After a long bout of grumbling, Han Xin finally explained the situation.
That was, immortals who retained their memories from the past needed the protection of the nation's fortune at all times.
This left the great Aristocratic Families bitterly disappointed.
Most of the Aristocratic Families had collected methods for becoming immortals. They might not have studied them inside and out, but they at least understood them quite well.
That kind of existence wasn't the immortality they wanted.
As for retaining one's memories under the protection of the nation's fortune, like the Marquis of Huaiyin...
Wouldn't that mean entrusting his very existence to the Han Dynasty and the person at its head?
Everyone remembered what a sorry state the Han Dynasty had been in before.
But then again...
With Qi Fei and Chen Xi around, the Han Dynasty should at least remain stable for a century. That shouldn't be too much to ask.
No matter how you looked at it, that was more than a hundred years of life.
Better to live poorly than die well.
There were still some people who were eager to give it a try.
Qi Fei didn't take them seriously, and neither did Chen Xi.
Sun Wu and Han Xin were two great masters worth supporting with the nation's fortune. Their abilities made them worthy of it.
As for the current Han Aristocratic Families, those worthless fools couldn't match even one of their fingers put together. Their achievements amounted to land-grabbing, plundering the nation's interests, and rebellion.
They hadn't been purged outright only because Chen Xi planned to send them abroad and put them to some use.
And they still wanted to be supported by the nation's fortune?
Not a chance.
When Han Xin mentioned that he needed the nation's fortune to protect him, Liu Xie