Recaps

Jiang Han bought a set of Xiya’s modified spellbooks and formally received them as a family-inherited spell. After signing a confidentiality contract and paying, she left with the promise that Xiya would guide her over the next few days.

• Jiang Han recognized dangerous secrecy spells among the books Xiya offered and learned that they cost 53,000 yuan.
• Xiya explained that the spells were intended as a future family inheritance and required Jiang Han to sign a confidentiality guarantee for an additional fee.
• Jiang Han reviewed the contract, signed it with her family crest, and paid using a transfer spellbook.
• Xiya certified the books and solemnly passed them to Jiang Han, connecting the new spellbooks to her spirit.
• Xiya promised to guide Jiang Han over the next few days and told her to relax afterward.

After returning from a relaxing vacation at Turtledove Salt Lake, Jiang Han encouraged Tang Wen to take a trip there too. Their teasing beneath the Witch House bar turned into a magical brawl, leaving Tang Wen victorious but still vulnerable to Jiang Han’s belly pokes.

• Jiang Han told Tang Wen about her vacation at Turtledove Salt Lake and suggested she look for Rune-Drawing Cat Lamps there.
• Tang Wen said she planned to take time off after completing her streaming hours, and Jiang Han teased her about her stream.
• Tang Wen grabbed Jiang Han’s ears, and Jiang Han retaliated by clawing Tang Wen’s exposed belly.
• Li Yun and Du Ningzhuang investigated shaking beneath the bar, only to find Tang Wen dragging a battered Jiang Han out of the blanket nook.
• Tang Wen warned Jiang Han not to poke her belly again, but Jiang Han immediately did it once more.

Jiang Han and Tang Wen were mistaken for fighting, then helped Witch House prepare discounted liquor deliveries. At the chapter’s end, the group loaded the orders onto advanced sponsored brooms and discussed how Black Source Matter had disrupted racing classes.

• Chu Yujun learned Jiang Han and Tang Wen had only been playing around and blamed Du Ningzhuang and Li Yun for mistaking their antics for a fight.
• Du Ningzhuang asked Jiang Han and Tang Wen to help deliver discounted liquor, and they counted the orders with Chu Yujun.
• Chu Yujun assigned deliveries for customers including Yin Jingwen, Nanazawa An, and Eileen, whose order included fifty cases of Gold Vodka.
• Du Ningzhuang showed the group the G3-class Destroyer Comet brooms sponsored by Eve Harkins’s company, Dream of Brooms.
• Tang Wen and Chu Yujun discussed how Black Source Matter ingots had made Formula-class brooms and aerial-rider motorcycles obsolete.

Jiang Han and Tang Wen delivered discounted liquor to Eileen’s workshop by Snow Phoebe Lake, where Tang Wen admired Eileen’s rare broom collection. At the door, they met an incarnation of Eileen who introduced herself as Dormant Dragon Eileen.

• Jiang Han checked Eileen’s delivery instructions, and she and Tang Wen flew to the workshop near Snow Phoebe Lake.
• Jiang Han and Tang Wen parked among Eileen’s broom collection, and Jiang Han told Tang Wen that Eileen likely owned all fifteen of a rare classical broom model.
• Tang Wen secured the liquor crates to a miniature freight device, and Jiang Han hauled it along the path to the workshop.
• Tang Wen rang the bell, and Dormant Dragon Eileen opened the door and introduced herself as one of Eileen’s incarnations.

Jiang Han and Tang Wen visited Dormant Dragon Eileen, who treated them to liquor disguised as oolong tea and showed them her workshop. The chapter ended with Jiang Han abandoning Eileen’s elaborate mechanical umbrella explanation to join Tang Wen at the computer and look up information about Eileen’s origins.

• Dormant Dragon Eileen welcomed Jiang Han and Tang Wen, recognized Tang Wen from Marite Racing, and served them floral-infused vodka as oolong tea.
• Jiang Han learned that Lava Wine Cat Lamps helped Eileen turn liquor, flower nectar, and fruit into richly flavored drinks.
• After several rounds of drinking, Jiang Han asked what parts of Little Eileen had been used to make Dragon Eileen, and Tang Wen suggested looking up Eileen’s information online.
• Eileen led Jiang Han and Tang Wen upstairs to her workshop’s computer, where Tang Wen began searching.
• Jiang Han examined Eileen’s mechanically powered umbrella project, heard how its heavy Black Source Matter parts required complex gearing, and hurried over to join Tang Wen.

Jiang Han asked Dragon Eileen to maintain and rework her light sword, paying her in Black Source Matter. Later, Jiang Han worked at the Snow Phoebe Lake Witch House, where guests admired her cat features and Lu Jieshan teased her about her looks and figure.

• Jiang Han found Dragon Eileen’s Witch Registry profile and learned that she hosted handicraft livestreams and owned a workshop.
• Jiang Han gave Dragon Eileen Black Source Matter ingots and a fifty-gram payment to maintain and rework Adeline, and Dragon Eileen promised to deliver the finished sword in three days.
• Tang Wen told the tavern’s witches about Jiang Han’s wealth, and Du Ningzhuang asked her to sponsor her research before Jiang Han refused and hid in the Giant Cat nest.
• Jiang Han served the growing crowd at the Snow Phoebe Lake Witch House and complained that a young witch had rubbed her tail.
• Lu Jieshan suggested that the guests had petted Jiang Han because she was pretty and had a good figure.

Jiang Han planned a two-week leave to work on projects on her Giant Cat Island and discussed vacation plans with Tang Wen and the other witches. She offered to develop a mountain in Giant Cat Territory into a vacation destination, and Tang Wen immediately asked whether it would be free.

• Jiang Han tallied Witch House's finances and found that alcohol sales brought in nearly sixty thousand yuan in pure profit despite other operations running a deficit.
• Jiang Han planned to take two weeks off to finish the Nightmare Factory and reorganize blueprints for a machine.
• Jiang Han and Tang Wen changed shifts, settled into the witches' nest, and joked about how little Giant Cat Lamps liked walking.
• Tang Wen told Jiang Han she wanted to visit Turtledove Salt Lake but worried about peak-season crowds, and Chu Yujun and Lu Jieshan described their own dislike of crowded vacation spots.
• Jiang Han said she planned to turn a mountain near the Giant Cat Tree into a vacation destination, and Tang Wen asked if it would be free.

Jiang Han enlisted Angelite to reshape a scenic area of the Giant Cat Territory into a campground and hot-spring mountains. Angelite agreed to help and gave Jiang Han a magic-storing ring that could summon her, leaving Jiang Han with a favor owed to the Final Witch.

• Jiang Han chose the hills beside Cat Lake as the site for a campground and sightseeing area but could not reshape the terrain herself.
• Jiang Han used a favor from the Witch House to ask Angelite to transform the hills into beautiful hot-spring mountains.
• Angelite praised the location and agreed to help after Jiang Han offered her a private campground in return.
• Angelite showed Jiang Han a pair of sensory-link rings that shared storage space and could lend their wearers stored magic.
• Angelite gave Jiang Han the ruby ring, which held some of Angelite's magic and could call her for help, calling it an investment in a future favor.

Angelite used her Ninth School Magic to reshape the Giant Cat Territory into a mountain landscape of hot springs, rivers, and terraces while explaining her code-based method to Jiang Han. She repeatedly rebuilt parts to perfect the scenery, and Jiang Han waited nearby as dinner time approached.

• Angelite reshaped the Giant Cat Territory, creating mountain ranges, wheat fields, hot-spring rivers, and waterfalls without harming the Giant Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han watched Angelite cast effortlessly and asked how she was using illusion magic to build the mountains.
• Angelite explained that she used illusions and a numeric code system to identify missing data and create the objects needed to form a mountain range.
• Angelite created lakes, terraces, grasslands, and waterfalls, then distracted curious Giant Cat Lamps with mud statues of giant cats.
• Angelite erased and rebuilt parts of the mountains for several hours, and told Jiang Han she would come for dinner soon.

Angelite designed a hot-spring resort for Cat Lake while Jiang Han called her away to enjoy a feast prepared by the renowned giant cat chef Cat Gern. They began dining on Cat World cuisine, including dishes made from Cat Gern’s shed tail.

• Angelite imagined warm-colored hot springs, cat statues, and a Cat Lamp Gate as she planned the resort’s construction.
• Jiang Han interrupted Angelite’s daydreaming and urged her to eat before the carefully timed dishes went cold.
• Jiang Han told Angelite that Cat Gern, an elephant Giant Cat Lamp and famous chef, had prepared a special meal for the Final Witch.
• Jiang Han and Angelite sat side by side at the candlelit table, where trained candle Cat Lamps brought them warm towels.
• Cat Gern presented the menu, featuring six preparations of a shed tail along with cat fruit wine, clam stew, and oysters.

Angelite explained her plans for Rockspur Cat Spring Mountain and asked Jiang Han to help her study the giant cats so she could make more lifelike statues. The two agreed to climb the mountain together the next day.

• Cat Gern prepared an elaborate fish dish for Angelite, who praised the meal and impressed Jiang Han with how delicious it was.
• Angelite told Jiang Han she planned to gather reference material for Rockspur Cat Spring Mountain and explained how its design combined features from Yanqi Yuequan and Turros Mountain.
• Jiang Han asked why Angelite needed to visit the mountain in person, and Angelite explained that she wanted to experience the trails and scenery from visitors' perspectives.
• Jiang Han offered to climb the mountain with Angelite the next day, and Angelite accepted, saying she also wanted Jiang Han to introduce her to the giant cats.
• Angelite said she needed to observe giant cats more closely so her stone statues could capture their lifelike, fluffy quality.

Angelite assessed the mountain path with Jiang Han and a Giant Cat Lamp, then proposed building a reverse-flowing stream to carry visitors up the mountain. Jiang Han agreed to fund the renovation after Angelite quoted three hundred and fifty thousand for the leyline crystals.

• A Giant Cat Lamp and dozens of Cat Lamps struggled up the mountain path, giving Angelite a chance to observe their needs.
• Jiang Han explained that Giant Cat Lamps disliked moving far despite their strength, and Angelite concluded the path needed redesigning.
• Angelite asked the Giant Cat Lamp about rain and gathered information before sending her back down the mountain.
• Angelite proposed making a stream that flowed uphill from the mountain entrance to the summit.
• Jiang Han asked Angelite to use a spell, but Angelite quoted her three hundred and fifty thousand for the necessary leyline crystals.

Jiang Han and Angelite rode the bizarre upward-flowing river, then relaxed together at the moonlit campsite and hot spring. Angelite agreed to have her Night Watchers help Jiang Han set campsite ticket prices in exchange for two free campsites.

• Jiang Han and Angelite rode the upward-rushing river until Jiang Han was thrown into a spring and Angelite pulled her out.
• Angelite teased Jiang Han for acting like a child, and Jiang Han defended her status as an adult witch before trying to bite Angelite.
• Angelite restrained Jiang Han and told her to talk properly, then Jiang Han realized Ovi had shared her embarrassing story with Angelite.
• A Cat Lamp spy typed up their conversation, prompting Angelite to joke that cat spies were everywhere.
• Jiang Han and Angelite settled into a hot spring at the campsite, where Angelite offered to have her Night Watchers help set ticket prices in exchange for two free campsites.

Jiang Han inspected a geothermal cat village and saw its Cat Lamps fighting raccoons over food before continuing to the Nightmare Mountains. She found the Nightmare Cat Lamps heavily armed and driving raccoons out of Molten Fire Forest.

• Jiang Han admired the geothermal generators, farms, and fish-drying equipment at a cat village near the Giant Cat Furnace Factory.
• A bell warned the Cat Lamps as a raccoon horde broke through the village wall and looted its food stores.
• The Cat Lamps and raccoons fought until both sides withdrew with food and tails as spoils, then healed their injuries.
• Jiang Han reflected that the Cat Lamps' new productive capacity had sparked conflicts and wondered whether the Nightmare Cat Lamps faced raccoon raids.
• Jiang Han traveled through the core territories to the Nightmare Mountains and found armored Nightmare Cat Lamps clearing red bad raccoons from Molten Fire Forest.

Jiang Han visited the thriving Nightmare Cat Capital, where Cat Bo presented the territory’s production and tax report and showed her its factories. After touring the city, Jiang Han left open the possibility of allowing Cat Bo to build another town.

• Jiang Han arrived in the Nightmare Cat Capital and saw its layered roads, tunnels, factories, and cat castle, all built with bad raccoons as laborers.
• Cat Bo welcomed Jiang Han, gave her a report on production, taxes, and the Nightmare Factory, and received the promise that Jiang Han would consider reducing the territory’s taxes.
• Cat Bo took Jiang Han by bird-dragon carriage to inspect the ironworks and Nightmare Factory.
• Jiang Han reviewed the city’s population, currency, and tax revenue as she toured its industrial districts.
• Cat Bo offered to build a second town, and Jiang Han said she would consider it.

Jiang Han welcomed the Witch Agency affairs officers assigned to run the Giant Cat Territory campsite through a heavily subsidized field program. She met their leader, Ning Shuqing, and deputy, Qiao Rou, as the team prepared to work with the island’s existing staff.

• Jiang Han secured Witch Agency subsidies and official positions to fund the campsite’s operation, making the comfortable but supposedly arduous assignment highly competitive among affairs officers.
• Jiang Han prepared to receive the selected team with Cat Carlo, who had arranged tea drinks and snacks.
• Jiang Han entered the reception room and met the swimsuit-clad affairs officers, led by Senior Affairs Officer Ning Shuqing.
• Ning Shuqing said the team would promote the campsite and welcomed coordination with the Night Watchers and Silver Knights, though Jiang Han suspected she disliked them.
• Ning Shuqing introduced her deputy Qiao Rou, explaining that the Witch Agency had chosen a local witch familiar with Jiang Han to serve as their liaison.

Jiang Han negotiated with Witch Agency affairs officer Ning Shuqing over recruiting Giant Cat Lamps and assigned Cat Carlo to handle the visiting team at Rockspur Cat Spring Mountain. After the meeting, Qiao Rou explained her promotion and offered to send Jiang Han the human-faced rats she had requested for her laboratory.

• Ning Shuqing told Jiang Han that the Witch Agency wanted recruitment rights for Giant Cat Lamp assistants and secretaries.
• Jiang Han asked whether Ning Shuqing knew Olivia had returned, then agreed to accept part of the request.
• Jiang Han introduced Cat Carlo and authorized her to oversee the affairs officers at Rockspur Cat Spring Mountain.
• Jiang Han asked to speak privately with Qiao Rou after Cat Carlo led the other affairs officers away.
• Qiao Rou said the Witch Agency had promoted her because of her Nightmare Space report and offered to send Jiang Han the human-faced rats.
• Jiang Han agreed to receive the rats at her laboratory upstairs.

Jiang Han showed Qiao Rou the vast laboratory and ecological testing ground she had built inside the Giant Cat Tree, then stored the delivered research materials. After sending Qiao Rou away with a rune for summoning giant cats, Jiang Han prepared to begin her research with the Cat Lamps.

• Jiang Han brought Qiao Rou through the hidden entrance into her sealed laboratory and asked her to help carry materials.
• Jiang Han showed Qiao Rou the laboratory’s ring-shaped corridors, research facilities, and ecological testing ground.
• Jiang Han explained how she had secured funding and equipment for the laboratory through grants, loans, and help from her allies.
• Jiang Han had the hamsterfolk store the boxes of face-rat mice in the materials warehouse.
• Jiang Han treated Qiao Rou to tea, gave her a giant-cat-summoning rune, and saw her off.
• Jiang Han went to her private laboratory, switched on the broadcast, and summoned the research Cat Lamps.

Jiang Han began experiments to implant fear into souls, using human-faced rats and long-eared sprites to investigate how fear could control living beings. She prepared to combine a modified human-faced rat soul with a long-eared fairy's soul.

• Jiang Han watched human-faced rat materials arrive at the ecological laboratory and went to Zone B-4.
• Li Man reported that the human-faced rat souls were abundant and that the witch disease crystal grains were ready.
• Jiang Han ordered the research Cat Lamps to turn witch disease and blank souls into a medium for fear, terror, and bodily-disrupting panic instincts.
• Jiang Han recorded her plan to study the links between True Dragon Majesty, Witch Majesty, and fear-based control.
• Jiang Han ordered the Cat Lamps to blend a long-eared fairy's soul with modified human-faced rat soul at a ratio of 1:0.0042.

Jiang Han ordered Cat Riemann and the Cat Lamps to test whether shattered sprite memories could prevent soul rejection and allow human-faced rat souls to fuse with sprite bodies. The Cat Lamps began preparing blank sprites for experiments, but the results remained unknown.

• Jiang Han told Cat Riemann to try shattering sprite memories so their souls could accept outside signals and souls.
• Cat Riemann warned that smashing memories would consume more sprites, but Jiang Han assured her that the Final Witch had plenty.
• The Cat Lamps used a soul-forging hammer to separate a sprite soul into fragments and sorted its emotions and memories.
• Cat Riemann explained that the Cats would create blank sprites by shutting down the physiological channels that produced emotions.
• Jiang Han left Cat Riemann and the Cat Lamps to test whether the sprites' souls could fuse with modified human-faced rat souls.

Jiang Han approved Cat Carlo’s costly Cat Lamp import applications and reviewed Cat Riemann’s research results before finishing work. She walked with Xiya, who gave her a Cat Spider silk scarf, and the two agreed to go for a drink with Jiang Han paying.

• Jiang Han approved Cat Carlo’s expensive applications to import and breed more Cat Lamp varieties.
• Cat Riemann delivered the research records, including a summary of the results, and Jiang Han praised her before she asked to go eat fish together.
• Jiang Han left her office alongside the Giant Cat Lamps, who clocked out in perfect unison.
• Xiya showed Jiang Han the Cat Spider silk scarf she had woven and gave it to her as thanks for helping catch Cat Spiders.
• Jiang Han and Xiya agreed to go for a drink, and Jiang Han offered to pay.

Jiang Han and Histeria went to Seven Straws for dinner and discussed the upcoming Eileen Cup. Jiang Han confirmed she would enter for the prize money, even if she lost every group-stage match.

• Jiang Han dressed in jirai-kei style and joined Histeria for their outing.
• Jiang Han and Histeria entered Seven Straws and ordered food while a Cat Lamp took their order.
• Jiang Han asked Histeria whether she would enter the Eileen Cup, and Histeria said she would because her previous ranking had been unsatisfactory.
• Histeria told Jiang Han that the prize money had increased fifteenfold and that the top ten would receive Black Source Matter ingot combat suits from Little Ai Bao.
• Jiang Han said she would enter the Eileen Cup for the prize money, even if she went 0–10 in the group stage.

Jiang Han returned home and met Carla, another fragment of the Sleeping Witch, who collected dangerous objects and shared secrets about the witches and the Veils. The chapter ended with Carla explaining that Eileen had secretly dismantled half the Fate Veil before Anjie tore apart both Veils.

• Jiang Han and nearby witches killed a pterosaur flock and rescued landfolk traveling to Sky Island.
• Jiang Han returned home and found Olivia speaking with a black-haired witch named Carla, another fragment of the Sleeping Witch.
• Carla greeted Jiang Han and explained that she collected strange objects that threatened landfolk or witch civilization.
• Carla said Olivia had weakened the Concealment Veil to obtain fish from other worlds, while witches could pay a flat tax on otherworldly resources.
• Carla revealed that Eileen had secretly chipped away half the Fate Veil, and Anjie later tore apart both the Fate Veil and the Prophecy Veil.

Jiang Han discovered Olivia drilling holes in the ceiling to install magical Cat Lamp Nests that connected to tunnels between locations. Olivia proudly revealed that she had commissioned around ten of them, leaving Jiang Han to admire the new network of cat nests.

• Jiang Han woke to loud construction noises and went downstairs to check whether Olivia was causing trouble.
• Jiang Han found Olivia drilling into the ceiling, while Sha'er emerged from between the ceiling layers and protested.
• Olivia showed Jiang Han two small ornaments that expanded into hanging Cat Lamp Nests.
• Olivia demonstrated that she could travel between the nests through connected cat tunnels.
• Olivia proudly told Jiang Han that she had commissioned around ten Cat Lamp Nests.

Jiang Han invited Olivia to watch the Eileen Cup in a luxury suite, and Olivia eagerly accepted. Olivia began choosing friends to bring along, including Cat Yeta and Cat Manus.

• Jiang Han told Olivia that Eileen had prepared a luxury suite ticket for her to watch the Eileen Cup.
• Olivia leaned close to Jiang Han after hearing about the suite’s beds, kitchen, garden, and hot spring.
• Olivia teased Jiang Han by calling her a long-haired cat, then grew annoyed when Jiang Han pointed out that Olivia had long hair too.
• Jiang Han asked whether Olivia would attend, and Olivia eagerly agreed.
• Olivia listed Sha'er, Vera, Carla, Cat Yeta, and Cat Manus as friends she could bring.