Recaps

Satoru Gojo and Sukuna merged their domains into a new one and used a coordinated attack to break Zenin Xuan’s domain. Xuan survived the collapse, restored his burned-out technique, and shattered the ritual wheel above Satoru Gojo’s head.

• Satoru Gojo and Sukuna combined Infinite Void and Malevolent Shrine into a new domain, which Zenin Xuan analyzed as its barrier expanded around him.
• Sukuna transferred Mahoraga’s adaptation to the other Mahoraga, while Satoru Gojo took up a Sword of Extermination and fought Gen with a second blade and scabbard.
• Satoru Gojo and Gen traded increasingly rapid attacks as Sukuna chanted to strengthen Satoru Gojo’s strikes.
• Satoru Gojo used a coordinated slash and a Blue-drawn dagger to hit Gen, then had Mahoraga slash him through the chest and collapse his domain.
• After the domain vanished, Xuan endured the flooding slashes, restored his burned-out technique, and shattered the ritual wheel above Satoru Gojo’s head.

Zenin Xuan’s history traced his repeated attempts to change the Zenin Clan and his realization that he had become a monster. In the battle with Satoru Gojo and Sukuna, Gen adapted to their domain, but Sukuna reversed the wound onto him and prepared a fused Purple and Furnace Open attack.

• Gen became a feared curse user, destroyed the Zenin Clan, and later tried to rebuild it before losing faith in the clan again.
• Gen used Mahoraga’s ritual markings to halt his aging, then saw a cursed spirit resembling himself emerge from his reflection and understood he had become a monster.
• Gen shattered the ritual wheel in his hand and attacked Satoru Gojo, whose defenses he broke with Phantom Beast Chimera.
• Gen adapted to the fused domain, pierced Gojo with the Sword of Extermination, and sent him flying toward Malevolent Shrine.
• Sukuna used Mahoraga’s technique extension to transfer the wound from Gojo to Gen, leaving Gen unable to fight.
• Sukuna fused Purple and Furnace Open and aimed the attack at Gen, the King of Curses.

Yuji watched as Okkotsu recovered and Satoru Gojo emerged from the Purple flames, only for Zenin Xuan to survive and launch one last battle against Gojo. Gen vanished inside a sphere of cursed energy after his body was repeatedly consumed and restored, leaving Gojo and Sukuna unsure what he had become.

• Okkotsu woke in the broadcast room, and Shoko Ieiri ordered him to stay still while Yuji helped treat his wounds.
• Satoru Gojo and Sukuna searched the Purple blast for Zenin Xuan, who staggered out with almost no cursed energy remaining.
• Gen attacked Gojo with his swords, but Gojo countered with Red and pierced Gen's heart before driving both swords into his body.
• Gen's cursed energy surged back as shadows consumed and restored his body, and he began chanting a technique before disappearing inside a sphere of cursed energy.
• Gojo recognized that Gen had undergone a transformation like Xuan's, while Sukuna warned that the fight might not be over.

Xuan returned as an effectively immortal vengeful cursed spirit and overwhelmed Satoru Gojo, despite Sukuna’s intervention. Gojo escaped Xuan’s eye-based control, but Xuan challenged him to continue fighting.

• Mahoraga heard Xuan say that his story was ending, and he asked her to care for Rabbit Escape after he released the Ten Shadows.
• Xuan suddenly attacked Gojo and Sukuna, blasting Gojo from Shinjuku to Hiroshima and revealing that the Sword of Extermination and reverse cursed technique could not stop him.
• Sukuna used a Binding Vow to restore Gojo’s and his own cursed energy, sacrificing half of his future recovery rate so they could fight Xuan.
• Gojo and Sukuna launched a combined attack, but Xuan kicked Gojo across the sea while Purple vaporized a wide stretch of water.
• Gojo realized Xuan had become an immortal vengeful cursed spirit, and Sukuna used Kenjaku Xuan’s copied Cursed Technique Reversal: Light to free Gojo from Xuan’s eye-based control.
• Xuan pulled the Eight-Handled Sword from his shoulder, pointed it at Gojo, and invited him to fight again.

Gen revealed that his technique had changed into the Mimic Shadow Technique, letting him imitate abilities through shadows, and used Shadow Piercing to injure Gojo. Gojo and Sukuna recognized that the Zenin Clan’s rejection of Gen’s Ten Shadows Technique had likely contributed to the change.

• Gojo and Gen continued fighting over the divided sea as Gojo’s Inviolability deflected Gen’s sword strike.
• Gen used Convergence and Blood Manipulation, then activated the wheel and fired Shadow Piercing.
• Sukuna used an incantation and Gojo used Red to divert Shadow Piercing, but it pierced Gojo’s left shoulder.
• Gen tested his altered abilities and realized he could imitate techniques he had witnessed through shadows.
• Gojo and Sukuna identified Gen’s technique as the Mimic Shadow Technique and suspected curses tied to the Zenin Clan’s rejection had changed it.

Xuan overwhelmed Satoru Gojo with copied techniques and seemingly endless revivals, while Gojo and Sukuna struggled to find a way to exorcise him. As their battle devastated Tokyo, Xuan's Mahoraga appeared in their shared mental space and claimed she knew how to kill him.

• Xuan attacked Gojo with a barrage of copied techniques that tore through the city and left Gojo badly pressured.
• Gojo caught the Sword of Extermination, stabbed Xuan through the heart, and used Dismantle to reduce his body to dust.
• Xuan immediately returned and fought Gojo with the Eight-Handled Sword, eventually sending him flying.
• Gojo and Sukuna realized they could not determine how to exorcise Xuan as the battle destroyed two wards of Tokyo.
• Xuan's Mahoraga spoke through Gojo and Sukuna's shared mental space and said she had a way to kill Xuan.

Inside Gojo's Innate Domain, Mahoraga explained how she could help defeat the immortal Zenin Xuan, whom Gojo and Sukuna could no longer stop alone. As Gojo fought to buy Mahoraga and Sukuna time, Zenin Xuan resisted Unlimited Void and began turning Mahoraga's adaptation wheel himself.

• Mahoraga entered Gojo's Innate Domain and explained that she could adapt her thinking and enter other people's domains.
• Gojo and Sukuna agreed to trust Mahoraga because they had no way to defeat the immortal, indestructible Zenin Xuan.
• Mahoraga said the key to lifting the curses on the Vengeful Cursed Spirit lay in the spirit itself, not in finding the long-dead Zenin Clan sorcerers who had cast them.
• Zenin Xuan charged Gojo, who countered with his defenses before clashing domains with him.
• Zenin Xuan kept moving inside Unlimited Void, seized Mahoraga's wheel, and began turning it himself.

Gojo and Zenin Xuan fought as Xuan used copied techniques, including Unlimited Void and a World-Cutting Slash, while Gojo relied on his allies’ plans and techniques to counter him. After Little Mo revealed that they had to defeat Zenin Xuan before he ceased being a Cursed Womb, Gojo and Sukuna prepared to start borrowing power.

• Xuan copied Unlimited Void, but Gojo used Hollow Purple to break the illusion and destroy the domain’s shrine.
• Gojo and Zenin Xuan traded blows, and Zenin Xuan copied Inviolability and used a World-Cutting Slash that severed Gojo’s arm.
• Gojo used Cleave and a reversed technique to pulverize Zenin Xuan, then reinforced himself with two layers of Inviolability.
• Xuan reappeared behind Gojo and struck him with Black Flash, but his body reassembled after being smashed apart.
• Little Mo told Gojo that they had to finish Zenin Xuan while he was still a Cursed Womb, and Gojo and Sukuna prepared to borrow power.

Gojo and Sukuna used Mahoraga’s copied techniques to pressure Zenin Xuan and prepare a plan to exhaust his Cursed Energy with Eight Fixed Waters. After Gen unleashed a devastating Black Flash, Mahoraga offered to take control of both shikigami while Gojo continued expanding his domain.

• Sukuna proposed using Eight Fixed Waters to drain Gen’s Cursed Energy after forcing him into Cursed Technique burnout.
• Mahoraga let Gojo and Sukuna access the techniques Gen had collected, and Gojo used Black Flash to test Gen’s Inviolability.
• Gojo recognized how Gen reversed Inviolability, then struck him with a Black Flash and Hollow Purple while Sukuna chanted.
• Gojo expanded Malevolent Shrine, but Gen’s domain failed to open and the shrine’s slashes did not damage him.
• Gen landed a maximum-output Black Flash that forced Gojo hundreds of kilometers away and drained much of Gojo and Sukuna’s Cursed Energy.
• Mahoraga offered to control both shikigami and told Gojo to expand his domain as Gojo charged back toward Gen.

Satoru Gojo and Little Mo joined forces with three Mahoragas to attack Cursed Spirit Xuan, pushing the battle into Unlimited Void. As the domain weakened Xuan but he struck back, Little Mo invited her master to one last dance.

• Gojo adapted his technique, destroyed Xuan's brain with Blue: Dismantle, and summoned three Mahoragas.
• Xuan kicked Sukumo away, cut Gomo apart, and fought off Little Mo's Divine Dogs and Piercing Ox.
• Little Mo coordinated with Sukumo and Gomo to pierce Xuan's chest with her Sword of Extermination.
• Gojo expanded Unlimited Void, trapping Xuan and the Mahoragas inside the domain.
• Xuan severed two Mahoragas and hurled their wheels at Little Mo, who knocked them aside and challenged him to one last dance.

Satoru Gojo and Sukuna fought Zenin Xuan with help from Mahoraga, while Little Mo hesitated when she touched Xuan’s soul and allowed him to counterattack. Gojo adapted Mahoraga’s techniques and unleashed a Hollow Purple boosted by Blue and Red, leaving Zenin Xuan’s fate uncertain.

• Xuan and Little Mo coordinated attacks against each other as Sukuna and Gojo’s Mahoraga, but Xuan escaped Idle Transfiguration and countered Little Mo with Cursed Technique Reversal: Light.
• Sukuna used Furnace: Open while Little Mo trapped Xuan in cursed energy dust and attempted Idle Transfiguration, but Little Mo hesitated after touching his soul and Xuan reattached the threads around himself.
• Xuan activated Mythical Beast Chimera and blasted Sukuna’s and Gojo’s Mahoragas into bloody mist, while Gojo escaped the destruction of Unlimited Void and prepared a counterattack.
• Gojo used Mahoraga’s adapted techniques to overwhelm Xuan with successive Hollow Purples and a barrage of copied Cursed Techniques, then traded increasingly fast blows with him.
• Gojo struck Xuan with Black Flash, pinned him with Maximum Technique: Blue, pulled him apart with Maximum Technique: Red, and drove a maximum-powered Hollow Purple into his undying body.

Gojo and Sukuna reproduced Mahito’s Self-Embodiment of Perfection to target Xuan’s soul, while Xuan’s body continued adapting and began consuming Hollow Purple. Gojo summoned three Mahoragas to attack, but Xuan instantly destroyed Gomo and turned toward the others.

• Kenjaku explained that Hajime Kashimo’s Mythical Beast Amber prevented Mahoraga’s technique from affecting Xuan’s soul, but Mahito’s domain might bypass that defense.
• Megumi Fushiguro and Itadori volunteered to buy Gojo more time, while Yuta Okkotsu could no longer fight because her Cursed Energy was nearly exhausted.
• Xuan’s regenerating body began devouring some of Hollow Purple’s Cursed Energy as the Dharma Wheel continued adapting.
• Gojo and Sukuna finished reproducing Self-Embodiment of Perfection, and Hollow Purple fell still as Xuan reassembled himself.
• Gojo summoned three Mahoragas, but Xuan struck Gomo down in one punch before Little Mo and Sukumo attacked.

Little Mo, Sukumo, and Satoru Gojo fought Xuan as he reconstituted and revealed new lightning abilities. Little Mo’s Idle Transfiguration failed to harm him, and she promised to be the one to kill him.

• Little Mo struck Xuan with Piercing Ox, and Sukumo followed with Dismantle, cutting Xuan into fragments.
• Xuan reconstituted and attacked Satoru Gojo, who blocked his blows while Sukumo and Little Mo closed in.
• Xuan transformed into lightning, caught Little Mo’s and Sukumo’s fists, and paralyzed Satoru Gojo with a lightning blast that bypassed Limitless.
• Little Mo used Idle Transfiguration on Xuan, but her palm vanished on contact before she adapted and restored it.
• Xuan praised Little Mo and asked her to be the one to kill him, and she agreed.

Mahoraga’s observation of Xuan gave Satoru Gojo and Sukuna insight into his body, and Gojo fought to break apart the Mythical Beast Chimera and free Zenin Xuan’s soul. After a fierce exchange, Gojo blew Xuan apart and began a Domain Expansion, but Xuan rebuilt himself and activated Self-Embodiment of Perfection.

• Mahoraga observed Xuan’s body through Idle Transfiguration and passed the information to Satoru Gojo and Sukuna.
• Satoru Gojo attacked Xuan and sought to remove the Mythical Beast Chimera so he could free Zenin Xuan’s soul.
• Xuan and Satoru Gojo exchanged thousands of blows, with both repeatedly landing Black Flashes.
• Satoru Gojo exploited a brief opening and used Red to blow Xuan’s body apart.
• Satoru Gojo began Domain Expansion, but Xuan reconstructed his body and activated Self-Embodiment of Perfection.

Satoru Gojo and his allies struggled to strip the curses from Zenin Xuan while Gen resisted and fought back. With their time and energy running out, Gojo proposed a dangerous alternative: hatching Gen.

• After rebirth, Zenin Xuan formed a hand sign and began using Domain Expansion as Sukuna, Little Mo, and the three Mahoragas stripped away his curses.
• Little Mo interrupted Gen's domain and seized him, but Gen blasted her apart with Mythical Beast Chimera and threw her Dharma Wheel at Gojo.
• Little Mo's Dharma Wheel restored her body, while Gojo continued using Idle Transfiguration to remove Gen's curses.
• Gojo realized that removing every curse would take another 41 seconds and that his energy was nearly depleted.
• Gojo told Sukuna and Mahoraga that they would hatch Zenin Xuan.

Zenin Xuan decoded Sukuna’s strange Cursed Energy and confirmed that Sukuna had come from another timeline. Gojo and his allies redirected the curses afflicting Zenin Xuan into his self-imposed curse, leaving his Cursed Womb beating as a terrifying monster began to awaken.

• Zenin Xuan used the withered yellow Dharma Wheel to decode the compound techniques affecting Sukuna and confirmed that Sukuna came from another timeline.
• Zenin Xuan glimpsed a strange object crossing timelines before his vision returned to the fight.
• Satoru Gojo and his allies used Idle Transfiguration and Self-Embodiment of Perfection to channel Zenin Xuan’s curses into his desire for death.
• Sukuna lent Satoru Gojo more Cursed Energy while his own body remained badly damaged.
• Zenin Xuan’s curses merged, and his Cursed Womb began beating as Little Mo and Satoru Gojo feared they had awakened a terrifying monster.

Mahoraga discovered that the curse consuming Zenin Xuan was bound to his soul and could spread through her connection to Satoru Gojo. She cut off that connection and chose to adapt to Zenin Xuan, knowing she would have to die alongside him to kill him.

• Zenin Xuan’s past revealed that he had wanted to live forever so he could witness and fight powerful opponents, and Mahoraga had promised to carry his pain.
• After Zenin Xuan left, the Zenin Clan erased him from its history and cursed him with accusations of being an impostor and a tyrant.
• Mahoraga touched Zenin Xuan’s soul and heard her own plea to find a better way for him to live.
• The curse’s shadowy tentacles latched onto Mahoraga’s soul, and she severed her connections to Satoru Gojo and Sukuna to stop the corruption from spreading.
• Mahoraga told Zenin Xuan she had found a way, then let his Cursed Energy swallow her so she could adapt to and kill him.

After Zenin Xuan swallowed Mahoraga, he transformed and nearly killed Gojo with a single attack. Gojo and Sukuna counterattacked with a barrage of slashes, but a golden flash appeared on Zenin Xuan, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Zenin Xuan swallowed Mahoraga, causing Mahoraga’s Cursed Technique to stall as the Cursed Womb fell silent.
• Zenin Xuan pierced Gojo’s defenses and tore away his arms and chest, but Gojo healed himself with Reverse Cursed Technique and Idle Transfiguration.
• Gojo and Sukuna discussed using a World-Cutting Slash imbued with Idle Transfiguration while searching for a way to defeat Zenin Xuan.
• Gojo drove Zenin Xuan toward the sea with Blue and Red as Sukuna attacked him with Idle Transfiguration Dismantle.
• Gojo and Sukuna continued their maximum-output slashes against Zenin Xuan, and a flash of gold appeared on his dark body.

Gojo and Sukuna faced Gen as his body transformed and revealed a devastating attack that tore through space. After understanding how the rift worked, Gojo planned to combine Blue and Red on space itself, with Sukuna offering to supply the Cursed Energy.

• Gen's body opened with golden eyes, and his attack tore a long rift through space, which Gojo barely dodged with Red.
• Sukuna watched Gen recover and recognized that Gojo's tactic might be working, while reflecting that both Gojo and Gen were formidable monsters.
• Gojo attacked Gen with all four hands and used Idle Transfiguration on the shadow in his abdomen, but Gen's body rejoined and he survived.
• Gen said he had not finished enjoying himself and credited Sukuna with letting him see more, while Gojo studied the closing rift.
• Gojo realized the rift came from a Cursed Technique that expanded its effect onto space and devised a plan to combine unrestricted Blue and Red against space.
• Sukuna agreed to provide the Cursed Energy while Gojo attempted the unprecedented technique.

Satoru Gojo and Sukuna fought Gen as Gen adapted to Gojo’s spatial techniques and unleashed beams that bypassed Limitless. Gojo overlapped maximum-output Blue and Red around Gen, preparing to strike as the spaces nearly converged.

• Satoru Gojo used Blue to crush Gen’s arm, but Gen restored it and sent a cloud of Cursed Energy smoke at him.
• Gen’s punch nearly hit Gojo, who used Boogie Woogie to switch places and trap Gen in Blue’s spatial contraction.
• Gen adapted and fired beams through distorted space, vaporizing part of Gojo’s cheek and sending a barrage of black beams at him.
• Sukuna appeared and deflected the beams with Limitless while Gojo urged Mahoraga to act.
• Gojo anchored the space around Gen and overlapped maximum-output Red and Blue as the spaces nearly converged.

Satoru Gojo and Sukuna struggled to stop Zenin Xuan after he tore his way back into existence, and Gojo used a domain to prepare him for a finishing attack. As Gojo sensed a familiar Cursed Energy approaching from outside, Zenin Xuan remained inside the domain, regenerating.

• Zenin Xuan tore open the destroyed space and pulled his body back into the world, shocking Satoru Gojo.
• Gojo dodged Zenin Xuan’s enormous attacks with Blue and Red while considering how to damage him.
• Gojo waited for Mahoraga’s stagnation to take effect, then expanded Malevolent Shrine: Idle Transfiguration around Zenin Xuan.
• Gojo coordinated with Mahoraga to keep adapting to Xuan and planned to use Furnace: Open against Zenin Xuan.
• Gojo sensed a familiar Cursed Energy approaching the domain from outside.

Gojo and Sukuna combined Blue, Furnace: Open, and Chaos to trap and attack Zenin Xuan, disrupting his adaptation before unleashing Hollow Purple. As the explosions continued, Gojo began preparing another Maximum Technique: Hollow Purple.

• Gojo ignited the dust around Xuan with Furnace: Open, and he and Sukuna escaped the resulting explosion.
• Gojo and Sukuna used their techniques and incantations to keep Zenin Xuan trapped while flames tore apart his enlarged body.
• Sukuna struck Mahoraga with Chaos, causing it to adapt to the technique’s reaction-shortening light.
• Gojo unleashed Hollow Purple, triggering a chain of explosions that pierced his left shoulder and shook Japan.
• Gojo continued chanting and dancing through the blasts, then raised his hand and began casting Hollow Purple again.

Zenin Xuan escaped Gojo’s Hollow Purple after reclaiming Mahoraga’s soul, then rushed to attack Gojo and Sukuna. Yuji Itadori appeared and struck Gen with a Black Flash, leaving Gojo and Sukuna stunned as Yuji invoked Dismantle.

• Zenin Xuan devoured the rest of Mahoraga’s soul, ending its ability to weaken him further.
• Zenin Xuan tore through space to escape Hollow Purple and regained his full speed.
• Zenin Xuan charged Gojo before he and Sukuna could finish chanting, but his punch did not hit Gojo.
• Yuji Itadori appeared, recited an incantation, and sent Zenin Xuan flying with a Black Flash.
• Yuji said “Dismantle,” and Gojo and Sukuna recognized him.

Yuji Itadori revealed his overwhelming strength and attacked Zenin Xuan with Blood Manipulation, then trapped him inside a Domain Expansion. Zenin Xuan could not form his own domain or use Cursed Energy, leaving him caught in Yuji’s technique.

• Yuji Itadori told Satoru Gojo to leave the battle and warned him not to investigate his origins.
• Yuji used Convergence and Cursed Energy strikes to attack Xuan and restrain him through the golden wheel.
• Yuji unleashed Piercing Blood: Blood Tide, repeatedly piercing Zenin Xuan as his immortality restored his body.
• Yuji expanded Compassionate Ferry for Universal Salvation around Zenin Xuan, preventing him from forming a hand seal or drawing on Cursed Energy.

Yuji Itadori brought Zenin Xuan, whose soul had been freed from a domain, to a future Iwate. As they took in the changed scenery, Itadori asked how Gen felt after centuries of solitude.

• Zenin Xuan woke at a train station, where Yuji Itadori offered him a grilled sausage.
• Itadori explained that Sukuna had sent him from about sixty-eight years in the future, with Gen’s and Satoru Gojo’s consent, to find Gen.
• Itadori told Gen no one in his world could save him, and Gen accepted that he should have died in the battle against Gojo and Sukuna.
• Itadori recalled what Gen would have said about Gojo’s strength, making Gen laugh and step out from beneath the trees.
• Itadori and Gen walked through futuristic Iwate, and Itadori asked Gen how it felt to have lived in solitude for over five hundred years.