Chapter Summaries

Shen Yuanyi infiltrated the pirate fleet alone and used his Domain Expansion, Final Void, to erase Moriwaki Shuichi, the pirates, and several ships. Yamada Seiji watched Shen Yuanyi return through the waves, overwhelmed by the Fujiwara Clan’s power.

• Otaki Ryuhei watched a subordinate wither into a corpse and realized a dangerous intruder had reached the central ship.
• Moriwaki Shuichi confronted Shen Yuanyi on the deck while Otaki Ryuhei recognized that the intruder was attempting a decapitation strike.
• Shen Yuanyi expanded Final Void before Moriwaki Shuichi could escape with Five Elements Assimilation.
• Final Void erased Moriwaki Shuichi, the surrounding pirates and ships, and a large section of the ocean.
• Yamada Seiji watched Shen Yuanyi return and muttered about the Fujiwara Clan.

Shen Yuanyi returned to Heian-kyō and discussed barrier research, Tengen, and Sukuna with Kenjaku as the Fujiwara Clan prepared to seize power. He then served as the clan’s executioner, helping its month-long purge crush political resistance.

• Shen Yuanyi used Cursed Energy to return to shore, gave Fujiwara Masayuki instructions, and went back to Heian-kyō.
• Kenjaku reported progress on a barrier for gathering Cursed Energy but said the research was difficult and they had found no trace of Tengen.
• Shen Yuanyi and Kenjaku discussed the Fujiwara Clan’s coming political moves and Kenjaku’s instruction of Sukuna; Shen Yuanyi warned Kenjaku not to underestimate him.
• The Fujiwara Clan used a pretext to launch a bloody purge of its political enemies, while Shintoism and the Emperor were unable to stop it.
• Shen Yuanyi used the Wheel of Time to help the Fujiwara Clan crush resistance, and the purge continued for a month.

Shen Yuanyi’s Sun Division reached the Furude Clan, the last holdout in the Fujiwara Clan’s purge, and overwhelmed its defenders. After discovering Furude Tetsuya’s future-sight technique, Shen Yuanyi agreed to spare Tetsuya’s two young siblings, leaving the clan’s fate in his hands.

• Shen Yuanyi and the Sun Division confronted the Furude Clan after wiping out thirty-seven resisting factions without losses.
• Furude Tetsuya used Fleeting Eye to foresee that every attempt to resist Shen Yuanyi ended with his death.
• Shen Yuanyi sensed that Furude Tetsuya’s cursed technique involved time and asked him to explain it.
• Furude Tetsuya offered to cooperate and asked Shen Yuanyi to spare his younger brother and sister.
• Shen Yuanyi ordered Tetsuya’s companions killed but agreed to bring his siblings to him.

Ten years after the Fujiwara Clan took control of the country, Shen Yuanyi refined his Future Sight and continued researching time techniques and barriers with Kenjaku. After learning that their nationwide barrier experiment had shown promise and that there were leads on Tengen, Shen Yuanyi prepared to pursue him.

• Mizuno Shiina reported a breakthrough in the research and leads on the person Shen Yuanyi had been searching for.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that Future Sight let him accelerate his soul to glimpse seven to ten seconds into the future, and he demonstrated his improved ability to return briefly to the past.
• Shen Yuanyi and Mizuno Shiina returned to his estate, where researchers and Kenjaku were developing nationwide barriers and collecting Cursed Energy.
• Kenjaku reported that barriers across the country could gather dispersed Cursed Energy into a powerful reserve, though their plan still required further development.
• Shen Yuanyi asked about the leads on Tengen, and Kenjaku said they should find him because his abilities might help create the barrier.

Shen Yuanyi and Mizuno Shiina traveled to Mount Hiei to investigate a Barrier Technique master suspected of being Tengen. Shen Yuanyi confirmed her identity by killing her and witnessing her Immortality technique activate, then interrupted her revival.

• Shen Yuanyi and Mizuno Shiina met Master Saicho at Mount Hiei to ask about the Tiantai Sect’s Barrier Technique master.
• The woman arrived and told Shen Yuanyi that she did not know the effect of her Innate Technique.
• Shen Yuanyi stabbed the woman with a Cursed Blade to test whether she possessed Tengen’s Immortality technique.
• Mizuno Shiina restrained Master Saicho when he attacked Shen Yuanyi, and Shen Yuanyi held him in place with an unexplained force.
• The woman’s corpse began to revive through an abnormal Cursed Energy, and Shen Yuanyi used Wheel of Time: Reverse to interrupt Tengen’s technique.

Shen Yuanyi recruited Tengen to help with the nationwide barrier project and discussed a backup plan with Kenjaku to drain the power of jujutsu sorcerers and hasten the end of the current jujutsu era. He then turned his attention to the Path to Godhood, seeking to gain power and improve his chances of returning through worship and offerings.

• Shen Yuanyi explained his plan to Tengen, and she agreed to help protect ordinary people with barriers.
• Shen Yuanyi brought Tengen to his territory, where Kenjaku recognized that her Barrier Technique expertise could speed up their work.
• Kenjaku questioned whether Tengen would support the backup plan to drain jujutsu sorcerers' Cursed Energy, and Shen Yuanyi believed she would because she cared about ordinary people.
• Shen Yuanyi and Kenjaku decided to try their initial plan before revealing the backup plan to Tengen.
• Shen Yuanyi oversaw the Path to Godhood, which sought to generate Vow Power by having ordinary people worship him and make offerings.

Aoyagi Shunta put the selected children through a lethal final trial to recruit them into the Fujiwara Clan’s Sun Moon Star Advance Team, while Igarashi Kai confirmed that Lord Genichi would inspect the candidates. Troubled by his failed attempt to travel to another spacetime, Shen Yuanyi decided to attend the selection and clear his head.

• Aoyagi Shunta told the children they had to survive in a forest filled with Wound Class and Demon Class Cursed Spirits, with a chance to join the Moon Division and meet Lord Genichi if they killed a Demon Class curse.
• Aoyagi Shunta left the trial in the hands of his subordinates and reported the candidates to Igarashi Kai, who praised Number Three’s flying cursed technique and said Lord Genichi would inspect them.
• Shen Yuanyi used gathered Vow Power to strengthen his abilities, but his attempt to travel through spacetime only allowed him to move within the current spacetime.
• Shen Yuanyi considered carrying out his backup plan, then decided to attend the Fujiwara Clan’s final selection to clear his head.

Shen Yuanyi welcomed the surviving recruits, recognized Uro Sakurako among them, and learned that Sukuna had become a bloodthirsty sorcerer. In the underground laboratory, Kenjaku proposed a barrier plan to drain cursed energy across the country, and Tengen supported weakening jujutsu before they began the work.

• Shen Yuanyi reviewed the selection trial results and welcomed the recruits who would join the Sun Moon Star Advance Team.
• Shen Yuanyi identified Number 3 as the future Uro Sakurako after she demonstrated her ability to manipulate space, then assigned her and Number 1 to the Sun Division.
• Igarashi Kai gave Shen Yuanyi a report on Sukuna, who had grown powerful and slaughtered a bandit faction; Shen Yuanyi ordered his subordinates to issue a warrant and exorcise him if he committed crimes.
• Kenjaku told Shen Yuanyi that ordinary people’s leaked cursed energy could not support their experiment, so Shen Yuanyi directed him to use the backup plan.
• Kenjaku explained that the plan would use a nationwide barrier to gradually drain cursed energy and weaken jujutsu, and Tengen agreed that this could reduce violence and help maintain order.
• Kenjaku urged Shen Yuanyi and Tengen to begin the barrier project at once.

By 844 AD, Shen Yuanyi had spent decades strengthening his control over cursed techniques, building the nationwide barriers, and preparing to leave his time-space. At Tenshi Shrine, he received word that the “furnace” was ready and set out with Mizuno Shiina, beginning the next stage of his plan.

• Shen Yuanyi reflected on how history had changed since his arrival and how he had outlived the people around him.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that Vow Power was a curse that could erode a recipient’s will, and that Sukuna had rejected worship by turning believers against him.
• Shen Yuanyi continued developing his technique and All Realms One Place while preparing to use the era as fuel for travel to another time-space.
• Shintoist forces built Tenshi Shrine as Shen Yuanyi’s residence, where Mizuno Shiina continued serving as his attendant.
• A crow told Shen Yuanyi that the “furnace” had been forged, and he walked across the lake with Mizuno Shiina to begin his plan.

Shen Yuanyi and Kenjaku activated the barrier that would gradually drain Cursed Energy from Jujutsu Sorcerers, and Shen Yuanyi spared Kenjaku before they parted. Years later, Abe no Seimei traced the sorcerers’ decline to the barriers, and the powerful began preparing an operation against the “god.”

• Kenjaku activated the completed barrier and gave Shen Yuanyi its miniature core to protect.
• Shen Yuanyi chose not to kill Kenjaku, warned him to stay away from anyone named Fushiguro, and left with Mizuno Shiina.
• Tengen withdrew to wait for the turmoil to pass, while Kenjaku departed as the barrier sealed the underground hub.
• Over the following years, curses decreased, ordinary people’s lives improved, and Jujutsu Sorcerers gradually weakened.
• The Fujiwara Clan summoned Abe no Seimei, who identified human interference through the barriers as the likely cause of the decline.
• Abe no Seimei and the gathered leaders named their planned operation “Fallen God.”

Abe no Seimei investigated the barriers draining cursed energy and learned from an elder how a fearsome being had once overwhelmed the Jujutsu World. Meanwhile, Shen Yuanyi remained in seclusion with Mizuno Shiina until she died, then left the courtyard to face his future.

• Investigators confirmed that Shen Yuanyi's former residence remained protected by deadly defenses, while Abe no Seimei detected that Heian-kyō's barrier was channeling lost Cursed Energy somewhere.
• Abe no Seimei ordered barrier users to trace the barrier's origins and challenge the Jujutsu World elders who resisted investigating.
• An elderly sorcerer told Abe no Seimei that the Fujiwara Clan's ancient victory had come through a young, godlike being whose power had crushed their enemies.
• Shen Yuanyi stayed beside Mizuno Shiina, who refused his offer to extend her life and accepted that she would die naturally.
• Mizuno Shiina died peacefully, and Shen Yuanyi buried her in the courtyard as its plants surged through time.
• Shen Yuanyi left the courtyard, ending his long stillness and setting out toward his future.

Shen Yuanyi stole the Yata no Kagami from Ise Grand Shrine and the Heavenly Cloud Sword and Futsu-no-Mitama from the imperial palace, then used the sword to resurrect Yamata no Orochi. He left the Demon God to rampage through Heian-kyō as Abe no Seimei and the other sorcerers faced the disaster.

• Shen Yuanyi entered Ise Grand Shrine unseen, stopped time to bypass the main hall’s barrier, and took the Yata no Kagami.
• Shen Yuanyi infiltrated the imperial palace’s secret vault and took the Heavenly Cloud Sword and Futsu-no-Mitama, but found no Yasakani no Magatama.
• Shen Yuanyi thrust the Heavenly Cloud Sword into the ground, unleashing Yamata no Orochi, which destroyed the palace and overwhelmed the guards.
• Shen Yuanyi rebuked Yamata no Orochi, blasted four of its heads apart, then vanished and left it to attack the people rushing toward it.
• Abe no Seimei recognized Yamata no Orochi’s arrival as suspiciously timed and focused on stopping the Demon God as Heian-kyō panicked.

The sorcerers of Heian-kyō poisoned Yamata no Orochi and nearly exorcised it, but the Demon God revived from its corpse. After reinforcements joined the battle, its blood killed several sorcerers, leading Abe no Seimei to suspect it had taken the Poisonous Blood technique.

• Hayami saw Yamata no Orochi wreck Heian-kyō while the sorcerers struggled to damage its enormous body.
• A Taira Clan sorcerer used Poisonous Blood while another sorcerer duplicated it, allowing the fighters to coat weapons and wounds with poison.
• The poison slowed Yamata no Orochi, and the sorcerers eventually smashed its final head, but the Demon God revived from its own carcass.
• The Fujiwara Clan's representative deployed the Five Void Generals and members of the Sun Moon Star Advance Team as reinforcements arrived.
• Abe no Seimei watched Yamata no Orochi's blood melt nearby sorcerers and realized the Demon God might have taken the Poisonous Blood technique.

Yamata no Orochi revived with the poisonous blood technique that had killed it, forcing Abe no Seimei and the sorcerers to devise a way to counter its toxic domain without letting it gain another dangerous power. Seimei began suppressing the poison with water and summoned a Tengu to disperse the fog, while the Five Void Generals were ordered not to kill the serpent.

• Yamata no Orochi revived and spewed poisonous blood, filling the battlefield with toxic fog and gaining the technique that had killed it.
• Abe no Seimei arranged for the Five Void Generals to avoid killing Yamata no Orochi and organized the sorcerers to counter it.
• Seimei asked a Kamo Clan Blood Manipulation Sorcerer to help control the serpent's poisonous blood, then rode a bird shikigami into battle.
• Seimei summoned a water-controlling shikigami, which absorbed the poisonous blood and toxic fog and dropped the contaminated water into the earth.
• Seimei summoned a Tengu to disperse the poisonous fog and fight Yamata no Orochi without inflicting a fatal wound.

Abe no Seimei and the Jujutsu Sorcerers continued their staged exorcism of Yamata no Orochi, using carefully chosen executions and a thunder barrier to control which Cursed Techniques it gained. They completed the fifth kill, but the battle remained dangerous as the serpent revived with each new technique.

• A Jujutsu Sorcerer used the Eye of Suffocation to kill the dying Yamata no Orochi, which revived with both Poison Blood and Suffocation Cursed Techniques.
• The sorcerers fought Yamata no Orochi for a third time, while reinforcements gathered and Abe no Seimei assessed their mounting losses.
• The sorcerers established a Heavenly Thunder Barrier and drove lightning-attracting pillars into Yamata no Orochi to bombard it with summoned thunder.
• Igarashi Kai offered to kill one of Yamata no Orochi's remaining lives, and Abe no Seimei considered whether it would gain a shikigami's or its user's Cursed Technique.
• The thunder attack helped the sorcerers complete Yamata no Orochi's fourth kill, and they later used Domain Expansion to complete the fifth.

Igarashi Kai sacrificed his lifespan, soul, and shikigami to unleash a brief, overwhelming Demonization and attack Yamata no Orochi. After transforming into a monstrous Domain Expansion, he tore through the serpent from within, leaving it collapsed after the sixth kill.

• Igarashi Kai transformed into a six-armed demon by sacrificing his shikigami and all his remaining life and soul.
• He charged Yamata no Orochi, formed Bone Swords from his ribs, and cut off three of its heads while the other Jujutsu Sorcerers supported him.
• As his demon body grew and took on traits from his shikigami, Igarashi Kai fought through the serpent's attacks and resolved to die only after Yamata no Orochi.
• Igarashi Kai invoked Domain Expansion and mutated into a many-limbed monster that burrowed into Yamata no Orochi and tore apart its insides.
• Yamata no Orochi weakened and collapsed in a swamp of flesh and blood, completing the sixth kill.

Abe no Seimei and the Jujutsu Sorcerers fought Yamata no Orochi through another resurrection, using Domains, shikigami, and an explosive trap to kill it again. As light descended over the devastated battlefield, Seimei feared the real battle was only beginning.

• Igarashi Kai survived long enough to be handed over to the Fujiwara Clan, while Abe no Seimei and the sorcerers prepared to move Yamata no Orochi's remains.
• Yamata no Orochi revived as poisonous rain fell, forcing all but nine powerful sorcerers to withdraw and beginning another round of battle.
• The sorcerers overwhelmed Yamata no Orochi with successive Domains and attacks, killing it for the seventh time.
• Yamata no Orochi revived stronger, and Abe no Seimei summoned a winged tiger whose Body as Blade ability tore into it.
• A sorcerer detonated an explosive trap beneath Yamata no Orochi, and the remaining fighters killed it after a costly exchange.
• Abe no Seimei, having lost four shikigami, watched light descend and wondered if the real battle was about to begin.

Abe no Seimei and the sorcerers fought Yamata no Orochi, which had transformed into a being of light, until Shen Yuanyi appeared and killed it. Shen Yuanyi explained that his barriers would bring the age of jujutsu to an end, and Abe no Seimei rejected his claim that he was fate.

• Yamata no Orochi shattered a sorcerer's domain and attacked the gathered sorcerers with the Heavenly Cloud Sword.
• Abe no Seimei summoned Tamamo-no-Mae, who joined the battle against Yamata no Orochi.
• The sorcerers and Tamamo-no-Mae badly damaged Yamata no Orochi, though six Disaster Class sorcerers and twenty-three Calamity Class sorcerers died.
• Shen Yuanyi appeared, destroyed Yamata no Orochi from behind, and took the Heavenly Cloud Sword.
• Shen Yuanyi told Abe no Seimei that his barriers would weaken sorcerers and curses until the age of jujutsu ended.
• Abe no Seimei declared that he did not believe in fate, and Shen Yuanyi answered that he was Seimei's fate.

Shen Yuanyi explained how ordinary people’s negative emotions sustained jujutsu before defeating Abe no Seimei, Tamamo-no-Mae, and the sorcerers who came to help. He spared Seimei to deliver a challenge to every Jujutsu Sorcerer, giving them three days to gather and face him in Heian-kyō.

• Shen Yuanyi concluded that ordinary people’s accumulated negative emotions formed the foundation of jujutsu and that removing this foundation had caused the era’s decline.
• Abe no Seimei and Tamamo-no-Mae attacked Shen Yuanyi, but he used his technique to defeat them and killed the summoned Tengu.
• Seimei tried to use a final technique, but Shen Yuanyi’s power reset his actions; Shen then spared him and gave him the central hub of the barriers to destroy.
• Shen Yuanyi told Seimei to summon every Jujutsu Sorcerer for a final battle and gave them three days to meet him in Heian-kyō.
• Sorcerers who rushed to support Seimei were killed by Shen Yuanyi, who gained Cursed Energy from their deaths.

After Heian-kyō’s destruction, Abe no Seimei urged the Jujutsu World’s leaders to unite against the god who threatened them, and the Fujiwara Clan formed a Resistance Alliance. At the ruins, Ryomen Sukuna declared that he intended to meet the god and either kill him or die trying.

• Abe no Seimei warned the gathered sorcerers that they had to unite or face destruction, and Takahashi Tatsuo argued that they could not win.
• Fujiwara Kazumasa killed Takahashi Tatsuo and told the leaders to prepare for a decisive fight.
• Sorcerers from across the land traveled to Heian-kyō, saw its devastation, and many joined the Fujiwara Clan’s Resistance Alliance.
• Ryomen Sukuna visited the ruins with Uraume, who offered to prepare him a feast.
• Yorozu arrived and asked Sukuna what he would do about the god threatening the Jujutsu World.
• Sukuna said he wanted to meet the god and either bathe in its blood and rule everything or die in the fight.