Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou asked Samael about Alisa’s background, and he explained that Blue Star alchemists pursued the panacea as a step toward the Philosopher’s Stone. The explanation left Lan Qingyou stunned as Samael began listing the legendary stone’s other names.

• Lan Qingyou apologized to Gu Xiaobei for comparing research to turning Slimes into jelly, then urged the Tarot Villa group to prepare for their fights.
• The Tarot Villa members shared and read Professor Sai’s research paper while Samael calmly prepared to enter the arena and surrender.
• Lan Qingyou asked Samael about Alisa, and he began by asking whether she knew about alchemy on Blue Star.
• Samael explained that Blue Star alchemists sought a panacea that could cure every illness, while Lan Qingyou compared it to the Life Potion and noted the role of HP.
• Samael said the panacea was only a stepping stone toward the Philosopher’s Stone, leaving Lan Qingyou stunned as he listed its other names.

Lan Qingyou learned why Alisa resented her and discovered that Alisa had invited Samael to help with research on the Philosopher's Stone, but Samael left before revealing Alisa’s research focus. Lan Qingyou sent Samael’s paper to Alisa, who became intrigued by Lan Qingyou’s Mana Bullet as she read it.

• Samael explained that Alisa’s alchemist ancestors passed their obsession with alchemy down to her, and that Lan Qingyou’s achievements had left Alisa little room to shine.
• Samael said Alisa had invited him to her graduation to study the Philosopher’s Stone, but he refused because she had also invited her biology mentor.
• Samael hinted that Alisa would reveal her research findings when she met Lan Qingyou, then vanished to enter the arena and quickly surrendered.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa stared at each other across the viewing area until Gu Xiaobei gave Lan Qingyou Samael’s collected paper.
• Lan Qingyou fired the paper toward Alisa in a Mana Bullet, and Alisa caught it while wondering how Lan Qingyou had created the spell-like effect.

Lan Qingyou and Diana confirmed that Samael’s paper explained how to create Magic by controlling and shaping Magic Power, and Diana began arranging to distribute it. As the arena fights multiplied, Lan Qingyou and the drunk Orff wondered why the early arrivals had not been selected to fight.

• Lan Qingyou used her Magic Eye to control her Mana Bullet’s output and explained how Witches could shape untyped Magic Power by adding attributes.
• Alisa mastered the technique, and Lan Qingyou sent Diana photos of Samael’s paper.
• Diana verified the paper’s theory and asked Margaret to arrange mass production, while others sent copies to their headquarters.
• Lan Qingyou watched the chaotic arena competition and noticed that the arenas kept multiplying as spectators were selected to fight.
• Orff joked that he was at his peak while drunk, and Lan Qingyou questioned why the competition’s rules did not match what was happening.

Ingrid fought her match, returned to the spectator platform, and described how she had quickly defeated her opponent. As the group watched other matches, Vivian and the others spotted several identically dressed White-Robed Witches, including one they suspected belonged to the Workshop Clan.

• Jiang Lan suspected Riesling had gotten the group drunk to sabotage them, but Riesling explained that they could not become drunk unless they chose to.
• Ingrid was selected to fight, disappeared for about thirty seconds, and returned to the spectator platform after winning.
• Ingrid said she had locked onto her opponent and attacked to finish the fight quickly, then resumed drinking as her hair briefly transformed into living snakes.
• Vivian spotted a White-Robed Witch in arena 141450, and Lan Qingyou recognized that the fighter was probably from the Workshop Clan.
• Lan Qingyou, Alisa, and others found more White-Robed Witches and noticed that they were dressed exactly alike.

Lan Qingyou watched Ursula, the reclusive Mushroom Witch, fight in the arena and was shaken by her bizarre, violent method. Diana explained that Ursula was the Witch of Blood, a title recognized by the World Will.

• People at the mountain villa noticed that the three White-Robed Witches wore identical clothes, jewelry, pendants, and masks.
• Lan Qingyou opened Ursula’s arena feed and saw the Mountain Dwarf opponent repeatedly attack himself while Ursula stood nearby.
• The White-Robed Witch defeated her opponent with a swift, unseen attack, leaving spectators comparing her clean style with Ursula’s disturbing one.
• People across the Karim Continent began calling the High Tower Clan Witches Black Witches and the Workshop Clan Witches White Witches.
• Lan Qingyou asked Diana about Ursula’s fighting style, and Diana identified Ursula as the Witch of Blood.

Lan Qingyou learned that Ursula, a Witch with the title Blood Battlefield Witch, had endured a painful childhood and came to regard the person who sent her the Witch potion as a god. Lan Qingyou wondered whether the Vampires also saw her that way, then accepted that people could believe what they wanted as a blue prompt appeared before her.

• Lan Qingyou and Diana discussed Ursula's title and her strength as a fighter and researcher.
• Diana explained that Ursula had been abused by her family because of her birthmark, struggled to keep jobs, and eventually stopped trying to end her life.
• Diana said Ursula became a Witch after receiving a potion through a World Channel event and believed she had survived to meet the god who sent it.
• Lan Qingyou asked Vivian whether the Vampires under her still regarded her as a god.
• Vivian said the people on the viewing platform were effectively creator gods to their races, and Lan Qingyou decided not to worry about what others believed.
• A blue prompt box appeared before Lan Qingyou.

Lan Qingyou and Vivian were matched against each other in the arena despite trying to avoid an internal fight. Their match drew more than a billion viewers, while their friends watched from the viewing platform and wondered who would win.

• Lan Qingyou entered the arena after Vivian, but they appeared together as opponents despite timing their entries to avoid each other.
• Lan Qingyou and Vivian decided neither would surrender or forfeit, since both had reputations and authority to protect.
• Lan Qingyou pointed out that their match already had more than 1.1 billion viewers, and the livestream audience continued to grow.
• Viewers across the continent tuned in to watch the Origin Witch face the Vampire True Ancestor.
• The manor's group debated who would win, then watched the match closely.

Lan Qingyou and Vivian began a real fight in the arena, exchanging quick attacks and defensive tricks while millions watched. As both prepared to reveal new tactics, David wondered whether they would take the battle further.

• Vivian and Lan Qingyou agreed to fight for real because the livestream audience would see through a staged match.
• Lan Qingyou opened with a Mana Bullet, but Vivian used a decoy to make her waste the attack.
• Lan Qingyou’s Auto-Defense Stone exploded to protect her from Vivian’s counterattack and launch her to safety.
• The two leaders traded attacks but struggled to break through each other’s defenses, so both prepared to use a new move.
• Spectators analyzed their spells and tactics while David worried that the two would take the fight too far.

Lan Qingyou defeated Vivian in their arena match by seeing through her illusory double with her Magic Eye and striking her with Chain Lightning. After returning to the spectator stands, she noticed Alisa and the Masquerade group watching her closely.

• Vivian and Lan Qingyou raced to use their magic, and Lan Qingyou summoned a Steel Wool first.
• Vivian’s illusion fooled Lan Qingyou briefly, but Lan Qingyou used Chain Lightning to expose the trick and paralyze her.
• Vivian surrendered, and Lan Qingyou won her first match before teleporting back to the spectator stands.
• Gu Xiaobei laughed at Vivian’s loss and went to check on her, while Lan Qingyou expected the High Priestess to pursue her later.
• Lan Qingyou noticed Alisa and her companions studying her, then spotted another witch riding a broom.

Lan Qingyou and her companions watched Alice and Nangong Lengyue battle on flying brooms, learning that witches had developed three broom prototypes. Lan Qingyou confirmed that mass production would wait for production-line machinery and discussed a possible gear-shifter order with Orff.

• Ruan Qingyi showed Lan Qingyou footage of Alice riding a broom, and Lan Qingyou identified her as a powerful witch with a support-type Magic Eye.
• Gu Xiaobei enlarged Alice's battle footage to study her abilities before her own upcoming fight.
• Orff showed Lan Qingyou footage of Nangong Lengyue on a flying broom, and Lan Qingyou checked her Card and discovered Ursula had a prototype too.
• Lan Qingyou confirmed that the three flying brooms were prototypes and said mass production would wait for the production-line machinery.
• Orff lamented that Lan Qingyou's orders had fallen, and Lan Qingyou reassured him by suggesting an order for a hundred thousand gear shifters.

After Alice and Nangong Lengyue finished their baffling arena match, Gu Xiaobei and Ingrid prepared to fight, while the mountain villa group debated the tournament’s clan matches and the possibility of multiple floors having separate champions. The discussion ended with Riesling realizing that he, Jiang Lan, and Shang Chuan could be in danger if they were sent to the third floor.

• Orff agreed to confirm the arrangement with the Golden Witch and contacted his people to negotiate with Bei Adoris.
• Gu Xiaobei and Ruan Qingyi remarked that Alice and Nangong Lengyue’s fights had been difficult to understand, while Lan Qingyou kept the witches’ different combat systems secret.
• Gu Xiaobei and Ingrid agreed that Gu Xiaobei would last five minutes before surrendering, while serving as Ingrid’s test subject, and entered the arena.
• The mountain villa group speculated that the World Will might be arranging clan matches or that different platforms might each produce champions for separate floors.
• Riesling realized that being sent to the third floor could put him, Jiang Lan, and Shang Chuan in danger, and the group discussed surrendering.

After Gu Xiaobei and Ingrid returned safely, the group discussed the World Will’s tournament and noticed that Li Huai had evolved and entered the competition. They then watched Alice face an opponent in an aerial battle, with Lan Qingyou implying Alice was far stronger than her opponent.

• Gu Xiaobei and Ingrid returned to the spectator stands, easing everyone’s fears about a possible three-pronged operation.
• Ingrid said the World Will likely cared only about who won the tournament, not who lost, and Riesling suggested they drink instead of dwelling on it.
• The group spotted Li Huai competing and realized he had used an Evolution Item, though they did not know what clan he had become.
• Li Huai defeated his opponent by sending them flying from the arena with wind elements.
• The group went to watch Alice fight a winged opponent on Arena 16548, and Lan Qingyou said the opponent was in for a world of pain.

Alice lost her match to a Birdman after her Familiars and body abruptly vanished, and Blue Qingyou realized Alice had repeated a dangerous habit. As the competition accelerated and participants were eliminated, only Blue Qingyou, Ingrid, and Ruan Qingyi remained in the Tarot Villa viewing area.

• Alice summoned a rabbit Familiar, vanished behind her winged opponent, and sent a hound Familiar to attack before all three burst into smoke and the World Will declared the Birdman the winner.
• Blue Qingyou worked out why Alice had lost, then joined the Witch Corps chat as the witches teased Alice and recalled that Blue Qingyou had warned her.
• Blue Qingyou watched familiar participants including Nangong Lengyue, Ursula, Li Huai, and three White-Robed Witches appear and compete.
• As the World Will shortened the intervals between matches, participants from the Tarot Villa, the Masquerade, and among the independent contestants were eliminated.
• After three hours, only Blue Qingyou, Ingrid, and Ruan Qingyi remained in the Tarot Villa viewing area.

Blue Qingyou and Alisa entered the Race Tournament’s elimination round alongside six other powerful contestants, including Ursula and Li Huai. As the eight contestants gathered in an arena, the World Will announced that it would reveal their matchups.

• Blue Qingyou and Alisa traded taunts before entering the designated area for the elimination round.
• Blue Qingyou arrived in an arena with Alisa, Ursula, Li Huai, and four other notable contestants.
• Blue Qingyou learned that Li Huai had spent nearly all his Ancient Blood developing a Wind Spirit race suited to his talents.
• A figure formed from an Elemental Storm announced the tournament’s elimination round and began the draw for the eight contestants.

The eight contestants reviewed the knockout bracket and entered a lavish Rest Area before their first matches. Lan Qingyou and the others encountered Xintianle, while the group realized the food and drinks may have come from Blue Star; the chapter ended with Lan Qingyou wondering if the food had expired and Xintianle retching.

• The Invisible Man displayed the eight-contestant bracket, pairing Ursula with Angelina Judy, Alisa with Mayuan Guangzhang, Li Huai with Xintianle, and Lan Qingyou with Hoger.
• Li Huai reminded Lan Qingyou that Xintianle was notorious for tricking more than a thousand people out of supplies during the first Mana Tide, while Lan Qingyou rejected being labeled notorious herself.
• The Invisible Man sent the contestants to a lavish ballroom Rest Area, where Xintianle gulped liquor and Angelina Judy warned him away from the cakes.
• Xintianle taunted Lan Qingyou about profiting from potions during the Mana crises, and Lan Qingyou replied that she had slept through both events.
• Li Huai and Hoger inspected bottles labeled with pre-crossover dates, and Lan Qingyou suggested the food and drinks had come from Blue Star.
• Lan Qingyou opened clay-pot rice and wondered aloud whether it had expired, prompting Xintianle to spit out his liquor and retch.

Lan Qingyou and the other contestants rested and ate in the Rest Area while spectators watched their broadcast and debated who would win. Diana watched from her Office and asked Alice and Nangong Lengyue how they had lost.

• Lan Qingyou ate casually in the Rest Area and speculated that Blue Star's industries might struggle without its young and middle-aged people.
• The World Will showed the eight contestants through multiple cameras, and viewers discussed their food, the upcoming battles, and their favorite contenders.
• World Channel users placed bets and argued over Lan Qingyou, the Workshop Witch, Ursula, Hoger, Xintianle, and Li Huai.
• Diana watched the broadcast from her Office and asked Alice and Nangong Lengyue why they had lost.

Ursula and Angelina Judy entered the first quarterfinal match of the Race Tournament, and their taunts fueled the audience's excitement. Diana learned from Alice that Angelina's attack sounded like a mosquito and caused her to black out, but before Diana could warn Ursula, Angelina suddenly collapsed and died.

• The Invisible Man introduced Ursula and Angelina Judy and showed a montage of their qualifying kills.
• Angelina Judy taunted Ursula, who replied by calling her a bitch, and Angelina became furious.
• Diana asked Alice how Angelina had defeated her, and Alice described a mosquito-like sound followed by darkness and unconsciousness.
• Diana suspected Angelina's attack involved sonic waves and might affect the mind, but Angelina suddenly collapsed and died.

Ursula defeated Angelina Judy almost instantly in the first quarterfinal, leaving the crowd and competitors speculating about her power. As Ursula returned to the Rest Area, Alisa and Mayuan Guangzhang were sent to begin the second match.

• The Invisible Man started the first quarterfinal between Angelina Judy and Ursula, and Angelina collapsed in a twisted heap almost immediately.
• The audience assumed Ursula had defeated Angelina with a powerful Magic Eye ability and debated witches and Witch Potion.
• Li Huai repeatedly asked Lan Qingyou to identify Ursula's ability, but Lan Qingyou said she had not appraised her and would not reveal her team's information.
• Xintianle objected when Lan Qingyou spoke as if Li Huai would beat him, and Ursula returned to the Rest Area as Alisa and Mayuan Guangzhang appeared in the arena.

After Ursula won the first match, the Race Tournament moved on to Alisa's fight against Mayuan Guangzhang. As they faced off, spectators discussed rumors about helping Transmigrators before a man revealed a potion that could correct their attributes.

• The Invisible Man declared Ursula the winner, cleared away the Wailing Banshee's corpse, and sent Ursula to the Rest Area.
• The Invisible Man began the second match between Workshop Witch Alisa and Blue Oni Imp Mayuan Guangzhang.
• Alisa waited for Mayuan Guangzhang to finish backing away and drinking liquor, then challenged him to begin.
• Spectators criticized Alisa's arrogance and discussed rumors of ways to boost Transmigrators without evolution.
• A man showed the spectators test tubes of golden liquid and claimed they held a potion that could correct their attributes.

Alisa defeated Mayuan Guangzhang by avoiding his poison field and waiting for him to succumb, then declined the World Will’s interview and opened a portal to Lan Qingyou in the Rest Area.

• Alisa analyzed Mayuan Guangzhang’s poison field and refused to enter its range, asking him to surrender.
• Mayuan Guangzhang tried to surrender but found himself unable to speak and died while clawing at his neck.
• Alisa asked the Invisible Man to announce her victory, and the World Will declared her the winner of the second battle.
• Alisa refused an interview and opened a portal revealing Lan Qingyou eating sunflower seeds in the Rest Area.