Recaps

Jiang Han looted Eve Harkins’s treasures and discovered two powerful Bone-Eating Swords, but Eve caught her trying to take the second one. The chapter ended with Eve threatening to remove Jiang Han’s limbs and keep them in a washing machine until the Witch Conflict ended.

• Jiang Han took Black Source Matter armor, a mana-conducting amulet, and magical gemstones from Eve Harkins’s supplies.
• Jiang Han opened a hidden display and found the Bone-Eating Swords Adeline and Elterlin.
• Jiang Han tested Adeline and discovered that it wielded a red blade and potent biochemical toxins.
• Jiang Han reached for Elterlin, but the sword sprang from its stand and Eve Harkins caught it.
• Eve Harkins explained the sword’s red blade and threatened Jiang Han for stealing from her.

Jiang Han fought Eve Harkins in Ghost Castle but was overwhelmed by the Bone-Eating Light Sword and Eve’s spells. Just as Eve prepared to leave her behind, a mysterious worldwood sword hilt appeared, and Eve recognized Eileen.

• Jiang Han fought Eve Harkins, whose Bone-Eating Light Sword injured her despite Jiang Han’s strength and resilience.
• Eve revealed that her false god ritual was underway and that she had arranged for Angelite and Lilith to be held up.
• Jiang Han tried to resist Eve’s fear spell and prismatic spray, but Eve struck her with bone-corroding poison and defeated her.
• Eve said she would return after defeating Anjie, then turned to leave Jiang Han behind.
• A carved worldwood sword hilt fell near Jiang Han, and Eve recognized it as connected to Eileen.

Eileen projected herself through the World Tree Light Sword and prepared to take control of Jiang Han’s body so they could stop Eve Harkins’s false god ritual. After Eileen possessed Jiang Han, she faced Harkins with the World Tree Light Sword.

• Eileen emerged from the World Tree Light Sword hilt and confronted Eve Harkins, who threatened to turn her and Jiang Han into human swine.
• Eileen told Jiang Han to cast a possession ritual, explaining that she would help her fight Harkins despite having little mana in her projection.
• Jiang Han drew the ritual runes, and Eileen possessed her body, leaving Jiang Han conscious but overwhelmed by a flood of knowledge.
• Eileen, controlling Jiang Han’s body, greeted Harkins and formed a crimson blade of light from the World Tree Light Sword.

Eileen used Jiang Han’s body to defeat Eve Harkins in a fierce sword fight, leaving the master of Ghost Castle gravely wounded but alive. Jiang Han and Eileen divided the library’s treasures, including the Bone-Eating Light Swords, while Eve watched.

• Eve Harkins weakened Jiang Han with magic and sword strikes, but Eileen emerged and took control of Jiang Han’s body.
• Eileen used her superior swordsmanship and powerful magic to drive Eve Harkins back and pierce her chest with a light sword.
• Eileen told Jiang Han that Eve was near death after the false god ritual, but that she had avoided striking a vital point.
• Eileen gave Jiang Han the Bone-Eating Sword Adeline, and Jiang Han accepted it after Eileen proposed they split the spoils.
• Eve Harkins sat up and watched as Jiang Han and Eileen divided the library’s treasures.

Jiang Han, Eileen, and Angelite negotiated Eve Harkins’s punishment after the Ghost Witch Rebellion, with Eve offering money and supplies to reduce her sentences. The rebellion was declared over, though a two-month period of hostility remained.

• Eileen showed Jiang Han a valuable antique tapestry, and bought Jiang Han’s half for eleven thousand five hundred.
• Angelite arrived and revealed that one of her merchant witches had sold Eve the tapestry at an inflated price.
• Angelite asked Jiang Han to take notes as she negotiated Eve’s sentences, which Eve reduced by offering to buy an island and provide Ghost Cat Lamps.
• Angelite, Eileen, and Eve agreed on more than a dozen clauses, signed the settlement, and declared the rebellion over with two months of hostility remaining.

Jiang Han led a group of Cat Lamps in looting the dangerous ruins of Anser Royal City and returned with valuable treasures. She divided the haul, arranged a tribute to Meow Yi Ao, and collected the cats’ supply requests, leaving her poised to profit from selling them goods.

• Jiang Han led two Giant Cat Lamps and several little Cat Lamps into Anser Royal City, where they broke into a tower and stole jewelry from under the undead elves’ noses.
• The Cat Lamps escaped through the shattered window, using their ability to float through the ruins’ no-fly zone and decaying winds to reach their cat tree.
• Jiang Han transformed back into a witch and sorted the expedition’s jewelry, gemstones, documents, and other spoils, identifying likely buyers for some items.
• Jiang Han took a 10% service fee and set aside a portion of the treasure as an offering to Meow Yi Ao, whose blessing strengthened the cats’ lamp wicks.
• The Cat Lamps gave Jiang Han a list of supplies they wanted, and she calculated that selling them the goods would bring her another profit margin.

Jiang Han arrived at the Witch Agency South City Branch, where Eileen and the others were gathered around a world sphere and a card game. When Eileen learned Jiang Han had brought artworks by the Anse Elves, Angelite asked her to show them to everyone.

• Jiang Han entered the lavish South City branch and made her way up the World Tree to the top-floor office.
• Jiang Han rode the office’s bubble elevator alongside a calm witch who read a newspaper through the jolting ride.
• Lilith and Kraken played cards while influencing a civil war in a world sphere, and the princess shot the newly crowned king during his coronation.
• Eileen declared Lilith the winner of the Great Empire’s 1344 script, and Kraken handed over two high-grade ghost cat lamps.
• Eileen greeted Jiang Han and mentioned her arrival to the others, and Angelite asked to see the Anse Elves’ artworks Jiang Han had brought.

Jiang Han sold Anse Elven goods to Eileen, Anjie, and Lilith, then answered the Great Witch Council’s questions about witch politics. Eleanor secured Jiang Han’s support for expanding the Council’s oversight of the Witch Agency.

• Eileen bought most of Jiang Han’s Anse Elven goods, while Anjie and Lilith bought the blue-red gemstone crown; Eileen offered Jiang Han five percent of future goods for customers with existing orders.
• Lilith invited Jiang Han to answer questions for the Great Witch Council, and Eleanor began a formal interview with a camera.
• Eleanor asked Jiang Han a series of questions about the Witch Agency and the Great Witch Council, but Jiang Han realized the camera had not been recording.
• Eleanor restarted the camera and asked Jiang Han whether the Witch Agency should cede authority to the Great Witch Council for oversight.
• After Eleanor explained that the Council wanted her public support and confirmed the Cat Lamp Witch matter was confidential, Jiang Han endorsed the Great Witches’ right to oversee the Agency.

Jiang Han learned that Marian Horton would leave the Great Witches and Dinesha would take her place, then received the commission to find a Nether Festival celebration venue. She planned to recruit Tang Wen to help with her cat-lamp errands but got distracted reading a witch travel journal.

• Angelite announced that Marian Horton would step down as a Great Witch and focus on witch high-tech fields.
• Eleanor told Jiang Han that Dinesha would replace Marian as England's Great Witch.
• Eleanor assigned Jiang Han to find a banquet venue for the Nether Festival and Dinesha's inauguration, with a 2.75 million Witch Gold budget and space for at least three hundred witches.
• Jiang Han messaged Manager Qin Shunying about the venue commission and prepared to ask Tang Wen to help buy cat-lamp supplies.
• Jiang Han bought a ten-chapter volume of My Life Hunting in Hell and became engrossed in its travel account before remembering to call Tang Wen.

Jiang Han arranged to meet Tang Wen on Coffee Shop Street to shop for Nether Festival decorations and Cat Lamp props. At the Viser coffee kiosk, both witches drank the fiery, extra-spicy coffee and breathed flames.

• Jiang Han called Tang Wen and arranged to meet at the entrance to Snow Phoebe Lake to shop together.
• Jiang Han bought two large cups of hand-ground Viser coffee with extra dragon pepper from the dwarf witch kiosk owner.
• Jiang Han drank the coffee and breathed flames after its heat erupted inside her body.
• Tang Wen arrived, and Jiang Han handed her the second cup of Viser coffee.
• Tang Wen took a gulp and breathed a mouthful of fire, drawing a warning from a nearby witch about setting clothes ablaze.

Jiang Han and Tang Wen explored Snow Phoebe Lake before Tang Wen led her to a café and supply shop known to professional Cat Lamp collectors. Jiang Han was impressed by its Cat Lamp products and care facilities, but kept her identity as a Cat Lamp Witch secret until Olivia returned.

• Jiang Han and Tang Wen admired Snow Phoebe Lake and discussed its hunting and camping grounds.
• They watched a Cat Lamp golf production and heard the cats' complaints and strange observations.
• Tang Wen brought Jiang Han to an antique café that she said professional Cat Lamp collectors frequented.
• Jiang Han explored the shop's relaxed Cat Lamp café, merchandise, and specialized care area.
• Jiang Han wanted to try the Cat Lamp care tools but decided to keep her identity secret until Olivia returned.

Jiang Han stocked up on supplies to develop her Giant Cat Island and learned how Cave Beds could motivate Cat Lamps to work. After hearing Tang Wen explain the competitive reward system, Jiang Han decided to buy twenty Cave Beds for her own island.

• Jiang Han bought Cat Lamp supplies for her expedition team and Giant Cat Island, hoping to build her reputation and attract trade.
• Tang Wen asked the shopkeeper for five Cave Beds, and Jiang Han privately asked why she needed them.
• Tang Wen explained that Cat Lamps competed for the five Cave Beds available each week at an efficient mine.
• Jiang Han recognized the system could improve Cat Lamp productivity and ordered twenty Cave Beds.

Jiang Han visited Eileen at Snow Phoebe Lake to seek investment and learned about the enormous civil service organizations supporting the great witches. Devlin escorted her toward Eileen’s office while praising the bureaucracy, leaving Jiang Han bewildered by its priorities.

• Jiang Han brought Giant Cat Island’s data to Snow Phoebe Lake to ask Eileen for investment.
• Devlin Holhak Syndra met Jiang Han and led her toward Eileen’s office, explaining that Eileen was resting.
• Devlin told Jiang Han that Eileen rested six and a half days a week while the civil servants worked without holidays.
• Devlin compared the civil servant establishments of several great witches and said Lilith’s smaller organization was unusually efficient.
• Devlin declared that she admired Eleanor most because Eleanor supported 654,000 civil servants, and Jiang Han questioned whether Eleanor came from the earliest bureaucratic system.

Jiang Han visited Eileen, who confronted Devlin about withheld reports and secured new performance and payroll documents. Eileen then turned to Jiang Han’s proposal to develop Giant Cat Island, leaving Olivia’s story for another time.

• Devlin escorted Jiang Han to the Throne Hall and asked what business she had with Eileen.
• Eileen pressed Devlin about missing financial and personnel reports, and Devlin explained that her staff had been checking discrepancies.
• Eileen proposed hiring accounting consultants, prompting Devlin to agree to simplified forms and performance sheets.
• Eileen approved agent bonuses to begin in three months, tied to workload and quality standards, and Devlin promised to submit the requested documents within two days.
• After Devlin left, Eileen discussed the difficulty of overseeing the bureaucracy and recalled Olivia’s Shadow Grand Cathedral and her kindness to cats and young Witches.
• Eileen recognized that Jiang Han had come to discuss developing Giant Cat Island and invited her to discuss the investment criteria.

Jiang Han and Eileen discussed investing in Giant Cat Island, reaching an initial agreement based on recruiting Cat Lamps as witches’ companions while preserving the Cats’ principles. Eileen planned to visit the island to assess it, then changed into black clothes in preparation for the approaching Nether Festival.

• Eileen questioned Jiang Han about Giant Cat Island’s plans, Cat Lamps’ working hours, and yield data, and advised her to prepare figures to look professional.
• Eileen said she was interested in investing if the island could recruit Cat Lamps and Giant Cat Lamps to build friendships with witches, while Jiang Han insisted that those relationships must not be reduced to commercial value.
• Jiang Han suggested assessing the arrangement by whether a Cat Lamp could have a pet, and Eileen treated the wording as common ground for an investment agreement.
• Eileen proposed visiting Giant Cat Island and having her witches assess it, and Jiang Han assured her the island’s Cat Lamps welcomed witches.
• After they reached an initial investment agreement, Eileen changed into black clothing because the Nether Festival was approaching.

Eileen and Jiang Han traveled to Giant Cat Island with a large investment observation group that Daflin had organized. The civil servants immediately treated the inspection as a vacation, while Daflin insisted they would still provide Eileen with excellent investment advice.

• Eileen questioned Daflin about the oversized group, and Daflin justified bringing numerous advisers and support teams as necessary for the inspection.
• Eileen allowed the group to go ahead but warned that their work must not be neglected, while Daflin joked that raises and paid leave would also help morale.
• Jiang Han and Eileen reached Giant Cat Island by dragon train and saw civil servants playing with Cat Lamps and asking about hot springs and swimming pools.
• Eileen confronted Daflin, who had changed into a swimsuit, and Daflin claimed the civil servants were forced to have fun to gather firsthand information.
• Daflin promised that the group would provide Eileen with the finest investment advice.

Jiang Han showed Eileen Cat Lamp Mine’s unusual mineral production, then consulted Olivia’s enormous book of cat lamp knowledge to investigate whether Cat Lamp Witches could use the abilities of cat lamps. The chapter left Jiang Han searching the book for information about her own species.

• Jiang Han explained to Eileen how cat lamps used ley-line energy to transform rocks into mineral deposits.
• A Cave Carrot Cat Lamp produced a piece of mithril while Eileen watched, and Eileen refined it into an ingot for Jiang Han.
• Eileen quietly asked Jiang Han whether Cat Lamp Witches could use the cat lamps’ matter-altering ability.
• Jiang Han pulled out Olivia’s registered, one-of-a-kind Cat Lamp Complete Book and searched it for information about Mist Immortal Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han discovered that Olivia’s book contained extensive cat lamp knowledge and descriptions of 127 legendary spells, though Olivia had not let her study the spells themselves.

Jiang Han studied how Mist Immortal Cat Lamps made Dark Lake Water Stones and tried the method herself. After destroying dozens of stones, she finally produced a fingernail-sized piece.

• Jiang Han read Olivia’s records and learned the Cat Lamps’ method for turning stones into Dark Lake Water Stones.
• Jiang Han told Eileen she had mastered the method and asked a Cave Carrot Cat Lamp to fetch the Fel Giant Cat.
• Jiang Han absorbed leyline energy with her tail, mixed in Dark Lake magic power, and shattered her first stone.
• Eileen identified Jiang Han’s oversized hole and rough mana control as causes of the failure.
• Jiang Han blew up fifty or sixty stones before she finally created a fingernail-sized Dark Lake Water Stone.

Jiang Han showed Eileen and Davlin the Cat Lamp hatchery and catalogue, convincing them of Giant Cat Island’s investment potential. Eileen presented a first-phase plan to build a ring of Sky Islands around the island for a cat-golf course and luxury Witch resorts.

• Jiang Han took Eileen through the Giant Cat Tree and explained how Cat Lamps and their cat balls were born.
• Jiang Han fed Monster Cat Dandelions to a nearly grown cat ball, which became a newborn Monster Cat Lamp.
• Davlin and Eileen admired the Cat Lamps and discussed the island’s investment value as Jiang Han showed them the breed catalogue.
• Jiang Han told Fel Giant Cat that Witches needed to handle the island’s development plans, and Fel Giant Cat rejected several absurd cat-led proposals.
• Eileen and Davlin showed Jiang Han their first-phase investment concept: a ring of Sky Islands around Giant Cat Island, with a cat-golf course and luxury Witch resorts.

Jiang Han worked through the tightly capped budget for Cat Island’s planned golf course, resort, and park, then realized she had neglected her family and Cleya while staying up all night. She prepared to meet Hilde of Cat Tufflin, whose knight order had come under her command.

• Jiang Han calculated that Eileen’s investment of over 1.8 million Witch Gold was only just enough for the resort and park, and she lamented the missing animal-raising budget.
• Jiang Han planned to bring dinosaurs and dragons to the park and devised cat-branded food boxes and other tourist products to sell.
• Jiang Han discovered more than sixty missed messages and saw that her family had noticed her absence and that she had forgotten Cleya at school again.
• Jiang Han wrote down the cat café’s address so she could thank its staff for looking after Cleya.
• Hilde of Cat Tufflin arrived, and Jiang Han invited her in after thinking about the forty-six-cat knight order she now commanded and the wages she would owe them.

Hilde of Cat Tufflin asked Jiang Han to protect a group of foxes whose tavern was threatened by Cat Yeta. Jiang Han agreed to seek a negotiated solution before the one-week deadline and promised to shelter the foxes herself if necessary.

• Hilde ran up from beneath the Giant Cat Tree and told Jiang Han that no Cat Lamps had been working to help her travel.
• Hilde explained that Cat Yeta had ordered foxes from the former garrison's tavern faction to find a Giant Cat protector or lose their tavern and be cast out.
• Hilde said the foxes' tavern stood on unclaimed land, giving Cat Yeta legal grounds to claim it, and that she would not ask Meow Yi Ao to intervene.
• Jiang Han learned that Cat Yeta's ultimatum would take effect after one standard Cat Lamp day, roughly a week.
• Jiang Han agreed to negotiate with Cat Yeta and promised to shelter the foxes as a Giant Cat Lamp if negotiations failed.
• Jiang Han offered Hilde a room to rest and asked her to provide information about the foxes' skills, wages, and work histories.

Jiang Han entertained Witch House manager Qin Shunying and negotiated her help with the Great Witch appointment ceremony and Nether Festival celebrations. After agreeing on a price, Jiang Han asked Qin Shunying for advice about Cat Tufflin.

• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying shared tea wine and late-night meals at Jiang Han’s residence.
• Jiang Han asked Qin Shunying to name her price for the appointment ceremony and festival celebrations.
• Qin Shunying requested one standard briefcase-sized case of high-quality Cat Gems, and Jiang Han accepted the deal.
• Jiang Han raised a separate social problem and told Qin Shunying the story concerning Cat Tufflin.

Jiang Han sought Qin Shunying’s advice on balancing Hilde’s demands, Cat Yeta’s favor, and the foxes’ property dispute. Qin advised her to bring the foxes to Cat Island first, then use rumors about a fox-hating Giant Cat faction to pressure them over their property.

• Jiang Han concealed key connections between Hilde, Cat Yeta, and Olivia as she asked Qin Shunying how to satisfy all sides.
• Qin Shunying questioned why Jiang Han would risk her subordinate’s trust for the favor of a Giant Cat, then recommended visiting Cat Yeta, bringing the foxes to Cat Island, and informing Hilde afterward.
• Qin Shunying explained how vague promises and reframing Hilde’s task could make it seem that Jiang Han had already completed half of it.
• Qin Shunying suggested using a diplomatic scare tactic to make the foxes fear losing their property and safety.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying invented rumors about an extreme fox-hating faction among the Giant Cat Lamps to frighten the foxes.

Jiang Han asked Fel Giant Cat to arrange a meeting with Cat Yeta, the powerful giant cat who ruled territory in Cat World. Fel agreed despite her reservations, after Jiang Han said Ovi would want the meeting too.

• Fel Giant Cat worked through urgent documents and thought about the burdens of managing Giant Cat Island and arranging visits for Landfolk.
• Jiang Han visited Fel Giant Cat and asked whether she knew Cat Yeta.
• Fel described Cat Yeta as a powerful, dangerous giant cat who was about to take over new territory.
• Jiang Han asked Fel to arrange a meeting with Cat Yeta, saying Ovi would want to meet her too.
• Fel agreed to arrange the meeting.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu traveled to Snow White Cat City to meet Cat Yeta, with Jiang Han planning to negotiate an idol contract and ask to take Fox Fox back. Cat Yeta calmed the blizzard and agreed to hear Jiang Han out, leaving the negotiations yet to begin.

• Chen Ligu told Jiang Han Cat World's creation myth as they traveled by airship, and Jiang Han persuaded her to draft an idol agency contract despite not having one prepared.
• The airship entered Cat Yeta's snowy territory, where the giant cat explained that Cat Yeta's generator arrays powered Snow White Cat City's ley lines and hot springs.
• Jiang Han and her companions reached Snow White Cat City and found a Giant Cat Lamp to guide them to Cat Yeta.
• Jiang Han entered the Giant Cat Chapel and saw Cat Yeta, who used her power to calm the blizzard.
• Cat Yeta agreed to listen to Jiang Han, who said she had something to discuss.