Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou explained the patterns in witches’ Magic Eyes and introduced Susie to Contract Magic Arrays, which let witches bind monsters as Familiars. Susie learned how the contracts worked and began considering what kind of Familiar she wanted.

• Susie revealed that other witches’ Magic Eyes displayed patterns, and Lan Qingyou discovered that hers showed a faint vertical eye symbol.
• Lan Qingyou recognized the symbol as her personal emblem and realized Susie had never received a Contract Magic Array.
• Lan Qingyou gave Susie Monster Skin scrolls and explained that the arrays could bind compatible young monsters as Familiars.
• Lan Qingyou explained that contracts used substantial Magic Power, were one-time use, and that too many Familiars could strain a witch’s mind.
• Susie understood the basics of Familiars and started thinking about which monster she would choose.

Lan Qingyou and Susie investigated a suspected leak of the Teleportation Array and found a hidden array beneath a shelter. Susie revealed her Purification Magic Eye, and Lan Qingyou recovered the array for inspection.

• Lan Qingyou told the group chat that an enemy had met with suspicious people who had not used the Adventurer Guild's Teleportation Array, and she and Susie went to inspect the hidden array.
• Lan Qingyou dropped a six-ton rock onto the shelter, releasing poisonous gas that Susie cleared with her Purification Magic Eye.
• Lan Qingyou explained that Susie's Magic Eye could purify Madness Qi and Evil Qi as well as toxins, and Susie realized Lan Qingyou could see its attributes.
• Lan Qingyou found a metal plate bearing the Teleportation Array amid the rubble and determined that it was not made by the Magician.

After Lan Qingyou uncovered that the Supreme Council had tampered with a batch of Teleportation Arrays, Chu Yuan apologized to Tarot Villa and promised to investigate within three days. The group accepted his offer, and Lan Qingyou kept the seized array before turning to the Magician with a question about adding channels to Cards.

• Lan Qingyou reported that the Teleportation Array's base came from the batch Tarot Villa had brought out of the Dungeon, prompting the group to demand an explanation from the Supreme Council.
• Chu Yuan apologized to the group, promised to investigate, and said he would provide a satisfactory answer within three days.
• The group agreed to let Chu Yuan handle the matter first, and Lan Qingyou claimed the seized Teleportation Array as her spoils.
• Lan Qingyou and the Magician traded jibes about her messy but impressive Magic Arrays, while others teased the Magician with offers to take her down.
• Lan Qingyou asked the Magician whether he could add channels to Cards as he had with the Magic Desk.

Lan Qingyou created an invite-only card chat channel called “Witch's Tea Party” so witches could share ideas and learn from one another. Susie joined and became an administrator, while Lan Qingyou explained how to invite other witches.

• Lan Qingyou asked the Magician about creating a channel for witches, and the Magician, High Priestess, and Wheel of Fortune granted her permission.
• Lan Qingyou created “Witch's Tea Party” and made it invite-only to keep outsiders from joining.
• Lan Qingyou invited Susie by scanning the guild emblem on Susie's card, and Susie joined as “Witch of Poison.”
• Lan Qingyou made Susie an administrator, then explained that she could invite witches by scanning their card emblems.

Lan Qingyou and Susie established rules for the Witch's Tea Party, then Lan Qingyou prepared to return home and make Witch Potion. Before she could leave, Jiang Lan asked the group for help against people calling themselves the 505 Formation, whom Lan Qingyou connected to the group that had stolen a Teleportation Array.

• Lan Qingyou and Susie agreed that witches could not kill one another, should help one another, and must not insult each other in the group chat; anyone who killed a witch would be hunted by management.
• Lan Qingyou told Susie she was heading home to make Witch Potion with Jormungandr's Blood, and the adventurers in the guild watched her approach the Teleportation Array.
• Lan Qingyou read the Witch's Tea Party messages and decided to go home rather than join a Dungeon expedition.
• The Empress announced that people calling themselves the 505 Formation were blocking Jiang Lan and demanding her seeds, and offered payment to whoever drove them off.
• Lan Qingyou said the group that stole a Teleportation Array had also called itself the 505 Formation, prompting the others to wonder who the group was.

The Tarot Villa members linked the 505 Formation to an Ancient Bloodline and discussed investigating it, while Lan Qingyou regretted trading away blood that could have strengthened the Witch Race. After Lan Qingyou left Susie’s settlement, Susie announced that she was resigning from the Adventurer Guild.

• The Tarot Villa members connected the 505 Formation to the Little Devils and an Ancient Bloodline, while The Tower and The High Priestess refused Judgment’s request to buy blood.
• Lan Qingyou reflected that her earlier trade had reduced the Witch Race’s prospects and decided to keep her remaining blood for increasing its numbers.
• The Tower arranged to visit The Empress, and The Moon invited Judgment to gather intelligence on the 505 Formation; Chu Yuan agreed to investigate.
• Lan Qingyou teleported away from Susie’s settlement, and the residents speculated about the witches’ influence before returning to work.
• Susie announced her resignation from the Adventurer Guild, prompting regional managers to question why she would leave a well-paid position.

Susie resigned as head of the Adventurer Guild and urged the other Witches to pursue the Soul Drain skill for its usefulness against the Undying attribute. Diana proposed using her magic knowledge scrolls to help more Witches learn it, and Susie worried they lacked the materials.

• David accepted Susie's resignation and arranged for his Demon Human assistant to take over her duties while the Guild continued using Susie's shelter.
• Susie called the other three Witches together and explained how Soul Drain and Soul Crystals could help them, especially against the Undying attribute.
• The Witches discussed leveling through the Golden Plains' low-level Dungeons, but Diana suggested teaching the skill directly instead.
• Diana proposed making magic knowledge scrolls, and she argued that the Witches could obtain materials through their new contact with the Witch of the Tower.

Susie introduced three witches to Lan Qingyou’s Witch’s Tea Party, where they learned about Familiars, Magic Arrays, and the shared warehouse of Magic Items. The witches agreed to lend and contribute items under the warehouse’s rules, while the Royal Sister Witch wondered how to make its self-destruct array.

• Susie invited Diana and the other two witches to the Witch’s Tea Party and explained that Lan Qingyou had created the chat channel for witches.
• Diana posted that she wanted to make Magic Scrolls, and Susie gave each of the three witches a Contract Magic Array made by Lan Qingyou.
• The witches discussed Familiars and Magic Arrays, and the witch interested in scrolls planned to ask Lan Qingyou about Monster Skin.
• Diana noticed that High Tower Witch had stocked the Group Warehouse with Magic Items, delighting the witches.
• Susie explained that borrowed items had to be registered and returned every three days, and the witches agreed to add unwanted Dungeon drops to the warehouse.
• The Royal Sister Witch examined a Destruction Magic Array and said she did not think she could make one yet.

Lan Qingyou arrived at Jiang Lan’s farm and learned that the 505 Formation was targeting Freyja, Jiang Lan, and her seeds. Before they confronted the attackers, Chu Yuan asked Esmeralda to divine where the 505 Formation’s members had hidden their blood.

• Diana rushed to the workshop after Susie showed her alchemy materials, while Susie argued with the others about choosing a Familiar from the Gray Mist Swamp.
• Lan Qingyou teleported from the Golden Plains to Jiang Lan’s farm, where the Tarot Villa members had gathered.
• Jiang Lan introduced Freyja, a livestock expert and holder of The Lovers Card, whom she had taken in after she fled the 505 Formation.
• Lan Qingyou learned that the 505 Formation had also tried to take Jiang Lan and her seeds, and Jiang Lan explained that the farm’s location at the edge of the Cursed Corridor allowed outsiders to stay there.
• Chu Yuan asked Esmeralda to divine the location of the attackers’ blood before they began fighting, and Esmeralda started her reading.

Esmeralda’s divination identified Xia Siqing, a wig-wearing, saber-wielding man in leather armor, as the target, and Lan Qingyou’s group went to confront him. Lan Qingyou’s attack left a huge crater, but Xia Siqing emerged on a horse that Freyja recognized as her specially bred mount.

• Esmeralda divined that Xia Siqing had the blood they sought and described his appearance and weapons.
• Lan Qingyou led the others toward the enemies, while Jiang Lan and Freyja stayed behind.
• A huge crash shook the area, and the group saw a mushroom cloud rising after the Tower dropped a rock from the sky.
• As the dust cleared, the group spotted a surviving figure mounted on a horse and recognized him as Xia Siqing.
• Freyja shouted that the horse was hers and explained that she had bred it by crossbreeding a Four-Eyed Savage with a Long-Eared Magic Map.

Freyja explained her horse-breeding research and gave Ingrid her remaining horse, while the manor's residents turned a confrontation with a Knight into an impromptu spectacle. The Chariot and The Sun joined the fight, and the others realized they might miss out on the blood if they did not get involved.

• Freyja told everyone that the 505 Formation had wrecked her ranch, stolen her research, and forced her to leave.
• Freyja gave Ingrid Long-Eared Generation One, and Lan Qingyou explained that the horse was controlled by B-Rank Enslavement Reins.
• Freyja clarified that she could recreate the horse from its genetic blueprint and said the 505 Formation wanted her Mana Culture Fluid and Culture Dish.
• Orff summoned a tracked vehicle and charged at the Knight, while The Sun ran after them to protect her horse.
• Gu Xiaobei commentated on the fight as Li Huai and Judgment defended watching it, while Riesling worried that those who had not fought would get no blood.

Chu Yuan proposed using Esmeralda’s divination to locate the 505 Formation’s headquarters, while Gu Xiaobei commentated on the villa’s fight. Ingrid captured the defeated opponent, and Freyja began interrogating her for information about her organization.

• Chu Yuan argued that the 505 Formation’s headquarters would hold far more blood than a field leader and suggested that Esmeralda divine its location.
• The group praised the Wheel of Fortune until Esmeralda used Magic to silence them, and Freyja remarked that the villa seemed lively.
• Gu Xiaobei commentated as the Chariot lost control and the Sun competitor attacked the bald contestant with Rune Rods and a Rune Stone.
• Ingrid captured Long-Eared Generation One and brought her soot-blackened opponent to the group.
• Freyja stepped on the opponent’s hand and demanded her name, organization, rank, and headquarters location.

The Tarot Villa members interrogated Sailan Siqing of the 505 Formation while Esmeralda began a divination. Freyja explained how Naheye had sent her to Jiang Lan, and the group realized he had used them to target the Empress.

• Riesling demanded the 505 Formation's headquarters from Xia Siqing, and Lan Qingyou revealed his real name was Sailan Siqing.
• Orff volunteered to interrogate Sailan Siqing with his torture devices, while Esmeralda began her divination.
• Chu Yuan asked Freyja why she had sought out Jiang Lan, and Freyja said Aijieluode had taken her to Naheye, who directed her to the villa for protection.
• The Tarot Villa members deduced that Naheye had sent Freyja to them to provoke the 505 Formation into attacking Jiang Lan.
• Jiang Lan explained that she and Naheye had been business partners until the villa's demand for ingredients left her with nothing to sell.

Jiang Lan and her companions set out to confront Naheye, and Lan Qingyou learned how the region’s shelters had been arranged in a circle by someone’s talent. The group quickly defeated the occupants of Naheye’s shelter and found an iron plaque linking him to the 505 Formation, leaving Jiang Lan and Chu Yuan questioning what the connection meant.

• Ruan Qingyi proposed that the group go have fun while Justice and the Wheel of Fortune were busy, and the others agreed, leaving The Chariot and Esmeralda behind.
• Lan Qingyou asked Jiang Lan why the shelters in the Cursed Corridor formed a vast circle, and Jiang Lan explained that someone had used their talent to arrange them along the region’s edges.
• Li Huai became eager to meet whoever had affected the entire region, and Jiang Lan and Freyja led the group to Naheye’s shelter.
• Lan Qingyou dropped a stone through the shelter’s Protective Barrier, and the group rushed inside and finished the fight before she came down.
• Shang Chuan gave Jiang Lan an iron plaque marked “505 Formation,” with Naheye’s name engraved on the back, and Chu Yuan wondered what the connection might be.

Chu Yuan suggested that Naheye had allied with the 505 Formation to seize control of the Cursed Corridor, and Jiang Lan considered why they wanted the region. Freyja created two Two-headed Hounds and sent them to hunt down everyone who had handled Naheye’s insignia, leaving the group to reckon with her fierce retaliation.

• Chu Yuan told Lan Qingyou that Freyja may have been a pretext in a plan arranged by Naheye and the 505 Formation, enraging Freyja.
• Jiang Lan suspected Naheye had joined the 505 Formation to take control of the Cursed Corridor, which could accelerate time for experiments.
• Freyja emerged from the damaged shelter with two magically mutated Two-headed Hounds and had them memorize the scent of Naheye’s insignia.
• Freyja explained that the hounds would pursue and kill people who had handled the insignias until they died of exhaustion ten days later.

Freyja decided to settle in the Cursed Corridor and raise economic magic creatures, while Chu Yuan and Lan Qingyou discussed developing the area. Lan Qingyou agreed to set up a Five Dragon Reincarnation Magic Array in exchange for priority access to hides for making Contract Magic Scrolls.

• Freyja revealed that she had been a beauty pageant champion and said she would stay in the Cursed Corridor to start over by raising livestock.
• Chu Yuan offered Supreme Council support for Freyja's livestock business, and Freyja asked for a magic tent so she could take over Naheye's Planting Zone.
• Jiang Lan asked what the Supreme Council planned to do about the Cursed Corridor's lack of magic arrays and an Adventurer Guild.
• Chu Yuan said the Supreme Council wanted Lan Qingyou to set up a Five Dragon Reincarnation Magic Array to expand the area where humans could live.
• Lan Qingyou agreed to build the array if she received priority access to hides from The Lovers' ranch, especially sheep and cattle hides, and to finished parchment from a tanner.
• Shang Chuan objected that Lan Qingyou's demand could hurt his leather business, but Lan Qingyou replied that she would continue using his tanners and teaching his alchemists and witches.

Lan Qingyou recovered Naheye’s identity Card and discovered it contained Jormungandr’s Blood, while also negotiating a share of the profits from Ice Dew Wine Bottles with Riesling. The group decided to return to the manor and divide the blood among everyone there.

• Shang Chuan gave Lan Qingyou Naheye’s identity Card, which surprised The Magician because no Adventurer Guild had issued it.
• Lan Qingyou emptied Naheye’s Card and found ten C-Rank Ice Dew Wine Bottles filled with Jormungandr’s Blood.
• Lan Qingyou offered Riesling the bottles’ recipe in exchange for half the profits from premium liquor bottled in them, and Riesling accepted.
• Lan Qingyou revealed that the ten bottles held enough Jormungandr’s Blood to make about a hundred thousand Evolution Potions.
• The manor group agreed to return home and divide the blood among everyone, including those who had stayed behind.

Esmeralda reported that the group had gathered blood and located the 505 Formation’s headquarters, where Orff had already begun attacking alone. Back at Jiang Lan’s home, the group prepared a feast, joined by Vivian and Nemo, while Vivian showed Gu Xiaobei a test tube of ancient blood from her Dungeon.

• Esmeralda told everyone that they had collected five thousand milliliters of blood and that the Chariot had found the 505 Formation’s headquarters.
• Esmeralda revealed that Orff had gone alone to attack the formation’s central base, and the group discussed his chances.
• Gu Xiaobei offered to cook a feast, and Riesling promised to provide all the drinks.
• Vivian and Nemo arrived after Vivian finished her Dungeon, where she said vampires had been badly injured but none had died.
• Vivian taunted Gu Xiaobei by showing her a test tube of ancient blood from the Dungeon.

Lan Qingyou learned how Ancient Bloodlines shaped evolution and negotiated a trade with Vivian for Platinum Dragon King's blood. She pressed Chu Yuan to secure better terms for witches from the Supreme Council, leaving him to carry her demands to the councilors and its president.

• Lan Qingyou took Vivian's vial and asked how Ancient Bloodline Evolution Items affected evolution, and Vivian explained that each bloodline favored different attributes and talents.
• Lan Qingyou offered Vivian five hundred milliliters of Essence Blood of the Star Dragon King for a thousand milliliters of Platinum Dragon King's blood, and Vivian reluctantly agreed after Lan Qingyou bluffed about the difference between Essence Blood and ordinary blood.
• Lan Qingyou asked Chu Yuan to arrange ten extra tons of materials per week for the Supreme Council, and Vivian told him the Tower considered the trade unfair to it.
• Lan Qingyou said the Witch's Tea Party would withhold potions until an agreement was reached, and she explained that it would let witches exchange ideas and information.
• Chu Yuan agreed to relay Lan Qingyou's message to every councilor and the Council President, as Lan Qingyou sought to give indebted witches better means to conduct potion research.

Lan Qingyou reflected on how she had used the Witch Race to secure materials from the Supreme Council, while Nemo argued that she was protective and possessive of the witches. Vivian then explained that she regarded the vampires she created as her own, prompting the group to recognize the danger of creator worship being exploited into conflict between races.

• Lan Qingyou explained that she had demanded materials from the Supreme Council to help the witches advance in alchemy and avoid decades of debt.
• Jiang Lan and Nemo called Lan Qingyou protective of her own, and Nemo said she treated witches who used her potions as her private property.
• Lan Qingyou reconsidered her actions and admitted that Nemo’s description of her behavior seemed accurate.
• Vivian said she considered the vampires she had created her private property and their creator god.
• Those present realized that someone could exploit the reverence creators received and provoke a devastating conflict between the new races.