"Since it's a transaction, what can I get?"

"Peace!" Chen Kan glanced at the Jade Emperor and spit out two words.

"Peace?" Hearing these two words, the Jade Emperor was stunned for a moment at first, but he didn't understand what it meant. After he understood, he looked disdainful. Chen Kan was making a fortune.

"Yes, Peace, I only want to get back what belongs to the Gou Chen Imperial Palace, and I am not interested in anything else." Chen Kan said with an unchanged expression.

For luck, the more you are, the better. As long as you can, it’s useless. Chen Kan is not going to learn from the Jade Emperor, making his power too large. This looks very majestic, but in fact it is full of crises. Chen Kan’s goal has always been very clear, which is to pursue the Hunyuan Avenue and not want to waste time on some irrelevant things.

"Haha... I have paid so many strongholds just for these two words, Gou Chen Emperor, are you kidding?" The Jade Emperor glared at Chen Kan and said.

"I am joking, Your Majesty should know very well in his heart." Chen Kan didn't care about his murderous eyes. Now Chen Kan really has the capital to negotiate.

With the current situation of Gou Chen Imperial Palace, Chen Kan is not afraid at all. He has enough troops to guard these strongholds. Although the number of regular troops is only over 100,000, don’t forget that Gou Chen Imperial Palace still has more than 100,000 reserves. The strength of the reserves is indeed different from that of the regular army. But if it is compared with soldiers from other forces, it is definitely not bad. It is enough to guard the strongholds.

In addition, the war that began in the Eastern Sheng Shenzhou has gradually spread. In addition to the relatively peaceful Xiniu Hezhou, most of the human kingdoms in the Northern Juluzhou and the Southern Zhanzhou have also been trapped in war. War is a nutrient for the Gouchen Imperial Palace.

In addition, because of war, in order to win victory, the mortal kings need powerful force, so the martial arts passed down by Chen Kan have blossomed everywhere in the mortal world, and the number of martial arts practitioners has increased, which naturally means that more martial artists are ranked among the immortal class will also increase.

Although some of the martial arts practitioners join other forces, even the martial arts themselves will be learned from. For example, in Xiniu Hezhou, most of the martial arts monks are also Buddhists. Buddhism borrows the martial arts handed down by Chen Kan, and over the years, it has added a lot of Buddhist guardians to themselves.

But it is a minority after all. If most martial arts monks can be ranked in the Immortal Class, they will still join the Gou Chen Imperial Palace. Only under Chen Kan, the "Ancestor of Martial Arts", can they better see the future. This is something other forces cannot give. If there is no possibility of pursuing the Great Dao, why should they join those forces?

Using war to strengthen the strength of Gou Chen Imperial Palace itself is Chen Kan's plan. The wars that are now spread across the three continents are actually inseparable from the Gou Chen Imperial Palace's boost, just like planning to usurp the Han Dynasty.

Compared with the booming Gou Chen Palace, the Jade Emperor's situation is not good now. The internal conflicts are now on the table. These conflicts have greatly weakened his power. This is also the reason why Chen Kan will come to Lingxiao Palace and the Jade Emperor to make a clear statement this time. The Jade Emperor is definitely a person who understands it very clearly. He will not fight against Chen Kan head-on. Now he can no longer bear too much external impact.

"Emperor Gou Chen is really courageous." The Jade Emperor first praised, and then asked with a smile: "Since you are planning to retrieve the things that belonged to Gou Chen Emperor Palace, then I wonder what the fifty strongholds in Xiniu Hezhou are going to deal with?"

Buddhism completely regards Xiniu Hezhou as its own private land. Gou Chen Palace nominally controls more than 200 strongholds spread across the four continents, but in fact, the more than 50 strongholds in Xiniu Hezhou are currently all controlled by Buddhism.

The power of Buddhism is different from the Jade Emperor. The already powerful Buddhism has not shown any signs of decline. Not only that, it is even stronger. Buddhist doctrines also tend to go out of Xiniu Hezhou and spread to other three continents.

So Chen Kan wanted to retrieve nearly fifty strongholds, but it was not that simple, and he had to face Buddhism.

"Of course it's to get it back." Chen Kan said with a calm expression.

“…”

When Chen Kan said this, the Jade Emperor himself was silent. Gods and immortals were different from mortals. Some words cannot be said randomly, and some words are "speaking according to the Dharma". Once some words are said, if they are not able to do so later, they will have a great impact on themselves and will leave flaws in their hearts of Tao. This is the so-called "intellectual demon".

It can be seen that the Gou Chen Emperor Palace is indeed about to draw its sword this time, but if you think about it carefully, it is common sense. After all, Chen Kan said before that this involves the Taoist path of the gods of the Gou Chen Palace, including the Gou Chen Emperor Palace.

"I can promise you, but I want an emperor's promise." The Jade Emperor said.

"I am just getting back what belongs to the Gou Chen Imperial Palace. As long as I am still in charge of the Gou Chen Imperial Palace, I don't want any other things." Chen Kan said again.

It is not difficult to guess that the Jade Emperor is simply trying to sign a treaty similar to an alliance with Chen Kan, but obviously, Chen Kan would never agree. First, Chen Kan never thought about who to cooperate with. Although cooperation can make the power stronger, it will also make the opponents more; second, even if it is cooperation, it is impossible to have a lot of crisis with the Jade Emperor, so that would cause trouble for himself.

"..." The Jade Emperor was silent for a while: "I can issue an order, but these strongholds must be retrieved by Emperor Gou Chen himself."

As Chen Kan expected, the Jade Emperor still chose to give in. The situation was stronger than that of others, and in the end he chose to give up those strongholds.

However, the Jade Emperor still had a trick to Chen Kan, asking Chen Kan to take back the strongholds himself. You should know that some of the strongholds were handed over to some sects that had defected to him in the early days. For example, the sect where Yu Jizi was located was in charge of thirteen strongholds. Obviously, it was impossible for them to easily give up these strongholds just because of a document from the Jade Emperor, and then both sides would inevitably trigger a battle.

This is a bit like killing people with a knife. The Jade Emperor uses Chen Kan's hands to remove some internal cancers for him, and at the same time weakens some of the strength of Gou Chen's Palace, which can be considered a killing of one stroke.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Chen Kan's goal has been achieved. As for being used as a knife, it doesn't matter. Anyway, it doesn't take much time to clean up these forces, so it should be regarded as a training force.
Chapter completed!