Recaps

During a drunken night at Witch House, Jiang Han watched Flora and Natalie drink, play Marite Racing, and order increasingly extravagant food. The night ended with Jiang Han suspecting Flora wore a ring that meant she was already involved with someone, while Natalie drunkenly declared her love for Flora.

• Jiang Han, Flora, and Natalie drank Marga in the VIP room as Flora played Marite Racing and got knocked out of third place by the other racers.
• Flora cursed the racers and ordered mushroom sugar liquor, grilled dragon meat, and roasted chicken skin.
• Natalie drunkenly requested wild boar and Cat Tail Tenderized Steak, and Flora agreed to order two servings.
• Jiang Han noticed a ring on Flora's left ring finger and suspected Flora was already involved with someone as Natalie shouted that she loved her.
• Jiang Han carried the tenth extra-order slip to the bar counter.

Jiang Han arranged for Flora to buy fifty ounces of elemental cores through Dinesha’s private shopping channel at a favorable price. She also remembered that the Sea Shepherds needed a Ghost Witch youth trainee to improve their struggling youth team.

• Jiang Han searched Dinesha’s shopping channel and found that her quota allowed her to buy sixty-five ounces of elemental cores.
• Jiang Han offered Flora the cores for 2,800 yuan per ounce, and Flora accepted the price.
• Jiang Han charged Flora a ten-percent commission, with part of the fee going to Manager Qin Shunying.
• Jiang Han remembered that she needed to visit Ghost Castle and ask about recruiting a Ghost Witch youth trainee for Kraken’s Sea Shepherds.
• The Sea Shepherds’ youth team had won two and lost four matches, while critics mocked the team despite Angelite’s investment.

Dinesha dealt with the costs of becoming a Great Witch while Jiang Han’s team prepared for an assignment at Ghost Castle. Jiang Han learned that Alesha’s team had been swept in an exhibition match, leaving Blind Treasure to face a one-versus-five.

• Dinesha relied on Priscilla to handle Great Witch duties and set aside a day to inspect her depleted treasury.
• Kraken recruited Xiya and Lin Zhaojun to join Jiang Han’s team for the official Ghost Castle assignment, then called Eileen to send an avatar to work overtime.
• Jiang Han spotted Alesha outside the changing rooms, but A Lin pulled her away and explained that Alesha’s team had entered a youth training exhibition match.
• A Lin told Jiang Han that Alesha’s team had lost one-versus-four, forcing Blind Treasure into a one-versus-five.

Jiang Han, Xiya, and A Lin prepared to negotiate new members into the Rainy Night Foundation, changing into expensive, weapon-equipped uniforms. They finished dressing and decided to have hotpot on New Year's Eve.

• The Sea Shepherds Club became the Rainy Night Foundation and expanded into a formal organization overseeing numerous clubs and projects.
• Jiang Han complained about the uniform rules while Xiya explained that standardization was meant to appeal to customers, not build employee cohesion.
• Jiang Han equipped her custom uniform with a spellcasting pistol, ammunition, and a magically enhanced staff.
• Jiang Han, Xiya, and A Lin finished changing and admired their stylish uniforms, though they lamented their short stature.
• Jiang Han, Xiya, and A Lin decided to have hotpot on New Year's Eve.

Jiang Han, Xiya, and Lin Zhaojun traveled to Ghost Castle in a luxurious coffin carriage after learning how the mysterious Ghost Witch homeland operated. The chapter ended with Bernadette closing their coffin cabins for the twenty-six-minute journey.

• Histeria explained that Ghost Castle required an invitation to enter and served as a place to trade resources and treasures.
• Jiang Han agreed to look for a giant cat for Lin Zhaojun, hoping to find one with exceptional fighting spirit.
• Bernadette arrived in a black carriage drawn by six armored ghost horses and greeted Xiya, Jiang Han, and Lin Zhaojun.
• Xiya and Lin Zhaojun opened the carriage's coffins and climbed into comfortable cabins furnished with reclining chairs, snacks, televisions, and ghost Cat Lamps.
• Bernadette shut the coffin lids and announced that the journey would take twenty-six minutes and thirty seconds.

Jiang Han and her companions stopped at the beautiful Cat Lamp Sea, where she met the Ghost Witch Brannania and learned that Xiya had stopped the carriage to eat desserts. The group remained at the ghost island, with Jiang Han helping Xiya pack up her treats.

• Jiang Han finished the food in her travel coffin before the carriage stopped and she emerged into a star-lit sea.
• Jiang Han saw the Cat Lamp Sea glowing with colorful sea flowers and aquatic cat lamps, while Bernadette and Lin Zhaojun smoked their pipes nearby.
• Bernadette explained that Xiya had insisted on stopping because she was hungry for desserts.
• Jiang Han explored the small island and found its cat-feeding workshop, where aquatic cat lamps gathered to eat.
• Jiang Han met Brannania, a Ghost Witch assigned to work at the island, and Xiya called Jiang Han over to help pack up her desserts.

Jiang Han and the others ate desserts while discussing Ghost Castle and learned that the castle was a powerful Castle Witch named Gwendolyn V. Liyat Abraham. They discovered that Gwendolyn was also a hugely successful author whose novel inspired the popular television drama Hunting Season.

• Histeria bought many desserts, and Jiang Han, Lin Zhaojun, Bernadette, and Xiya shared them while discussing the Cat Lamp Sea.
• Bernadette explained that they had already entered Ghost Castle territory, and Xiya described how Ghost Castle connected to many folded spaces.
• Jiang Han learned that Ghost Castle was a Castle Witch named Gwendolyn V. Liyat Abraham, who had received a Water Dragon Certificate.
• Bernadette and Xiya told Jiang Han that Gwendolyn had written several famous serialized novels.
• Lin Zhaojun revealed that the popular drama Hunting Season was adapted from Gwendolyn's novel, and Jiang Han realized how wealthy its author must be.

Jiang Han and Xiya gathered aquatic Cat Lamps who wanted to leave the Cat Lamp Sea, then traveled with their companions to Ghost Castle. They entered through a guest passage and discovered a vast city inside its enormous walls.

• Jiang Han and Xiya invited aquatic Cat Lamps to follow them, and the cats climbed onto their tails for storage.
• Lin Zhaojun noticed that both Jiang Han and Xiya could store things in their tails.
• Jiang Han and her companions arrived at Ghost Castle and were startled by its immense walls, towers, and fortified gate.
• Histeria explained that Ghost Witch towers stood on the walls, while Bernadette described the districts and residents inside Ghost Castle.
• Xiya explained that the Soul Gate opened only for major official visits and ceremonies, so Bernadette led the group through a guest entrance.
• Jiang Han and the others crossed a long, luxurious passage and emerged before a vast sunken city.

Jiang Han toured Ghost Castle with Bernadette and learned how its immense, orderly city was organized around the Ghost Witches and the population they ruled. After descending to the lowest level, she and her companions headed toward the central castle on the third level.

• Jiang Han compared Ghost Castle’s vast population and territory to Hildenet’s predictions about the future of witch society.
• Jiang Han followed Bernadette and two Ghost Witches down a fast brass elevator to the city’s lowest level.
• Histeria explained Ghost Castle’s garbage rules and how disposal golems turned processed waste into leyline ash for power generation.
• Jiang Han learned that the upper levels served military purposes, the third housed the Ghost Witches’ central castle, and the lower levels contained food production, industry, housing, and commerce.
• Jiang Han and her companions made their way toward a Ghost Witch launcher that would send them to the third-level castle.

Jiang Han and her companions explored Ghost Castle, where Bernadette explained how its residents lived and shopped. A strange shopping box caught Jiang Han’s attention and stirred an idea as the group continued on.

• Jiang Han asked why Ghost Castle’s residents relied so heavily on cat lamps, and Bernadette explained that they provided light where ordinary lamps could harm ghosts.
• Bernadette described how Ghost Witches trained through combat academies and teaching sessions, while Lin Zhaojun and Jiang Han compared a glowing aquatic cat lamp to Anjie.
• Bernadette told the group that Anjie’s Witch Chess pieces were rare and that her cat lamp cosplay version fetched an enormous price among alien collectors.
• Jiang Han noticed ornate shopping boxes that let ghost witches order food and groceries, and Bernadette explained how the machines displayed and teleported requested items.
• Jiang Han felt the shopping box stir a faint spark of inspiration.

Jiang Han sensed that her magic trait might awaken far earlier than expected as she traveled with the witches to Eve Harkins’s estate. There, Harkins welcomed them into her secluded home and led them to her treehouse.

• Jiang Han ate chocolate beans while trying to understand an inspiration that seemed to be stirring her magic trait.
• Jiang Han considered how awakened traits strengthened witches and recalled Wei Changqing, Chen Ligu, and Chu Yujun’s traits.
• Bernadette parted from the group, and Xiya led Jiang Han and the others to Eve Harkins’s estate, whose plaque barred Angelite and Dogs.
• Xiya explained that Harkins had once expected Angelite to support her, but Angelite instead supported Dinesha.
• Jiang Han and the witches found Harkins by a forest pool, and Harkins welcomed them into her expanded treehouse.

The Sea Shepherds Club negotiated with Eve Harkins to recruit two Ghost Witch youth trainees for the Rainy Night Club, offering dedicated dormitories, access to club facilities, and a Cat Lamp Sea tributary. Eve accepted an annual five-million sponsorship deal, and she said she would have her secretary draft the agreement.

• Lin Zhaojun, Jiang Han, and Xiya presented their case to Eve Harkins, combining appeals to friendship, sponsorship, and sisterly affection.
• Eve Harkins raised concerns about sending young Ghost Witches away from their faction and living under another race's care.
• Lin Zhaojun offered dedicated Ghost Witch dormitories and free access to Rainy Night Club facilities.
• Jiang Han offered to bring a tributary of the Cat Lamp Sea into the club, and Eve Harkins asked about the sponsorship amount.
• Histeria proposed an annual sponsorship of five million with exclusive merchandise and weekly lectures, and Eve Harkins agreed to draft the youth training agreement.

Jiang Han, Lin Zhaojun, and Histeria finalized a partnership between Rainy Night Club and Ghost Castle using Kraken’s blood and a rune-carved quill to establish the contract. After celebrating at the castle, Jiang Han obtained a shopping box and its disassembly blueprints from Eve Harkins.

• Histeria negotiated with Willow until they drafted a contract and agreement between Rainy Night Club and Ghost Castle.
• Jiang Han and Histeria handed Lin Zhaojun sealed cases containing a golden quill and a drop of Kraken’s blood, which Lin used to establish the contract.
• Eve Harkins and Lin Zhaojun sealed their factions’ partnership, while Willow prepared an official document and arranged for a copy to reach the Witch Evening News.
• Histeria selected young Ghost Witches for training, and Eve arranged rooms and a pre-dawn celebration for Jiang Han and her companions.
• Jiang Han asked Eve about the shopping box, and Eve arranged to send her a unit and its disassembly blueprints.

Jiang Han returned home to find Olivia, Vera, and Sha'er had wrecked the living room during their two-day party. She demanded an explanation and compensation, then went upstairs, leaving Olivia to repair a ruined painting without forging its artist field.

• Vera, Sha'er, and Olivia watched a film and ate in the dark amid the trashed living room, while Olivia said they needed to clean before Jiang Han returned.
• Jiang Han came home carrying a box and blueprints, saw the wreckage, and angrily called out Olivia, Vera, and Sha'er.
• Olivia promised to clean up and claimed she could restore Jiang Han's damaged Anse Elves painting.
• Vera offered tea leaves as compensation, and Sha'er reluctantly offered a half-price card.
• Jiang Han warned Olivia not to carve Anjie's name into the painting's artist field, then took her things upstairs.

Jiang Han dismantled a shopping box to study its aura-reading technology, then realized its limitations could lead to a much more disturbing invention. She resisted pursuing the idea and decided she might pass the blueprint to Anjie instead.

• Jiang Han complained about Olivia and the cat lamp parties before opening a shopping box and its blueprint.
• Jiang Han dismantled the box and discovered that its sensing device read a user's aura to recommend products.
• Jiang Han found that magic and leyline energy prevented the device from working on witches, though its core design could still inspire a civilian version.
• Jiang Han used her Gem of Realistic Reflection in the Heart while contemplating an immoral machine, then stopped herself and hid the blueprint in her tail.
• Jiang Han resolved not to think about the invention and considered giving the blueprint to Anjie.

Jiang Han discussed her ghost mushroom research with Rainy Night Club members while waiting for a library seat, and the club prepared to livestream the Witch Alliance Championship qualifier group draw. The chapter ended with Du Ningzhuang rushing in to tell Xuan Bao to fill out an emergency streaming form.

• Jiang Han read newspaper headlines aloud and asked Xiya to assess her paper on ghost mushrooms and three instant-cast spells.
• Xiya praised Jiang Han’s paper, while Xuan Bao and Du Lingxuan teased Lin Zhaojun about her Witch Forest writing.
• Lin Zhaojun angrily left the lounge for the hot spring after Xuan Bao mocked her.
• Jiang Han learned that Anjie was using the library and returned to her seat when she found it full.
• Du Ningzhuang announced that the qualifier group draw livestream would begin in five minutes and urged Xuan Bao to explain the groups on the club channel.

As Du Lingxuan prepared to livestream the tournament group draw, the witches of the Rainy Night Club received news that their academic articles had been published. The draw placed Blind Treasure in the same group as Rainy Night Club, alongside War Ghost Club and South City Mandrake Team.

• Du Lingxuan hurried to prepare the livestream while Jiang Han and Xiya discussed makeup and the witches made themselves presentable.
• A Giant Cat Lamp delivered publication letters to Melva, Histeria, and Jiang Han, confirming their articles had been published and scored.
• Du Lingxuan began the livestream, and Xuan Bao switched to a clean stream to watch the group draw.
• The draw placed Lilith's Darkshadow Dragon Club in the same group as the Umbrella of Greed Club.
• Kraken drew War Ghost Club and then South City Mandrake Team, placing Blind Treasure in Rainy Night Club's group.

After Du Lingxuan assessed the Rainy Night Club’s favorable tournament draw, Jiang Han headed to the video hall to buy a replay of Catolf’s match. On the way, she met Angelite waiting to watch a horror movie with Enemy Eileen, then found Chu Yujun working as the hall’s administrator.

• Du Lingxuan told Jiang Han that the Rainy Night Club had drawn an exceptionally favorable group, crediting Kenbao’s luck rather than a rigged draw.
• Jiang Han declined Xiya’s offer of a drink and said she needed to buy the previous day’s Catolf replay at the video hall.
• Jiang Han met Angelite waiting with Enemy Eileen to watch a new horror movie, and saw the two trade insults without anger.
• Jiang Han entered the video hall and found Chu Yujun filling in as its administrator.

Jiang Han collected a recording of the Cat Golf Championship from Chu Yujun and returned home, where Tang Wen had been defeated at squash by a Cat Lamp. Jiang Han and Tang Wen watched the recording with the Sleeping Witches as a Cat Lamp chef prepared a meal.

• Chu Yujun told Jiang Han about killing insects on a mission and gave her the Cat Golf Championship replay in a canister of mist-like gas.
• Chu Yujun invited Jiang Han for a drink the next day, and Jiang Han agreed.
• Jiang Han found Tang Wen crying because Cat Lamps had beaten her at squash, then cheered her up by offering to watch the Cat Golf replay.
• Tang Wen and Jiang Han found Cat Lamps playing squash on the court and remarked that their growing numbers made them hard to tell apart.
• Jiang Han brought Tang Wen inside to watch the replay with the Sleeping Witches and arranged for a Cat Lamp chef to prepare a meal.

Jiang Han and the witches relaxed at the Rainy Night Club until Kerkohes announced that the Void Calamity, Dragon Disaster had been downgraded to orange level and Kraken needed volunteers. Xiya and the others agreed to help, and Jiang Han joined them.

• Jiang Han, Xiya, and Alesha ate and relaxed at the Rainy Night Club while Alesha ordered an enormous meal.
• Jiang Han considered Alesha’s exceptional talent and how the Rainy Night Club might court her and Blind Treasure.
• Kerkohes entered the lounge and announced that the Void Calamity, Dragon Disaster had been downgraded to orange level and Kraken needed volunteers.
• Xiya asked Kraken to prepare payment, then stood up as the other witches volunteered.
• Jiang Han joined the volunteers and raised her hand.

Jiang Han learned that the dragon calamity involved Void Dragons and prepared to hunt them with the other witches. The witches set out into the storm toward Snow Phoebe Lake, with each responsible for her own prey and any damage she caused.

• Xiya explained that the Void’s Great Demons had invaded repeatedly and that the Void Lords sent Void Dragons to delay them when rifts opened.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu learned that the calamity involved Void Dragons, and they equipped themselves with spells and combat gear.
• Xiya warned Jiang Han that witches had to compensate for property damage and explained that rival witches hoped to profit by cleaning up after them.
• Chen Ligu urged Jiang Han to hunt high-level dragons for materials, and Jiang Han agreed.
• Kerkohes ordered the witches to head to the northern side of Snow Phoebe Lake, where each witch would keep her own prey and handle her own trouble.
• Jiang Han and Xiya mounted their brooms, warded themselves against the storm, and flew into the rainy night.

Jiang Han hunted a Void Red Dragon through a leyline-fueled storm, using magic to widen the Void rift and draw out more dragons before pursuing her chosen prey. She caught up to the fleeing dragon and prepared to give it only a brief head start.

• Jiang Han heard a dragon's roar and raced toward its source as Histeria and Chen Ligu flew off to hunt.
• Jiang Han found a shrinking Void rift held open by lightning and spotted a Void Red Dragon adjusting it with a Void roulette wheel.
• The Void Red Dragon fled when Jiang Han appeared, and she locked onto its coordinates.
• Jiang Han cast Fused Flame Orb into the rift, prompting the Witch world's will to stabilize it with lightning and several Void dragons to emerge.
• Jiang Han let the other witches handle the newly emerged dragons, then abandoned her broom and accelerated after the fleeing Void Red Dragon.

Jiang Han killed a Void Red Dragon, harvested its valuable materials with the Cat Lamps, and continued hunting as the Witches drove the dragons out to sea. By dawn, the Rainy Night Club had earned a rich haul from the night’s hunt.

• Jiang Han froze the Void Red Dragon, broke its spine with a Heat Wave Breath, and finished it with ice lances.
• Jiang Han summoned the Cat Lamps, who swiftly stripped valuable materials from the dragon’s corpse and reported that its remains were inedible.
• Jiang Han burned the useless remains and sensed that the Witches were keeping void rifts open to draw more powerful dragons into the region.
• Jiang Han rode her broom back into the storm and searched for more Void Dragons as the Witches drove the hunt away from land and over the sea.
• The Witches of the Rainy Night Club unleashed their destructive methods over the open sea and ended the night with a rich harvest.

After Kraken defeated the Void Dragons, Jiang Han and the Cat Lamps dismantled the corpses and gathered valuable materials. They discovered an ancient message hidden in a sachet, leaving Jiang Han unsure how to handle it.

• Kraken drove the Void rifts away after defeating the legendary Void Six-Color Dragons, and Jiang Han joined her to collect the fallen dragons.
• Jiang Han offered Kraken on-site dismantling services, and Kraken signed a contract before leaving for South City.
• Jiang Han's Cat Lamps dismantled the corpses, while Gray Mist Cat Lamp praised Kraken's precise attacks for preserving valuable materials.
• Jiang Han burned the unusable remains into nutrient ash and cleared additional corpses.
• Big Orange Cat Lamp showed Jiang Han a sachet containing an ancient message, which Jiang Han recognized as a Witch drift-bottle message that could get the Cat Lamp punished for hiding it.

Jiang Han met white-robed Constantine at the Witch Agency after recovering an otherworldly message, while Angelite challenged the Agency’s secrecy and Constantine explained the message’s importance. The chapter ended with Jiang Han handing the sachet containing the message to Constantine for inspection.

• Jiang Han asked Angelite why the Witch Agency kept its entrances and exits secret, and Angelite criticized witches for relying on secrecy and invisible influence.
• Constantine defended the Agency’s secrecy as protection for its hierarchy and plans, and Angelite mocked her and the four demon-hunters accompanying her.
• Constantine recognized Jiang Han as the witch who recovered the otherworldly message and thanked her for helping welcome back a witch lost beyond their world.
• Angelite revealed that recovering the lost witch was also a major political achievement that could boost the Agency’s public standing and bonuses.
• Jiang Han gave Constantine the sachet containing the otherworldly message so she could inspect it.