Recaps

Jiang Han brought gifts home for her avatars and watched Xu Fangying and Zhang Luer settle into their new roles. Olivia praised their rapid progress and explained how avatars develop and strengthen their main body, leaving Jiang Han to consider learning from Angelite.

• Jiang Han bought local specialties for her avatars while traveling home with Olivia.
• Xu Fangying adapted to life with Jiang Han's family, while Zhang Luer delighted in the food gifts and carried her favorite meat to the kitchen.
• Jiang Han began studying spells so her avatars could use them, and Olivia asked what she knew about avatars supplementing their main body.
• Jiang Han explained how avatars learn, receive soul proliferations, and return new abilities to the main body.
• Olivia said Xu Fangying and Zhang Luer were progressing unusually quickly and suggested Jiang Han learn more from Angelite.

Jiang Han realized Elephant Clam Han had grown far faster and become a stronger fighter than her other avatars, while Olivia pointed out that the avatars needed proper wands. Olivia agreed to train alongside Jiang Han and revealed she would register her legendary Cat Claw Book and mage robe, Molten Cat Furnace Heart.

• Jiang Han calculated that Elephant Clam Han had used enough soul power for at least six avatars and had already surpassed Mouse Han in combat strength.
• Zhang Luer and Xu Fangying attacked Vera during training, and Vera praised Elephant Clam Han’s progress while noting the avatars were still too slow.
• Olivia mocked the avatars’ equipment, and Jiang Han said she would arrange original magical implements for them alongside new training equipment.
• Olivia said she would train with Jiang Han and was undergoing rehabilitation and registering her equipment to return to Witch duels legally.
• Olivia revealed that she would register her legendary Cat Claw Book and mage robe, Molten Cat Furnace Heart.

Jiang Han brought her companions to the Giant Cat Furnace Factory to seek custom equipment, where they visited a legendary boutique staffed by master cat lamps. The chapter ended with a glimpse of the factory’s magical crafting ecosystem and a master giant cat lamp preparing an elixir of immortality.

• Jiang Han and Ovi discussed Ovi’s formidable, all-out fighting style aboard Jiang Han’s cat airship as it toured Long-Haired Cat Clawmark Island.
• Elephant Clam Han excitedly explored the island’s sights while Xu Fangying stayed bundled against the cold and read.
• Jiang Han brought Xu Fangying, Zhang Luer, Ovi, and the others to the Giant Cat Furnace Factory for custom equipment.
• At the Cat Clawmark Legendary Boutique, the group saw a master giant cat lamp carefully making an elixir of immortality while smaller master cat lamps worked around it.

Olivia hired Cat Bigail to repair and make several items, then offered her a degraded evolution-art gemstone as payment. Cat Bigail accepted eagerly, while Ovi explained the gemstone’s power to Jiang Han, Xu Fangying, and Elephant Clam Han.

• Olivia greeted Cat Bigail, who recognized her as the Long Sleep Empress and reminded her of an old debt.
• Olivia listed repairs and custom clothing and jewelry she wanted Cat Bigail to make, including pendants for Jiang Han and Xu Fangying.
• Cat Bigail said the order was not worth taking for money alone, so Olivia offered her a black gemstone.
• Ovi explained that the gemstone could grant a Cat Lamp the [World Within the Belly] ability and let it grow toward battle-hardened strength.
• Cat Bigail accepted the gemstone as payment, moved to tears by the offer.

Jiang Han and her companions learned how wand materials and craftsmanship shaped a wand’s power, then ordered custom wands. After Ovi offered to help pay for the Ghost Witches’ training, Jiang Han’s flirtatious thanks left Xu Fangying stunned.

• Cat Bigail explained the differences between short, medium, and long wands and said that materials, skill, and condition all affected a custom wand’s quality.
• Xu Fangying asked whether excellent materials alone could let any wandmaker create a remarkable wand, and Cat Bigail answered with her chef theory.
• Elephant Clam Han chose a meat-saw wand with transmutation and melee enhancements, while Xu Fangying chose a short fan wand that enhanced evocation and abjuration.
• Jiang Han paid for the two near-legendary wands and worried about affording the Ghost Witches’ training.
• Ovi offered to subsidize some of the training fees, and Jiang Han thanked her flirtatiously, leaving Xu Fangying shocked before Xu Fangying went to help Cat Bigail measure equipment.

Jiang Han and Ovi discussed Ghost Castle’s finances and the need to subsidize the little cats before meeting Dinesha, who explained that a world bound by a long-term development treaty had rebelled. Dinesha offered to help Jiang Han and Ovi train in exchange for Jiang Han’s endorsement.

• Cat Bigail measured Mouse Han and Elephant Clam Han’s magical traits while Jiang Han and Ovi left them to prepare their weapons.
• Ovi read a letter about shop rent, taxes, and finances, then agreed to subsidies for the little cats that the cats would fund.
• Jiang Han treated Ovi to coffee-fruit milk tea and met the tired Dinesha, who described unrest in a world bound by a twelve-hundred-year development treaty.
• Dinesha said she would handle the rebellion and settle the Cat Dollfolk in the world after clearing its inhabitants.
• Dinesha offered Jiang Han and Ovi an exclusive discounted training class in exchange for Jiang Han’s endorsement.

Jiang Han watched Olivia begin an ITWF sparring package while discussing a Ghost Castle endorsement deal, and signed the contract as Olivia fought Kraken. The training left Olivia and Kraken locked in a fierce duel under ITWF rules.

• Olivia chose a premium sparring package at the Ghost Witches' training grounds on Long-Haired Cat Clawmark Island, where Kraken, Angelite, and Dinesha joined her.
• Dinesha explained that the training involved witches beating each other to death, and Angelite prepared to fight Olivia before the others began the session.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu signed the endorsement contract while Priscilla and Eve Harkins watched Olivia being beaten at the training grounds.
• Kraken trapped Olivia and blocked her attempt to cast the banned [Time Reversal] spell, then killed her with crushing water pressure.
• Olivia returned from the attack and challenged Kraken to put more pressure on her, and the two Great Witches began a complex magical duel.

Priscilla taught Jiang Han the Three Principles of Immunity and began training her to resist fear by sharing a Cat Lamp’s terror. Jiang Han panicked during her first attempt, and Priscilla explained how Lin Zhaojun had developed strong willpower by killing whatever frightened her.

• Priscilla explained that witches had gathered to fight Olivia because ITWF’s rules and its one-life limit weakened her advantages.
• Priscilla taught Jiang Han the Three Principles of Immunity, including that willpower resistance did not make someone fully immune and that feats were not absolute.
• Priscilla introduced an Empathy Cat Lamp and used it to share a Cat Lamp’s fear of an ordinary troll with Jiang Han.
• Jiang Han succumbed to the fear, screamed, and later felt embarrassed about her reaction.
• Priscilla told Jiang Han that Lin Zhaojun had built her willpower by killing whatever frightened her, and that Dinesha had once been beaten by the terrified Lin.

At the Cat Sea Rest Club, Jiang Han joined the Ghost Witches as they relaxed and discussed the Astral Realm’s expansion. Kraken proposed a new long-term endorsement contract with Jiang Han for Trickcraft magazine, and Jiang Han left the details to Miss Chen Ligu.

• Jiang Han finished bathing and went to find the Ghost Witches at the rest club.
• Eve Harkins and Dinesha discussed the legion’s plans to pass through Saturn and warned that its strength might provoke an anti-witch alliance.
• Angelite boasted about her card-playing record, and Kraken teased her for being stubborn-mouthed.
• Kraken asked Jiang Han to renew her Trickcraft magazine partnership and outlined a long-term contract with promotions and Sleeping Cat Lamp development.
• Jiang Han told Kraken to coordinate the contract with Miss Chen Ligu, which relieved Mouse Han.

Jiang Han and the others relaxed at Giant Cat Home, where Kraken treated the group to food and drinks while the Giant Cat staff provided uneven service. They discussed the Cat World Mao'erf finals, and Jiang Han reflected on Cat Lamp’s remarkable ability to collapse morale.

• Jiang Han described how Qin Shunying had invested in Giant Cat Home and hired Giant Cats, cat witches, Cat Dollfolk, and other staff.
• Kraken ordered drinks and braised Red Leaf Dragon, while Angelite added beer to Kraken’s tab.
• The group ate and drank as Dinesha danced Cossack kicks with Priscilla, and Angelite and Ovi rested beside Elephant Clam Han.
• Kraken tipped the Giant Cat Lamp, which then recorded additional food orders itself and hurried to the kitchen.
• Jiang Han told Kraken that she had watched the Mao'erf finals and remarked that Cat Yeta had unexpectedly lost.

Jiang Han began Ghost Witch training with Eve Harkins and Jialadiya, who explained their advanced brain-modification technology and its possible applications to her incarnation and Willpower Immunity. The chapter ended with Eve describing the disturbing range of abilities their artificial magic eyes could produce.

• Eve Harkins took over Jiang Han's training while Olivia continued hers, and Histeria gave Jiang Han an expensive panacea to purify her magic power.
• Eve Harkins and Jialadiya prepared a laboratory full of surgical and magical equipment, prompting Jiang Han to ask whether they intended to operate on her.
• Eve and Jialadiya explained that they planned to modify Jiang Han's brain to improve her mental abilities and Willpower Immunity, especially because she had an incarnation.
• Jialadiya described her own brain modifications, and Eve demonstrated how her augmented visual pathways retrieved information about Jiang Han.
• Eve explained that Ghost Witch technology could imitate effects such as freezing rays, hypnosis, and rewriting common sense, but she did not consider those powers true magic eyes.

Jiang Han underwent surgery to gain a physical version of Willpower Immunity after choosing Memory Palace (Physical) over the prohibitively expensive legendary specialty. The procedure revealed that her brain could glow, which Jialadiya recognized as an old problem among cat witches.

• Jiang Han asked Eve Harkins how brain surgery could grant Willpower Immunity, and Eve explained the layered mental defenses built from her animal ears and brain.
• Jialadiya began the operation, and Eve explained that the panacea provided the foundation for the modifications.
• Eve offered Jiang Han the weakened Memory Palace surgery and described the costly requirements for learning the legendary specialty instead.
• Jiang Han chose the physical surgery and asked whether she could later undergo another operation if she learned the legendary specialty.
• Jialadiya noticed Jiang Han's brain glowing, and Eve dismissed it as an old problem with cat witches.

After Jialadiya repaired Jiang Han’s skull, she and Eve discussed Olivia’s likely Pinnacle Certificate and the prejudice Ghost Witches faced in certification. They then explained that Jiang Han needed to fill her mind with miscellaneous knowledge to resist fear, leaving her with a pile of books to study.

• Jialadiya completed surgery on Jiang Han, and Jiang Han praised her craftsmanship.
• Jiang Han, Jialadiya, and Eve watched Olivia train and discussed her possible Water Dragon Certificate and Ghost Witches’ difficulties obtaining top-tier certifications.
• Eve and Jialadiya gave Jiang Han another bottle of Ghost Witch secret medicine and a pile of miscellaneous books.
• Jialadiya explained that accumulating knowledge could divide the burden of fear and help Jiang Han develop Willpower Immunity.
• Jialadiya said Jiang Han needed to use reason to overcome fear until she could become afraid but even angrier, like Lin Zhaojun.

Jiang Han continued training at Ghost Castle, studying books while Eve Harkins taught her the Fear-Sharing Specialty. Eve brought in a Ghost Witch to help with further training, and Jiang Han recognized the fervent prayers on the witch’s hammer as being about Lin Zhaojun.

• Jialadiya warned Jiang Han to avoid the Anse Battlefield because the fighting had intensified and Agatha had been seriously injured.
• Jiang Han wondered whether she could profit by producing consumables as demand surged during the war.
• Eve Harkins explained that Jiang Han’s training package included six Specialties and two legendary magic tattoos, then began teaching her Fear-Sharing.
• Eve Harkins returned with a Ghost Witch carrying a massive hammer covered in Latin prayers devoted to Lin Zhaojun.
• Jiang Han read the prayers and blurted out, “Holy shit, Lin the Filial Daughter!”

Jiang Han met Sophia, Ghost Castle’s specialty instructor, and learned that her training would include medicinal cuisine to improve her specialties. She won Sophia over by revealing that Lin Zhaojun, Sophia’s idol, was her colleague, leaving Sophia eager to meet her.

• Eve Harkins introduced Sophia as Ghost Castle’s melee witch and specialty trainer, while Sophia excitedly recognized Jiang Han from newspapers and posters.
• Sophia revealed her cork figurine of Lin Zhaojun and explained that she had carried it for a year and used it to strengthen her ghostly form.
• Eve left to train by fighting Big Boss Cat and asked Sophia to explain Jiang Han’s specialties and arrange her training diet.
• Sophia told Jiang Han that the training diet would consist of medicinal cuisine, including rich chicken soup and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and described her Ghost Medicinal Cuisine Master profession.
• Jiang Han promised Sophia exclusive footage of Lin Zhaojun and said Lin visited Giant Cat Home for drinks, prompting Sophia to call her idol “Mom.”

Jiang Han offered Sophia signed Lin Zhaojun memorabilia while Sophia prepared medicinal soup, but an explosion drew Jiang Han to the training ground, where Olivia unleashed her nine-tailed power and rewound time. The demiplane was restored, Eve appeared battered, and Jiang Han remembered the castellan's plan to fight the powerful cat.

• Sophia brewed a potent medicinal soup base while Jiang Han offered her signed Lin Zhaojun uniforms and other memorabilia.
• A huge explosion shook the demiplane, and Jiang Han flew to the training ground to investigate.
• Jiang Han found Olivia in her nine-tailed form at the center of an Astral Realm that had torn open the demiplane.
• Olivia's magic drained the world of color as a gigantic black cat manipulated an hourglass and rewound time.
• The demiplane returned to normal, and Jiang Han saw Eve battered into a ghost slime beside Harkins.
• Jiang Han remembered the castellan saying she needed to beat up the big boss cat before losing her chance.

Olivia in Nine-Tailed Cat Form overwhelmed Eve Harkins, and Kraken restored Eve after the battle. Angelite explained Olivia’s strength and advised her to use the form freely in the ITWF competition, leaving Olivia to consider the advice.

• Olivia blasted apart Angelite’s fire pillar and defeated Eve Harkins, leaving her in ghost gel.
• Kraken revived Eve and restored her body and clothes, while Angelite explained that Olivia’s time magic had aged Eve irreversibly.
• Dinesha and Priscilla described a longevity ritual to Jiang Han, who memorized its steps.
• Angelite explained that Olivia matured more slowly than human witches, while Dinesha and Kraken teased her about being childish and clingy.
• Olivia revealed that Nine-Tailed Cat Form had no cost beyond making other Longsleep Meows sleep longer.
• Angelite told Olivia to use the form in every ITWF match until the rules banned it.

Jiang Han asked Angelite how to improve her Willpower Immunity, and Angelite explained that witches could gain paladin abilities through a succubus-derived method. She ended by revealing the witch text True Meaning of Delight and its link between Western paladins and Eastern immortals.

• Jiang Han and Angelite discussed Olivia's formidable Nine-Tailed form, and Angelite insisted she was still stronger than Olivia.
• Jiang Han asked Angelite for ways to increase Willpower Immunity, prompting Angelite to tell stories about the European Continent.
• Angelite explained that witches could become paladins despite their shifting convictions, gaining the class's ability to increase Willpower Immunity.
• Angelite said a succubus Witch used her Charisma to enter the paladin class and recorded the method in True Meaning of Delight.
• Angelite called Western Paladin Witches and Eastern immortal Witches alike, naming them “Eastern Immortals, Western Paladins.”

Jiang Han asked Angelite how to improve her Willpower Immunity without taking a paladin class, while offering to help smooth over tensions between Alesha and Little Li. Angelite suggested buying a Holy Grail Trial service, leaving Jiang Han considering the witches’ trials as another option.

• Jiang Han and Angelite joked about whether witches could become paladins, and Angelite defended witch paladins as passionate and gallant.
• Angelite advised Jiang Han that a high-Willpower-Immunity class, such as paladin, was the best way to address her weakness.
• Jiang Han offered to persuade Little Li to make peace with Alesha in exchange for Angelite’s help, and Angelite asked whether Jiang Han could guarantee it.
• Jiang Han promised to arrange a private apology from Little Li, with Lin Zhaojun helping give her a way to back down.
• Angelite suggested Jiang Han take part in a Holy Grail Trial, a purchasable service that could improve Willpower Immunity, and offered to connect her with its provider.

Jiang Han saw Angelite and the Ghost Witches off from Giant Cat Territory's train station, then brought Priscilla and Sophia to her Mist Immortal Nest. She showed them the private residence and guest accommodations she had prepared for the Ghost Witches.

• Jiang Han hugged Angelite goodbye as Angelite boarded the train to Crystal Lake Sky Island.
• Eve Harkins reminded Jiang Han to watch for health problems during her training, then boarded the Ghost Witches' train with Sophia and Priscilla.
• A cat witch asked Eve Harkins whether her zombie witch friend could join the Ghost Witches.
• Dinesha boarded the train after spending the day playing "Alice Shoots" with Elephant Clam Han.
• Jiang Han returned to the Mist Immortal Nest with Priscilla and Sophia and showed them the tunnel connecting it to her Snow Phoebe Lake room.
• Sophia praised the spacious library and accommodations Jiang Han had prepared for the Ghost Witches.

Jiang Han showed Priscilla and Sophia the modern facilities in her cat nest and discussed how Giant Cat Living Technology could improve Ghost Castle. As Sophia prepared food and Priscilla logged into a game, Jiang Han asked about Avalon and learned that the Ghost Witches regarded it as a land of degeneracy and sin.

• Jiang Han introduced the cat service bell, game platform, and home theater to Priscilla and Sophia.
• Priscilla and Sophia asked Jiang Han to help encourage Ghost Castle to adopt better living facilities.
• Jiang Han explained that Olivia had founded Giant Cat Living Technology and that its products would soon reach Ghost Castle.
• Sophia unpacked her miniature cooking supplies to prepare cod for Jiang Han, while Priscilla made coffee and started a game.
• Jiang Han asked whether the Ghost Witches had heard of Avalon, and Sophia called it a land of degeneracy and sin.

Jiang Han asked Sophia and Priscilla about Avalon and learned that the fairy tale Fairy Fragrance, Lost Trail concealed an allegory about a landgirl being drawn into a life of exploitation in witch territory. She decided to ask Boss Cat to accompany her there.

• Jiang Han said Angelite had told her she could go to Avalon to buy a Grail Trial.
• Sophia and Priscilla described Avalon as a strange, dreamlike place and recalled the fairy tale Fairy Fragrance, Lost Trail.
• Priscilla and Sophia explained how the story's food, gifts, forest, and journey symbolized the landgirl's exploitation and arrival in Avalon.
• Jiang Han recoiled at the dark meaning behind a tale told to children, and Priscilla teased her about needing a bodyguard.
• Jiang Han said she would ask Boss Cat to take her to Avalon.

Jiang Han learned about Tang Alice and her Touring Castle while shopping with Sophia and Chen Ligu on Rain Dew Sky Island. Chen Ligu revealed that the vast mobile territory, carrying hundreds of thousands of Witches and their attendants, would stop in South City for half a month to a month.

• Jiang Han reflected on her week of harsh training and cultivation, while enjoying Sophia's medicinal cuisine and Priscilla's cultural lessons.
• Chen Ligu explained that Tang Alice was a powerful Witch House shareholder, investor, and collector who owned the Touring Castle.
• Chen Ligu revealed that Tang Alice had collected sixty-one castles and floating islands, turned them into witches, and adopted them as daughters.
• Sophia described the Touring Castle's enormous mobile Sky Island territories and their population of more than three hundred thousand Witches, prompting Jiang Han to ask whether South City would let it in.
• Chen Ligu confirmed that the Touring Castle would stop in South City for roughly half a month to a month before continuing deeper into the country.

Jiang Han watched Tang. Alice. Andrea’s enormous roving castle arrive at South City and admired the new market district being built for its visitors. She then returned to the crowded cat market, where Priscilla asked her to resolve a cat merchant’s complaint about a silent shop girl.

• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu watched Alice’s castle approach South City’s chain of Sky Islands.
• Jiang Han examined the castle’s grand gate and Angelite statue, then guessed that Alice had rearranged its design to accommodate the statue.
• Jiang Han left before the castle reached the city and returned to the market crowded with cat witches, Giant Cat Lamps, and ordinary cats.
• Priscilla, disguised as a cat witch, told Jiang Han she could not speak Cat language and asked for help.
• A cat merchant complained to Jiang Han that Priscilla’s shop girl had ignored her request to buy Ghost Crystals.

Jiang Han met cat merchant Lucia Skywalker and learned about the neighboring Mermaid Merchant Caravan, Golden Opera House. After discovering that Shirley Bosival was acquainted with her, Jiang Han decided to seek a materials exchange and agency contract with the caravan’s current leader, Lady Samantha.

• Jiang Han shared lemon tobacco with Lucia Skywalker and introduced herself as being from the Five Great Lakes.
• Lucia told Jiang Han that she belonged to the Mermaid Merchant Caravan, Golden Opera House, led this week by Faye Samantha Bosival.
• Lucia explained that Shirley Bosival was another caravan mistress and had helped cat merchants like her receive an education.
• Jiang Han recognized the Bosival name through her acquaintance Shirley and learned that Shirley was asleep while Samantha managed the caravan.
• Jiang Han asked Lucia where the trading company was so she could discuss a materials exchange and agency contract with Lady Samantha.