Recaps

At Yellow Raincoat Company’s South City headquarters, Wu Yaoxin promoted Priscilla and sought her advice on potential partners for entering Gaia, while Priscilla cautioned her about the strongest witches and recommended Agatha. Priscilla discovered a recruitment file for Jiang Han and secretly took it, planning to search for copies and protect her from the offer.

• Jiang Han said she could help with business in the area because she was the first developer of a major island in Gaia Space.
• Wu Yaoxin promoted Priscilla to Yellow-clad Supervisor and rewarded her with valuable equipment, supplies, and a custom staff.
• Priscilla reported that Eileen and Dinesha had not fought, and warned Wu Yaoxin not to provoke the Final Witch.
• Priscilla advised Yellow Raincoat to partner with Agatha for its Gaia plans, and Wu Yaoxin celebrated the recommendation with drinks.
• Priscilla spotted Jiang Han’s recruitment file on Wu Yaoxin’s desk, secretly hid it inside her body, and planned to search for backups.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu walked through South City, where Chen Ligu warned her about deceptive club jobs and Jiang Han reunited with Mei Ying. Jiang Han then went to inspect the custom vehicle parts she had ordered, and the shopkeeper led her to them in the warehouse.

• Jiang Han considered a high-paying Hamster Club job, but Chen Ligu explained how clubs lured inexperienced witches into providing extra services.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu ran into Mei Ying, who agreed to meet Jiang Han for a morning drink and fishing sometime in the next two weeks.
• Jiang Han asked Chen Ligu to wait while she went into the hardware store to collect her order.
• The shopkeeper took Jiang Han into the warehouse to inspect the customized parts, while a parrot Cat Lamp called out her order number.

Jiang Han asked Chen Ligu to help her find engineering retainers, and Chen Ligu brought her to a hidden witch marketplace beneath Snow Cedar Lake. There they met the alien engineer Miss Mela, who offered her skills and five engineer clanspeople in exchange for alchemical knowledge so they could stay in the Solar System.

• Jiang Han asked Chen Ligu where she could recruit retainers skilled in engineering.
• Chen Ligu led Jiang Han through the underground marketplace beneath Snow Cedar Lake and explained its gray-area trade and the presence of alien workers.
• Chen Ligu brought Jiang Han to Murloc Village, where the dragon proprietor, Miss Xu, looked for engineering candidates.
• Miss Xu introduced Jiang Han and Chen Ligu to Miss Mela, an alien engineer from the Gray Seat Stellar Cloud with a temporary residence permit.
• Miss Mela offered to bring five engineer clanspeople and proposed signing a contract in exchange for alchemical knowledge and formulas.

Jiang Han and the Weaving Maid Clan began constructing rooms for a base vehicle, combining the clan’s engineering work with Jiang Han’s magic. After offering an allowance and permanent residency rights for especially fast, high-quality work, Jiang Han was asked to build another room while Mela finished one herself.

• Mela and her clanswomen completed the installation work in a room with impressive efficiency.
• Jiang Han used magic to assemble a cubic room from flexible metal and elastic toughwood for the base vehicle.
• Vera and Kali debated how to build a transformer, with Kali arguing that Witch magic allowed them to ignore ordinary engineering losses.
• Mela explained that she let her clanswomen debate until they established an average work pace, while Jiang Han accepted their schedule as long as the quality was adequate.
• Jiang Han offered an additional allowance and permanent residency rights if the clan produced work that was both fast and high-quality.
• Mela told Jiang Han to build another room and said she would finish one herself.

Jiang Han asked Priscilla to teach her witch dueling so she could prepare to fight on Eightfold Island. Priscilla assessed Jiang Han’s options and recommended a defensive mana-shield strategy, leaving Jiang Han with a basic tactical plan to learn.

• Jiang Han found Priscilla in the camp’s coordination room and asked her to teach the basics of witch dueling.
• Priscilla explained how duels differed from real combat, including their rules and the cooldowns on powerful spells.
• Jiang Han considered Priscilla’s record against famous witches and compared her expertise with other tactical fighters.
• Priscilla advised Jiang Han to build up spell shields while using Tsunami, the Eternal Ice Eye, necromancy spells, and conjured summons to attack.
• Priscilla compared the proposed approach to Angelite’s defensive tactics combined with Ji Haijun’s Murloc swarm style.

Jiang Han and Priscilla watched the Eileen Cup elimination draw after a Landfolk racing competition. The draw paired Angelite with Lin Zhaojun, reviving the history of Angelite knocking Lin out in the first round.

• Jiang Han finished bathing, got ready, and joined Priscilla to watch the Eileen Cup broadcast.
• Priscilla explained that Eileen’s tournament featured a Landfolk and sorceress racing competition, whose champion won prize money, an honorary witch certificate, and a powerful potion.
• Eileen began drawing the elimination matches, and Ji Haijun drew Eleanor Holstead as her opponent.
• Eileen drew Angelite von Ludwig and Lin Zhaojun against each other, prompting Lin to gesture a throat-slitting threat at Angelite.
• Lin Zhaojun recalled that Angelite had repeatedly eliminated her in the first round before Lin became top 1.

On New Year’s Day, Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang prepared the new Witch House branch at Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island, while Angelite and Eileen launched a major commercial partnership. The branch opened as a high-end gathering place for powerful witches, and Jiang Han learned more about its staff and the witches’ secretly festive nature.

• Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang decorated the new Witch House branch with upside-down parrot Cat Lamps and prepared it for the New Year opening.
• Angelite connected her sky island to Eileen’s and brought merchants together to build a commercial street and develop nearby tourist areas.
• Du Ningzhuang created magical springwater and described the branch’s spa, entertainment, and sports facilities for high-ranking witches.
• Chu Yujun explained that experienced employees and newcomers, including the Phoenix Witch Cen Bai, had been assigned to the branch.
• Jiang Han learned that the manager kept costly cleaning Cat Lamps in her office and only lent them out during the Spring Festival.
• Jiang Han reflected that witches professed to despise holidays even though they clearly enjoyed joining the celebrations.

Jiang Han sparred with Tang Wen in the underground training room, overwhelming her with powerful defenses and sound magic. Afterward, the witches discussed the duel, and Jiang Han learned about Tang Wen’s Spell Conversion specialty.

• Jiang Han agreed to spar with Tang Wen and equipped her combat outfit and Lake Light.
• Tang Wen attacked with spirit spells, steel-armed earthen dolls, Dragon Breath Spells, and lightning, but Jiang Han’s defenses held.
• Jiang Han unleashed sound waves that broke through the platform barrier and slammed Tang Wen into the stone wall.
• Tang Wen recovered, and Jiang Han admitted that fighting gave her an urge to tear her opponent apart.
• The witches reviewed the duel, and Jiang Han learned that Spell Conversion let Tang Wen swallow spells and spew them back as a mutated spell.

After training, Jiang Han joined Eileen and Eleanor for a walk around the hot spring lake, where Eleanor discussed the upcoming social season and tried to introduce Jiang Han to wealthy witches. Eileen interrupted the matchmaking pitch, and Eleanor hinted that she could help Jiang Han find a friend who truly liked her.

• Polina defeated Jiang Han repeatedly, reminding her that her magic advantage could not overcome every opponent.
• Qin Shunying gave the shop staff two days off, and Jiang Han set out with a red envelope in her pocket.
• Jiang Han encountered Eileen and Eleanor, who invited her to walk with them around the hot spring lake.
• Eleanor asked Eileen about attending the April social season and suggested Emilia Lucas and Bertha Havelock as possible companions.
• Eleanor tried to persuade Jiang Han to attend by describing wealthy noble witches who needed companions, but Eileen interrupted with her own titles and wealth.
• Eleanor told Jiang Han she could introduce her to a witch who would genuinely like her, hinting that a gentle witch might also have a violent side.

Jiang Han toured Eileen’s strange garden, said goodbye to Eleanor, and declined Eileen’s dinner invitation because she already had plans with Cen Jing. Later, Jiang Han and Cen Jing prepared a cozy dinner at Jiang Han’s home, where Jiang Han secretly disguised her homemade refrigerator as an air conditioner and blamed Angelite for it.

• Jiang Han studied the unusual mushrooms in Eileen’s garden while Eileen showed Eleanor around.
• Eleanor invited Jiang Han to contact her online, then opened an Anywhere Door and returned to her camp on Mars.
• Eileen invited Jiang Han to dinner, but Jiang Han said she was going out to eat with a friend.
• Cen Jing prepared steak with seasoned soil and mint iced tea beer at Jiang Han’s home, while Jiang Han went to put on warmer clothes.
• Jiang Han noticed the unusually heavy refrigerator she had passed off as an air conditioner, wrote that Angelite had made it, and returned to the sofa to watch television.

Jiang Han enjoyed Cen Jing’s cooking and learned that the delicious dessert was made from mature Ice Cleansing Fruit, then asked Cen Jing to take her to Forest Mist Sky Sea the next day. Cen Jing brought her there and helped her find the Special Training Division, where the chapter left them arriving at their destination.

• Cen Jing served Jiang Han an elaborate dinner and a fruit dessert that made Jiang Han’s magic power surge with delight.
• Cen Jing explained that the dessert used mature Ice Cleansing Fruit and warned Jiang Han that unripe fruit could make a Sea Siren’s magic power and pheromones unstable.
• Jiang Han asked Cen Jing to take her to Forest Mist Sky Sea the following afternoon, and Cen Jing agreed.
• Cen Jing drove Jiang Han to Forest Mist Sky Sea, where a Witch in a naval uniform collected their parking fee and directed them toward the Special Training Division.

Jiang Han brought her Ice Bear to the Special Training Department to apply for the Witch Qualification Certification exam and met the witch Sofia. While the bear took its exam, Jiang Han, Jiang Miao, and Cen Jing watched gossip programs in the lounge, where interviews with familiar Eileen Cup contestants left Jiang Han embarrassed.

• Jiang Han submitted her Ice Bear’s pet certificate and received an admission ticket for the A1 exam.
• A service worker squeezed Jiang Han’s hand, and Jiang Miao said the same worker had done it to her.
• Jiang Han met Sofia, exchanged contact details with her, and introduced her overweight Ice Bear.
• Jiang Han hung the admission ticket around the bear’s neck before it entered the exam.
• Jiang Han, Jiang Miao, and Cen Jing waited in the lounge and watched interviews with Lin Zhaojun, Angelite, and Ji Haijun.

Jiang Han received the dragon materials Priscilla had found and met Roxanne, who would brew the potion and guide her through learning the Partial Dragon Transformation Spell. Roxanne transported Jiang Han to a peaceful valley, where she confirmed that Jiang Han wanted to learn the spell.

• Jiang Han waited for Ice Bear while Jiang Miao and Jing watched a bizarre television drama.
• A ghost Witch delivered Priscilla's letter, which said the materials had been found and the potion fee deducted from Jiang Han's reserve funds.
• Jiang Han learned that Roxanne had brought the materials and would brew the potion and supervise the spell-learning ritual.
• Roxanne said Priscilla had obtained the rare materials from a single dragon, and Jiang Han prepared to leave with her.
• Roxanne touched Jiang Han's hand and transported her to a sunny valley of flowers and wheat fields.
• Roxanne asked Jiang Han whether she wanted to learn the Partial Dragon Transformation Spell.

Jiang Han chose to learn the Dragon Wings transformation first and watched Roxanne brew a customized Partial Dragon Transformation Spell potion using Lilith’s dragon brain core. The potion was completed, and Roxanne told Jiang Han to perform a dangerous flying ritual before drinking it.

• Jiang Han chose Dragon Wings as her first Partial Dragon Transformation Spell and agreed to Roxanne’s potion-brewing terms.
• Jiang Han gave Roxanne Lilith’s dragon brain core, and Roxanne identified it as belonging to a Gray-Scaled Psionic Dragon.
• Roxanne explained the dragon brain’s preparation and brewed the potion while Jiang Han studied her methods.
• After 215 minutes, Roxanne finished the potion and instructed Jiang Han to jump from two thousand meters twenty times before drinking it.

Jiang Han completed the ritual and drank Roxanne’s potion, which changed her body and implanted the Conical Force Breath spell. After Roxanne diagnosed her and sent her back to the Special Training Department, Jiang Han prepared to test the new spell.

• Jiang Han endured the broom-jumping ritual, and Roxanne explained how rituals and potions could drive witches’ evolution before demonstrating her seventh-level Holy Stardust spell.
• Jiang Han drank the sweet potion and underwent a comfortable transformation that imprinted the Conical Force Breath spell in her body and mind.
• Roxanne recorded Jiang Han’s condition, equipment recommendations, potion limits, and harmless residue flaw, then explained that the residue would cause no adverse effects for 613 years at two potions per month.
• Roxanne declined to accept Jiang Han as a client and transported her back to the Special Training Department above the Forest Mist Sky Sea.
• Jiang Han noticed that the potion suited her Sea Siren magic-power nodes and prepared to try out her new spell.

Jiang Han tried out her new Flight Spell by transforming into a dragon-winged witch and flying at supersonic speed toward Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island. She crashed into Eileen’s black Griffin Carriage during a meeting, and Eileen comforted her as they headed to the palace.

• Jiang Han went to Forest Mist Sky Sea’s takeoff runway to test flying, despite having no flight license.
• Jiang Han transformed dragon wings, discovered she could manipulate force energy, and launched herself into the sky.
• Jiang Han used a dangerous time-slowing technique to keep up with her high-speed flight, then headed toward Snow Cedar Lake Sky Island.
• Jiang Han lost control while decelerating and smashed into Eileen’s Griffin Carriage, interrupting Eileen’s meeting with Loya, Eleanor, Lilith, and Agatha.
• Eileen ended the meeting, blocked detection spells, and led the embarrassed Jiang Han toward Snow Nan—Sovereign Palace for clean clothes and tea.

After recovering from the strain of flying, Jiang Han joined Eileen at a private gathering and met several witches, including Loya. She discussed the problems she had encountered in flight with Lilith, who offered to make her flight-assistance tools.

• Jiang Han recovered from the muscle soreness caused by maintaining time dilation and changed into a new outfit Eileen had lent her.
• Eileen led Jiang Han through the corridor, where Jiang Han described the Partial Dragon Transformation Spell and insisted on compensating her for the Griffin Carriage.
• Eileen accepted Jiang Han's offer to repay roughly two hundred thousand and invited her to a gathering with new friends.
• At the gathering, Eileen introduced Jiang Han to Loya and the other witches, and Loya enthusiastically embraced Jiang Han and praised her Trickcraft cover photograph.
• After eating with Eileen, Jiang Han spoke with Lilith about the difficulties she had encountered while flying, and Lilith offered to make her flight-assistance tools.

Jiang Han showed Eileen around Whiterun Sky Island and explained who controlled its development and how resource-development income was taxed. Eileen became interested in investing in a Folded Space, while Jiang Han left open the possibility of helping her obtain a development permit.

• Jiang Han welcomed Eileen to Whiterun Sky Island and walked with her around its outer district.
• Eileen asked whether the Witch Agency owned the Sky Island, and Jiang Han explained that the Chinese Witch Association held its development rights while ownership could be negotiated.
• Jiang Han took Eileen to tour the mushroom mine instead of the castle because Priscilla said the dragon witches were fighting there.
• Eileen asked how the mine’s income was divided, and Jiang Han explained that taxes varied by resource, with the mushroom mine taxed at nearly fifty percent.
• Eileen showed interest in buying a development permit and developing a Folded Space, and Jiang Han considered how readily she might receive one.

Jiang Han showed Eileen Whiterun Sky Island and highlighted its rich resources, hoping to persuade her to buy it. Eileen decided to consider purchasing the island and promised Jiang Han and her friends favorable development rights and taxes.

• Jiang Han introduced Eileen to the dragon witches Edwina and Bridget, who sampled the refreshments Priscilla had prepared.
• Jiang Han drove Eileen around Whiterun Sky Island and showed her its varied terrain and abundant resources.
• Eileen asked about the nearby sky sea, and Jiang Han explained that its rivers carried resources between the sky islands.
• Jiang Han told Eileen that gemstone ore sometimes flowed from the island’s inner lake, where a powerful ancient dragon lived.
• Eileen said she might buy Whiterun Sky Island and promised Jiang Han and her friends continued development rights with the most favorable tax rate.

Jiang Han watched Kraken’s knockout match against the mysterious ghost witch Histeria with Angelite, Eileen, and Lilith. Histeria seized the initiative with time magic and defensive spells, leaving Kraken behind 0–1 after the first game.

• Jiang Han accepted Angelite’s invitation to watch Kraken’s elimination-round debut with Eileen and Lilith.
• The four witches drank and traded barbs while waiting for the broadcast to begin, and Angelite introduced Histeria as a powerful ghost witch skilled in curses, prophecy, protection, and psionics.
• Kraken and Histeria exchanged taunts before the referee started their match.
• Histeria used time acceleration to take the initiative, bombarded Kraken with spells, and then cast Legendary Mage Armor before summoning defenses and undead.
• Five hours later, Kraken trailed 0–1, while Lilith watched in a motionless dragon-Witch sleep state.

Histeria defeated Kraken 3–0 in an exhausting bus-tactic match, and the Eileen Cup knockout stage was postponed until the day after tomorrow. Jiang Han woke in Eileen’s house to find the witches still asleep, but Lilith appeared to have stopped breathing.

• Histeria won three drawn-out matches against Kraken, sending her to the losers' bracket.
• Dorothy Jordan announced that the remaining knockout matches were postponed, with Angelite and Lin Zhaojun scheduled to meet first when matches resumed.
• Jiang Han woke in Eileen’s house and found Angelite, Eileen, and Lilith asleep after the matches.
• Jiang Han reheated Eileen’s dinner with a re-freshening spell and began eating.
• Eileen woke and asked Jiang Han for food, while Angelite also asked to eat.
• Jiang Han, Eileen, and Angelite noticed that Lilith had stopped breathing and lay silent.

After recovering from her transformation, Jiang Han shared a meal with Lilith, Eileen, and Angelite, who negotiated over Eileen buying Jiang Han’s Sky Island. The deal was settled, and the four planned to meet again as they prepared to form a secret alliance.

• Jiang Han demonstrated her improved control of force energy after the dragon organs fused with her body, then ate with Lilith, Eileen, and Angelite.
• Eileen proposed buying Jiang Han’s Sky Island, offering five tons of pure gold, and Lilith warned that the official investment price would be lower.
• Angelite and Jiang Han explained that Lilith could take a service fee, and Lilith agreed to handle the purchase application herself.
• The four settled the deal and agreed to meet at Jiang Han’s house the day after tomorrow to watch matches.
• After several more gatherings, they planned to enter the stage of forming a secret alliance.

Jiang Han visited the newly opened Witch House Club and met Qin Shunying’s twin sister, Qin Xing, before exploring the club’s high-end setup. Qin Shunying asked whether Jiang Han could introduce her musical cousin to the club.

• Jiang Han observed the upscale lakeside district and learned about Egg Teachers who educated Witch Eggs.
• Jiang Han mistook Qin Xing for Qin Shunying because the sisters looked alike, then learned they were twins from the same egg.
• Qin Xing greeted Jiang Han sweetly and traced her fingers across Jiang Han’s palm before Jiang Han withdrew her hand.
• Qin Shunying welcomed Jiang Han into the club and described Qin Xing’s bartender training and their family’s varied talents.
• Qin Shunying asked Jiang Han whether she would introduce her cousin who knew music to the club.

Jiang Han and the Witch House elites attended training at Qin Shunying’s new club, where high-ranking witches introduced unusual service professions and their qualifications. Qin Shunying encouraged the promising trainees to choose paths suited to their ambitions and said she would invite combat-focused advanced witches next week.

• Qin Shunying introduced Pipe Keeper Linda Dreyer, who explained how she maintained enchanted pipes and described the qualifications and training she would provide.
• Jiang Han applauded when Linda said Qin Shunying would cover the training expenses, prompting the other trainees and the hired witches to applaud as well.
• Nine more high-ranking witches introduced their professions, including swan breeder, wand caretaker, and Family Political Advisory Committee Member.
• Jiang Han and the Witch House trainees moved to the second-floor card room, where Chu Yujun considered becoming a swan keeper but worried about the required exams.
• Qin Shunying praised Jiang Han and Chu Yujun’s potential, advised Chu Yujun to consider Domestic Political Committee Member as a backup, and offered to bring in combat-focused witches next week.

At a gathering for gifted witches, Qin Shunying reflected on her plans to rebuild her family’s standing in high society by cultivating talented witches. Jiang Han’s appetite and lack of career plans tested Qin Shunying’s patience, and the chapter ended with her deciding to advise Jiang Han to become a model.

• Qin Shunying watched Jiang Han eat lobster and pastries at the club and tried to reconcile her manners with her exceptional magical talent.
• Li Yun told Qin Shunying she wanted to pursue swan keeping, then studied the training materials Qin Shunying gave her.
• Qin Shunying thought about her efforts to recruit talented witches and her past failures to win over powerful Chosen Witches.
• Jiang Han praised the club’s food and said she could make a food-rating sheet, but told Qin Shunying she had not chosen a profession.
• Qin Shunying decided to advise Jiang Han to work as a model, reasoning that her mind-control ability could help.