Chapter Summaries

After studying Eileen's spell notes, Jiang Han gained occult knowledge and clues about Advanced Spell Counterspell Specialization, but her drained mental energy left her languid. As she recovered, Xiya taught her a summoning ritual and shared her frustration over a fraudulent crown, ending with a revelation about Eileen's uncanny talent for appraising treasure.

• Jiang Han told Xiya that Eileen's notes had broadened her understanding of magic, though her progress toward the specialization remained limited and her thought threads were temporarily shut down.
• Xiya offered to tutor Jiang Han in Anjie's Arcane Theory magazine for a fee, then taught her a summoning ritual involving cola, lasagna, and a sealed soul.
• Jiang Han focused on recovering her mental energy so she could learn a legendary spell before the competition, while Xiya changed the conversation to hats and dresses.
• Xiya realized that her supposed First Epoch Pharaoh Witch crown had likely been forged by soaking it in the River of Time.
• Xiya revealed that Eileen could identify the contents and quality of treasure by listening to gemstones and gold coins shaken in a pocket.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu went to a magic-mirror shop to buy moving equipment, but Jiang Han reached their destination first and watched Silver Knights stop escaped pterosaurs from disrupting the flight route. Chen Ligu arrived after the danger had passed.

• Jiang Han asked Chen Ligu for recommendations on moving equipment, and Chen Ligu suggested a nearby magic-mirror shop.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu flew toward Inner Ring C of Snow Phoebe Lake, but Jiang Han outpaced Chen Ligu and waited on an ecological island.
• Enhanced pterosaurs escaped from a witch's laboratory and attacked witches using the flight route.
• Two Silver Knights restrained and defeated the pterosaurs, reopening the flight route.
• Chen Ligu arrived on her dragonhide book, and Jiang Han waited for her.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu traveled through the busy air harbor and visited a magic mirror shop to arrange a rental and expedited delivery. A terrifying surge of magic interrupted them, and they saw an enormous vortex forming above Snow Phoebe Lake, with Jiang Han sensing Eileen’s presence.

• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu arrived at Inner Ring District C and navigated its crowded air harbor.
• Chen Ligu led Jiang Han through the commercial streets to Old Cui Magic Mirror, where they arranged to rent a magic mirror and have their purchases delivered that day.
• The shopkeeper explained the extra charges for expedited delivery near Myriad Phenomena, where Chen Ligu and Jiang Han lived.
• A powerful magical eruption shook the area, and Jiang Han, Chen Ligu, and the shopkeeper went outside to investigate.
• Jiang Han saw a massive vortex above Snow Phoebe Lake and sensed that Eileen was making a move.

Eve Harkins launched a rebellion against Eileen, prompting Angelite to intervene and drive her back into the Ghost Castle vortex. Jiang Han learned that the Witch Rebellion would put servant armies at risk and was told to arrange non-conscript permits for those she wanted to protect.

• Eileen ordered Eve Harkins to cancel Ghost Castle’s operation, compensate the region, and undergo labor reform, but Eve refused and attacked her.
• Eileen fought back, but Eve withstood her strikes and warned that it was not the time.
• Angelite appeared and struck Eve with an enhanced Annihilation Singularity, forcing her to flee into the vortex after destroying it.
• Jiang Han watched the confrontation as Chen Ligu warned her to arrange non-conscript permits for favored servant armies.
• The insectoid witch shopkeeper explained that the Witch Rebellion was a regular event in which servant armies fought and often lost half their numbers.

Jiang Han moved into a secluded home at Snow Phoebe Lake and enlisted Olivia and the other Cat Lamps to transform it and craft equipment. She also arranged to invite Anjie over to discuss a non-conscription permit for the Weaving Maid Clan, while the Witch unrest continued elsewhere.

• Chen Ligu explained that the Witch Rebellion aimed to wipe out servant-army worlds and increase the witch population, then helped Jiang Han buy supplies for moving her territory.
• Jiang Han messaged Anjie to invite her to dinner and play Marit, hoping to discuss a non-conscription permit for the Weaving Maid Clan.
• Jiang Han moved into a secluded inner-ring residence at Snow Phoebe Lake and met a migrating group of panda witches, exchanging contact mailboxes with them.
• Olivia Lamp, Vera Lamp, and Sha'er praised the new home's ley-line energy, and Jiang Han asked them to reshape the grounds around a lake and underground waterways.
• Olivia created a greenhouse regulator, culture dishes, alchemical preparation stations, and a graphics card, branding the equipment with Angelite von Ludwig's name and hiding it from Angelite's detection.

After moving into their new home, Jiang Han welcomed Angelite, who came to work on applications for witches joining the Witch Rebellion. Angelite and the Cat Lamps explained the war’s ransom system and how the rebellion helped stabilize witch rule despite the witches’ population shortage.

• Jiang Han and her family settled into their new home after Cleya was accidentally left at school and brought back by Zhen Ling.
• Jiang Han read that Dragon Witches were protesting the Ghost Witches’ rebellion and that the Ghost Witches were recruiting participants through a newspaper ad.
• Angelite arrived at Jiang Han’s home with documents and explained that witches had to apply and pay a deposit before joining the war.
• Angelite, Anjie, Ovi, and Vera explained that the rebellion let witches meet their demands and helped maintain three years of stable rule.
• Jiang Han considered the witches’ limited population, slow growth, and demanding living requirements as Angelite continued signing war applications.

Jiang Han learned about the Ghost Witch War’s rewards and agreed to join after Angelite offered to cover her ransom deposit. Angelite assigned her to hunt members of the Graygold Sisterhood and promised a restraint wonder, leaving Jiang Han prepared to target the group’s weaker Ghost Witches.

• Jiang Han read Yuksara Devik’s application to join the Ghost Witch faction because they offered her Ghost Cat Lamps and Ghost Dragons.
• Angelite said many witches, including Lilith, had been lured to the Ghost Witches, and explained that the war would take place on Gaia and offer materials for advanced classes.
• Cat Ovi urged Jiang Han to apply so she could earn money and materials, and Jiang Han agreed to join.
• Angelite offered to advance Jiang Han’s 105,000-yuan ransom deposit in exchange for hunting witches from the Graygold Sisterhood and paying her twice the medals for each capture.
• Jiang Han asked for a positive-energy restraint ritual to counter Ghost Witches, and Angelite agreed to lend her a restraint wonder instead of a spell.

Jiang Han reached the Cassia Desert after two exhausting weeks of Witch Turmoil battles, carrying sixteen medals from witches she had defeated. She found a Cat Lamp faction resting camp, bathed, and began writing home while resting there.

• Jiang Han arrived at Cassia Desert after crossing dozens of Sky Islands and losing her demon servant army along the way.
• Jiang Han recalled defeating sixteen witches and gaining extensive combat experience during her journey.
• Jiang Han studied her magic map and chose a nearby Cat Lamp faction resting camp.
• Jiang Han showed her cat-paw-print badge to the Arcane Giant Cat Lamp, which let her pass into the camp.
• Jiang Han bathed in a massage pool and began writing a letter to her family.

Jiang Han sent a letter home, enjoyed a lavish meal at Cat Lamp Camp, and explored its hot springs and amenities. At the Cat Paw Tavern, a fox witch offered to trade exclusive rewards for Jiang Han’s Witch Conflict medals and auxiliary troop coins, and Jiang Han asked what was available.

• Jiang Han sent her family a letter by turning dragonhide paper into an origami dragon.
• Jiang Han ordered food at a cat lamp buffet and tipped the two cat lamp chefs with Gold Cat Paw Mark coins.
• Jiang Han toured Cat Lamp Camp’s hot springs, library, game room, lounge, and tavern.
• A two-tailed fox witch approached Jiang Han and offered exclusive rewards in exchange for Witch Conflict medals and auxiliary troop coins.
• Jiang Han showed the fox witch her medals and coins, then asked what rewards she could offer.

Jiang Han spent her medals on two Giant Cat Contracts and a Cat Lamp Kitchen lantern, then rested at the cat lamp camp before setting out into the desert. After learning that ghost witches were likely targeting a nearby crystal sugar mine, she disguised herself as a lone mining witch and headed toward the site to draw them out.

• Jiang Han exchanged all sixteen medals for two Giant Cat Contracts and a Cat Lamp Kitchen lantern, gaining VIP treatment at the cat lamp camp.
• On July 20, Jiang Han prepared her gear and left the camp as the other witches set out into the desert.
• Jiang Han reviewed Anjie's reports about servant troops, reserve witches, and newly born witches returning to the witches' homeland.
• Jiang Han learned that ghost witches were likely targeting a nearby crystal sugar mine after sacrificing servant troops to conceal their arrival.
• Jiang Han disguised herself as an elite mining witch, summoned lesser demon servants, and sensed a living creature approaching.

Jiang Han staged a costly battle between her imps and desert wolves to make the Ghost Witches underestimate her, while a witch with roughly thirteen thousand mana followed her. She reached a secluded mine surrounded by sugar crystals near the mana node.

• Jiang Han recognized a sand hare as bait used to test her sensory web and pretended not to notice the enemy's approach.
• Jiang Han let desert wolves ambush and slaughter her imps before summoning five waves of reinforcements to defeat them, concealing her true strength.
• Jiang Han sensed a witch with about thirteen thousand mana following her from roughly a kilometer away and judged she could defeat the pursuer by striking carefully.
• Jiang Han summoned two Fish-Headed Wolves to clear the way and advanced through the dunes toward the mana node.
• Jiang Han dug through a dune and found a secluded mine surrounded by sugar crystals.

Jiang Han explored a crystal sugar mine and prepared her lesser demons for a possible ambush by ghost witches. After securing the camp and entering the mine, she investigated likely attack sites and began planning to replace the traps with her own.

• Jiang Han ordered the lesser demons to establish a camp around the mine and promised them extra soul coins and magic sausages.
• She cut soul coins in half and distributed the halves and sausages as rewards, while the lesser demons fought over them.
• Jiang Han entered the mine with guards and examined the sticky sugar oil covering the rugged passage.
• She sensed nearby lifeforms and traps, identified likely ambush locations, and planned to replace the ghost witches’ traps with her own.

Jiang Han and the ghost witch Lester each prepared a trap designed to kill the other with amplified holy damage. When Lester teleported into Jiang Han’s cavern, Jiang Han activated her own trap and braced for the clash.

• Jiang Han used crystal sugar mining to provoke the ghost witch hiding above the cavern while she waited for an opening.
• Jiang Han secretly prepared a cavern-filling holy-water trap, a teleportation trigger, and spells that amplified evil and holy damage.
• Lester planned to ambush Jiang Han with forced damage sharing, ghost form, and three castings of Holy Storm.
• Lester saw Jiang Han discard her defensive scroll after the lesser demons uncovered Honey Powder Stone and seized the chance to teleport down.
• Jiang Han triggered her trap, cast Pain Share, and used Tide of False Life as Lester arrived.

Miyana’s trip to exchange captured witches was interrupted by a massive explosion in the Cassia Desert, while Angelite’s incarnation continued fighting Eve Harkins in the sacred great cavern. Jiang Han awoke in the crater left by the blast, found the surviving ghost witch, and moved to capture her for a medal.

• Miyana was thrown from her train by a violent desert explosion and hid from the spreading positive-energy storm inside a teapot.
• Angelite’s incarnation fought Eve Harkins, who used a second attacker to turn the battle into a two-on-one fight.
• Jiang Han woke in a crater with her Golden Country Cloak damaged and realized that a point-blank Heaven and Earth Perish Together explosion had destroyed her camp and supplies.
• Jiang Han found a weakened ghost witch who had survived the blast with Transcendence and pulled her from the holy water to claim a capture bounty.

After digging her ruined camp out of the sand, Jiang Han captured Ghost Witch Lester Harkins and met Ghost Ship Witch Lilia Docheman, who invited them to search for witch gold together. The three set off despite Jiang Han’s concern that the prisoners were joining a treasure hunt before paying their ransoms.

• Jiang Han found her portable room intact, lured the Cat Lamps away with crystal sugar, and dug Lester Harkins out of the sand.
• Jiang Han and Lester met Lilia Docheman, a Ghost Ship Witch who had been buried while bathing and declared herself Jiang Han’s prisoner.
• Lester explained that her equipment was destroyed and she needed money from Eve to pay her ransom and resume fighting.
• Lilia revealed that a comet made of witch gold had shattered over the desert, leaving gold for the witches to hunt, and invited Jiang Han and Lester along.
• Lester proposed they cooperate as prisoners while traveling, and Lilia explained that witches traditionally joined forces across factions before turning on everyone.
• Lester recounted how Angelite and Josephine had outpaced Lilith, Octopus, and Dragon to claim the Philosopher’s Stone.

Jiang Han joined Lilia Dochman and Lester Huggins in a hunt for the fallen gold, and the three planned a dangerous overland journey through war zones and dragon pits. They prepared to build a multifunctional vehicle, with Jiang Han offering Giant Cat Lamps for power and Lester supplying blueprints.

• Jiang Han compared her skills with Lilia Dochman and Lester Huggins, then agreed to join their treasure hunt after Lilia showed them the map and gold-sensing rune.
• Lilia explained that the route to the treasure crossed more than fifteen war zones, including dragon pits and a battle zone for top-tier witches.
• Lester and Lilia said they could not fly because the skies were sealed by Ghost Railguns, so the group needed a sturdy vehicle for the two-week overland trip.
• Jiang Han proposed a multifunctional vehicle and offered to borrow two Giant Cat Lamps to pull it.
• Lester revealed that she had blueprints for a cosmic survey vehicle base from her aunt's Sky Exploration Bureau, which could be replicated with few materials.

Jiang Han used Ovi’s Cat Paw Horn to summon two Giant Cat Lamps, including a rare Panda Lamp, and hired them to pull the group’s survey vehicle. With Lester and Lilia building and Jiang Han growing timber, the vehicle neared completion.

• Jiang Han hid behind a dune, took out the Cat Paw Horn, and spent two pieces of Golden Candy to summon two Cat Lamps.
• A glowing orange Giant Cat Lamp and a nearly unlit Panda Lamp appeared, and Jiang Han persuaded them to help pull the vehicle in exchange for Golden Candy and a lavish meal.
• Jiang Han brought the Cat Lamps to the construction site, where Lester mistook the Panda Lamp for a sick Giant Cat Lamp and Jiang Han reassured her that it was rare.
• Jiang Han read the vehicle instructions while Lester and Lilia continued work on the heavy, reinforced chassis and earth-element tracks.
• Jiang Han grew century-old timber with magic as the hemispherical survey vehicle neared completion.

Jiang Han inspected the completed survey vehicle, ate and slept during the journey, then woke to find Alesha Wellington stranded in the desert. The vehicle was still hours from its planned rest stop when Jiang Han encountered the lost Mary Sue.

• Jiang Han and Lester confirmed that the survey vehicle’s deck and power system worked, and Jiang Han inspected its garden and rooms.
• Jiang Han summoned Cat Lamp chefs with the password “Ball of yarn,” and they prepared food for the travelers and the giant Cat Lamps.
• After the meal, Jiang Han and the other Witches returned to their rooms to sleep while the giant Cat Lamps continued driving.
• A Cat Lamp woke Jiang Han around nine in the morning and led her outside, where she saw Alesha Wellington standing beside a sign saying she was lost.

Jiang Han encountered Alesha and invited her to travel with the group, then learned that Alesha’s eyes could reshape matter and alter living creatures. The revelation left Jiang Han and Lester alarmed, though Alesha assured them that manipulating someone’s mind required prolonged direct eye contact.

• Jiang Han found Alesha waiting by a sign and invited her to come along until they found a camp.
• Alesha admitted she was nearsighted after failing to recognize Jiang Han, who cautioned herself against staring into Alesha’s unusual eyes.
• Alesha explained that her eyes could alter atomic structures, create organisms and spaces, and strengthen magic.
• While eating with Jiang Han and Lester, Alesha described how her eyes could change emotions, memories, perceptions, and common sense.
• Jiang Han and Lester covered their eyes in alarm, but Alesha swore she needed to stare at someone for a long time to use those abilities on them.

Jiang Han settled Alesha into her room, then went outside with Lilia and discovered they had reached Hamster Forest, a rare site rich in magical materials. She ordered the vehicle to stop so they could gather its treasures.

• Jiang Han let Alesha stay in her private room, where Alesha explained that her powerful magical eyes made glasses dangerous.
• Jiang Han woke and found Alesha still asleep, murmuring, "Nice one, Lin Zhaojun."
• Jiang Han met Lilia, who planned to enjoy the sun and advised avoiding battles during the Witch Conflict’s opening months.
• Jiang Han followed Lilia outside and learned the vehicle had reached Hamster Forest, a rare material-producing region filled with magical rodents.
• Jiang Han leaped onto the giant orange Cat Lamp and shouted for it to stop so they could gather materials.