Chapter 1725: Chapter 578: Silk Secrets_2

“Ladies, please don’t be angry! Here’s the thing, once the Divine Beasts of the Silk Continent take on human form, they look exactly like ordinary humans, and definitely don’t have tails, horns, or wings! Only the Divine Beasts on the vast plains of Juerong retain such unevolved physiological traits!” Yitiao sneaked a glance at the ladies and swallowed hard before continuing, “From ancient times, the barbarians of the Juerong plains have frequently invaded the heart of the Silk Continent, and the Divine Beasts there share the same mindset and behavior as these barbarians, often engaging in invasions. So, our Silk Continent’s Divine Beasts and the Juerong Divine Beasts have always been natural-born enemies…”

“So it turns out that Yitiao’s wife mistook us for those archenemies of the Silk Continent’s Divine Beasts, no wonder she was so hostile when she first saw us! If I had known, I would have gone in alone,” Avril glanced meaningfully at the fluffy red tail of the little fox, then started to chuckle mischievously.

Helen turned her face away, trying hard to take deep breaths.

“What the hell!” Richard, who had already calmed down substantially, flared up again after Yitiao’s explanation, “I don’t have Dragon Horns growing on my head or a tail on my butt, do I look like a Juerong Divine Beast? And my Mental power isn’t some Aegean language your wife can’t understand, right? Then let me ask you, why did I almost get my head chopped off after telling your wife three times that I’m your boss?”

“It wasn’t getting your head chopped off; it was just being ‘cut off blood’,” Yitiao muttered, face turning red, “I really suffered… Qingya was just like being naked… You, a stranger, saw her like that… how could she listen to you then… If she didn’t kill you, would she marry you…”

“What on earth is ‘cutting off blood’? Is it the same as ‘acupoint pressing’?” Richard felt a bit rattled and quickly changed the subject.

Ever since his entanglement with Ning Yu, he had gained the most direct understanding of the Eastern women’s views on chastity, and he could sympathize with Yitiao’s frustration and indignation.

But old Richard felt pretty wronged himself!

The maids at Aegean wore fish-skin bikinis every night to splash around in the Sanggan River, so by that ratio, even if Richard turned into Xu Dela or Orochi’s Giant snake, he wouldn’t have enough heads to chop off!

The most exasperating thing was that this misunderstanding was clear as mud; trying to explain it would just make it darker and darker, so he could only pass it off as if it hadn’t happened.

“What? Acupoint pressing?” Yitiao was stunned.

In the Aegean language system, the character “穴” (xué) doesn’t have any meanings like “acupoint” or “acupoint path” — naturally, “acupoint pressing” can only be understood as “using a finger to poke a hole.”

The Bo Langsha Firecrane was utterly dismayed, almost wanting to fight its boss to the death.

The ladies were even more mortified, looking for words to scold old Richard but finding none, so they could only pinch him hard to soothe their resentment.

“Richard didn’t mean it that way; when he mentioned ‘acupoint pressing,’ he was referring to the magical technique of holding certain key points on a person’s channels, making them immobile and even instantly fatal!” Moer realized what Richard wanted to express.

“That’s exactly what I meant!” Richard said, deflated, wondering what kind of people could misunderstand so much!

“Oh… I thought what was ‘acupoint pressing’! So, boss, you are talking about ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’!” Yitiao’s expression finally softened, “Indeed, ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’ is a sophisticated martial skill. Targeting the ‘Acupoint Channels’ to immobilize or instantaneously kill is quite possible, and many people on the Silk Continent practice it, though few achieve mastery.”

“Didn’t you just mention ‘cut off blood’? How does ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’ suddenly come up?” Richard felt his head spinning.

“What I mean by ‘cutting off blood’ and ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’ are not the same,” Yitiao shrugged, “What Qingya used wasn’t ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’… She used ‘cut off blood’ to subdue you, boss. Qingya said your body seems to possess some form of iron-clad martial skill, so ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’ wouldn’t work on your ‘Acupoint Channels’!”

“May I ask, how many ‘Acupoint Channels’ are there on your Silk Continent?” Richard knew the term surely meant acupoints, vaguely remembering they were supposed to be 365.

“Over a thousand.”

“Damn! That many?”

“The ‘Acupoint Channels’ that can incapacitate or severely injure are very few; the vast majority are actually quite useless,” Yitiao laughed, “There are many similarities between ‘cutting off blood’ and Acupoint Channel Technique, but also essential differences! This magical ability was something Qingya learned from a mysterious wandering elder, and the full name is ‘Blood-Cutting Finger’, which, as the name suggests, is a technique for severing blood flow! That mysterious elder was so kind to Qingya that he gave her the ‘Submerged Wave Pearl’ as a gift!”

“Someone could give away a Sequencer Pearl, how come I never encounter such luck?” Avril was genuinely envious of Qingya’s fortune.

“Cutting off blood surely shuts down the ‘Acupoint Channels’, right?” Richard spoke rather awkwardly.

“Boss, you’re absolutely right! ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’ indeed can be considered a method of severing blood circulation, but ‘Acupoint Channels’ only exist on the surface of ‘human-like organisms’, and their locations are fixed and unchanging, so ‘Acupoint Channel Technique’ has a natural limitation in this regard – it’s very rigid,” Yitiao laughed, “However, ‘Blood-Cutting Finger’ is different! Every creature has blood flowing through its body; as long as we cut off the source of a blood branch – the ‘blood head’, we can make the body stiff as a rock!”