Chapter Summaries

Kenjaku offered Jujutsu High the truth about Shen Yuanyi’s past, hoping to turn his companions against him, while Japan reeled from the Imperial Palace’s destruction and related upheaval. Gojo Satoru confirmed to Geto Suguru that Genichi had destroyed the palace to overturn the old order before a looming future arrived.

• Kenjaku told Yaga Masamichi and the others that he would reveal Shen Yuanyi’s past, and Jujutsu High accepted his offer.
• The Imperial Palace’s fall, high-profile assassinations, and Tsushima City’s occupation spread panic and speculation across Japan.
• Geto Suguru went to the Gojo Family and demanded answers from Gojo Satoru about the Imperial Palace’s destruction.
• Gojo Satoru confirmed Genichi was responsible and said he was trying to destroy the rotten old order because there was not enough time.

Itadori Yuji, Megumi Zenin, and Nobara Kugisaki searched for their missing teachers and Okkotsu Yuta, while Itadori revealed Sukuna’s warning about the world’s coming collapse. Megumi found Orimoto Rika and used a photo of her and Yuta to earn her trust so they could contact him.

• Itadori Yuji failed to find answers at school, and Megumi Zenin said Gojo-sensei and the other teachers could not be reached.
• Nobara Kugisaki argued that they should leave the dangerous problem to adults, but Megumi said he knew a way to find Okkotsu-senpai.
• Itadori Yuji revealed that Sukuna had confirmed the danger through a binding vow and wanted the world to return to the Heian Period.
• Megumi Zenin led Itadori Yuji and Nobara Kugisaki to find Orimoto Rika, hoping she could help them contact Okkotsu Yuta.
• Megumi showed Rika a photo with Yuta that included the unique bracelet she had made, earning her initial trust.

Megumi Zenin, Itadori, and Kugisaki found Gojo Satoru and learned that Shen Yuanyi planned to force a transformation of Japan by making himself the common enemy of sorcerers and ordinary people. Gojo agreed to let them join the coming battle, but said they would need to reach near special-grade strength first.

• Rika helped Megumi Zenin, Itadori, and Kugisaki contact Okkotsu Yuta, who agreed to take them to Gojo Satoru.
• On the way to Gojo's hideout, Itadori told Megumi and Kugisaki what Sukuna had revealed about the threat behind the upheaval.
• The three reached Gojo's mountain hideout and demanded to know what was happening with Teacher Genichi and how the adults planned to handle it.
• Gojo explained that Shen Yuanyi intended to make himself the enemy of both sorcerers and ordinary people, create a disaster, and dismantle Japan's existing national and social divisions.
• Itadori asked to join the coming battle, and Gojo decided to let him, Megumi, and Kugisaki participate if they could rapidly strengthen their abilities.

Gojo Satoru negotiated with Sukuna to help train Itadori in exchange for a chance at freedom, while Japan’s political order fractured amid the Imperial Palace’s destruction and public accusations against Jujutsu Sorcerers. Uro Sakurako reported that her faction had begun provoking the White Eagle Nation as its master prepared to reveal jujutsu’s power to the world.

• Sukuna admitted he intended to fight Shen Yuanyi again, and Gojo Satoru proposed that he train Itadori in exchange for a chance to regain his freedom and obtain a body.
• Gojo Satoru said he knew someone who could separate Sukuna from Itadori and find him a suitable vessel.
• Japan’s upper ranks blamed Jujutsu Sorcerers for the assassinations, the Imperial Palace’s destruction, and the Emperor’s disappearance, worsening distrust and public hostility.
• A fanatic broadcast footage of the Imperial Palace raid and declared that the Emperor had been executed, intensifying the political crisis.
• Uro Sakurako told her master that their people had begun provoking the White Eagle Nation, and her master ordered the plan to begin.

Ancient Jujutsu Sorcerers led by Hasegawa Akira entered White Eagle to demonstrate jujutsu’s destructive power and provoke a crisis that could justify nuclear weapons being used. At a presidential campaign event, Kitagawa Hideo revealed his technique by killing a heckler and deflecting gunfire, leaving the panicked crowd facing an apparently unstoppable attacker.

• Hasegawa Akira and the reborn Jujutsu Sorcerers planned to cause destruction in White Eagle and split into three teams to pursue separate objectives.
• Kitagawa Hideo flew into a presidential campaign rally and claimed to be God’s messenger, while the candidate and security staff initially wondered whether the spectacle was staged.
• After a man in the crowd insulted him and his God, Kitagawa Hideo used Air-Severing Serpent to drag the heckler into the air and kill him.
• The crowd fled as security personnel fired at Kitagawa Hideo, but his airflow technique deflected their bullets.

Kitagawa Hideo massacred security personnel and targeted presidential candidate Evans, while footage of his supernatural powers spread online and shattered public confidence. Attacks on White Eagle’s leaders and the Pentagon triggered a nationwide wartime emergency, and the world learned about jujutsu.

• Kitagawa Hideo stopped the security personnel’s bullets, then lifted and crushed dozens of them with his air currents as spectators fled.
• Footage of Kitagawa Hideo’s attack and his declaration that only his master was a god spread across the internet, prompting outrage and religious doubt.
• White Eagle declared a nationwide wartime emergency after attacks killed Evans and struck the nation’s leader’s residence and workplace and the Pentagon.
• White Eagle’s leaders identified jujutsu as the attackers’ method, while Japan’s remaining leaders feared the attackers’ East Asian appearance would implicate their country.
• The jujutsu crisis spread worldwide.

A video of the massacre by Hasegawa Akira and the other ancient Jujutsu Sorcerers spread, while White Eagle and the Eastern Nation prepared for the conflict to come. Hasegawa Akira told his allies that the Lord’s plan was nearing its final stage and that they would soon die fighting the sorcerers White Eagle sought from the Eastern Nation.

• A recording of an airborne figure slaughtering White Eagle troops circulated online, and the Eastern Nation allowed an edited version to spread as it prepared to redevelop its jujutsu power.
• White Eagle descended into political infighting and propaganda after its forces were wiped out, then met secretly with the Eastern Nation and emerged with an apparently satisfactory agreement.
• Uro Sakurako declared that the ancient Jujutsu Sorcerers occupying the Imperial Palace would reclaim Japan and establish an ideal land for jujutsu, while Gojo Satoru vowed to stop them.
• White Eagle gained a justification to wage war against the Jujutsu Sorcerers in Japan, while Hasegawa Akira and his allies waited for the planned operation to begin.
• Hasegawa Akira told the assembled sorcerers that the Lord predicted they would die fighting the Eastern Nation’s sorcerers, and they accepted their fate.

A group of Eastern Nation Seekers of the Way flew to White Eagle to help eliminate Japanese supernatural terrorists, while discussing Shen Yuanyi, a mysterious practitioner of the Cosmic Light Great Way. Their master left the operation to his senior disciples and warned the younger ones that they would face consequences if the mission failed.

• Tang Yang asked Bai Ni whether rumors about a Japanese practitioner mastering the Cosmic Light Great Way were true, and their eldest martial brother confirmed Shen Yuanyi's power was more than rumor.
• The eldest martial brother recalled intelligence describing Shen Yuanyi as a mysterious figure who had taught the current Gojo Family head and practiced the power of time.
• Their master praised Bai Ni's resolve and said Shen Yuanyi's abilities were difficult even for the Eastern Nation's experts to assess.
• Their master told his disciples that he would not take part in the operation and ordered them to eliminate the supernatural criminals in White Eagle.
• Tang Yang and Bai Ni argued about whether they might someday witness Shen Yuanyi's power as the group began its journey to White Eagle.

Tang Yang and his senior disciples defeated the Japanese sorcerers in White Eagle, where Kitagawa Hideo revealed that their Divine Lord had foreseen the battle and their deaths. White Eagle then blamed Japan for the infiltration and threatened military retaliation, turning the battle into a test of whether conventional weapons could still secure its power.

• Eldest Senior Brother and Eldest Senior Sister led the fight that wiped out the Japanese sorcerers, while Bai Ni and Tang Yang provided support.
• Kitagawa Hideo told Eldest Senior Brother that the Divine Lord had predicted their deaths and their arrival in White Eagle.
• Tang Yang suggested that the Divine Lord might see the future through Cosmic Light, and the old master warned his disciples not to let the possibility shake their Dao hearts.
• The old master resolved to discuss the Divine Lord and the possible purpose behind Japan's scheme with the leaders and elders back home.
• White Eagle announced that its infiltrators had been eliminated, condemned Japan's supernatural terrorists, and threatened military strikes against anyone who sheltered them.

As Japan descended into political chaos and White Eagle threatened war, Gojo Satoru worried about the cost of Shen Yuanyi’s plan and waited for events to unfold. Megumi Zenin attempted to subjugate Mahoraga again and emerged victorious, though he collapsed from exhaustion.

• Japanese officials fled or resigned as public opinion split over the Divine Lord and the threat of White Eagle.
• Okkotsu Yuta urged Gojo Satoru to act, while Gojo worried that war could cost countless ordinary lives.
• Megumi Zenin began another Mahoraga subjugation ritual without Gojo Satoru and Okkotsu Yuta present.
• Gojo Satoru and Okkotsu Yuta reached the Training Ground, but let the ritual continue after Itadori and Kugisaki explained what had happened.
• Megumi Zenin used Domain Expansion: Concealment of the Dark, and when the domain collapsed, neither Mahoraga nor Ten Shadows: Dragon remained.
• Megumi Zenin smiled at the others, then lost consciousness after exhausting his Cursed Energy and strength.

As White Eagle’s fleet prepared to invade Japan, Japan’s Jujutsu Sorcerers debated how to resist and learned that Gojo Satoru was training for a final battle against Shen Yuanyi’s side. Shen Yuanyi and Uro Sakurako confronted the approaching fleet, and Shen Yuanyi prepared to test his rapidly growing Jujutsu power.

• People around the world watched White Eagle’s losses from Jujutsu attacks and considered how supernatural powers could affect global military power.
• Japan’s remaining leaders, now largely Jujutsu Sorcerers, decided they had to stop White Eagle’s operation rather than surrender.
• Geto Suguru said he could deploy Cursed Spirits but needed Genichi’s side to act as well, and he revealed that Gojo Satoru was training to face Shen Yuanyi’s side.
• White Eagle’s fleet approached Japan and prepared to bombard anyone who resisted its advance toward Tokyo.
• Shen Yuanyi and Uro Sakurako appeared above the fleet, and Shen Yuanyi said he would use the forces below to discover the extent of his power.

Shen Yuanyi used Time Rain to age White Eagle’s soldiers and warships, then froze their attack before unveiling a devastating power he called Creation. He intended the confrontation to force the world to recognize cursed techniques as the key to a new era, and the chapter ended as a black sun descended over the fleet.

• A White Eagle fighter jet malfunctioned and crashed after its pilot entered the area around Shen Yuanyi, while the pilot’s parachute also corroded and failed.
• Time Rain spread across most of White Eagle’s fleet, aging soldiers and rusting warships until the fleet fell into chaos.
• White Eagle’s commander ordered the remaining combat units to fire on Shen Yuanyi, but Shen Yuanyi froze the incoming artillery and missiles in midair.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that he meant to end the old restrictions on cursed techniques before future arms races and conflicts could bring greater destruction.
• Shen Yuanyi declared that he was creating rather than destroying, and a brilliant blaze gave way to a pure black sun descending over the fleet.

White Eagle prepared to use a nuclear weapon against Japan after Shen Yuanyi destroyed its fleet, while Eastern Nation agreed to the plan in order to gain benefits and observe the Divine Lord’s power. The chapter ended with the first nuclear strike since the nuclear-deterrence era began poised to determine the outcome of the conflict.

• White Eagle declared Japan’s government destroyed and, after losing most of its fleet to Shen Yuanyi, chose nuclear weapons as its last option for confronting Japan’s supernatural power.
• White Eagle and Eastern Nation secretly agreed that White Eagle would use a limited-yield nuclear weapon against one or more Japanese cities and share its launch details with Eastern Nation.
• Eastern Nation identified the Divine Lord as Shen Yuanyi, a powerful sorcerer who had ruled Japan a thousand years earlier, and judged that he had not shown the full extent of his Cosmic Light Great Way.
• Eastern Nation accepted White Eagle’s plan so it could gain concessions, address unrest within its borders, and use White Eagle to probe Shen Yuanyi and Japan.
• After reviewing the fleet’s destruction, White Eagle concluded that conventional weapons could not threaten Shen Yuanyi and approved a nuclear strike of suitable yield.
• Eastern Nation prepared interception systems and monitored White Eagle’s launch as the coming detonation became the decisive test of whether Shen Yuanyi could be stopped.

Shen Yuanyi warned Suguru Geto that a nuclear strike was coming, then faced White Eagle’s bomb over an evacuated coastal city. He froze the nuclear explosion in midair by controlling time, demonstrating a new level of his technique as the world watched.

• Shen Yuanyi told Suguru Geto that a nuclear strike would hit the coastal city and asked him to evacuate civilians.
• Suguru Geto left to warn those under his command, while Shen Yuanyi ordered Uro Sakurako to tell White Eagle he would crush whatever they sent.
• Uro Sakurako reported that the arrangements were complete and withdrew before the strike.
• A White Eagle pilot dropped a nuclear bomb over the city as Shen Yuanyi watched from the sky.
• Shen Yuanyi stopped time across the area, suspending the nuclear explosion’s light, heat, and other effects in midair.

Gojo Satoru led Japan’s strongest sorcerers to the Tokyo Imperial Palace to confront Shen Yuanyi, hoping victory would make Jujutsu Sorcerers protectors in the eyes of ordinary people. Uro Sakurako and her fighters blocked their advance, forcing the heroes to split into two teams as Gojo’s group pushed toward the palace center.

• Gojo Satoru explained to Tsukumo Yuki that Shen Yuanyi wanted to test how far jujutsu could go and that defeating him could give sorcerers the standing of heroes.
• Okkotsu reported that everyone was ready, and Gojo led the assembled sorcerers toward the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
• Uro Sakurako welcomed the attackers as they arrived and summoned dozens of powerful fighters to block their way.
• Kinji Hakari offered to hold off Uro’s group while Gojo’s team advanced, and Gojo used Red to counter Uro’s attack and open a path.
• Gojo asked Tsukumo Yuki to stay and help Hakari’s team while he led the others toward the palace center.
• Uro tried to stop the advancing group, but Tsukumo Yuki attacked her with a high-speed strike and challenged her to fight.

Shen Yuanyi reunited with Gojo Satoru and the others, revealed a different timeline, and explained that he had altered time around them. After Kenjaku and Mahito restored Sukuna to a living body, Shen Yuanyi began the battle by calling on everyone to show their limits.

• Gojo Satoru and the others approached Shen Yuanyi at the artificial lake, where a ruined torii gate appeared, and asked whether they were still in the present.
• Shen Yuanyi recounted another timeline in which Megumi, Itadori, Okkotsu, and the others had suffered different fates, while Gojo Satoru and the group listened.
• Tsukumo Yuki and the others arrived after their battle, and Okkotsu realized Shen Yuanyi had slowed time for the group by using the Wheel of Time.
• Kenjaku opened Domain Expansion: Womb Realm Vastness, and Mahito used Idle Transfiguration to prepare a body for Sukuna with Itadori's cooperation.
• Shen Yuanyi accelerated Sukuna's rebirth, and Sukuna emerged in a four-armed body while bound by his vow not to attack their side.
• Shen Yuanyi raised the area's Cursed Energy, summoned a radiant wheel, and activated Wheel of Time as he challenged everyone to perform.

Shen Yuanyi began the decisive battle against the sorcerers and Cursed Spirits, demonstrating Ama no Habakiri’s ability to sever anything while facing their combined attacks. He chose to test himself against Mahoraga rather than end the fight quickly, and Mahoraga adapted to slashes as the battle continued.

• Shen Yuanyi warned the others that he would not reverse their deaths, then stabbed Gojo Satoru and clashed with Okkotsu Yuta, breaking Okkotsu’s Cursed Blade and badly wounding him.
• Shen Yuanyi explained that Ama no Habakiri could sever anything that objectively existed, while Okkotsu Yuta expanded the Wheel of Time to bring Gojo Satoru, Tsukumo Yuki, Megumi Zenin, and Sukuna into the accelerated flow.
• Sukuna attacked with a silent Cleave, Tsukumo Yuki sent her Phoenix Wheel at Shen Yuanyi, and Megumi Zenin summoned Mahoraga; Shen Yuanyi intercepted Sukuna’s slash and cut the Phoenix Wheel apart.
• Shen Yuanyi chose to test himself against Mahoraga instead of defeating it immediately, but Gojo Satoru used space manipulation to keep him away from the shikigami.
• Shen Yuanyi used a slight reversal of time to bypass Gojo Satoru’s spatial obstacle, blocked Sukuna’s Fire Arrow with vast quantities of manifested Cursed Energy, and faced Mahoraga after it recovered and began adapting to slashes.

Shen Yuanyi overwhelmed the sorcerers as Mahoraga and Megumi's Dragon Shadow struggled to adapt, and he killed Maki during their fight. Okkotsu tried to reverse her death, but Shen Yuanyi challenged him to defeat him first, warning that the battle could end with everyone perishing.

• Nanami and the others rejoined the battle after escaping the accelerated-time clash, while the group relied on Mahoraga's growing resistance to Shen Yuanyi's attacks.
• Shen Yuanyi wounded Okkotsu, destroyed much of the Slit-Mouthed Woman, and faced Megumi's fused shikigami, Nine Shadows United: Dragon.
• Shen Yuanyi defeated Nanami, injured Itadori and Hakari, and eliminated Inumaki and Kusakabe before fighting Maki and Zenin Naobito.
• Shen Yuanyi took the Soul Liberation Blade from Maki and stabbed her, eliminating her as she died in his arms.
• Okkotsu moved to reverse Maki's death, but Shen Yuanyi knocked Dragon Shadow away and told him to defeat him before restoring the dead.

Shen Yuanyi overwhelmed the sorcerers and curses with Time Stop and an unbroken chain of Black Flashes, while Geto Suguru and several fighters were eliminated or driven from battle. As Sukuna prepared an unfamiliar operation, Jogo launched his Maximum: Meteor, which Shen Yuanyi shattered in the sky.

• Geto Suguru unleashed a vast wave of exploding Cursed Spirits, but Shen Yuanyi used Time Stop to cross the blasts and wound him before killing the Special Grade Cursed Spirits he summoned.
• Shen Yuanyi resisted Geto Suguru's attempt to manipulate his emotions and eliminated Geto Suguru, while Mahoraga adapted to his attacks and joined the fight alongside the remaining sorcerers.
• Shen Yuanyi disrupted Zenin Naobito's technique and eliminated him, then defeated Kinji Hakari with seven consecutive Black Flashes and forced Itadori Yuji to withdraw after a clash.
• Sukuna continued preparing an unfamiliar operation as Jogo accepted that he would die and chose to confront Shen Yuanyi directly.
• Jogo launched Maximum: Meteor, but Shen Yuanyi rose into the sky with repeated Black Flashes and shattered the meteor, leaving him standing amid the fiery fragments.

Shen Yuanyi defeated Jogo in a Domain battle and fought Gojo Satoru, Tsukumo Yuki, and Mahoraga. After blasting Mahoraga into a near-death state, he faced Gojo Satoru and Tsukumo Yuki as Gojo opened Infinite Void.

• Jogo trapped Shen Yuanyi in Coffin Iron Mountain and demanded a Domain battle.
• Shen Yuanyi countered with Final Void, destroyed Jogo's Domain, and killed him.
• Gojo Satoru, Tsukumo Yuki, and Mahoraga attacked Shen Yuanyi together while Megumi maintained the shikigami.
• Shen Yuanyi compressed vast Cursed Energy into an attack that overwhelmed Mahoraga and left it near death.
• Gojo Satoru and Tsukumo Yuki attacked Shen Yuanyi, and Gojo Satoru opened Infinite Void.