Recaps

Jiang Han visited Angelite at the Sovereign Palace to ask about buying spells from her magic shop. Angelite revealed that she had emailed Jiang Han about her obscure-spell membership system, and Jiang Han ended their conversation by pouncing on her and demanding the catalog.

• Jiang Han finished the refreshments in the waiting room and followed Melissa to meet Angelite.
• Melissa introduced herself as the Lady's chief domestic affairs secretary and showed Jiang Han into Angelite's reception room.
• Angelite explained that she ran a small magic shop selling obscure spells through a membership subscription system.
• Angelite reproached Jiang Han for overlooking her emails, and Jiang Han pounced on her and demanded the catalog.

Jiang Han learned that Eileen had used a loophole in their Black Source Matter agreement to prepare for commercialization, and Angelite arranged for her to negotiate with Eileen over spell rights. Melissa took Jiang Han through the waterways to Snow Phoebe Lake, where she revealed that her loyalty was to whichever side won.

• Angelite explained that Eileen had bought up Black Source Matter-producing ores and could distribute goods as gifts, potentially bypassing their non-commercialization agreement.
• Jiang Han realized that buying spells from Angelite would require negotiating with Eileen over their shared patent and commercialization rights, and proposed a dessert-box condition for Angelite's approval.
• Angelite sent Jiang Han with Melissa to meet Eileen at Snow Phoebe Lake.
• Melissa explained that her grandmother had served Eileen and said she would stand with the victors, regardless of past loyalties.

Jiang Han visited Eileen through the Sovereign Palace’s formal reception system and listened as domestic affairs secretaries Davlin and Melissa complained about administrators and foreign affairs witches. Eileen had already prepared a contract for Anjie’s proposal, and Jiang Han added her own demands before it could be typed up.

• Jiang Han met Davlin and Melissa in the waiting room, ate the desserts, and overheard them discuss protecting their authority from new administrators and foreign affairs witches.
• Davlin and Melissa escorted Jiang Han to Eileen’s reception room after dismissing a Silver Knights witch who had come to guide her.
• Jiang Han and Eileen discussed their formal visit and the palace staff, and Eileen explained why she had previously kept such staff away from young witches.
• Jiang Han relayed Anjie’s proposal and request for a price, prompting Eileen to complain that Anjie prejudged her.
• Eileen produced a prepared contract offering Anjie commercialization rights while reserving production of Black Source Matter ingots to the three witches.
• Eileen set limits on Jiang Han’s additions, and Jiang Han wrote her extra demands onto the contract in fishfolk-style script.

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying strolled with their Dragon Turtles through Snow Cedar Lake’s new garden belt, discussing Dragon Turtle raising and enjoying the lively sky-island scenery. They discovered a hidden cave labeled “Clawmark Shop” and went inside to investigate.

• Jiang Han reflected on the challenges of managing the thousands of people who had relocated to Whiterun Island with her family.
• The Witch Agency put Eileen’s administrative proposal into operation, launching a botanical park belt and plans for seven sky-island connecting belts around Snow Cedar Lake.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying walked their Dragon Turtles through Meyersgrel Food Street’s garden belt after dining at Qin Shunying’s family restaurant.
• Qin Shunying explained that witches who raised Dragon Turtles were common because the creatures produced high-grade ingredients.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying found an amber-water spring beside a glowing cave, and Jiang Han entered the cave labeled “Clawmark Shop.”

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying visited a reclusive cat witch’s shop, where the shopkeeper displayed rare magical curios and an Exquisite Dragon Heart with a daunting mana requirement. The shopkeeper revealed that Meow-yi-ao had told her to lend the heart to Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying met the cat-eared shopkeeper in her hidden, comfortable shop.
• The shopkeeper showed them strange curios, including a teacup that empowered three witches of different races for twelve hours and a doll that randomly evolved a witch.
• The shopkeeper presented an Exquisite Dragon Heart that enhanced spellcasting and strength but could drain witches with less than fifty thousand mana.
• Qin Shunying and Jiang Han questioned the heart’s extreme mana requirement, which exceeded what ordinary witches could manage.
• The cat shopkeeper told Jiang Han that Meow-yi-ao had instructed her to lend the Exquisite Dragon Heart to her.

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying visited cat witch Zhao Ying, who served them magical tea and explained the wondrous teapot’s ability to increase witches’ magic power. Jiang Han declined Zhao Ying’s offer to use one daily cup until she could consult Olivia, then learned that the teapot had been found beneath the whiskers of a colossal Cat Lamp in an alternate dimension.

• Jiang Han admired the items in Zhao Ying’s shop and drank lemon tea made with a magical teapot.
• Zhao Ying introduced herself and revealed that her teapot could increase the magic power of three witches each day.
• Zhao Ying offered Jiang Han one daily cup, but Jiang Han declined so she could discuss the offer with Olivia first.
• Jiang Han asked how the teapot had been unearthed, and Zhao Ying recounted finding it beneath a giant Cat Lamp’s whiskers in an alternate dimension.

Jiang Han agreed to train in ITWF spell dueling under Olivia Meow, who prepared a miniature demiplane for her practice match against Vera. The chapter ended as Olivia ordered Vera to teach Jiang Han a lesson.

• Olivia Meow and Vera Meow dueled with their tails while reciting ITWF rules, and Olivia accused Vera of breaking them.
• Olivia offered to train Jiang Han using a competition arena, and Jiang Han agreed despite worrying about the cost of a venue.
• Olivia had Vera transform back into her witch form to serve as Jiang Han’s opponent.
• Olivia activated a miniature demiplane sphere that transported Jiang Han and Vera into a grassland arena.
• Olivia told Vera to begin training by teaching Jiang Han a lesson for twisting Olivia’s whiskers.

Jiang Han repeatedly challenged Vera in training and learned that her slow, overcomplicated defenses left her vulnerable to Vera’s rapid spell combinations. After Ovi Meow explained how to build a high-resistance Mage Shield, Jiang Han asked whether stronger spells could replace its basic components and prepared to try again.

• Jiang Han opened the duel with layered defenses, but Vera overwhelmed her with a fast combination of spells and killed her before she could understand the full tactic.
• Ovi Meow advised Jiang Han to rely less on psionics, use Swift Burst, and withstand attacks with her high magic power; Jiang Han insisted on another round.
• Jiang Han launched several powerful spells, but Vera detonated a cat-shaped campfire beneath her and killed her again.
• Jiang Han tried a flame ward, but Vera used pinpoint bombardment to defeat her, while Vera and Ovi Meow laughed at the mistake.
• Ovi Meow explained that Stone Skin and Soul Armor could be combined with Mage Armor or replaced by stronger alternatives, and Jiang Han agreed to fight Vera again.

Jiang Han struggled against Vera in combat and learned that her potion toxicity could attract ghosts, so Olivia offered to alter her inherited factors in exchange for a future favor. Jiang Han accepted and tried to drink Olivia’s blood, but her bite drew far more blood than expected.

• Vera repeatedly defeated Jiang Han, whose beatings granted her Mage Armor spell feats, while Olivia treated her and warned that her growing potion toxicity could attract ghosts.
• Olivia revealed that she could remove the toxicity’s drawbacks by reshaping Jiang Han’s inherited factors and adding self-healing genes, but demanded one great favor in return.
• Jiang Han agreed to Olivia’s offer, and Olivia explained that Jiang Han could clear the medicinal effects by drinking her blood.
• Jiang Han awkwardly climbed onto Olivia’s lap and nearly injured her thigh, prompting Vera to laugh.
• Jiang Han bit Olivia’s neck, covered her face in blood, and left Vera laughing uncontrollably.

Eileen visited Jiang Han and Olivia, then asked Jiang Han to provide magic and relocate to the Snow Phoebe Lake Belt. Jiang Han was inclined to accept but said she needed to consult her family, leaving the move’s details for later discussion.

• Eileen visited Jiang Han and found Olivia recovering from a neck wound caused by Jiang Han’s poisonous bite.
• Jiang Han stayed wary of Olivia and kept Eileen between them while they watched the secondary-league matches.
• Eileen explained that the league’s simple arenas had been built widely under her centralized system, and Olivia teased her about the era’s ambitious construction projects.
• After they watched the matches and ate together, Eileen offered Jiang Han an island in the Snow Phoebe Lake Belt in exchange for providing magic to support its development.
• Jiang Han considered the move’s benefits, including better conditions for her Sea Siren power and a place for the cat witches to build Cat Village, but said she would ask her family first.

Jiang Han’s family agreed to move to Snow Cedar Lake, but Kraken summoned her to Snow Phoebe for intensive training before she could consult Ovi. Meanwhile, Histeria infiltrated Snow Phoebe Sovereign Palace and joined the ghost witches’ feast, where Dinesha warned of a possible leak from Ghost Castle; Eileen learned about the feast and planned to join it.

• Jiang Han’s family unanimously approved moving to Snow Cedar Lake, and Kraken summoned her to the training base in Snow Phoebe.
• Histeria infiltrated Snow Phoebe Sovereign Palace by entering through a whirlpool painting and distracting Silver Knights with Cat Lamps.
• Histeria joined Priscilla and the other ghost witches for a feast, where Dinesha said witches and demon hunters had obtained information about Ghost Castle and suspected a leak.
• Eileen received Dinesha’s letter about the feast and planned to arrive at its liveliest point with more food.

Jiang Han toured the training base with Miyano Mona and met her teammates, learning about their unusual abilities and the club’s relaxed approach to training. The team was still missing one member, a mercenary hired to help them win at the opening and closing ceremonies.

• Jiang Han followed Miyano Mona through the training base while a burst of sunlight magic, likely from Eileen, rippled through her magical perception.
• Miyano Mona explained how witch clubs handled matches and training, and Jiang Han spotted Alesha Wellington at the base.
• Miyano Mona brought Jiang Han to the lounge, where she reunited with Chen Ligu and met Chai Ying and Chu Yujun as teammates.
• Miyano Mona explained that Chen Ligu had advanced to Witch Acolyte after hunting a level-eight dragon with Golia Teltrosko’s help.
• Chu Yujun revealed that she was an ordinary mage with sorcerer as a side job and an advanced path in Cloud-Climbing Monk.
• Miyano Mona said the fifth teammate had not arrived and was a mercenary hired to secure wins at the opening and closing ceremonies.

The Sea Shepherds Club welcomed Histeria as a new teammate, completing its five-witch Secondary League lineup. Mona explained that the club still needed more recruits and planned to prioritize team chemistry, leaving the team to consider an informal trip to the training grounds.

• Chen Ligu asked whether Histeria could guarantee victories in the Secondary League, and Mona said Histeria was about to arrive.
• Histeria entered the room, and Jiang Han realized that Eileen had arranged her as a superior replacement.
• Histeria introduced her Devil Master base class and revealed that she had the advanced classes of Legendary Fisherwoman and Legendary Scroll Mage.
• Mona explained that the club would focus on developing its newcomers and could still aim for the playoffs because Lin Zhaojun was on the roster.
• Mona said the club had found only five witches so far and was still recruiting for its fifteen-witch roster.
• Chai Ying suggested that the team visit the training grounds to see a top-tier witch's fighting strength.

Jiang Han watched Xiya face the three Witch House sisters in a training match, while she and Mo Na chatted on the sidelines. Xiya effortlessly defeated the trio, who demanded another round.

• Jiang Han and Mo Na sat out the fight and watched Chai Ying, Chen Ligu, and Chu Yujun prepare to battle Xiya.
• Mo Na asked Jiang Han what shampoo she used, then pulled out a strand of hair and decided her hair was in a life-or-death crisis.
• Mo Na started the first training round as Chen Ligu cast Dark Curtain and Chu Yujun attacked while Chai Ying cast protective spells.
• Xiya used Wall of Sand and Forced Damage Sharing, then fired a Flashbang and switched into ghost form, knocking all three sisters down.
• The Witch House trio recovered with unconvinced expressions and called for another round.

Jiang Han and Histeria watched Xiya overwhelm the Witch House’s three heroines, then left the training grounds for a meal. While Histeria ordered seafood, Jiang Han studied Eileen’s detailed notes on the legendary spell Boundlessly Spreading Tide and learned how its water currents gathered, transformed, and destroyed their surroundings.

• Xiya defeated Chai Ying, Chu Yujun, and Chen Ligu in several sparring matches, leaving the three witches stunned.
• Miyano Mona explained the heroines’ disadvantage in experience, magic, spell mastery, and level, and advised them to improve their spell identification.
• Jiang Han and Histeria left the training grounds after Mona described the club’s facilities, and Histeria said she used the Eye of Omniscience in place of a familiar.
• Xiya used her Ghost Bay membership card to order seafood rice and sugarcane wine at the buffet while Jiang Han studied Eileen’s legendary spell notes.
• Jiang Han learned that Boundlessly Spreading Tide gathered water from the air and transformed it into a destructive, purifying current.

After studying Eileen's spell notes, Jiang Han gained occult knowledge and clues about Advanced Spell Counterspell Specialization, but her drained mental energy left her languid. As she recovered, Xiya taught her a summoning ritual and shared her frustration over a fraudulent crown, ending with a revelation about Eileen's uncanny talent for appraising treasure.

• Jiang Han told Xiya that Eileen's notes had broadened her understanding of magic, though her progress toward the specialization remained limited and her thought threads were temporarily shut down.
• Xiya offered to tutor Jiang Han in Anjie's Arcane Theory magazine for a fee, then taught her a summoning ritual involving cola, lasagna, and a sealed soul.
• Jiang Han focused on recovering her mental energy so she could learn a legendary spell before the competition, while Xiya changed the conversation to hats and dresses.
• Xiya realized that her supposed First Epoch Pharaoh Witch crown had likely been forged by soaking it in the River of Time.
• Xiya revealed that Eileen could identify the contents and quality of treasure by listening to gemstones and gold coins shaken in a pocket.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu went to a magic-mirror shop to buy moving equipment, but Jiang Han reached their destination first and watched Silver Knights stop escaped pterosaurs from disrupting the flight route. Chen Ligu arrived after the danger had passed.

• Jiang Han asked Chen Ligu for recommendations on moving equipment, and Chen Ligu suggested a nearby magic-mirror shop.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu flew toward Inner Ring C of Snow Phoebe Lake, but Jiang Han outpaced Chen Ligu and waited on an ecological island.
• Enhanced pterosaurs escaped from a witch's laboratory and attacked witches using the flight route.
• Two Silver Knights restrained and defeated the pterosaurs, reopening the flight route.
• Chen Ligu arrived on her dragonhide book, and Jiang Han waited for her.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu traveled through the busy air harbor and visited a magic mirror shop to arrange a rental and expedited delivery. A terrifying surge of magic interrupted them, and they saw an enormous vortex forming above Snow Phoebe Lake, with Jiang Han sensing Eileen’s presence.

• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu arrived at Inner Ring District C and navigated its crowded air harbor.
• Chen Ligu led Jiang Han through the commercial streets to Old Cui Magic Mirror, where they arranged to rent a magic mirror and have their purchases delivered that day.
• The shopkeeper explained the extra charges for expedited delivery near Myriad Phenomena, where Chen Ligu and Jiang Han lived.
• A powerful magical eruption shook the area, and Jiang Han, Chen Ligu, and the shopkeeper went outside to investigate.
• Jiang Han saw a massive vortex above Snow Phoebe Lake and sensed that Eileen was making a move.

Eve Harkins launched a rebellion against Eileen, prompting Angelite to intervene and drive her back into the Ghost Castle vortex. Jiang Han learned that the Witch Rebellion would put servant armies at risk and was told to arrange non-conscript permits for those she wanted to protect.

• Eileen ordered Eve Harkins to cancel Ghost Castle’s operation, compensate the region, and undergo labor reform, but Eve refused and attacked her.
• Eileen fought back, but Eve withstood her strikes and warned that it was not the time.
• Angelite appeared and struck Eve with an enhanced Annihilation Singularity, forcing her to flee into the vortex after destroying it.
• Jiang Han watched the confrontation as Chen Ligu warned her to arrange non-conscript permits for favored servant armies.
• The insectoid witch shopkeeper explained that the Witch Rebellion was a regular event in which servant armies fought and often lost half their numbers.

Jiang Han moved into a secluded home at Snow Phoebe Lake and enlisted Olivia and the other Cat Lamps to transform it and craft equipment. She also arranged to invite Anjie over to discuss a non-conscription permit for the Weaving Maid Clan, while the Witch unrest continued elsewhere.

• Chen Ligu explained that the Witch Rebellion aimed to wipe out servant-army worlds and increase the witch population, then helped Jiang Han buy supplies for moving her territory.
• Jiang Han messaged Anjie to invite her to dinner and play Marit, hoping to discuss a non-conscription permit for the Weaving Maid Clan.
• Jiang Han moved into a secluded inner-ring residence at Snow Phoebe Lake and met a migrating group of panda witches, exchanging contact mailboxes with them.
• Olivia Lamp, Vera Lamp, and Sha'er praised the new home's ley-line energy, and Jiang Han asked them to reshape the grounds around a lake and underground waterways.
• Olivia created a greenhouse regulator, culture dishes, alchemical preparation stations, and a graphics card, branding the equipment with Angelite von Ludwig's name and hiding it from Angelite's detection.

After moving into their new home, Jiang Han welcomed Angelite, who came to work on applications for witches joining the Witch Rebellion. Angelite and the Cat Lamps explained the war’s ransom system and how the rebellion helped stabilize witch rule despite the witches’ population shortage.

• Jiang Han and her family settled into their new home after Cleya was accidentally left at school and brought back by Zhen Ling.
• Jiang Han read that Dragon Witches were protesting the Ghost Witches’ rebellion and that the Ghost Witches were recruiting participants through a newspaper ad.
• Angelite arrived at Jiang Han’s home with documents and explained that witches had to apply and pay a deposit before joining the war.
• Angelite, Anjie, Ovi, and Vera explained that the rebellion let witches meet their demands and helped maintain three years of stable rule.
• Jiang Han considered the witches’ limited population, slow growth, and demanding living requirements as Angelite continued signing war applications.

Jiang Han learned about the Ghost Witch War’s rewards and agreed to join after Angelite offered to cover her ransom deposit. Angelite assigned her to hunt members of the Graygold Sisterhood and promised a restraint wonder, leaving Jiang Han prepared to target the group’s weaker Ghost Witches.

• Jiang Han read Yuksara Devik’s application to join the Ghost Witch faction because they offered her Ghost Cat Lamps and Ghost Dragons.
• Angelite said many witches, including Lilith, had been lured to the Ghost Witches, and explained that the war would take place on Gaia and offer materials for advanced classes.
• Cat Ovi urged Jiang Han to apply so she could earn money and materials, and Jiang Han agreed to join.
• Angelite offered to advance Jiang Han’s 105,000-yuan ransom deposit in exchange for hunting witches from the Graygold Sisterhood and paying her twice the medals for each capture.
• Jiang Han asked for a positive-energy restraint ritual to counter Ghost Witches, and Angelite agreed to lend her a restraint wonder instead of a spell.

Jiang Han reached the Cassia Desert after two exhausting weeks of Witch Turmoil battles, carrying sixteen medals from witches she had defeated. She found a Cat Lamp faction resting camp, bathed, and began writing home while resting there.

• Jiang Han arrived at Cassia Desert after crossing dozens of Sky Islands and losing her demon servant army along the way.
• Jiang Han recalled defeating sixteen witches and gaining extensive combat experience during her journey.
• Jiang Han studied her magic map and chose a nearby Cat Lamp faction resting camp.
• Jiang Han showed her cat-paw-print badge to the Arcane Giant Cat Lamp, which let her pass into the camp.
• Jiang Han bathed in a massage pool and began writing a letter to her family.

Jiang Han sent a letter home, enjoyed a lavish meal at Cat Lamp Camp, and explored its hot springs and amenities. At the Cat Paw Tavern, a fox witch offered to trade exclusive rewards for Jiang Han’s Witch Conflict medals and auxiliary troop coins, and Jiang Han asked what was available.

• Jiang Han sent her family a letter by turning dragonhide paper into an origami dragon.
• Jiang Han ordered food at a cat lamp buffet and tipped the two cat lamp chefs with Gold Cat Paw Mark coins.
• Jiang Han toured Cat Lamp Camp’s hot springs, library, game room, lounge, and tavern.
• A two-tailed fox witch approached Jiang Han and offered exclusive rewards in exchange for Witch Conflict medals and auxiliary troop coins.
• Jiang Han showed the fox witch her medals and coins, then asked what rewards she could offer.

Jiang Han spent her medals on two Giant Cat Contracts and a Cat Lamp Kitchen lantern, then rested at the cat lamp camp before setting out into the desert. After learning that ghost witches were likely targeting a nearby crystal sugar mine, she disguised herself as a lone mining witch and headed toward the site to draw them out.

• Jiang Han exchanged all sixteen medals for two Giant Cat Contracts and a Cat Lamp Kitchen lantern, gaining VIP treatment at the cat lamp camp.
• On July 20, Jiang Han prepared her gear and left the camp as the other witches set out into the desert.
• Jiang Han reviewed Anjie's reports about servant troops, reserve witches, and newly born witches returning to the witches' homeland.
• Jiang Han learned that ghost witches were likely targeting a nearby crystal sugar mine after sacrificing servant troops to conceal their arrival.
• Jiang Han disguised herself as an elite mining witch, summoned lesser demon servants, and sensed a living creature approaching.