Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou negotiated a twelve-year supply agreement with the Supreme Council, trading alchemical materials and ore for potions and Magic Puppets. She also secured the Council’s cooperation and barred it from giving Evolutionist slots to the nine people she planned to kill; the agreement was ready to be drafted and publicly announced.

• Lan Qingyou and Chu Yuan agreed on monthly E- and D-Rank alchemical materials, with higher-grade supplies subject to availability and the Council receiving first purchase rights to her potions.
• Lan Qingyou secured a weekly supply of metal ingots for making Magic Puppets and the right to request the Supreme Council’s cooperation and first purchase rights to rare alchemical materials.
• Lan Qingyou demanded that the Council withhold Evolutionist slots from Shao Huilan, Liu Yongfu, Huang Meiying, Liu Wei, Liu Jie, Li Xingtong, Wang Daofei, Huang Wei, and Huang Xingming because she intended to kill them.
• Chu Yuan confirmed that the agreement would bind successor ruling bodies under the World Will’s decree, even if the Supreme Council dissolved or he died.
• Lan Qingyou required the Supreme Council to announce that she was supplying the Star Dragon King Blood, and Chu Yuan agreed to publicize the deal before they moved to draft the agreement.

Lan Qingyou traded Witch Magic Potions to the Supreme Council for alchemy materials and information locating Huang Xingming and Huang Wei in the Golden Plains. Unable to reach them herself, she arranged for witches to torment them while she returned to the shelter to rest.

• Lan Qingyou negotiated with Judgment to trade one hundred Witch Magic Potions for 150 tons of alchemy materials and information about Huang Xingming and Huang Wei.
• Judgment sent Lan Qingyou Hersi’s map of the Golden Plains, where the Huang father and son were hiding.
• Lan Qingyou gave Judgment four more potions and asked him to have at least four witches make the men’s lives miserable without killing them.
• Chu Yuan realized Lan Qingyou was using him to arrange her revenge, but agreed because the deal benefited him.
• Lan Qingyou stored the Ancient Trees and Glass in her Card, cleaned up the battlefield, and went to sleep before returning to the shelter.

Lan Qingyou returned from the mountain passage to find her shelter battered by the blizzard, then restored its Magic Protective Shield and reorganized the fifth floor as an office. There, she received the Emerald Tablet, whose powers raised her Alchemy to S-Rank.

• Lan Qingyou left the mountain Shangri-La with the two little ones and flew back to her shelter by a different route, discovering the passage’s original entrance along the way.
• Lan Qingyou returned to find her shelter in disarray and realized she had forgotten to maintain its Magic Protective Shield while away.
• Lan Qingyou inspected the shelter, replenished the Shield Core, and cleaned up, finding that the herbs and other important items had survived.
• Lan Qingyou ordered a pane of glass from Shang Chuan to cover a small fifth-floor window, then moved the Magic Desk upstairs and set up an office.
• Lan Qingyou examined the World Will’s Emerald Tablet and used her Analysis Magic Eye to learn that it raised her Alchemy, Potions Study, and Herbalism ranks, boosted her Spirit, and increased her Alchemy Crafting success rate.

Lan Qingyou improved her skills through study, then received S-Rank rewards in the third Monthly Grading. She chose a Brilliant Crystal Pen, Chain Lightning, and Feng’s Magic Item Crafting Essay, leaving her ready to advance her Magic Array Drafting and Magic Puppet crafting.

• Lan Qingyou found that her Alchemy had reached S-Rank and her Herbalism and Potions Study had reached A-Rank, so she began studying Magic Array Drafting.
• The World Will announced the third Monthly Grading, and Lan Qingyou ranked among the five S-Rank recipients alongside Gu Xiaobei, Vivian, Alisa von Aurelius, and Aristotle.
• Lan Qingyou chose the B-Rank Brilliant Crystal Pen, which increased her success rate when drawing symbols and Magic Circuits.
• Lan Qingyou selected Chain Lightning as her B-Rank spell because it could damage and paralyze multiple enemies.
• Lan Qingyou chose Feng’s Magic Item Crafting Essay, which detailed the master enchanter’s insights and methods for handling materials.

While Lan Qingyou bathed, new evolutionary species triggered the start of the Era of Races and the end of Monthly Grading. The Supreme Council announced it had bought Lan Qingyou’s Star Dragon King Blood and would work with Tarot Villa to offer five new races for evolution.

• David developed the Demon Human Potion, while Ruan Qingyi and Nemo jointly created Ocean Algae for evolving into Shallow Sea Mermen.
• The World Will announced that five new races had appeared, Monthly Grading had ended, level restrictions were relaxed, and level-10 survivors could seek ancient bloodlines in dangerous sites.
• People on the World Channel reacted excitedly to the chance to find bloodlines and argued about forming armies and joining the Supreme Council.
• The Supreme Council announced it had purchased all of Lan Qingyou’s Star Dragon King Blood and would work with the five Progenitors of Tarot Villa to create evolutionary items, with an initial quota of five thousand people per race.
• World Channel users celebrated the five races and asked about Tarot Villa, which one user described as an academic organization where leading practitioners studied Magic.

Tarot Villa members reacted to Judgment's Progenitor Cooperation Plan and coordinated production, while Lan Qingyou arranged to study astronomy and began learning magic array drafting. She learned the four main types of magic arrays and their uses, setting out to study the subject at her own pace.

• People on World Channel discussed Tarot Villa's selective membership and the papers members had to write.
• High Priestess and The Emperor complained that producing the requested goods, including twenty thousand cocktails, would take too much work, while The Star and others described bulk-production options.
• Lan Qingyou learned about Judgment's Progenitor Cooperation Plan and agreed to make Witch Magic Potion for advertising, but postponed receiving materials until she built a warehouse or upgraded her shelter.
• Lan Qingyou asked Wheel of Fortune for Basic Astronomy books because astronomy was among the subjects needed to learn magic array drafting.
• Lan Qingyou studied her drafting book, which explained Summoning Arrays, Mana Arrays, Material Arrays, and Composite Arrays, along with how combining types could balance their weaknesses.

A girl argued with Karim over the World Will’s premature boosts and changes to her plans, then began making a new plan. Meanwhile, the Tarot Villa members discussed a new channel and the growing competition among organizations to recruit talented people.

• The girl scolded Karim for boosting Evolution Items, lifting level restrictions, opening Storm Island’s blood caches early, and making five people immortal, then agreed the interference should not happen again.
• The girl reconsidered the early changes and started drawing up a new plan as Lan Qingyou read.
• A new Tarot Villa channel appeared, prompting its members to discuss why it was needed.
• Judgment warned the group that organizations were competing to recruit talented people as more groups arrived on the Karim Continent.
• Justice Riesling and The Sun Ingrid described how joining Tarot Villa had benefited them, and the members acknowledged their gratitude to Lan Qingyou.

The Magician David proposed an Adventurer Guild for capable people who wanted paid work without joining restrictive organizations, and bought a channel card to establish it. Lan Qingyou discovered the guild and continued thinking through how to expand her shelter, but she still lacked a clear plan.

• The High Priestess asked about buying a channel card, and the Magician offered to make her Cards in bulk before announcing that he wanted to start an Adventurer Guild.
• The Magician explained that the guild would let people take paid jobs without joining other organizations, and Judgment and the others helped settle some details.
• Lan Qingyou saw the new organizations on the Magic Desk and discovered that David, the Magician, had founded the Adventurer Guild.
• After dinner, Lan Qingyou returned to reading Feng's Insights and realized her shelter needed more space for over a hundred cauldrons and a large warehouse.

Lan Qingyou decided to build a larger shelter and continue studying so she could make stronger Magic Puppets. She gave her three Witch Magic Potions to women she chose on the World Channel, prompting a flood of requests and fake thank-yous.

• Lan Qingyou realized her small shelter and limited skills hindered her plans for stronger Magic Puppets, so she considered building a larger shelter herself.
• Lan Qingyou resumed her routine of studying, eating, sleeping, and brewing potions while learning from Professor Mai and the Karim Continent’s magic.
• Lan Qingyou sent a Witch Magic Potion to Bei Adoris, who had posted that she was looking to trade for a gold mine.
• Lan Qingyou sent another potion to Nangong Lengyue after seeing her argue with members of the Green Carpet Club.
• Lan Qingyou gave her last potion to Ursula Clementine because her mysterious veiled outfit suited a witch.
• Bei Adoris, Nangong Lengyue, and Ursula thanked Lan Qingyou on the World Channel, prompting more people to ask for potions and others to fake thank-yous.

Lan Qingyou created a Familiar Contract Magic Array and used it to contract Little Spoon and Steel Wool. After discovering the contracts had consumed nearly half her Magic Power, she collapsed onto the bed.

• Lan Qingyou decided to experiment with a Familiar Contract Magic Array and carved it into two stone slabs.
• Lan Qingyou placed sleeping Little Spoon on the first array and completed the contract, calming it when it woke up frightened.
• Lan Qingyou contracted Steel Wool as well, and both little ones sought comfort in her arms.
• Lan Qingyou checked their statuses and found each had gained the entry "Contractor: Lan Qingyou" and a vertical red eye-shaped mark.
• Lan Qingyou checked her own status and realized the two contracts had used over a thousand of her Magic Power, nearly half her reserves.

After the Fourth Mana Turbulence ended, Lan Qingyou planned a larger shelter and realized she could build it among the giant trees. With supplies from Judgment and a modified Excavator from The Chariot, she began preparing a careful experiment to construct it.

• Lan Qingyou reviewed the Tree Demons’ magic arrays, found them unsuitable for her use, and went to sleep with Little Spoon and Steel Wool.
• When the Fourth Mana Turbulence ended, Lan Qingyou searched for a flat place to build a shelter but realized she could use the giant trees instead.
• Lan Qingyou sketched her plans, asked Judgment to gather supplies, and asked The Chariot to modify an Excavator for her.
• Lan Qingyou took a few days off from Professor Mai to run an experiment, and Professor Mai encouraged her to show him the results.
• Lan Qingyou projected a magic array onto the ground, deployed two Magic Puppets as guards, and climbed into The Chariot’s modified Excavator to begin working.

Lan Qingyou used a purple magic circle to draw people to her work site, where her Magic Puppets drove off or killed those who approached. The survivors and nearby witnesses fled, leaving the area known as the Witch Forest or the Witch Forbidden Zone.

• A boss recognized the magic circle as likely Lan Qingyou's work and warned his group not to approach, deciding to sell Shang Chuan a picture instead.
• Lan Qingyou ordered her Magic Puppets to attack the first group of people who arrived, then continued digging with the Excavator.
• The Purple Knights and other Magic Puppets killed most of the attackers, while the survivors scattered and fled.
• A group hiding on a hillside watched the fight and chose to retreat rather than approach the magic circle.
• People nearby began calling the area the Witch Forest or the Witch Forbidden Zone and stopped coming, giving Lan Qingyou more peace and quiet.

Shang Chuan reflected on choosing to become a Tree Elf as new races emerged, while Lan Qingyou discovered that pictures of her magic circle had spread online. The chapter ended with people estimating that the circle was enormous.

• Shang Chuan recognized Lan Qingyou's magic circle in a leaked picture and kept quiet about it because he had benefited from her.
• Shang Chuan recalled trading Dragon King Blood and Life Sap with Gu Xiaobei to become a Tree Elf, and regretted choosing before seeing the other new races.
• New races appeared, including the Titan Race, Night Elf, Elemental Elf, Grey Feathered People, Azure Dragonkin, and Orcs.
• The Supreme Council cut Chu Yuan's request for twenty thousand members of each of five races to a total of fifty thousand, and Gu Xiaobei worried about making enough cocktails by hand.
• Lan Qingyou returned to the shelter after the first stage of excavation and saw that photos of her magic circle were circulating on the World Channel and Regional Channel.
• People debated the circle's purpose and size, with some estimating it might be eight or nine hundred meters across or even a thousand.

Lan Qingyou’s magic array and the Witch Race’s talents fueled rumors that witches might become the strongest race, while she explained magic arrays to the younger members of her group. The chapter ended with the High Priestess asking whether anyone could learn to make them.

• People spread rumors about Lan Qingyou’s enormous magic array and debated the Witch Race’s Magic Eye Awakening talent.
• A World Channel post claimed that a witch’s glance could drive someone mad, making people both fear witches and seek Witch Magic Potions.
• Lan Qingyou read the claims and noted that a Magic Eye’s usefulness depended on its owner and how they used it.
• Lan Qingyou explained that magic arrays combined Drafting, Semiotics, and Magic Circuitry, and the High Priestess asked whether anyone could learn them.

Lan Qingyou completed a massive magic array designed to connect to her shelter and create an enormous Magic Protective Shield. With the fourth Mana Tide approaching, she prepared to test whether the array could draw enough energy to work.

• The Tower said magic arrays could be learned by witches with Correction Talent and agreed to write a paper once her experimental array worked.
• Lan Qingyou used Magic Puppets to keep monsters at bay while she excavated a thousand-meter-wide site, then refined and laid shaped steel plates in the trenches.
• Lan Qingyou connected the array to her shelter’s outlet, using its Reverse Pattern to expand the shelter’s protective shield rather than build a new shelter.
• Lan Qingyou finished engraving the magic array the day before the fourth Mana Tide and asked Judgment to send the item she had requested.
• Lan Qingyou said she was unsure whether the array’s energy could support its huge area and many elemental symbols.

Lan Qingyou activated the Five-Dragon Reincarnation Protective Magic Array by setting a Magic Fountain and the Stone of Rest at its center. After confirming the array worked, she admired the spectacle and shared photos with the group.

• Lan Qingyou placed the Orichalcum Five-Dragon Water Play fountain over the array’s Yang Eye and set the Stone of Rest inside it.
• The Spring of Rest flowed through the fountain, lighting the Mana Circuits and sending a purple pillar of light into the sky.
• Lan Qingyou used her Analysis Magic Eye to confirm the Five-Dragon Reincarnation Protective Magic Array had activated with a radius of 500 meters and could withstand S-Rank magic attacks.
• Lan Qingyou examined the array’s design and identified how its trees, celestial symbols, Sun, Moon, Taiji, and Elemental Runes worked together.
• Lan Qingyou photographed the glowing array and sent the pictures to the group.

Lan Qingyou finished planting and backfilling around her magic circle, which began operating as the Mana Tide arrived and kept the shelter’s Mana Protective Shield fully charged. She opened the Magic Desk to upgrade it, but froze at the upgrade requirements.

• Lan Qingyou sent Judgment the book about the magic circle and asked for someone to copy it, then planted War Tree Demon saplings around the five giant trees and grafted the Ancient Tree Branch onto the farthest one.
• Lan Qingyou backfilled the excavated area, hid the Alloy Steel Plates, and made the circle’s water flow into the creek while removing the magic circle in the sky.
• As midnight struck, Lan Qingyou saw the magic circle brighten and checked the Mana Protective Shield core, which showed Energy: 50000/50000.
• Lan Qingyou opened the Magic Desk to upgrade it, then stared in disbelief at the upgrade requirements.

Lan Qingyou reorganized the area inside her magic array in preparation for her shelter’s Level 6 upgrade, while explaining to Chu Yuan that the array could withstand the Mana Tide. Chu Yuan realized the array might allow them to create a large settlement-like shelter.

• Lan Qingyou realized the magic array’s connection to the shelter had greatly increased the Level 6 upgrade requirements and decided to redesign the territory before upgrading.
• Lan Qingyou had the humanoid Magic Puppets carve five-level warehouses into three Warehouse Trees and clear the surface inside the array.
• Lan Qingyou established a designated Herb Garden, spread Sludge over the ground, and assembled a Simple Factory beneath a tree hollow.
• Lan Qingyou sent Judgment the revised upgrade material list and explained how connecting the shelter to the magic array affected the upgrade.
• Chu Yuan learned that Lan Qingyou’s magic array could withstand the Mana Tide and considered how it might enable them to build a settlement-sized shelter.

Lan Qingyou explained the complexity and risks of her self-sustaining protective magic array to Chu Yuan and the councilors. Chu Yuan decided to use it to establish a settlement, and the council approved Lan Qingyou’s Level Six upgrade materials.

• Chu Yuan asked Lan Qingyou for the array’s materials and requested pictures after her upgrade so he could report to the other councilors.
• Lan Qingyou listed the many subjects required to make the Five-Dragon Reincarnation Protective Magic Array and explained that its design absorbed ambient magic power and celestial tidal energy.
• Lan Qingyou warned that mishandling celestial forces could pull down a meteorite, then shared details of the Meteorite Crucible as evidence of the risks.
• Chu Yuan decided the Council’s witches should not yet replicate the array and proposed using it to build a settlement and form a village.
• The other councilors approved Chu Yuan’s plan and Lan Qingyou’s Level Six upgrade materials.

After upgrading her Shelter to Level Six, Lan Qingyou selected its new facilities and a Monster Anatomy book, then explored the changes to her home. Trying War Sap unexpectedly granted her the Black Witch Smoke skill.

• Lan Qingyou upgraded her Shelter to Level Six, choosing the Large Constant-Temperature Herb Warehouse, Large Herb Garden, and Large Alchemy Workshop.
• Lan Qingyou claimed the first-to-Level-Six reward and selected Continent Monster Anatomy Illustrated Guide.
• Lan Qingyou inspected the upgraded Shelter, which had gained a proper garden, a workshop merged with the giant tree, and towering stone walls.
• Lan Qingyou sorted materials agreed upon with the Supreme Council into the new warehouses.
• Lan Qingyou tasted Knowledge Sap and received geographical knowledge about the Karim Continent.
• Lan Qingyou tasted War Sap and discovered that she had gained the witch-exclusive Black Witch Smoke skill.