Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

The palace built by the five sons of Pandanu during their royal sacrifice was incredibly luxurious.

They built all sorts of luxurious altars and palaces for sacrificial purposes, and also built palaces made of gold and silver jewels for the various Kshatriya kings who came to reside there. It is said that the palaces were so high that they could be seen from hundreds of meters away, with gold window frames, mani beads for lighting in the corridors, and many floors and doors made of crystal.

The epic poem says, 'People of all castes, nations, and origins, from the upper, middle, and lower classes, came, as if the whole world had gathered in the Palace of Fortnite.'

Among those who arrived was Nandi, one of the hundred sons of the ruler of the country. It was at this time that Bhujun, the son of the wind god, who was known for his forthright personality but was also a bit of a troublemaker, got into a conflict with Nandi.

Because there was a lotus pond made of crystal and gemstones in the palace, Nandi thought there was water in the pond when he passed by, so he lifted his clothes. After realizing his mistake, Nandi wandered to another part of the Great Hall and came to a pond with crystal clear water and crystal clear lotus flowers.

Duryodhana mistook the pond for a crystal-clear place and accidentally fell into it. Upon seeing this, the attendants couldn't help but burst into laughter. Among the five sons, Bhikkhu, Arjuna, Ajatasatru, and Devajaya laughed.

Not long after, Duryodhana arrived at another place, mistaking it for a pool of water. He lifted his clothes and waded through it as if he were swimming, which made everyone laugh again.

Duryodhana walked to a door, thinking it was open, and stepped inside, only to bump his head on it. He then walked to an open door, thinking it was closed, and thus passed by without entering... In short, Duryodhana suffered greatly during this royal sacrifice, which made him feel extremely humiliated.

"You bastards, you bastards! How dare you humiliate me like this! You bunch of damned bastards!"

Then Duryodhana, along with his uncle Shakunin and father who were also invited, devised a plan to deal with the current Pandu Five, which involved gambling.

The eldest of the five sons, Yugandha, is the embodiment of the righteous god. He is both benevolent and wise, and his every word and deed is exemplary. However, he has one major flaw: he is a gambler. But as everyone knows, his uncle, Sakunni, is a master gambler. This is obviously a trap. However, Dhritarashtra completely ignored the advice of his brother, Vidura, with an unusually high-pressure attitude and forced him to bring the five sons of Pandita to gamble.

This is undoubtedly a trap.

Jianzhan naturally understood this principle, but he still came to prepare to gamble with him.

As expected, he gambled away all his wealth, and in the end, he even lost his five brothers and his wife, Black Princess, and they were reduced to slavery.

Why would someone knowingly walk into a trap?

Because of the true Dharma.

The original Krishna said, "The battle of the Dharma is also a war." This means that the side that upholds the Dharma may also lose, because those who uphold the Dharma also have a fatal weakness, which is "the pride of the Dharma," that is, they disdain to use methods that violate the Dharma to gain an advantage or avoid casualties.

Although the righteous law will ultimately prevail, in certain areas and for a certain period of time, the illegal side will prevail. Their victory is not only because the side that upholds the righteous law has the "pride of the righteous law," but also because the illegal side consciously takes advantage of this pride of the righteous law.

For example, Duryodhana repeatedly harmed the five Panditas, poisoned Bhuj, and set fire to the Lakota Palace in an attempt to burn the five Panditas to death. However, these crimes were not investigated by the five Panditas or the court officials. After all, if the law had been followed, Duryodhana would have lost his right to inherit the throne long ago.

But when Duryodhana and Sakunni set a trap for Yudhidharma to gamble, Yudhidharma, knowing he was no match for dice, believed that obeying his elder Dhritarashtra's orders was in accordance with the law...

However, this 'pride' depends on their inner understanding of the law, which is an internal moral code without any explicit external expression. As a result, there are very different standards. In the view of Yudhan, only land, wealth or slaves acquired through just war are legitimate possessions, but Duryodhana and Shakuntni believe that what is acquired through gambling is also in accordance with the law.

Ultimately, however, India's emphasis on keeping oaths at that time exceeded the appropriate level, and the more serious the harm caused by keeping oaths, the more proud those who kept oaths became. However, it was precisely because those who seemed to uphold the righteous law were so fixated on keeping oaths that the Kauravas, the mysterious sign of the decline of the Indian pantheon, occurred.

After losing everything in the battle, the second son of the hundred sons, Nanjiang, who was smugly pleased with himself, went straight to the palace, dragged the Black Princess, who had been enslaved according to the bet, out by the hair, and subjected her to a brutal humiliation.

However, the man who caused this incident remained silent and endured the treatment his wife received, unwilling to break his vow.

At this moment, only the Bhujun, for the sake of the Black Princess's dignity, was enraged. He cursed the one who was tearing off the Black Princess's clothes, saying, "One day, I will tear open his chest and drink his blood." And Duryodhana, because of the sexual innuendo of exposing her thighs to the Black Princess, was also cursed by the Bhujun, saying, "One day, I will break your thighs."

However, from another perspective, from Duryodhana's point of view, he had avenged the humiliation he suffered at the previous royal sacrifice, since the Black Princess had also mocked him when he made a fool of himself.

But then the Black Princess said to someone present:

"First, he lost his own bet, and then he lost mine. How could someone who has already become a slave have the right to gamble with others?"

Regarding the question about the Black Princess, Bhishma and Vidura, the most senior members present, said one after another, "The Dharma is subtle, and it is difficult for us to give an accurate answer." Of course, their attitude was one of disapproval of such a bet, which everyone present could feel.

Because the actions of the brothers Nandi and Nanjiang towards the Black Princess were so infuriating, Dhritarashtra declared the bet null and void.

However, Nandi was unwilling to let Pandu's five pieces go easily, so at Nandi's request, the two sides started gambling again.

The hundred sons of Dhritarashtra first apologized with great moral integrity, announcing that given their rudeness, the bet would be void, on the condition that Yudhidharma must be wagered again.

In the end, the gamble failed again. The five brothers and the Black Princess were exiled to the forest for twelve years. In the thirteenth year, they had to hide again. If they were discovered, they would be exiled for another twelve years. From then on, the two sides were mortal enemies, which was the prelude to the great war.

However, because the god of the true path, Yahweh, was so horribly disgraceful in gambling, some of his allies were no longer willing to follow them. For example, Dharama, Krishna's brother, who used to calmly obey Krishna's instructions even when the Yadu tribe was enraged and demanded that Arjuna be killed after his sister was taken away, was now unwilling to lay a finger on the Pandava brothers.

……

Under the bright sunshine, the verdant forest is filled with the fragrance of green leaves, and the bright flowers sing praises to life, with a simple thatched cottage nestled among them.

This is the forest where the five sons and their wife, the Black Princess, live, and the six of them lead such a difficult life.

In ancient India, forests signified wilderness. Brahmanism divided life into four stages: Brahmacharya, Laymantaka, Forest Dwelling, and Asceticism. As people aged, they left the countryside or city and entered the forest, subsisting mainly on wild vegetables, roots, and fruits. Forests were inhabited by poisonous snakes, ferocious beasts, and demons.

Therefore, forest life is harsh and dangerous, making it a refuge for those in distress.

As soon as they entered the forest, the five brothers saw various herds of beasts and birds happily gathered around a young man with black hair and dark blue skin, with the Black Princess's brother, Mengjun, beside him.

“If I were there, I would never have let you gamble, Jian Zhan.”

Krishna, who had arrived, said this.

However, unlike the five sons who hesitated to speak, the humiliated Black Princess cried as she addressed Krishna and her brother, the Mighty Army, who had arrived:

“Krishna, do I not have a husband?”

The five sons of Pandita never refused those who sought their protection, yet they failed to protect me, who needed protection. I and Ajatasatru gave birth to the Mountain, I and Bhadra gave birth to the Moon, I and Arjuna gave birth to the Name, I and Ajatasatru gave birth to the Hundred Army, and I and Ajatasatru gave birth to the Karma…”

The Black Princess wiped her eyes, panting heavily, and continued angrily.

“I have no husband, no son, no brothers, no father, no relatives. I am insulted, and you all seem carefree and indifferent…”

Krishna remained silent; only the Fiery Light beside him spoke:

“I will kill Drona, Bhrikuti will kill my grandfather Bhishma, Bhikkhu will kill Durdhi, Arjuna will kill Karna, they cannot possibly defeat us.”

After the wrathful light finished speaking, everyone present looked at Krishna, and Krishna smiled and said:

“Arjuna, I need you to perform a ritual, and you need to go up that snowy mountain and fight a hunter, otherwise my ritual will go wrong.”

Since Krishna said so, Arjuna naturally wouldn't refuse, so he immediately went up the nearby snow mountain.

After Arjuna departed, Krishna, in the sight of the crowd, slowly joined his hands together and sang a hymn.

"O auspicious one, great protector, energy of Vishnu, accept me."

In an instant, the place turned into night, with no sun, moon or firelight shining, only the radiance of Krishna himself.

Like the sun, burning with its own flame, beautiful and bright.

"Heaven blesses all living beings, upholding the true Dharma! His illustrious name spreads far and wide, protecting hundreds and thousands of households!"

"Heaven blesses all living beings, upholding the true Dharma! His illustrious name spreads far and wide, protecting hundreds and thousands of households!"

A holy breeze blew, carrying the fragrance of flowers. Amidst the blessings and praises of all things, a road appeared before Krishna, resounding with the sounds of conch shells and drums, and at its end, an altar suddenly appeared.

The Black Princess and the Fierce Army, their eyes wide with surprise at Krishna's actions, could clearly see what he intended to do: to give birth to children like them through sacrifice, just as their father had done. The sacrifices of the Indian pantheon were miraculous; even when seeking children, they did not take many years to grow up as normal, but grew very quickly.

However, the two of them still had the same thought, which was—

Why would Krishna suddenly want a child? Doesn't he have many wives?

Indeed, Krishna, whose humanity is more prominent than Rama's, already has tens of thousands of wives at this time. However, this is only because the girls were abducted by the Asuras and were rescued by Krishna. In order to prevent them from suffering any more misfortunes, Krishna said that he had already married them.

But besides these, Krishna himself also had seven actual wives.

Therefore, it seems completely unnecessary to find the child through this method.

However, as Krishna was advancing on this path, the sky suddenly collapsed, the snow-capped mountains crumbled, the earth cracked, the sea dried up, a sinister and terrifying gale arose, and the sky was filled with dust, creating a scene of world destruction.

Unmoved by the terrifying sight, Krishna continued onward until he reached the end of the road. Gazing at the altar on the altar, bubbles began to appear in the pure darkness, one, two, gradually rising, and then ten, twenty, a hundred, two hundred, countless bubbles filling the space.

Krishna smiled slightly, and in his eyes, the sky was filled with stars, countless concepts, and all things.

Then he gently reached out his hand toward the concept corresponding to a bubble.

Then came tiny, persistent, and chilling tremors.

It's as if something that should have endured the lira and karma in the past has awakened after two centuries of continuation.

……

Earlier, on the snowy mountain where Krishna had arranged for Arjuna to reside.

Arjuna saw a hunter with a cold expression.

He thought to himself, "This must be the person Krishna has asked me to stop."

Without hesitation, Arjuna fired countless arrows at the hunter who seemed to ignore him and headed down the mountain.

"So that's how it is. Krishna sent you to stop me? He already thought of this..."

The hunter who was instantly hit by the rain of arrows stood there unharmed. The hunter was Shiva, who appeared as Krishna had suggested, and the destructive scene in the Krishna ritual was also proof of Shiva's arrival.

"you are?"

Before Arjuna could have his doubts answered, he saw the hunter, an avatar of Shiva, strike him with a fist as hard as Indra's vajra.

In fact, the reason Shiva appeared was quite simple: he saw Krishna trying to use this method to make a god appear as a son in the bloody battle of the 'Lila', and he appeared to stop him.

However, what Shiva didn't know was that Krishna had already guessed he would come, which is why he arranged for Arjuna, the chosen one of the two worlds, to stand in front of him. Moreover, Shiva's arrival was also part of Krishna's ritual.

Because Krishna needs that wrath to guide the bubbles that appear in the endless darkness.

……

At this very moment, in the Himalayas.

In the sudden, overwhelming darkness, Kama struggled to remain calm.

Even with godlike vision, he could see nothing; even with his power, he could not break through.

Kama thought to himself that he had probably completely isolated himself from the world.

However, there are other things connected to Cupid.

Relying on that connection, Kama cried out in his heart, "...What's going on?!"

As Kama and Kavia are connected in several ways, they can communicate in some incredible way.

“Krishna performed the ritual, and he seized you.”

Gavia replied, conveying the state of the outside world to Kama.

Whether it is Moses and Durga, who are watching her with great concern in the Himalayas, or Krishna, who is conducting a ritual in the forest.

Kama now understands his own situation.

“Krishna, through the power of the ritual, not only separated you from him, but also seemed to connect you with him and Princess Radiant Light.”

Gavia explained the current situation, and Kama felt the same way. Sensing the slight anxiety in Durga, Moses, and even Gavia, she couldn't help but smile.

“Just disrupt Krishna’s ritual and sever the connection… Is that even possible…?”

Kama, shrouded in darkness, remained silent; however, this was her thought, a communication of mind to mind, which perfectly described the situation at that moment.

"I can do it."

Without a moment's hesitation, Gavia said this.

"Let's just forget about it. Since Krishna wants it this way, then so be it."

Krishna's actions fall entirely below the scope of the Lira, because Kama should have been burned to death by Shiva at the time of his perfection and then reincarnated as Krishna's son, Vimalakirti. However, due to the appearance or intervention of Kavia, Kama did not die in this way, but lived well for two centuries.

This lira can be large or small, and it's not impossible to ignore it. However, Krishna, as the eighth avatar of Vishnu, did this for some unknown reason. Therefore, under these circumstances, it may not be long before Kama becomes light as Krishna desires.

"Is it another child of the God of Fortune Telling...?"

It's become bizarre and ridiculous, yet there's a strange sense of identification with it.

The name of that body, the name of that face or fingers.

Kama never expected that he would have such a deep connection with the god of divination, but he still accepted it incredulously.

"Speaking of which, will you come looking for me? Although I should be back soon anyway, since it hasn't been many years, and this time I'm truly a human being, thinking about it carefully, I shouldn't think like this, but I can't help but think this way, I'm very sorry..."

"Will do."

Gavia said frankly.

Kama's reply came somewhat late.

"Was the answer too firm...?"

"Because I have no need to hide it."

It turned out to be the case.

With this answer in mind, Kama suddenly found his place deep within his heart.

"...Then I'll wait for you patiently. There's no need for you to disobey. As for punishment...let's forget about it..."

He couldn't come up with anything more witty.

Nevertheless, Kama still felt in his heart that he could definitely convey the message.

Even if you are the supreme god of divination, the number of your heartbeats must be accurate.