Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 508 - 25: The Snake Princesses’ Personality Flaws
The days passed with Su Ziyu idly spending his time like this for two days.
Su Ziyu was quite relaxed, though he felt a bit drained during these couple of days.
Of course, no offense, it’s just that the fifth and sixth sisters kept pestering him, trying to trick him into giving them drinks. Su Ziyu had stored plenty of energy value, but even that couldn’t withstand using Immortal Brew as a beverage. After a few rounds of entertaining them, he used the excuse of finishing the drink to send the Snake Princesses away.
He wasn’t so extravagant as to drink Immortal Brew like water.
During this time, Jade Dew had brewed two more batches. However, now that Su Ziyu drank it, the improvement was increasingly diminishing, probably enhancing his energy upper limit by less than two percent.
At this rate, the improvement is likely to become smaller and smaller.
[Unity of Heaven and Man]is probably just around the corner.
After confiding in Qing Ji, the two found it much easier to get along, and Su Ziyu didn’t deliberately hide anything from her, broadly recounting the world’s experience he had during this time.
Qing Ji was evidently full of curiosity about time traversal.
But the problem was she couldn’t quite let go of her sisters. During a late-night heart-to-heart talk with Su Ziyu, Qing Ji spoke somewhat worriedly about her sisters’ personality flaws. The second sister’s personality was the most arrogant—the one who said Su Ziyu wasn’t much was her. The third sister is a lazy one, typically doing nothing and rather silent, spending her time idling and playing games. She was the last one to achieve the transformation into a Snake Princess.
The fourth sister’s temper is the most explosive, quick to ignite and fight at the slightest disagreement. She had caused quite a bit of trouble outside, even once fighting with Phoenix Fire.
She is the Snake Princess outside with the most enemies.
If not for Qing Ji’s protection and discipline, she probably would have been strewn out to dry ages ago.
The fifth sister has the strongest possessiveness among all the sisters, enjoying eating, drinking, gambling, and drinking excessively. Everything good, she liked and desired, once being punished by Qing Ji with a three-day, three-night hanging for highway robbery and burglary.
She’s improved a lot now, but usually still sneaks and hides good stuff.
The sixth sister gets along best with her.
There was once she drank too much and let slip that the fifth sister secretly set up a treasury, filled entirely with rare valuables, enough to buy a small country.
Because the fifth sister always treated her to food, she felt closest to the fifth sister.
As for the sixth sister, there isn’t much to say.
Among all the sisters, she has the least ambition, knowing only to eat as much as she can, drink as much as she wants every day. Qing Ji’s biggest fear is her drinking until she goes into Rage, though the sixth sister can hold her liquor well. She’s the strongest Snake Princess among the six, or rather, she overpowers all except Qing Ji—perhaps the other five sisters combined could barely hold a match against the raging sixth sister.
Only Qing Ji can restrain the raging sixth sister, but it requires a small price.
"If only all my sisters were as gentle and sensible as the first sister," Qing Ji lay on Su Ziyu’s chest and sighed, "then I could always stay with my husband."
The first sister indeed is the most obedient and sensible one.
No, wait.
Su Ziyu suddenly felt he missed something, and immediately thought of the Blue Lantern, then of the books the Blue Lantern drew. Quite a few of those books are with the first sister as well; she certainly isn’t as well-behaved as she seems, else she wouldn’t mix with the Blue Lantern and even become her number one fan.
Wait.
Su Ziyu scratched his head, feeling like he missed something again, silently musing to himself: "The second sister is very arrogant."
"The third sister doesn’t talk much, reportedly a very lazy one."
"The fourth sister’s temper is fiery, loving to fight with others. Her destructive urges are the strongest; she was among those who burned down the house initially."
"The fifth sister likes collecting treasures, reportedly having a treasury, greedy, with a criminal record."
"The sixth sister loves eating, eats anything, Qing Ji’s biggest fear is her eating people—thankfully she hasn’t—but she’s addicted to drinking."
"The first sister..."
Su Ziyu felt a chill as the thought crossed his mind, and quietly murmured: "Arrogance, sloth, wrath, greed, gluttony..."
"Five of the Seven Deadly Sins gathered."
"If the first sister secretly collects Blue Lantern’s books, representing lust, then there would be six of the Seven Deadly Sins gathered."
"Then Qing Ji would be..."
Su Ziyu suddenly felt a chill down his spine, carefully recollecting the past Qing Ji, when her scales were still blue, in the Dream Realm Madame Qing Ji, an exceptionally formidable possessiveness and jealousy seemed to be present.
"If Qing Ji represents jealousy, then Seven Deadly Sins would be truly gathered," Su Ziyu suddenly felt a cold sensation.
No, wait.
Qing Ji has such a generous heart; it’s impossible she represents jealousy, right?
Su Ziyu was so frightened that he quickly comforted himself, reaching out to touch Qing Ji’s broad heart. It must be a misunderstanding; surely, it’s the result of interacting too often with pollution sources, always leaning toward the negative side in thoughts.
They might just be personalities being more prominent—after all, part of the power comes from Orochi.
Back in the Ghost Capital, the Snake Princesses didn’t have such obvious personality traits; the only exposed one was the sixth sister, who was the same as she is now, liking to eat anything. During the battle at Danbo Mountain, the fifth and sixth sisters displayed extraordinary strength; the fifth sister was a bit more restrained, the sixth sister’s single breath of Flame was three times the amount of the other sisters—practically like a Giant Dragon’s roar in its prime.
She had just been born not long ago.
"The sixth sister indeed cannot be left unchecked." Su Ziyu whispered.
The sixth sister has the most erratic personality but happens to be the strongest among the six Snake Princesses, though Qing Ji kept her under tight watch and didn’t cause major mayhem. Otherwise, she’d probably be a chaos demon king.
"Indeed." Qing Ji sighed and said, "The sixth sister doesn’t train properly, just knows to eat everything."
"Yet her power increases the fastest."
"Perhaps it’s because her mind is the purest."
"Still, I worry she’s advancing too fast, fearing she won’t overcome the heavenly trial in the future."
Transcending tribulations?
Is it really that exaggerated?
Su Ziyu hesitated and quietly asked, "How strong exactly is the sixth sister now? How does she compare with you?"
Qing Ji pondered thoroughly and slowly replied, "If the seal I applied on her back then is lifted, the sixth sister would approach about eighty percent of my power."
No wonder Qing Ji was so anxious upon hearing the sixth sister ran away.
The sixth sister’s power indeed stands distinctively further from the other Snake Princesses; if not for Qing Ji’s supervision, no one could easily control her.
Silently through the night.
The next day, Su Ziyu woke up early.
Because today, he was going to the Ghost Capital, and Qing Ji, naturally, was going with him.
It just so happened that the schools in Fusang were on holiday, the six Snake Princesses usually strictly monitored by Qing Ji heard they were going out and immediately clamored to join, even the most obedient first sister seemed eager to try, clearly stifled around Sakura Island.
Thus, Su Ziyu grandly took the six Snake Princesses along.
Slick Ghost.
I’m coming in a group to find you.
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