Chapter Summaries

Alisa entered the Rest Area through a portal, and Lan Qingyou recognized that she had secretly poisoned her opponent with a rapidly prepared potion. Lan Qingyou guessed at Alisa’s research methods, then turned to Ursula for tiramisu after Alisa’s answers irritated her.

• Alisa opened a portal into the Rest Area, and Lan Qingyou recognized the skill’s principles.
• Lan Qingyou told Li Huai that Alisa had poisoned her opponent when she waved her hand, and Li Huai was teleported away with Xintianle before he could ask more.
• Lan Qingyou deduced that Alisa had researched brewing potions almost instantly, and Alisa confirmed that her risky method was worth pursuing.
• Alisa explained that she had sat down simply because she felt like it, irritating Lan Qingyou.
• Lan Qingyou asked Ursula for tiramisu, and Ursula brought her a plate of cakes.

Lan Qingyou shared cake with Ursula, then teased Li Huai after learning he had lost to Xintianle and reflected on his lack of experience fighting people. As the next tournament match began, she faced Hoger, the Commander of the Spade Knights Order, and offered to help him fasten his armor while the Invisible Man watched warily.

• Lan Qingyou and Ursula shared a plate of tiramisu before Li Huai was teleported nearby after losing his match to Xintianle.
• Lan Qingyou messaged Li Huai to mock his defeat, and he realized he needed more experience fighting people rather than monsters.
• Li Huai decided to improve his practical combat skills, while the chapter noted that many Supreme Council Evolutionists had been pushed into the tournament.
• Lan Qingyou began her match against Hoger and joked that he should surrender to save time.
• Hoger recognized Lan Qingyou as the Witch of the Tower, and she moved closer and offered to help fasten his pauldron as the Invisible Man intervened.

Lan Qingyou faced Hoger in the Race Tournament’s fourth quarterfinal and used her aerial advantage to bombard him with potions. Hoger held behind his shield as the Knights Order’s apprentices protested, and the fight remained underway.

• The Invisible Man fastened Hoger’s armor, then announced the start of the match between Lan Qingyou and Hoger.
• Lan Qingyou flew more than twenty meters into the air while Hoger assessed her range and cautiously retreated with his shield raised.
• Lan Qingyou flew above Hoger and began dropping B-Rank Explosion Magic Potions and Frost Magic Potions.
• Hoger activated his defensive magic and endured the explosions and frost attacks behind his shield.
• The Knights Order’s apprentices called Lan Qingyou cowardly for attacking from the air, and their instructor marked them down.

Lan Qingyou overwhelmed Hoger with a relentless barrage of potions while he endured the damage using his SSS-Rank talent, [Hunger Scale]. After the bombardment stopped, Hoger tried to use the pause to reach a safer corner, but he spotted an unexpected threat looming above him.

• Lan Qingyou continued pelting Hoger with hundreds of potions as spectators hoped he would unleash an offensive magic attack.
• Lan Qingyou’s Magic Power rapidly drained, and she warned Hoger that she was preparing a final attack and invited him to surrender.
• Hoger used [Hunger Scale] to convert Lan Qingyou’s health or Magic Power into his own health while waiting for her to run out of Magic Power.
• When the explosions stopped, Hoger rushed through the ice toward a corner to reduce the damage he was taking.
• Hoger noticed his shadow growing and looked up at the sky, where he saw something he had never expected.

Lan Qingyou defeated Hoger by repeatedly dropping enormous rocks into the arena, forcing him to surrender and securing the final quarterfinal spot. The Invisible Man announced that the semifinals, final, and third-place match would take place the next day.

• Lan Qingyou dropped a huge rock into the arena, and Hoger narrowly escaped by reaching a corner and discarding his shield.
• Hoger realized Lan Qingyou was releasing rocks stored in Cards and prepared to collect the first one, but another rock began falling.
• Lan Qingyou urged Hoger to surrender, and he gave up after deciding he had no way to fight back or reach her.
• The Invisible Man declared Lan Qingyou the winner of the fourth match and the last contestant to advance to the quarterfinals.
• The Invisible Man announced that the semifinals would be held the next morning and the final and third-place match that afternoon.

After winning her match, Lan Qingyou ate noodles with Ursula and offered to help develop a potion to remove Ursula’s birthmark. Elsewhere, an unknown group began plotting to expose the witches’ abilities, while a gambler celebrated his winnings and predicted a witch would win the championship.

• Lan Qingyou invited Ursula to eat noodles after their victory and took her to a shop on Vermilion Bird Avenue.
• Lan Qingyou asked Ursula about her birthmark, and Ursula explained that potions had only made it fade temporarily.
• Lan Qingyou asked Ursula to bring her old potion notes after the competition so they could try making a beauty potion together.
• A group in a dim room discussed observing Lan Qingyou, Alisa, and Ursula and forcing the witches to reveal their abilities.
• A gambler bragged about winning money by betting that the witches would reach the final four and predicted a witch would become champion.

Lan Qingyou and Ursula arrived early for the competition, where Ursula defended Lan Qingyou from Xintianle’s taunts. The chapter ended with Xintianle confronting Ursula and ordering her to get out of the way.

• Ruan Qingyi gave Lan Qingyou a new enchanted outfit after explaining that people called her and Alisa the Black Witch and the White Witch.
• Lan Qingyou and Ursula traveled to the competition’s Rest Area, where they watched for Alisa and rested before the event.
• Lan Qingyou urged Ursula to sit and rest so she would be ready for the competition.
• Xintianle arrived and taunted the two witches, prompting Ursula to insult him for swindling people.
• Xintianle stepped close to Ursula and told her to move aside because she was only a maid.

Ursula and Xintianle traded insults in the Rest Area before the World Will announced that the Karim Continent tournament semifinals would begin. As the Invisible Man introduced Ursula, viewers across the continent noticed he had called it the tournament’s “first-ever” edition.

• Xintianle insulted Ursula, and she fired back, making him furious while Lan Qingyou watched.
• Xintianle threatened Ursula and said she had better not lose the semifinal, offending Lan Qingyou and Alisa, who had just arrived.
• The World Will announced that the first match would begin in ten minutes, and Alisa, Ursula, and Lan Qingyou waited in the Rest Area.
• The Invisible Man began introducing Ursula to the viewers as the semifinals opened.
• Viewers across the continent noticed the Invisible Man had described the tournament as the Karim Continent’s first-ever race tournament.

The first Race Tournament began with Ursula and Alisa facing off in the semifinals. Alisa revealed that she could perceive Ursula’s Twisted Magic Eye and its effects, leaving Lan Qingyou worried that Ursula’s lack of information would put her in grave danger.

• The Evolutionists speculated that the inaugural tournament’s race-enhancement reward might prevent winning races from competing in future tournaments, and many began planning for the next one.
• The Invisible Man introduced Ursula, the Witch of Blood, and Alisa, the Workshop Witch, as the first semifinal contestants.
• At the start of the match, fissures appeared in the air in front of Alisa, and neither the audience nor the Invisible Man knew what had caused them.
• Alisa covered her left eye and described Ursula’s Magic Eye as a conceptual power that distorted both matter and the mind.
• Lan Qingyou realized Alisa had seen Ursula’s abilities and feared Ursula might not survive the fight, while Xintianle hoped Alisa would defeat her.

Lan Qingyou watched Ursula fight Alisa and worried that Ursula might lose without learning enough about Alisa’s Magic Eye and magic. Ursula decided to risk a direct charge to gather information, leaving the outcome of the fight unresolved.

• Lan Qingyou considered Alisa’s Magic Eye and magic dangerous and hoped Ursula could reveal how they worked.
• Alisa attacked Ursula with sudden impacts that caused explosions, while Ursula dodged and tried to strike Alisa with her Twisted Magic Eye.
• Ursula realized she might lose and recalled Lan Qingyou’s advice to stay safe and make any loss worthwhile.
• Ursula decided to keep gathering information for Lan Qingyou and accelerated her Flying Broom to its third speed, charging straight at Alisa.

Alisa defeated Ursula in the first semifinal after Ursula crashed into Alisa’s hidden defensive barrier, then treated her injuries. Lan Qingyou entered the arena to face Xintianle in the second semifinal, which began as she hovered above him.

• Ursula charged at Alisa, struck an invisible barrier, and fell unconscious.
• Alisa poured her Life Potion over Ursula and was declared the winner of the first semifinal.
• Lan Qingyou thanked Alisa for going easy on Ursula, then covered Ursula with a blanket while they waited in the Rest Area.
• The Invisible Man sent Lan Qingyou and Xintianle to the arena for the second semifinal.
• Lan Qingyou flew into the air before the match began, while Xintianle challenged her and Lan Qingyou considered the Demon Race’s ability to return after death.

Lan Qingyou fought Xintianle, who used a potion to trap her in memories of her parents’ accident and the betrayals that followed. She awakened while he was collecting her blood, and Xintianle realized she was conscious again.

• Lan Qingyou taunted Xintianle and threw an Explosive Potion, but he leaped out of range and revealed that he had identified her Magic Eye’s appraisal ability.
• Xintianle drank a potion that sent Lan Qingyou into a vision of her parents’ accident, her relatives stealing her compensation, and the hospital abandoning her in the slums.
• Lan Qingyou recognized the experience as a malicious trick and tried to understand how Xintianle had entered her mind, but he struck her neck and knocked her down.
• Lan Qingyou woke to find Xintianle collecting her blood in a glass bottle, which she considered a precious alchemical material.
• Lan Qingyou spoke to Xintianle while he was absorbed in his work, and he realized she had awakened.

Lan Qingyou survived Xintianle’s attack and used her Floating Cannons to beat him while she recovered. She claimed a life-saving Magic Item had protected her, and Xintianle still challenged her after the beating.

• Xintianle stabbed Lan Qingyou and collected her blood, but she winked at him and revealed she was alive.
• Lan Qingyou used sound-effect attacks to knock Xintianle back, then healed herself with Life Potions.
• Lan Qingyou’s Thorium Ore Floating Cannons battered Xintianle for ten minutes, leaving him badly injured.
• Xintianle asked how Lan Qingyou had survived, and she said a life-saving Magic Item had saved her from a mortal wound.
• Xintianle challenged Lan Qingyou again as she sat on her Magic Broom.

Lan Qingyou exposed Xintianle's vulnerability to poisonous bacteria and revealed that Red Umbrella spores were draining his Magic Power. Xintianle surrendered, making Lan Qingyou the winner, but she admitted she had no cure and mourned the blood she had lost.

• Lan Qingyou explained that poisonous bacteria could threaten the Demon Race, alarming demons watching the match across the Karim Continent.
• Lan Qingyou revealed that she had put Ursula's Red Umbrella spores into the drinks, and Xintianle discovered his Magic Power was draining.
• Xintianle swallowed his Antidote, but Lan Qingyou told him it would not work on a poisonous mushroom that was still growing.
• Xintianle begged Lan Qingyou for the cure and agreed to surrender.
• The Invisible Man declared Lan Qingyou the winner, and she admitted she had no cure before lamenting the blood she had lost.

Lan Qingyou killed Xintianle by letting poisonous mushrooms overrun his body, securing her place in the grand final and giving Blood Witch Ursula third place. The Demon Race condemned the exposure of its weakness and discussed accelerating a mysterious plan.

• Lan Qingyou recorded that Xintianle's agitation accelerated the mushrooms' growth, collected samples, and returned to the Rest Area after his death.
• The Invisible Man announced that the grand final would take place that afternoon and awarded Ursula third place because Xintianle had died.
• Survivors from District 666 celebrated Xintianle's death while watching the livestream, remembering the people lost in his ambush.
• Demon Race members blamed Xintianle, Lan Qingyou, and Li Huai for exposing their weakness, then proposed speeding up their plan.

Lan Qingyou returned from her quarterfinal battle badly wounded but quickly began eating to recover, while the audience debated whether Xintianle could revive after his corpse turned to ash. In the Rest Area, she refused Alisa’s potions out of alchemical pride and congratulated Ursula on taking third place.

• Lan Qingyou returned from the arena pale and bloodied, and Ursula checked on her as spectators speculated about her ability to survive near-death wounds.
• Xintianle’s corpse weathered into ash and blew away, prompting the audience to doubt that he could revive.
• Lan Qingyou went to the Rest Area and ate to regain her strength before the afternoon’s battle.
• Alisa offered Lan Qingyou homemade blood-replenishing potions, but Lan Qingyou refused to take another alchemist’s medicine.
• Lan Qingyou congratulated Ursula on placing third, and Ursula said defeating Xintianle would have been difficult for her.

After surviving Xintianle’s attack, Lan Qingyou reflected on her brief experience of death before resting for the finals. The final between Lan Qingyou and Alisa began, and Lan Qingyou pointed out that witches were guaranteed the competition’s top three places regardless of who won.

• Lan Qingyou ate with Ursula, who praised her for having a life-saving Magic Item prepared.
• Lan Qingyou recalled passing through a foggy place during the moment she died and wondered whether it was connected to Hell.
• Ursula woke Lan Qingyou from her nap as the afternoon final approached, while Alisa had refused to rest.
• The Invisible Man introduced the final between Lan Qingyou, the Witch of the Workshop, and Alisa, the Witch of the High Tower.
• Alisa said the match would have a winner and a loser, while Lan Qingyou argued that the Witch Clan had already secured the top three spots.
• Lan Qingyou’s remark angered some spectators, though they had no way to challenge the outcome.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa made requests for a more varied final-match arena, then faced each other in the Ash Land. Alisa revealed that they represented the Materialist School and the Magic School, leaving the alchemists eager to learn more.

• The Invisible Man offered Lan Qingyou and Alisa one competition-related request each, and Lan Qingyou asked for a real setting while Alisa asked for an arena about the size of a hundred soccer fields.
• The arena transformed into a vast gray wasteland called the Ash Land, and the Invisible Man left the contestants to begin their fight.
• Alisa told Lan Qingyou that people called them the White Witch and the Black Witch, then introduced the terms Materialist School and Magic School.
• Alisa identified herself as belonging to the Magic School and linked Lan Qingyou's idea of Equivalent Exchange to the Materialist School.
• The spectators, especially the alchemists, struggled to understand the two schools and began taking notes on the Sky Screen.

Lan Qingyou learned that Alisa followed Nicolas Luo Mei’s Magic School, but discovered Alisa’s hostility was not about the old rivalry between Luo Mei and Albert. Alisa still challenged her to a duel over the Emerald Tablet, leaving Lan Qingyou questioning why Alisa wanted it.

• Lan Qingyou realized Alisa’s hostility might be connected to the Magic School and named Nicolas Luo Mei.
• Lan Qingyou recalled how Luo Mei and Albert had studied together before splitting over whether alchemy should rely on materials or Magic Power.
• Alisa confirmed she had studied Luo Mei’s theory but said the ancient rivalry had nothing to do with their duel.
• Alisa repeated her challenge, proposing the Emerald Tablet as the stakes after Teacher Samael refused.
• Lan Qingyou asked why Alisa wanted to duel her over the Emerald Tablet.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa negotiated a contest over the Emerald Tablet, agreeing to compete through their research as witches and alchemists. Alisa then attacked Lan Qingyou, who defended herself and learned Alisa had developed a way to transform air through alchemy; Alisa asked what Lan Qingyou was researching.

• Alisa explained that the Aurelius Family sought the Emerald Tablet because its founder had studied under a beggar who spoke of it, and she offered research materials in exchange for it.
• Lan Qingyou questioned Alisa's claim to the tablet, and the two agreed to settle their disagreement in a contest using their research.
• Alisa walked away, then turned and attacked Lan Qingyou, who had anticipated the betrayal and appeared behind her.
• Alisa fired air bullets at Lan Qingyou, who blocked them with the Wall of Resilience and guessed that Alisa was using Air Magic.
• Alisa revealed that she had developed an alchemical method to transform air and asked Lan Qingyou what she was researching.