Chapter 643 The Shaman from Gu Tribe (1/2)

“Grand Elder, are we really going to leave?” Kun Tu asked as they got onto the ship. He really wanted to stay to see how the Gu tribe would deal with things.

“There’s no point staying any longer. Also, they would delay their plans even longer if we stick around.” Shao Xuan waved his arm to signal the people on the ship to start moving. “I think they are preparing for something big.”

“Something big? What could it be?” Some people started discussing while crowding closer to Shao Xuan.

“How would I know?” Shao Xuan spat the sentence and continued finishing the map.

The sail was raised. The two boats creaked as it drifted further away from the shore, starting this journey down the river back to Flaming Horn.

Although the boat had left, the people on it were still distracted. They looked back to the Gu tribe from time to time.

They didn’t know much about the Gu tribe. They also knew that they had a lot left that they hadn’t seen, especially after Shao Xuan said the tribe was preparing for something big. Their bodies were itching to stay there and observe more.

“Ugh!” Duo Li scratched his head as he headed into the lower deck for a nap. It was his turn to guard the ship later that night.

When the two ships left, the few figures at the shore headed back too.

“Are they gone?” Bo Gu asked the people that returned.

“Yes. I saw them leave with my own eyes,” said a tribe member.

“If that is the case, we should move now.” Since they decided to not receive any help from the Flaming Horn tribespeople, they shouldn’t regret it now.

”Tell everyone to get ready.” Bo Gu headed to the shaman's house after finishing his sentence to convey the news to the shaman.

The shaman was the only person in the house at that time. He had closed the area after Bo Gu told him about the Flaming Horn tribe.

The Gu tribe's fire seed was very near here. One could see the flame burning away in the fire pond.

Facing the fire point, the shaman sat crossed-legged and closed his eyes. He reached out and dipped his right thumb into a sticky dye that was sitting in a wooden bowl. He then rubbed it across the piece of linen in front of him.

The cloth wasn’t big, it was around half a meter square. After the initial stain, the shaman went to work and drew a simple abstract drawing.

It became more obvious what he was drawing as he got closer to finishing the painting. He had drawn a person standing upright. One arm was lifted up while the other was pointing to the ground as if he had just thrown something. Beside the man was a net cast open.

After completing the drawing, the shaman kept his thumb between the drawn man and net, his eyes still closed.

The Gu tribe preferred to keep their records on cloth, unlike many other tribes that used leather. However, the cloth they used was unique. They did something different in every aspect of the cloth-making process to make a cloth with such a texture that it remained soft for thousands of years.

The shaman went straight towards a short table in the room. There was a scroll placed on top of it. This scroll was taken out and placed here during the time Bo Gu left the tribe, the shaman would come were every day to look at it.

He pulled it open and sighed when he saw the drawing on it.

It was an abstract piece with a beast and some people attempting to hunt it with a net.

For it to be recorded like this meant that this was something significant. The person that drew did know that this wasn’t a normal hunting trip.

If Shao Xuan was here, he would recognise the beast on the scroll as the beast he saw yesterday. Their appearance was very similar with just some differences maybe because of the art style but it was definitely it.

This Gu tribe scroll, in particular, was over a thousand years old!