Chapter 276
Because he realized that the current situation had become out of control since Duryodhana tried to drag "Black Princess" onto the gambling table.
The two forces behind all this are the peerless girl in front of us and Krishna, who has repeatedly escaped our encirclements!
No, not only that.
Shakuni looked at Hebe in despair, thinking of his own divination sessions at the astrology hall.
The man cried out in a hoarse, desperate voice, "Yes, it's you—"
Shakuni burst into a bitter laugh for no reason, slapping his knees with his hands.
The owl, thinking itself clever, believed it had found the nest by following the cuckoo, unaware that it too was a hunter's target.
The reason he went to such lengths to devise various schemes was because both Shakuni and Duryodhana were well aware of the importance of the Tianshi to the Kuru Dynasty.
Although they deeply resented the Tianshi, they still had to rely on Tianshi.
But in the eyes of Hebe and Krishna, even the Tianshi is nothing more than a small pawn!
The entire Bharata is their chessboard of power struggles!
"Ah... hahaha... haha..."
Shakuni collapsed to the ground in despair, but no one noticed him.
Not far away, on the chessboard that had once attracted everyone's attention, dice and chips were scattered in pieces.
This gamble, which once held the fate of millions in its hands, is now largely ignored.
Hebe glanced at Shakuni out of the corner of his eye, then paid no more attention to the pathetic madman.
The latter is a smart man, but he only thinks he is smart; all of this has exceeded his capacity to cope.
Throughout the royal palace of Elephant City, the crowds flowed in three directions like a stream.
—Hebe, the Pandavas, and the Tianshi.
The next instant.
A pale, eerie light suddenly appeared.
Arjuna, still in his archery stance, was sent flying backward in a very disheveled manner.
An arrow is stuck perfectly in Arjuna's Divine Bow; it is Tianshi!
Just now, Tianshi had shot an arrow at both Hebe and Arjuna same time, but the latter, despite his best efforts, was unable to draw his bow.
But what about the arrow shot at Hebe?
A sudden burst of bluish-purple flames rose up.
"It's you—"
Tianshi said in a low voice, "Yes, I should have thought of that sooner. Vyasa, you are Karna's adoptive father, and that demon is her mother..."
No wonder that on the night Karna was treated unfairly, a sudden fire broke out in the Elephant City Palace.
No wonder those nobles who had openly mocked Karna were all burned to death in extreme agony.
Tianshi staggered backward as he saw the Kuru elite soldiers fighting hand-to-hand with warriors holding the "Mohenjo-daro" banner on the streets of Elephant City. The latter numbered only eight hundred, which was like a reef to a wave compared to the numerous Kuru warriors.
However, as the waves crashed against the rocks, they were the first to Skullshatterer.
They moved forward silently, forward, forward.
The soldiers of Elephant City were caught up in it, and their only fate was to Skullshatterer.
Mohenjo-daro —this distant name was once again being chewed and spat out by everyone. Hebe had spent three thousand years resetting their spines, which had been broken by the immortals and the Lord of Life, and now they were so tough it was terrifying, as resolute as a copper pea.
The warriors of the Bandhu tribe cried out in vain, but to no avail.
The last thing they saw was the dense armor on the eight hundred warriors and the long spears they held.
As their consciousness sank into darkness, they could even hear the whooshing sound of arrows raining down—oh, that was the warriors of Mohenjo-daro drawing their bows and releasing their arrows.
Parvati looked at the warriors in silence; they felt both familiar and strange to her.
That was indeed the banner of Mohenjo-daro, but the spirit and energy of these people seemed to come from some ancient and unfamiliar great power.
Their culture, their understanding, their environment—were never the same as Bharata's.
Shanwai Village is essentially an enclave of Cathay created by Hebe.
Therefore, for Hebe at that time, Wang Xuance was just a casual move.
No matter how much they borrowed troops from the snowy regions or the South Seas, they were still no match for the Tang Dynasty's own army.
For Brahma at this time, these warriors were the phantoms of "Tang".
Elephant City has been completely transformed into a battlefield.
The first to choose to show weakness and break through was none other than the invincible Tianshi.
The reason he was forced to do this was to continue the bloodline of Kuru.
The Pandavas, who were originally highly regarded by the old man, were immediately removed from the list of heirs after the Tianshi confirmed the dispatch of troops.
Of course, the Tianshi never considered that if Krishna's army had not arrived in time, the Pandavas would have already become slaves of Duryodhana.
In the eyes of the old man who adheres to the Dharma, although Duryodhana has played tricks and schemes, since he has not been exposed, he still belongs to the Dharma.
He Pandavas Pandita and was even willing to step in and end the matter under the name of the Regency of Kuru.
But Krishna a spur-of-the-moment decision?
This shows that even without this bet, they planned to work together from the inside and outside to break through the gates of Elephant City!
Of course, it was all a misunderstanding, a situation orchestrated by Krishna. But by this Pandavas no longer had the chance to explain to the Tianshi.
The Tianshi resolutely protected the Kauravas, who fought their way out of the encirclement. After breaking through the encirclement, they gathered their troops and headed west towards Elephant City.
Amidst the turmoil of the royal palace, Hebe still stood calmly.
At the end of the long Imperial Road in Elephant City, Krishna stood calmly, leaning on his vajra.
From the moment her eyes met Krishna's, the two players who had been manipulating everything behind the scenes made no further moves.
After a long, maddening silence, Krishna raised his hand, Pandavas cautiously stepped back to his side.
The Pandavas, who were burning, killing, and looting, withdrew from the battlefield after leaving behind thousands of corpses and headed west.
This was the first command Krishna gave in the presence of Hebe.
Hebe also raised her hand.
Under the cover of purple flames, the eight hundred soldiers, unharmed, silently pursued the enemy.
A speechless spectacle appeared under the sky of Bharata —three armies were gradually heading towards the Kurukshetra, with the largest army, the Kurukshetra army, being the most disheveled, while the smallest army, the Mohenjo-daro army, seemed to be the pursuers.
When Hebe stepped once more into this blood-stained reed field, the sun had already tragically sunk below the horizon.
A certain strong, pungent smell still lingers here; it is the resentment and last wish left behind by the great immortal named Jiyu a thousand years ago.
The Immortal Zhongyou spent nearly a hundred years suppressing the influence of this place, but today, with the arrival of the armies from three sides, the suppressed and intense influence is surging up again.
Banners fluttered, blood flowed, the earth was damp, and all the weapons and armor gleamed with a greasy sheen of sunlight.
The fate of the Dharma declining and dying out has already been sealed.
Conversely, its very foundation is flawed.
Tianshi looked at everyone with a somewhat embarrassed expression. "I should have known this day would come, but I don't understand! Vyasa World Honored One, why do you also turn away from the Dharma? Since you have no affection for the Kuru Dynasty, why did you accept your mother's invitation to come and continue the bloodline?"
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Hebe's face showed confusion.
"It's all the same. If it weren't for me, it would be Krishna continues your bloodline."
Hebe shrugged. "And I've given you many chances. Drona reminded you, and Karna spoke to you in court. But how did you respond?"
"There are two sayings in my hometown that I'll tell you now."
"Heaven helps those who help themselves."
Hebe's expression turned cold. "There's another saying: those who do evil will not live."
"Well said, well said!"
Krishna, in the distance, laughed heartily and clapped his hands.
Tianshi's face turned pale and then red, and he glared at Krishna, but the latter ignored him.
"Vyasa!"
Krishna and said, "There's no need to wait any longer!"
"Let's decide our fate right here!"
His response was a stone tablet emerging from the clouds.
—Spiritual Terrace, Square Inch Mountain, Slanting Moon, Three Stars Cave!
Chapter 327 This is fate.
Things change so quickly that those involved often don't realize until years later that the world has been permanently altered at some point.
But at this time in the Kurukshetra, the most desperate were the king and his ministers who had fled westward from Elephant City in a panic.
The blind king frantically reached out his hand, but when the queen reached out hers, he flung it away. "Your Highness! Uncle! Where are you? Don't leave me!"
Even the eldest of the Kauravas, Duryodhana, did not wake up, but hung on the edge of the chariot like a corpse.
The tattered banners fluttered in the wind, and even Tianshi himself felt a little lost.
But soon, a roar of grief, indignation, and despair burst forth from the old man's chest.
"Vyasa! Krishna!"
The lingering, foul wind of the wilderness whipped the old general's beard and hair into a flutter, and he stared wide-eyed.
"I swear, I will never allow the Kuru Dynasty to perish here! Whoever stands in Tianshi way, I will shoot them dead! I will defend the Dharma, I will defend the blood of the Kuru Dynasty!"
"By the Vedas!"
Tianshi, clad in silver crown and armor, leaped out on his horse, unleashing a storm of arrows with both hands.
As the only true descendant of the Kuru bloodline, even though he swore never to inherit the throne, the power, status, and strength he wielded still propelled him onto the Authority Path without any formal training.
To become a great hero of the [Daylight] rank without the guidance of a mentor.
—In terms of talent alone, Karna and Arjuna combined are not as good as him.
But when Tianshi, who had already reached the pinnacle of the mortal world, chose to risk his life...
"Quantity" is not a problem for him.
Moreover, with his charge, the cold influence of Authority Path is spreading rapidly.
Those remnants of the Elephant City, caught up in the sudden war, also followed Tianshi one by one, becoming his silent followers.
The fierce winds seemed to carry the Tianshi, making it appear as his chariot. Above the Kuru King, the cold sunlight, along with the clouds, pressed down, creating a spectacle like a tidal wave.
Hebe was particularly familiar with this scene.
In fact, she had already made the necessary arrangements—the ever-swirling purple flame cloud that constantly loomed over the heads of the eight hundred warriors.
Apprentices who have never participated in war often wonder why the role of the Ascended on the battlefield is not as significant as they imagine.
This is strange, because those ascendants of the daytime rank often possess one or more rituals for creating influence and expanding the scope of their own imprint.
Why were they only able to defeat a hundred or a thousand men on the battlefield?
The reason is that the "Authority Path" not only includes the hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, but also includes commands over nature and the weather.
According to Hebe's research, this characteristic of the Authority Path was likely inherited by Scar Father from the Fisher King.
This shift actually signifies the change of patriarchy and reflects a transformation in the relationship between nature and humanity.
—If April Archon is nature, then February Archon is the sovereign.
This characteristic, however, has led to significant development within the Cathay cultural sphere.
Theories such as the interaction between Heaven and Man and the observation of wind and qi were proposed by Confucian scholars and adopted by Son of Heaven of successive dynasties.