The Eighth Book of Bao Dan: The Kala

So Jen Shu called out his Hu Rang companions and led the nine of them against the Kala for three years, three months and three days. Many of those left behind, even some of his generals, presumed that Jen Shu was dead. But, at last he returned from the North with many dead Kala and a truce forged between his Golden Tribe and the Korobokuru of the Snows North of the Rift. 

In this manner, the Golden Tribe learned to forge metal using Kohl stones for heat and also the secret of turning soft iron into hardened steel. For the art of steel had been lost for many years. And armed with this knowledge there were none who could withstand the Golden Tribe. Not even the men of the Great Wang Tihora which hid behind walls of stone and sent great volleys from them to cover their infantry. The soldiers of Tihora had also tamed the margons and set upon them gergs of wood from which arrows could be fired and the sound of them was like thunder. 

Even so, the generals of Jen Shu had continued conquest in his absence. So that his name and the Bataro of the Golden Tribe were more greatly feared than ever.

In the Summer of the last year of the Ox, the Golden Tribe had eliminated 31 tribes from the Sea of Grass and none remember their names. The Bataro numbered 26,000 men and 28,000 horse. The Ordaru had 19,200 women. From then on the Golden Tribe carried the tarred heads of:

Hako the Oni

Hyun Shik of the Red Stone People

Kang Shin of the Spotted Horse

Chun Mul of the Red Tribe, slayer of a Gaki

Arog the Claw Hand

Ko the Horned

Marhen Gozu Gaki

Wunk Blue-Skin

Grothmak the Andari Slayer

Jin Huk of the White Tribe

Sungyu the Noble of the Great Grass People

Shun the Horseman of the Valley 

Yuudai the Wealthy of the Bamboo People

Taiki the Tall and his son Taikishi of the Yellow River

Monad of the Bush People

Hagga the Kala of the Caves

Shurga the Kala of the Earth

So Jen Shu left the valleys of plenty and journeyed farther to the East where the great walls of Tihora stood and his armies were said to be as strong as the gods.