Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han enjoyed a spontaneous trip with Qin Shunying to the Anse Sun and Moon Dyson cloud before receiving Priscilla’s information about the Good Sisters Cup. She gathered Du Lingxuan and Xiya at Witch House, where Lu Jieshan explained why she regularly took leave to compete for resources for her family and asked Jiang Han to share a secret in return.

• Jiang Han and Qin Shunying flew to the Moon/Sun Platform Resort, enjoyed the beach and its Clockwork Cats, and returned to a scolding from Chu Yujun.
• Priscilla sent Jiang Han the information she had requested about the Good Sisters Cup, prompting Jiang Han to summon Du Lingxuan and Xiya.
• At Xue Nan’s Witch House, Jiang Han found Lu Jieshan polishing a rare wine cup and asked why she had not visited Anse.
• Lu Jieshan explained that she took quarterly leave to compete for resources for her family aboard their chain of ten vessels.
• Lu Jieshan asked Jiang Han for a secret in return, and Jiang Han confessed that she had bought an Ice Bear while drunk.
• Du Lingxuan and Xiya arrived, and Lu Jieshan offered to mix them three Kitten Playing the Piano drinks at the owner’s expense.

Jiang Han met Du Lingxuan and Histeria at the bar, where Lu Jieshan treated them to drinks and food. Jiang Han shared intelligence about the expanded Good Sisters Cup, which now included varied competitions and a magic-restricting barrier.

• Jiang Han invited Du Lingxuan and Histeria to join her at the empty bar, and Lu Jieshan served them cocktails on the manager’s tab.
• Lu Jieshan began preparing shishamo while Jiang Han gave Xiya and Du Lingxuan her printed Good Sisters Cup intelligence.
• Jiang Han explained that the Cup had added events such as fishing, squash, Mao’er golf, broom races, and video game tournaments, while changing the three-on-three prize divisions.
• Du Lingxuan read that sixteen witch sporting-goods shops sponsored the Cup and that Angelite had provided a Soft Cap Barrier to restrict competitors’ magic power.

Jiang Han invited Lu Jieshan to join her and Du Lingxuan in the Good Sisters Cup after Histeria said she was not interested in competing. The trio decided to enter the fishing and shrimp-catching events, while Histeria planned to watch and eat.

• Histeria told Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan that she did not enjoy entertainment competitions, though she would still watch the Good Sisters Cup.
• Lu Jieshan served Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Histeria a carefully prepared smelt meal, which Histeria devoured.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan persuaded Lu Jieshan to join their team after Histeria declined to compete.
• Histeria asked whether spectators could eat at the event, and Jiang Han confirmed they could attend events without that restriction.
• Jiang Han announced that the team would enter the fishing and shrimp-catching events.

Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan planned to enter the Good Sisters Cup with Lu Jieshan, who promised to send them a list of essential fishing spells and supplies. Jiang Han then went to a cat witches’ gathering at Snow Phoebe Lake, carrying fish from her home pond.

• Lu Jieshan quizzed Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan about fishing and said she would send them preparation materials before they registered for the Good Sisters Cup.
• Jiang Han chose not to visit Eileen and instead headed to the Wild Fish Gathering, bringing sparkling cod packed in water balloons.
• Jiang Han reached the Cat Ring at Snow Phoebe Lake and saw cat witches fishing while wrapped in blankets beside a small lake.

Jiang Han entered the cat witches’ territory to attend a Wild Fish Gathering and learn practical fishing skills, hoping not to rely on the unreliable power of the Giant Cat Lamp within her. She searched the underground salt lake for an experienced cat witch and found a luxurious-looking angler to approach.

• Jiang Han convinced a cat witch guarding the entrance that she belonged among cat witches by citing her registration with the Cat Witch Mutual Aid Society.
• Jiang Han entered the underground salt lake, where cat witches practiced fishing and held the Wild Fish Gathering.
• Jiang Han reconsidered whether Cat Lamps could actually fish with rods after realizing the examples she remembered relied on traps.
• Jiang Han searched the gathering for an experienced cat witch and eventually spotted one who had fished her way into a luxurious life.

Jiang Han met Song Yixian, a petite cat witch and accomplished angler, and arranged to exchange rare Cat Lamp information for fishing lessons. Song agreed to teach Jiang Han for two hours each afternoon over three days, leaving them set to share dinner and search for precious Cat Lamps afterward.

• Jiang Han approached Song Yixian and learned that she had won the South City Fishing Tournament six times and raised seven plump Cat Lamps.
• Song Yixian recognized Jiang Han's research papers, and the two witches exchanged praise for their work on cats and Cat Lamps.
• Jiang Han asked Song Yixian to teach her fishing and offered information about rare Cat Lamps in exchange.
• Song Yixian agreed to teach Jiang Han for two hours a day for three days, and Jiang Han invited her to dinner and a search for precious Cat Lamps.

Jiang Han visited Song Yixian in Cat Valley to learn fishing from her, bringing materials from Lu Jieshan and cod meat. After watching Song Yixian catch a Nanjia Fish and explain how she harvested its valuable jet sac, Jiang Han began a lesson that Song planned to complete over two days before showing her where to buy a good fishing rod.

• Jiang Han brought Lu Jieshan’s materials and a pile of cod meat to visit Song Yixian in Cat Valley.
• Song Yixian caught a large Nanjia Fish by reinforcing her fishing line with magic.
• Song Yixian removed the fish’s jet sac before it could explode and explained its value as a resource for lightning-type spell scrolls.
• Jiang Han showed Song Yixian the fishing guide, and Song praised it as a practical textbook.
• Song Yixian agreed to teach Jiang Han from the guide over two days and then show her hidden Cat Merchant shops that sold fishing rods.

Jiang Han learned that her mother, Jiang Xuan, had teamed up with Du Pinyuan and Lin Zhaojun to compete against her in the Good Sisters Cup fishing event. After teasing Jiang Xuan about her outfit and her partner Ke Shu, Jiang Han told her she was doomed to lose.

• At dinner, Du Lingxuan warned Jiang Han that she would understand what was wrong when she got home.
• Jiang Xuan revealed that she had teamed up with Du Pinyuan and Lin Zhaojun for the Good Sisters Cup fishing and shrimp-catching event.
• Jiang Xuan explained that Du Pinyuan had heard Du Lingxuan wanted to compete, while she and Du Pinyuan had met Lin Zhaojun during a walk and invited her to join them.
• Jiang Xuan teased Jiang Han about Lin Zhaojun and Du Lingxuan being good partners, and Jiang Han brushed off the suggestion that she might be interested in them.
• Jiang Han questioned Jiang Xuan's Martin boots and learned that Ke Shu had insisted she wear them to keep warm.
• Jiang Han told Jiang Xuan she was doomed in the fishing competition, and Jiang Xuan vowed to do her best.

Jiang Han investigated whether Ms. Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan were skilled at fishing, then studied Kraken’s book on elemental magic while waiting for Ye Keshu. Ye Keshu arrived home, and Jiang Han began questioning her about clothes she had bought for Ms. Xuan.

• Jiang Han messaged Du Lingxuan to ask how well her mother fished, and learned that Du Pinyuan was an experienced grassroots cadre from the Five Great Lakes District.
• Jiang Han returned home and studied Kraken’s book on aligning spells with a chosen element to distribute magic-power consumption.
• Ye Keshu arrived with freshly picked mushrooms and explained that she kept slippers and waterproof socks at Jiang Han’s home.
• Jiang Han used a cleansing cat paw on Ye Keshu and asked whether she had bought Ms. Xuan’s clothes.
• Ye Keshu said Jiang Han had bought the clothes and invited her to ask whatever she wanted.

Jiang Han learned that Ms. Xuan had once caught the notoriously difficult Cola Fish and decided to borrow Big Boss Cat’s fishing equipment for the Good Sisters Cup. Avenka offered her own gear while Ovi was away in Purgatory.

• Ye Keshu told Jiang Han that Ms. Xuan had taken her fishing for Cola Fish, a fish that was exceptionally difficult to catch.
• Jiang Han summoned a Giant Cat Lamp chef to prepare a feast for her family, then went to her room and found Avenka with sleeping Vera.
• Jiang Han asked Avenka whether Ovi would return within a week so she could borrow Big Boss Cat’s fishing rod.
• Avenka asked why Jiang Han wanted the rod, and Jiang Han explained that she planned to enter the fishing and shrimp-fishing competitions in the Good Sisters Cup.
• Avenka shared her progress on The Book of Giant Cats and offered to lend Jiang Han her fishing and shrimping equipment.

Jiang Han followed Avenka to Cat Dehaila’s cave garden, where Avenka searched for her missing artifact fishing rod and revealed her vast collection of stored adventures. Jiang Han learned how Olivia’s Sleeping Cat Lamps could act as one while remaining independent individuals, and the search for the rod remained unresolved.

• Jiang Han and Avenka entered Cat Dehaila’s cave garden and discussed how the Star Cluster Giant Cat Lamp sustained its glowing plants and the surrounding ecology.
• Avenka asked Cat Dehaila to open her vault so she could retrieve her artifact fishing rod.
• Cat Dehaila reminded Avenka that she had left things scattered after drinking and spending her allowance, while Avenka searched the storage space.
• Avenka opened her precious material vault and showed Jiang Han a miniature world assembled from adventure zones she had collected.
• Avenka explained that the cats had given Vera an entire Lake of Encounters, and Jiang Han understood how the Sleeping Cat Lamps were both individual beings and incarnations of Olivia’s will.

Jiang Han prepared for the Good Sisters Cup with Olivia’s enchanted fishing gear, then met Ms. Xuan and Du Lingxuan’s mother, Du Pinyuan, at registration. The team began filling out their forms, and Lu Jieshan eagerly befriended the two women.

• Jiang Han received the Cat Bamboo-Joint Rod, Wildcat Amulet, and Heavy Claw Box from Avenka and felt ready for the Good Sisters Cup.
• Three days later, Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Lu Jieshan arrived at the registration site and joked about the event sponsor’s book advertisements.
• Jiang Han met Ms. Xuan, then learned that the elegant Du Pinyuan was Du Lingxuan’s mother.
• Du Pinyuan teased Du Lingxuan about her friendship with Jiang Han and flirted with Lin Zhaojun while she filled out the registration forms.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan introduced Lu Jieshan to Du Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan, and Lu Jieshan quickly charmed both women.

Jiang Han and the others registered for the fishing tournament and followed the Giant Cat Lamps toward a scenic flight zone. Along the way, Jiang Han agreed to help Du Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan find Giant Cat partners, and the group reached their destination after about twenty minutes.

• Jiang Han received a stamped tournament paper and learned that the competition would likely begin at ten that night.
• Du Lingxuan, Jiang Han, and Lu Jieshan laughed at the chibi dragon emblem's resemblance to Big Li.
• Jiang Han woke a Giant Cat Lamp and spoke with it, prompting Du Pinyuan to praise her Giant Cat Lamp language.
• Lin Zhaojun said she had asked Jiang Han to help find her a battle-hardened Giant Cat partner, and Jiang Han identified a Storm Giant Cat as a possibility.
• Du Pinyuan and Ms. Xuan asked Jiang Han to help them find Giant Cat partners, and Du Lingxuan indicated that Xuan Bao could cover her mother's partner's salary.
• Lin Zhaojun explained that the group was following Jiang Han to avoid getting lost, and they reached a scenic flight zone after about twenty minutes.

Jiang Han’s group chose and assembled a camper vehicle for the Good Sisters Cup, relying on a Cat Lamp’s advice and a portable giant-cat nest for their living quarters. Their rival team copied their choices, and Jiang Xuan took one of Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan’s two nests for her own group.

• Jiang Han bribed a driver Cat Lamp with crab claw meat and learned to avoid stone and grass platforms, so she chose a wooden platform.
• The mini-car, big-car, and pony team copied Jiang Han’s group’s vehicle choices, prompting Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan to complain before Du Pinyuan’s tears and Jiang Xuan’s intervention forced them to allow the other team to study their assembly.
• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan set up a portable giant-cat nest on their camper vehicle and showed off its spacious interior.
• Jiang Xuan took one of Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan’s two portable nests, saying she would lend it to her group.

Jiang Han helped other campers set up their equipment using her Giant Cat Strength while chatting with Du Pinyuan about how Jiang Xuan had changed since gaining a Nine-Tailed Cat bloodline fragment. The chapter left Jiang Han and Du Pinyuan discussing the cats and benefactor who had entered Jiang Xuan’s life.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan struggled with camp tasks that would have been easy with magic, then teased Lin Zhaojun until she drove them off with cat-repellent spray.
• Lu Jieshan asked Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan to carry supply crates, and Jiang Han hurried away to help Ms. Xuan and Pinyuan instead.
• Jiang Han hammered in ground stakes and positioned a blower for Pinyuan’s lighthouse fan while Du Lingxuan reluctantly went to fetch supplies.
• Du Pinyuan asked whether Jiang Xuan had grown stronger, and Jiang Han attributed it to her new cat Witch side job and the Nine-Tailed Cat bloodline fragment.
• Du Pinyuan recalled how Jiang Xuan’s return in cat form and her many big cats had startled her, and Jiang Xuan teased Jiang Han about becoming livelier as a kitty.

Jiang Han’s group traveled through the wilderness in their camping vehicle before stopping to meet Jiang Xuan’s group. Jiang Han gave the embarrassed Jiang Xuan cat beer and tobacco, leaving her with only a few boxes of tobacco.

• Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan relaxed outside their portable Giant Cat Nest as Lu Jieshan came out dressed warmly.
• The driver Cat Lamp warned Jiang Han that Jiang Xuan’s vehicle wanted them to slow down, so Jiang Han’s group waited for it to catch up.
• Jiang Xuan approached Jiang Han, embarrassed because she had run out of supplies.
• Jiang Han used a joking excuse to give Jiang Xuan twelve bottles of cat beer.
• Jiang Han also gave Jiang Xuan a box of cat tobacco, though she complained that she had only two or three boxes left.

Jiang Han learned that Du Pinyuan could use spells without spending magical power and bought a paper explaining the technique. The chapter ended with Jiang Han opening the paper to study the older witches’ specialties.

• Du Pinyuan’s chest knocked over her witch-tower model, and Jiang Han explained how Eileen had used Witch Gold to make marble magical.
• Du Pinyuan used a spell to retrieve blocks without expending magical power, prompting Jiang Han to ask how she did it.
• Du Pinyuan shared a paper on old-generation witches’ specialties from Spell Theory Network.
• Jiang Han bought the paper for 1,350 yuan and opened it to read.

Jiang Han quickly mastered Cynthia Sullivan’s specialization for using surplus magic power to cast cantrips, then demonstrated it to Du Pinyuan and Du Lingxuan. Lin Zhaojun learned the technique just by watching, leaving Pinyuan baffled by the witches’ talent.

• Jiang Han finished reading Cynthia Sullivan’s paper and considered how its cantrip specialization could help witches and young students.
• Jiang Han cast Light without a fluctuation of magic power, shaped the flame into a miniature Du Pinyuan, and gave Pinyuan the glowing creation.
• Jiang Han demonstrated her control by summoning two Mage Hands, then shared the paper with Du Lingxuan, who paid to receive it.
• Du Lingxuan immediately learned Angelite Guidance and left a glowing message on the ground telling readers to jump down because they would not die.
• Du Pinyuan protested that the others had learned the specialization too quickly, and Lin Zhaojun learned it after merely watching Jiang Han and Du Lingxuan cast spells.

The witches arrived at the Waterfall Fishing Challenge venue, a scenic lakeside complex shared with Giant Cats, and met the sleepy witch on duty. As they settled in and ordered food, the witch recognized Lin Zhaojun and Du Lingxuan and went to fetch the competition handbook and a poster.

• Lu Jieshan mastered several tricks in just over twenty minutes, while Jiang Han had already been able to use every trick she tried.
• The witches reached the Waterfall Fishing Challenge venue, where Giant Cats lived around the lakes and hot-air fishing boats waited in the harbor.
• Jiang Han asked the witch on duty about food, and she warned that meals from the Giant Cat kitchen cost extra.
• Lin Zhaojun asked where they could park, and the witch on duty recognized her and Du Lingxuan.
• Du Lingxuan went to the Giant Cat restaurant to order food, while the witch on duty went to fetch the competition handbook and a poster.

Jiang Han and Lin Zhaojun received the rules for the hot spring fishing challenge, which required teams to catch fish for judge Cat Lamps. After signing autographs for an excited supervising witch, they prepared to take part in the competition.

• Lin Zhaojun asked Jiang Han about her sandals and explained that soft shoes worked better for inscribing enchantments.
• The supervising witch gave Jiang Han and Lin Zhaojun the fishing challenge rulebook and explained its scoring, fish requirements, and judge Cat Lamps’ different preferences.
• The supervising witch said the caught fish would be prepared as food for the participants and judges by the Giant Cat Kitchen.
• The supervising witch asked Lin Zhaojun and Jiang Han for autographs, and Jiang Han happily signed while comparing their posters.