Recaps

Jiang Han met Song Yixian, a petite cat witch and accomplished angler, and arranged to exchange rare Cat Lamp information for fishing lessons. Song agreed to teach Jiang Han for two hours each afternoon over three days, leaving them set to share dinner and search for precious Cat Lamps afterward.

• Jiang Han approached Song Yixian and learned that she had won the South City Fishing Tournament six times and raised seven plump Cat Lamps.
• Song Yixian recognized Jiang Han's research papers, and the two witches exchanged praise for their work on cats and Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han asked Song Yixian to teach her fishing and offered information about rare Cat Lamps in exchange.
• Song Yixian agreed to teach Jiang Han for two hours a day for three days, and Jiang Han invited her to dinner and a search for precious Cat Lamps.

Jiang Han visited Song Yixian in Cat Valley to learn fishing from her, bringing materials from Lu Jieshan and cod meat. After watching Song Yixian catch a Nanjia Fish and explain how she harvested its valuable jet sac, Jiang Han began a lesson that Song planned to complete over two days before showing her where to buy a good fishing rod.

• Jiang Han brought Lu Jieshan’s materials and a pile of cod meat to visit Song Yixian in Cat Valley.
• Song Yixian caught a large Nanjia Fish by reinforcing her fishing line with magic.
• Song Yixian removed the fish’s jet sac before it could explode and explained its value as a resource for lightning-type spell scrolls.
• Jiang Han showed Song Yixian the fishing guide, and Song praised it as a practical textbook.
• Song Yixian agreed to teach Jiang Han from the guide over two days and then show her hidden Cat Merchant shops that sold fishing rods.

Jiang Han learned that her mother, Jiang Xuan, had teamed up with Du Pinyuan and Lin Zhaojun to compete against her in the Good Sisters Cup fishing event. After teasing Jiang Xuan about her outfit and her partner Ke Shu, Jiang Han told her she was doomed to lose.

• At dinner, Du Lingxuan warned Jiang Han that she would understand what was wrong when she got home.
• Jiang Xuan revealed that she had teamed up with Du Pinyuan and Lin Zhaojun for the Good Sisters Cup fishing and shrimp-catching event.
• Jiang Xuan explained that Du Pinyuan had heard Du Lingxuan wanted to compete, while she and Du Pinyuan had met Lin Zhaojun during a walk and invited her to join them.
• Jiang Xuan teased Jiang Han about Lin Zhaojun and Du Lingxuan being good partners, and Jiang Han brushed off the suggestion that she might be interested in them.
• Jiang Han questioned Jiang Xuan's Martin boots and learned that Ke Shu had insisted she wear them to keep warm.
• Jiang Han told Jiang Xuan she was doomed in the fishing competition, and Jiang Xuan vowed to do her best.

Jiang Han investigated whether Ms. Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan were skilled at fishing, then studied Kraken’s book on elemental magic while waiting for Ye Keshu. Ye Keshu arrived home, and Jiang Han began questioning her about clothes she had bought for Ms. Xuan.

• Jiang Han messaged Du Lingxuan to ask how well her mother fished, and learned that Du Pinyuan was an experienced grassroots cadre from the Five Great Lakes District.
• Jiang Han returned home and studied Kraken’s book on aligning spells with a chosen element to distribute magic-power consumption.
• Ye Keshu arrived with freshly picked mushrooms and explained that she kept slippers and waterproof socks at Jiang Han’s home.
• Jiang Han used a cleansing cat paw on Ye Keshu and asked whether she had bought Ms. Xuan’s clothes.
• Ye Keshu said Jiang Han had bought the clothes and invited her to ask whatever she wanted.

Jiang Han learned that Ms. Xuan had once caught the notoriously difficult Cola Fish and decided to borrow Big Boss Cat’s fishing equipment for the Good Sisters Cup. Avenka offered her own gear while Ovi was away in Purgatory.

• Ye Keshu told Jiang Han that Ms. Xuan had taken her fishing for Cola Fish, a fish that was exceptionally difficult to catch.
• Jiang Han summoned a Giant Cat Lamp chef to prepare a feast for her family, then went to her room and found Avenka with sleeping Vera.
• Jiang Han asked Avenka whether Ovi would return within a week so she could borrow Big Boss Cat’s fishing rod.
• Avenka asked why Jiang Han wanted the rod, and Jiang Han explained that she planned to enter the fishing and shrimp-fishing competitions in the Good Sisters Cup.
• Avenka shared her progress on The Book of Giant Cats and offered to lend Jiang Han her fishing and shrimping equipment.

Jiang Han followed Avenka to Cat Dehaila’s cave garden, where Avenka searched for her missing artifact fishing rod and revealed her vast collection of stored adventures. Jiang Han learned how Olivia’s Sleeping Cat Lamps could act as one while remaining independent individuals, and the search for the rod remained unresolved.

• Jiang Han and Avenka entered Cat Dehaila’s cave garden and discussed how the Star Cluster Giant Cat Lamp sustained its glowing plants and the surrounding ecology.
• Avenka asked Cat Dehaila to open her vault so she could retrieve her artifact fishing rod.
• Cat Dehaila reminded Avenka that she had left things scattered after drinking and spending her allowance, while Avenka searched the storage space.
• Avenka opened her precious material vault and showed Jiang Han a miniature world assembled from adventure zones she had collected.
• Avenka explained that the cats had given Vera an entire Lake of Encounters, and Jiang Han understood how the Sleeping Cat Lamps were both individual beings and incarnations of Olivia’s will.

Jiang Han prepared for the Good Sisters Cup with Olivia’s enchanted fishing gear, then met Ms. Xuan and Du Lingxuan’s mother, Du Pinyuan, at registration. The team began filling out their forms, and Lu Jieshan eagerly befriended the two women.

• Jiang Han received the Cat Bamboo-Joint Rod, Wildcat Amulet, and Heavy Claw Box from Avenka and felt ready for the Good Sisters Cup.
• Three days later, Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Lu Jieshan arrived at the registration site and joked about the event sponsor’s book advertisements.
• Jiang Han met Ms. Xuan, then learned that the elegant Du Pinyuan was Du Lingxuan’s mother.
• Du Pinyuan teased Du Lingxuan about her friendship with Jiang Han and flirted with Lin Zhaojun while she filled out the registration forms.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan introduced Lu Jieshan to Du Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan, and Lu Jieshan quickly charmed both women.

Jiang Han and the others registered for the fishing tournament and followed the Giant Cat Lamps toward a scenic flight zone. Along the way, Jiang Han agreed to help Du Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan find Giant Cat partners, and the group reached their destination after about twenty minutes.

• Jiang Han received a stamped tournament paper and learned that the competition would likely begin at ten that night.
• Du Lingxuan, Jiang Han, and Lu Jieshan laughed at the chibi dragon emblem's resemblance to Big Li.
• Jiang Han woke a Giant Cat Lamp and spoke with it, prompting Du Pinyuan to praise her Giant Cat Lamp language.
• Lin Zhaojun said she had asked Jiang Han to help find her a battle-hardened Giant Cat partner, and Jiang Han identified a Storm Giant Cat as a possibility.
• Du Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan asked Jiang Han to help them find Giant Cat partners, and Du Lingxuan indicated that Xuan Bao could cover her mother's partner's salary.
• Lin Zhaojun explained that the group was following Jiang Han to avoid getting lost, and they reached a scenic flight zone after about twenty minutes.

Jiang Han’s group chose and assembled a camper vehicle for the Good Sisters Cup, relying on a Cat Lamp’s advice and a portable giant-cat nest for their living quarters. Their rival team copied their choices, and Jiang Xuan took one of Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan’s two nests for her own group.

• Jiang Han bribed a driver Cat Lamp with crab claw meat and learned to avoid stone and grass platforms, so she chose a wooden platform.
• The mini-car, big-car, and pony team copied Jiang Han’s group’s vehicle choices, prompting Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan to complain before Du Pinyuan’s tears and Jiang Xuan’s intervention forced them to allow the other team to study their assembly.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan set up a portable giant-cat nest on their camper vehicle and showed off its spacious interior.
• Jiang Xuan took one of Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan’s two portable nests, saying she would lend it to her group.

Jiang Han helped other campers set up their equipment using her Giant Cat Strength while chatting with Du Pinyuan about how Jiang Xuan had changed since gaining a Nine-Tailed Cat bloodline fragment. The chapter left Jiang Han and Du Pinyuan discussing the cats and benefactor who had entered Jiang Xuan’s life.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan struggled with camp tasks that would have been easy with magic, then teased Lin Zhaojun until she drove them off with cat-repellent spray.
• Lu Jieshan asked Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan to carry supply crates, and Jiang Han hurried away to help Ms. Xuan and Pinyuan instead.
• Jiang Han hammered in ground stakes and positioned a blower for Pinyuan’s lighthouse fan while Du Lingxuan reluctantly went to fetch supplies.
• Du Pinyuan asked whether Jiang Xuan had grown stronger, and Jiang Han attributed it to her new cat Witch side job and the Nine-Tailed Cat bloodline fragment.
• Du Pinyuan recalled how Jiang Xuan’s return in cat form and her many big cats had startled her, and Jiang Xuan teased Jiang Han about becoming livelier as a kitty.

Jiang Han’s group traveled through the wilderness in their camping vehicle before stopping to meet Jiang Xuan’s group. Jiang Han gave the embarrassed Jiang Xuan cat beer and tobacco, leaving her with only a few boxes of tobacco.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan relaxed outside their portable Giant Cat Nest as Lu Jieshan came out dressed warmly.
• The driver Cat Lamp warned Jiang Han that Jiang Xuan’s vehicle wanted them to slow down, so Jiang Han’s group waited for it to catch up.
• Jiang Xuan approached Jiang Han, embarrassed because she had run out of supplies.
• Jiang Han used a joking excuse to give Jiang Xuan twelve bottles of cat beer.
• Jiang Han also gave Jiang Xuan a box of cat tobacco, though she complained that she had only two or three boxes left.

Jiang Han learned that Du Pinyuan could use spells without spending magical power and bought a paper explaining the technique. The chapter ended with Jiang Han opening the paper to study the older witches’ specialties.

• Du Pinyuan’s chest knocked over her witch-tower model, and Jiang Han explained how Eileen had used Witch Gold to make marble magical.
• Du Pinyuan used a spell to retrieve blocks without expending magical power, prompting Jiang Han to ask how she did it.
• Du Pinyuan shared a paper on old-generation witches’ specialties from Spell Theory Network.
• Jiang Han bought the paper for 1,350 yuan and opened it to read.

Jiang Han quickly mastered Cynthia Sullivan’s specialization for using surplus magic power to cast cantrips, then demonstrated it to Du Pinyuan and Du Lingxuan. Lin Zhaojun learned the technique just by watching, leaving Pinyuan baffled by the witches’ talent.

• Jiang Han finished reading Cynthia Sullivan’s paper and considered how its cantrip specialization could help witches and young students.
• Jiang Han cast Light without a fluctuation of magic power, shaped the flame into a miniature Du Pinyuan, and gave Pinyuan the glowing creation.
• Jiang Han demonstrated her control by summoning two Mage Hands, then shared the paper with Du Lingxuan, who paid to receive it.
• Du Lingxuan immediately learned Angelite Guidance and left a glowing message on the ground telling readers to jump down because they would not die.
• Du Pinyuan protested that the others had learned the specialization too quickly, and Lin Zhaojun learned it after merely watching Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan cast spells.

The witches arrived at the Waterfall Fishing Challenge venue, a scenic lakeside complex shared with Giant Cats, and met the sleepy witch on duty. As they settled in and ordered food, the witch recognized Lin Zhaojun and Du Lingxuan and went to fetch the competition handbook and a poster.

• Lu Jieshan mastered several tricks in just over twenty minutes, while Jiang Han had already been able to use every trick she tried.
• The witches reached the Waterfall Fishing Challenge venue, where Giant Cats lived around the lakes and hot-air fishing boats waited in the harbor.
• Jiang Han asked the witch on duty about food, and she warned that meals from the Giant Cat kitchen cost extra.
• Lin Zhaojun asked where they could park, and the witch on duty recognized her and Du Lingxuan.
• Du Lingxuan went to the Giant Cat restaurant to order food, while the witch on duty went to fetch the competition handbook and a poster.

Jiang Han and Lin Zhaojun received the rules for the hot spring fishing challenge, which required teams to catch fish for judge Cat Lamps. After signing autographs for an excited supervising witch, they prepared to take part in the competition.

• Lin Zhaojun asked Jiang Han about her sandals and explained that soft shoes worked better for inscribing enchantments.
• The supervising witch gave Jiang Han and Lin Zhaojun the fishing challenge rulebook and explained its scoring, fish requirements, and judge Cat Lamps’ different preferences.
• The supervising witch said the caught fish would be prepared as food for the participants and judges by the Giant Cat Kitchen.
• The supervising witch asked Lin Zhaojun and Jiang Han for autographs, and Jiang Han happily signed while comparing their posters.

Jiang Han welcomed a group of cowboy witches to her campfire and learned they were Old Qin folklorists carrying Giant Feathered Serpent eggs from the Americas. After Ms. Jiang Xuan fell asleep from drink and hypnosis, Jiang Han asked Lu Xiaolian about the legendary creatures.

• A short cowboy witch invited Jiang Han’s group to share their campfire and drink rye whiskey, and Jiang Han agreed after Ms. Jiang Xuan urged her to welcome them.
• Jiang Han and the cowboy witches drank together until morning, and she learned that Lu Xiaolian and her companions were Old Qin folklorists who had entered the Good Sisters Cup.
• Lu Xiaolian explained that the group had brought ten Giant Feathered Serpent eggs from a folded space in the Americas to Qin Mud Bay.
• Jiang Han used Giant Cat Hypnosis to put the drunken Ms. Jiang Xuan to sleep and put away her potent catfruit wine.
• Jiang Han asked Lu Xiaolian what Giant Feathered Serpents were, and Lu Xiaolian described them as enormous, fat feathered serpents with Asian-dragon-like heads.

Jiang Han met the panda witch Yu Tianning, who explained that her race's special fermented rice was an exceptionally effective fish attractor. Yu Tianning gave Jiang Han a vat of it, leaving Jiang Han with a new bait for the competition.

• A group of panda witches arrived, and Jiang Han shared cat fruit wine with Yu Tianning.
• Du Lingxuan teased Lin Zhaojun, while Jiang Han admired and kneaded Du Lingxuan's warm tail.
• Jiang Han noticed wine jars beside the panda witches' camping vehicle and asked Yu Tianning about them.
• Yu Tianning explained that the jars held [Ye Zhongqu Wine Rice], a special fermented rice used to attract fish.
• Yu Tianning gave Jiang Han an entire vat of the panda witches' fermented rice.

Jiang Han woke after a long nap, got ready for the evening fishing competition, and caught up with Lin Zhaojun about Ovi and Cat Doyastin. The six teams began their five-hour fishing period, with the catch set to be cooked by special-grade giant cat chefs.

• Jiang Han went to sleep in the portable giant cat nest while Du Lingxuan and the panda witches urged her to stay up.
• Jiang Han woke after five in the afternoon, saw Lu Jieshan exercising, then washed and changed into a neat outfit.
• Ms. Xuan greeted Jiang Han, and Lin Zhaojun photographed her for the first picture in her WitchNet column.
• Jiang Han ate, massaged Du Lingxuan, and watched her friend fall asleep despite boasting that people who slept were weak.
• The supervising witch announced the fishing competition, and Jiang Han told Lin Zhaojun that Ovi was helping build ties between witches and giant cats.
• Lin Zhaojun said she was building a relationship with Cat Doyastin and preparing to offer her a top-tier loot-sharing contract.

Jiang Han and her companions discovered that the judge Cat Lamps had already been fed, which could make them score early catches harshly. They set out to fish anyway, hoping to catch enough before the cats became hungry, and began chumming after mooring their boat.

• Du Lingxuan assembled the air-steam boat while Jiang Han and Lu Jieshan noticed the judge Cat Lamps had already eaten.
• Jiang Han explained that full Cat Lamps would be picky and give low scores to most fish, while hungry ones would rate edible catches highly.
• The panda witches’ boat capsized in the waterfall’s waves, delaying them and potentially allowing the Cat Lamps to get hungry before judging their catches.
• Jiang Han, Lu Jieshan, and Du Lingxuan decided to set out immediately because they might not catch enough fish if they waited.
• Jiang Han found a safe anchoring point, Du Lingxuan dropped anchor, and Lu Jieshan scattered fermented rice into the water to chum for fish.

Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan experienced Cat Lamp instincts while watching fish, then joined Lu Jieshan’s fishing. Du Lingxuan asked Jiang Han to expand her Cat Lamp Expedition Team, which could travel across the Astral Realm’s planes.

• Lu Jieshan used Panda Witch's Wine Rice to attract schools of fish, while Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan became captivated by them.
• Jiang Han experienced chaotic Cat Lamp instincts and realized that Cat Lamps inherited useful knowledge through their genes, though their laziness kept them from doing the work themselves.
• Jiang Han cut off the instincts, and she and Du Lingxuan took fishing rods and tried to catch fish.
• Du Lingxuan asked Jiang Han about expanding her Cat Lamp Expedition Team, explaining that only certain Giant Cat Lamps could form one and travel along Cat Lamp Routes.
• Jiang Han agreed to hear Du Lingxuan out and said she would help if she could.

Jiang Han explained why her Cat Lamp Expedition Team needed capable, useful members and described its successful expeditions to Du Lingxuan. Du Lingxuan revealed that she had found a vast, dangerous dead-magic space and needed a team to explore it.

• Jiang Han explained the rare abilities of her Cat Lamps and Giant Cats, and said expanding her expedition team required recruiting capable cats rather than freeloaders.
• Jiang Han told Du Lingxuan that Forest Guest Giant Cats lacked exploration abilities but could learn useful traits through training.
• Jiang Han boasted that her team had profited on all ten expeditions and recalled finding the Arcane Energy Scroll in a legendary mage's tower.
• Jiang Han traded the Arcane Energy Scroll to Angelite, Eileen, and Ovi for Angelite's Infinite Earth Core, which allowed her territory to expand.
• Du Lingxuan said she needed an expedition team to explore a huge, dangerous dead-magic space, and Jiang Han recognized why Cat Lamps suited the task.

While fishing, Jiang Han learned that Du Lingxuan planned to explore a newly purified region of the Void’s upper layer with her and Xiya. They postponed other plans until next month, when their friends could take compensatory leave.

• Du Lingxuan explained the Void’s layers and said her chosen destination lay in its upper layer, where worlds were still being purified.
• Jiang Han caught a Roig Green Minnow, then hauled up a Slime River Leopard Blob and kicked it back into the lake.
• Du Lingxuan proposed that Jiang Han, Xiya, and she explore the Void together so they could combine their magic if they encountered danger.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan agreed to wait until next month to make other plans, and Du Lingxuan said she would ask Xiya to join them.

Jiang Han concealed the true nature of her expedition discussions with Du Lingxuan and redirected Lu Jieshan’s curiosity toward a request for bartender training on Giant Cat Island. Lu Jieshan agreed to take on the challenge of creating drinks for the island’s cat lamps.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan reached an agreement and discussed details while fishing, with Du Lingxuan keeping the expedition’s sensitive information secret.
• Lu Jieshan approached Jiang Han and asked whether she and Du Lingxuan had discussed an expedition.
• Jiang Han described it as a small private Astral Realm exploration and shifted the conversation away from the real expedition.
• Lu Jieshan offered to help coordinate with authorities and mentioned that Du Ningzhuang had been fined after her nightmare expansion device created a dangerous dream demon.
• Jiang Han asked Lu Jieshan to train the fox-eared girls at Foxfolk Tavern to mix drinks for the cat lamps on Giant Cat Island.
• Lu Jieshan decided to create drinks that all the different breeds of cat lamps would enjoy.

Jiang Han gathered ratings from Cat Lamp judges for the fish she and her companions had caught, negotiating with or intimidating cats that gave low scores. She continued using different methods to secure their evaluations, with the lowest rating at six points.

• Jiang Han rubbed a Sea Forest Cat Lamp and negotiated until it rated its favorite fish nine point three out of ten.
• A Corpse-Bone Cat Lamp rated a Crimson Flame Flounder eight point six after Jiang Han argued with and threatened it.
• Jiang Han collected more Cat Lamp evaluations, letting honest cats choose their favorite fish and reprimanding bad-tempered cats.
• Jiang Han used Heavy Cat's Wrath on stubborn Ash-Claw Cat Lamps that refused to give favorable ratings.

Jiang Han enjoyed the fishing competitions and watched the Giant Cat Lamps cook before meeting Leryla Peggy, a scholar whose equipment and research could help with Jiang Han’s coming trip into a dead magic region of the Void. Leryla prepared to test her methods for storing magical power there.

• Jiang Han hypnotized Lu Jieshan to stop her from making an embarrassing accusation about the lich witches, then watched the Giant Cat Lamp chef demonstrate her cooking skills.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan ate appetizers while Lu Jieshan returned clutching her waist, and the fishing competitions continued with unusual events.
• Leryla Peggy joined Jiang Han’s camper, where she praised Jiang Han’s paper on Three Sons Solvent and explained her research into dead magic planes and magical storage.
• Jiang Han invited Leryla to help prepare for her trip into a dead magic region of the Void, and Leryla presented a special spellbook containing the results of her research.