Of course, this is not without cost. In exchange, these immortals guarding the national fortune can transfer the cause and effect upon themselves without damaging the fortune.

This is an excellent opportunity for immortals, so most of them were sent to guard the nine tails that happen to disperse, while the remaining immortals were sent to investigate the cause of this phenomenon.

After all, for immortals, cause and effect are a very troublesome thing, and if borne by national fortune, to be honest, it's transferred to the people, which in a way is a different kind of return, with very obvious benefits for the immortals.

Reasonably speaking, the ability of national fortune to bear cause and effect is actually very strong. For most immortals, stealing national fortune and transferring cause and effect to others is a very good method. Of course, the prerequisite is that you must be prepared for protection.

This is also why immortals like to leech off national fortune. Take a figure like Qu Qi, for instance, not to mention committing some misdeeds, even if real evil is done, considering his merits, neither the heavens nor ordinary people would generally be too concerned. It's known that the Six Realms of Reincarnation have an Asura Path to collect those who are greatly virtuous yet have great faults, let alone minor sins.

Hence, immortals protect these individuals, exchanging a part of their own cause and effect back to the people being protected. It sounds quite terrible, but actually, for mortals, it's nothing, just like nature's purification ability that decomposes everything not exceeding limits, considered a kind of mutual benefit tactic. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

People with Great Fortune have this ability, and naturally, the national fortune has it as well, but national fortune is completely different from those individuals with great fortune, the first point being, national fortune can eliminate immortals.

For immortals, this is outrageously bad. National fortune can wash away the cause and effect upon immortals, but national fortune bringing the Heaven-Man Five Decays upon eighteen thousand immortals is also no problem at all, as long as fortune is sufficient, immortals have no chance of stealing, even the backlash is hard to withstand!

Nevertheless, national fortune and the world tend to converge after being divided and divide after being converged, and besides being able to wash away their own cause and effect, immortals can also comb through the national fortune, making it longer-lasting. This is why emperors detest immortals, yet cannot avoid them.

As the representative of national fortune, when the Emperor, whose fortune aligns with the national fortune, acknowledges a certain immortal, the national fortune won't cause trouble.

But truthfully, generally speaking, immortals crouch behind the Emperor when he is still a Hidden Dragon, serving as a guardian spirit. When the Hidden Dragon succeeds, mortals gain merit, and immortals can silently enjoy the national fortune.

This is also why Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and previously Dong Zhuo all had immortal guardians, because these immortals protect them in anticipation of them stepping up to supreme power, so that fortune aligns with national fortune, allowing them to both guard the Dragon Vein and wash away their own cause and effect.

Incidentally, immortals who manage this way, completing it as well, will see very unscientific growth in their power. Of course, apart from these methods, there are other ways, but those tend to be rather bad in other aspects.

The most representative are the Goddess of Mount Wu and the Lishan Goddess, a husband-wife pair borrowing a bit of the husband's fortune isn't a problem at all. The husband's wallet is my wallet, don't mention washing away cause and effect, playing around freely is possible.

However, this method is quite bad and risky, and the Lishan Goddess played it wrong, involving herself and eventually accompanied the First Emperor down the Road to the Yellow Springs.

In short, for immortals, national fortune is a very useful, valuable treasure. Of course, people like Yu Ji are not considered in this as his intention wasn't to refine cause and effect, but merely to merge himself with national fortune, seeing if he could control it with his consciousness, fixing the national fortune by his true self, to create an Eternal Empire.

Reasonably speaking, Yu Ji's idea is possible, the inherent prosperity and humane Yongchang of an Eternal Empire could greatly reinforce the national fortune, yet Yu Ji hadn't succeeded in merging himself with national fortune before being defeated.

Keep talking about this thing called national fortune, Liu Bei's side has personal national fortune upon individuals, while collectively, it essentially resides in Jingling Palace, where the public's hearts are directed.

That massive stone tablet suppresses Liu Bei's side's national fortune. In the beginning, nobody thought that thing would actually suppress the Dragon Vein of national fortune. Zuo Ci initially took this task moved by Liu Bei's benevolence.

It's worth noting that Liu Bei already had the 'Lord Dead' immortal Douzhai behind him, and Zuo Ci took the matter purely moved by Liu Bei's benevolence, resulting in not even Zuo Ci expecting the place he guards to birth a Dragon Vein of national fortune someday.

Moreover, due to suppression by the stone tablet, by the time Zuo Ci discovered it, the Dragon Vein of national fortune had already formed, and Zuo Ci got a bargain, as the Dragon Vein had no hostility towards Zuo Ci due to his daily guardianship of Jingling Palace, instead even allowing Zuo Ci regular usage.

This is also why Zuo Ci rarely even showed up in Mount Tai later on, because he was bound by the Dragon Vein of national fortune, he became an immortal protecting that fortune. Reasonably speaking, it should have been Douzhai Immortal's task, yet the two sides revealed their cards, nearly causing Douzhai to cough up blood.