up to the reader’s and the drawer’s capacity when it comes to the depth of the interaction. The stronger they were, the clearer would be interaction become…

The Shaman shared the theory and Shao Xuan listened, because he had to know it if he wanted to make his own drawings.

When the Shaman had finished explaining, and Shao Xuan had memorized and understood most of it, he picked up the brush pen again to start making his first Shaman Drawing.

A beginner in the Shaman Volumes would always start practicing with copying the other Shaman Drawings. Because when you make a copy, there will be a guidance of consciousness that could walk you through the process.

After attentively having looked at one drawing in a Shaman Volume for a long time, Shao Xuan concentrated on the blank animal skin roll in front of him.

He raised his hand, and at the moment that his brush pen touched the animal skin roll, Shao Xuan stimulated all the power of inheritance he had, and began to draw in accordance with what the Shaman had told him.

At that point, Shao Xuan used all his power of inheritance, and all his energy was concentrated on the tip of his brush pen. It was the only thing that he cared about, and it was the only focus that he had in mind. With the guidance of the Shaman Volume, he slowly started drawing.

After one stroke, Shao Xuan was full of sweat, and it seemed that he had consumed all his strength. He almost collapsed, and heaved with heavy breaths.

Looking at the animal skin roll, he found that there was only a small circle painted on it.

Shao Xuan rubbed his sweat with his sleeve. He couldn’t help but think that drawing on the Shaman Volume was too difficult. It was only one stroke, and looked like a simple circle. However, it was extremely difficult from the very start, and did not become any simpler in the whole process.

Hmm, was it because that he had not enough power of inheritance? Shao Xuan wondered to himself.