Unscientific Acupoint Striking

After cleaning up the frog swarm, Setsuna returned and saw Jiro standing beside Toriko. His face promptly showed surprise and delight. "Are you Master Jiro, the anesthetist?"

"That's right. It's me." Jiro nodded.

"I would like to ask you to take me as your disciple." Setsuna decisively dropped to his knees and bowed deeply.

"Oh? Why do you want to become my disciple?" Jiro did not refuse. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and asked.

Setsuna raised his head and spoke earnestly. "First, I want to become stronger. Second, I heard that you possess an Acupoint Striking technique capable of sealing away ninety-nine percent of one's energy. I want to learn it."

Jiro was somewhat surprised. "Why do you want to learn that?"

He had created that Acupoint Striking technique to seal away his own wild nature. He had been raised since childhood by the Wolf King, one of the Eight Kings of the Gourmet World, and possessed an almost savage beastliness in his character.

More than five hundred years ago, he had not been known as Master Jiro, the anesthetist, but as Jiro the Violent Beast—"Wolf."

If he did not restrain himself, he might accidentally destroy the Earth when he fought.

To prevent himself from accidentally destroying the world while drunk, he had created this technique, using Acupoint Striking to seal his own power.

"Titan." Rather than answering Jiro's question, Setsuna loudly called Titan's name.

Hearing Setsuna's call, a hundred-meter-long snake came charging from afar, crushing everything in its path. Whether forest or creature, anything that stood before Titan was directly trampled and destroyed.

Titan charged all the way over, then roared excitedly upon seeing Setsuna and pounced on him like a puppy, instantly sending him flying.

Fortunately, Setsuna was strong enough to stop himself with a backflip.

Seeing Titan still trying to show affection, Setsuna hurriedly stopped it. "Titan, wait over there for now. Don't come any closer."

"Whimper..." Setsuna let out several mournful cries like an abandoned puppy, feeling as though he had been hated.

Toriko stared in stunned amazement from the side. "That's incredible."

Setsuna fell into thought. It seemed Sunny, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Gourmet, had not yet tamed his other Queen Snake.

They were both descendants of Mother Snake, but the one Sunny had tamed could already be considered to be in its adolescence.

Setsuna looked at Jiro and spread his hands. "Titan is simply too large, and it can only be considered an infant right now. Once it grows up, it will become countless times larger. It would be very inconvenient to bring it in and out of the human world with me, which is why I want to learn that Acupoint Striking technique from you, to see whether Titan can maintain a smaller size under normal circumstances."

Although such a skill was highly unscientific, compared with Jiro's ability to use Acupoint Striking to freeze even time, merely shrinking something was already quite scientific.

Sure enough, Jiro was not particularly surprised after hearing this. He nodded in agreement. "An overly large size is indeed rather troublesome."

After a moment of silence, Jiro asked again, "How did you obtain this Queen Snake?"

Setsuna answered truthfully. "Mother Snake, the Snake King among the Eight Kings of the Gourmet World, acknowledged me and allowed Titan to become my partner."

"To gain the Snake King's recognition, you truly are quite remarkable." Jiro nodded slightly, his gaze toward Setsuna becoming increasingly appreciative.

He himself had been raised by the Wolf King, one of the Eight Kings, since childhood. Knowing that Setsuna had gained the Snake King's recognition gave him a faint sense of kinship.

Besides, he truly did want to take on a disciple to inherit his Acupoint Striking techniques.

His grandson Teppei had originally been a suitable candidate, but unfortunately, Teppei was more inclined toward becoming a Regenerator. The Acupoint Striking he learned was only for the sake of better regeneration.

After thinking briefly, Jiro said in a low voice, "Attack with everything you have. Don't hesitate. Let me see your limit."

"Yes!" Setsuna was extremely excited. Not refusing meant there was a chance.

"Haah!" Setsuna directly erupted with power, pushing his strength and speed to their limits as he launched a rapid attack without holding anything back.

"So fast!" Toriko watched with rapt attention. Even with his strength, he could barely keep up with Setsuna's speed.

But what shocked him even more was Jiro. He swayed as though drunk, his movements clearly slow, yet Setsuna's Extreme Speed attacks could not even touch the corner of his clothes.

Setsuna was equally shocked. Jiro had not yet released even a single restriction on himself. It could be said that he had not brought out even one-thousandth or one-ten-thousandth of his strength. By all logic, he should not have been faster than Setsuna, yet no matter how he attacked, he could not reach him.

"That shouldn't be possible. No matter how powerful one's realm is, it should be built upon the foundation of the body. Without strength and speed, a realm is merely a castle in the air. So why can't I touch him?" Setsuna's eyes widened. Jiro truly was a powerhouse beyond his imagination.

Under Setsuna's baffled gaze, Jiro suddenly stopped moving.

Setsuna did not stop attacking because of that. He knew very well how great the gap between him and Jiro was. His power could not possibly harm the other man.

"Eight Trigrams Two Palms, Four Palms..."

Setsuna struck all sixty-four palms in succession before Jiro suddenly tapped his left shoulder lightly.

"Destruction Anesthesia."

"Ugh." Setsuna groaned in pain. Cold sweat poured from his forehead, and black arrows of blood shot from several of his acupoints.

"This... the damage from the acupoints I struck just now was reflected back at me?" Setsuna endured the pain and asked in shock.

"That's right. I sealed the damage you dealt within my body, then reflected it back to you through Acupoint Striking." Jiro smiled and took a sip of wine. "And while I was at it, I also released the hidden injuries that had accumulated inside your body."

Setsuna was shaken. Wasn't that the ability of the Paw-Paw Fruit to repel damage? Acupoint Striking could do something like that too?

Sure enough, once those black arrows of blood shot out, his body felt as though a heavy burden had been lifted, as if he had gone into battle lightly equipped.

"Thank you, Master." Setsuna bowed solemnly in gratitude.

"Get up." Jiro smiled, thoroughly satisfied with Setsuna.

"Haha, according to the relationship Uncle Jiro just mentioned, that means Setsuna and I can be considered fellow disciples." Toriko laughed heartily, happy for Setsuna.

"Then you had better hurry and improve. Setsuna doesn't even have Gourmet Cells yet." Jiro smilingly chided him.

Setsuna was not at all surprised that Jiro could see that.

"Huh? Setsuna actually doesn't have Gourmet Cells?" Toriko was shocked once more. Could someone without Gourmet Cells truly become this strong?

"Hehe, so I'll first take him to Healing City to transplant Gourmet Cells." Jiro smiled, shook his wine bottle, and beckoned to Titan. "Little one, come here."

Titan slithered over, and Jiro lightly patted its body.

As though it had been struck by a shrinking ray, Titan's enormous body shrank in the blink of an eye until it was less than a finger-width wide.

Titan discovered that Setsuna had turned into a giant and happily coiled around his arm.

Jiro reminded him, "Although its body has shrunk, its essence has not changed. If you feed it according to a little snake's appetite, you'll starve it to death."

"I understand."