Recaps

Jiang Han staged a costly battle between her imps and desert wolves to make the Ghost Witches underestimate her, while a witch with roughly thirteen thousand mana followed her. She reached a secluded mine surrounded by sugar crystals near the mana node.

• Jiang Han recognized a sand hare as bait used to test her sensory web and pretended not to notice the enemy's approach.
• Jiang Han let desert wolves ambush and slaughter her imps before summoning five waves of reinforcements to defeat them, concealing her true strength.
• Jiang Han sensed a witch with about thirteen thousand mana following her from roughly a kilometer away and judged she could defeat the pursuer by striking carefully.
• Jiang Han summoned two Fish-Headed Wolves to clear the way and advanced through the dunes toward the mana node.
• Jiang Han dug through a dune and found a secluded mine surrounded by sugar crystals.

Jiang Han explored a crystal sugar mine and prepared her lesser demons for a possible ambush by ghost witches. After securing the camp and entering the mine, she investigated likely attack sites and began planning to replace the traps with her own.

• Jiang Han ordered the lesser demons to establish a camp around the mine and promised them extra soul coins and magic sausages.
• She cut soul coins in half and distributed the halves and sausages as rewards, while the lesser demons fought over them.
• Jiang Han entered the mine with guards and examined the sticky sugar oil covering the rugged passage.
• She sensed nearby lifeforms and traps, identified likely ambush locations, and planned to replace the ghost witches’ traps with her own.

Jiang Han and the ghost witch Lester each prepared a trap designed to kill the other with amplified holy damage. When Lester teleported into Jiang Han’s cavern, Jiang Han activated her own trap and braced for the clash.

• Jiang Han used crystal sugar mining to provoke the ghost witch hiding above the cavern while she waited for an opening.
• Jiang Han secretly prepared a cavern-filling holy-water trap, a teleportation trigger, and spells that amplified evil and holy damage.
• Lester planned to ambush Jiang Han with forced damage sharing, ghost form, and three castings of Holy Storm.
• Lester saw Jiang Han discard her defensive scroll after the lesser demons uncovered Honey Powder Stone and seized the chance to teleport down.
• Jiang Han triggered her trap, cast Pain Share, and used Tide of False Life as Lester arrived.

Miyana’s trip to exchange captured witches was interrupted by a massive explosion in the Cassia Desert, while Angelite’s incarnation continued fighting Eve Harkins in the sacred great cavern. Jiang Han awoke in the crater left by the blast, found the surviving ghost witch, and moved to capture her for a medal.

• Miyana was thrown from her train by a violent desert explosion and hid from the spreading positive-energy storm inside a teapot.
• Angelite’s incarnation fought Eve Harkins, who used a second attacker to turn the battle into a two-on-one fight.
• Jiang Han woke in a crater with her Golden Country Cloak damaged and realized that a point-blank Heaven and Earth Perish Together explosion had destroyed her camp and supplies.
• Jiang Han found a weakened ghost witch who had survived the blast with Transcendence and pulled her from the holy water to claim a capture bounty.

After digging her ruined camp out of the sand, Jiang Han captured Ghost Witch Lester Harkins and met Ghost Ship Witch Lilia Docheman, who invited them to search for witch gold together. The three set off despite Jiang Han’s concern that the prisoners were joining a treasure hunt before paying their ransoms.

• Jiang Han found her portable room intact, lured the Cat Lamps away with crystal sugar, and dug Lester Harkins out of the sand.
• Jiang Han and Lester met Lilia Docheman, a Ghost Ship Witch who had been buried while bathing and declared herself Jiang Han’s prisoner.
• Lester explained that her equipment was destroyed and she needed money from Eve to pay her ransom and resume fighting.
• Lilia revealed that a comet made of witch gold had shattered over the desert, leaving gold for the witches to hunt, and invited Jiang Han and Lester along.
• Lester proposed they cooperate as prisoners while traveling, and Lilia explained that witches traditionally joined forces across factions before turning on everyone.
• Lester recounted how Angelite and Josephine had outpaced Lilith, Octopus, and Dragon to claim the Philosopher’s Stone.

Jiang Han joined Lilia Dochman and Lester Huggins in a hunt for the fallen gold, and the three planned a dangerous overland journey through war zones and dragon pits. They prepared to build a multifunctional vehicle, with Jiang Han offering Giant Cat Lamps for power and Lester supplying blueprints.

• Jiang Han compared her skills with Lilia Dochman and Lester Huggins, then agreed to join their treasure hunt after Lilia showed them the map and gold-sensing rune.
• Lilia explained that the route to the treasure crossed more than fifteen war zones, including dragon pits and a battle zone for top-tier witches.
• Lester and Lilia said they could not fly because the skies were sealed by Ghost Railguns, so the group needed a sturdy vehicle for the two-week overland trip.
• Jiang Han proposed a multifunctional vehicle and offered to borrow two Giant Cat Lamps to pull it.
• Lester revealed that she had blueprints for a cosmic survey vehicle base from her aunt's Sky Exploration Bureau, which could be replicated with few materials.

Jiang Han used Ovi’s Cat Paw Horn to summon two Giant Cat Lamps, including a rare Panda Lamp, and hired them to pull the group’s survey vehicle. With Lester and Lilia building and Jiang Han growing timber, the vehicle neared completion.

• Jiang Han hid behind a dune, took out the Cat Paw Horn, and spent two pieces of Golden Candy to summon two Cat Lamps.
• A glowing orange Giant Cat Lamp and a nearly unlit Panda Lamp appeared, and Jiang Han persuaded them to help pull the vehicle in exchange for Golden Candy and a lavish meal.
• Jiang Han brought the Cat Lamps to the construction site, where Lester mistook the Panda Lamp for a sick Giant Cat Lamp and Jiang Han reassured her that it was rare.
• Jiang Han read the vehicle instructions while Lester and Lilia continued work on the heavy, reinforced chassis and earth-element tracks.
• Jiang Han grew century-old timber with magic as the hemispherical survey vehicle neared completion.

Jiang Han inspected the completed survey vehicle, ate and slept during the journey, then woke to find Alesha Wellington stranded in the desert. The vehicle was still hours from its planned rest stop when Jiang Han encountered the lost Mary Sue.

• Jiang Han and Lester confirmed that the survey vehicle’s deck and power system worked, and Jiang Han inspected its garden and rooms.
• Jiang Han summoned Cat Lamp chefs with the password “Ball of yarn,” and they prepared food for the travelers and the giant Cat Lamps.
• After the meal, Jiang Han and the other Witches returned to their rooms to sleep while the giant Cat Lamps continued driving.
• A Cat Lamp woke Jiang Han around nine in the morning and led her outside, where she saw Alesha Wellington standing beside a sign saying she was lost.

Jiang Han encountered Alesha and invited her to travel with the group, then learned that Alesha’s eyes could reshape matter and alter living creatures. The revelation left Jiang Han and Lester alarmed, though Alesha assured them that manipulating someone’s mind required prolonged direct eye contact.

• Jiang Han found Alesha waiting by a sign and invited her to come along until they found a camp.
• Alesha admitted she was nearsighted after failing to recognize Jiang Han, who cautioned herself against staring into Alesha’s unusual eyes.
• Alesha explained that her eyes could alter atomic structures, create organisms and spaces, and strengthen magic.
• While eating with Jiang Han and Lester, Alesha described how her eyes could change emotions, memories, perceptions, and common sense.
• Jiang Han and Lester covered their eyes in alarm, but Alesha swore she needed to stare at someone for a long time to use those abilities on them.

Jiang Han settled Alesha into her room, then went outside with Lilia and discovered they had reached Hamster Forest, a rare site rich in magical materials. She ordered the vehicle to stop so they could gather its treasures.

• Jiang Han let Alesha stay in her private room, where Alesha explained that her powerful magical eyes made glasses dangerous.
• Jiang Han woke and found Alesha still asleep, murmuring, "Nice one, Lin Zhaojun."
• Jiang Han met Lilia, who planned to enjoy the sun and advised avoiding battles during the Witch Conflict’s opening months.
• Jiang Han followed Lilia outside and learned the vehicle had reached Hamster Forest, a rare material-producing region filled with magical rodents.
• Jiang Han leaped onto the giant orange Cat Lamp and shouted for it to stop so they could gather materials.

Jiang Han explored Hamster Forest with the other witches and gathered rare magical plants, including a Monster Cat Flower. She then discovered a squirrel food cache and began secretly taking the materials the squirrels stored there.

• Jiang Han watched an orange giant Cat Lamp dig up Petrified Sweetgrass and received most of it after Meow Yi Ao transferred some of the Cat Lamps’ benefits to her.
• Jiang Han changed into survey gear and found a Monster Cat Flower, which she collected for her materials bag.
• Jiang Han inspected an unusually tall grove and discovered five oversized squirrels storing magical materials in a root nest.
• Jiang Han crept behind the squirrels and secretly took a little from their cache as they added more materials.

Jiang Han returned from the squirrel nest with demon cat flowers and chili radishes, then joined Lilia at a workspace set up for refining medicinal materials. Her exceptional alchemy produced a near-perfect extract, and Lester and Alesha entrusted their harvest to her for processing.

• Jiang Han secretly took materials from the squirrel nest and found two demon cat flowers and chili radishes beneath the dune.
• Jiang Han and Lilia returned to the exploration vehicle, where Lilia explained that she, Lester, and Alesha had prepared four crucibles for refining medicinal liquids.
• Jiang Han used advanced magical pharmacology to extract 99.7632% of a demon cat flower's medicinal properties and impressed Lilia with the result.
• Jiang Han offered to refine Lilia's materials for a fee, and Lilia watched her high-quality extract with astonishment.
• Lester and Alesha returned with more materials and handed them to Jiang Han after Lilia praised her refining skills.

Jiang Han secretly gathered ingredients for the Cat Lamp Witch advancement potion while disguising her choices, then joined a bonfire banquet and met two druids. Sula and Helen abandoned their plan to fight after realizing they might lose and proposed trading materials instead.

• Jiang Han scrambled her ingredient choices, brewed materials for the other witches, and secretly collected some potion liquid for her own advancement potion.
• After the others left the workroom, Jiang Han exchanged equal amounts of potion liquid and planned to check on Olivia’s pure wick.
• Jiang Han arrived at the bonfire banquet and found Alesha, Lilia, and Lester with two unfamiliar witches in antlered hats and black-swan cloaks.
• Sula introduced herself as the leader of the druids and a former great witch, then identified her master Helen.
• Sula admitted that she and Helen had come to fight Jiang Han over Hamster Forest but reconsidered because they might not win.
• Sula proposed that the witches trade materials while Hamster Forest was available.

Jiang Han secretly brewed a Cat Lamp Witch transformation potion and used it to reforge a wick aimed at producing a Night Splendor Myriad Cat Lamp. The potion succeeded, leaving her with a completed demon cat wick.

• Sula and Helen refined medicinal materials and paid Jiang Han a processing fee, while Jiang Han secretly gathered ingredients for her transformation potion.
• Jiang Han returned to the survey vehicle and began brewing the potion, aiming for a Night Splendor Myriad Cat Lamp with control over the Sea of Darkness.
• Jiang Han explained the dangers and unpredictability of Cat Lamp transformation, then protected herself against witches who might spy on her process.
• Jiang Han placed a Cat Lamp wick into the potion, which transformed it into a black-and-orange demon cat wick.

Jiang Han drank the conversion potion and transformed into a rare Mist Immortal Giant Cat Lamp, gaining powerful abilities from her fused bloodlines. After returning to human form, she discovered that her giant cat ears and tail had remained.

• Jiang Han decided to use her three-trait Monster Cat Lamp wick despite wishing she could add the rare [Multi-Tail] trait.
• She placed the wick in water, drank the finished potion, and endured the merging of her Sea Siren and Cat Lamp bloodlines.
• Jiang Han transformed into a Mist Immortal Giant Cat Lamp and recognized its traits, including control of dark lake water, weather guidance, spellcasting, and leyline energy.
• She changed back into a Witch and realized the Giant Cat Lamp form could create far more water than an ordinary Cat Lamp.
• Jiang Han noticed that her enormous cat ears and broad tail remained after her transformation ended.

Jiang Han discovered that the power of her Giant Cat Lamp transformation made the Cat Trick Orb unable to restore her witch form, but she adapted to her new abilities while gathering materials in Hamster Forest. As she traveled with the Giant Cat Lamps, she learned about their social circle and a rare musician called Meow Lisateliya.

• Jiang Han tested the Cat Trick Orb repeatedly and realized her Giant Cat Lamp transformation was too powerful for its spell to reverse.
• Over the next three days, Jiang Han and the witches gathered materials, while she practiced floating and conversed fluently with Peace Benevolence and Gu'a in Cat Lamp language.
• Lilia traded Jiang Han two Witch Conflict medals to stay behind and watch the survey vehicle as the other witches gathered materials.
• Peace Benevolence told Jiang Han that Meow Lisateliya was a Volcano Leyline Giant Cat Lamp and a genius musician who had once dug a singing dragon out of volcanic lava.
• Jiang Han snapped a tree with her tail to collect thornbird eggs and shared some with Peace Benevolence and Gu'a.

Jiang Han learned several giant Cat Lamp feats before returning to the desert and accepting a duel with the ghost Witch Lisa. She overwhelmed Lisa with magic and a devastating tail strike, then got her tail stuck in the stone beneath the sand.

• Jiang Han copied the Cat Lamps' mischief and completed their [Resilient Body] training, strengthening her body and learning more of their feats.
• Jiang Han arrived at Lester and Alesha's camp, where Lester told her that the ghost Witch was seeking a dueling partner.
• Jiang Han agreed to fight the ghost Witch, Lisa, and followed her to a sandy battlefield three kilometers away.
• Jiang Han attacked Lisa with fireballs, dispelled her spells, and destroyed her undead army with an icy shockwave.
• Jiang Han teleported behind Lisa and struck her with Evil-Sundering Slash, leaving Lisa near death beneath the sand and her own tail wedged in the stone ground.

After Lester freed Jiang Han’s tail from a mithril ore chunk, Jiang Han discovered that her enormous cat ears functioned as a powerful radar and analysis system. She explored the survey vehicle with her new senses and headed to the front deck to rest in the evening sun.

• Jiang Han’s tail became wedged in a mithril ore chunk, so Lester used a chisel hammer to free it while the others helped.
• Lisa asked whether Jiang Han’s cat ears could hear, and Jiang Han concealed that they functioned as biological radar towers.
• Jiang Han’s ears scanned nearby surroundings, analyzed objects, and helped her study spells through a specialized research system.
• Jiang Han ordered a meal from the Cat Lamp kitchen, then went to the survey vehicle’s front deck to soak up the last sunlight.

Jiang Han shared barley tea with Alesha aboard the survey vehicle and discovered the nearsighted witch was an astonishingly accurate rifle shooter. The next day, the group reached a desert Transfer Station, towing a large haul of prey killed with ordinary gunfire.

• Jiang Han admired the desert scenery and met Alesha on the foredeck.
• Alesha offered Jiang Han barley tea, and Jiang Han sensed the power behind Alesha’s butterflies.
• Alesha shot down a distant dragonhawk with a rifle, impressing Jiang Han despite her poor eyesight.
• The group arrived at a Transfer Station in a desert oasis the next day.
• The giant Cat Lamps pulled the survey vehicle into the station while the group towed a storage module full of prey with gunshot wounds.

Jiang Han spent her newly acquired witch medals at Cat Lamp Camp while Lilia and Lester outfitted the exploration vehicle, then went to eat at a crowded Transfer Station restaurant. She ran into Alesha, who told her a huge magical sandstorm was expected within days.

• Jiang Han left Lilia and Lester negotiating and preparing the exploration vehicle, then explored the Transfer Station for food.
• Jiang Han ordered a large meal at a cheese-grilled sandfish shop and paid the shop owner 156 yuan.
• Jiang Han found Alesha in the crowded restaurant and joined her booth.
• Alesha told Jiang Han that a huge magical storm carrying tens of millions of tons of sand and dust was approaching, explaining that witches had gathered inside camp to avoid it.
• Alesha observed that the fresh sandfish suggested an enormous underground lake and river system nearby.

Jiang Han shared a meal with Alesha, who revealed camp gossip and offered her a way to summon her in an emergency. Alesha left to handle other matters, while Jiang Han kept her butterfly projection hidden in her tail.

• Jiang Han teased Alesha over a joke about straight cars and learned that Alesha enjoyed dirty jokes.
• Alesha told Jiang Han that the Final Witch's incarnation and Eileen Habsburg had both beaten Eve Harkins, ghost witches had stolen materials from hamster witches, and the Transfer Station Arena had opened.
• Jiang Han invited Alesha to visit the arena, but Alesha said she had other things to do.
• Alesha cast her original Heart-Shadow Projection Mirror Spell and gave Jiang Han a butterfly that could summon her by receiving magic.
• Jiang Han hid the butterfly in her tail as Alesha left.

Jiang Han visited the arena, watched a witch match, and discovered that Miss Li Li had joined the Witch Conflict. She headed over to see her.

• Jiang Han returned to the assembly plant to tell Lilia and Lester where she was going and how to contact her.
• Jiang Han entered the arena, admired its facilities, and bought sugarcane juice from a young witch.
• Jiang Han spotted Eileen in a moving group photograph in the exhibition hall.
• Jiang Han watched a 3v3 match in which a fox witch defeated three ghost witches after a dragon witch choked and fell asleep.
• Jiang Han heard Miss Li Li cheer for her big sister, recognized her in the crowd, and went over.

Jiang Han reunited with Li Li at the Transfer Station, where she learned about Li Li’s family’s need for dragon eggs and her cousin’s fast cloud route. After a coming sandstorm changed their plans, Jiang Han went to investigate a nearby mine and discovered cat lamps gathered above it, hinting that witches had been trapped inside by hostile mining golems.

• Jiang Han pulled off Li Li’s fox ears, and Li Li snatched them back and reattached them before greeting her old friend.
• Li Li told Jiang Han that her family hoped to obtain dragon eggs to restart their dragon furnace, and explained that her cloud-fox cousin had brought her to the desert by a fast aerial route.
• Jiang Han left the Transfer Station to take commissions before the sandstorm arrived and spotted dozens of cat lamps floating over a suspected mine.
• Jiang Han overheard the cat lamps say that machine ghosts had driven unlucky witches underground, and she suspected hostile mining golems were responsible.
• Jiang Han compared her commission document with the terrain, located the suspected site, and descended as the cat lamps followed, accusing her of trying to monopolize the rewards.

Jiang Han tried to keep a group of cat lamps out of a dangerous mine, but their leader invited her to claim Giant Cat Lamp rights and share the mine’s resources. The cat lamps offered to hide in her tail as they prepared to enter.

• Jiang Han fended off the curious cat lamps and warned them that the mine was dangerous.
• A Persian cat lamp invited Jiang Han to visit its gathering area, but she said she had to complete her commission in the mine.
• The cat lamps insisted on joining the expedition, and Jiang Han warned that golems below might slaughter them.
• The Persian cat lamp explained Giant Cat Rights and offered to make the cat lamps Jiang Han’s subjects in exchange for 65% of the mine’s gains.
• The Persian cat lamp argued that Jiang Han’s damage to the mine tunnel made it a battlefield where the cat lamps could claim the resources after two hours.
• A Curl-eared Cat Lamp said the cat lamps could shrink and hide inside Jiang Han’s tail.

Jiang Han explored a barren but profitable mine with a group of Cat Lamps while discussing witches and their magical talents. After the Cat Lamps stored their supplies in her tail, she ventured deeper into the mushroom-filled tunnel and approached a strange chill, metallic clacking, and faint light.

• Jiang Han used her enhanced vision and a gray Cat Lamp to identify the mine as a barren mineral vein that could still turn a profit.
• Jiang Han's Cat Lamps mined ore and stored the collected materials in a patrol Cat Lamp while the Persian Cat Lamp teased her about her magic missiles.
• The Persian Cat Lamp discussed powerful witches, including Alesha, Eileen, Longsleep Meow, and the extraordinary Anjie.
• Jiang Han let the Cat Lamps store their supplies in the black lake inside her tail, then continued deeper into the mine.
• Jiang Han felt a supernatural chill and heard metal clacking as a faint light appeared ahead in the mushroom-filled tunnel.