San San

Biodata

Background

When Ye Chuqi fell through a damaged formation into another world, San San spent the Portable Space’s energy shielding her from the Astral Wind. The effort left San San unconscious and the space depleted. Ye Chuqi’s addition of an energy-rich beast core helped San San wake sooner than it otherwise could have 3 12.

San San resumed managing the damaged space as Ye Chuqi traveled with the Red Wind Mercenary Group. By the time they left the Ashen Wasteland, San San had purified a beast core, restored enough energy for the space to run on its own, and begun repairing its spiritual fields 17. Later, purified low-rank beast cores replenished the space further, revealing more fertile land 50.

Personality

San San is protective of Ye Chuqi and feels guilty about the times its exhaustion left her alone in an unfamiliar world. It enjoys her praise, teases her freely, and takes an eager interest in collecting resources to improve the space 12 17 20 42.

Abilities & Skills

Portable Space Management

• Maintains the space’s spiritual fields and spring. San San diverted spring water to save damaged plants and successfully propagated Red Sun Fruit 17.
• Collects spiritual liquid for Ye Chuqi while she heals 17.
• Knows what is growing within the space, even when the plants were unfamiliar when first collected 50.

Energy Absorption and Beast Core Purification

• Absorbs the violent energy in beast cores, which helps replenish San San and leaves the cores purified 13.
• Can process low-grade cores that are generally not worth the local cost of purification; San San proposes selling them to earn money for Ye Chuqi 13 18.
• The Spirit Spring can also purify unfamiliar forms of energy, though the process takes time 18.

Translation and Knowledge

• Translates local speech into written, game-like dialogue bubbles for Ye Chuqi and can hide or filter bubbles at her request 3 13.
• Learns the local language quickly and offers to teach Ye Chuqi 12.
• Memorizes books as Ye Chuqi turns their pages, far faster than Ye Chuqi can read them herself 24.
• Draws on knowledge of cultivation-world artifact forging to suggest a technique Ye Chuqi could offer the smith Beverly 37.

Surveillance and Formations

• After recovering energy, can keep watch within a hundred-li radius. Ye Chuqi relies on San San’s warnings to avoid high-rank Magic Beasts in the Lost Forest 17 40.
• Can sense dangers Ye Chuqi cannot perceive clearly, including Gree’s Darkness Cage 32.
• Guides Ye Chuqi in placing purified beast cores as nodes for a simplified Demon-Trapping Formation 33.
• Detects abnormal energy in a teleportation formation and identifies the line Ye Chuqi must sever to interrupt it 39.

Relationships

• Ye Chuqi — San San’s closest companion and the owner of the Portable Space. They trust each other with their lives and regularly trade affectionate teasing 3 12 28 31.
• Big black fish — A resident of the space who communicates with Ye Chuqi through San San. San San relays its offer of Spatial Bluestone and later its wish to help Ye Chuqi 27 50.

Notable Quotes

“Qiqi, the third line from the left. Sever it!” 39