Chapter Summaries

After resolving the Adachi Ward incident, Yang Jian spent most of his reward on upgrading the Ghost Eye and considered what abilities he would need next. He went to sleep after joking with Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko in their group chat.

• Yang Jian counted his reward for turning in Ghost Wall and redeemed a mid-stage Ghost Eye upgrade, leaving him 50,500 points.
• Yang Jian messaged Suguru Geto about putting Satoru Gojo in the Body Bag and asked him to tell Shoko he did not need a checkup.
• Yang Jian reflected that the Ghost Eye's seven-layer reset could save his life, but using more than five layers still risked the Ghost Eye reawakening.
• Yang Jian considered buying Ghost Hand or Ghost Lake but decided he would have to save more points first.
• Satoru Gojo asked the group not to reveal that he had been stuffed into a bag, and Yang Jian joined Suguru Geto and Shoko in leaving his messages unread.
• Yang Jian locked his phone and fell asleep in his dorm room.

Yang Jian discussed the Adachi Ward incident and his abnormal body with Shoko Ieiri before meeting Megumi Fushiguro, whom Satoru Gojo had brought to Jujutsu High. After Megumi asked about the ghost and Yang Jian, Gojo said Yang Jian handled things he could not fight.

• Yang Jian and Shoko Ieiri discussed his unusual biology and how Jujutsu High had erased his existence from the official account of the Adachi Ward incident.
• Satoru Gojo brought Megumi Fushiguro to the cafeteria and said Megumi's sister, Tsumiki, was still in the hospital but was not seriously hurt.
• Satoru Gojo asked how Yang Jian had cut apart the Ghost Wall so precisely, and Yang Jian said practice made it feel natural.
• Megumi asked Yang Jian whether the ghost that took part of his shikigami could escape the bag, and Yang Jian assured him it could not.
• Yang Jian left to sleep before a blood draw, while Satoru Gojo told Shoko Ieiri he would handle raising Megumi and deal with the Zenin Clan.
• Megumi asked whether Yang Jian was stronger than Satoru Gojo, and Gojo said Yang Jian dealt with things he could not fight.

Yang Jian learned that Jujutsu Headquarters was investigating his unexplained background and went to the infirmary after confronting inspectors who tried to detain him. He left the inspectors terrified and arrived six minutes late for his appointment with Shoko.

• Geto warned Yang Jian that Jujutsu Headquarters had investigated him and would try to test him.
• Yang Jian checked his system balance and received a message from Shoko ordering him to the infirmary at two.
• Four inspectors confronted Yang Jian and demanded he come with them over the unregistered incident in Adachi Ward.
• Yang Jian's shadow seized two inspectors, while his red light neutralized the short-bearded inspector's cursed-energy attack and trapped him.
• Yang Jian warned the short-bearded inspector to leave him alone, and the inspectors fled with their injured colleagues.
• Yang Jian arrived at the infirmary, where Shoko asked whether he had killed someone; he said he had only stepped on a few bugs.

Shoko found that Yang Jian’s new body had completely normal readings, while the abnormal blood taken from his original body remained alive and multiplying in her lab. Satoru Gojo gave Yang Jian a Jujutsu High appointment and a mission investigating disappearances in Funabashi, which Yang Jian accepted.

• Shoko examined Yang Jian and found his blood and other physiological readings perfectly normal, unlike the results from the previous month.
• Shoko noticed Yang Jian’s calluses and old injury traces were gone, suspected he had changed bodies, and recorded her suspicions privately.
• Shoko revealed that Yang Jian’s old blood sample was still multiplying, and Yang Jian allowed her to keep observing it.
• Shoko gave Yang Jian Satoru Gojo’s recommendation for Semi-Grade 1 status and appointment as a fixed-term assistant at Jujutsu High.
• Satoru Gojo showed Yang Jian a mission about seventeen disappearances in Funabashi, and Yang Jian agreed to investigate.

Yang Jian entered the cursed mall in Funabashi City and destroyed its low-level spirits and quasi-special grade curse with his Ghost Domain and Ghost Shadow. He rescued the missing Grade 2 sorcerer Kijima alive and completed the mission.

• Assistant Manager Yamada drove Yang Jian to the cordoned-off mall and raised a Veil around it.
• Yang Jian entered the mall’s innate domain and used his Ghost Domain to erase the swarming low-level cursed spirits.
• Yang Jian forced the domain apart and found Kijima embedded in a quasi-special grade cursed spirit.
• Yang Jian nullified the curse’s attack, tore the monster in two with Ghost Shadow, and finished it with the Chopping Knife.
• Yang Jian found Kijima still breathing and prepared to return him to Shoko for treatment.

Yang Jian killed the special-grade cursed spirit and rescued Kijima in three minutes, foiling the higher-ups’ plan to undermine him. After Gojo reported the mission’s results, Yang Jian warned that he would make the higher-ups experience true despair if they tried more underhanded tricks.

• Yang Jian emerged from the Veil with the badly injured Kijima and told Yamada that the cursed spirit was dead.
• Shoko Ieiri used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal Kijima, while Yang Jian learned that the mission had been intended to bring him back under the higher-ups’ control.
• Suguru Geto warned Yang Jian that his ability would make the higher-ups watch him even more closely.
• Satoru Gojo revealed that he had confronted the higher-ups with the field report, leaving them wary of openly targeting Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian crushed an empty cola can and warned that he would show the higher-ups true despair if they interfered again.

Jujutsu Headquarters withdrew its surveillance of Yang Jian and buried his achievements after Satoru Gojo threatened the elders. Yang Jian began building an independent intelligence network to find stronger cursed spirits, while explaining to Suguru Geto that he had to keep advancing to survive.

• The elders canceled their plans to investigate Yang Jian further, withdrew their observers, and publicly credited the Funabashi exorcism to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.
• Satoru Gojo told Yang Jian that Headquarters had classified him as a Free Associate, letting him choose missions while keeping his work off the official record.
• Yang Jian decided that routine missions were too slow for earning system points and considered using the Deceiving Ghost Necklace, the Ghost Newspaper, and black-market contacts to locate high-grade cursed spirits.
• Suguru Geto offered to help Yang Jian find cursed spirits and identified Shiu Kong as a well-connected underground information broker.
• Yang Jian told Suguru Geto that using his power eroded his body and that he had to kill specific things to stay alive, then advised him not to become burdened by the role of savior.
• After Suguru Geto left, Yang Jian prepared to pursue Shiu Kong and expand his intelligence network as a shadowy figure emerged in the room.

Yang Jian tracked down Shiu Kong through Toji Fushiguro and paid to establish a long-term channel for intelligence on Grade 1 and Special Grade cursed spirits. Shiu Kong provided a lead in Chichibu, along with a suspicious report of livestock deaths near an abandoned shrine, and Yang Jian headed out to investigate.

• Yang Jian contacted Toji Fushiguro, who revealed Shiu Kong's temporary base and sold him a contact phrase for five million yen.
• Yang Jian borrowed fifty million yen from Satoru Gojo to pay Toji and fund access to Shiu Kong's intelligence network.
• Yang Jian found Shiu Kong at the Silver Lamp pachinko parlor and negotiated advance payment, per-lead fees, and a dedicated phone line for cursed spirit reports.
• Shiu Kong sent Yang Jian coordinates for a suspected Grade 1 cursed spirit at an old quarry in Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture.
• Shiu Kong added a report of seven livestock deaths near an abandoned shrine, where carcasses had been found dehydrated and shriveled, and Yang Jian hurried toward the site.

Yang Jian traveled to the Old Quarry in Chichibu and destroyed a colony of cursed spirits, then followed Shiu Kong’s new lead to an abandoned shipyard in Yokohama. He arrived to find a powerful cursed presence inside with a human barely alive.

• Yang Jian retrieved five million yen from a locker and used Shiu Kong’s coordinates to reach the Old Quarry in Chichibu.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain and Ghost Shadow to kill a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, two Grade 2 Cursed Spirits, and a Grade 3 Cursed Spirit.
• Yang Jian confirmed that the quarry’s cursed spirits had drained the two missing sorcerers and sent Shiu Kong a request for more leads.
• Shiu Kong sent Yang Jian coordinates for a suspected Grade 1 target at an abandoned shipyard in Yokohama that might advance to Semi-Special Grade.
• Yang Jian reached the shipyard and sensed one extremely strong life sign and one extremely weak human life sign inside.

Yang Jian destroyed cursed spirits in Yokohama and Shinjuku, rescued an injured student, and recovered Sukuna's Finger from a hidden compartment. After Shiu Kong warned him that Jujutsu Headquarters was active in Nagoya, Yang Jian changed his route to avoid its surveillance.

• Yang Jian killed a mutated Grade 1 cursed spirit at the abandoned shipyard and carried an injured high school student to Yokohama Municipal Hospital.
• Yang Jian told Shiu Kong that he had dealt with the target, and Shiu Kong warned him that Jujutsu Headquarters was watching Nagoya and nearby unaffiliated sorcerers.
• Yang Jian accepted Shiu Kong's coordinates for the old sewer system along the Arakawa in Shinjuku and entered the underground reservoir.
• Yang Jian crushed the cursed spirits feeding in the reservoir with his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian found a talisman-covered box behind a reservoir wall and took the Sukuna's Finger inside.

Yang Jian brought an inert Sukuna's Finger to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, who agreed to turn it in and provoke Jujutsu Headquarters. The next day, Shoko Ieiri questioned Yang Jian about his increasingly corpse-like body while Gojo and Geto faced a chaotic reception at Headquarters.

• Yang Jian learned the system could not recycle Sukuna's Finger, then used Ghost Shadow to suppress its cursed energy.
• Yang Jian gave the finger to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, who decided to claim they had found it and turn it in.
• Suguru Geto warned Yang Jian that Headquarters planned to test him by loosening special grade seals in Nagoya.
• Shoko Ieiri told Yang Jian that his blood killed a lab mouse by shutting down its organs, and warned his body might eventually fall apart.
• Shoko said Gojo and Geto had thrown the unsealed finger at the receiving supervisor, causing two people to pass out and sparking a quarantine and interrogation.

Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto confronted Jujutsu Headquarters over Yang Jian, then learned the elders had sent him to deal with a deadly curse in Nagoya. Yang Jian destroyed the curse and noticed the Headquarters observer recording him.

• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto denied responsibility for Sukuna's Finger's missing seal and pressured Jujutsu Headquarters to stop provoking Yang Jian.
• Jujutsu Headquarters assigned Yang Jian to investigate the casualties in Nagoya while refusing to provide assistance.
• Yang Jian received Shiu Kong's tip about the abandoned chemical warehouse and traveled there to hunt the curse.
• Yang Jian used his ghost domain and Ghost Shadow to tear apart the Quasi-Special Grade Cursed Spirit, earning 800 points.
• Yang Jian spotted Crow, the Headquarters observer who had been recording the battle, and Crow thought about running.

Yang Jian turned Crow into a loyal spy, then went to Kyoto to hunt the curse users who had placed a bounty on him. He launched an attack at the Old Quarry, with the gathered group trapped below as he began his harvest.

• Yang Jian used Ghost Shadow to alter Crow's memories and loyalty, then ordered him to report the fabricated account of the battle.
• Shiu Kong told Yang Jian that the Time Vessel Association had offered a thirty-million bounty and named the Old Quarry as the gathering place for curse users seeking powerful cursed tools.
• Shoko Ieiri told Yang Jian that his blood had consumed cursed energy from a grade 2 cursed spirit, and he absorbed the blood sample into his body.
• Yang Jian asked Satoru Gojo for unregistered bank cards and told Suguru Geto he planned to target the bounty hunters.
• Yang Jian photographed the curse users and Time Vessel Association members gathered at the Old Quarry, then attacked them with red light and Ghost Shadow.

Yang Jian massacred the curse users who had hunted him, then learned of a sealed Shibuya subway station where Jujutsu Headquarters was cultivating a special grade cursed spirit to test Sukuna's Finger. He planned to enter the station that night before the barrier loosened.

• Yang Jian used his ghost domain to kill the curse users and cursed spirits in the mine, then photographed the corpses and sent them to Shiu Kong to cancel the bounty.
• Shiu Kong told Yang Jian about the sealed Shibuya subway station, where several grade 2 sorcerers had disappeared and a special grade threat was forming.
• Yang Jian brought the Time Vessel Association's gold to Shoko at Tokyo Jujutsu High, where Satoru Gojo told him Jujutsu Headquarters was using an Attraction Barrier to cultivate a special grade and test Sukuna's Finger.
• Satoru Gojo warned Yang Jian that the Shibuya station held deep resentment and buried laborers, but Yang Jian said he would go there that night and flatten it.

Yang Jian infiltrated the sealed subway interchange, killed its guards, and reached a cocoon holding an emerging special grade cursed spirit. After his attack accidentally accelerated its birth, he unleashed his ghost domain and prepared to fight it.

• Yang Jian used Ghost Shadow to silently kill the eight Grade 2 sentries guarding the entrance.
• Yang Jian descended through the first and second underground levels, erasing the cursed spirits in his path with his compressed ghost domain.
• Yang Jian found a special grade cursed spirit embryo and killed the two couriers carrying Sukuna's Fingers.
• The couriers' blood accelerated the embryo's maturation, forcing the special grade cursed spirit to break free before it was fully formed.
• Yang Jian took the box containing Sukuna's Finger and expanded his ghost domain across the third underground level as the cursed spirit emerged.

Yang Jian killed an incomplete special grade cursed spirit in the underground ruins and collected its reward. He left the basement with three of Sukuna's Fingers and several cursed energy cores for Shoko.

• Yang Jian waited for the system to classify the incomplete special grade cursed spirit, then attacked it with the Chopping Knife.
• The cursed spirit tried to flee, but Yang Jian altered the ghost domain's space and struck it twice more, breaking apart its body.
• Yang Jian received 1000 points after the system confirmed the cursed spirit's death.
• Yang Jian checked his three sealed Sukuna's Fingers and collected cursed energy cores for Shoko.
• Yang Jian left the ruins and emerged onto Shibuya's late-night streets.

Yang Jian returned from Shibuya with three Sukuna's Fingers after killing a Special Grade embryo and ten Jujutsu Headquarters personnel. Satoru Gojo warned him that Headquarters was investigating and offered to shield him for now.

• Yang Jian told Shiu Kong that the Shibuya site was cleared and learned Headquarters would likely suspect him when its people and the cursed objects were discovered missing.
• Yang Jian planned to keep one Sukuna's Finger and give the other two to Satoru Gojo to turn in, then returned to his dorm and calculated how far he was from buying Ghost Hand and Ghost Lake.
• Satoru Gojo told the group chat that Shibuya Hub Three's surveillance feeds had gone dark, while Yang Jian ignored the messages and went to sleep.
• Satoru Gojo visited Yang Jian in the morning and explained that Headquarters had questioned him about the missing personnel, the vanished embryo, and the collapsed barrier.
• Satoru Gojo said he had concealed the cursed-energy collapse from Headquarters and advised Yang Jian to dispose of any Sukuna's Fingers before the emergency meeting.

Yang Jian hid two Sukuna's Fingers in his fifth-layer ghost domain and gave Shoko Ieiri the remains of a special grade cursed spirit for study. With the Shibuya incident covered up and the evidence concealed, he left the remaining questions unspoken between himself and Gojo.

• Yang Jian dismissed Gojo's warning about the Shibuya elders and sent two Sukuna's Fingers into his fifth-layer ghost domain.
• Yang Jian delivered the special grade cursed spirit's cursed energy core to Shoko Ieiri as biological samples for her research.
• Shoko examined the core, advised Yang Jian on containing it, and reported that his blood's activity was beginning to rebound.
• Shoko told Yang Jian that Jujutsu Headquarters had found nothing at the collapsed Shibuya barrier and had suffered heavy losses.
• Yang Jian reviewed the cover-up that hid the fingers and blamed the Shibuya deaths on a cursed spirit's rampage.
• Gojo silently acknowledged Yang Jian in the corridor, and Yang Jian turned toward the dormitories.

Yang Jian learned that Jujutsu Headquarters was investigating the Shibuya laboratory’s destruction and planned to return at night to erase a remaining trace. After Suguru Geto questioned the morality of the killings and Satoru Gojo revealed a Tracking Veil at Entrance Three, Yang Jian asked Gojo to remove it for him.

• Yang Jian learned that Councilor Kusumoto had sent two Specialists to investigate Shibuya and worried that a trace-tracking technique could expose how he opened the steel mesh door.
• Suguru Geto told Yang Jian that Shoko wanted more purple crystals, then discussed Yang Jian’s destruction of the laboratory and the sorcerers guarding it.
• Yang Jian told Suguru Geto he would take responsibility for killing the guards, and Geto questioned whom sorcerers were meant to protect before leaving.
• Yang Jian headed out after dark, but Satoru Gojo warned him that Jujutsu Headquarters had placed a Tracking Veil around Shibuya Entrance Three.
• Yang Jian asked Satoru Gojo to take down the Tracking Veil, citing the half-finished can Gojo had taken from him as payment.

Yang Jian waited for Satoru Gojo to dismantle the Veil around Shibuya's No. 3 entrance, then used his Ghost Domain to remove the tracked steel mesh gate without touching its talismans. He returned to his dorm after disguising the opening as a collapse, where he found a can of cola Gojo had left as interest.

• Satoru Gojo told Yang Jian he would dismantle the Veil but could not touch Kusumoto's Trace-Fixing Talismans without revealing himself.
• After Shiu Kong confirmed the Veil was gone, Yang Jian traveled to Shibuya's No. 3 entrance and checked that no one was nearby.
• Yang Jian used the Fifth-Layer Ghost Domain to make the steel mesh gate, its talismans, and its contact tracer vanish.
• Yang Jian roughened the clean opening to make it resemble damage from a collapse, then returned to Jujutsu High.
• Shiu Kong asked whether the gate was gone, and Yang Jian confirmed that it was.
• Yang Jian found a can of cola and a note from Satoru Gojo in his dorm, read the note, and drank the cola.