Chapter Summaries

Shikokuzumi Ichi revealed his long-held wish to challenge the strongest sorcerers and asked Shen Yuanyi to accelerate his technique, even though the process would kill him. As Shikokuzumi Ichi confronted Sukuna, he turned his body and cursed energy into lightning, beginning a final gamble.

• Itadori Yuji and Okkotsu Yuta struck Sukuna with their Evil Severing Slashes, but Sukuna rewound his injuries with the Wheel of Time.
• Gojo Satoru expanded Infinite Void while Tsukumo Yuki and Shikokuzumi Ichi attacked Sukuna, who wounded them with Cleaves and his four arms.
• Shen Yuanyi arrived and told Tsukumo Yuki and Shikokuzumi Ichi to withdraw, but Shikokuzumi Ichi stayed to pursue his plan against Sukuna.
• Shikokuzumi Ichi explained that he had lived to witness and challenge the strongest sorcerers, and Shen Yuanyi accelerated his technique despite warning that he would die.
• Shikokuzumi Ichi’s past revealed how he transformed his dangerous lightning technique into lightning-like cursed energy and became known as the strongest of his era.
• Sukuna pierced Shikokuzumi Ichi’s chest with Futsu-no-Mitama as lightning poured from the wound, and Shikokuzumi Ichi began a Domain Expansion.

Shikokuzumi Ichi used Shen Yuanyi’s Wheel of Time to accelerate his self-destructive transformation and reached a blazing peak, then overwhelmed Sukuna with lightning-fast attacks. As the others escaped, Sukuna prepared to face Shen Yuanyi and seize the secrets of the Wheel of Time.

• Shikokuzumi Ichi expanded his first domain, wrapped himself in Domain Amplification, and continued using his technique despite the danger of collapse.
• Shen Yuanyi’s Wheel of Time accelerated Shikokuzumi Ichi’s release to 100 percent, transforming his body as he burned away toward certain death.
• Sukuna destroyed Mahoraga with Blaze Wither and Cleave: Boundless Void, while Megumi Fushiguro turned the shikigami into a shadow before it died.
• Shikokuzumi Ichi surpassed Sukuna’s speed and battered him with lightning attacks while Sukuna’s Wheel of Time rewound his injuries.
• Sukuna deduced that Shikokuzumi Ichi was buying time for the others to escape and prepared to confront Shen Yuanyi’s domain, hoping to learn the Wheel of Time.

Shikokuzumi Ichi fought Sukuna with a vast tide of lightning, ultimately unleashing a beast-shaped final attack that nearly destroyed them both. After Shikokuzumi Ichi struck Sukuna with a hidden blade and vanished, Shen Yuanyi activated Domain Expansion: Final Void, leaving Sukuna engulfed by its ultimate emptiness.

• Gojo Satoru and the others retreated while Shikokuzumi Ichi kept Sukuna occupied, and Gojo told Shen Yuanyi not to hold back.
• Sukuna used Cleave, Blaze Wither, and Blue to counter Shikokuzumi Ichi, then struck him with a close-range Red that destroyed both their bodies.
• Sukuna accelerated a combined assault of slashes and cursed flames, but Shikokuzumi Ichi gathered the remaining lightning into a gigantic beast that attacked him.
• Sukuna opened Domain Expansion: Fukuma Mizushi and destroyed the lightning beast, while the exchange left both fighters badly damaged.
• A nearly transparent blade emerged from the void and pierced Sukuna's chest as Shikokuzumi Ichi's last lightning hand scattered.
• Shen Yuanyi opened Domain Expansion: Final Void, and Sukuna found himself facing its chaotic hollow as his own Domain collapsed.

Shen Yuanyi’s Final Void erased Sukuna, while Gojo Satoru devised a way to transmit knowledge through Infinite Void. Gojo tested the new technique on Megumi Fushiguro, who received the insight he needed to learn an open domain.

• Sukuna tried to withstand Final Void with time reversal but was ultimately erased after praising the technique.
• Shen Yuanyi emerged from his dissipated domain as Gojo Satoru and the others recognized the exchange’s outcome.
• Gojo Satoru devised a plan to use Infinite Void to transmit knowledge that could help Shen Yuanyi learn an open domain.
• Gojo Satoru modified Infinite Void and chose Megumi Fushiguro to test the new technique because he could summon Mahoraga if needed.
• Gojo Satoru used Infinite Void: Heart Source Flow on Megumi Fushiguro, transmitting his knowledge and giving Megumi a moment of enlightenment.

Gojo Satoru transferred his jujutsu knowledge to Megumi Fushiguro and Shen Yuanyi, giving Shen the experience he needed to deploy an Open Domain. As Sukuna reached his final form and attacked, Shen Yuanyi opened Final Void to challenge him.

• Megumi Fushiguro recovered from Gojo Satoru's knowledge transfer and confirmed that it had worked.
• Gojo Satoru used Infinite Void: Heart Source Flow to transfer his jujutsu insights to Shen Yuanyi, who absorbed his Open Domain experience.
• Gojo Satoru left the final battle to Shen Yuanyi and told him to defeat Sukuna.
• Sukuna completed his fifth resurrection, reached his final form, and displayed power that Shen Yuanyi sensed had touched the realm of the gods.
• Sukuna attacked Shen Yuanyi, who dodged with his time technique and then deployed Domain Expansion: Final Void.

Sukuna revealed Heavenly Rock Cave, a technique that severed him from ordinary time and let him resist Shen Yuanyi’s Final Void. Shen Yuanyi dispelled his Domain and fought to survive while secretly trying to build an Open Domain, but Sukuna noticed and activated Fukuma Mizushi.

• Sukuna used the Wheel of Time to create Heavenly Rock Cave, an independent region of chaotic time that protected him from Final Void.
• Shen Yuanyi ended Final Void, repaired his Cursed Technique Burnout, and resumed fighting Sukuna, but his Cursed Blades Dojigiri and Onikiri broke during the clash.
• Shen Yuanyi used Time Rain to conceal his effort to comprehend and construct an Open Domain while fighting Sukuna.
• Sukuna recognized Shen Yuanyi’s distraction and activated Domain Expansion: Fukuma Mizushi.

Shen Yuanyi used an Open Domain to reverse time within Rainfall and then transformed it into Final Void, gaining control of its destructive power. Sukuna answered with Avici, a slash that existed beyond time, which wounded Shen Yuanyi and let Sukuna attack despite Heavenly Rock Cave.

• Shen Yuanyi reversed time throughout Rainfall, using his Open Domain to draw on reality as support while pushing his technique beyond its limits.
• Sukuna recognized Shen Yuanyi’s attempt to reverse time and used Open, Blaze Wither to send flames into Rainfall and threaten his construction.
• Shen Yuanyi stopped the time reversal and completed Domain Expansion: Final Void, erasing Sukuna’s flames and controlling the domain’s destructive force.
• Sukuna used Heavenly Rock Cave to withstand Final Void, then formed a hand sign and unleashed Avici, a slash that escaped time.
• Avici emerged inside Final Void and split Shen Yuanyi’s body, inflicting damage and allowing Sukuna to attack through Heavenly Rock Cave.

Shen Yuanyi expanded Final Void while hiding in the Time Turbulence, using the battle to pursue a higher level of technique mastery as Sukuna struggled to understand his plan. As the Domain threatened to consume Tokyo, the watching sorcerers prepared to keep outside forces away, while Itadori accepted that defeating Sukuna might cost his life.

• Shen Yuanyi slipped into the Time Turbulence, breaking Sukuna's Infinite Severance lock and preparing his next attack.
• Shen Yuanyi caused Final Void's boundary to blur and expand, while its destructive power threatened to consume the Tokyo Barrier.
• Sukuna realized Shen Yuanyi might be using the fight to comprehend a higher application of Time Reversal, but feared the Domain could destroy Tokyo first.
• Gakuganji Yoshinobu reported that the National Diet had raised concerns, and Yaga Masamichi ordered the sorcerers to prevent outside forces from interfering.
• Gojo Satoru reassured Itadori and the others as Final Void spread, while Itadori recalled agreeing to serve as a trump card against Sukuna despite the risk of death.
• Itadori told Gojo Satoru he would send Sukuna to hell, even if doing so cost him his life.

Gojo Satoru realized Shen Yuanyi had mastered an Open Domain and was attempting a large-scale Time Reversal to strip Sukuna of Yamata no Orochi’s power. As Gojo waited for the right moment to intervene, Shen Yuanyi committed to pushing his technique beyond its limits, risking his life and the surrounding city to secure victory.

• Megumi Fushiguro worried that Shen Yuanyi was losing control, and Gojo Satoru guessed he was attempting to reverse time by hours or a day.
• Gojo Satoru explained that Sukuna’s mastery of the same technique could make Time Reversal difficult to use, so the others would need to intervene at the decisive moment.
• Gojo Satoru reflected on the ancient pursuit of godhood, which Kenjaku, Sukuna, and Sugawara no Michizane had been connected to.
• Shen Yuanyi confirmed that his Open Domain was complete and considered using Time Reversal to send Sukuna back to before he gained Yamata no Orochi’s power.
• Shen Yuanyi accepted the risk of death and focused on reaching beyond the limits of his cursed technique.

Shen Yuanyi attempted to reverse his Final Void into a domain that could rewind Sukuna to before he gained Yamata no Orochi’s power, while Itadori Yuji and Gojo Satoru used their prepared soul-exchange plan to leave Sukuna defenseless. As Itadori’s body began to fail and his soul connection weakened, Shen Yuanyi completed the domain’s reversal and unleashed its unknown effect.

• Shen Yuanyi raised a Cursed Energy signal to alert Gojo Satoru that they were beginning their final plan.
• Shen Yuanyi tried to construct a reversed version of Final Void that could push his time-reversal technique beyond its usual limits.
• Sukuna recognized Shen Yuanyi’s plan, summoned Mahoraga, and used Domain Composite: Karmic Flame Subjugation to attack the black vortex.
• Itadori Yuji and Gojo Satoru arrived, and Itadori used his soul-exchange ability to switch places with Sukuna, leaving Sukuna trapped in Itadori’s body.
• Sukuna attacked Itadori’s body from within as Itadori accepted the risk of dying to expose Sukuna to Shen Yuanyi’s attack.
• Shen Yuanyi completed Domain Expansion: Final Void: Reverse and invoked Limitless as white light poured from the vortex.

Shen Yuanyi’s domain rewound everything within its range, undoing Sukuna’s acquisition of Yamata no Orochi’s power and leaving him unable to reclaim it. Sukuna attacked after the reversal ended, but Shen Yuanyi destroyed him with Final Void.

• Time Reversal restored the battlefield and brought Megumi Fushiguro, Gojo Satoru, and the others back, while also restoring Shikokuzumi Ichi after his death had been overwritten.
• Gojo Satoru realized the reversal was resetting everything within Shen Yuanyi’s domain and feared that something had gone wrong with Yuanyi.
• Time reached the moment before Sukuna obtained Yamata no Orochi’s power, and Sukuna reappeared without it because the barriers needed to regain it had already been destroyed.
• Sukuna ignored the consequences, ignited his karmic flames, and prepared to unleash Fukuma Mizushi against Shen Yuanyi and the others.
• Shen Yuanyi used Final Void to swallow Sukuna, and the others declared that they had succeeded.

Shen Yuanyi lost control of Final Void and fell into a timeless slumber, only to awaken in the Heian period. After killing a shikigami and confronting a frightened rider, he learned that it was the eighth year of Heian.

• Shen Yuanyi's Domain spiraled out of control, separating his time from reality and pulling him into a disordered void.
• After an unknown span, Shen Yuanyi awoke by a road, where an old man and a child found him and tried to protect him from desperate refugees.
• Riders arrived and slaughtered people who fled, then ordered everyone under twenty to remain.
• A rider's shikigami seized Shen Yuanyi, but he awakened enough to destroy a Cursed Spirit and ask what time it was.
• The rider told Shen Yuanyi that it was the eighth year of Heian, eight years after the Emperor moved the capital to Heian-kyō.

Shen Yuanyi realized he had arrived in the Heian Period, a thousand years before his remembered time, and questioned a sorcerer about the Jujutsu World. After killing the sorcerer and his followers, he learned that Heian-kyō was nearby and set off with the surviving refugees toward a village called Demon Village.

• Shen Yuanyi understood that the Heian Period lay a thousand years before his remembered time and considered how his sorcery might have brought him there.
• Shen Yuanyi questioned a sorcerer about the Jujutsu World and learned that the Fujiwara Clan and its forces were prominent.
• Shen Yuanyi killed the sorcerer and used his acceleration sorcery to kill the sorcerer's fleeing attendants.
• Shen Yuanyi questioned an old refugee, learned that Heian-kyō was nearby, and decided to travel with the refugees toward their planned destination.
• The old man told Shen Yuanyi that a nearby village where they could rest was called Demon Village.

Shen Yuanyi learned from Mizuno Yoshihiko about the sorcerers, demons, and dangers of the Heian era as they traveled to Demon Village. After seeing its curse-afflicted inhabitants, he prepared to stay there and wait for the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

• Shen Yuanyi questioned Mizuno Yoshihiko about sorcerers, the refugees, and Demon Village, learning that Mizuno Shiina was his granddaughter and that demons had driven many survivors from their homes.
• Mizuno Yoshihiko explained that Demon Village sheltered people harmed by demons and abandoned cursed children, and warned that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons made nighttime travel dangerous.
• Shen Yuanyi suspected that widespread fear and belief had turned the Night Parade into a real curse that made demons more active at night.
• Shen Yuanyi saw that many villagers had severe deformities and deduced that low-level curses had eroded them over time without sorcerers intervening.
• Shen Yuanyi accepted the crude shelter, helped reinforce it, and waited for nightfall.

Shen Yuanyi killed a horde of Cursed Spirits near the village and returned to find a noble household abandoning a malformed child. Recognizing the child’s four arms and four eyes, Shen Yuanyi confronted the nobleman and learned the child had no name, then called him Sukuna.

• Shen Yuanyi left the village at night and killed a Cursed Spirit with Dojigiri Yasutsuna, drawing many more curses to him.
• Shen Yuanyi used Wheel of Time: Spin to slaughter the gathered Cursed Spirits, concealed the traces, and returned to the village.
• The next day, Shen Yuanyi and Mizuno Yoshihiko saw a noble household arrive to abandon a Cursed Child, bringing food as an offering to the village.
• When the servants revealed the child in an iron cage, Shen Yuanyi recognized his four arms and four eyes and attacked the nobleman’s armed men.
• Shen Yuanyi held Kumo-kiri to the nobleman’s throat and learned the child had no name, then called him Sukuna.

Shen Yuanyi questioned whether the abandoned Cursed Child was the young Sukuna and feared that traveling to the past had overwritten the future he cherished. After hearing the child’s origins and witnessing his Karmic Fire, Shen Yuanyi decided to keep Sukuna alive, seek Kenjaku, and continue to Heian-kyō while he investigated the timeline.

• Shen Yuanyi considered whether meeting Sukuna in the past meant his future had been overwritten or that he had entered a parallel world.
• Shen Yuanyi questioned the noble about the Cursed Child and learned that the child was one of twins, born with four arms and four eyes and abandoned for his monstrous nature.
• The noble explained that the child could devour living flesh and had been left to die because his family feared him.
• The Cursed Child’s Karmic Fire melted the iron cage, and Shen Yuanyi recognized him as Sukuna.
• Shen Yuanyi resolved to keep Sukuna alive, find Kenjaku, preserve the general course of history, and head to Heian-kyō.

Shen Yuanyi spared the servants and noble, kept the unnamed Sukuna with him, and decided to take him to Heian-kyō to find Kenjaku. Before leaving, he agreed to take Mizuno Yoshihiko’s granddaughter with him, granting the old man’s final request.

• Shen Yuanyi chose to preserve the status quo, let the noble go, and kept Sukuna under his watch.
• Shen Yuanyi observed Sukuna’s inhuman nature and told him to follow to Heian-kyō to find Kenjaku.
• Shen Yuanyi said goodbye to Mizuno Yoshihiko and prepared to leave without him and his granddaughter.
• Mizuno Yoshihiko asked Shen Yuanyi to take his granddaughter somewhere she could live safely, and Shen Yuanyi accepted.
• Mizuno Yoshihiko’s granddaughter tearfully held onto him as they faced their coming separation.

Shen Yuanyi arrived at Heian-kyō with Mizuno Shiina and Sukuna, intending to contact the jujutsu leadership and noticing the city’s powerful barrier. After seeing a returning squad of sorcerers flee past him, he considered using their apparent crisis to gain influence.

• Shen Yuanyi drove toward Heian-kyō with Mizuno Shiina beside him and Sukuna in the carriage, after taking a small share of bandit loot to cover their expenses.
• Shen Yuanyi considered how to approach the jujutsu leadership and recognized that Heian-kyō was protected by an immense barrier, which made him think of Tengen and Kenjaku.
• Shen Yuanyi and his companions completed the entry inspection, while the city’s sorcerers agreed to monitor them lightly.
• A group of sorcerers rode into the city on nearly identical Cursed Spirits, which Shen Yuanyi recognized as unusually powerful and unrelated to their riders.
• Nakabayashi Tōmi sensed a fatal warning when he met Shen Yuanyi’s gaze, but hurried into the city with the other survivors to report a dangerous mission.
• Shen Yuanyi watched the shaken squad depart and decided their trouble might give him a chance to demonstrate his strength and gain authority.

Shen Yuanyi negotiated with Fujiwara Masanobu to help defeat a dangerous nest of curses in exchange for the Fujiwara Clan’s help finding Kenjaku. After Shen Yuanyi demonstrated how easily he could take an ornament from Masanobu, Igarashi Kai warned that he could not protect Masanobu if a fight broke out.

• Fujiwara Clan representatives invited Shen Yuanyi to join a Demon Hunting Order against a dangerous gathering of curses near Heian-kyō.
• Fujiwara Masanobu explained that two investigative teams had suffered heavy losses and introduced Igarashi Kai, commander-in-chief of the Sun Moon Star Advance Team.
• Shen Yuanyi agreed to help subjugate the curses if the Fujiwara Clan searched for Kenjaku, whom he described by the stitch marks on his head.
• Shen Yuanyi demonstrated his power by taking an ornament from Masanobu without Igarashi Kai noticing, then asked the Fujiwara Clan to arrange rooms for his group.
• After Shen Yuanyi left, Igarashi Kai told Masanobu that he had little confidence in protecting him from Shen Yuanyi in a fight.

Shen Yuanyi attended the Fujiwara Clan’s farewell banquet before the demon-slaying expedition, where he killed a sorcerer who threatened Mizuno Shiina. Fujiwara Masanobu revealed that the expedition’s main target was Shuten Doji, the King of a Hundred Demons of Mount Oe.

• The Fujiwara Clan gathered allied sorcerers and freelance Jujutsu Sorcerers for a banquet before the expedition and prepared to share information about the cursed land.
• Shen Yuanyi considered his search for Kenjaku and his plans to return, while Mizuno Shiina enjoyed the banquet food.
• A middle-aged sorcerer insulted Shen Yuanyi and threatened to feed Mizuno Shiina to his shikigami, so Shen Yuanyi killed him and the shikigami.
• Igarashi Kai arranged for the scene to be cleaned, and the other sorcerers continued the banquet without challenging Shen Yuanyi.
• Fujiwara Masanobu announced that the expedition would deal with the cursed spirits and target their leader, Shuten Doji of Mount Oe in Tanba Province.