Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han and Histeria wrapped bandages around each other while sharing a playful, intimate moment. After Histeria’s water mirror unsettled Jiang Han, Xiya reassured her and showed off the bandaged cat ear, leaving Jiang Han asking for another strip.

• Jiang Han wrapped Xiya’s foot and leg in bandages, stopping when Xiya pointed out she had gone nearly to her thigh.
• Xiya tied off the bandages and praised Jiang Han’s work as looking like a Cat Lamp’s handiwork.
• Histeria wrapped one of Jiang Han’s cat ears in bandages and told her not to be nervous when she came up behind her.
• Histeria made a water mirror, and Jiang Han’s reflection darkened until Xiya poked her cheek and reassured her.
• Jiang Han laughed at her single bandaged ear and told Xiya she still owed her another strip for the other one.

Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan played Giant Cat Basketball, but the giant cats’ strength made the game’s rules ineffective and left the two witches battered. Jiang Han proposed that Cat Doyastin seek Meow Yi Ao’s endorsement to fund spell development, and Cat Doyastin went to pray to her.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan joined giant cats in a basketball game that exposed major problems with the rules and left them bruised and bandaged.
• Xiya explained that the game needed rules to limit charging and jump shots so players could use teamwork and different abilities.
• Cat Doyastin considered asking witches to develop spells, but worried about the cost.
• Jiang Han suggested that Cat Doyastin find an official backer to fund spell development, citing the Witch Agency’s support for Quick Battle Duel rules.
• Jiang Han recommended that Cat Doyastin ask Meow Yi Ao to endorse the game, and Cat Doyastin hurried to pray to the Long Sleep Giant Cat.

Jiang Han helped finish the giant cat basketball rules before guiding the airship through the Ghost River’s exit and into the dimensional center of magic. She discovered the vast Anse-and-witch frontline below and reached the delivery location under the protection of twenty Dragon-Riding Witches.

• Jiang Han, Xiya, and Xuan Bao completed the adapted giant cat basketball rules, and Du Lingxuan and Histeria checked them for loopholes.
• Jiang Han opened the Ghost River exit, and the airship crossed into a strange space where time had stopped for most witches.
• Du Lingxuan and Xiya realized Jiang Han could react in the dimensional center of magic, then the group emerged above the battlefield.
• Jiang Han saw the immense armies of witches and Anse Elves fighting across the front line, where lives were lost by the millions.
• Twenty witches riding ten legendary dragons halted the Anse Elves’ feathered-serpent troops, and Jiang Han helped cover the airship convoy as it reached the delivery location.

Jiang Han delivered an airship fleet to the witches’ battlefield base and met Li Xinchen, the White True Person of Nightcry Lake. After the airships were signed for, Jiang Han prepared to give Li Xinchen a miniature replica of an Anse Elven device.

• Jiang Han’s fleet entered the base safely, while its dragon legion flew off to a nearby battle against the Anse Elves’ feathered-serpent troops.
• Jiang Han admired the Anse Elves’ enormous white, silver-armored base tree and discussed its construction with Histeria and Du Lingxuan.
• Jiang Han disembarked with the airship manifest and met the elite witch force led by Li Xinchen.
• Li Xinchen introduced herself as a fellow native of the Nightcry Lake region, and Jiang Han mentioned that she knew Li Xinchen’s younger sister, Li Huai.
• Li Xinchen signed for the airships, while Jiang Han prepared to give her a miniature replica of the Anse Elves’ Nine Dragons Seize the Cauldron, crafted by Cat Tami.

Jiang Han and the other witches visited True Person Li Xinchen’s luxurious teahouse after delivering weapons and airships, where Li Xinchen enthusiastically hosted them. Du Lingxuan and Xiya pulled Jiang Han away when Li Xinchen grew overly familiar, and they left grumbling about immortal witches.

• True Person Li Xinchen accepted the delivered weapons and airships without a thorough inspection, then invited the witches to her teahouse.
• Jiang Han, Xiya, Du Lingxuan, and the others explored the lavish establishment, where Li Xinchen paid for their food and entertainment.
• Li Xinchen hosted Jiang Han and her companions in a Peach Haven private room and began chatting with Jiang Han.
• Li Xinchen called Jiang Han “little sister” and increasingly flirted with her, prompting Du Lingxuan and Xiya to take Jiang Han away.
• Outside the teahouse, Du Lingxuan and Xiya complained about Li Xinchen and immortal witches while Jiang Han stayed quiet.

Jiang Han studied immortal arts from the Li family’s spell book and chose a mirror divination technique to cultivate. She also learned how immortal arts could permanently change the body, while the wider group continued developing Cat Lamp knowledge and investigating battlefield-born fortuitous encounters.

• Jiang Han recalled Du Lingxuan explaining that fortuitous encounters could arise from mass death, blood, and suffering on battlefields.
• Histeria persuaded Olivia to accept worship from witches and established the Cat Lamp Tea and Painting Club to teach advanced Cat Lamp spells.
• Jiang Han studied the immortal arts she had traded for from White True Person Li Xinchen and Black True Person Li Huai.
• Jiang Han learned that cultivating immortal arts could alter the body, and concluded that Li Huai’s lack of a special fragrance made her more innocent than her sister.
• Jiang Han chose a mirror divination technique, which functioned more like a curse than prophecy.

Jiang Han investigated the hotel’s ley lines and successfully cultivated the Li Clan True Interpretation of the Misty Ripple Safety-Seeking Spell. Histeria emerged from the floor’s shadow to announce that she and Ovi had settled the Shadow Grand Cathedral’s opening, interrupting Jiang Han’s ritual.

• Jiang Han chose the Misty Ripple Safety-Seeking Spell because it could be modified into an automatic defensive spell triggered by malice.
• Jiang Han tested the hotel’s ley lines with a basin of water and found that the room was a Mental Entertainment Production Area suitable for cultivating the immortal art.
• Jiang Han sent a Giant Cat to buy the required spices, then made and lit the immortal incense.
• Jiang Han completed the immortal dance successfully on her first attempt and learned the Li Clan True Interpretation of the Misty Ripple Safety-Seeking Spell.
• Histeria emerged from the floor’s shadow to tell Jiang Han that she and Ovi had settled the Shadow Grand Cathedral’s opening, and the Mist Immortal Giant Cat smacked the Pharaoh Giant Cat on the head.

Du Lingxuan returned to the castle with a haul of Cat Lamps and a strange spring-bearing stone, then brought the cats to Jiang Han’s hotel. The Cat Lamps and witches enjoyed a lavish bath and massage, while Jiang Han asked Du Lingxuan about the artifact she had found.

• Du Lingxuan returned to the castle with filthy Cat Lamps carrying a hollow stone filled with spring water, and a uniformed witch checked her papers.
• Du Lingxuan learned that the uniformed witch’s sister served with the White Broom Retainers, whose positions had been battered by Lady Eleanor’s forces and the Mist Spirit Sisters.
• Du Lingxuan called Jiang Han, who rushed downstairs and revealed that she had booked a Giant Cat bathhouse, tickets, priestesses, and premium tree ghee for the group.
• Jiang Han brought Du Lingxuan and the Cat Lamps to a hotel room, where Artisan Giant Cats bathed and massaged them until Du Lingxuan and Jiang Han relaxed into blissful exhaustion.
• Jiang Han asked Du Lingxuan what strange artifact she had brought back.

Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Xiya relaxed after the Artisan Giant Cats gave them a luxurious treatment, and Du Lingxuan discussed trading her scalable [Soul Lamp Spring] to Olivia. Xiya proposed that the three witches pool their scalable fortuitous encounters in a shared Void Island, and they began setting fair contribution rules.

• The Artisan Giant Cats finished pampering Jiang Han and left through the Cat River portal with their reward and business cards.
• Du Lingxuan revealed that she had obtained [Soul Lamp Spring] and considered offering it to Olivia in exchange for tree ghee.
• Xiya suggested that the three of them build a shared Void Island beneath their Giant Cat nests to store scalable fortuitous encounters for common use.
• Jiang Han accused Xiya of trying to take their treasures, so Du Lingxuan proposed equal contributions with the poorest witch setting the limit.
• Histeria brought out contract paper to formalize the rules.

After the battlefield’s devastating clashes, Jiang Han’s battered convoy prepared to transport twenty-five Archwitch Eggs home while the Archwitch souls bickered with their escorts. Du Lingxuan invited Jiang Han and Xiya to enter the Witch Best Sisters Cup, and Jiang Han agreed to take part during the convoy’s leave.

• Jiang Han’s convoy spent two days at the battlefield castle, completing commissions and gathering resources after the witches’ servant armies suffered heavy losses.
• Jiang Han witnessed the witches and Anse Elves fight with forces so powerful that their clash twisted the region’s laws and created a chaotic new world.
• Jiang Han and the giant cats carefully loaded Archwitch Eggs into padded, temperature-controlled compartments for transport home.
• Xiya reassured Jiang Han that Ghost Witches would guard the eggs while the displaced Archwitch souls protested and Du Lingxuan teased them as egg-bound spirits.
• Du Lingxuan invited Jiang Han and Xiya to enter the Witch Best Sisters Cup, and Jiang Han agreed to use the convoy’s leave to compete.

Jiang Han and her group relaxed on a rented drifting islet while tallying their spoils, and Jiang Han met the pearl-colored spirit of an Archwitch who had died in battle. Madam Egg-Bound Spirit planned to ask Angelite to make her a body and promised compensation, while the island continued drifting toward Moon Bay Camp.

• Jiang Han rented Water Spring Island, and the witches and Giant Cats chose to ride it home rather than fly for a day.
• The group enjoyed the island’s water attraction and calculated their earnings, while Jiang Han confiscated extra loot hidden in the Giant Cats’ tails.
• Jiang Han met Madam Egg-Bound Spirit, who complained about cats and cat witches before explaining that Angelite’s area spell had accidentally killed her.
• Madam Egg-Bound Spirit said Angelite would make her a body and revealed her admiration for Angelite and her promised bottle of Serendipity Wine.

Jiang Han socialized with egg-bound spirit witches and learned how Yu Yuxin’s Giant Cat companion, Cat Jielin, had helped her earn money and attract customers. She went to meet the unfamiliar Giant Cats and witch who had come seeking refuge through Cat Jielin’s connections.

• Jiang Han drank with egg-bound spirits who complained that Eleanor had tricked them into becoming cannon fodder on the battlefield.
• Jiang Han built relationships with the spirits and obtained oaths from several Archwitches to join her club once they had grown up.
• Yu Yuxin told Jiang Han that Cat Jielin had sent her to introduce two people seeking refuge: a friend of Cat Jielin and that friend’s friend.
• Yu Yuxin explained that Cat Jielin’s many Giant Cat acquaintances rented storage space from her and bought potions and other goods from her and her roommates.
• Jiang Han met the unfamiliar Giant Cats gathered by the lakeshore and the pale, melancholy witch with them.

Jiang Han welcomed Nancy Balsaga, a powerful Archwitch seeking refuge, and arranged food, lodging, and clothes for her. She began considering Nancy for a senior role overseeing external relations and Nightmare Cat Capital’s industry.

• Cat Jielin sold her battlefield spoils to Cat Yenie, then introduced Jiang Han to Nancy Balsaga.
• Cat Yenie described Nancy as the daughter of Maloria, a powerful witch whose family had old ties to the giant cats.
• Nancy told Jiang Han that her mother had sent her away to develop new magical skills, leaving her short of money and supplies.
• Jiang Han arranged a cat nest for Cat Yenie and sent Li Li to find Nancy a tent, nightgowns, and cold-weather clothes.
• After Nancy left with Li Li, Jiang Han considered assigning her to external relations and management of Nightmare Cat Capital’s industrial department.

Jiang Han heard Nancy Balsaga explain why she wanted to work on Giant Cat Island and discussed possible neighbors for Cat Yenie. Cat Yenie refused to live near the noisy Storm Giant Cats, leaving Jiang Han to look for other neighbors for them.

• Nancy Balsaga described her former life on Mangai Island and said she wanted to work for Jiang Han because of her reputation and the chance to advance in the Giant Cat Lamp career.
• Jiang Han and the sorceresses shared stories while the giant cats finished building a flowing hot spring.
• Jiang Han greeted Cat Yenie in the hot spring and offered to find Nancy work near Cat Yenie's cat tree.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Yenie whether it would live beside Cat Doyastin, but Cat Yenie refused because the Storm Giant Cats' concerts would keep it awake.
• Jiang Han agreed to seek neighbors who could tolerate the Storm Giant Cats' noisy banquets.

Jiang Han presided over a spoils-and-rewards meeting, distributing loot and offering witches land on Giant Cat Island. She gave Miss Nancy a special territory and promised her a castle, leaving the other witches envious.

• Lilith advised Jiang Han to offer plots near busy districts instead of Cat Town storefronts, and Jiang Han agreed to print extra land deeds.
• Jiang Han arranged a feast and match replays for the gathered witches, then arrived with six giant cats in place of witch guards.
• Jiang Han distributed the spoils and curiosities and let the witches exchange their shares for land, which every witch claimed.
• Jiang Han appointed Miss Nancy industrial adviser to Nightmare Cat Capital and diplomatic adviser to Giant Cat Island, granted her territory near Cat Hot Spring Volcano, and promised to build her a small castle.

After returning to the Witch World with the spoils from her trip, Jiang Han finished customs procedures and brought the Giant Cats home. She prepared to give Olivia an Anse artwork, but her reunion with Ms. Xuan ended in a comic confrontation.

• Jiang Han and the other witches divided their spoils, and the witches were impressed by their earnings and Jiang Han's new Giant Cat companion.
• Jiang Han waited through lengthy customs inspections while hearing rumors about returning witches and planning repairs and upgrades for her mobile fortress.
• Jiang Han arranged for Xiya Auto Repair Station to maintain the fortress, bought tools from Du Lingxuan, and planned to turn the vehicle into an official Giant Cat mobile nest.
• Jiang Han returned home with the Giant Cats and carried an artwork of Clockwork Cats that she had bought from Eileen as a gift for Olivia.
• Ms. Xuan called out to Jiang Han, who pretended to be a sleeping Giant Cat until Ms. Xuan stepped on her tail.

Jiang Han returned home, brought gifts for her family and Olivia, and discovered that Olivia had renovated the house and acquired a new Sleeping Cat Lamp named Avenka. The chapter ended with Olivia introducing Avenka to Jiang Han.

• Jiang Xuan welcomed Jiang Han home and accepted the bag of gems she brought as a gift.
• Jiang Han explored the renovated house and found Olivia’s Giant Cat Lamp nests arranged around a large rockery.
• Jiang Han rang a triangle to summon Olivia, Sha'er, Vera, Carla, Diena, and an unfamiliar Sleeping Cat Lamp to eat cod meat.
• Olivia unwrapped Jiang Han’s gemstone landscape artwork, liked it, and placed it on her giant cat platform.
• Olivia told Jiang Han that the new Sleeping Cat Lamp was named Avenka and was unusually tall with naturally curly hair.

Jiang Han learned that Avenka was an unusually active Sleeping Cat Lamp who studied publishing and game markets to support cat-made works. Avenka invited Jiang Han to visit Black Rose Bookstore and investigate market trends, and they set out together.

• Jiang Han asked why Avenka read magazines, and Avenka explained that she wanted information about the market and more attention for works created by cats.
• Avenka decided to go out to study the market, and Jiang Han accepted her invitation.
• Jiang Han changed into a violet dress and accessories while Avenka waited in a distinctive outfit of her own.
• Avenka called a car and led Jiang Han toward Black Rose Bookstore to gather intelligence on popular books, comics, and rulebooks.

Jiang Han brought Avenka to Black Rose Bookstore, where they met its proprietress, Yin Zhiyun, and borrowed their reserved VIP reading room. The three went upstairs to room 202, where Jiang Han reacted to Yin Zhiyun’s touch before Avenka’s catlike clawing interrupted her thoughts.

• Avenka rode with Jiang Han in the cat lamp’s unicycle to Black Rose Bookstore, urging the cautious driver to go faster.
• Jiang Han and Avenka arrived at the expanded bookstore, where Jiang Han overheard two police witches discussing Giant Cat Lamps reading books.
• Yin Zhiyun greeted Jiang Han warmly, and Jiang Han introduced Avenka as her dear big sister.
• Avenka asked to borrow a VIP reading room, and Yin Zhiyun explained that Jiang Han’s investment agreement kept one reserved for her.
• Yin Zhiyun led Jiang Han and Avenka upstairs and showed them room 202 and the available food and drinks.
• Jiang Han felt Yin Zhiyun scratch her palm and began entertaining improper thoughts before a cat’s claw withdrew and Avenka glared at Yin Zhiyun.

Jiang Han helped Avenka research cat-lamp diets and identify readers of her little-known book. After five days, Jiang Han learned that Avenka wanted to remake the Giant Cat Book, with Cat Lunna chosen to write its first version.

• Avenka set up a research camp in the bookstore’s VIP room and asked Jiang Han to find out which witches had bought her book about cat-lamp diets.
• Jiang Han agreed to ask Yin Zhiyun about the book’s buyers and left Avenka to work.
• Jiang Han encountered a Hippopotamus Giant Cat Lamp on the stairs, who claimed she had been summoned by Meow Yi Ao.
• Jiang Han spent five days helping Avenka gather material and firsthand follow-up data for the project.
• Jiang Han discovered Avenka planned to remake the Giant Cat Book, and the group settled on Mountain Mist Giant Cat Lamp Cat Lunna to write the first version.