Recaps

Jiang Han and the others watched Aoses challenge Angelite to a practice match, but Angelite defeated her almost instantly. Aoses demanded rematches and lost again and again, leaving her crushed while Angelite boasted about her strength.

• Jiang Han arranged a best-of-five practice match between Aoses and Angelite at the Giant Cat Training Ground.
• Angelite rapidly layered protective spells and empowered herself as the match began.
• Aoses started casting two powerful spells, but Angelite interrupted her with a sword strike and defeated her in under half a second.
• Aoses demanded repeated rematches, and Angelite defeated her each time within seconds.
• Angelite bragged to Jiang Han about her strength while the defeated Aoses lay devastated nearby.

After watching the Aoses sisters’ training and discussing how Aoses’s dry-pull tactics had nearly worked against Anjie, Jiang Han decided to try the strategy herself. She ended the chapter determined to grind dry pulls starting the next day.

• Jiang Han returned to Cat Colony Island and found Little Li swimming with the Giant Cat Lamps while food was saved for her and Olivia.
• Jiang Han ate curry rice with Xiya and asked what she had learned during training.
• Jiang Han explained that Aoses’s tactics had correctly predicted Anjie’s casting, but Aoses’s poor condition and strength had caused her defeat.
• Xiya teased Jiang Han about using dry-pull tactics, and Jiang Han decided to start practicing them the next day.

Jiang Han planned to use Haste spells in the Eileen Cup doubles tournament, but she and Olivia settled on a more ambitious strategy: both would hard-pull Dragon Transformation. As their match approached, Olivia admitted she had little confidence in qualifying for the individual competition.

• Jiang Han decided to learn and use a full set of Haste spells after realizing how important casting speed was in duels.
• Jiang Han proposed hard-pulling in the doubles tournament, and Olivia agreed after judging their opponents to be weak.
• Olivia chose Dragon Transformation as the spell they would both hard-pull, and Jiang Han agreed.
• Olivia said she would activate her Nine-Tailed Form in the individual competition and fight only if she thought she could win.
• A brass horn announced that Olivia and Jiang Han would compete next and told them to prepare to take the stage.

Jiang Han and Olivia faced Oizumi Reina and Kawahara Sayuri in their first doubles match, but Olivia was banished after picking a forbidden spell. Jiang Han defeated both opponents alone, leaving the team with a hard-won victory.

• Jiang Han and Olivia were paired against Oizumi Reina and Kawahara Sayuri in the Eileen Cup doubles match.
• Zoe Isaac, Grace Mitchell, and Dorothy Jordan commentated on the match and discussed Olivia’s history as the Sleeping Witch and Cat Lamp Witch.
• Olivia picked the banned Legendary Spell: Hellball and was removed from the arena by Banishment.
• Jiang Han fought Sayuri and Reina alone, unleashed the Cat Bus, and defeated them after three minutes.

Jiang Han and Olivia competed in the Eileen Cup doubles matches, with Olivia recovering her form and leading them to fifteen consecutive victories. They ended the chapter celebrating their win over Alesha and Lin Zhaojun, while Jiang Han recognized Olivia’s full strength.

• Jiang Han won a one-versus-two match, then reassured Olivia about their earlier loss while they showered between rounds.
• Olivia regained her confidence, and she and Jiang Han won their next fifteen doubles matches.
• Jiang Han and Olivia faced Alesha and Lin Zhaojun in a decisive match for first place in another group.
• Jiang Han stalled Lin Zhaojun before being defeated, while Olivia outplayed both opponents and won the match.
• Jiang Han watched the replay and praised Olivia, who credited Jiang Han’s Frozen Blood Spell for helping defeat Lin Zhaojun.

Jiang Han and Olivia spent their day off sightseeing in Youweixian Province before returning to Cat Book House, where they celebrated Du Lingxuan’s strong performance and Big Boss Cat’s victory in the doubles matches. The chapter ended with the three Cat Lamp Witches laughing together as Xuan Bao bragged on her livestream.

• Jiang Han and Big Boss Cat stayed in their room to comment on the individual competition, while Jiang Han later went sightseeing with Olivia.
• Jiang Han and Olivia visited the giant cherry blossom tree and discussed Eileen’s development of Youweixian Province.
• Jiang Han used Miss Li Li’s cat-ear earbud to learn that Du Lingxuan had defeated a Fire Dragon Certificate.
• Jiang Han and Olivia returned to Cat Book House and found Du Lingxuan streaming and bragging about her match.
• Jiang Han praised Big Boss Cat’s strength in the doubles matches, and Big Boss Cat modestly boasted about beating Lin Zhaojun and Alesha.

Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Olivia watched the tournament and joked about Little Li's danger of elimination after Yu-Ji Double C's matches. Olivia fled the cat nest after Xuanbao read embarrassing donations aloud, and Jiang Han teased the blushing Xuanbao as the group continued watching.

• Du Lingxuan questioned why Teacher Yu lost to Teacher Ji after using Steel Guard, and Olivia blamed Teacher Yu's addiction to the spell.
• Olivia, Jiang Han, and Du Lingxuan noted that Little Li might be eliminated unless Yu-Ji Double C's results helped her, then joked about her past tournament failures.
• Olivia read the sarcastic livestream comments and blushed when Xuanbao read suggestive donation messages aloud.
• Olivia ran off to find snacks, and Du Lingxuan teased Jiang Han about appearing innocent.
• Jiang Han asked whether Xuanbao wanted to experience her private side, leaving Xuanbao blushing as viewers urged the two to get closer.

Jiang Han, Olivia, Du Lingxuan, and Alesha discussed the end-of-patch dominance of Zoo and Transformation strategies after watching Kraken defeat Dinesha. They parted to rest before the evening matches, with the current meta still difficult to counter.

• Jiang Han, Olivia, and Du Lingxuan watched Kraken defeat Dinesha in a sixteen-minute match after Kraken opened with Zoo Bus.
• Xuan Bao watched Tang Bao and Miao Bao struggle through the Marite Racing DLC while feeding them and Blind Treasure during the break.
• Blind Treasure and Du Lingxuan explained that Zoo and Transformation builds dominated most matches, and Blind Treasure described her exhausting fight against Big Li's Star Cluster Cat Lamp.
• Olivia said her Star Cluster Cat had grown too large to enter the arena, while arena rules also restricted super-giant creatures.
• Alesha and the others discussed ways witches were developing to counter Zoo and Transformation sets, then returned to their cat nests to rest before the evening matches.

Du Lingxuan told Jiang Han and the others why Agatha had never graduated from a witch academy. She explained that Agatha’s theses had been derailed by war and the Eileen sisters’ trip to the sun.

• Du Lingxuan explained that witch academy graduates were highly qualified, then revealed that Agatha had never earned her diploma.
• Jiang Han, Alesha, and the hidden Olivia listened as Du Lingxuan described Agatha’s academic achievements and joked about her intelligence.
• Du Lingxuan said Agatha’s first thesis concerned political stability, but the First Witch War broke out and made it irrelevant.
• Du Lingxuan explained that Agatha’s second thesis was about spellcraft, but the Eileen sisters had already gone to the sun by the time she finished it.

Jiang Han prepared for her solo matches while Cat Dula analyzed the current duel meta and devised a strategy for her. Cat Dula’s plan focused on rapid buffs and building pressure until Jiang Han could stack two legendary spells, and Jiang Han then headed to the arena.

• Jiang Han waited in the disorganized lounge and lamented the lack of food and witch affairs officers.
• Jiang Han and her maintenance cat lamps prepared her spells and fitted her with thickened tactical coveralls.
• Cat Dula arrived, caught several suspected cat spies, and joked about her ability to stop intelligence gathering.
• Cat Dula explained that buffs and high saves dominated the current version and that Lin Zhaojun’s fast casting made her unusually effective.
• Cat Dula advised Jiang Han to apply rapid buffs, pressure her opponent into clearing the field, and stack two legendary spells before taking the field.

Jiang Han entered a difficult tournament group and faced an archwitch specializing in illusions, evocation, and conjuration. Her cautious shielded opening failed against her opponent’s transformations and dispelling, leaving Jiang Han with a first-match defeat.

• Jiang Han learned that her group contained six formidable opponents and that her odds of advancing were low.
• She watched an elite witch defeat an alternate apex-tier witch through transformation and sustained attacks.
• Jiang Han prepared for her archwitch opponent by guarding against speed boosts and powerful evocation spells.
• At the referee’s signal, Jiang Han cast defensive spells and dragon transformations while her opponent built a set of five forms.
• Jiang Han’s legendary lightsaber failed to penetrate her opponent’s defenses, and the archwitch shattered her shield and dispelled her spell, defeating her in the first match.

Jiang Han reviewed her failed suppression strategy with Cat Dula and entered her second match determined to stack buffs before attacking. Her opponent exploited the delay and killed her with a pair of missiles, leaving Jiang Han to revive and meow.

• Cat Dula scolded Jiang Han for her previous match and explained that she should stack buffs, then suppress her opponent with legendary spells.
• Jiang Han realized that ITWF rules made an opening evocation one-shot unlikely and resolved to follow Cat Dula’s strategy.
• Du Lingxuan and Ji Haijun discussed Jiang Han’s cautious playstyle as the second match began.
• Jiang Han stacked buffs, but her Archwitch opponent exploited the opening and killed her with two armor-piercing missiles.
• Jiang Han revived and could only meow.

Jiang Han struggled through Group D’s unpredictable matches, alternating between victories and defeats as witches of every skill level toppled one another. After a chaotic day that left nearly everyone in contention to qualify, she was still trapped in the competition with three match days remaining.

• Jiang Han and Cat Dula discovered that a witch had one-shot Jiang Han with a Spiral Bullet Rune and an Armor-Piercing Missile, then watched the opponent lose her next match through a costly mistake.
• Jiang Han learned that Group D’s qualification race was so chaotic that nearly every competitor could either advance or fall short.
• Jiang Han defeated Sazuo Namaemi with a Super Cat transformation and a Legendary Boundlessly Spreading Tide, but Sazuo later awakened and crushed Francis Lee Arabella of Water Dragon Certificate.
• Jiang Han kept trading wins and losses, while Group D’s qualification list grew to sixty-four witches with three match days still left.
• Jiang Han ended the day frustrated that she still had a real chance to qualify and could not simply give up.

Jiang Han reviewed recordings of her sixteen matches with Cat Dula and the Giant Cats, then used their data analysis to understand which tactics were working. The chapter left Jiang Han energized by the findings and ready to refine her strategy.

• Jiang Han and Cat Dula watched recordings of her seven wins and nine losses to look for ways to improve.
• Jiang Han recalled how transformations, summoned creatures, and tougher defenses had changed the matches, while her legendary lightsaber rarely dealt damage.
• Cat Dula and Mao Philia proposed compiling match data, and the Giant Cats quickly assembled a chart of Jiang Han’s openings and spell differentials.
• Cat Dula pointed out that Jiang Han’s transformation openings and Dragon Transformation: Horn had performed poorly, prompting Jiang Han to recognize the value of the analysis.

Jiang Han began her Group D match against Jenny Ball by using Cat Dula’s decisive Giant Cat Lamp strategy, turning the seemingly weak summons into a source of spell advantage and recovery. Jenny struggled to clear the relentless cats as Jiang Han kept summoning more, leaving the match in a bitter stalemate.

• Group D witches began fighting more decisively after their unstable tactics turned the previous matches into a joke.
• Jiang Han recalled Cat Dula’s advice and opened her match against Jenny Ball by summoning a Giant Cat Lamp.
• Cat Dula and Mao Philia cheered as the cats’ special recovery and combat value became apparent.
• Jiang Han summoned more Giant Cat Lamps and nine Cat Lamps, while Jenny Ball completed her zoo setup and tried to clear them.
• Jenny Ball destroyed one Giant Cat Lamp with a powerful spell, but another charged in as Jiang Han summoned a third, leaving Jenny unable to understand her opponent’s mana supply.

Jiang Han summoned an Iron Dragon Giant Cat Lamp while Jenny fought off her other cats, and Jenny used powerful spells and spatial tactics to evade the attacks. Jenny then charged toward Jiang Han, convinced her opponent had nearly run out of mana, as the battle continued at close range.

• Jiang Han summoned an Iron Dragon Giant Cat Lamp to replenish her mana and attack Jenny with its cannon.
• Jenny crippled one Giant Cat Lamp with a Magic-Infused Kick, then crushed another with Hex, Avalanche.
• Jenny used Turn Earth to Air and a time-based tactic to evade Jiang Han's Spatial Exchange and the accompanying explosions.
• Jenny closed to within fifteen meters of Jiang Han and charged, judging that Jiang Han had too little mana left to stop her.

Jiang Han used her Giant Cat Lamp strategy to overwhelm Jenny and then continued winning with the same build. After fifteen consecutive victories, she reached a 22–9 record and nearly secured qualification, while the Water Dragon Certificates still had to awaken over the next two days.

• Jiang Han summoned Berserker Giant Cats and used their attacks to trap Jenny, widening her spell advantage instead of spending it on personal buffs.
• A Giant Cat struck Jenny, forcing her to use several healing spells as Jiang Han summoned more cats and restored leyline energy.
• After the Cat Lamps began casting buffs at the twenty-five-second mark, Jiang Han overwhelmed Jenny with legendary spells and won the match.
• Jiang Han used her Cat Lamp build again, while her coaching team predicted her opponent’s opening charge and helped her keep the Giant Cats alive.
• Jiang Han won fifteen matches in a row on the second day, raising her record from 7–9 to 22–9 and nearly securing qualification.

Jiang Han returned from a fifteen-win streak and joined Du Lingxuan’s stream as she reviewed her match tactics. She explained that her Cat Lamp buffs formed a tactical core designed to finish fights within one minute.

• Du Lingxuan replayed Jiang Han’s match footage and teased her while analyzing her tactics for viewers.
• Jiang Han returned to Cat Book House, found Du Lingxuan streaming, and swiped at her for making fun of her gameplay.
• Alesha entered with watermelon juices and misunderstood Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan’s joking, then joined them in watching the replay.
• Du Lingxuan explained the Berserker Giant Cats’ strength and asked Jiang Han about her Cat Lamp buffs.
• Jiang Han said the buffs helped her finish battles and were designed to end a fight within one minute.

Jiang Han learned how opponents could counter her Giant Cat Lamp tactic, then Cat Dula proposed equipment that would let her deploy cat lamps remotely and protect them from mental control. Jiang Han left with a plan to make the tactic harder to counter before her next match.

• Du Lingxuan warned Jiang Han that fear spells, morale attacks, illusions, and other unconventional tactics could exploit her lineup’s weaknesses.
• Jiang Han recorded Du Lingxuan’s countermeasures and promised to treat her to a feast if she won.
• Jiang Han brought the notes to Cat Dula, who said she had already devised alternative solutions.
• Cat Dula recommended a Giant Cat Calling Pawprint Talisman to extend Jiang Han’s summoning range and a Super Berserk Cat ring to make summoned Giant Cat Lamps immune to mental control.

Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, Chu Yujun, and Teacher Yu streamed the Group of Death matches and debated whether Angelite or Alesha would win their opening bout. Jiang Han backed Angelite with total faith, but Angelite's match began badly when she choked.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan set up a stream with Chu Yujun and Teacher Yu, who joked together while Du Lingxuan served them tobacco laced with catnip.
• Jiang Han delivered strange sponsor advertisements as the group prepared to watch the Group of Death.
• Du Lingxuan introduced Angelite versus Alesha, and Teacher Yu and Chu Yujun backed Alesha based on her perfect adherence to the meta.
• Jiang Han argued that Angelite would win because trusting Angelite brought happiness.
• Angelite choked at the start of her first match.

Angelite tried to counter Alesha with a weather-and-terrain evocation strategy, but Blind Treasure let her finish casting a Magic Power Form and overwhelmed her. The duel ended with Angelite being carried off after lasting only three seconds, while the sisters marveled at Alesha’s power.

• Angelite transformed Eightfold Island into a stormy battlefield and turned herself into an octopus turret to counter Alesha.
• Sister Chu Zi and Du Lingxuan discussed how Angelite’s evocation strategy could overpower Transformation and Zoo if she survived long enough.
• Blind Treasure activated [Magic Power Form: Alesha's Witch Angel], gaining overwhelming abilities and enhanced spells.
• Alesha explained that Angelite was copying Cat Dula's Boundlessly Spreading Tide tactic and demonstrated why opponents could not be allowed to cast a Magic Power Form.
• Alesha defeated Angelite in three seconds, leaving the sisters stunned and questioning what Angelite had been fighting.

The chapter follows commentary on Angelite’s recovery and the witches’ banter before Olivia and Lin Zhaojun begin a high-level match. It leaves the battle poised after both witches instantly complete their transformed setups.

• Du Lingxuan, Chu Yujun, Yu Sitong, and Jiang Han discussed Angelite’s loss and her ability to recover.
• Cat lamps crowded around the screens to watch Olivia face Lin Zhaojun, while Jiang Han and Yu Sitong chatted about tactics and tournament points.
• Olivia dodged Lin Zhaojun’s opening attacks, dispelled her granite golems, and resisted her Heavy Mist and Frozen Blood ambush.
• On the eighth exchange, Olivia used Rewind to replace her Beast-element spells with Zoo, while Lin Zhaojun used Echo to assemble two Transformations.

Lin Zhaojun and Olivia fought an intense duel, trading spell combinations and tactical counters before Lin Zhaojun narrowly won by predicting Olivia’s disguised trump card. Olivia accepted defeat after her attack failed and Lin Zhaojun finished her with a spell sword.

• Lin Zhaojun and Olivia exchanged rapid mid-range spells as Olivia defended against Lin Zhaojun’s elaborate combinations while maintaining a small spell advantage.
• Olivia used polymorph and spell aftereffects to try to unleash two tactical sets, but Lin Zhaojun read her transformation and forced her to dispel her own altered polymorph.
• Lin Zhaojun shifted into close combat and used her protective gear’s spells to withstand Olivia’s attacks.
• Olivia disguised a maximized Great Sunfire Ray as Finger of Death, but Lin Zhaojun anticipated the trick and blocked it with an Energy Protection Shield.
• Olivia recognized the duel was decided, and Lin Zhaojun blocked her final Finger of Death before defeating her with a spell sword.

After Olivia and Lin Zhaojun fought an exceptionally close, high-quality duel, Jiang Han and her companions watched the next group match prepare to begin. Eileen entered the field wearing an overwhelming array of enchanted equipment, leaving the others to wonder how anyone could fight her.

• Olivia and Lin Zhaojun battled through shifting tactics and near-constant casting, with post-match data showing both maintained casting focus for almost the entire forty-six-and-a-half-second duel.
• Du Lingxuan praised the match, while viewers and the Cat Lamps discussed Jiang Han's performance and teased her about it.
• Jiang Han redirected attention to the upcoming match between Eileen and Loya, and Xuan Bao explained that Loya had trained through extensive sparring while Eileen's methods remained mysterious.
• Eileen appeared in the complete Black Source Wedding Dress, displaying a vast collection of powerful enchanted equipment.
• Du Lingxuan described Eileen's wealth as beyond ordinary measure, while Teacher Yu warned that her setup already gave her a substantial spell advantage.

Eileen and Loya faced off in a costly, gear-heavy match, where Loya's cybernetic equipment and summoner tactics overwhelmed Eileen's opening assault. Eileen lost the round and left the field in pain.

• Before the match, Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan learned from the Cat Lamps that Loya's cyber gear used advanced potions, mechanical wands, and other black technology.
• Eileen opened with three stacked mental attacks, while Loya used her equipment to gain mental immunity and transform.
• Eileen summoned spells with Myriad Phenomena Impermanence Witch Cards, but Loya's six mechanical wands fired a barrage that cleared them.
• Eileen blinked away and unleashed a thunderstorm, while Loya spent heavily on consumables and switched to a summoner build.
• Loya used summoned creatures, Sacrifice, and restorative buffs to form a turtle-shell Cat Lamp build, catching Eileen unprepared and winning the round.