Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han discovered a healing spring beneath her Giant Cat Territory and learned that the cat lamps believed it had arrived with the Folded Space fragments that formed the island. The group sifted through nightmare spoils, with Chen Ligu finding a handgun that could fire six prepared ritual spells as they prepared to melt down the useless items.

• Jiang Han found cat lamps bottling water from a healing spring in a cavern beneath her territory.
• Cat Bo explained that the spring might have come from Folded Space fragments, and Du Ningzhuang identified the idea as Emily Liliate's Second Law.
• Jiang Han and the others examined nightmare spoils, including a whistle that summoned nightmare laborers and a radio that played an endless overtime anthem.
• Jiang Han put the whistle and radio into her cat box and ordered Cat Bo to melt them down.
• Du Ningzhuang chose a music box that produced a tiny Anjie figurine, while Chen Ligu obtained a handgun that fired six preloaded ritual spells with debuffs.

After the spoils were divided, Jiang Han and the others left the treasure chamber during the rain, and Du Ningzhuang departed to fight through A Rank with Tang Bao. Jiang Han watched Cat Bo clean the mine-cart launch site and reflected on how quickly Cat Bo had grown into a powerful Giant Cat Lamp.

• Du Ningzhuang played with the music box while Chen Ligu showed off the pistol, which the Cat Lamps praised for looking like a cat.
• Jiang Han and the others followed the Cat Lamp tunnels out of the caverns and discovered that it was raining.
• Jiang Han invited Du Ningzhuang to stay for a meal, but Du Ningzhuang declined because she planned to fight through A Rank with Tang Bao.
• A Nightmare Cat Lamp drove Du Ningzhuang by mine cart to the Dragon Bus, and the cart's launch left a mess at the exit.
• Cat Bo evaporated the rain with her leyline energy and patiently cleaned the launch site as Jiang Han considered her unusual strength.

Jiang Han and Chen Ligu prepared to meet with the ruling Giant Cats at the Giant Cat Tree, with Chen Ligu agreeing to wear cat ears as a sign of mutual respect. The Giant Cats arrived in witch forms, assembling the territory’s leadership for their meeting.

• Jiang Han brought Chen Ligu through the Giant Cat Tree and into the large meeting room.
• Cat Bo complained that the meeting chairs were too small for her giant body.
• Jiang Han asked Chen Ligu to wear glowing cat-ear accessories, and Chen Ligu accepted for the sake of mutual respect.
• Jiang Han and Chen Ligu waited and chatted about girls' magazines and witch doujinshi.
• Cat Nesting, Cat Bo, Cat Katalia, Cat Carlo, Yuequan, Cat Carl, and the other Giant Cats entered the room in witch forms.

Jiang Han gathered the Giant Cats to discuss revising their projects with the Chen Ligu Office and settling their needs and conflicts. As she learned the factions and their competing interests, she worried about leading the quarrelsome cats and hoped the meeting would go smoothly.

• Jiang Han called a meeting and asked the Giant Cats to discuss cooperation with the Chen Ligu Office, their needs, and their conflicts.
• Jiang Han observed the Artisan Faction, including Cat Carl, Cat Katalia, and Cat Erte, as they whispered among themselves.
• Jiang Han told the cats that the Chen Ligu Office would be their sole channel for external business and praised Chen Ligu for securing resources and supplies.
• The Artisan Faction, Concubine Daughter Faction, Beggar Garb Gang, and Ladies' Hat Faction applauded or cheered, while the Concubine Daughter Faction showed reservations about giving Chen Ligu all external business.
• Jiang Han identified the Legitimate Daughter Faction as the most powerful and traditional group, then worried that the Giant Cats' factions would make governing difficult.

Jiang Han presided over a Giant Cat meeting to choose terrain for Giant Cat Island’s next expansion, while the factions argued over what each wanted. The cats settled on seeking a world with a mithril mine, plains, valleys, lakes, and nearby forest, then faced the question of whose territory would receive the expansion.

• Chen Ligu secured a stream of Giant Cat commissions for the Chen Ligu Office, ranging from monster nests to errands and building materials.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Carlo to present the matters concerning Giant Cat Island, and Cat Carlo proposed taking world fragments for the next expansion.
• Cat Nesting proposed fertile farmland and estates, while Cat Bo challenged her motives on behalf of the Concubine Daughter Faction.
• Jiang Han’s Histeria suggested a resource-rich treasure desert, and Cat Skonie proposed setting aside land for a witch town, prompting objections from other cats.
• After more than an hour of debate, Jiang Han called for a world with a mithril mine, plains, valleys, lakes, and nearby forest.
• The cats then began debating which territory should receive the spatial expansion.

Jiang Han struggled to mediate a dispute among the Giant Cats over how to divide their newly acquired territory. Cat Nesting and Cat Carl each argued that their own groups were best suited to govern it, and the chapter ended before the cats reached a decision.

• Jiang Han tried to quiet the Giant Cats and asked them to explain their positions, but Cat Nabela and Cat Carlo denied that factions existed among them.
• Cat Nesting spoke for the aristocratic Cat Lamps and argued that the territory’s vast population and limited food supply made expansion essential.
• Cat Nesting claimed her group’s superior governance would let them produce more food and feed more cats.
• Cat Carl cursed Cat Nesting at length, then argued that artisan Cat Lamps understood technology and should control the territory.

Jiang Han discussed the Giant Cats’ complaints with Chen Ligu and Xiya, who identified food production and limited land as the territory’s main problems. The conversation turned to the Cat Lamp Act and the challenges of expanding production without alienating the influential Cat Lamps who had helped build Jiang Han’s territory.

• Chen Ligu told Jiang Han that the scattered cat villages could not support all the Cat Lamps, and noted that dozens of Giant Cats were still waiting to claim villages.
• Xiya explained that Cat Lamps needed abundant, high-quality food and comfortable housing, while Chen Ligu pointed out that meeting their demands required more land for raising fish.
• Jiang Han complained about the growing burden of managing her territory, and Histeria teased her for being able to afford wages for its many residents.
• Chen Ligu reminded Jiang Han that the Final Witch had recently loosened restrictions on Cat Lamp industry and agriculture through the Cat Lamp Act.
• Jiang Han recalled how she had helped Olivia and Angelite pass the act, then worried that expanding cooperation with witches could anger the lesser-daughter faction Cat Lamps, including Cat Carlo.

Jiang Han hosted the Giant Cats at the tree hollow restaurant and weighed their factions’ demands while deciding how to distribute new territory. She planned to give it to the Concubine Daughter Faction, then spotted Cat Carlo and devised a way to make the decision appear to be her fault.

• Jiang Han brought the Giant Cats piles of cod and explained the restaurant’s food and the history of cat cuisine to Chen Ligu.
• The group ate an elaborate meal, and Jiang Han prepared to conclude the faction meeting.
• Jiang Han decided to reward the Artisan Faction with honors, factory-development guides, and budget preference while disregarding the Ladies’ Hat Faction’s demands and treating the Beggar Garb Gang with caution.
• Jiang Han planned to grant the Legitimate Daughter Faction permission to build cat castles but to give the new territory to the Concubine Daughter Faction, which needed more food production.
• Jiang Han saw Cat Carlo emerge from a private room and planned to make it seem as though Cat Carlo had persuaded her, turning the factions’ conflict toward one another.

Jiang Han inspected Cat Carlo and Cat Sla’s Star Realm exploration machine, which used cannons to launch cats through portals for scouting other worlds. The cats had not established whether anyone could survive the trip.

• Cat Carlo told Jiang Han that Final Witch had supplied the cats with a Cat Lamp version of a Star Realm exploration machine.
• Jiang Han followed Cat Carlo to a workshop in the Giant Cat Tree, where Cat Sla had built the machine.
• Cat Sla explained that the machine launched a cat through a portal at first cosmic velocity to observe another world’s terrain.
• Cat Sla demonstrated a second cannon that would launch a returning cat back and reassemble as a device on its tail.
• Jiang Han asked whether cats could withstand the launch, and Cat Sla replied that surely some cat could.

After preparing a mission for the Cat Lamps, Jiang Han woke late and spoke with Xiya, who asked her to investigate traces of a Super Cat Spider. Jiang Han joined Xiya for a day-off visit to Astral Voyage Company, and they traveled toward Apricot Grove Town.

• Jiang Han reviewed the Cat Lamps’ preparations and went to sleep after spending the night watching television and enjoying treats.
• Jiang Han answered Xiya’s call, and Xiya asked her to come along after finding traces of a Super Cat Spider.
• Jiang Han and Xiya dressed casually, left the Giant Cat Tree, and walked through Cat Town toward the Giant Cat Bus Company.
• Jiang Han and Xiya traveled toward Astral Voyage Company, which was located in Apricot Grove Town near Five Great Lakes and South City.

Jiang Han and Xiya arrived in Apricot Grove Town, where Jiang Han discovered that its cheap mung bean tea could be lethal to Ghost Witches. The pair set off to visit a company, while Jiang Han reflected on how ordinary Witch-world goods could be powerful weapons and artifacts elsewhere.

• Jiang Han recovered from a rough ride in a Giant Cat vehicle and tried Apricot Grove Town’s traditional mung bean tea.
• Xiya explained that Apricot Grove mung beans harmed undead creatures and could send a Ghost Witch back to the Underworld, where illegal-entry fines awaited.
• Jiang Han and Xiya prepared to visit a company, and Xiya used her phone to find their way through town.
• Jiang Han considered how Witch-world products such as mung bean tea, talismans, and everyday goods could be potent weapons or mystic artifacts in other worlds.

Jiang Han and Histeria traveled to Nightcry Island, where Jiang Han discovered that the residents’ floating homes could sink beneath Nightcry Lake. Histeria revealed a scheme to obtain a fragment of her friend’s fertile folded space and use it to expand Giant Cat Territory, while Jiang Han proposed shifting the blame onto the Concubine Daughter Faction’s Cat Lamps.

• Histeria explained how Nightcry Lake’s Rune-Drawing Cat Lamps produced spell talismans that witches could sell.
• Jiang Han watched a floating island sink beneath Nightcry Lake and realized the residents built their homes to submerge.
• Jiang Han suggested asking giant cats where to find Super Cat Spiders, but Histeria said her friend had a legendary-level Cat Spider inside her folded space.
• Histeria planned to demand a fragment of her friend’s S-rank fertile space in exchange for dealing with the Cat Spider.
• Jiang Han proposed that they take over the neighboring Concubine Daughter Faction’s Cat Lamps and let the faction bear the blame.

Jiang Han and Xiya visited the Starry Sect and met Li Huai, the Black True Person, an immortal zombie witch who used lifelike puppets to enjoy ordinary comforts. Jiang Han recognized the refinement of Li Huai’s puppetcraft and began eyeing the wealthy witch as a potential source of money.

• Jiang Han and Xiya climbed the cloud-covered mountain to the Starry Sect, where they found a witch relaxing in a wooden room suspended from an apricot tree.
• Li Huai emerged from a coffin and Xiya introduced her as the Black True Person, a Grand Scholar of Starry Academy and an immortal zombie witch.
• After learning that Jiang Han could communicate with Giant Cats and help recruit them, Li Huai eagerly asked to see her in person.
• Li Huai opened her coffin and left one puppet body limp while another version of herself sat up from inside it, revealing her puppetcraft.
• Jiang Han praised Li Huai’s lifelike puppets, judged them physically frail, and considered how much money she might obtain from the wealthy witch.

Black True Person Li Huai asked Xiya and Jiang Han to drive a territorial Cat Spider from her abandoned lumber territory. She showed them how her company explored the Astral Realm and introduced the protected Cat Tail Route, leaving them to investigate the Cat Spider.

• Black True Person Li Huai explained that a giant Cat Spider had occupied her territory and asked Xiya and Jiang Han to deal with it.
• Xiya said they would need to inspect the situation before deciding whether they could handle the Cat Spider.
• Jiang Han and Black True Person passed a Starry Sect introductory class and went to Black True Person's private office.
• Black True Person showed Jiang Han the astral instrument and explained that the company used Cat Lamps equipped with cameras as temporary satellites.
• Black True Person shared photographs of the Cat Tail Route and described how the Sleeping Witch had carved the star river to protect travelers and shelter lost Cat Lamps.

Jiang Han and Xiya investigated an unusually large Cat Spider and considered why it had left its usual habitat. After seeing its immense size and ley-line power, Xiya eagerly prepared to face it.

• Jiang Han explained how witchification and Cat Lampification created new species, including Cat Spiders.
• Jiang Han questioned why a Cat Spider had appeared outside the places where they usually lived, and Histeria said they rarely left their territory.
• Jiang Han warned Xiya that an animal leaving its ecological niche could signal danger.
• Jiang Han and Xiya examined photos of a massive, chubby red Cat Spider with extra limbs and ley-line-storing tails.
• Xiya estimated the Cat Spider held over five million ley-line power and eagerly anticipated fighting it.

Jiang Han and Xiya traveled to Li Huai’s folded space to tame the Cat Spider, and Xiya initially calmed it with a pile of fish and a soothing spell. The Cat Spider soon grew furious again, leaving its strange meows and Xiya’s stronger magic to continue the encounter.

• Li Huai hired Jiang Han and Xiya to deal with the Cat Spiders and gave Jiang Han mechanism-arts materials as extra payment.
• Jiang Han and Xiya traveled through the Astral Realm in a teleportation cabin, with Xiya explaining that she needed help obtaining cat treefruit for her breeding method.
• Jiang Han confirmed the folded space had abundant earth-vein energy, and Xiya set up a portal and prepared her taming equipment.
• A giant Cat Spider emerged from the forest, and Xiya summoned a huge pile of fish and soothed it into eating.
• The Cat Spider suddenly became furious again, so Xiya cast an even more powerful soothing spell.

Jiang Han and Histeria subdued a furious Cat Spider, but Gray Mist Cat Lamp suspected something was causing its rage. The group prepared to calm it and inspect its body.

• Jiang Han watched as Histeria pinned the Cat Spider down with magic chains and struck it with Xiya's Ghost Iron Hammer.
• The Cat Spider broke free and attacked Xiya, who restrained it again with her hex, Xiya's Love.
• Gray Mist Cat Lamp told Jiang Han that a previous furious Cat Spider had been enraged by a stalactite stuck on its back.
• Jiang Han relayed the idea to Histeria, and Gray Mist Cat Lamp suggested using Giant Cat magic to soothe the creature while secretly inspecting it.

Jiang Han and the cat lamps found that a giant Cat Spider’s fury came from bone spines embedded in its back, removed them, and treated its wounds. Histeria then tamed the recovering Super Cat Spider by feeding it, granting it territory, and making it a Pharaoh Giant Cat Lamp.

• Jiang Han and the Gray Mist Cat Lamp searched the Cat Spider and had the cat lamps blow petals from beneath its fur, calming it down.
• The Gray Mist Cat Lamp explained that Cat Spiders varied greatly in size and that their shed hairs could be valuable materials.
• Jiang Han and the Gray Mist Cat Lamp discovered massive bone spines lodged in the Cat Spider’s back and identified them as wounds from a Spine-Toothed Dragon Cat.
• Jiang Han used magic to pull out nearly four hundred bone spines, including five especially long ones from the Cat Spider’s paw pads.
• Histeria fed the recovering Cat Spider, gave it territory, and granted it Pharaoh Giant Cat Lamp status, successfully taming it.

Jiang Han and her companions discussed harvesting the valuable lumber with the giant cats, then set out on a leisurely trip around the Five Great Lakes with the tamed Cat Spider. The chapter left them sightseeing instead of returning home, while Li Huai agreed to visit Giant Cat Island and exchanged contact details with Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han convened an emergency meeting with the giant cats, and Cat Nesting urged her to bring back as much valuable lumber as possible in exchange for more territory.
• Li Huai examined and gently petted the shrunken Cat Spider while Xiya explained that it could grow large again if it attacked.
• Xiya asked Jiang Han and Li Huai to take time off, and Li Huai agreed to visit Giant Cat Island and exchanged phone numbers with Jiang Han.
• Xiya had the griffons and Cat Lamps pull the tent wagon on a sightseeing trip around the Five Great Lakes.
• Xiya explained that she had planned to spend several days taming the Cat Spider, but decided to use the time for sightseeing after it was tamed quickly.

Jiang Han relaxed with Xiya at a floating island campsite overlooking Turtledove Salt Lake, where a Never-Extinguishing Cat Candle helped her refine her leyline energy. Xiya planned to spend two days there with Jiang Han before a fishing competition, while Jiang Han remained eager to learn more magic.

• Histeria lit the Never-Extinguishing Cat Candle, and Jiang Han and the cat lamps gathered around it as her leyline energy refined.
• Jiang Han admired the view of Turtledove Salt Lake from the floating campsite and considered whether taking a break might be worthwhile.
• Xiya encouraged Jiang Han to relax and said they would stay for two days before her fishing competition.
• Jiang Han asked Xiya to teach her more, and Xiya compared her enthusiasm for magic to that of great witches such as Angelite and Eileen.