Chapter Summaries

Shen Yuanyi trained Gojo Satoru and the others in a fight to the death, using Ama no Habakiri and his water-like Cursed Energy to overwhelm them. Gojo eventually opened Infinite Void, but Shen Yuanyi killed him before the Domain could stop him, then promised not to let him die so ugly.

• Shen Yuanyi revealed Ama no Habakiri’s ability to sever manifested techniques and began the training by attacking Utahime.
• Gojo Satoru pulled Utahime clear with Blue, but Shen Yuanyi cut the technique apart and unleashed blade-filled currents of Cursed Energy.
• Shen Yuanyi relentlessly pursued Gojo while Geto Suguru, Mei Mei, Shoko, and Utahime attacked to create an opening.
• Shen Yuanyi killed Shoko, Mei Mei, Geto Suguru, and Utahime, giving Gojo time to activate Domain Expansion: Infinite Void.
• Shen Yuanyi cut Gojo’s throat and stabbed his abdomen despite the Domain, then said he would not let Gojo die so ugly.

Shen Yuanyi killed Gojo Satoru and the others after surviving Infinite Void, then revived them with Domain Reversal: Limitless. The sorcerers recovered from the experience of death, and Gojo Satoru asked to repeat it so he could reach the core of Cursed Energy.

• Gojo Satoru failed to master Reverse Cursed Technique as he neared death, still trusting Shen Yuanyi to save him.
• Shen Yuanyi resisted Gojo Satoru’s Infinite Void by processing its information through his Future Sight, then killed Gojo Satoru with a slash.
• Shen Yuanyi used Domain Reversal: Limitless to revive Ieiri Shoko and the others.
• Shen Yuanyi asked whether the sorcerers had gained insight into Cursed Energy or life and death.
• Gojo Satoru said he had nearly seen the core of Cursed Energy and urged Shen Yuanyi to repeat the experience.

Shen Yuanyi learned that Tsukumo Yuki had found Kenjaku living under the identity of Itadori Kaori, then realized the family might be connected to Yuji's origins. He and Tsukumo visited the Itadori home, where Yuji's grandfather recognized them as Jujutsu Sorcerers.

• Tsukumo Yuki told Shen Yuanyi that Kenjaku escaped after she hesitated to attack him in front of his family.
• Tsukumo described Kenjaku's household, and Shen Yuanyi reacted to learning that the husband was named Itadori Jin.
• Shen Yuanyi connected Kenjaku's past experiments with Yuji's unusual nature and decided to investigate the Itadori family.
• Shen Yuanyi and Tsukumo went to the Itadori home, where Jin angrily tried to turn them away.
• Itadori Wasuke let the visitors inside and identified them as Jujutsu Sorcerers.

Shen Yuanyi learned how Kenjaku had taken over Itadori Kaori’s body and checked that young Itadori Yuji was healthy. He then used his technique to return to the moment Tsukumo Yuki first confronted Kenjaku, leaving Kenjaku horrified by his sudden arrival.

• Itadori Wasuke explained that Kaori had died, returned to life, and given birth to Yuji, while Wasuke suspected the revived woman would harm his son.
• Shen Yuanyi told Itadori Wasuke that a mysterious Curse User had occupied Kaori’s body and offered to check Yuji for signs of harm.
• Shen Yuanyi and Tsukumo Yuki found Yuji healthy, gave Wasuke Shen Yuanyi’s contact information, and left the Itadori home.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that he could use his technique to return to the time Kenjaku escaped, then activated Domain Reversal: Limitless on the street.
• Shen Yuanyi arrived beside Tsukumo Yuki as she confronted Kenjaku, who reacted with horror at his appearance.

Tsukumo Yuki confronted Itadori Kaori, realizing she was Kenjaku, but Shen Yuanyi appeared before either could act. Kenjaku recognized Shen Yuanyi as the ancient god who had once ruled Japan and vanished, leaving him convinced that the god had returned.

• Tsukumo Yuki found Itadori Kaori with Itadori Jin and their child, and hesitated to attack while they were present.
• Kenjaku sensed Tsukumo Yuki was a Jujutsu Sorcerer and stirred his dormant Cursed Energy as he prepared to escape.
• Tsukumo Yuki recognized Kenjaku when he revealed his terrifying Cursed Energy.
• Shen Yuanyi appeared at the alley entrance, easing Tsukumo Yuki's burden and alarming Kenjaku.
• Kenjaku recognized Shen Yuanyi as the ancient god who had ruled Japan for centuries and believed that It had returned.

Shen Yuanyi realized Kenjaku remembered a version of him from another spacetime, leading him to reconsider how his power connected infinite timelines. When Kenjaku attempted to escape after Itadori Jin broke free of his time stop, Shen Yuanyi froze everyone again and approached with Ama no Habakiri.

• Shen Yuanyi froze Itadori Jin and little Itadori Yuji, then questioned Kenjaku about recognizing him.
• Kenjaku concluded that Shen Yuanyi might be a version from another point in time or spacetime, recalling the Heian Period and Shogunate Era.
• Shen Yuanyi inferred that this spacetime combined histories from separate timelines and considered how infinite versions of himself might converge.
• Shen Yuanyi thanked Kenjaku for helping him understand time and space, while Kenjaku looked for a way to escape.
• Itadori Jin broke free of Shen Yuanyi's time stop, and Kenjaku used gravity and Domain Amplification to flee.
• Shen Yuanyi activated Wheel of Time: Spin, Reverse, froze Kenjaku, Itadori Jin, and Tsukumo Yuki, then drew Ama no Habakiri and walked toward Kenjaku.

Shen Yuanyi defeated Kenjaku and left Itadori Jin to face the truth about Itadori Kaori. He then met Tengen, who recognized him as the ruler from the Heian Period and recalled the devastation of the Divine Lord Era.

• Shen Yuanyi destroyed Kenjaku's true body, and Itadori Jin collapsed beside Itadori Kaori while holding the crying child.
• Tsukumo Yuki questioned what Kenjaku's fear of Shen Yuanyi meant, but Shen Yuanyi said the matter was settled and left with her.
• Shen Yuanyi went to the Tombs of the Star Corridor and demanded that Tengen meet with him.
• Tengen appeared before Shen Yuanyi, recognized his familiar face, and addressed him as "My lord."
• Tengen recalled serving Shen Yuanyi in the Heian Period, the destruction wrought during the Divine Lord Era, and his decision to remain silent after Shen Yuanyi returned in the modern age.

Shen Yuanyi learned that his counterpart in this timeline had once ruled ruthlessly, and he told Tengen he had come to prevent future tragedies. As he considered the Jujutsu World's growing exposure to modern society, Gojo Satoru and his classmates were assigned to escort the Star Plasma Vessel to Tengen.

• Tengen told Shen Yuanyi that his past counterpart had slaughtered many people and used Jujutsu Sorcerers as fuel in an attempt to break through time and space.
• Shen Yuanyi warned Tengen that Kenjaku, Sukuna, curses, and humans could bring about future destruction, and Tengen agreed to follow his will.
• Shen Yuanyi considered how modern technology and political powers would make it increasingly difficult to hide jujutsu, and resolved to protect people across the world.
• At Tokyo Jujutsu High School, Gojo Satoru, Suguru Geto, and their classmates received the mission to escort the Star Plasma Vessel to Tengen for assimilation.

Shen Yuanyi learned that the Star Religious Cult had placed a bounty on Tenna Riko and commissioned Toji Fushiguro to kill the cult’s upper ranks after the escort mission. Gojo Satoru, Suguru Geto, and Ieiri Shoko began escorting Tenna Riko, unaware of how their strengthened abilities might change the incident.

• Koshigure explained that the Star Religious Cult had offered a bounty for Tenna Riko, and Toji Fushiguro said he had refused the job.
• Shen Yuanyi commissioned Toji to eliminate the Star Religious Cult’s upper ranks after Gojo Satoru and the others completed their mission.
• Shen Yuanyi asked Toji to send Megumi to him soon because Megumi’s technique was close to awakening.
• Gojo Satoru, Suguru Geto, and Ieiri Shoko traveled to escort Tenna Riko, questioning why all three had been assigned to the mission.
• Ieiri Shoko noted that Tenna Riko was expected to assimilate with Lord Tengen and disappear from the world.

Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru, and Ieiri Shoko rescued Tenna Riko from Curse Users and learned they had several days before her Assimilation Ritual. After Riko said goodbye to her friends, Gojo Satoru arranged a trip to Okinawa so she could enjoy the time before the ritual.

• Gojo Satoru and Ieiri Shoko defeated the Curse Users who attacked Tenna Riko, and Geto Suguru brought her safely to Kuroi Misato.
• Tenna Riko woke up and struck Geto Suguru before the group explained that they had rescued her and were escorting her to the Assimilation Ritual.
• Gojo Satoru found instructions to fulfill Tenna Riko’s wishes, and she insisted that becoming part of Tengen was not simply death.
• Tenna Riko visited her school to say goodbye to her friends while Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru, and Ieiri Shoko protected her from further Curse Users.
• Gojo Satoru proposed taking Tenna Riko and Kuroi Misato to Okinawa for a beach trip, and the group agreed.

After two carefree days at the beach, Gojo Satoru and Suguru Geto struggled with whether Tenna Riko should be sacrificed to protect countless others. On a flight back to Tokyo, hijackers threatened to detonate bombs unless Riko was handed over, forcing the sorcerers to face that choice directly.

• Gojo Satoru received Shen Yuanyi's message that the beach trip was over, and Kuroi Misato asked to accompany Tenna Riko on the final stretch.
• Gojo Satoru questioned Suguru Geto about the need for the Assimilation Ritual and posed a trolley problem about sacrificing one life to save many.
• Gojo Satoru and the others escorted Tenna Riko onto a flight to Tokyo, where they initially detected no threats.
• Armed hijackers seized the plane and revealed that they had placed three bombs aboard.
• The hijackers demanded Tenna Riko in exchange for the lives of the passengers, leaving Gojo Satoru and Suguru Geto facing the choice they had debated.

Gojo Satoru faced a bomb threat aboard a passenger plane and found a way to act after Ieiri Shoko revealed that Shen Yuanyi’s time technique had been inscribed on her Cursed Blade. He used the blade to remove two bombs from the plane, but the remaining threat was unresolved as time returned to normal.

• A Star Religious Cult bomber threatened to destroy the plane unless Gojo Satoru handed over Tenna Riko, while warning that footage of the standoff would be broadcast.
• Gojo Satoru considered his options and questioned why the cultists would sacrifice their fellow passengers for their beliefs.
• Ieiri Shoko told Gojo Satoru that Teacher Genichi’s technique was on her Cursed Blade, and Gojo realized it might let him act during accelerated time.
• Gojo Satoru signaled Geto Suguru, pretended to hand over Tenna Riko, and the Slit-Mouthed Woman immobilized the bomber.
• Gojo Satoru drew Dojigiri Yasutsuna, used its time technique to find two bombs, and threw them out through a hole he made with Red before the technique ended.

Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru stopped the terrorists and saved the passengers aboard the plane carrying Tenna Riko, then made an emergency landing. After Shen Yuanyi arrived and explained the time technique he had inscribed on Dojigiri, he asked Gojo how he truly intended to handle the mission.

• Gojo Satoru sealed the expanding hole in the plane with compressed debris and fought the remaining terrorists while Geto Suguru subdued the others.
• Geto Suguru and Shoko treated the injured passengers as the plane diverted for an emergency landing, and Gojo worried about the witnesses and possible recordings of jujutsu.
• Shen Yuanyi met Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru, Tenna Riko, and Kuroi Misato after they landed, reassuring Riko that she was safe.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that he had inscribed an incomplete time technique on Dojigiri and that activating it had damaged the blade slightly.
• At the safe house, Shen Yuanyi asked Gojo Satoru how he truly intended to handle the mission.

Gojo Satoru rejected sacrificing Tenna Riko for Tengen’s assimilation and, encouraged by Shen Yuanyi, prepared to discuss changing the plan with Suguru Geto and the others. Meanwhile, Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu reported that rumors about the plane incident were spreading, as Shen Yuanyi considered the growing conflict over whether jujutsu should eventually be revealed to the public.

• Gojo Satoru told Shen Yuanyi that sacrificing Tenna Riko would be an unacceptable compromise and said sorcerers should not give in to curses’ demands.
• Shen Yuanyi supported Gojo Satoru’s instincts and urged him to act according to what he believed was right; Gojo Satoru left to consult Suguru Geto and the others.
• Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu reported that passengers who witnessed the plane incident were difficult to influence and that suggestive rumors had appeared online.
• Shen Yuanyi told Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu to do their best, then considered how to guide the public toward jujutsu’s eventual disclosure and avoid panic.
• Shen Yuanyi recognized that revealing jujutsu had become a source of conflict between the Jujutsu World’s new and old factions.

Toji brought four-year-old Megumi Zenin to Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School to test whether he had inherited the Ten Shadows Technique. Megumi awakened it and summoned both Divine Dogs, leaving him eager to call forth more shikigami.

• Toji discussed testing Megumi's jujutsu technique with Ogata Yuzuki, who agreed to accompany them.
• Shen Yuanyi guided Megumi through a sealed-chamber ritual designed to reveal his technique.
• Megumi's shadow transformed into a wolfhound shape, confirming that he had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique.
• A Black Divine Dog emerged from Megumi's shadow, and Megumi happily played with it while Ogata Yuzuki watched in alarm.
• Shen Yuanyi taught Megumi a hand sign and the words to summon a Divine Dog, and Megumi called forth the other shikigami of the pair.

Toji and Shen Yuanyi arranged for Megumi Zenin, whose Ten Shadows Technique had awakened, to be fostered by the Gojo Family, and Gojo Satoru agreed. The news reached the Zenin Clan, where Naobito Zenin insisted that they reclaim Megumi and the powerful inherited technique.

• Toji decided Megumi should enter the Gojo Family rather than be raised in the Zenin Clan, and Shen Yuanyi contacted Gojo Satoru.
• The Higher-ups stopped challenging Gojo Satoru's decision to support Tenna Riko after Tengen confirmed the outcome was acceptable and prepared for possible consequences.
• Gojo Satoru examined Megumi with the Six Eyes, recognized the Ten Shadows Technique, and agreed to take him into the Gojo Family.
• The Gojo Family publicized Megumi's technique and his presence among them, shocking the Zenin Clan and the Jujutsu Higher-Ups.
• Naobito Zenin called a series of meetings and declared that the Zenin Clan had to bring Megumi and the Ten Shadows back.

Shen Yuanyi and Suguru Geto went to a remote village to exorcise a curse, where they discovered two children locked in a wooden cage. As Suguru Geto saw their eyes, the incident that had once led him to defect began to unfold differently.

• The Gojo Family kept Megumi Zenin with his parents, leaving the Zenin Clan unable to claim him.
• A year passed as Megumi began kindergarten and learned to control his shikigami under Shen Yuanyi's guidance.
• Shen Yuanyi accompanied Suguru Geto on a routine curse-exorcism mission to a remote village.
• Suguru Geto exorcised the village curse and sent his shikigami to search for any remaining traces.
• Suguru Geto followed his shikigami behind an abandoned shrine and found two children imprisoned in a wooden cage.

Suguru Geto rescued two children persecuted by their village and struggled with his anger toward the villagers. Shen Yuanyi proposed gradually revealing Jujutsu to ordinary people and making sorcery a normal profession, and Geto pledged to help build that future.

• Suguru Geto freed the two imprisoned children and angrily drove off the village chief.
• Shen Yuanyi asked Geto how the villagers should be dealt with, then explained that ordinary people feared and persecuted sorcerers because they feared their power.
• Shen Yuanyi proposed breaking down the barriers between sorcerers and ordinary people by gradually revealing Jujutsu and treating sorcery as a profession that protected the public.
• Shen Yuanyi suggested that public awareness of Jujutsu could increase the number of sorcerers and prevent children with Jujutsu potential from being overlooked.
• Suguru Geto accepted Shen Yuanyi's vision and vowed to devote all his strength to realizing it.

Suguru Geto and Shen Yuanyi rescued Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko from an abusive village, and Yaga Masamichi adopted the sisters after they were brought to Tokyo. Shen Yuanyi then began a broader effort to reshape the jujutsu world by founding New World, a media outlet that would gradually reveal jujutsu to ordinary people with the Higher-ups’ reluctant approval.

• Suguru Geto persuaded Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko to accept food and water while Shen Yuanyi assured him that the villagers would face judgment under the law.
• Assistant Supervisors and police arrived, arrested the villagers, and helped remove the frightened sisters from their cage.
• Shen Yuanyi arranged for Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko to be adopted by Yaga Masamichi, who had recently become vice principal.
• Shen Yuanyi reflected that changes to past events had altered Suguru Geto’s fate and reduced the danger to Haibara Yu and Fushiguro Tsumiki.
• Shen Yuanyi, Suguru Geto, and Gojo Satoru established New World to publish ordinary news alongside selected reports of genuine curse-related incidents.
• After negotiations with the Three Great Families and the Higher-ups, Shen Yuanyi’s group received approval to begin gradually revealing jujutsu to the public.

Shen Yuanyi found Okkotsu Yuta on his graduation day and offered him a choice between an ordinary life and entering the Jujutsu world; Yuta chose the Cursed Blade so he could protect Rika and his family. Later, Megumi finished training and met his new upperclassman, Okkotsu Yuta.

• Okkotsu Yuta and Orimoto Rika celebrated their graduation before recognizing Shen Yuanyi, who had saved them years earlier.
• Shen Yuanyi took Yuta and Rika to the riverbank and explained the Jujutsu world and Yuta's aptitude.
• Shen Yuanyi stopped the river and offered Yuta an ordinary life or a dangerous path in Jujutsu, and Yuta chose the Cursed Blade to gain power to protect his loved ones.
• Shen Yuanyi made Yuta's high school acceptance letter disappear and joked that he would have taken Yuta regardless of his choice.
• Megumi used Nue and his wolfdog Shikigami to destroy a curse during training.
• Shen Yuanyi arrived with Okkotsu Yuta and introduced him to Megumi as his upperclassman.