Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han prepared materials to transform her Master Xiya into a Cat Lamp Witch and explained the six major Cat Lamp categories. Xiya considered which category to choose, and Jiang Han recommended the Strange Painting category.

• Jiang Han searched the tribute chest for materials to help Xiya become a Cat Lamp Witch and found Monster Cat Flower solution and alchemical ingredients.
• Jiang Han explained that Cat Lamps were divided into Rainbow, Mystery, Strange Painting, Profession, Imagery, and Nature categories, and described their traits and potential.
• Jiang Han prepared the ingredients and examined an impure lamp wick Olivia had given her, explaining its slightly reduced effects.
• Jiang Han asked Xiya which Cat Lamp category she wanted to pursue, and Xiya weighed several possibilities before asking for Jiang Han's recommendation.
• Jiang Han recommended the Strange Painting category because it included rare Cat Lamps with bizarre abilities.

Jiang Han used a gemstone she had created to help Histeria forge a wick for her Cat Lamp Witch transformation. Despite a violent explosion, the wick survived and became a strange lantern with black-mist tails, leaving Histeria to behold the finished result.

• Jiang Han asked Xiya what attributes she wanted and used a rare mineral to improve the chance of creating a multi-tailed wick compatible with ghosts and the undead.
• Jiang Han explained that her Gem of Realistic Reflection in the Heart could turn a person's desire into an attribute, then had Xiya shed her magic and touch the gemstone powder.
• The powder formed a crystal vine, which Jiang Han quickly put into the crucible before an explosion blasted shutters out of the alchemy room.
• Jiang Han and Histeria survived the blast, though Jiang Han accidentally knocked Histeria back into the ashes while shaking off dust.
• Jiang Han retrieved the unharmed wick, which transformed into a shadowy little lantern with countless black-mist tails, and Histeria recognized it as her finished wick.

Jiang Han helped Xiya complete the Cat Lamp Witch transformation ritual, and Xiya became a rare Pharaoh Cat Lamp. Xiya reveled in her new strength, leaving Jiang Han to wonder what the transformation had changed.

• Jiang Han summoned invisible maids to clean the alchemy room and kept curious Cat Lamps from watching the ritual.
• Jiang Han assessed Xiya’s wick core traits as [Multi-Tailed], [Death], and [Undying] before Xiya drank the potion.
• Xiya endured a painful transformation as black nether spring and magic power enveloped her.
• Xiya emerged as a noble-looking Pharaoh Cat Lamp with sandy-colored fur, large ears, and two tails.
• Xiya shifted back into witch form, tested her enhanced strength, and thought her new form was stronger than the Fisherwoman.

Jiang Han consulted the Cat Encyclopedia with Xiya and learned about Pharaoh Cat Lamps, their powers, and their way of life. Xiya asked where to find Cat Spiders, and the Gray Mist Cat Lamp pointed her toward Cat Tufflin, Cat Tuffnia, and the underground world of Cat Tuffk.

• Jiang Han found Xiya’s Pharaoh Cat Lamp classification in the Cat Encyclopedia and called her over.
• Jiang Han read that Pharaoh Cat Lamps could summon sandstorms, undead, monsters, and Mummy Lords, and learned about their combat and survival abilities.
• The Gray Mist Cat Lamp described Pharaoh Cat Lamps’ sandy Sky Islands, their wealth, and their use of Cat Spiders to make cloth wraps.
• Xiya caught herself before using her old verbal tic and asked where she could get Cat Spiders.
• The Gray Mist Cat Lamp said Cat Tufflin and Cat Tuffnia had Cat Spiders, while Cat Tuffk held special fire-spinning varieties and dangerous Cat Lamps.

Jiang Han helped Xiya establish a territory for her new cat-witch identity on Giant Cat Island. Xiya accepted the Dark Lake Mountains and agreed to shoulder part of Jiang Han’s debt to Ovi.

• Xiya recorded a public explanation of her transformation, attributing it to Eve Harkins's research, and finished handling her public relations.
• Jiang Han showed Xiya her memo and explained the rules for territory, offices, and disputes among cat lamps.
• Jiang Han gave Xiya the office floor below her own on the Super Giant Cat Tree as Xiya's base.
• Vera reminded Jiang Han to show Xiya the Dark Lake Mountains, and Jiang Han reluctantly took her there.
• Jiang Han handed Xiya the land deed for the Dark Lake Mountains under Vera's supervision, and Xiya offered to take on part of Jiang Han's debt to Ovi.

Kraken encouraged Lilith to balance magical training with leisure while the club members relaxed and talked about Cat Golf. Xiya then corrected Jiang Han’s citation, revealing that a paper registered under Anjie’s name was actually Lily Cabell’s pointedly titled work.

• Kraken turned off the news and reassured Lilith that using golems to relax was acceptable, then shared advice about balancing work and pleasure.
• Kraken asked what to watch, and Xiya and Jiang Han chose Cat Golf, prompting an account of their schemes and debts in the game.
• Jiang Han reviewed her research on the Dark Lake Eternal Flower and explained how Anjie’s papers had helped her study it.
• Xiya told Jiang Han that she should cite Lily Cabell’s Magic Web version of a paper instead of the version credited to Anjie on the Witch Paper Network.
• Jiang Han realized the paper’s title was FNNDP: Anjie, You Heartless Woman, while Xiya awkwardly defended her paper-format and naming conventions.

Jiang Han wrote a new paper on the Dark Lake Eternal Flower and asked Xiya to assess its chances for an award. After Xiya suggested revisions, Eileen arrived with training mats made by Angelite to show the others.

• Jiang Han refused to cite Lily Cabell's paper and submitted her own work to the journal Secret Arts.
• Xiya explained how she had once exploited the witch world's impact-score rules and advised Jiang Han to add practical extraction steps to her paper.
• Jiang Han revised the draft while watching a cat golf program.
• Eileen entered with training mats labeled as made by Angelite and announced that she had brought new ghost-made toys to show everyone.

Eileen expanded the lounge and brought an Angelite training mat to the Sea Shepherds Club, where Angelite arrived to install it. As Eileen prepared to buy members’ treasures, Jiang Han realized she could finally sell the rare finds from the Anser Royal City ruins.

• Eileen expanded the lounge with powerful transmutation and conjuration spells so there would be room for the practice mat.
• The witches recognized the mat as a rare Angelite magic training device, and Eileen revealed that she had secured the first one and more than a hundred to come.
• Angelite arrived through a portal and personally calibrated the mat under the purchase and maintenance terms she had offered Eileen.
• The ancient dragon witch asked whether Eileen would hold her usual purchasing session, and Eileen brought out boxes of Witch Gold.
• Jiang Han looked forward to selling the ancient Anse Elves artworks and dark-element gemstones she had found in the ruins of Anser Royal City.

Jiang Han considered how to strengthen her Giant Cat Adventure Group so it could claim treasures from an Anse Elven tower-fortress guarded by powerful undead. Xiya invited Jiang Han to visit her nest, and Jiang Han accepted.

• Jiang Han planned to recruit more dependable Giant Cat Lamps before adding legendary members, so the adventure group would stay united.
• Jiang Han recalled that three legendary Anse undead had beaten two Giant Cats and prevented the team from reaching the tower-fortress’s treasures.
• Jiang Han weighed inviting Xiya to help, knowing the Cat Lamps could accept her as a Cat Lamp Witch but that she would take a share of the loot.
• Xiya knocked on Jiang Han’s lounge door and invited her to visit her nest.
• Jiang Han accepted Xiya’s invitation.

Jiang Han visited Xiya’s high-altitude ring-shaped Sky Island and gained inspiration for building energy-gathering Sky Islands and cultivating Cat Lamps. After embracing her identity as a Witch, she asked Xiya what she thought of her past life.

• Xiya showed Jiang Han her enormous ring-shaped Sky Island, which Blue Lake Company had been constructing for over a month.
• Jiang Han realized that ring-shaped Sky Islands could gather energy and serve as mystical cores for future Witch nests and the Cat Lamp world.
• Jiang Han’s inspiration returned, strengthening her magic and comprehension while stirring fear that Witches might consume everything beyond their kind.
• Jiang Han rejected her former identity as a traveler from another world and affirmed that she was a Witch.
• Xiya brought Jiang Han back from her daze, and Jiang Han asked what Xiya thought of her past life.

Jiang Han and Xiya discussed witches’ past lives and the differences between their wealthy families as they traveled by Ghost Airship to Xiya’s Sky Island. After arriving, they struggled against the freezing winds and Xiya admitted that the island’s air harbor lacked an insulating shield.

• Histeria asked Xiya what she thought of her past life, and Xiya compared it to looking back on childhood dreams as an adult.
• Jiang Han reflected that Xiya’s answer sounded genuine and waited aboard the Ghost Airship as it landed.
• Xiya welcomed Jiang Han to her nest, and Jiang Han compared Xiya’s young-lady air with Eileen’s far greater wealth and discussed witches’ family fortunes.
• Jiang Han and Xiya used their tails and floating abilities to climb from the exposed air harbor into a wooden corridor.
• Jiang Han complained about the freezing harbor, and Xiya explained that the construction crew had not yet installed an insulating shield.

Jiang Han visited Xiya’s Pharaoh Cat Lamp nest and heard how Xiya used Giant Cat merchants to obtain rare resources for her research and territory. Xiya prepared gemstones to trade with Eileen, while Jiang Han promised to pay more attention to the Giant Cats under her rule.

• Xiya showed Jiang Han her secluded Pharaoh Cat Lamp nest and described the difficult requirements for evolving into a Pharaoh Giant Cat Lamp.
• Xiya explained that she had bought Cat Spider Bees from a Giant Cat merchant she found through Jiang Han’s platform.
• Xiya scolded Jiang Han for knowing little about the Giant Cats in her territory, and Jiang Han promised to pay attention to them.
• Xiya told Jiang Han how Giant Cat merchants had helped her acquire seeds and rare resources for her Dark Lake Mountains territory.
• Xiya took a chest of gemstones from her reserves so she could trade them with Eileen for treasures.

Jiang Han learned how the Ghost Witches tracked Cat Lamps into the Anser Royal City and heard about the Anse Elves’ lost gemstone-rich homeworld. She and Xiya returned to the club, where Eileen was holding an appraisal convention, and joined the queue with their treasures.

• Xiya explained that the Ghost Witches found the Anser Royal City by following glowing Cat Lamps, prompting Jiang Han to realize that the cats’ light made them easy to spot in the dark.
• Xiya described how the Ghost Witches searched Anse Elven homes for artworks and gemstones, and told Jiang Han that the Anse Elves’ original world had been rich in witch gemstones.
• Xiya recalled that Eileen had sought the coordinates of the Anse Elves’ lost homeworld, while the First Witch burned the original worlds of races that had supported Anse.
• Jiang Han and Xiya returned to the club and found Eileen appraising treasures brought by the witches.
• Jiang Han took a number, packed Anse Elven artworks and other unknown treasures into a standard-issue chest, then sat beside Xiya to work on her thesis while they waited.

Eileen appraised the witches’ treasures at the convention, buying Xiya’s collection with Witch Gold before finding something puzzling in a book from Jiang Han’s chest. She invited Xiya and Jiang Han to her library to investigate her hypothesis.

• Eileen identified Fala’s Gray Spirit vase as a counterfeit made by Angelite and explained how it had been disguised as an ancient artwork.
• Xiya and Jiang Han presented their treasure chests for appraisal, and Eileen praised Xiya’s Anse Elf artworks and other goods.
• Eileen bought all of Xiya’s treasures, and her clerks paid her in precisely cut Witch Gold.
• Jiang Han’s chest contained a thick book she assumed was worthless, but Eileen recognized a matching copy and became intrigued by its contents.
• Eileen opened a portal and asked Jiang Han and Xiya to join her in her library to test her hypothesis.

Jiang Han and Xiya followed Eileen through Snow Phoebe Lake, where Eileen stopped to buy dim sum and chatted about reclaiming her assets. Eileen then showed them a cavernous private hoard packed with Witch Gold, gemstones, rare materials, and other treasures, leaving Jiang Han and Xiya stunned.

• Jiang Han and Xiya followed Eileen along the wooden paths through Snow Phoebe Lake instead of teleporting.
• Eileen stopped at a landfolk stall, bought dim sum, and kindly posed for a photo and signed an autograph for the couple’s daughter.
• Eileen told Xiya and Jiang Han that she had reclaimed all her assets and treasures, though she had given Anjie a fortuitous encounter that could increase her mana.
• Jiang Han entered Eileen’s private domain and saw its expanded cavern filled with mountains of Witch Gold, gemstones, mithril, Elemental Hearts, Philosopher’s Stones, and rare materials.
• Jiang Han and Xiya stared in awe at Eileen’s enormous hoard while the Ghost Witches and siren witches’ tails twitched restlessly.

Jiang Han and Xiya discovered that the Anse Elves’ old books contained inconsistent contents that might conceal their homeland’s coordinates. Eileen commissioned them to collect more copies in Anser Royal City and decipher the hidden information.

• Eileen took Jiang Han and Xiya by ice-crystal boat through her lava-filled World Tree corridors to her library.
• Eileen showed them copies of A Tribute to Our Endlessly Prosperous Homeland from the Anse Elves.
• Jiang Han noticed that the books’ tables of contents did not match, and Xiya confirmed that their contents varied.
• Eileen suspected the books concealed the Anse Elves’ homeland coordinates, which had been protected by a memory-erasing ability.
• Eileen commissioned Jiang Han and Xiya to gather similar books in Anser Royal City and find the code and coordinates.

As the Witch House prepared for its September personnel reshuffle, Jiang Han and her coworkers felt secure in their positions while Manager Qin Shunying grew increasingly tense about Lilith’s plans. The chapter ended with Li Yun admitting that a persistent customer was trying to pay her to write a thesis, reminding Jiang Han and Chu Yujun of Du Ningzhuang’s similar experience.

• Jiang Han spent the month collecting Cat Lamp language scraps for Eileen’s company, while Xiya prepared for her Giant Cat transformation and received her share of the Dark Lake Mountains’ proceeds in advance.
• The Witch Invitational was expected to offer more slots, and Lilith prepared to use her recent achievements to push changes that would weaken the Witch House branches.
• Manager Qin Shunying’s anger at the impending reshuffle made the South City Witch House’s First Branch staff work nervously, while Jiang Han and Chu Yujun speculated that she would vent by eating sweets.
• Jiang Han explained that dreams contained unusable random-number energy, and Du Ningzhuang tugged her face in jealous frustration over her access to top laboratories.
• Li Yun told Jiang Han and Chu Yujun that a major customer kept pestering her and seemed ready to pay her to write a thesis, prompting them to glance knowingly at Du Ningzhuang.

As personnel reshuffling drove worried subordinates to invite their bosses out for drinks, Qin Shunying stocked expensive wines to capitalize on the rush and outperform Lilith’s store. The chapter ended with the tavern preparing to serve the arriving customers.

• Du Ningzhuang described how her sheep lured away the sheepdog she had bought to herd them, and the witches spent an hour discussing cooking dogs.
• Jiang Han questioned Qin Shunying’s decision to stock so many expensive wines for the busy reshuffling season.
• Qin Shunying asked the witches why customers came to taverns during the reshuffle, but rejected their guesses about unwinding, reminiscing, or meeting the Giant Cat Lamps.
• Qin Shunying explained that subordinates worried about transfers invited their bosses for drinks, often buying expensive alcohol in hopes of hearing confidential reassurances.
• Qin Shunying said she intended to outperform Lilith’s store and stop Lilith from taking her staff.

Jiang Han served drinks at the Witch House while hiding how awkwardly she knew that a cheerful coworker was about to be transferred to a remote branch. She returned to her VIP guest and reflected on how competition for good jobs had intensified in South City.

• Jiang Han took an order for a barrel of Marg Barrel from a wealthy witch in a VIP room and passed it to Chu Yujun at the bar.
• Jiang Han and Chu Yujun awkwardly discussed coworkers who knew about transfers while the affected witches remained uninformed.
• A cheerful Witch House newcomer joined their conversation, unaware that she had been assigned to transfer to Lin Ying's branch in South City.
• Jiang Han hurried upstairs with the drink, troubled that the newcomer faced a remote posting while Jiang Han had to pretend they were close coworkers.
• Jiang Han considered how the arrival of foreign witches had increased competition for desirable jobs in South City.

Jiang Han served Flora and Natalie while learning that her hostess work also connected people and carried information. She left the conversation worried that Lin Qiang could face a force team if she failed to finish an acceptable article for the Magic Web.

• Jiang Han composed herself and carried a Marga Bucket into the room where Flora and Natalie were talking.
• Natalie took the bucket and patted Jiang Han's cat ears, and Flora invited Jiang Han to sit with them.
• Flora said Lin Qiang had introduced her to Jiang Han and asked about Jiang Han's ties to the Cat Lamp faction.
• Flora and Natalie discussed Lin Qiang's unfinished Magic Web article and said she had revised it repeatedly before spilling wine on it.
• Flora warned that the Magic Web editorial department might send a force team to lock Lin Qiang in a room if she failed to produce an acceptable draft.