Chapter Summaries

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.

After Zenin Xuan died, Yuji used Rika and the cursed energy he left behind to restore the destroyed city, then vanished. Zenin Xuan let go of his obsession with survival and continued through the soul passage with Little Mo.

• Zenin Xuan encountered an older version of himself, who warned him not to go to the Zenin Clan and to suspect Kenjaku without making him an enemy.
• Shoko Ieiri and Kenjaku transferred Sukuna into another body, and Jujutsu High celebrated their victory while Kenjaku escaped.
• Zenin Xuan died at the Tokyo barrier, leaving his cursed energy to Yuji, who used Yuta Okkotsu’s ring and Rika’s Copy technique.
• The city began to return to normal, and Yuji vanished after silently telling Satoru Gojo that he was leaving.
• Sukuna recalled meeting Kenjaku-Xuan and confirmed that he had found Zenin Xuan’s weakness.
• Zenin Xuan gave his cursed energy to Yuji, let go of his fixation on staying alive, and walked onward with Little Mo past Mahito.

Sukuna identified Zenin Xuan’s arrogance as a weakness, prompting Kenjaku to devise a new plan. At Jujutsu High, Xuan taught Tsumiki Fushiguro, Megumi Fushiguro, and Yuji Itadori how to use Cursed Techniques, leaving Megumi stuck wearing an armored puppet they had built.

• Sukuna told Kenjaku that Zenin Xuan’s refusal to retreat or guard against combination attacks was his weakness.
• Kenjaku discarded his fourth planning notebook, retrieved the first, and began writing a new plan.
• Sukuna decided to go to the beef shop, claiming he only wanted to eat.
• Xuan taught Tsumiki Fushiguro, Megumi Fushiguro, and Yuji Itadori about the versatility of Cursed Techniques while Gojo dealt with the surge of Cursed Spirits in Tokyo.
• Tsumiki and Itadori used Construction and Blood Manipulation to make an armored puppet, and Megumi objected to wearing it.

Xuan discovered that Reggie Star could use Contractual Re-creation to produce items and points promised in written agreements, even when they did not yet exist. After testing the technique, Xuan had Reggie recreate a stockpile of Cursed Tools, and Reggie exhausted his Cursed Energy.

• Xuan showed Reggie the Culling Game countdowns for players marked as not participating.
• Xuan wrote an agreement to lend Reggie 100 points, and Reggie burned it to receive the points without Xuan losing any.
• Xuan gave Reggie purchase orders for 800 meters of Black Rope and several Cursed Tools, along with copies of Toji Fushiguro's contracts.
• Xuan asked Reggie to recreate a Hollow Purple that Satoru Gojo had fired as part of a paid agreement.
• Reggie used up all his Cursed Energy, while Xuan returned to Jujutsu High's underground training ground with Black Rope and several Cursed Tools.

Zenin Xuan coordinated with Jujutsu Society to protect players who had not entered the Culling Game, while Kenjaku searched for a cursed technique that could defeat Xuan. Kenjaku learned that twelve players remained outside the barriers and set out to find them disguised as Xuan.

• Zenin Xuan contacted Yaga and Gakuganji after obtaining points from Reggie, and arranged for Jujutsu Society to guide remaining players into the barriers.
• Zenin Xuan and Satoru Gojo prepared to gather jujutsu sorcerers across the country and identify players among them.
• Kenjaku reviewed cursed techniques and simulated battles, but he had never managed to defeat Zenin Xuan, even with Sukuna's help.
• Kenjaku asked Kogane bug how many players had not entered the Culling Game and learned that twelve remained.
• Kenjaku decided to search for the twelve players while wearing Xuan's face.

Maki returned to the Zenin Clan and found Naoya alive after Kenjaku’s treatment had left him physically altered and weakened. After Naoya attacked her, Maki easily subdued him as she continued approaching the full power of the Heavenly Tyrant.

• Maki returned to the Zenin Clan while Xuan and Satoru Gojo searched Japan for sorcerers and curse users.
• Satoru Gojo told Maki that Naoya had recovered and was demanding another fight with her.
• Maki found Naoya with a shrunken body and no sexual characteristics after Kenjaku had altered him to save his damaged soul.
• Naoya attacked Maki, but she grabbed him by the neck and overpowered him.
• Maki’s cursed energy continued to be absorbed by the Scepter as she moved closer to completing her Heavenly Restriction.

Xuan and Satoru Gojo confronted Kenjaku while searching for Players, and forced him to make new Binding Vows restricting his actions. As news of Jujutsu spread worldwide and Cursed Spirits multiplied, Jujutsu High tried to contain the panic by telling the internet that Cursed Spirits would only appear in Tokyo.

• Kenjaku visited Haruta Shigemo in the countryside and discovered that Xuan had been waiting there in disguise.
• Xuan confronted Kenjaku over the Binding Vow and accused him of releasing dangerous Cursed Spirits.
• Satoru Gojo arrived, cornering Kenjaku with Xuan.
• Kenjaku made Binding Vows not to release Cursed Spirits that endangered society or harm Players, then escaped.
• Satoru Gojo helped Haruta Shigemo register as a Player, while he and Xuan dealt with Curse Users they encountered.
• As Jujutsu news spread and Cursed Spirits appeared worldwide, Jujutsu High spent heavily online to claim they would only appear in Tokyo.