Chapter 773

""I, the unworthy Jiang Qiu, am the medical officer under General Yaoqing's command.""

Yun Li eyed him warily: 'I see, you're a participant sent by General Yaoqing to the martial demonstration, so you came here to steal techniques?'

""You flatter me; Jiang Qiu knows nothing of martial affairs, I was merely sent by the general to handle some paperwork, with no intention of disturbing your teaching. Please forgive me, I'll be going now.""

""Since you don't know swordsmanship, why were you laughing just now?""

""I merely felt concerned about Miss San Yue's question of 'what she should learn,' and couldn't help but come over." Jiang Qiu smiled and said, "From my professional experience, though cleavers, slicers, choppers, and carving knives are all knives, they are like stir-frying, pan-frying, boiling, and deep-frying in cooking—just skills to be employed. How to use them depends on the nature of the ingredients.""

""Just like your swordsmanship teaching, if you follow the ingredients—I mean the disciple's nature—with a more suitable cooking method—I mean imparting a technique more suited to her nature—then she can achieve twice the result with half the effort!""

""Just like purple-gold eggplant needs deep-frying, scarlet-cloud pepper needs stir-frying, and yellow stone beef needs braising. Discovering the ingredients—I mean the disciple's nature—is our work.""

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Pirate King.

""No wonder you're the general's aide and also an expert with blades.""

Luo Bin closed the historical document rubbings in his hand, his gaze toward this pink-haired fox growing more curious. As the general's aide, he not only cooks excellently, but his every word is about cooking—is he the general's cook or his aide?

"But I think what he said makes sense." Nami, who was drawing sea charts on the other side of the deck, lightly tapped her chin with her pen barrel, "His meaning is to teach according to aptitude, but San Yue Qi's traits are actually more like Jing Liu's—both use ice. If we let San Yue Qi switch to being taught by Jing Liu, maybe we could make better use of her Six-Phase Ice ability. These two little teachers, one is strong in power, the other can multitask to control seven or eight flying swords—neither seems suitable for San Yue Qi……"

"Meat——!!"

Just as several people were lost in thought watching the sky canopy, Lu Fei's voice suddenly came from the kitchen direction—perhaps he was made hungry by Jiang Qiu's barrage of food talk, and now he was leaning on the kitchen windowsill, sticking his head into the kitchen with stars sparkling.

""Shan Zhi, I smell meat! When are we eating?""

""Damn it, didn't we just eat?!""

Accompanied by a "thud", it was obvious Shan Zhi had kicked something—probably Lu Fei's face.

""But I'm hungry!""

"……"

Listening to the commotion in the kitchen, Luo Bin and Na Mei exchanged a glance, both sighing, yet couldn't help but chuckle.

""You say, if we teach according to aptitude, what is Lu Fei's trait?" Na Mei turned back to the topic and asked Luo Bin.

""Setting aside appetite and battle instinct… perhaps it's the ability to turn everyone into his companions." Luo Bin smiled faintly, "…that is his greatest talent."

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""Just hearing the menu names makes me hungry." San Yue Qi sucked in the saliva that was about to drip."

Yun Li also couldn't help swallowing her saliva: "You're not a medic, why are you talking about cooking?"

""It's a metaphor, I added a metaphor. The medical school I follow is called the 'Staining Fingers School', a unique medical art on the Yaoqing immortal vessel, favoring food therapy to heal patients. So I know a bit about cooking."

""So… you're the general's cook?""

""Cough, I'm a medic! A cook who doesn't want to be a medic isn't a good aide to the general. Forget it, just think of me as a cook." Jiang Qiu sized up the three before him, "Looking at your expressions, you clearly misunderstand me, Jiang Qiu, as a weak scholar who rashly discusses martial arts. Actually, I'm not completely ignorant of killing techniques—after all, the medical way is inherently a technique of life and death."

""You can tell he's really anxious…"

San Yue Qi beside them couldn't help muttering: "Adults trying to regain face from a child… sigh."

Jiang Qiu pulled out a bottle of red potion: "Do you recognize this medicine I hold?"

The three shook their heads in unison: "We don't know it."

""This is 'Stumbling Powder'! It's a decoction refined and concentrated from the exotic flower 'Ya Bu Lu' from beyond the realm."

"Poison?"

""Ah, whether it's poison or a lifesaving remedy depends on the healer's intention. Before performing bone-cutting marrow-washing or opening the abdomen surgery on a patient, just a drop can make one feel no pain. But…" Jiang Qiu's tone shifted, growing grim, "If the dosage is increased a bit, the concentration heightened, it will slow metabolism, cause blood not to clot, even lead to total loss of the five senses—even an immortal species immune to old ailments cannot escape if they take it."

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Jujutsu Kaisen

""Then this medicine is quite suitable for assassinating the high-ranking officials of the immortal vessel."

Shizuko examined the potion closely—its appearance alone made it seem extremely dangerous—and as a medical professional, she naturally felt curious about this lethal agent.

""If it truly has such a lethal effect, could soaking a blade in a large amount of this decoction kill him?"

""That seems impossible, right?" Yuji gave Shizuko a look that said, 'Your idea is really dangerous,' "The power of abundance should continually repair his broken body, letting him die and revive over and over in the decoction—moreover, his body should also be able to break down this medicine."

""But if we could get a bottle of this, we should be able to poison Sukuna." Hishigata Atsushi added on the side, "Looking at this medicine's effect, it's somewhat like an anesthetic… and a very potent one. If Sukuna used reversed technique to metabolize the poison in his body, it should create an opportunity for us."

Yuji's eyes lit up: "Oh oh…!! Mr. Hishigata, feels like a great plan! Well then——

""What nonsense." Hishigata Atsushi impatiently waved his hand and cut him off directly: "Never mind that the guy uses Fushiguro Megumi's body—can you even get the poison into Sukuna's mouth? That guy has someone named Rimei beside him, I don't know if it's male or female… anyway, they're an extremely strong curse user, and Sukuna's daily life is handled by them."

""If anyone could actually poison Sukuna to death, they'd surely have defeated him face‑to‑face by forcing the medicine down his throat—if they truly had that strength, they wouldn't need to rely on poison."

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""This thing can save lives or kill, and its uses far surpass the swords in your hands."

""Yan Qing wore a troubled expression: 'I would still rather settle victory or defeat on the blade's edge, rather than… uh…'"

""Oh~ I get it." Yun Li said bluntly, "Indeed I misunderstood you. You're not a weak scholar, you're a shameless scholar."