Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou tested Black Witch Smoke and used the Gale Sap to gain a teleportation skill, then planned new potions and renovations for her shelter. She identified a Large Crystal Cluster as a World-Class Large Crystal Nest that could improve Elf Butterfly hatching and evolution.

• Lan Qingyou activated Black Witch Smoke, found that it did not obstruct her vision, and tested its defensive effects while flying.
• Lan Qingyou used the Gale Sap and gained a skill that let her transform into starlight and travel instantly to a location within 100 meters.
• Lan Qingyou decided to prioritize developing C-Rank Mana Potions and Talent Potions, then assigned her Magic Puppets to brewing work.
• Lan Qingyou planned to combine the first two floors into gardens, rearrange the Library and Alchemy Workshop, and asked Chu Yuan's team to handle the designs.
• Lan Qingyou hung the unidentified Large Crystal Cluster from the second-floor ceiling and identified it as a World-Class Large Crystal Nest that improved Elf Butterfly hatching and evolution.

Lan Qingyou moved the Elf Butterflies’ nest near the Crystal Lair and researched C-Rank Mana Potions in her Alchemy Workshop. After discovering a way to enhance the potion with magical creature materials, she created a stronger formula that only the Witch Race could make.

• Lan Qingyou placed the Elf Butterflies’ Crystal Nest in the dark hole beside the Crystal Lair after they flocked to the brighter structure.
• Lan Qingyou began researching Mana Potions and Talent Potions, starting with Mana Potions and documenting herbs for the manor.
• Lan Qingyou used her improved knowledge to identify herbs and tested combinations until she created an Intermediate Mana Potion that restored 20 Magic Power per second for 10 seconds.
• Lan Qingyou experimented with magical creature materials, including Death Worm Tentacles, and made an upgraded Mana Potion that restored 35 Magic Power per second for 10 seconds.
• Lan Qingyou learned that the upgraded potion could apparently only be made by the Witch Race.

Lan Qingyou declined Shang Chuan’s compensation for the Three-Eyed Crow and agreed to give his female subordinate a Witch Potion. She considered how a larger group of Witch alchemists might benefit her, then began working on a C-Rank Talent Potion.

• Lan Qingyou received Shang Chuan’s compensation plan but refused it, offering instead to trade for the race his subordinate wanted.
• Shang Chuan learned that his subordinate was a woman who wanted to become a Witch, and Lan Qingyou agreed to give her a Witch Potion once she made one.
• Shang Chuan gave his subordinate alchemy books to study, and she began reading them so she could protect herself in the dangerous world.
• Lan Qingyou considered how more Witch alchemists could share their ideas and inspire her, then started making a C-Rank Talent Potion using a Dark Demon’s Devilish Creature Crystal Core.

Lan Qingyou used Riesling’s Spirit-enhancing Peach Wine as the base water for her Talent Potion experiments and developed a C-Rank Talent Promotion Potion. The announcement stirred envy and greed among people who wanted to improve their own Talents.

• Lan Qingyou asked Riesling for alcohol that could increase Spirit and bought his entire stock of Peach Wine for potion-making.
• Lan Qingyou gave Chu Yuan materials for the Intermediate Magic Power Potion and spent several days experimenting on Talent Potions while trading her Magic Puppets’ potions for materials.
• The World Will announced that Lan Qingyou had developed the C-Rank Intermediate Potion: Talent Promotion.
• People in the World and Regional Channels reacted to Lan Qingyou’s success, realizing she might continue raising her Talent rank.
• Former elites and other people grew jealous and began wanting Talent-upgrading potions of their own.

Lan Qingyou drank a Talent Promotion potion and upgraded her Levitation talent, then made Witch Potions and gave some away. After she told Chu Yuan how she had found the Essence Blood of the Star Dragon King, the World Will announced something that frightened her.

• Lan Qingyou drank the peach-flavored Talent Promotion potion and raised her Levitation talent, allowing her to float objects weighing up to ten times her own weight.
• Lan Qingyou bottled her remaining potions, ordered fruit and vegetables for new Magic Power Potion flavors, and began making Witch Potion.
• Lan Qingyou randomly sent Witch Potions to five people, stirring excitement and pleas for more across the World Channel.
• Chu Yuan asked Lan Qingyou how she had found the Essence Blood of the Star Dragon King, and she described searching a snowy mountain cave while leaving out Little Spoon.
• The World Will spoke again just as Lan Qingyou was about to respond, and its announcement frightened her.

After the Area Barriers fell and Dungeons became accessible, Lan Qingyou decided to enter one to gain experience and monthly leaderboard rewards. She began brewing stronger potions and making sturdier, more agile Magic Puppets, then proposed adding a Magic Troop to The Chariot’s designs.

• The World Will announced that Li Huai had reached Level 10, removed the Area Barriers, unlocked the Level Leaderboard, and opened Dungeon Portals.
• Lan Qingyou considered the consequences of free travel and decided to seek a Dungeon Portal and enter a low-level Dungeon.
• Lan Qingyou spent a day revising her humanoid Magic Puppets’ instructions so they could make intermediate potions and magic potions.
• Lan Qingyou designed sturdy, agile Magic Puppets with shock-absorbing arrays that made them come apart under extreme force, and began producing their parts.
• Lan Qingyou asked The Chariot for the Purple Knights and Pink Infantry armor and design plans, then proposed adding a Magic Troop.

Lan Qingyou approved The Chariot’s designs for a Black Mage unit and developed new Magic Puppets while demand for them grew. As the fifth Mana Turbulence approached, the group discussed rising temperatures and the dangers of melting snow.

• Lan Qingyou asked The Chariot to design insignia and armor for Magic Troops and Flying Troops, and he delivered the designs the next day.
• Lan Qingyou built and tested Black Mage armor, whose magic arrays let the Magic Puppet inside power elemental attacks through a rifle-like weapon.
• Lan Qingyou replaced her Copper Hammer Beasts and Rolling Blade Beasts with spider-shaped Magic Puppets, while keeping beast-shaped puppets as mounts and support units.
• Lan Qingyou spent the following days making Magic Puppets to meet demand from her magic arrays and residents of the mountain manor.
• The Empress reported that the weather was warming, and Justice and Judgment confirmed rising temperatures and water levels.
• The Magician warned that melting three months of snow could cause serious flooding, and The Tower and Death confirmed deep snow in the Abandoned Mountains.

Nemo discovered a Dungeon filled with the remains of dead sailors and soldiers, and Tarot Villa formed an expedition team to explore it. When the members realized they were scattered across the region, The Magician proposed using a Teleportation Array she had developed to bring them together.

• Nemo invited Tarot Villa to explore a Dungeon he had found in a cliffside bay, where skeletons and Ghosts haunted a Ship Graveyard.
• Lan Qingyou joined to obtain Soul Crystals, while Gu Xiaobei asked to come so he could level up; other members debated the dangers and benefits of joining.
• Tarot Villa finalized a seven-person expedition team consisting of Lan Qingyou, Li Huai, Gu Xiaobei, Esmeralda, Vivian, Ingrid, and Nemo.
• Lan Qingyou pointed out that the team was spread across different locations, and The Magician proposed making a Teleportation Array.
• Shang Chuan revealed that she had arranged for people to photograph the Teleportation Array beneath the castle in the Abandoned City.

During the fifth Mana Turbulence, the Seven-Person Expedition Team prepared for its journey to the Ship Graveyard while The Magician finished building their Teleportation Arrays. The team planned to gather the next day, and the chapter ended with them joking about the Supreme Council after Judgment refused to reveal its activities.

• The researchers prepared equipment for the Ship Graveyard expedition, while The Chariot took Steel Godzilla to rebuild and Lan Qingyou made potions and reconnaissance puppets.
• The Magician completed the Teleportation Arrays and explained that The Pope would carry the main array while each secondary array could transport one person and would break after two uses.
• The team confirmed they were ready to travel the next day and joked that The Magician or The Tower might be the richest among them.
• Lan Qingyou asked Judgment whether the Supreme Council had acted since the Area Barrier disappeared, and Chu Yuan said he could not share specifics.
• The group teased Judgment about possible White House members, Vampires, and Demons in the Supreme Council.

Lan Qingyou prepared supplies and used the Magician’s Teleportation Array to travel to a seaside bamboo house for the Dungeon. She joined six other evolved people there, and the group’s varied species traits left her joking about their diversity.

• Lan Qingyou asked Chu Yuan to have the Supreme Council search for the enemies she intended to confront in the Golden Plains.
• After Mana Turbulence subsided, Lan Qingyou packed potions and supplies, then activated the one-use Teleportation Array in her Alchemy Workshop.
• Lan Qingyou arrived at a bamboo house by the sea and flew outside to admire the sunrise.
• The High Priestess greeted Lan Qingyou from the roof, where six others were fishing and waiting.
• Lan Qingyou recognized the group’s varied species and remarked that they had plenty of diversity.

Lan Qingyou met with the others before entering a Dungeon, where they discussed the Witch Race’s red Magic Eyes and the Supreme Council’s efforts to study the new races. The group decided to eat breakfast first, and Steel Wool and a little white mouse emerged from Lan Qingyou’s robe.

• The Pope Nemo invited Lan Qingyou to fish, but she declined and urged everyone to enter the Dungeon.
• Esmeralda asked about Lan Qingyou’s red eyes, and The Magician explained that Witches shared the trait.
• The Supreme Council’s race research and efforts to help humanity evolve without ancient bloodlines were described.
• Nemo showed the group his morning catch and said they would eat breakfast before setting out.
• Gu Xiaobei took the fish to cook, while Steel Wool flew out of Lan Qingyou’s robe carrying a little white mouse.

Lan Qingyou introduced Steel Wool and Little Spoon as familiars and agreed to sell Familiar Contract Magic Arrays to interested members of Tarot Villa. She also discussed the flaws in The Magician David’s Teleportation Array and gave him a formula for a sturdier base, leaving him with a possible direction to test.

• Steel Wool returned to Lan Qingyou with Little Spoon, and Vivian eagerly approached to pet them.
• Lan Qingyou explained that the creatures were familiars, named Steel Wool and Little Spoon, and offered to sell Familiar Contract Magic Arrays to Vivian and the others.
• Lan Qingyou pointed out that David’s Teleportation Array consumed too much Magic Power and used a flimsy plastic sheet as its base.
• David explained that he had used the plastic sheet as a temporary solution because he lacked a suitable medium.
• Lan Qingyou gave David her alchemy-base formula to try as a Teleportation Array base, and he thanked her for providing a research direction.

Lan Qingyou and the others sailed to a Dungeon Portal beside a sea cliff and entered a ship graveyard surrounded by steep cliffs. After arriving, they felt an unusual chill despite their temperature-regulating clothes.

• Gu Xiaobei served breakfast, and Lan Qingyou noticed that the old Pope's shelter was a large Bamboo Raft.
• The old Pope piloted the Bamboo Raft to the Dungeon Portal while the others traveled with him and took turns holding Steel Wool and Little Spoon.
• At the portal, the Pope handed out Bubble Beads and explained that they would need to swim about thirty meters to reach the ship graveyard.
• The old Pope and the others entered the Portal, and Lan Qingyou flew through and emerged above the sea on the other side.
• The Sun and Gu Xiaobei felt unexpectedly cold, and Lan Qingyou put on her long down coat.

Lan Qingyou and the others investigated the entrance to the Undead Bay Dungeon, learning about its undead inhabitants and scouting the ship graveyard before entering. They reached the wrecks and prepared to advance cautiously toward a likely boss ship.

• The High Priestess and the others discussed why the Dungeon portal was underwater, and Lan Qingyou used her Magic Eye to explain the Undead Bay Dungeon and its powerful monsters.
• Li Huai listened for danger while Lan Qingyou sent Steel Wool to scout; they learned skeletons and a Ghost guarded the route to the makeshift pier.
• The High Priestess discovered the portal remained open, and all eight members crossed to the pier before their air bubbles ran out.
• Steel Wool returned, and Lan Qingyou reported that the Dungeon stretched about three thousand meters long, with a well-preserved ship at the far end that might contain the boss.
• Gu Xiaobei wanted to hurry through the Dungeon, but Li Huai urged the group to proceed carefully.

Gu Xiaobei and Li Huai set the shipwreck ablaze to force the Dungeon monsters out, turning the planned cautious assault into a battle at the dock. Lan Qingyou and the others fought the C-Rank monsters as they emerged, and the group continued holding the entrance while she collected Soul Crystals.

• Gu Xiaobei set the wreckage on fire and poured kerosene over it, while Li Huai used wind magic to spread the flames into the Dungeon.
• Lan Qingyou warned the group that the monsters would rush out, and C-Rank Sailor Skeletons and Sailor Ghosts emerged from the fire.
• Gu Xiaobei attacked the skeletons with a wooden utensil and Vine Seeds, while Lan Qingyou used Chain Lightning and Magic Puppets against the Ghosts.
• Lan Qingyou used Soul Drain to collect Soul Crystals from dying monsters, and Gu Xiaobei asked her what the crystals were.
• The group held the dock and killed the monsters as they poured out of the Dungeon.

After the group defeated thousands of monsters in a battle lasting more than three hours, they rested while Lan Qingyou collected Soul Ash left by the Ghosts. The others envied her Magic Eye, and the High Priestess explained that her Ghost-devouring bite came from a Dental Care skill.

• The Sun's Rune Stone and the group’s teamwork helped eight fighters hold off the monsters until they stopped emerging from the flames.
• After the battle, the exhausted group rested and compared how many levels they had gained.
• Lan Qingyou used her Magic Broom to gather Soul Ash from Ghosts the High Priestess had devoured, explaining that it could be used to make potions and Magic Items.
• The group envied Lan Qingyou’s Magic Eye, which let her appraise things without Appraisal Glasses.
• The Magician asked about the High Priestess’s biting skill, and she explained that it was a Dental Care skill that let Vampires nourish themselves with souls.

After discussing their battle and Gu Xiaobei’s efficient way of clearing monsters, the group rested and ate before continuing into the Dungeon. Lan Qingyou asked Gu Xiaobei to help grow War Tree Demon branches, and The Magician explained how Jiang Lan’s group used the Cursed Corridor’s time effect to grow crops quickly.

• The group discussed the vampires’ soul-draining ability and how to approach Dungeons as a team, while Gu Xiaobei defended her decision to draw monsters together and kill them efficiently.
• Gu Xiaobei called for everyone to eat and rest after hours of fighting, since they had not yet entered the Dungeon’s interior.
• Lan Qingyou invited Gu Xiaobei to help accelerate the growth of planted War Tree Demon branches, and Gu Xiaobei agreed.
• The group learned that Gu Xiaobei’s talent could add about three months of growth to each plant only once, and that the branches were not from the Ancient Tree.
• The Magician explained that Jiang Lan’s group grew crops quickly by planting them in the Cursed Corridor, where the Time Curse made time pass rapidly, and reassured Gu Xiaobei that they were safe inside their shelter.

Lan Qingyou and the others fought through another wave of Skeletons and Ghosts in the burning ship graveyard, then found a massive altar-like platform. Unsure whether it marked the Dungeon’s innermost area, they prepared to scout it cautiously.

• Gu Xiaobei drew the fire into her torch, clearing the way into the ship graveyard, and the group coordinated their abilities to defeat the second wave of Skeletons and Ghosts.
• The group discussed the monsters’ increased strength and learned that Sherlock had gathered followers in another district and was calling for revenge, possibly against The Tower.
• After resting, Gu Xiaobei extinguished the flames again, and the group found a huge platform made from two joined ship bows, with wooden stairs leading up.
• Lan Qingyou stopped Gu Xiaobei from rushing ahead and volunteered to scout the altar-like platform, while the Wheel of Fortune also stopped Li Huai from using Wind Magic to listen ahead.

Lan Qingyou scouted the platform and found an A-Rank Undead General leading Skeleton Warriors, so the group planned to split their forces and attack. When the General summoned another group of Skeleton Warriors, Li Huai knocked them toward Lan Qingyou, who deployed Black Mages to reinforce her side of the fight.

• Lan Qingyou reported that twenty-one monsters waited above, including an A-Rank Undead General and C-Rank Skeleton Warriors.
• Lan Qingyou proposed that the others engage the General while her Magic Puppets held off the Skeleton Warriors.
• The eight climbers reached the platform, and Lan Qingyou sent twenty Pink Infantry to fight the Skeleton Warriors as the others attacked the General.
• The Undead General knocked back the fighters holding the line and summoned twenty more Skeleton Warriors.
• Li Huai blasted the new Skeleton Warriors toward Lan Qingyou, who sent Pink Infantry to intercept them and deployed twenty Black Mages to attack both groups.

Lan Qingyou and the others defeated the Undead General by forcing it to spend its Magic Power summoning Skeleton Warriors, then discovered that leveling up now granted five attribute points per level. After Little Spoon detected treasure, the group searched the ship and found an A-Rank sword before Lan Qingyou opened a hatch to the dark hold.

• Lan Qingyou had the Undead General repeatedly summon Skeleton Warriors until it ran out of Magic Power, then the six of them defeated it.
• Lan Qingyou noticed she had gained five attribute points per level, and the others checked their own personal information and confirmed it.
• Nemo swept the Skeleton Warriors' bones into a pile after saying the Empress and Justice wanted them for compost.
• Lan Qingyou explained that Little Spoon could sense treasure, and Little Spoon led the group to the Undead General's Vampiric Power Blade.
• Lan Qingyou flew to where the Undead General had stood and opened a hatch in the deck, revealing the ship's dark hold.