Recaps

Jiang Han encountered a witch-shaped mechanical golem in the mine and destroyed it with her Eternal Ice Eye, then discovered its cheap construction and recovered its staff and serial number. More golems emerged from the mine shafts, leaving her facing a growing horde.

• Jiang Han attacked the first golem with positive energy, shattering its weak defensive barrier and knocking it into a wall.
• The Persian Cat Lamp urged Jiang Han to destroy the blasphemous creation, and she froze the golem with her Eternal Ice Eye.
• Jiang Han examined the wreckage, recovered its inexpensive silver-and-wood staff, and found the serial number 3504318020.
• Jiang Han froze two more golems and endured fifteen magic missiles from five attackers without serious injury.
• More golems poured from the mine shafts, and Jiang Han prepared to strike them with her Eternal Ice Eye.

Jiang Han destroyed the golems in the mine, then opened an electrified door and rescued five trapped witches. The commission ended, but the mystery of who had created the blasphemous golems remained.

• Jiang Han unleashed her hair as a Black Lake tide and crushed the golems in the mine tunnel.
• The cat lamps scavenged the wreckage and discovered a sealed, electrified door, then recharged themselves by draining its power.
• Jiang Han wondered who had made the golems, and the Persian Cat Lamp guessed that a witch was responsible.
• After waiting for the cat lamps to finish scavenging, Jiang Han opened the door and rescued five witches.

After rescuing five resource-surveying witches, Jiang Han returned to the Transfer Station and ran into Chen Ligu, who was bargaining over rare materials. Chen Ligu discovered a Gray Mist Cat Lamp hidden in Jiang Han’s tail and invited her for a drink.

• Jiang Han brought the rescued witches back to the Transfer Station and turned in her commission for two medals.
• Jiang Han watched Chen Ligu argue with the Investigator Tavern manager over the market price of red-bearded demon foxtail grass.
• Chen Ligu recognized Jiang Han, rubbed her ears, and teased her for secretly spending three hundred of her points.
• Jiang Han poked Chen Ligu’s belly with her tail, and Chen Ligu accidentally pulled a Gray Mist Cat Lamp from it.
• Chen Ligu recognized the rare cat lamp, put it back in Jiang Han’s tail, and invited her for a drink.

Jiang Han met Chen Ligu in a private room and learned that Chen had come to the Witch Conflict area to gather materials and ease her office’s financial strain. Jiang Han arranged to bring her prospecting with her friends in exchange for office discounts and a set of witch cards.

• Chen Ligu asked Jiang Han about her cat ears and tail, and Jiang Han explained that they were an accidental result of a ritual spell.
• Chen Ligu said she was not competing in the Witch Conflict but was gathering materials while studying, since her office was short on money.
• Jiang Han offered to lend Chen Ligu money, but Chen refused and asked instead to join Jiang Han on a prospecting trip.
• Jiang Han proposed bringing Chen Ligu along in exchange for a small prospecting commission, keeping their search for gold confidential.
• Chen Ligu offered an office commission discount card and a witch card set, and Jiang Han agreed to bring her prospecting.

Jiang Han brought Chen Ligu to meet Lester and Lilia, who agreed to join the desert prospecting commission in exchange for witch cards. After the prospecting vehicle was modified and Alesha returned, the witches headed out into the sandstorm.

• Jiang Han introduced Chen Ligu and her prospecting commission to Lester outside Workshop Six.
• Chen Ligu offered Lester a Rainbow Gem edition of the 1972 Great Conference cards, and Lester agreed after requesting Agatha and the French Twin Stars.
• Lester showed Jiang Han and Chen Ligu the modified prospecting vehicle, while Lilia finished its final adjustments.
• Lilia met Chen Ligu and negotiated with Lester over the card set.
• Jiang Han, Chen Ligu, Lester, and Lilia waited in the workshop with a hotpot until Alesha returned, then they set out into the sandstorm.

Jiang Han received a Dense Net Arcane Core and the supplies and blueprint for a Cat Lamp Sky Island, so she left the convoy plans to build it in the dunes. She began assembling the island while her cat lamps gathered nearby.

• Jiang Han stayed awake while the witches rested, planning to leave the convoy and travel by air after finishing her work.
• Jiang Han studied the six-layer sky-island blueprint and the Cat Lamp Witch requirement to build a Cat Lamp Sky Island with over five thousand cat lamps and fifteen spatial fishponds.
• Jiang Han found a package from Angelite containing a Legendary Book VIII Dense Net Arcane Core authorized for use as a semi-armed sky island, along with a secret letter from Cat Paw and the Sleeping Cat Lamp.
• Jiang Han chose to build the sky island in an uninhabited dune rather than risk carrying the valuable core in the vehicle.
• Jiang Han summoned Gray Mist Cat Lamps and Persian Cat Lamps to gather the other cats nearby and keep them from being blown away.

Jiang Han used her magic to create Ice Golems and mirror images, then began constructing a hidden Sky Island in the desert. She planned to finish the island’s core, shell, and systems in roughly a day.

• Jiang Han sculpted five Ice Golems in her own likeness, and they created ten mirror images.
• Jiang Han drew energy from the earth veins and gave the cat lamps earth-vein cookies before asking them to gather soil, stones, sand, and wood.
• Jiang Han summoned a powerful Rain of Sunlight to conceal the construction and hinder divination.
• Jiang Han used the gathered materials and magic to make frozen bricks, then had her golems build the Sky Island’s outer shell and magnetic-rock framework.
• Jiang Han planned a protected core chamber for the Dense Net Arcane Core, along with magma, water-cycle, and mist-circulation systems.

Jiang Han developed her Sky Island by planting enchanted grass, shaping a pond, and setting out Cat Trees sent by Sleeping Cat Lamp. After planting thirty trees, she followed Olivia’s instruction to carry a mysterious bronze sapling to the center of the pond.

• Jiang Han planted Druid-enchanted grass and wildflowers across the Sky Island, despite worrying about her growing debt to Sleeping Cat Lamp.
• Ice Golems and mirror images dug a large pond and began raising the island’s walls while Jiang Han set up a temporary tent.
• Jiang Han unpacked thirty improved Cat Trees and planted them around the pond, where the first quickly grew into a towering tree.
• Jiang Han found a bronze-glimmering sapling in the last storage sphere and received Olivia’s message telling her to plant it in the middle of the water.
• Jiang Han used the Black Lake water effect to reach the pond’s center with the sapling.

Jiang Han planted the bronze-colored Cat Lamp Tree sapling, which grew into a colossal tree that transformed the center of her Sky Island. After exploring its luxurious Giant Meow Suite, she agreed to test-fly the nearly completed island.

• Jiang Han planted the Cat Lamp Tree sapling at the bottom of the pool and fled when it suddenly grew into a tree hundreds of meters tall.
• Jiang Han saw that the tree’s branches covered the pool and held many Cat Lamp dwellings, and she worried about its immense value and the debt she might owe.
• The Gray Mist Cat Lamp compared the tree to a descendant sapling of the Maoerke Ke De Tree and explained that the legendary tree nurtured Folded Space.
• Jiang Han explored the tree’s Giant Meow Suite, including its terrace, library, hot spring, meeting room, and panoramic study.
• Jiang Han surveyed the developing Sky Island as an Ice Golem declared it nearly finished and proposed a test flight, which she approved.

Jiang Han’s Sky Island took flight, and she enjoyed its new comforts while preparing to show it to Cen Jing. The cat lamps then urged her to recruit more cats, and Cat Carol Lost arrived as her giant cat assistant.

• Jiang Han activated the air circulation system and confirmed the Sky Island could support witches, landfolk, and cat lamps.
• Jiang Han surveyed the floating island, took a photograph, and scheduled a message to Cen Jing.
• The Persian Cat Lamp and Gray Mist Cat Lamp told Jiang Han that their sixty or seventy meow-aos were too few to maintain the Sky Island.
• Cat Carol Lost arrived as Jiang Han’s assistant and explained that it would provide advice about cat lamps while leaving witches’ affairs to witches.

Jiang Han learned how to control the Cat Lamp Sky Island, set it to follow a signal, and organized plans to recruit more Cat Lamps. The island began its journey through the desert as Jiang Han looked for gold deposits to help ease her debts.

• Cat Carlo explained that the disk was the Sky Island’s control panel, and Jiang Han activated it with the Enlightenment of Wisdom incantation.
• Jiang Han gave Cat Carlo the intercepted signal transmitter, and the Sky Island began following its signal.
• The Persian Cat Lamp explained how to recruit Cat Lamps and Giant Cats, while the Gray Mist Cat Lamp suggested using cat-catching nets to rescue strays from sandstorms.
• Jiang Han ordered Meow-ow to prepare nets and arrange for storm-resistant Cat Lamps to retrieve lost cats.
• Jiang Han watched Cat Carlo assign the little cats to homes and searched the Sky Island for gold deposits.

Alesha confronted Cursebearer in the sandstorm and demanded that Angelite come meet her, but Angelite’s overwhelming power swept across Sky Island. Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps sensed the terror and hid.

• Alesha left Lester and Lilia, used her magic to cross the sandstorm, and followed a powerful presence to Cursebearer.
• Alesha told Cursebearer she had discovered Harkins’s secret and challenged her to bring Angelite for a private meeting.
• Cursebearer attacked with a vast tide of void that shattered Alesha’s power and spread across the sand.
• Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps felt the frightening presence and scrambled into hiding.

After Anjie's overwhelming magic-pressure wave passed, Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps prepared Cat Lamp Island for the approaching sandstorm and began rescuing cats swept along by it. The chapter ended with the Fel Giant Cat catching a Cat Lamp that happily floated off to drink at the pool.

• Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps emerged after Anjie's magic pressure vanished, and the Fel Giant Cat confirmed that more cats might flee into the sandstorm.
• Jiang Han arranged for Cat Tree leaves to be scattered and expanded the island's territory, attracting new Cat Lamps, including fox-like ones.
• As the sandstorm struck Cat Lamp Island's protective barrier, Jiang Han and the Fel Giant Cat went to the entrance to catch cats being swept past.
• A fat Cat Lamp crashed into the island and fell away, while Jiang Han and the others watched without intervening.
• The Fel Giant Cat scooped up a cat floating through the storm, and the captured cat happily flew off to drink at the pool.

Jiang Han slept through the morning after tiring of fishing, then woke to find her catlike habits growing stronger as she dressed in a dark, high-waisted outfit. She left her room by leaping from the Giant Cat Tree and used her enormous tail to glide through the air.

• Jiang Han gave up fishing for cat lamps, greeted the giant cats and kittens, and went to sleep in her nest.
• She dreamed of fishing with her tail, then woke in the afternoon after being shocked by an electric eel in her dream.
• Jiang Han noticed she was becoming more catlike and took a shower while the sandstorm darkened the view outside.
• She chose a dark floral high-waisted skirt, matching tights, dress shoes, and a veiled hat made from her Exquisite Dragon Heart crown.
• Jiang Han leapt from her terrace and used her tail to cushion and glide through the air.

Jiang Han learned that the Fel Giant Cat had recruited several Giant Cat Lamps and asked about their abilities and circumstances. The Fel Giant Cat described the new recruits, then began gossiping about the Moon Spring Giant Cat Lamp.

• Jiang Han found a Treefruit Giant Cat Lamp cultivating fruit trees and tried to greet her, but the cat hid behind a log.
• The Fel Giant Cat told Jiang Han that the recruitment had brought in three Giant Cats and several hundred smaller cats.
• The Fel Giant Cat revealed that the Treefruit Giant Cat Lamp had suffered emotional trauma after being mistreated by a female Cat Lamp.
• The Fel Giant Cat described recruiting a powerful Storm Giant Cat Lamp after they became friends over Witch cards.
• When Jiang Han asked about the Moon Spring Giant Cat Lamp, the Fel Giant Cat began listing disparaging rumors about her kind.

Jiang Han watched Chen Ligu’s forces struggle against a huge swarm of mechanical mimic witches and asked the Fel Giant Cat for help. The Fel Giant Cat brought her an elite order of catfolk knights, and Jiang Han realized they were among Olivia’s most devoted followers.

• Jiang Han saw Chen Ligu’s exploration vehicle trapped on a dune while her servant army fought thousands of mechanical mimic witches.
• Jiang Han asked the Gray Mist Cat Lamp to summon the Fel Giant Cat, hoping to learn what servant troops Olivia had arranged for her.
• The Fel Giant Cat offered a group of hell catfolk in exchange for Jiang Han providing witch-transformation slots from her Archwitch quota.
• The Fel Giant Cat opened a Cat Lamp portal and summoned fewer than fifty armored catfolk knights from Cat Tufflin.
• The Fel Giant Cat explained that the Cat Tufflin Knight Order were elite, century-long believers in Meow Yi Ao, and Jiang Han recognized them as Olivia’s holy guard.

Jiang Han recruited the Cat Tufflin Knight Order to fight the bionic robots and helped Cat Carlo unleash a meteor-like attack. She then accelerated herself toward the battlefield, descending from the Cat Lamp Sky Island.

• The Sixth Temple Detachment of the Cat Tufflin Knight Order finished its ceremony and offered to follow Jiang Han’s command.
• Jiang Han asked the catfolk knights to charge the battlefield and deal with the bionic robots.
• Cat Carlo revealed her Fel Shell spell and agreed to launch the knights toward the ground.
• Cat Carlo encased all forty-six knights in rocky, flaming spheres and hurled them skyward before sending them crashing toward the battlefield.
• Jiang Han floated above the battlefield, dispelled her levitation, and cast an acceleration spell to descend.

Jiang Han arrived to help Chen Ligu battle an enormous force of upgraded bionic witches, destroying many with powerful spells while the Cattaflin knight-order catfolk fought at close range. After the machines retreated, Jiang Han reunited with Chen Ligu, learned that most of her ghouls had died, and asked where Alesha was.

• Forty-six burning boulders struck the battlefield, devastating the bionic witches and killing many of Chen Ligu's servants.
• Jiang Han landed among the machines, used powerful spells to burn and destroy large numbers of bionic witches, and received support from the Cattaflin knight-order catfolk.
• The bionic witches retreated after the catfolk tore through their defenses, leaving nearly all of Chen Ligu's ghouls dead and only a dozen or so centaurs alive.
• Jiang Han met Chen Ligu, and they held hands while complaining about Lilia.
• Jiang Han asked where Alesha was, and Chen Ligu replied that Little A was tired.

After the battle, Jiang Han returned to the exploration vehicle, where Lester boasted about her fight and cooked a meal for the group. Jiang Han then checked on Alesha and discovered that her seemingly medicinal treatment was actually a bone-broth hotpot.

• Jiang Han entered the exploration vehicle with Chen Ligu and heard Lester brag to Lilia about fighting the monster.
• Chen Ligu made a passive-aggressive remark about Lester not helping, and Jiang Han defused the tension by praising Gu Bao as a strong passenger.
• Lester borrowed the Cat Lamp kitchen and cooked everyone Ghost steam-pot dragon meat soup.
• Jiang Han went to retrieve Chen Ligu's witch card collection album and found Alesha wrapped in bandages beside a huge, herb-filled cauldron.
• Alesha dipped fatty beef into the boiling broth and ate it, revealing that the cauldron held bone-broth hotpot rather than medicine.

Jiang Han, Alesha, and Chen Ligu shared hotpot after Chen Ligu reported that Lester had found the golden drop point and they would cross the sandstorm in the morning. Over dinner, Alesha revealed that she had fought the Final Witch’s incarnation and then suffered a severe beating from the witch herself.

• Jiang Han eagerly ate Alesha’s hotpot and complained when Alesha took her claim that the food was average at face value.
• Chen Ligu returned with news that Lester had found the golden drop point, and Jiang Han conjured sofas so they could eat hotpot together.
• Alesha told a fable about someone taking a deer-hunting witch’s dinner, but Chen Ligu and Jiang Han kept eating and asked how the story ended.
• Jiang Han asked how Alesha had been injured, and Alesha explained that she fought the Final Witch’s incarnation before facing the far stronger witch herself.
• Chen Ligu joked about the other witches’ high ratings, then snapped that she was blind when Alesha asked why she did not play Marite Racing.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu played Witch Cards while Alesha explained why witches enjoyed success and admitted she wanted to play Marit too. The next morning, Jiang Han woke to Alesha removing her bandages, and Alesha continued discussing why Sea Sirens and Cat Witches slept so much.

• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu secretly took Lester's game console and played Marit until Alesha's patience ran out.
• Jiang Han switched to Witch Cards, and Chen Ligu questioned whether witches' pursuit of gold was meaningful.
• Alesha told Chen Ligu that winning and showing off could be enjoyable, then admitted she wanted to play Marit but disliked being made into someone else's amusement.
• Jiang Han recalled Chen Ligu's irritating deck and fell asleep dreaming of electric eels.
• Jiang Han woke with a loud meow, and Gugu threw a pillow at her while Alesha removed her bandages.
• Jiang Han and Alesha discussed why Cat Witches and Sea Sirens slept so much, and Alesha mentioned a theory about nourishment within the marrow fluid.

Jiang Han fed the Giant Cat Lamps and traveled with them as they pulled the exploration vehicle across the sand. The group reached the edge of the map at Sea Sand District.

• Jiang Han prepared a lavish breakfast, woke the Witches, and packed meals for the Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han explained that her reputation with the Cat Lamp faction had let her befriend the Giant Cat Lamps, then left the Witches speculating about her relationships with them.
• Jiang Han brought food to the Giant Cats, who had been playing Witch Cards; the Fel Giant Cat Lamp had secretly stolen cards and won with a powerful three-star lineup.
• The Giant Cats pulled the exploration vehicle onward while Jiang Han watched them demonstrate their abilities and learned more about Leopard Cat and the Storm Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han and the Giant Cats reached the edge of the map, Sea Sand District.

Jiang Han and the Witches planned to modify their exploration vehicle so the giant cats could tow it across the Sea Sand District while they searched for treasure. Jiang Han stopped Alesha from using plant-catalysis magic and proposed alchemy instead.

• Lilia spotted a whirlpool and distant coral hills, prompting the group to discuss how to explore the area.
• The Witches devised modifications to the vehicle, and Jiang Han persuaded the reluctant Cat Lamps to tow it.
• Lilia began dismantling the rear deck while the others split up to handle their tasks.
• Jiang Han stopped Alesha from using plant-catalysis magic because Angelite's restrictions could put the cost on their tab.
• Jiang Han pulled out an alchemy book and proposed solving the materials problem with alchemy.

Jiang Han practiced Cat Lamp alchemy with Alesha, turning raw materials into lumber while advancing her Cat Merchant talent. Their calm work was interrupted when fishmen attacked the ghost-type witches in Sea Sand District, and Chen Ligu settled in to watch the fight.

• Jiang Han used a Cat Lamp spell to transform sand, stone, and water into dense ironwood, then channeled the excess magic into the ground through her tail.
• Alesha teased Jiang Han about her dangerous spellcasting and helped turn the lumber into planks.
• Jiang Han kept transforming materials, advancing her Cat Merchant talent and producing Composite Wood, while Lester, Lilia, and Chen Ligu returned with materials or updates.
• A swarm of fishmen emerged from beneath the Sea Sand and attacked the ghost-type witches with weapons and water-resistant revolvers.
• Jiang Han backed away when the fishmen threatened her, while Chen Ligu sat beside her with food and drinks and announced that it was the fishmen's turn to get beaten up.

Jiang Han and the witches watched Lester’s undead army clash with the fishmen, while Lilia’s dark ghost girls and cannons overwhelmed the attackers. Lester shifted from elegant swordplay to witchcraft, then charged into battle again as Jiang Han and Alesha mocked her.

• Lester summoned hordes of zombies, skeletons, and ghouls, forcing Jiang Han, Chen Ligu, Alesha, and the giant cats onto the survey vehicle’s roof.
• Lilia released thirty dark ghost girls, who attacked the fishmen while her undead servants were slaughtered.
• Lester fought a charging fishman with ghostification and her bone-devouring sword, killing it with poison.
• Lilia summoned heavy cannons and blasted through the fishmen, prompting Lester to remember her witchcraft and cast powerful spells.
• After casting more spells, Lester charged into battle with her sword, while Jiang Han and Alesha sarcastically praised her.