This could also be considered one of the effects of the Hidden Dragon Vein. Xu Tingyun, Min Tao, Wu Chen, Mu Yi, Monk Cheng Kong, Third Young Master Bai, Mr. Yue, and the others had all obtained opportunities and fortunes of varying magnitude. For them personally, it was certainly cause for celebration.
Yet at the same time, they were Meng Zhao's subordinates, subject to his restraint and control. The stronger they became, the more they gained; in a sense, it also meant the expansion and strengthening of Meng Zhao's forces and power.
It was like planting crops: sow the seeds, and when harvest season came, the branches would hang heavy with fruit.
This was also one wondrous use of fortune. Though Meng Zhao had not acted deliberately and did not understand how to manipulate fortune, this fortune had formed of its own accord and would yield returns severalfold, even dozens of times greater, in the future.
In fact, this could also be called the function of the Sheji Cauldron: suppressing fortune, including that of the Hidden Dragon Vein, allowing it to flow like a trickling stream—never exhausted by use, never depleted by drawing from it—while growing ever richer, until it finally became a surging river, irresistible in its momentum.
If there were only the Hidden Dragon Vein, its fortune might be powerful, but it would also dissipate quickly. Great fortune could make one strong for a time, but not for a lifetime. Once the dragon fortune of the Hidden Dragon Vein was spent, backlash would follow.
This was one reason why so many outstanding young figures in history rose like comets, only to vanish like meteors.
Their fortune had driven them forward and dissipated too violently, too swiftly, with no way to replenish it. In the end, their fortune scattered,