Recaps

After Death Group A’s matches, Angelite struggled with the tournament’s brutal standings and the spread of Jiang Han’s Cat Lamp Style. She asked Jiang Han to help her recruit Giant Cats, and they prepared to go to Giant Cat Island for the Giant Cat Conference.

• The witches returned from their matches and urgently ordered contracted creatures as they began extra training.
• Angelite complained that she had lost three matches, while Xiya described Cat Lamp Style’s strong record and Eve Harkins’s undefeated use of it.
• Jiang Han explained that the Giant Cat version of Cat Lamp Style required specializations, at least ten Giant Cats, and two hundred cat lamps.
• Angelite asked Jiang Han to contact Giant Cats so she could sign them as partners.
• Jiang Han agreed and said they would leave for Giant Cat Island in two hours to attend the Giant Cat Conference.

Jiang Han persuaded Angelite to hire giant cats, including a secretary, by promising a legendary recruit and threatening to play a recording of Angelite calling her Mommy. The chapter ended with Angelite’s aggressive diplomatic style placing the witches in a golden age of negotiation amid the universe’s ongoing war.

• Jiang Han’s calls drew eager replies from legendary Giant Cat Lamps hoping to become Angelite’s contract partners.
• Angelite and Ovi briefly stared each other down before Ovi returned to teasing Jiang Miao and Tang Wen as they played games.
• Jiang Han told Angelite that giant cats would be hired in multiple batches and threatened to send Ghost Giant Cats to her home if she refused.
• Jiang Han persuaded Angelite to hire a Giant Cat secretary by threatening to play a recording of Angelite calling her Mommy.
• Olivia approved of Jiang Han placing a giant cat near Angelite, whose frequent diplomatic threats helped witches seize opportunities during the ongoing war.

Jiang Han searched for Cat Gernis, a powerful Mist Immortal Giant Cat whose unusual magic specialization could address weaknesses in the Giant Cat Lamp style. She found Cat Gernis's Cat Paw Shop and encountered the haggard Eve Harkins outside.

• Cat Kakkasha, Cat Vinidra, and other battle-tested cats competed to stand beside Angelite, so Jiang Han left the Cat Assembly Hall to shop.
• Jiang Han explored the streets and observed how Giant Cat Lamps traveled while keeping established homes to return to.
• Jiang Han recalled Cat Gernis's exceptional size, magic power, and four magical specializations, which made her valuable for improving the Giant Cat Lamp style.
• Jiang Han found Cat Gernis's Cat Paw Shop and encountered Eve Harkins, who was accompanied by a chubby Ghost Giant Cat.

Jiang Han and Eve Harkins visited Cat Gernis’s shop, where Eve sought out rare Giant Cat accessories and Jiang Han identified her household’s Twin Lich Giant Cats. They met Cat Gernis, whose formal greeting unsettled Eve and prompted the Ghost Giant Cat Lamp to challenge her.

• Jiang Han greeted Eve Harkins and suggested Angelite might be looking to hire Giant Cats for her tactical reserves.
• Eve entered the shop to buy glittering treasures for her two Lich Giant Cats, and Jiang Han recognized them as Twin Lich Giant Cats.
• Jiang Han and Eve met the Mist Immortal Giant Cat Lamp, Cat Gernis, who welcomed them with an elaborate, cultured greeting.
• The Ghost Giant Cat Lamp noticed Eve’s glance and accused her of looking down on its education, prompting Eve to stammer a denial.

Eve Harkins went shopping with Jiang Han at a Mist Immortal Catgirl’s stall, where they examined unusual loot and bargained over Lucky Springwater. Eve bought gemstones and Cat Lamp accessories, then offered Jiang Han a gemstone as thanks for her earlier help.

• Jiang Han haggled with the Mist Immortal Catgirl over a Wisdom Stele fragment and other goods while Eve watched.
• Jiang Han asked Eve whether twenty-five thousand was a fair price for a bottle of Lucky Springwater, and Eve confirmed that it was worth buying at that price.
• Eve noted that the springwater was not top-notch, and Jiang Han bought it before the Mist Immortal Catgirl could reconsider its price.
• Eve bought the gemstones and semi-finished Cat Lamp accessories from the stall and offered Jiang Han a gemstone as a return gift for helping with the unicycle problem.

Jiang Han asked Cat Gernis to join her Eileen Cup strategy as a core member of a giant-cat weather team. Cat Gernis hesitated but agreed to think it over, leaving Jiang Han hopeful she had persuaded her.

• Cat Gernis celebrated the ruby she had earned by trading goods and natives with castle lord sisters.
• Jiang Han and Cat Gernis talked over coffee and snacks about books and the Eileen Cup.
• Cat Gernis praised Jiang Han’s tactic of summoning giant cats and suggested it could be improved.
• Jiang Han explained that she wanted Mist Immortals to call forth Mist Lake and water-type terrain as part of a weather team.
• Cat Gernis worried about facing witches in the arena and said she needed to think about joining.

Chu Yujun celebrated the profits from her Cat Lamp investments and paid dividends to Jiang Han and Chen Ligu. As Jiang Han prepared for her tournament starting the next day, she decided to study and refine her tactics.

• The rising price of contract books made Chu Yujun a millionaire from her early investments in Cat Lamps, cages, and houses.
• Chu Yujun gave Jiang Han and Chen Ligu dividend checks for their earlier investments and contributions to her contract-creature shop.
• Jiang Han used her payout to summon Giant Cat Lamps and buy study materials so she could learn more spells.
• Du Lingxuan asked about Jiang Han's tournament plans, and Jiang Han said she would try Cat Lamp Style and work on improving her tactics.

Jiang Han inspected the newly renovated Training Ground No. 5, where Cat Luo had installed a leyline-energy recovery system and was enforcing strict hygiene measures to prevent cat-fur parasites. After Cat Dula was put through an intense wash, the chapter left Jiang Han alarmed at the threat of bald tails.

• Cat Luo explained that she had changed the training ground’s energy-gathering design to provide twenty-fivefold leyline energy recovery, with Jiang Han filtering and balancing the energy.
• Mushroom Cat Lamps and Nightmare Cat Lamps forced Cat Dula into a disinfecting cat-washing room under Cat Luo’s orders.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Luo to stop the harsh treatment, but she changed her mind and asked for the water to be hotter after hearing about parasites that ate tail fur.
• Cat Dula emerged from the wash wrapped in a towel, while Cat Luo explained that some Cat Lamps’ tails had begun going bald.
• Jiang Han wrapped her tail tightly around herself, frightened by the prospect of losing its fur.

Jiang Han prepared weather-focused giant cat lamp teams for her competition, securing Climate Thief cats and discussing Sunflame Paladins with Cat Dula. The cats offered no prediction about whether Jiang Han would qualify, leaving her uncertain about facing two Water Dragon Certificate witches.

• Jiang Han approached the giant cats' furnace and reviewed their cat-lamp-punk projects with Cat Bo and the other cats.
• Cat Dula recommended Climate Thief Giant Cat Lamps for rainy-weather tactics, and Jiang Han contracted five of them to control Dark Lake.
• Cat Dula warned Jiang Han that giant cat lamps might flee if summoned into dangerous conditions, despite their promises to answer her summons.
• Cat Dula proposed Sunflame Paladin Giant Cats for a blazing-sun attrition team and explained that their charges could frighten them into fleeing.
• Jiang Han asked whether she could qualify against two Water Dragon Certificate witches, but the cats admitted they had not considered it.

The Giant Cats presented Jiang Han with technological weapons and weather magic designed to help Cat Lina overcome weakened damage output in the Eileen Cup. The chapter ended with Jiang Han needing to learn Earth Vein Alteration Art and decide when to risk its costly casting time.

• Cat Dula explained that the cats were exploring technological methods to strengthen Cat Lina's attacks after witches' damage had been weakened.
• Cat Dula demonstrated a laser cannon that used portals and airborne Cat Lamps to fire at opponents, while Cat Bo joked about the Sleepless Giant Cat's self-destructing mechanical duplicate.
• Cat Dula revealed Earth Vein Alteration Art, a ninth-circle spell that could reshape Eightfold Island's earth veins to create harsh weather and terrain.
• Cat Dula told Jiang Han that she could cast the spell through Cat Gernis, but its half-second casting time would cost valuable spell differential.

Jiang Han faced Minotauria’s Airdrop Style and countered it with Cat Doyastin and the Thunder Cat Revolver, but Minotauria still managed to take a result before Jiang Han could summon another giant cat. The match ended with Jiang Han’s streak threatened as the Group D Witches continued their chaotic tactical experiments.

• Minotauria opened with Airdrop Style, using Spatial Anchor to prevent Jiang Han from escaping her attack.
• Jiang Han summoned Cat Doyastin, whose lightning nova knocked Minotauria away and interrupted her follow-up airdrop.
• Cat Doyastin fired six shots from the Thunder Cat Revolver while Jiang Han used a force-field wall to concentrate the blast.
• Cat Doyastin’s Go-With-the-Flow Shocking Cat specialty empowered Jiang Han and left Minotauria severely wounded.
• Minotauria charged Jiang Han as she prepared to summon another giant cat and secured a result after enduring the six thunder shots.

After losing her opening match, Jiang Han watched Ketus face Minotauria and saw the Water Dragon Certificate reveal a fast, deceptive technological strategy. The match ended with Ketus charging in as an octopus girl, backed by stolen tactical buffs and two Giant Cat Lamps, while Minotauria decided to meet her head-on.

• Jiang Han reviewed her failed opening strategy with Cat Dula, Cat Doyastin, and Cat Phyllis as her Cat Lamp team repaired her equipment.
• Jiang Han learned that Ketus had secretly prepared in folded spaces and watched her enter the arena wearing a technological combat outfit.
• Ketus rapidly cast Mirror Image and Eternal Darkness Cloak, using half-spells to conceal herself and evade Minotauria's direct attacks.
• Ketus seized three tactical buffs while Minotauria tried to interrupt her, then emerged as a Transcendence octopus girl with two Giant Cat Lamps beside her.
• Minotauria charged at Ketus after briefly considering her options.

Jiang Han studied Ketus’s improvised victory and prepared a counterstrategy for their rematch. She recognized Ketus’s opening as a normal spell and rushed forward, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Jiang Han concluded that Ketus’s victory had relied on an uncertain gamble rather than a consistent tactical plan.
• A Witch used the retro Fire-Fire-Boom-Boom Style to defeat a Scholar sister with a Flame Burst opener, and Du Lingxuan explained the tactic’s spell-differential risks and counter.
• The tactical cats advised Jiang Han to exploit Ketus’s habits with Mirror Shadow Spell and Eternal Darkness Cloak.
• Jiang Han faced Ketus again and watched her wrist to identify whether she was casting a half-spell or a normal spell.
• After spotting Ketus’s wrist twitch, Jiang Han called for a rush.

Jiang Han defeated Ketus by exploiting a brief hesitation, disguising her spell casting, and using a targeted Dissolution Spell Flash to teleport close after Ketus dispelled it. Ketus recognized the tactic too late and accepted the duel as a lesson.

• Ketus hesitated to throw her smoke bomb when Jiang Han's unpredictable charging movement made her difficult to hit.
• Jiang Han used triple-casting feints while concealing her real spell, and Ketus analyzed the possible threats before casting Magic Eradication.
• Magic Eradication dispelled Jiang Han's protective barrier and inflicted disabling effects, but it also triggered Jiang Han's targeted Dissolution Spell Flash.
• Jiang Han teleported near Ketus, stabbed her with a Bone-Eroding Light Sword, and followed with a spell missile that pierced her spinal cord.
• Ketus asked what spell Jiang Han had used, and Jiang Han explained that the buff teleported its caster near whoever dispelled it.

Jiang Han fought through a run of victories and defeats before losing to Du Xiurong’s Fluffy Rabbit-Cat Lamp Style in a costly, exhausting match. She ended the day recovering in a cushioned cat carriage, where Cat Doyastin fussed over her and arranged food and a massage.

• Jiang Han won four matches in a row, then suffered two consecutive losses, including one against Airdrop Style.
• Du Xiurong overwhelmed Jiang Han with Fluffy Rabbits and defeated her with her chainsaw, steam furnace, and Palm Thunder Revolver.
• Du Xiurong burned through her strength and equipment, while Jiang Han was left scraped up and annoyed by the rabbits.
• Cat Doyastin and the other Cat Lamps carried Jiang Han in a warm water barrel to the maintenance carriage for recovery.
• Jiang Han chose to stay for a massage and watch the matches, while Cat Doyastin sent Mao Philia to fetch food and promised her dessert.

Jiang Han and the Giant Cats traveled through the Cat Lamp farming route, then ate and watched Du Lingxuan’s Group D commentary stream. Blind Treasure discussed the tournament’s groups and said Group D was unpredictable, leaving open the possibility that Loya might qualify.

• Jiang Han and the Giant Cats rode the air-cushion cat carriage through the Cat Lamps’ mushroom farms while the communications cats handed out snacks and promoted Long-Haired Cat Clawmark Island.
• A Cat Lamp was caught suggesting that Cat Lina seize Meow Yi Ao’s position and was dragged away for punishment, while Jiang Han and Mao Philia voiced their loyalty to Meow Yi Ao.
• The cats ate and watched Du Lingxuan’s paid commentary channel, where Du Lingxuan teased Blind Treasure about being blind before asking about Group A.
• Blind Treasure said Group A and Group D were both becoming more proactive and warned Du Lingxuan not to underestimate Group D, which could make the comparison between the groups a joke.
• Blind Treasure said the groups were both unpredictable and noted that Loya might qualify.

Theresa of the Water Dragon Certificate faced Du Xiurong, a fellow disciple from Wuyi Supreme Yellow Court, in a fierce match. The chapter ended as they opened with electromagnetic spell combos designed to exploit Immortal Witches’ weakness to lightning.

• Theresa erased a powerful double dragon with one Banishment spell in an earlier match.
• Mao Philia explained that Du Xiurong’s decisive, changing tactics suited the group’s free-for-all matches.
• Du Lingxuan revealed that Theresa had joined Wuyi Supreme Yellow Court as a young witch and that Du Xiurong had been her true disciple senior.
• Theresa and Du Xiurong began their match by unleashing electromagnetic spell combos against each other.

Du Xiurong and Theresa of the Water Dragon Certificate fought fiercely, while Cat Doyastin explained how their specialized equipment shaped the battle. Theresa ultimately overwhelmed Du Xiurong with her diverse Immortal Arts, and the Cats began plotting ways to counter Du Xiurong's tactics in a future fight.

• Du Xiurong and Theresa traded attacks as Theresa pinned her down with blood mist and Du Xiurong countered with her chainsaw and palm-thunder revolver.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Doyastin why Theresa could not finish Du Xiurong, and Cat Doyastin explained that Theresa's gear favored spell combinations she was not using while Du Xiurong's equipment demanded a rigid sequence.
• Cat Doyastin and Cat Philia proposed using lightning, Spacetime Anchors, and a Cat Call Trap to disrupt Du Xiurong's teleporting kick tactics.
• Theresa unleashed alchemy, martial arts, arcane formations, Five Elements Immortal Magic, the Book of Destiny, and Nine-Nine Gate Immortal Arts, smashing Du Xiurong to pieces.

Jiang Han visited Yamada Marina’s black market to buy the immortal art Scatter Beans into Soldiers, which could let her summons attack immediately. Marina explained that the shop did not sell spells directly and led Jiang Han to a consciousness-space machine, leaving her poised to enter its virtual market.

• Jiang Han entered the Big Cat Spin Bar with Chen Ligu and Chu Yujun, who explained that Eastern Isles immortal witches had established the East Sea Ten-Thousand-Year Imperial Court and fostered local black markets.
• Jiang Han sought Scatter Beans into Soldiers for its Enhanced Summoning technique, which gave summoned creatures a chance to act immediately and reduced summoning costs.
• Yamada Marina greeted Jiang Han and said her shop did not sell spells directly, while two cat witches watched from nearby.
• Yamada Marina led Jiang Han into a private room and showed her a consciousness-space machine, whose instructions warned her to connect thought threads without overloading its server.

Jiang Han entered a laggy consciousness-space server where witches traded immortal arts and spells, and discovered it was running on an old potato-based system. After other witches warned her that moving too quickly could crash the server, she headed toward the stall more cautiously.

• Jiang Han settled into a consciousness space and saw an electronic sign showing that sixty-five witches were online.
• The Marina sisters appeared, and a Fox Witch and a Germanic witch criticized the server's severe lag and outdated floppy-disk storage.
• Marina loaded the Potato Server v4.05 and described how Master Miyamoto Akiko had built it inside a potato.
• Two witches finished trading spells and logged off, making the server run faster as the remaining witches listed their goods.
• Jiang Han moved toward a stall, but the witches stopped her and warned that her speed might crash the server.

Jiang Han explored the witches’ black market and bought a damaged Nature Domain Core from a notorious witch, planning to resell it to Lin Zhaojun. She arranged the exchange for that night and continued searching for immortal arts.

• Jiang Han examined the black-market listings and spotted a Nature Domain Core with 37.245% integrity.
• Jiang Han negotiated with the witch who owned the core, offering Cat Coins and agreeing to pay 2.5 million yuan.
• Jiang Han arranged to meet the witch at a takeout shop at 11:20 that night to complete the exchange.
• Jiang Han left to look for immortal arts while the witch began selling another item marked God's Blood.

Jiang Han used discounted purchases in the consciousness space to buy immortal arts and goods her sisters wanted, then completed a series of trades after waking. Lin Zhaojun fused with a domain core Jiang Han had acquired, while Jiang Han secretly absorbed its excess leyline energy.

• Jiang Han bought immortal arts and several items for her sisters at a discount, then logged out of the consciousness space.
• Jiang Han woke beneath a pile of Cat Lamps, scolded them for stealing Cat Lina’s snacks, and made them clean the treasure room as punishment.
• Chen Ligu confirmed she wanted the custom druid staff, and Jiang Han reminded her and Chu Yujun that she had given them a twenty-percent discount.
• Jiang Han spent the night completing offline trades with Witches and then called Lin Zhaojun to collect the goods.
• Lin Zhaojun fused with the domain core to strengthen her natural domain abilities, while Jiang Han secretly consumed some of its unused leyline energy.

Lin Zhaojun explained that she had bought a Nature Core to build a pseudo-divine domain that could help her create a proper avatar. After learning that Lin planned to use a borrowed Blood River Cat Lamp as the foundation, Jiang Han eagerly offered her laboratory and assistance.

• Jiang Han asked Lin Zhaojun why she had bought a Nature Core, and Lin explained that a pseudo-divine domain could provide free spellcasting and help solve her avatar problem.
• Jiang Han tried to coax the secret from Lin by offering more Sea Siren hair, but Lin said everyone would find out during the match the next day.
• Lin told Jiang Han that her powerful spell traits made her avatars dangerously unstable, and Jiang Han asked whether a Nature domain could fix the problem.
• Lin said she had borrowed treasures from Nanazawa An and planned to use a Blood River Cat Lamp as the basis for her avatar construct.
• Jiang Han volunteered her laboratory, Giant Cats, and assistance, and Lin accepted while praising her as the finest alchemist among the cats on Long-Haired Cat Clawmark Island.
• Jiang Han's Dark Lake power had begun granting her Mist Immortal Vanishing Specialty, which could trade for food from other worlds through black mist.

Lin Zhaojun used a Blood River Cat Lamp and Nature Domain cores to create functioning Cat Lamp incarnations, proving that Nature-type domains could substitute for Cat Lamps’ leyline domains. The laboratory’s cats immediately recognized the discovery’s potential, and Jiang Han expected Nature Domain cores to become much more valuable.

• Jiang Han watched as Lin Zhaojun explained how she would use a Blood River Cat Lamp and a Nature Domain pseudo-god core to create a Cat Lamp incarnation.
• Lin Zhaojun built biological Cat Lamp bodies, transplanted Blood Cat Lamps into them, and used special slimes as developing brains controlled by her consciousness.
• Lin Zhaojun activated four large v5.0 models and ten smaller v4.25 models, which ran around with lively catlike behavior.
• Lin Zhaojun confirmed that Nature-type domains could replace Cat Lamps’ leyline domains and make unique Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han noticed the laboratory’s cats plotting and predicted that the price of Natural Domain Cores would skyrocket.

Jiang Han returned to Cat Book House and teased Du Lingxuan, who was frustrated after going six wins and four losses in the tournament. They turned their attention to Group G to watch the Aoses sisters.

• Lin Zhaojun gathered the newborn catgirls after they flopped into a pile and had a Giant Cat reforge them in a casting mold.
• Du Lingxuan explained that a Giant Cat had knocked her out of the air with Giant Cat Grand Slam, after which she switched away from Airdrop Style and finished the day six wins and four losses.
• Jiang Han teased Du Lingxuan on stream by rubbing against her and touching her thighs, while the viewers filled the comments with jokes.
• Jiang Han asked about Du Lingxuan's qualifying prospects, and Du Lingxuan recounted a coach's furious outburst at another Witch's failed dry pull.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan spotted the Aoses sisters in Group G and eagerly settled in to watch them.