Chapter Summaries

Shen Yuanyi prepared to join the expedition against Shuten Doji, reflecting on the curse’s history and the Cursed Blades linked to its legend. As the group set out for Mount Oe, he revealed his time-based Cursed Technique to Igarashi Kai, who resolved to recruit him into the Fujiwara Clan.

• Shen Yuanyi considered whether Shuten Doji had inspired the legend of Mount Oe or had been created by it, and suspected Dojigiri and two related blades had changed through a shared ritual.
• Fujiwara Masanobu briefed the sorcerers on Shuten Doji’s curse army and distributed supplies from the major clans to the independent sorcerers.
• Shen Yuanyi selected two defensive Cursed Tools for Mizuno Shiina and decided to bring her to Mount Oe so she could witness a genuine calamity curse.
• The expedition prepared to depart on horses, and Igarashi Kai approached Shen Yuanyi to discuss their Cursed Techniques and potential cooperation.
• Shen Yuanyi demonstrated that he could reverse time on a strand of Mizuno Shiina’s hair, convincing Igarashi Kai of his immense power.
• Igarashi Kai decided to use the campaign against Shuten Doji to recruit Shen Yuanyi into the Fujiwara Clan.

The sorcerers entered Shuten Doji’s Innate Domain at Mount Oe and fought through a vast horde of curses, discovering that its aura let ordinary people see curses. Igarashi Kai led a smaller group toward the summit while the main force held a narrow pass, where they met a beautiful woman who said her lord had been waiting for them.

• The group reached Mount Oe, where Igarashi Kai explained that Shuten Doji’s Innate Domain covered the region and ordered the sorcerers to advance quickly.
• Shen Yuanyi and Igarashi Kai realized Mizuno Shiina could see curses because the domain’s dense cursed aura affected ordinary people.
• Curses swarmed the advancing sorcerers, and a hidden wolf-snake curse killed the first sorcerer on the mountainside.
• Igarashi Kai transformed through his shikigami fusion and used his ōdachi and Kamaitachi to clear a path through the horde.
• The sorcerers established a barrier at a narrow pass, and Igarashi Kai, Shen Yuanyi, and a smaller group continued toward the summit.
• A beautiful woman greeted the group and said her lord had been awaiting them.

Shen Yuanyi and the sorcerers followed Ibaraki Doji toward Shuten Doji while Shen Yuanyi investigated how the legendary demons and cursed blades were connected. Igarashi Kai revealed that the group had brought an unfinished cursed blade made by the Izumi Family, whose maker’s title was Yasutsuna.

• Igarashi Kai identified the beautiful woman as a Disaster Class cursed spirit, and his Kamaitachi’s slash failed to stop her rapid regeneration.
• Shen Yuanyi recognized the woman as Ibaraki Doji and suspected that Onikiri’s ability to suppress regeneration was meant to counter her.
• Shen Yuanyi asked Igarashi Kai what preparations the sorcerers had made to overcome Shuten Doji’s defenses.
• Igarashi Kai explained that the Izumi Family had forged an unfinished cursed blade for the operation and that its maker carried the title Yasutsuna.
• Igarashi Kai offered to show Shen Yuanyi the blade, warning him that its cursed binding was dangerous.

Shen Yuanyi’s group reached Shuten Doji’s palace on Mount Oe and confronted the demon king, whose pride in his horrific creations provoked Igarashi Kai to attack. Shuten retaliated by turning the palace itself into a weapon, and the battle began with the sorcerers facing a sudden surge of heat.

• Igarashi Kai explained that his Dojigiri-like Cursed Blade was a half-finished weapon bound to a vow that restricted its use to a designated target.
• Ibaraki Doji led Shen Yuanyi’s group past the elite cursed spirits and into Shuten Doji’s palace, where Igarashi Kai warned everyone to follow the plan.
• Shen Yuanyi asked Mizuno Shiina if she was afraid, and she said she wanted the power to protect people from curses; he took her hand and led her inside.
• The group saw human corpses used as wall lamps, and Shuten Doji appeared, boasting about crafting them.
• Igarashi Kai challenged Shuten Doji and attacked with Wrathflame Demon, while his shikigami Hear Not silenced Shuten’s roar.
• Shuten Doji declared that the sorcerers would become food for his subordinates, and the palace shook as crimson light and intense heat filled the hall.

Igarashi Kai fought Shuten Doji as the palace collapsed, but Shuten Doji transformed into a monstrous true form and revealed that his technique created and reshaped the world around them. He declared his technique to be the domain Mount Oe Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

• Shuten Doji's blood flames melted the palace and blocked the sorcerers' attacks, so Igarashi Kai ordered the others to escape the collapsing structure.
• Shuten Doji forged a spiked club from molten steel and hurled an iron ball at the fleeing sorcerers, but Igarashi Kai cut it apart and stayed behind to face him.
• Igarashi Kai fought Shuten Doji with his odachi and a Cursed Blade, slashing Shuten Doji's throat before the demon began transforming.
• Shuten Doji struck Igarashi Kai away and emerged in a towering, five-eyed oni form as Igarashi Kai questioned the nature of his technique.
• Shuten Doji revealed his technique, Demon God's Karma, could forge, reshape, and create things, including most of the Cursed Spirits on Mount Oe.
• Shuten Doji declared that everything around them was part of his technique and named his domain Mount Oe Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

Ibaraki Doji fought the coordinated Jujutsu Sorcerers while Shen Yuanyi watched, waiting for a chance to make Shuten Doji's defeat manifest the blade Dojigiri. The sorcerers shattered Ibaraki's body with their combined techniques, but her head remained alive and threatened them.

• Yiyuan attacked Ibaraki with sudden bursts of speed while the other sorcerers deployed techniques, and Ibaraki tried to target the tombstone sorcerer's technique.
• Ibaraki disrupted the sorcerers by unleashing enormous black blades from beneath the ground, revealing a giant Demon Spider that forced one sorcerer to summon an earthen giant to fight it.
• Shen Yuanyi told Mizuno Shiina that Ibaraki was only playing around and continued waiting rather than intervening against Shuten Doji.
• Yiyuan and Minamoto Sadahisa coordinated their techniques to unleash Jade Shatter, causing Ibaraki's body to burst apart.
• Ibaraki's severed head cursed the sorcerers for destroying her vessel as the scattered remains of her body began to change.

Ibaraki Doji survived the sorcerers’ explosions and rebuilt herself into a monstrous body, forcing them to combine their techniques against her. She expanded her domain, Bloodbone Thousand Banquet Festival, as the battle continued.

• Minamoto Sadahisa used Heavenly Thunder to blast Ibaraki Doji’s scattered flesh, but she survived and struck him with a tentacle.
• A sorcerer wielding web-like threads cut through Ibaraki’s tentacles and shielded Minamoto Sadahisa.
• Ibaraki Doji reshaped her flesh into a colossal monster and explained that her technique controlled all her own flesh and blood.
• The Puppet Master Sorcerer defeated the Demon Spider, then turned his earth-and-stone giant against Ibaraki.
• The Puppet Master Sorcerer turned his giant into a lava creature, but Ibaraki regenerated and formed a wheel of arms and eyes.
• Ibaraki Doji cast Domain Expansion: Bloodbone Thousand Banquet Festival.

Shen Yuanyi used Onikiri to dismember and kill Ibaraki Doji, shattering its Domain and proving the blade could suppress its regeneration. He then faced Shuten Doji and the Demonized Igarashi Kai, while the story revealed that they had wagered on whose subordinates would win.

• Ibaraki Doji expanded Bloodbone Thousand Banquet Festival, whose effect began tearing at the flesh of everyone inside.
• Minamoto Sadahisa expanded Myriad Transformations Inverse Mirror, but warned that Ibaraki Doji was winning the Domain clash, prompting the sorcerers to attack.
• Shen Yuanyi used Wheel of Time: Spin and Godspeed: Limitless to slash Ibaraki Doji repeatedly with Onikiri, scattering its body and collapsing its Domain.
• Ibaraki Doji recognized that Onikiri had suppressed its regeneration, but Shen Yuanyi finished it with a final strike and confirmed its exorcism.
• Shen Yuanyi turned toward Shuten Doji and the Demonized Igarashi Kai as Shuten accused him of killing his most capable subordinate.
• Earlier, Shuten Doji had proposed a wager with Igarashi Kai, and they had agreed to watch their subordinates fight, with the victor taking everything.

Igarashi Kai waited as Shen Yuanyi defeated Ibaraki, then learned that Shuten’s Ghost Domain concealed the source of his growing power. The battle began in earnest when Shuten revealed his Domain Expansion and turned the battlefield into a night parade of demons.

• Shuten made an iron-backed chair from molten metal and told Igarashi Kai that his allies were close to defeat.
• Igarashi Kai reflected on the Fujiwara Clan’s plans and resolved to kill Shuten despite the cost.
• The Domain barrier shattered, and Shen Yuanyi emerged unharmed after killing Ibaraki.
• Shuten transformed and attacked as Igarashi Kai and his allies coordinated their techniques against the blood flames.
• Shuten revealed the Ghost Domain’s true nature, summoned its cursed spirits, and activated Domain Expansion: Mount Oe Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

Shuten reclaimed the Cursed Spirits born from his technique, merging their power with his domain and overwhelming the sorcerers on Mount Oe. As Igarashi Kai struggled to hold him off, Shen Yuanyi decided to intervene and make Shuten's death beneath Dojigiri Yasutsuna the new course of history.

• Shuten's open domain merged with the Ooe Mountain Ghost Domain, allowing him to reclaim the Cursed Spirits created from his technique and gather their power into himself.
• Shuten sealed Ibaraki's remains in his wine gourd, then sent blood-flame demon heads at the group.
• Shuten struck the mustached man down with his club, and Minamoto Sadahisa and the puppeteer helped keep him alive.
• Igarashi Kai fought Shuten but fell behind as Shuten's strength and speed overwhelmed his demon body and Buddha's Eye.
• Shen Yuanyi realized the sorcerers were likely to lose as they had in the original course of events, and resolved to kill Shuten with Dojigiri Yasutsuna.

Shen Yuanyi took Igarashi Kai’s Cursed Blade and used it to wound Shuten, then tested a way to make the blade’s attacks carry his Time Acceleration technique. He killed Shuten with the enhanced slashes and left him wondering whether this was the first or second time Shen Yuanyi had killed him.

• Shen Yuanyi asked Igarashi Kai about the blade’s binding, then took the Cursed Blade as Shuten charged.
• Shen Yuanyi used the blade to shatter Shuten’s blood-flame defenses and badly dismember him, while the others fought off the summoned cursed spirits.
• Shuten compressed his defenses and unleashed moonlight that threatened to steal everyone’s Cursed Energy, then summoned another wave of curses.
• Shen Yuanyi entered his Timeless State and combined Rainfall with the blade’s slash so its strikes carried Time Acceleration.
• Shen Yuanyi cut through Shuten’s defenses, and Shuten’s body collapsed as the accelerated destruction took effect.
• Shen Yuanyi told the dying Shuten that he was much stronger now and wondered whether this was the first or second time he had killed him.

Shen Yuanyi exorcised Shuten Doji and named his transformed Cursed Blade Dojigiri Yasutsuna. By destroying the other Dojigiri without affecting his own, he confirmed that he was in a parallel world and renewed his resolve to find a way back to his original world.

• Shen Yuanyi killed Shuten Doji using Time Acceleration, confirming the King of a Hundred Demons of Mount Oe had been exorcised.
• Shuten's remains released a swarm of curses, and Igarashi Kai helped clear away the surviving cursed spirits.
• Shen Yuanyi examined his newly transformed blade, named it Dojigiri Yasutsuna, and realized it resembled the older Dojigiri Igarashi Kai had brought.
• Shen Yuanyi gave the new Dojigiri to Igarashi Kai and broke the older blade, which left his own Dojigiri unchanged.
• Shen Yuanyi concluded that the two blades came from parallel worlds and resolved to study jujutsu, find Kenjaku, and keep searching for a way home.

After Shen Yuanyi helped the Fujiwara Clan defeat Shuten Doji, he agreed to travel with Fujiwara Masanobu to Ise Grand Shrine, where shrine maiden Ninomiya Chika might know something about Kenjaku. The group set out with Mizuno Shiina, while Masanobu hoped to win Shen Yuanyi’s trust and support.

• Shen Yuanyi accepted Mizuno Shiina’s wish to become a Jujutsu Sorcerer and considered how he could protect her.
• Fujiwara Masanobu and Igarashi Kai discussed Shen Yuanyi’s power and agreed to treat him with great care while seeking to recruit him.
• Fujiwara Masanobu told Shen Yuanyi that Ninomiya Chika of Ise Grand Shrine might possess the clue about Kenjaku he sought.
• Shen Yuanyi agreed to accompany Fujiwara Masanobu to meet Ninomiya Chika, and Igarashi Kai and Mizuno Shiina joined their journey.
• During the carriage ride, Fujiwara Masanobu warned Shen Yuanyi that Ninomiya Chika was eccentric and difficult to approach, then learned why Shen Yuanyi was caring for Mizuno Shiina.

Shen Yuanyi and Fujiwara Masanobu visited Ise Grand Shrine to ask Ninomiya Chika about Kenjaku, but she denied having information and refused to comment. Convinced she knew more, Shen Yuanyi challenged her to a wager, threatening to kill her unless she revealed what she knew.

• A white-robed priest led Shen Yuanyi, Fujiwara Masanobu, Igarashi Kai, and Mizuno Shiina through the torii gate into Ise Grand Shrine’s hidden domain.
• Ninomiya Chika agreed to meet Shen Yuanyi and Fujiwara Masanobu, while the priest kept Igarashi Kai and Mizuno Shiina outside.
• Ninomiya Chika denied knowing about Kenjaku or the person with stitch marks on his head, then refused to comment when Fujiwara Masanobu pressed her.
• Shen Yuanyi accused Ninomiya Chika of knowing Kenjaku’s whereabouts and suggested Kenjaku had caused her a loss.
• Shen Yuanyi challenged Ninomiya Chika to a wager, saying she must reveal what she knew if he could kill her.

Ninomiya Chika attacked Shen Yuanyi with Ise Grand Shrine’s inherited solar technique, but he repeatedly cut through her defenses and discovered that her body could regenerate through its light. As the battle escalated and Ninomiya Chika’s immortality began to falter, she prepared to use Domain Expansion.

• Ninomiya Chika’s confrontation with Shen Yuanyi escalated, and Igarashi Kai escorted Fujiwara Masanobu away from the opposing pair.
• Ninomiya Chika activated Amaterasu Miyuki and unleashed a blinding, heat-filled attack that destroyed the hall.
• Shen Yuanyi vanished from Ninomiya Chika’s sight and cut through her Nichirin Omamori and body with Dojigiri.
• Ninomiya Chika’s wounds blazed with light as she survived the strike and unleashed a pillar of light that annihilated the hall.
• Ninomiya Chika attacked again with blades of sunlight, but Shen Yuanyi evaded her and repeatedly wounded her as she regenerated.
• Ninomiya Chika realized she could not keep regenerating indefinitely and began Domain Expansion.

Shen Yuanyi stopped time during his battle with Ninomiya Chika, killed her, and then reversed her death to avoid a clash with Ise Grand Shrine’s sorcerers. Chika honored their bet and agreed to discuss the matter with him privately, while keeping his abilities secret through a Cursed Vow.

• Ise Grand Shrine’s sorcerers, including Tamashiro Naru, saw Chika’s unfinished Domain Expansion frozen in midair and spotted Shen Yuanyi moving within the stopped time.
• Shen Yuanyi used Dojigiri to strike Chika while time was stopped, then released his technique and revealed that she had died.
• The shrine’s sorcerers confronted Shen Yuanyi, but he reversed time to bring Chika back to life before their attacks landed.
• Chika ended the confrontation and invited Shen Yuanyi to speak with her privately, agreeing to keep his abilities secret under a Cursed Vow.
• Someone asked whether Shen Yuanyi had stolen something from Chika.

Shen Yuanyi learned that Kenjaku had robbed Ise Grand Shrine and received a coastal-area clue to his whereabouts. After leaving with Fujiwara Masanobu and Mizuno Shiina, he unexpectedly encountered Kenjaku.

• Ninomiya Chika explained that Kenjaku had stolen precious jujutsu records from Ise Grand Shrine and nearly taken the Yata no Kagami.
• Ninomiya Chika offered Shen Yuanyi the stolen jujutsu as a gift if he captured Kenjaku and handed him over, then gave him a rough hiding place near the coast.
• After Shen Yuanyi left, Ninomiya Chika identified his cursed technique as control over time, and the shrine’s sorcerers feared what his recruitment by the Fujiwara Clan could mean.
• Fujiwara Masanobu resolved to use the Fujiwara Clan’s resources to find Kenjaku and secure Shen Yuanyi’s allegiance.
• Shen Yuanyi continued traveling with Fujiwara Masanobu and Mizuno Shiina, then unexpectedly encountered Kenjaku.

Shen Yuanyi's group found Kenjaku inhabiting a village girl, and Shen Yuanyi revealed that he had come from a thousand years in the future. Kenjaku agreed to help him study time-space travel, then asked whether Shen Yuanyi was prepared to become enemies with the entire world.

• Igarashi Kai learned that a village girl had changed after waking from a cliff fall and led Shen Yuanyi's group to her home.
• Shen Yuanyi recognized the stitch on the girl's forehead and identified Kenjaku, who revealed himself through her.
• Shen Yuanyi froze everything around them and told Kenjaku he had come from a thousand years in the future and wanted his help returning to his own era.
• Kenjaku agreed to cooperate, and Shen Yuanyi brought him to the Fujiwara Clan in Heian-kyō.
• After hearing about the future and discussing travel between parallel worlds, Kenjaku asked if Shen Yuanyi was ready to oppose the entire world.

Shen Yuanyi explained to Kenjaku why returning to his original world mattered more to him than forming new bonds, and agreed that they should pursue the resources needed to explore time. They joined the Fujiwara Clan and began gathering jujutsu knowledge, setting history on a new course.

• Shen Yuanyi told Kenjaku that the people and world of this era were not his original world, and that he would clear away any obstacles between himself and returning.
• Kenjaku proposed that they first study Shen Yuanyi's technique and seize control of the Jujutsu World to obtain resources for investigating time.
• Shen Yuanyi joined the Fujiwara Clan's faction, and the clan granted him and Kenjaku support and access to secret jujutsu.
• Kenjaku exchanged the jujutsu he had stolen from Ise Grand Shrine for secret techniques from the Fujiwara Clan.
• Shen Yuanyi moved into a Fujiwara Clan residence with Kenjaku, Sukuna, Mizuno Shiina, and the others, and began teaching Sukuna and Mizuno Shiina jujutsu.

Shen Yuanyi and Kenjaku investigated the conditions needed for time-space travel and decided to seek Tengen’s Barrier Technique expertise. Shen Yuanyi went to exterminate a pirate faction for the Fujiwara Clan, arriving as its leaders prepared to respond to the attack.

• Shen Yuanyi and Kenjaku concluded that Sukuna’s immense, altered Cursed Energy had combined with Shen Yuanyi’s reversed domain to enable time-space travel, and that Barrier Technique might help recreate the necessary conditions.
• Kenjaku agreed to research Barrier Technique and use the Fujiwara Clan’s influence to search for Tengen, while Shen Yuanyi accepted a mission to eliminate a powerful pirate faction.
• Shen Yuanyi left Kenjaku to teach Mizuno Shiina and traveled to the coast, where Fujiwara Masayuki provided the pirates’ location.
• Shen Yuanyi silenced Yamada Seiji with his presence, then vanished to attack the pirates alone.
• Otaki Ryuhei warned Moriwaki Shuichi that another force was coming to subdue them, and Moriwaki ordered him to notify their powerful sorcerer ally.