Chapter 277

"Uh, why do you still look like this..."

The reason why the Goddess of Supreme Beauty of India asked such a question is because Vishnu at this moment no longer has the long red hair of the past, but short black hair, and his skin has turned bluish-black, making him look as if Krishna still alive.

"... Krishna so much like a human being; more than an avatar, he is more like me as a human being."

Vishnu looked at Mohini, who had a puzzled expression, and smiled slightly.

"It's quite rare to see an image replaced by an embodiment of such a strong personality."

Mohini nodded slightly; after this explanation, she understood immediately.

After all, it seems that in recent years, Krishna's idols have become far more prevalent in India than Vishnu, and Rama, the Righteous King. This certainly shows the wide Faith of Krishna's followers.

She then took a short breath and looked at Vishnu with cold indifference once more.

"Brother, you're such a bastard! How dare you do that to Kama? Don't you know whose child she is?!"

The red-haired Goddess is gorgeous and lovely, like a rose with thorns.

"Although he's a very unpleasant guy, he doesn't dare to say it like that. On the surface, he's still the product of me and Jia. For you, as his uncle, to act like this is just too despicable!"

"... Even if you say that, Mohini..."

The God of Preservation's gaze lingered for a moment, then he rubbed his head and said, "Making Kama the Pradyumna was not my intention, but Krishna's."

"Krishna is you! An incarnation, an incarnation."

"You could say that, and you could say that it isn't. Krishna has said more than once to the statues of the gods that the duty of the God of Preservation is to preserve the world, but preservation does not equate to justice..."

Under the watchful eyes of Lakshmi and Shesha, Vishnu continued, rubbing his head, "Therefore, Krishna is not me, just as you, Mohini, are not me; that is the truth."

"Alright, alright, even if you say that, then how am I supposed to address Kama from now on?"

Mohini puffed out his chest and spoke these words with righteous indignation.

Uh, Vishnu was momentarily speechless at this question.

Kama's identity is currently somewhat complicated. One is the foster mother of the reincarnation of Kavia; another is the child of Fate born from the union of Kavia and Mohini, Growth God; and the third is the child sent down by Krishna with the Pradyumna of Lila, who was raised to adulthood by the reincarnation of Kavia, Durga, and Mohini.

Moreover, in a sense, Kama, whom Kavia saved from Shiva's unconscious wrath, also possessed a portion of Shiva's Wrath power.

In other words, Kama is now connected to the Three Aspects.

"Whatever makes you happy."

Upon hearing this, Mohini's eyes darted around for a moment, but she still confessed, crossing her arms and raising her head.

"I don't care anymore, as long as Kama doesn't rely on her past life's experience with Pradyumna, you have to suppress her for me. Otherwise, if she does something using her status, I can't accept it... At the very least, I have to be the first one, and the biggest one at that!"

The Goddess of Supreme Beauty's little scheme has been exposed, and Vishnu, as her brother, simply responds with his usual smile before changing the subject.

"You should be more worried about Durga than Kama."

"Durga? What happened to Durga?"

Mohini was immediately puzzled by this suggestion.

Over the years, she also lived in the Himalayas Mountains, and thus had some interaction with Durga. However, due to Durga's natural personality, she would sometimes burst into tears when Mohini teased her. Feeling that doing so would lower his favorability in Kavia's heart Mohini rarely teased her anymore.

However, in Mohini' mind, Durga was less of a threat Kama, after all, he was too naive.

"The last age has come, and Gatha is the greatest evil of this last age. The final Ideal King is mine—"

Vishnu wanted to say more, but Mohini shut him up under his murderous gaze.

The Six Schools disturbed the Dharma in the world, and the Teacher of the Six Schools was Kavia, who killed Krishna from the Supreme Person, ending the Dvapara Yuga era and bringing about the chaotic Kali Yuga. What could this be but the greatest evil?

All the Aspected God have foreseen the ultimate Ideal King, the Wheel-Turning King, whose birth will end all this struggle and allow the Dharma to shine once more.

The Wheel-Turning King is the Ideal King in the legends of the Veda period of India. It means the King of Kings "goes unimpeded wherever his wheel goes and all people submit to him". He will govern the world with compassion and Wisdom and establish Wheel-Turning Dynasty. He is a king who is more Divinity than the King Rama.

Now that Ka is on the evil side, he will naturally be mercilessly eliminated by the righteous Wheel-Turning King. To some extent, perhaps in the eyes of some gods, this is Lila, the Lord of the Himalayas.

Mohini certainly knew this.

His beloved, Jiaming, was a radiant and immortal Aspected God, yet for something he was willing to transform himself into the 'evil' of the world, shattering his reputation once praised by many Rishi and gods, causing the Rishi who once praised him to feel disgust, and the Brahmin who once Faith him to hate him...

However, in the hearts of those who are not considered 'human' by the Dharma, when countless people born in impoverished and harsh environments eat inferior food in simple sheds, and enjoy a moment of peace amidst arduous labor and cruel conditions, the joyful voices of the poor sound incredibly distant. They cannot reach the ears of the domineering Brahmin and Kshatriya, nor can they reach the ears of the Rishi who uphold the Dharma and diligently cultivate themselves, let alone reach the glorious Heaven Realm.

The message could only travel to that Holy Mountain, sometimes near, sometimes far, where they were always singing hymns of praise to God.

"Lord of the Himalayas, I Meditation deeply upon you."

To this day, the Bharata Kshatriya praise Vishnu, the Rishi Aspected God Shiva who practices asceticism alongside them, while the majority of the world's population, though considered lowly, always praises Kavia...

While the number of Kavia may seem large, they are insignificant from a global perspective. This is because Vishnu is considered a part of humanity within the Dharma, and those Kavia are not within the Dharma and cannot be considered human.

Vishnu and Mohini understood perfectly why their friends acted this way.

It was Wrath, the Wrath that erupted the moment Rama became the Righteous King.

"... No matter what, I will definitely help Jia then. Just you wait! You Vishnu!"

Mohini said with great certainty, "How should I put it? It's such a direct expression, revealing Desire that's too pure, shining like the stars. It even makes one feel that Kavia's image appears in her eyes."

And so, a brief silence fell over this magnificent yet small Ocean of Milk.

The silence was broken by the Lakshmi.

"But this goes against the Dharma! My husband was born to uphold the Dharma..."

Lakshmi continued, "When the Dharma flourishes, all sentient beings flourish; when the Dharma declines, all sentient beings decline."

Mohini was well aware of this, for Krishna to his beloved Ga:

"When the Dharma declines and Adharma proliferates, I will create myself again and again to protect the virtuous, to eradicate the wicked, and to uphold the Dharma."

Undoubtedly, it was the duty of Vishnu's next incarnation, the Ideal King, to destroy Kavia, who had become the greatest evil. From the world's perspective, Mohini should have persuaded the present Kavia to abandon this practice and return to the Dharma. This was the responsibility of a god and one of the mistresses of the Himalayas.

However, in the process of teaching Pradyumna together, Mohini, like Pradyumna, naturally saw the cries of those outside the Dharma. But for Pradyumna, who was just a human being, mere knowledge was useless, because 'upholding the Dharma's was an instinctive duty instilled in the bodies of the India gods. Depending on the circumstances, she herself might even harm those who violated the Dharma without mercy.

But Mohini was so determined because she saw 'love'—love at the end of what seemed like infinite conflict, a love that could be loved so deeply by so many people because the beloved loved so many.

Therefore, as one of Jia's lovers, I must also be aware that even if there is a bottomless abyss ahead, it doesn't matter.

Even at the ends of the earth, and amidst all kinds of suffering, this love will still exist.

However, Mohini would not say such things lightly, especially since he already had a response to his sister-in -Lakshmi's words.

That's certainly true...

Therefore, Mohini nodded in agreement with Lakshmi's words.

But before Lakshmi could even catch her breath, Mohini' next words left her speechless.

"But eliminating beings that violate the Dharma should be the duty of the Great God, the god of destruction. Since the Great God hasn't done anything yet, it means that what Gatha is doing is at least normal."

At this point, Mohini clapped his hands with a broad smile and then pointed at Vishnu.

"In fact, when you transformed into Krishna and turned Kama into Pradyumna, Great God were actually disguised as Hunters to stop you. In that sense, you're the real enemy of the Dharma. Tsk tsk tsk, the dignified protector of the Dharma has become an enemy of the Dharma..."

Everyone knows that Mohini's words are pure sophistry, but it's hard to refute them because the Great God are indeed as she says.

Unlike Lakshmi, who was at a loss for words, Vishnu simply smiled and said nothing more.

Krishna had long anticipated this, and thus, long before Shiva disguised himself as Hunters to try and stop him, but was blocked by Arjuna, Krishna asked Shiva:

"Great God, what I am practicing is the Dharma, a part of the Lila. You have no reason to obstruct me. The ones you should be obstructing are the Teacher of the Six Schools are disrupting the Dharma. Come, Great God, let us rebuild the Dharma together!"

This is how Shiva answered at that time--

"There's no other way; I have to forgive Kavia."

Well, this overly straightforward expression surprised Krishna for a moment, but then he became happy again.

Returning to the present, Vishnu's silent smile caused another silence to fall over the room.

Later, just as Mohini was preparing to return to the Himalayas Mountains, he suddenly remembered Vishnu's words and asked:

"What happened to Durga? Tell me quickly, don't dawdle."

"Gatha, one of the Four-Aspected Gods, is revered as the Lord of the Himalayas. His Wrath had nowhere to go, which led to it being manipulated by the Asura and transformed into the Wrathful Aspect. Then, based on his wrath, and with the Wrath of the gods, including the Aspected God, Durga was born."

Vishnu spoke softly.

"As the Warrior Goddess, Durga is supposed to vanquish evil and bring blessings to the world, but Wrath can also be Wrath."

"Durga is one of the mistresses of the Himalayas. All her emotions are focused on Ga, so she will act in ways that she considers appropriate for a wife."

"But for a stubborn woman, logic is completely useless."

"Perhaps this is the Kali Yuga."

Clearly, Mohini didn't understand Vishnu's words at all. He simply went back and kept a close eye on Durga to prevent any trouble. But soon after, Indra, the Heavenly Emperor, came to the Himalayas Mountains and asked Durga to fight and destroy the Asura who had invaded the Heaven Realm again after a long time.

Mohini didn't think it was a big deal since it was just an Asura, and he didn't dwell on it too much. So Durga went naturally, since that was her responsibility anyway.

The Asura the Warrior Goddess faced was named Blood Seed. This Asura had a special ability: whenever his blood dripped onto the ground, another version of himself would emerge from it.

Originally, the era had already entered the human age, and the Asura and gods, as the protagonists of the past eras, should have retreated to the background. It was abnormal for them to appear in the last era, but it was precisely because it was the last era that this was the case, after all, it was an era full of chaos.

"Waaah..."

The silver-haired Warrior Goddess gazed at the Asura around her, whose bloodline was constantly reappearing as new Blood Seed of themselves flowed down, and a long-lost sense of weariness, irritability, and Wrath arose within her.

"Conducting a combat strength analysis, it is extremely difficult to determine the extent of the damage currently inflicted on this Goddess."

To be fair, this Asura was no match for her; it was just a bit troublesome and would take a lot of time. It was this feeling that caused her fatigue and irritability to resurface.

Since understanding that Kavia had become the Teacher of the Six Schools, Durga had been very agitated, because she was determined to uphold the Dharma and would do everything in her power to pursue the good Future she was guided to. The world must be maintained without any flaws; this was the meaning of her existence.

But at this moment, her husband was violating the Dharma, and logically, she should have tried to persuade him or simply left.

But Durga didn't, because she didn't want to leave Kavia, and therefore didn't say much.

However, there is another problem. Among the three female masters of the Himalayas, Durga felt that she was the most neglected. How so? Because Durga's birth was clearly due to Lila's control over her, so Kavia only treated her in a very normal and friendly manner.

Although the other two received the same treatment, Durga's Wrath as Kavia could more or less reflect Kavia's emotions.

Although she didn't know the source of her husband's cautiousness, Durga kept it to herself and didn't ask. But as time went on, the anger and Wrath began to build up inside Durga.

... my husband.

Listen to me, my husband.

Why are you treating me like this? Why do you want to distance yourself from me?

All I need is for you, my husband, to be by my side.

I don't care what anyone else, Rishi, or gods think of me. Even if I am ostracized by the gods, I won't care at all.

My husband, you are by my side, smiling at me.

This is the only true and unique reality I, Durga, possess.

I have always felt that I am a fragment of Wufu mixed with external elements.

It is not a god or human being that actually existed.

However, I didn't feel there was anything lacking.

On the contrary.

I am very satisfied.

Therefore, my husband.

You really are... bad at pretending.

He understands others in the same way, whether it be Vritra, Kama, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, or Indra, yet he understands me the same way.

Why do I understand?

I can understand just by looking at your expression.

I can understand just by looking into your eyes.

I can understand just by looking at the expression on your face, the trembling of your lips, and your tightly clenched hands.

Even though it was truly, truly Perfection... I still understand.

Born from the Himalayas Mountains looking down, under the night sky, all I want to see is you, silently reciting your name as if in prayer.

I've embraced you countless times, just like this, holding you close.

This is a world that is both peaceful and stable.

The cracked rock broke open, revealing the clear blue sky above.