[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t":3,"chapter-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-18":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Global Survival: The Tower Witch with an E-Rank Talent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1374163,1818,"Chapter 18: Every Pitfall There Was to Step In","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-18",18,"\u003Cp>First floor of the Tree Hollow Shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou was floating along with the Magic Carriage Lantern in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other. Inside the basket: a large meat bun and a bottle of Chafan tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the standard drill after studying until hunger kicked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Same logic as scrolling your phone at midnight and then raiding the fridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after grabbing her food, Lan Qingyou suddenly realized the hassle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the eating itself — it was the up-and-down commute for every snack run. She wondered if the Magic Desk could be moved upstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Movable.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment that thought crossed her mind, the desk lifted one centimeter off the floor and hovered in place. A holographic dialogue box popped up on its surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, that's pretty convenient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That won't do.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou paused, looked around, and decided to find a more practical spot for it down here instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right next to the Alchemy Workshop seemed ideal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, alchemy required all sorts of items delivered through the desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once that was sorted, Lan Qingyou floated back up to the second floor with the lantern — taking the terrace route as usual, since she found that more convenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a full stomach, Lan Qingyou picked up \"Basic Potioneering\" from beside the mattress and began reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd spent most of the late-night hours getting through Symbology and Drawing already, absorbing plenty of new knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was time to formally tackle her greatest interest: Potioneering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, Lan Qingyou slipped a leaf between the pages as a bookmark, closed the book, and shut her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour wasn't much, when read carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was more than enough for Lan Qingyou to realize her mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basic Potioneering — as the name implied, a foundational textbook for brewing magical potions. It contained numerous recipes and, naturally, a thorough list of precautions for the brewing process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou, the novice alchemist whom the small screen had told to go back to the drawing board, had managed to step in virtually every pitfall there was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason behind yesterday's abysmal potion quality could be broken down into six points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, she hadn't constructed an alchemy array. Without the array's mana circulation system, she'd had poor control over the heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, she hadn't used her own mana to properly stir and fuse the herbs with the base water inside the crucible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, her base water was raw stream water. While it did contain mana, it wasn't the treated mana water that alchemy required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth, the finished potion hadn't been filtered. Too many impurities meant the potion was far from pure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth, the herbs and tools she'd used hadn't been processed — she hadn't even given them a basic wash, which degraded the overall quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And of course:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If those first five were common newbie mistakes, the sixth was the kind of blunder only a self-taught, mid-career-switching alchemist like her would make.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Typically, the most basic brewing ratio for alchemy potions was ten-to-one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning: her crucible, which held twenty thousand milliliters of water plus materials, should have yielded two thousand milliliters of finished potion at the standard ratio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hers had produced roughly ten thousand milliliters. A two-to-one ratio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the crucible's rust pattern had been so cleanly divided between the bottom and the top — like a waterline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was from years of brewing at the proper ten-to-one ratio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remembering how she'd been so afraid of boiling the pot dry that she'd risked a nighttime trip to haul another bucket of water up — she cringed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Embarrassing, yes. But no real harm done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a self-taught beginner. This genuinely wasn't her fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was she going to do about it anyway?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The potions were sold, the materials spent. Was she going to issue refunds? She didn't have that kind of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Then might as well cover up the mistakes before anyone finds out.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sell off the remaining potions fast, then brew a proper new batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were usable, after all. No reason to dump them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What's done is done. Time for bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou pulled the air-conditioning quilt over herself and drifted off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No more reading tonight. Tomorrow: get up early, gather herbs, try drawing an alchemy array, then brew a new batch.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Oh, and I need to make mana water, too.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That stuff required using her own mana to neutralize the mana in the stream water. A whole project in itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Busy. Never expected that I could be this busy.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And it feels great.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aagh! My eyes!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lan Qingyou opened her eyes the next morning, a beam of sunlight slammed directly into them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring straight into the sun took courage — and she was rewarded with a full-power Solar Flare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her still-groggy brain went from zero to fully awake in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I need curtains. If there aren't any for sale, a piece of cloth will do. At the very least, a sheer curtain. Otherwise, waking up to this every day — is this even a life worth living?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gazed at the second-floor bedroom, now flooded with blinding sunlight, and made a mental note.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Downstairs. Breakfast. Check chat logs. Head out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing had happened last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from her own Shelter upgrade, the supposed ghost hadn't appeared at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Must have been someone seeing things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Doulai, the one who'd broken the news, had gotten absolutely flamed. The gist: everyone was already on edge, and he'd gone and made it worse for no reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of the more hot-tempered folks had even sent outright death threats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was good news for Lan Qingyou — it meant her plan to go chest-hunting at night could proceed without worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the sun was directly overhead — roughly noon, she guessed — Lan Qingyou floated home carrying a Supply Box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One morning's work had netted her roughly two hundred kilograms of herbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the herbs for Mana Potions, she'd also gathered ingredients for other types of potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't go out in the afternoon. Instead, she buckled down on Symbology and Drawing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Potioneering could wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her top priority right now was drawing an alchemy array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without one, everything else was pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sun represents 'gold.' Moon represents 'silver.' Triangle represents 'fire.' Inverted triangle represents 'water.' Hourglass represents 'time'...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no — according to the foundational theory of Four Elements and Four Properties, the four properties — dry, wet, cold, hot — combine in pairs. Dry plus hot equals fire. Wet plus cold equals water. I can't forget that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the afternoon of the fourth day, after studying nonstop, Lan Qingyou entered her Alchemy Workshop and stood before the iron base, ready to draw her very first alchemy array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drawing an alchemy array on a base required the alchemist's own mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You simply channeled mana to your fingertip and traced directly onto any material's surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded simple enough. In practice — not even close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lan Qingyou's finger traced the final symbol, a plume of black smoke erupted from the base. The alchemy array was instantly destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>",1184,"2026-06-05T21:58:31.676Z",1,"novelbin.me","e24f35bde739dc4d9c4d6961f373cc90db7fe39f3f7a1d815a97e783a561c576","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-19","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-17",965,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-cover.jpg"]