Chronicles Of Primordial Wars (Ch. 271-500)

ch. 377-378

Chapter 377

When she saw Shao Xuan walking out of the house, the shamaness cracked into a rare smile. “You’ve read them all?”

“Yeah.” Shao Xuan approached the shamaness and sat on the animal hide on the floor. He couldn’t let the shamaness look up at him, her neck would hurt. 

“Our ancestors always wished to return. Every year, we would send people to the sea to check if there’s a chance we can cross but all we got was disappointment. I can’t believe we met you,” sighed the shamaness. 

“I don’t know if we can cross safely either. I was forced to come here, and got lucky enough to survive. I really don’t know if we can cross safely back, what about I go check?” asked Shao Xuan. 

“Absolutely not!” stopped the shamaness immediately. She did not want Shao Xuan to bear this risk. It was a rare chance to meet someone from the other side. What if something happened to him? It would be too late to cry! 

Shao Xuan recalled the experiences recorded by the ancestors in the scrolls then his own. “When I came through the sea, there was some dried seaweed in the tunnel, but that was all. I did not see the red and blue flowers in the records.”

“And that’s why you shouldn’t take the risk. We can always wait for opportunity, but if you die, we will never have the chance,” advised the shamaness. She was about to speak when she shuddered and looked at him in disbelief. “You.. You… You… You can read the shaman scrolls?”

The text scrolls did not mention the red and blue flowers but it was described in the shaman scrolls. People who did not know how to read shaman scrolls would not know this. If it weren’t for the fact that she had once written one of those and frequently flipped through them, she wouldn’t remember it so clearly. 

“Yeah, I can.” Shao Xuan had thought that the people here might have evolved or even read the shaman scrolls since they already had the Fire Seed merged into their bodies. Looks like that wasn’t true. 

“Other people can’t?” asked Shao Xuan. 

“Your people can?” The shamaness was astonished. 

He shook his head. “On our side, other than the shaman, only I can read.”

“You’re the shaman there?” she gasped. 

“No, I’m the Elder. We have another shaman over there. He’s about your age but the old man has trained an excellent successor.”

“Why didn’t he let you do it?” In this moment, flashes of stories about how slave masters fought them for power surfaced in her mind. 

The people over there did not have the fire seed merged into their bodies, it was rare for anyone to be able to read the shaman drawings. According to records, that time, almost every person who could read shaman scrolls would become the tribe’s shaman. Just like Zhi. That was why the old lady thought it was only fit they trained Shao Xuan to be the next shaman, for he was as talented as Zhi! 

If she had the chance to meet the old man, she would have to discuss this with him! 

“No, the old man has approached me many times but I refused,” explained Shao Xuan. It was not right for the old man to take the blame. 

“Why don’t you want to be a shaman?” The old lady was curious. She had not found the most suitable successor here. Although there were a few people who could understand some parts of the shaman scrolls, they could not truly grasp the scrolls. It would take a long time to train them and they might never achieve Shao Xuan’s level of understanding.