Chapter Summaries

Eileen and Jiang Han traveled to Giant Cat Island with a large investment observation group that Daflin had organized. The civil servants immediately treated the inspection as a vacation, while Daflin insisted they would still provide Eileen with excellent investment advice.

• Eileen questioned Daflin about the oversized group, and Daflin justified bringing numerous advisers and support teams as necessary for the inspection.
• Eileen allowed the group to go ahead but warned that their work must not be neglected, while Daflin joked that raises and paid leave would also help morale.
• Jiang Han and Eileen reached Giant Cat Island by dragon train and saw civil servants playing with Cat Lamps and asking about hot springs and swimming pools.
• Eileen confronted Daflin, who had changed into a swimsuit, and Daflin claimed the civil servants were forced to have fun to gather firsthand information.
• Daflin promised that the group would provide Eileen with the finest investment advice.

Jiang Han showed Eileen Cat Lamp Mine’s unusual mineral production, then consulted Olivia’s enormous book of cat lamp knowledge to investigate whether Cat Lamp Witches could use the abilities of cat lamps. The chapter left Jiang Han searching the book for information about her own species.

• Jiang Han explained to Eileen how cat lamps used ley-line energy to transform rocks into mineral deposits.
• A Cave Carrot Cat Lamp produced a piece of mithril while Eileen watched, and Eileen refined it into an ingot for Jiang Han.
• Eileen quietly asked Jiang Han whether Cat Lamp Witches could use the cat lamps’ matter-altering ability.
• Jiang Han pulled out Olivia’s registered, one-of-a-kind Cat Lamp Complete Book and searched it for information about Mist Immortal Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han discovered that Olivia’s book contained extensive cat lamp knowledge and descriptions of 127 legendary spells, though Olivia had not let her study the spells themselves.

Jiang Han studied how Mist Immortal Cat Lamps made Dark Lake Water Stones and tried the method herself. After destroying dozens of stones, she finally produced a fingernail-sized piece.

• Jiang Han read Olivia’s records and learned the Cat Lamps’ method for turning stones into Dark Lake Water Stones.
• Jiang Han told Eileen she had mastered the method and asked a Cave Carrot Cat Lamp to fetch the Fel Giant Cat.
• Jiang Han absorbed leyline energy with her tail, mixed in Dark Lake magic power, and shattered her first stone.
• Eileen identified Jiang Han’s oversized hole and rough mana control as causes of the failure.
• Jiang Han blew up fifty or sixty stones before she finally created a fingernail-sized Dark Lake Water Stone.

Jiang Han showed Eileen and Davlin the Cat Lamp hatchery and catalogue, convincing them of Giant Cat Island’s investment potential. Eileen presented a first-phase plan to build a ring of Sky Islands around the island for a cat-golf course and luxury Witch resorts.

• Jiang Han took Eileen through the Giant Cat Tree and explained how Cat Lamps and their cat balls were born.
• Jiang Han fed Monster Cat Dandelions to a nearly grown cat ball, which became a newborn Monster Cat Lamp.
• Davlin and Eileen admired the Cat Lamps and discussed the island’s investment value as Jiang Han showed them the breed catalogue.
• Jiang Han told Fel Giant Cat that Witches needed to handle the island’s development plans, and Fel Giant Cat rejected several absurd cat-led proposals.
• Eileen and Davlin showed Jiang Han their first-phase investment concept: a ring of Sky Islands around Giant Cat Island, with a cat-golf course and luxury Witch resorts.

Jiang Han worked through the tightly capped budget for Cat Island’s planned golf course, resort, and park, then realized she had neglected her family and Cleya while staying up all night. She prepared to meet Hilde of Cat Tufflin, whose knight order had come under her command.

• Jiang Han calculated that Eileen’s investment of over 1.8 million Witch Gold was only just enough for the resort and park, and she lamented the missing animal-raising budget.
• Jiang Han planned to bring dinosaurs and dragons to the park and devised cat-branded food boxes and other tourist products to sell.
• Jiang Han discovered more than sixty missed messages and saw that her family had noticed her absence and that she had forgotten Cleya at school again.
• Jiang Han wrote down the cat café’s address so she could thank its staff for looking after Cleya.
• Hilde of Cat Tufflin arrived, and Jiang Han invited her in after thinking about the forty-six-cat knight order she now commanded and the wages she would owe them.

Hilde of Cat Tufflin asked Jiang Han to protect a group of foxes whose tavern was threatened by Cat Yeta. Jiang Han agreed to seek a negotiated solution before the one-week deadline and promised to shelter the foxes herself if necessary.

• Hilde ran up from beneath the Giant Cat Tree and told Jiang Han that no Cat Lamps had been working to help her travel.
• Hilde explained that Cat Yeta had ordered foxes from the former garrison's tavern faction to find a Giant Cat protector or lose their tavern and be cast out.
• Hilde said the foxes' tavern stood on unclaimed land, giving Cat Yeta legal grounds to claim it, and that she would not ask Meow Yi Ao to intervene.
• Jiang Han learned that Cat Yeta's ultimatum would take effect after one standard Cat Lamp day, roughly a week.
• Jiang Han agreed to negotiate with Cat Yeta and promised to shelter the foxes as a Giant Cat Lamp if negotiations failed.
• Jiang Han offered Hilde a room to rest and asked her to provide information about the foxes' skills, wages, and work histories.

Jiang Han entertained Witch House manager Qin Shunying and negotiated her help with the Great Witch appointment ceremony and Nether Festival celebrations. After agreeing on a price, Jiang Han asked Qin Shunying for advice about Cat Tufflin.

• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying shared tea wine and late-night meals at Jiang Han’s residence.
• Jiang Han asked Qin Shunying to name her price for the appointment ceremony and festival celebrations.
• Qin Shunying requested one standard briefcase-sized case of high-quality Cat Gems, and Jiang Han accepted the deal.
• Jiang Han raised a separate social problem and told Qin Shunying the story concerning Cat Tufflin.

Jiang Han sought Qin Shunying’s advice on balancing Hilde’s demands, Cat Yeta’s favor, and the foxes’ property dispute. Qin advised her to bring the foxes to Cat Island first, then use rumors about a fox-hating Giant Cat faction to pressure them over their property.

• Jiang Han concealed key connections between Hilde, Cat Yeta, and Olivia as she asked Qin Shunying how to satisfy all sides.
• Qin Shunying questioned why Jiang Han would risk her subordinate’s trust for the favor of a Giant Cat, then recommended visiting Cat Yeta, bringing the foxes to Cat Island, and informing Hilde afterward.
• Qin Shunying explained how vague promises and reframing Hilde’s task could make it seem that Jiang Han had already completed half of it.
• Qin Shunying suggested using a diplomatic scare tactic to make the foxes fear losing their property and safety.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying invented rumors about an extreme fox-hating faction among the Giant Cat Lamps to frighten the foxes.

Jiang Han asked Fel Giant Cat to arrange a meeting with Cat Yeta, the powerful giant cat who ruled territory in Cat World. Fel agreed despite her reservations, after Jiang Han said Ovi would want the meeting too.

• Fel Giant Cat worked through urgent documents and thought about the burdens of managing Giant Cat Island and arranging visits for Landfolk.
• Jiang Han visited Fel Giant Cat and asked whether she knew Cat Yeta.
• Fel described Cat Yeta as a powerful, dangerous giant cat who was about to take over new territory.
• Jiang Han asked Fel to arrange a meeting with Cat Yeta, saying Ovi would want to meet her too.
• Fel agreed to arrange the meeting.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu traveled to Snow White Cat City to meet Cat Yeta, with Jiang Han planning to negotiate an idol contract and ask to take Fox Fox back. Cat Yeta calmed the blizzard and agreed to hear Jiang Han out, leaving the negotiations yet to begin.

• Chen Ligu told Jiang Han Cat World's creation myth as they traveled by airship, and Jiang Han persuaded her to draft an idol agency contract despite not having one prepared.
• The airship entered Cat Yeta's snowy territory, where the giant cat explained that Cat Yeta's generator arrays powered Snow White Cat City's ley lines and hot springs.
• Jiang Han and her companions reached Snow White Cat City and found a Giant Cat Lamp to guide them to Cat Yeta.
• Jiang Han entered the Giant Cat Chapel and saw Cat Yeta, who used her power to calm the blizzard.
• Cat Yeta agreed to listen to Jiang Han, who said she had something to discuss.

Jiang Han reached a preliminary agreement with Cat Yeta over an idol-related contract and accepted her invitation to eat together to strengthen their relationship. Cat Yeta led Jiang Han and Chen Ligu through her urbanized territory to a strange dining hall where Cat Lamps watched a Witch-world show.

• Jiang Han presented Cat Yeta with the idol commission and contract, and Cat Yeta agreed that the terms were fair.
• Cat Yeta said she wanted to rest, but Jiang Han invited her to eat together, and Cat Yeta accepted to build their friendship.
• Jiang Han considered how closer ties with Cat Yeta could help Olivia's faction, though she knew little about Cat Lamp politics.
• Cat Yeta led Jiang Han and Chen Ligu through corridors filled with resting Cat Lamps and a garden used to produce Cat Lamp materials.
• They reached a dining hall where Cat Lamps ate in cave-like booths while watching a cat-golf show from the Witch world.

Jiang Han negotiated an alliance with Cat Yeta in Cat World and secured a high-level Giant Cat Covenant that let her summon Cat Yeta and the cats under her command. After assuring Cat Yeta that Chen Ligu could be trusted, Jiang Han revealed she was a Cat Lamp Witch and raised the matter of the foxes.

• Cat Yeta served Jiang Han and Chen Ligu food and explained that Cat World traded minerals with witches for drinks.
• Cat Yeta questioned whether Chen Ligu could be trusted with their secrets, and Jiang Han vouched for her.
• Jiang Han told Chen Ligu she was a Cat Lamp Witch, and Chen Ligu agreed to keep the secret.
• Jiang Han signed a high-level Giant Cat Covenant with Cat Yeta, allowing her to summon the Giant Cat Lamp and her forces for a fee.
• Jiang Han brought up the foxes, and Cat Yeta agreed to settle the matter despite her reluctance.

The Witch Agency announced that the Witch Alliance Championship would begin, and Kraken planned the Sea Shepherds Club’s lineup for the tournament. Jiang Han learned she would compete, while the others recalled Angelite’s unusually early championship debut.

• The Witch Agency announced the first Witch Alliance Championship after negotiations ended the suspension of matches.
• Jiang Han served tea wine to Eileen, Kraken, Angelite, and the visiting An-Ek trio, while Kraken discussed recruiting Giant Cat Lamps as couriers.
• Eileen asked which Sea Shepherds Club players would compete, and Kraken selected five players and two substitutes for the championship.
• Jiang Han asked whether she could compete, and Angelite encouraged her by recalling her own first match.
• Kraken revealed that Angelite had won her first career championship at six, while Eileen recalled her early visits to the Grand Council.

The club prepared for the tournament’s promotional dinner, discussing qualifiers, player representatives, and the event’s finances. After Kraken gave Jiang Han a clothing budget, Jiang Han and Olivia relaxed in a newly built cat-steaming room, and a notice announced that a cat poet would soon visit to perform.

• Eileen asked Kraken about the club’s qualifier group, and Kraken guessed they would face Forest People and four newly formed teams.
• Angelite assigned Histeria and Lin Zhaojun to attend the promotional dinner as player representatives alongside Eileen and herself, while Kraken requested wine and pastries.
• Kraken and Eileen explained that the dinner promoted the club to investors and fans, and Kraken issued a formalwear budget of twenty thousand per attendee.
• Jiang Han and Olivia lounged in the cat-steaming room, where Olivia activated its warm Dragonwood shower and Jiang Han enjoyed the treatment.
• A site notice announced that a cat poet had been added and would soon come to sing, play, and perform.

Jiang Han learned about Cat Lamp enhancements and heard Olivia explain Cat Yeta’s unusual origins and status among the Giant Cats. The chapter left Jiang Han wondering whether Cat Yeta was truly sane.

• Jiang Han and Olivia used the cat-spinner, which made their bodies lighter and improved their reactions.
• Olivia described the Golden-Silver Cat Wishing Pool and warned Jiang Han not to reveal every secret to Cat Yeta.
• Olivia explained that the Giant Cats were split into factions and that Cat Yeta belonged to a one-cat ultramodern conservative reformist faction.
• Olivia told Jiang Han that Cat Yeta had originated as the ancient god Thousand Mirrors, which went mad after Olivia fought it and it transformed into witch and Cat Lamp forms.
• Olivia said she had brought the newborn Cat Yeta to Cat World, where Cat Yeta became a powerful Giant Cat concerned with the future of the Cat Lamp race.

Jiang Han met Histeria and Lin Zhaojun in South City to discuss how to spend the club’s twenty-thousand-per-person bonus. The three planned purchases and renovations while enjoying their paid leave.

• Jiang Han met Histeria at the station, and they joked around while waiting for Lin Zhaojun.
• Lin Zhaojun arrived, and the three went to a nearby coffee shop for milk tea.
• Jiang Han showed them the club’s twenty-thousand-per-person checks, which Histeria and Lin Zhaojun happily put away.
• Lin Zhaojun explained that the bonus came with three days of paid leave and amounted to about two months’ salary for many witches.
• Histeria planned to spend her money on her Fisherwoman Furnace Forge, Lin Zhaojun on restricted papers and research, and Jiang Han on renovating her home.

Lin Zhaojun, Jiang Han, Histeria, and Xiya went dress shopping and discussed their unusual ways of making clothes. Xiya then brought them to a ghost witches’ trading post at Snow Phoebe Lake, where Laura let them in without a password.

• Lin Zhaojun paid the bill after the group finished eating, and the witch clerk excitedly asked for her autograph.
• Lin Zhaojun, Xiya, and Jiang Han each described a skilled group or creature that could make clothes from design drafts.
• Xiya led the group to a ghost witches’ trading post at Snow Phoebe Lake, which required a ghost witch sponsor to enter.
• Laura complained to Xiya about an expedition that had captured only three personality pseudo-gods.
• Laura dispelled the trading post’s layered defenses and invited the group inside.

Jiang Han learned how the witches captured and recruited false gods while visiting their market with Lin Zhaojun and Xiya. Lin Zhaojun then revealed she wanted Druid divinity to grow a magic-power-boosting seed.

• Jiang Han saw false gods held in sealing shackles at the witches’ trade complex, and Lin Zhaojun explained that witches considered them mortals who had wrongly separated themselves from humanity.
• Lin Zhaojun described how witches bombarded false gods’ divine kingdoms or killed their followers to weaken and capture them, while Xiya said powerful false gods could be recruited and educated as witches.
• Jiang Han heard about the witches’ impossible standards for gods and their education system, including the difficult A3 exam and A Lin’s disputed wish-spell answer.
• A Lin sought Druid divinity at the false-god market, and Xiya cast an anti-divination spell so Lin Zhaojun could reveal her plan.
• Lin Zhaojun said she had obtained a seed that grew fruit capable of increasing magic power and wanted to use Druid methods to cultivate it.

Lin Zhaojun failed to find a demigod and placed a preorder with the Ghost Expedition Team, then learned that Jiang Han and Xiya might have access to both ghost and Cat Lamp expeditions. She asked them to obtain a share of druid divinity in exchange for a legendary spell.

• Lin Zhaojun could not buy a demigod because prices had risen and nature-aligned demigods were scarce, so she placed a preorder with the ghosts.
• Histeria brought Jiang Han and Lin Zhaojun to a tavern for the Ghost Expedition Team and explained how ghost witches searched ruins.
• Jiang Han and Histeria argued over whether Cat Lamps or ghost witches were more destructive and effective at finding treasure.
• Lin Zhaojun realized Jiang Han and Xiya had connections to the Cat Lamps and the Ghost Expedition Team.
• Lin Zhaojun asked Jiang Han and Xiya to find her druid divinity and offered a legendary spell as payment.

After returning home, Jiang Han watched Cat Falian make a dress while Olivia teased her and helped her tackle A3 homework. The chapter ended with Olivia calling Jiang Han stupid after she got distracted instead of listening to the lesson.

• Jiang Han hired the Sephiroth Cat Lamp Cat Falian to make a dress from her design sketches, and Cat Falian rapidly embellished the garment while criticizing the designs.
• Jiang Han argued with Olivia, who blamed Jiang Han for choosing the dress design and called her an idiot and a pervert.
• Jiang Han opened her Dream Garden A3 preparatory homework and struggled with a question about interrupting a spell through an anti-multiple-spell shield.
• Olivia explained that 142 Illusion School spells could interrupt Erica Eradication under the question's conditions and advised Jiang Han to memorize spell effects.
• Jiang Han became distracted by Olivia's closeness, bit her tail, and was moved aside as Olivia called her stupid.