Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han discovered a hidden witch research base deep beneath Sea Sand District and sneaked inside to investigate. She escaped when footsteps approached, sealing the crack behind her and leaving herself a way to return.

• Jiang Han followed blue light into a narrow crack and found a witch-made structure beneath the sea.
• Jiang Han overheard ghost witches explain that Eileen’s Heat Wave Breath had damaged their base and that they were repairing its passage.
• The ghost witches opened a floodgate, and aquatic cat lamps poured into the dry passage while the witches tried to herd them away.
• Jiang Han tossed a cat lamp gold coin to distract the witches, then explored the base and found signs pointing to its production workshop, laboratory, testing room, and alchemy workshop.
• Jiang Han fled through the crack when she heard approaching footsteps, covered it with sealing mud, and made a small cave outside before heading back along her air stakes.

Jiang Han returned from the underwater base and told the Witches she had discovered a secret ghost Witch facility. She also revealed that she had found millions in gold, leaving the group eager to share the treasure and settle a grudge with the base.

• Jiang Han signaled from the underwater cage and was hauled back to the dock, where the Witches had built furnished tents and a flowerbed.
• Jiang Han joined Chen Ligu, Alesha, Lester, and Lilia in discussing the dock’s decorations, and the group agreed that Chen Ligu should share in the gold.
• Jiang Han described the secret ghost Witch base beneath the water, prompting Lester and Lilia to curse its occupants and plan to confront them in a few days.
• Jiang Han shook a large haul of gold from her tail and estimated that the underwater trove contained at least seven or eight million.

Jiang Han and the others turned recovered gold into Witch Gold and celebrated their enormous earnings, then discussed how the fortune compared with Jiang Han’s debts and explored witches’ marriage customs. The chapter ended with Alesha revealing that the First Witch had once given a wedding gift worth ten or twenty million.

• Jiang Han and the others smelted their recovered gold into valuable Witch Gold bars.
• Lester, Chen Ligu, and Alesha calculated that each of them could receive at least 2.66 million Witch Gold dollars.
• Jiang Han said she planned to pay her debts, including what she owed Eileen for a legendary spell.
• Lester, Chen Ligu, and Alesha discussed betrothal gifts and wedding contributions among Eastern and Western witches.
• Alesha said the First Witch had given a wedding gift worth ten or twenty million in the money of that era.

Jiang Han infiltrated the ghost witches’ hidden underwater base and discovered a factory producing blasphemous golems. She found that their crude artificial intelligence was built around prayers to Eve Harkins, suggesting Eve had become an electronic false god.

• Jiang Han followed her rising fortune to the sealed ghost witch base and slipped inside unnoticed.
• She photographed the empty corridor as evidence, then passed sleeping ghost witches in a lounge and went deeper into the facility.
• Jiang Han found a keycard beside a seventeen-layer encrypted door and used it to enter the manufacturing workshop.
• She saw blasphemous golems being produced and examined the code that controlled them.
• Jiang Han discovered that the code’s core was a prayer calling Eve Harkins a savior, king of ghosts, and mother of machine-hearted mechanical spirits.

Jiang Han explored Eve Harkins's laboratory and discovered robots made to generate faith by worshipping Eve, along with the witch's ridiculous research reports. She tested the console's armor display and uncovered a suit of V-943 armor.

• Jiang Han photographed the faith-generating robots and entered the corridor, where she chose the Finishing Room.
• Jiang Han explored the lavish, library-like laboratory and found a workstation at its center.
• Jiang Han read Eve Harkins's latest report, which described the faith generator and complained about the robots repeating obscene prayers.
• Jiang Han opened the console, selected the V-943 Armor test, and watched a bookshelf reveal a suit of black armor.
• Jiang Han reached into her pocket as she reacted to the displayed armor.

Jiang Han looted Eve Harkins’s treasures and discovered two powerful Bone-Eating Swords, but Eve caught her trying to take the second one. The chapter ended with Eve threatening to remove Jiang Han’s limbs and keep them in a washing machine until the Witch Conflict ended.

• Jiang Han took Black Source Matter armor, a mana-conducting amulet, and magical gemstones from Eve Harkins’s supplies.
• Jiang Han opened a hidden display and found the Bone-Eating Swords Adeline and Elterlin.
• Jiang Han tested Adeline and discovered that it wielded a red blade and potent biochemical toxins.
• Jiang Han reached for Elterlin, but the sword sprang from its stand and Eve Harkins caught it.
• Eve Harkins explained the sword’s red blade and threatened Jiang Han for stealing from her.

Jiang Han fought Eve Harkins in Ghost Castle but was overwhelmed by the Bone-Eating Light Sword and Eve’s spells. Just as Eve prepared to leave her behind, a mysterious worldwood sword hilt appeared, and Eve recognized Eileen.

• Jiang Han fought Eve Harkins, whose Bone-Eating Light Sword injured her despite Jiang Han’s strength and resilience.
• Eve revealed that her false god ritual was underway and that she had arranged for Angelite and Lilith to be held up.
• Jiang Han tried to resist Eve’s fear spell and prismatic spray, but Eve struck her with bone-corroding poison and defeated her.
• Eve said she would return after defeating Anjie, then turned to leave Jiang Han behind.
• A carved worldwood sword hilt fell near Jiang Han, and Eve recognized it as connected to Eileen.

Eileen projected herself through the World Tree Light Sword and prepared to take control of Jiang Han’s body so they could stop Eve Harkins’s false god ritual. After Eileen possessed Jiang Han, she faced Harkins with the World Tree Light Sword.

• Eileen emerged from the World Tree Light Sword hilt and confronted Eve Harkins, who threatened to turn her and Jiang Han into human swine.
• Eileen told Jiang Han to cast a possession ritual, explaining that she would help her fight Harkins despite having little mana in her projection.
• Jiang Han drew the ritual runes, and Eileen possessed her body, leaving Jiang Han conscious but overwhelmed by a flood of knowledge.
• Eileen, controlling Jiang Han’s body, greeted Harkins and formed a crimson blade of light from the World Tree Light Sword.

Eileen used Jiang Han’s body to defeat Eve Harkins in a fierce sword fight, leaving the master of Ghost Castle gravely wounded but alive. Jiang Han and Eileen divided the library’s treasures, including the Bone-Eating Light Swords, while Eve watched.

• Eve Harkins weakened Jiang Han with magic and sword strikes, but Eileen emerged and took control of Jiang Han’s body.
• Eileen used her superior swordsmanship and powerful magic to drive Eve Harkins back and pierce her chest with a light sword.
• Eileen told Jiang Han that Eve was near death after the false god ritual, but that she had avoided striking a vital point.
• Eileen gave Jiang Han the Bone-Eating Sword Adeline, and Jiang Han accepted it after Eileen proposed they split the spoils.
• Eve Harkins sat up and watched as Jiang Han and Eileen divided the library’s treasures.

Jiang Han, Eileen, and Angelite negotiated Eve Harkins’s punishment after the Ghost Witch Rebellion, with Eve offering money and supplies to reduce her sentences. The rebellion was declared over, though a two-month period of hostility remained.

• Eileen showed Jiang Han a valuable antique tapestry, and bought Jiang Han’s half for eleven thousand five hundred.
• Angelite arrived and revealed that one of her merchant witches had sold Eve the tapestry at an inflated price.
• Angelite asked Jiang Han to take notes as she negotiated Eve’s sentences, which Eve reduced by offering to buy an island and provide Ghost Cat Lamps.
• Angelite, Eileen, and Eve agreed on more than a dozen clauses, signed the settlement, and declared the rebellion over with two months of hostility remaining.

Jiang Han led a group of Cat Lamps in looting the dangerous ruins of Anser Royal City and returned with valuable treasures. She divided the haul, arranged a tribute to Meow Yi Ao, and collected the cats’ supply requests, leaving her poised to profit from selling them goods.

• Jiang Han led two Giant Cat Lamps and several little Cat Lamps into Anser Royal City, where they broke into a tower and stole jewelry from under the undead elves’ noses.
• The Cat Lamps escaped through the shattered window, using their ability to float through the ruins’ no-fly zone and decaying winds to reach their cat tree.
• Jiang Han transformed back into a witch and sorted the expedition’s jewelry, gemstones, documents, and other spoils, identifying likely buyers for some items.
• Jiang Han took a 10% service fee and set aside a portion of the treasure as an offering to Meow Yi Ao, whose blessing strengthened the cats’ lamp wicks.
• The Cat Lamps gave Jiang Han a list of supplies they wanted, and she calculated that selling them the goods would bring her another profit margin.

Jiang Han arrived at the Witch Agency South City Branch, where Eileen and the others were gathered around a world sphere and a card game. When Eileen learned Jiang Han had brought artworks by the Anse Elves, Angelite asked her to show them to everyone.

• Jiang Han entered the lavish South City branch and made her way up the World Tree to the top-floor office.
• Jiang Han rode the office’s bubble elevator alongside a calm witch who read a newspaper through the jolting ride.
• Lilith and Kraken played cards while influencing a civil war in a world sphere, and the princess shot the newly crowned king during his coronation.
• Eileen declared Lilith the winner of the Great Empire’s 1344 script, and Kraken handed over two high-grade ghost cat lamps.
• Eileen greeted Jiang Han and mentioned her arrival to the others, and Angelite asked to see the Anse Elves’ artworks Jiang Han had brought.

Jiang Han sold Anse Elven goods to Eileen, Anjie, and Lilith, then answered the Great Witch Council’s questions about witch politics. Eleanor secured Jiang Han’s support for expanding the Council’s oversight of the Witch Agency.

• Eileen bought most of Jiang Han’s Anse Elven goods, while Anjie and Lilith bought the blue-red gemstone crown; Eileen offered Jiang Han five percent of future goods for customers with existing orders.
• Lilith invited Jiang Han to answer questions for the Great Witch Council, and Eleanor began a formal interview with a camera.
• Eleanor asked Jiang Han a series of questions about the Witch Agency and the Great Witch Council, but Jiang Han realized the camera had not been recording.
• Eleanor restarted the camera and asked Jiang Han whether the Witch Agency should cede authority to the Great Witch Council for oversight.
• After Eleanor explained that the Council wanted her public support and confirmed the Cat Lamp Witch matter was confidential, Jiang Han endorsed the Great Witches’ right to oversee the Agency.

Jiang Han learned that Marian Horton would leave the Great Witches and Dinesha would take her place, then received the commission to find a Nether Festival celebration venue. She planned to recruit Tang Wen to help with her cat-lamp errands but got distracted reading a witch travel journal.

• Angelite announced that Marian Horton would step down as a Great Witch and focus on witch high-tech fields.
• Eleanor told Jiang Han that Dinesha would replace Marian as England's Great Witch.
• Eleanor assigned Jiang Han to find a banquet venue for the Nether Festival and Dinesha's inauguration, with a 2.75 million Witch Gold budget and space for at least three hundred witches.
• Jiang Han messaged Manager Qin Shunying about the venue commission and prepared to ask Tang Wen to help buy cat-lamp supplies.
• Jiang Han bought a ten-chapter volume of My Life Hunting in Hell and became engrossed in its travel account before remembering to call Tang Wen.

Jiang Han arranged to meet Tang Wen on Coffee Shop Street to shop for Nether Festival decorations and Cat Lamp props. At the Viser coffee kiosk, both witches drank the fiery, extra-spicy coffee and breathed flames.

• Jiang Han called Tang Wen and arranged to meet at the entrance to Snow Phoebe Lake to shop together.
• Jiang Han bought two large cups of hand-ground Viser coffee with extra dragon pepper from the dwarf witch kiosk owner.
• Jiang Han drank the coffee and breathed flames after its heat erupted inside her body.
• Tang Wen arrived, and Jiang Han handed her the second cup of Viser coffee.
• Tang Wen took a gulp and breathed a mouthful of fire, drawing a warning from a nearby witch about setting clothes ablaze.

Jiang Han and Tang Wen explored Snow Phoebe Lake before Tang Wen led her to a café and supply shop known to professional Cat Lamp collectors. Jiang Han was impressed by its Cat Lamp products and care facilities, but kept her identity as a Cat Lamp Witch secret until Olivia returned.

• Jiang Han and Tang Wen admired Snow Phoebe Lake and discussed its hunting and camping grounds.
• They watched a Cat Lamp golf production and heard the cats' complaints and strange observations.
• Tang Wen brought Jiang Han to an antique café that she said professional Cat Lamp collectors frequented.
• Jiang Han explored the shop's relaxed Cat Lamp café, merchandise, and specialized care area.
• Jiang Han wanted to try the Cat Lamp care tools but decided to keep her identity secret until Olivia returned.

Jiang Han stocked up on supplies to develop her Giant Cat Island and learned how Cave Beds could motivate Cat Lamps to work. After hearing Tang Wen explain the competitive reward system, Jiang Han decided to buy twenty Cave Beds for her own island.

• Jiang Han bought Cat Lamp supplies for her expedition team and Giant Cat Island, hoping to build her reputation and attract trade.
• Tang Wen asked the shopkeeper for five Cave Beds, and Jiang Han privately asked why she needed them.
• Tang Wen explained that Cat Lamps competed for the five Cave Beds available each week at an efficient mine.
• Jiang Han recognized the system could improve Cat Lamp productivity and ordered twenty Cave Beds.

Jiang Han visited Eileen at Snow Phoebe Lake to seek investment and learned about the enormous civil service organizations supporting the great witches. Devlin escorted her toward Eileen’s office while praising the bureaucracy, leaving Jiang Han bewildered by its priorities.

• Jiang Han brought Giant Cat Island’s data to Snow Phoebe Lake to ask Eileen for investment.
• Devlin Holhak Syndra met Jiang Han and led her toward Eileen’s office, explaining that Eileen was resting.
• Devlin told Jiang Han that Eileen rested six and a half days a week while the civil servants worked without holidays.
• Devlin compared the civil servant establishments of several great witches and said Lilith’s smaller organization was unusually efficient.
• Devlin declared that she admired Eleanor most because Eleanor supported 654,000 civil servants, and Jiang Han questioned whether Eleanor came from the earliest bureaucratic system.

Jiang Han visited Eileen, who confronted Devlin about withheld reports and secured new performance and payroll documents. Eileen then turned to Jiang Han’s proposal to develop Giant Cat Island, leaving Olivia’s story for another time.

• Devlin escorted Jiang Han to the Throne Hall and asked what business she had with Eileen.
• Eileen pressed Devlin about missing financial and personnel reports, and Devlin explained that her staff had been checking discrepancies.
• Eileen proposed hiring accounting consultants, prompting Devlin to agree to simplified forms and performance sheets.
• Eileen approved agent bonuses to begin in three months, tied to workload and quality standards, and Devlin promised to submit the requested documents within two days.
• After Devlin left, Eileen discussed the difficulty of overseeing the bureaucracy and recalled Olivia’s Shadow Grand Cathedral and her kindness to cats and young Witches.
• Eileen recognized that Jiang Han had come to discuss developing Giant Cat Island and invited her to discuss the investment criteria.

Jiang Han and Eileen discussed investing in Giant Cat Island, reaching an initial agreement based on recruiting Cat Lamps as witches’ companions while preserving the Cats’ principles. Eileen planned to visit the island to assess it, then changed into black clothes in preparation for the approaching Nether Festival.

• Eileen questioned Jiang Han about Giant Cat Island’s plans, Cat Lamps’ working hours, and yield data, and advised her to prepare figures to look professional.
• Eileen said she was interested in investing if the island could recruit Cat Lamps and Giant Cat Lamps to build friendships with witches, while Jiang Han insisted that those relationships must not be reduced to commercial value.
• Jiang Han suggested assessing the arrangement by whether a Cat Lamp could have a pet, and Eileen treated the wording as common ground for an investment agreement.
• Eileen proposed visiting Giant Cat Island and having her witches assess it, and Jiang Han assured her the island’s Cat Lamps welcomed witches.
• After they reached an initial investment agreement, Eileen changed into black clothing because the Nether Festival was approaching.