Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han took Qin Shunying’s advance payment and joined the bar’s daily roll call, where Qin assigned her and Du Ningzhuang to work at the bar. Li Yun joined them, leaving the three witches to guard the bar together.

• Jiang Han reflected on the value of her 1,500-yuan daily wage and secretly delighted in the advance payment from Qin Shunying.
• Qin Shunying called the witches by name, and Jiang Han playfully hopped when she answered.
• Qin Shunying assigned Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang to sit at the bar because their requested customers had not arrived.
• Qin Shunying called Li Yun over and assigned her to join Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang at the bar.

At Witch House, Qin Shunying assigned staff and arranged commissions, while Jiang Han realized her colleagues had handed Qin control over her work. Qin later said she was preparing for a Saturday trip with Jiang Han, whom she praised as a formidable artillery platform.

• Qin Shunying coached Miss Qiao on how to welcome a customer by offering care without pressuring her to buy expensive wine.
• After the Witch House opened, Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang tended the bar while Qin Shunying supervised the busy establishment.
• Du Ningzhuang told Jiang Han that Chu Yujun had arranged for Qin Shunying to handle Jiang Han's commissions, and relayed Chu's message: “Sister, you've been through so much.”
• Qin Shunying mixed drinks for Jiang Han, Li Yun, and Du Ningzhuang, then said she planned to travel with Jiang Han on Saturday.
• Qin Shunying praised Jiang Han as a formidable artillery platform, and Jiang Han realized she meant a gun carriage.

Jiang Han learned about Witch Eggs and the tools witches used to survive in dangerous otherworlds as Qin Shunying listed supplies. Qin Shunying added Egg-Hatching Pigeons to the preparations and explained their uses as refrigerators, transport, and egg incubators.

• Qin Shunying listed sixty-six one-month-old Witch Eggs for batteries, magic mist generators, and emergency rations, prompting Jiang Han to question their uses.
• Du Ningzhuang and Li Yun explained how spent Witch Eggs could be eaten or made into durable Egg Picks, while Qin Shunying described her rare Kraken-shell pickaxe.
• Qin Shunying added filter screens, Wooden Claw Gloves, and Cat Lamps to the supply list, and Jiang Han learned how these tools and Signal Eggs helped witches survive and be rescued in magicless worlds.
• Qin Shunying added Egg-Hatching Pigeons to the list and explained that they could hatch Witch Eggs, generate winter magic, store food like refrigerators, and carry witches.

Jiang Han bought costly ingredients to learn the Flame Burst Spell and accepted Qin Shunying’s offer to brew her an Empowered Casting potion for free. Qin Shunying made the potion and advised Jiang Han to drink it with liquor at Witch House, where she could help her sober up.

• Jiang Han bought materials for the Flame Burst Spell as potion ingredients rose in price, possibly because the authorities were stockpiling supplies.
• Jiang Han told Qin Shunying that she wanted to increase her firepower before exploring and was learning to make potions.
• Qin Shunying offered to brew Jiang Han a batch of Empowered Casting potion for free because Jiang Han would become a major customer.
• Jiang Han followed Qin Shunying to the Witch House basement, where Qin Shunying prepared a lava-colored Flame Burst Potion.
• Qin Shunying told Jiang Han to drink forty-proof liquor before the potion and suggested she take it at Witch House so Qin Shunying could help her sober up.

Jiang Han drank a potion infused with a designed spell model and discovered that it strengthened her magical power, possibly with help from her Eternal Ice Eye. She recovered in time to return to work at the Witch House, leaving the reasons for her eye’s unusual effects uncertain.

• Jiang Han drank hard liquor and the potion, experiencing a vision of the seabed as the spell model reshaped her body and magic.
• Jiang Han sensed that the potion increased her magical power and that her Eternal Ice Eye retained some of the potion’s power instead of draining her reserves.
• Qin Shunying poured icy sherry into Jiang Han’s mouth, and the two collided foreheads when Jiang Han suddenly sat up.
• Qin Shunying told Jiang Han that about twenty-five minutes had passed and sent her back to work while she chose cat lamps.
• Jiang Han returned to the bar, where Li Yun and Du Ningzhuang pressed her about where she had been.

Jiang Han accompanied Qin Shunying to the Witch Adventurers Association to seek an adventurer for their trip to Greenfield Oasis. They met Cui Yiqi, a powerful witch who appeared eager to take the commission.

• Qin Shunying took Jiang Han to the Witch Adventurers Association in her luxurious Griffin Carriage and explained how the association differed from the Witch Association.
• Qin Shunying said the association might help them for free because Greenfield Oasis was connected to a super-giant space.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying arrived at the association in a valley and explained their purpose to the receptionist.
• Cui Yiqi appeared in miner’s gear carrying a dirt-covered pickaxe and rapidly introduced herself as interested in their commission.

Qin Shunying negotiated an agreement with the Witch Adventurers Association for help exploring the folded space and future access to Greenfield Oasis. Afterward, Jiang Han asked Cui Yiqi about buying ores and learned she would need to pay a membership fee to see the inventory.

• Cui Yiqi and Qin Shunying discussed the Witch Adventurers Association's proposed terms while Jiang Han watched their interaction.
• Qin Shunying agreed to terms granting the association a nominal share of profits, public recognition for its work, and future mining rights at Greenfield Oasis in exchange for forty percent of the income.
• Qin Shunying told Jiang Han that the association wanted the deal to boost its political support after receiving only 32% of the votes in the Witch Delegation election.
• Qin Shunying entered the study with the association's adventurers and two assistant witches to negotiate supplies, finances, and other arrangements.
• Jiang Han approached Cui Yiqi to ask whether she sold ores, and an association witch told her that she needed to pay a 130-yuan membership fee to see the inventory list.

Jiang Han bought a high-grade ice crystal stone and learned that Qin Shunying had arranged an expedition to Greenfield Oasis for the day after tomorrow. After Qin Shunying took her home, she promised to have a combat outfit tailored for Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han purchased 750 grams of ice crystal stone from Cui Yiqi for 4,350.
• Qin Shunying told Jiang Han that their expedition to Greenfield Oasis was settled for the day after tomorrow, with support from the Witch Adventurers Association.
• Qin Shunying called Jiang Han a friend and agreed to take her home before bringing her to Dream Garden.
• On the Griffin Carriage, Qin Shunying asked Jiang Han for her measurements so she could have a combat outfit tailored for her.

Jiang Han introduced Qin Shunying to her suspicious younger sister, then attended cram school and later went to work at the Witch House. The chapter ended with Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang recoiling in terror after Qin Shunying used tentacles beneath her skirt to restore its broken hoops.

• Jiang Han introduced Qin Shunying to Jiang Zhenling, who accepted Qin's pocket watch and gave her homemade tofu in return.
• Jiang Han attended Cheng Yu's cram-school lesson on potent spellcasting and waited for Jiang Zhenling after class before going home.
• Jiang Han went to the Witch House for work and spotted Lu Jieshan chatting with a guest.
• Qin Shunying snapped the hoops in her cake dress, then used tentacles beneath her skirt to make the dress swell back into shape.
• Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang clung to each other by the doorway and stared fearfully at Qin Shunying.

Jiang Han worked a busy night at Witch House before Qin Shunying began preparing an enormous supply list for a folded-space expedition. Qin learned Jiang Han had not informed her family or school and planned to take her to notify both before the trip.

• Jiang Han and Du Ningzhuang discussed Qin Shunying’s tentacle magic, and Jiang Han realized she had inherited the same spell.
• Jiang Han worked the water-dispenser shift with Du Ningzhuang and Li Yun while Witch House served a busy crowd that included Madam Ye’s customers.
• Lu Jieshan entertained the staff with a glass-juggling trick, then asked Qin Shunying for a tentacle of her own.
• Du Ningzhuang showed Qin Shunying the extensive food and equipment list for the planned desert exploration, and Qin explained it was meant to prepare for emergencies in folded space.
• Qin Shunying learned Jiang Han had not told her family or school about the expedition and said she would take Jiang Han to notify them at noon.

Jiang Han prepared for an expedition with Qin Shunying, met the crew and vehicles arranged for their journey, and informed Cheng Yu and Jiang Xuan before traveling to Jade Mirror Lake. The chapter ended with Qin Shunying pointing out her investments in the developing lakeside site.

• Qin Shunying gave Jiang Han a custom witch combat uniform and explained that they would meet Cui Yiqi at Jade Mirror Lake.
• Qin Shunying introduced Jiang Han to Ying Xiaoyu, who managed the South City branch of Falost Maintenance Company and had arranged their vehicles.
• Jiang Han visited Cheng Yu at Dream Garden and flew home to tell Jiang Xuan about her departure.
• The group traveled by transport truck to Jade Mirror Lake, where Qin Shunying showed Jiang Han the resort facilities she partly owned.

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying arrived at the Witch Adventurers Association’s new camp, where they prepared to survey a mysterious area using an unmanned exploration vehicle. The chapter left them aboard the Seeker, enjoying a lavish lunch before setting out.

• Qin Shunying showed Jiang Han the camp vehicles’ Swarm Network System and introduced her to the Witch Adventurers Association witches at the new camp.
• Cui Yiqi greeted Jiang Han and prepared her equipment, while Qin Shunying explained that the Association would retrieve the Explorer for a detailed survey.
• The witches prepared an extravagant lunch of rice, meat, lobster, and other dishes for the expedition team.
• Qin Shunying led Jiang Han and Cui Yiqi into the spacious Seeker, their vehicle and resting quarters.
• Jiang Han, Qin Shunying, and Cui Yiqi eagerly ate the meal together.

Jiang Han joined Qin Shunying in inspecting supplies and learned that the witches planned to develop Greenfield Oasis as a new settlement. At a meeting, the witches decided to explore the folded space and later exterminate its hostile inhabitants, leaving Gu Yunzhu unable to secure a diplomatic approach.

• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying admired the chef witch’s meal, then went to see Explorer after it returned to camp.
• Qin Shunying explained Explorer’s technology and the witches’ plans to establish a camp that could grow into a settlement in Greenfield Oasis.
• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying checked the supplies, and Qin Shunying explained that Jiang Han had been hired to analyze soil, minerals, and samples.
• Gu Yunzhu reported that Explorer was damaged by javelins and that the folded space limited witches to fourth- or fifth-level spells.
• A dragon-horned witch and other shareholders approved a plan to explore the space and exterminate its hostile intelligent inhabitants after the second entry.
• Gu Yunzhu proposed seeking communication and diplomacy, but the dragon-horned witch rejected the idea and vowed that witches would not forgive harm to their property.

Jiang Han and Qin Shunying entered Greenfield Oasis with the witches’ convoy to establish a foothold, but hostile creatures attacked as soon as they landed. After witnessing the witches’ brutal counterattack, Jiang Han cast a Flame Burst Spell at creatures charging toward the camp.

• A maintenance witch assessed the damage from the creatures’ javelins and recommended more funding or security forces, and most companies chose to deploy their forces.
• Jiang Han, Qin Shunying, and Cui Yiqi entered the folded space as part of the convoy, and Jiang Han read about how witches integrated new worlds.
• The convoy landed in a hot desert filled with an unusual ecosystem, where mouthless, long-eared creatures attacked with javelins.
• Cui Yiqi opened fire while other witches crushed and froze groups of attackers, and the dragon-horned witch urged them to kill.
• Jiang Han noticed shield-bearing creatures charging down a dune, completed a Flame Burst Spell, and unleashed it at them.

After the witches defeated the aberrant creatures, Qin Shunying proposed building a camp and recruiting mercenaries to hunt them. Wu Xian called for the witches to advance and transform the desert into their own territory.

• The witches quickly defeated the aberrant creatures and nailed their corpses to trees with the creatures’ own spears.
• Li-Delis reported that the desert increased stamina loss, thirst, and mana consumption while reducing mana replenishment.
• Qin Shunying proposed building a communications tower and camp, then recruiting mercenary witches and placing bounties on the creatures.
• Wu Yaoxin and Wu Xian agreed to resource-sharing arrangements with Qin Shunying, while Jiang Han questioned how numerous the creatures might be.
• Wu Xian argued that the creatures posed little threat to the witches and urged them to advance, build a camp, and claim the desert.

Qin Shunying’s group reached Greenfield Gorge after traveling through the desert, where they found a lake, an underground river, and a bamboo grove. As the witches began establishing camp, Jiang Han learned that Cui Yiqi was panning for gold.

• Qin Shunying and Miss Wu Yaoxin talked Miss Wu Xian out of blowing up the folded space because it would waste valuable resources.
• Jiang Han cleaned the Seeker and delivered Witch House fruit and milk to the other companies’ security witches while Qin Shunying promoted her business.
• The convoy traveled about sixty kilometers and spotted Greenfield Gorge, with its lake, underground river, greenery, and bamboo grove.
• The witches raced their camp vehicles into the gorge and began setting up camp while Qin Shunying negotiated for territory.
• Jiang Han followed Cui Yiqi and several witches to the underground river and asked what they were doing.
• Cui Yiqi told Jiang Han they were panning for gold.

Jiang Han and the witches discovered a rich placer-gold deposit in Greenfield Oasis and received a share of the gold. Qin Shunying explained that witches used gold as their currency’s backing, leaving Jiang Han to recognize their system as a form of gold standard.

• Jiang Han watched the witches set up a gold-digging pit in Greenfield Oasis and asked Cui Yiqi how their method could work.
• Jiang Han accidentally chilled her ears by channeling magic power into them while trying to hear Cui Yiqi better.
• The witches uncovered a dazzling amount of placer gold, prompting Jiang Han to call the site a Golden River.
• The Witch Adventurers Association distributed shares of the gold, and Jiang Han planned to use her portion to buy gifts for her family.
• Qin Shunying acquired gold and magic-rich gold-associated minerals, then told Jiang Han that witches used gold as their currency.
• Jiang Han realized witches’ vast access to gold sustained a gold-standard monetary system.

Jiang Han watched the witches build and test a witch power plant in Greenfield Oasis, while chatting with Wu Xian and promoting Witch House. The plant worked by using Witch Eggs to produce magical electricity that replenished witches’ magic and made a cat glow.

• Jiang Han left gold aboard Seeker, and Qin Shunying teased her for trusting others too much before showing off her flexibility and flustering her.
• Jiang Han went outside after changing and saw the witches’ expanding construction around the canyon and lake.
• Wu Xian told Jiang Han that the milk and gold she had sent were appreciated, and Jiang Han mentioned her part-time work at Witch House.
• The security witches started the generator by placing six Witch Eggs in its wheel, producing pale blue, lightning-filled electrical energy.
• A witch climbed into a battery drum and rapidly replenished her magic, then another witch put a cat inside and made it glow like a cat lamp.

Jiang Han learned that Wu Xian was a Dragon Witch and heard about the history and dangerous power of her bloodline. Their lakeside conversation turned to jobs at Northern Frontier Pharmaceuticals, where Wu Xian revealed that she had also studied alchemy, leaving Jiang Han unsure how to respond.

• Jiang Han asked Wu Xian about the dragon horns on her hat, and Wu Xian removed them to show they were her own horns.
• Wu Xian explained Dragon Witch bloodlines, the strength and cost of their explosive power, and how Dragon Witches had fought under Kraken and founded the organization that preceded Northern Frontier Pharmaceuticals.
• Jiang Han assessed Wu Xian's abilities and watched the security witches play in the lake while Wu Yaoxin passed nearby.
• Jiang Han asked whether Northern Frontier Pharmaceuticals was hiring, and Wu Xian listed openings in security, medicine, and accounting while inviting her to join.
• When Jiang Han said she was studying alchemy, Wu Xian said she had graduated in alchemy too, prompting Jiang Han to wonder whether to admit her own studies were self-taught.

Jiang Han visited a lakeside recreation area in the yellow-sand zone, where she met Chen Yu and tried riding a Sand Leopard. She discovered she enjoyed the ride and showed enough skill to nearly catch up with Chen Yu’s Brawler.

• Jiang Han found witches and witchlings playing games beneath a lakeside canopy and learned that new recreation areas had appeared as more convoys arrived in Greenfield Oasis.
• Chen Yu introduced herself and explained that the Sand Leopards belonged to Wang Zhen, who had restored the breed and shared its breeding manual with the Witch Adventurers Association.
• Jiang Han paid Chen Yu for a ride, and Chen Yu chose a large, gentle Sand Leopard and secured Jiang Han with a safety belt.
• Chen Yu mounted her bandaged Brawler and raced off, prompting Jiang Han’s Sand Leopard to charge after her.
• Jiang Han quickly learned to control the Sand Leopard and nearly caught up with Chen Yu while enjoying the ride.