Vol. 1Curses in the Open

Shen Yuanyi faced increasingly powerful curses and Curse Users while helping Jujutsu High prepare for threats and exposing curses to the public. The volume ended with Gojo Satoru sealed, Yamata no Orochi resurrecting in Itadori Yuji’s form, and three masked fighters under attack by Geto Suguru and Mahito.

  • Shen Yuanyi investigated the school’s thirteenth-step legend with Gen Naine and entered the cursed corridor, where mutated figures approached.
  • Shen Yuanyi trained at Jujutsu High, helped Tokyo win the Kyoto Exchange Event, and investigated an attack on the Gen Family.
  • Shen Yuanyi defeated Shuten Doji after she possessed Gen Naine and continued investigating dangerous curses, including Mahito.
  • Shen Yuanyi recovered Sukuna’s Finger from Ono Prison and celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Jujutsu High students.
  • Shen Yuanyi fought dangerous curses and investigated schemes targeting Itadori Yuji while helping prepare for the Exchange Event.
  • Shen Yuanyi arrived at a station where foreign sorcerers were struggling to contain a rampaging attacker.
  • Shen Yuanyi helped reveal curses to the public, improve defenses, and defeat Sadako, while Gojo Satoru was sealed.
  • Shen Yuanyi and his allies fought Yamata no Orochi as it repeatedly resurrected, and the arc ended with Geto Suguru and Mahito attacking three masked fighters.
Chapters 1–100 Read from ch. 1

Arc 1The Thirteenth Step

Shen Yuanyi trained at Jujutsu High, helped Tokyo win the Kyoto Exchange Event, and began investigating a Curse User targeting the Gen Family’s heirloom. He and Gen Naine entered the supernatural corridor behind the school’s thirteenth step, where more mutated figures appeared.

  • Shen Yuanyi survived the orphanage’s cursed maze, rescued children and Koharu Anzu, and was brought to Jujutsu High by Gojo Satoru.
  • Shen Yuanyi trained under Gojo Satoru, named his time-accelerating technique Wheel of Time, and enrolled at Jujutsu High with the cursed tool Annihilation and White Wolf.
  • Shen Yuanyi teamed with Maki, defeated a powerful hospital curse, and later killed a Curse User who had abducted Nitta Akari.
  • Shen Yuanyi trained with Okkotsu Yuta and helped Tokyo win the Kyoto Exchange Event, defeating Kasumi Miwa and Todo Aoi in individual matches.
  • Shen Yuanyi investigated the attack on the Gen Family, identified the enemy’s shikigami, and agreed to use Dojigiri Yasutsuna as bait for the Curse User.
  • Gen Naine told Shen Yuanyi about her friend Ayako’s troubling experience with the school’s thirteenth-step legend, and he arranged to investigate the school at midnight.
  • Shen Yuanyi, Gen Naine, and White Wolf entered the dark corridor behind the thirteenth step, where Shen Yuanyi killed a student-like creature and told Gen Naine to fight the approaching mutated figures.
Chapters 1–25 Summaries Read

Arc 2Shuten Doji and the Cursed Finger

Shen Yuanyi stopped Geto Suguru’s attack and defeated Shuten Doji after she possessed Gen Naine, then continued investigating dangerous curses and Curse Users while helping Megumi Fushiguro and Tsumiki. The stretch ended with Shen Yuanyi retrieving Sukuna’s Finger and celebrating the New Year with his friends at Jujutsu High.

  • Shen Yuanyi escaped the Innate Domain, defeated the giant cursed spirit, and captured the Curse User who had tried to steal Dojigiri for Geto Suguru.
  • Shen Yuanyi passed his First Grade evaluation by defeating the Dice Cursed Spirit and rescuing the captives at the criminal compound.
  • Geto Suguru launched his attack on December 24, and a Curse User used Dojigiri to awaken Shuten Doji inside Gen Naine.
  • Shen Yuanyi defeated Shuten Doji, restored Gen Naine’s body, and joined the others after Okkotsu Yuta released Rika.
  • Shen Yuanyi helped Megumi Fushiguro investigate a mountain curse, contracted with the black snake, and later learned that an unknown curse had left Tsumiki unconscious.
  • Shen Yuanyi fought Mahito, restored his transfigured victims, and reported Mahito’s soul-related technique after the curse escaped.
  • Shen Yuanyi demonstrated his abilities to the higher-ups, then exorcised the cursed spirit at Ono Prison and recovered Sukuna’s Finger.
  • Shen Yuanyi and the Jujutsu High students celebrated New Year’s Eve together and visited Senso-ji Temple.
Chapters 26–50 Summaries Read

Arc 3Shen Yuanyi’s Rising Threats

Shen Yuanyi fought increasingly dangerous Curses and investigated the schemes targeting Itadori Yuji, while helping Yuji and his classmates prepare for the Exchange Event. The arc ended with Shen arriving at a station where foreign sorcerers were struggling to contain a rampaging attacker.

  • Megumi Fushiguro and Shen Yuanyi found Itadori Yuji at Sugisawa Third High School, where Yuji swallowed Sukuna’s Finger and Sukuna briefly took control before Shen defeated him and Gojo Satoru proposed that Yuji consume all twenty fingers.
  • Shen Yuanyi exorcised Bingchi in Greenland, developed Time Stop through training with Gojo Satoru, and defeated Curse Users and a Special Grade Cursed Spirit at the Star Religious Cult’s base.
  • Shen Yuanyi fought the Special Grade Cursed Spirit at Eishu Juvenile Detention Center, rescued Itadori Yuji, and learned that Geto Suguru’s group planned to seal Gojo Satoru and revive Sukuna.
  • Shen Yuanyi defeated the Tengu-like Artificial Sorcerer and investigated Mahito’s attacks, while Itadori Yuji met Yoshino Junpei and vowed to exorcise Mahito after the Bone Demon massacred a school auditorium.
  • Yoshino Junpei joined the students’ training, and the Tokyo and Kyoto schools began the Exchange Event, where Megumi Fushiguro used Tengu Serpent against Kamo Noritoshi and Todo Aoi fought Itadori Yuji.
  • Shen Yuanyi investigated a prison massacre, identified and annihilated Matatabi, then joined Gojo Satoru in suspecting that Mahito’s group was gathering blood for a larger ritual.
  • Shen Yuanyi confronted foreign Ability Users who had followed a Shadow Net promise of Ghost Spirit powers, then set out to find a foreign sorcerer after one attacked personnel and killed passengers on a Shinkansen.
  • Akamatsu Reimi, Ishizaka Kazuo, and Tachikawa Hiromi prepared to lure the rampaging sorcerer deeper into a station, and Shen Yuanyi arrived as they faced the danger.
Chapters 51–75 Summaries Read

Arc 4The Curses Go Public

Shen Yuanyi helped expose the existence of curses, strengthen defenses, and confront escalating threats, including Sadako and Yamata no Orochi. The arc left Gojo Satoru sealed, Yamata no Orochi still resurrecting, and the three masked fighters facing Geto Suguru and Mahito.

  • Shen Yuanyi sealed Hansen after defeating him, then joined the students and staff as they investigated transformed curse users and the spread of Gokuraku Maru.
  • Shen Yuanyi and Gojo Satoru helped deter America’s military intervention, but Geto Suguru and Palmer exposed curses to the public, forcing the Jujutsu World to reveal an edited truth.
  • Shen Yuanyi livestreamed an exorcism and proposed using barriers to accelerate Cursed Tool production, while the Zenin Family supplied its crafting method and Assistant Supervisor recruitment began.
  • Shen Yuanyi watched Sadako’s Death Video, tracked her to a well, destroyed her manifestations, and killed her after breaking her Domain Expansion.
  • Megumi Fushiguro fought Kinji Hakari, who agreed to return to Jujutsu High, as the Higher-ups presented three masked sorcerers as new Special Grades.
  • Shen Yuanyi and Okkotsu Yuta fought Yamata no Orochi at Mount Fuji, while Gojo Satoru went to Shibuya, killed Hanami, and was sealed by Geto Suguru.
  • Shen Yuanyi, Okkotsu Yuta, Itadori Yuji, and Maki fought Yamata no Orochi as it resurrected and copied their abilities, and Maki killed it once before it returned in her form.
  • Shen Yuanyi discovered Yamata no Orochi had copied Maki’s Heavenly Restriction, then saw it revive as Itadori Yuji while Geto Suguru and Mahito attacked the three masked fighters.
Chapters 76–100 Summaries Read
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