Return of the Immortal Emperor Daddy

To deal with external threats, one must first stabilize internally,

What Jiang Gan means by dealing with external threats is to make the enemy disappear.

For example, by turning them into friends.

And to stabilize internally, according to Jiang Gan, is the most crucial. These war advocates must be eliminated.

Otherwise, when the Azure Empire comes, how can Jiang Gan negotiate with them calmly?

"Jiang Gan, you’re wrong. You’re harboring fantasies about the Azure Empire, completely unaware that they come with the ambition to annihilate us. They belong to the Beast Clan, the Monster Race. They are not of the Human Clan, and you want to negotiate peacefully with them? It’s utterly unrealistic."

Si’er stepped forward,

"Hurry up and hand over the military funds or whatever."

Military funds are crucial to an army. Without them, how can there be an army?

Even if the soldiers stand on the righteousness of the Human Clan and don’t need military funds, they can still go to battle.

But without good food, good weapons, or good tents, and with poor rest, the army’s combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced.

This is simply Jiang Gan’s beautiful fantasy about foreign races, wanting the people of the Three Realms to be buried with him.

"What do you mean unrealistic? Do you understand more than I do?"

"You should know, I, Jiang Gan, founded the General Academy and am the dean. In terms of warfare, do you understand more than I do?"

"In war, the greatest skill is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"We need to have peaceful negotiations with the other side."

"To show them we are friendly, we should adopt a non-resistance policy and let them enter our country directly without defense."

Jiang Gan raised his eyelids and started talking about military strategy.

"You’re really going to implement a non-resistance policy?" Upon hearing Jiang Gan’s words, Si’er was so angry that her breathing quickened, and she gritted her teeth.

"What am I doing wrong? You’re just a child who’s become the Queen, but what do you understand? My strategy is not wrong. Currently, for the Three Realms, the greatest threat is not the Azure Empire, but you guys..." Jiang Gan’s lips curled upward, "I will imprison you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t submit, unless you agree with us."

Jiang Gan only dared to act this way when Wu Tian was not around. By the time there’s a regime change and Wu Tian returns, it would already be too late.

This plan was Jiang Gan’s move designed to appear virtuous during Wu Tian’s absence, to get close to the youth,

The young one told him a story, which gave him some enlightenment.

It’s a story,

Of a place called Martial Arts World, where the Sword Sect and Qi Sect competed for dominance,

The Sword Sect had a master with the surname Feng, who was deceived by the Qi Sect to leave for a distant land to get married, missing the critical Sword Qi Sect duel, leading to the Sword Sect’s defeat. Upon returning to the Huashan Sect, he knew the opportunity was lost, felt extremely ashamed, and thus retired to the Reflection Cliff, vowing never again to participate in the disputes of the Jianghu.

Jiang Gan found inspiration in this,

Wanting to gamble once.

..."Fight"!

Jiang Gan wanted to fight with them,

Dao Feng and the others did not hesitate; they had fought a moment ago, so fighting again was nothing.

"We’ve all received Supreme Treasures or Cultivation Techniques from the Sect Leader, and we must trust in ourselves." Zhou Butong’s gaze was determined.

Every martial artist desires to learn a great martial art.

But many factions have a sense of sectarianism.

Even if you join the sect, they won’t teach you their true trump cards.

This is another way of saying that a master leads you to the door, but cultivation depends on the individual.

Thus, the young Zhou Butong once felt that establishing a sect together with others

was different from Wu Tian,

He taught Zhou Butong the renowned Five Directions Fist.

Wu Tian treated all his disciples equally well.

Disciples either obtained Supreme Treasures or Cultivation Techniques, which are absolutely unavailable elsewhere.

Thinking of Wu Tian, warmth surged through Zhou Butong and the others’ hearts.

"Yes, let’s fight them. I trust the martial arts our Sect Leader taught us." Dao Feng took a sip of wine and began to sing playfully, "Monk I love to wander, crazy, sure, with reason. Seeking fame and profit, heavy is the heart; two legs never to own..."

"Well said." Hong Ji stepped forward, saying the same,

They are Wu Tian’s disciples,

Afraid of Jiang Gan?

If they dared not to fight Jiang Gan,

it would bring not only shame to them but also to Wu Tian.

Being taught martial arts by Wu Tian, they were afraid of a bald Jiang Gan,

How could that be justified?

They needed to defeat Jiang Gan, to honor Wu Tian, not to tarnish Wu Tian’s prestige!

Suddenly, Dao Feng and the others’ gaze became unwaveringly firm.

"So you all really want to fight me to the end?"

"Originally, I just wanted to imprison you, and after my big plans were accomplished, I would release you."

"But since you don’t know what’s best for you, fine, fine, fine, to deal with external threats, one must first stabilize internally, and this stabilization means extermination, not imprisonment."

Jiang Gan’s mouth curled into a cold smile as he waved a large hand, "On the battlefield, what is most exciting, besides the fierce killing between the two armies and the strategists’ duels, is a particular scene that’s very appealing, the general-duel! You juniors are not worthy of confronting me. I will let the generals I trust the most combat you."

Immediately, a group of generals stepped forward, totaling 108 people.

Some were generals from Xiuyuan Country, and others were generals from other countries in the Three Realms,

They had all studied at the General Academy, and they called Jiang Gan their dean,

Jiang Gan smiled subtly, establishing the General Academy was the proudest achievement of his life,

Among the Three Realms, 92% of the generals across various countries originated from his academy,

Initially, it was something he did casually,

but looking back, he realized that it had turned into a shade-providing willow planted unintentionally.

Thus, ambition sprouted; the invasion of the Azure Empire and the chaos in the Three Realms seemed to him the perfect opportunity,

As the saying goes, emperors take turns to reign, next year it’s my turn!

Jiang Gan’s current actions stemmed from this.

"These disciples of mine are all generals who have gone through the tests of blood and fire. Choose anyone for a general-duel. How could I possibly lose?" Jiang Gan’s lips curled upward,

"What a cunning smile."

Si’er, Zhou Butong, and the others’ lips twitched.

Jiang Gan, a bald man, smiled like a living, breathing scoundrel,

"I’ll go first." Zhou Butong snorted, he was the most powerful among the disciples of the Heavenless Gate.

At the forefront, he stepped forward,

"Who among you has the hardest fists? Come out here."

Just as Zhou Butong finished speaking,

a man clad in golden armor stepped forward from behind Jiang Gan, his golden armor adorned with bull horns on the helmet.

"I... under the dean’s command... General Golden Bull, here to impart some knowledge."

Impart knowledge?

Commonly, people say "to learn," which expresses readiness to accept others’ teachings or advice. It means, I’m willing to accept any changes your fist brings me.

To impart knowledge? This implies I bestow changes upon you.

This "impart knowledge" is condescending.

This made Zhou Butong angry: "You little thing, you don’t know who I am, let me teach you a lesson."