Recaps

Tengen and Shinji agreed to establish a worldwide jujutsu system with Jianxia’s support, while Jianxia explored the forest with his cursed spirits. The chapter ended when a Zenin Clan envoy mistook Jianxia for Ryomen Sukuna after seeing Fat Worm hanging from his belt.

• Tengen accepted Jianxia’s proposal and offered to prepare for the establishment of the great barrier.
• Shinji and Tengen discussed gaining support from the Zenin, Gojo, and Kamo Clans for the plan.
• Jianxia left the Zenin Estate and wandered through the forest with his subdued cursed spirits.
• Jianxia discovered that the caterpillar cursed spirit could swallow and spit out objects, named it Fat Worm, and tried to wear it like Toji Fushiguro.
• A Zenin Clan envoy introduced himself to Jianxia and concluded that Jianxia was Ryomen Sukuna after noticing his cursed spirits and Fat Worm dangling from his belt.

Jianxia pretended to be Sukuna and intimidated Zenin Wu Yan into revealing why the Zenin Clan had sought him out. After accepting a Special Grade Cursed Tool as an offering, Jianxia agreed to an alliance and proposed using Wu Yan as a spy inside Shinji Zenin’s residence.

• Jianxia used the cursed energy pressure of his cursed spirits to make Zenin Wu Yan kneel and answer his questions.
• Wu Yan explained that Shinichi Zenin wanted an alliance against Shinji Zenin and had learned of Sukuna’s presence near Mutsu from cursed corpses.
• Wu Yan offered Jianxia the Special Grade Cursed Tool Evening Mist, whose swings were guaranteed to hit, and Jianxia accepted it.
• Jianxia agreed to the alliance but said his binding vow with Shinji required a plan.
• Jianxia proposed bringing Wu Yan into Shinji’s residence as an apparent ally so Wu Yan could gather intelligence and report to Heian-kyo by carrier pigeon.

Jianxia brought Zenin Wu Yan to Shinji Zenin and helped stage the boy’s defection from the Heian-kyo Zenin Clan. Shinji secured Wu Yan’s loyalty with a binding vow, leaving him bound to serve Shinji and his allies.

• Jianxia returned to the Zenin Estate with Zenin Wu Yan and learned the boy barely remembered living there before his clan left.
• Jianxia and Shinji fabricated a story about Shinji’s alliance with the Fujiwara Clan and his daily fights with Sukuna, convincing Wu Yan that Shinji was powerful.
• Jianxia presented Wu Yan as a defector, and Wu Yan told Shinji that he wanted to surrender.
• Shinji asked Wu Yan to make a binding vow to obey him and his allies in exchange for their promise not to endanger Wu Yan’s life.
• Jianxia pressured Wu Yan into agreeing, and the binding vow took effect.

Jianxia considered how to build up his strength before the Fujiwara Clan’s decline and discovered a way the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit might help him develop Hiraizumi. The chapter ended with him wondering whether turning Hiraizumi into a city could attract settlers and create a steady supply of cursed spirits.

• Jianxia reasoned that Sukuna’s defeat of the Fujiwara Clan’s forces could explain the Three Great Families’ rise, but decided he would build up his own forces rather than wait for events to unfold.
• Uraume told Jianxia that he and Megumi Zenin had found six cursed spirits in nearby villages by tracking cursed residue.
• Jianxia reassured Uraume that the small number of spirits was not his fault and brought the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit outside to test its Clumsy House technique.
• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit used about a tenth of its cursed energy to create a sturdy wooden cottage, prompting Jianxia to consider building Hiraizumi into a city to attract settlers and generate cursed spirits.

Jianxia proposed turning Hiraizumi into a major city by building homes for displaced people, and Shinji agreed to support the plan. After the first houses were completed and Shinji brought nearly twenty refugees to settle there, Jianxia promised they would always have a place to live.

• Jianxia told Shinji he wanted to make Hiraizumi rival Heian-kyo, and Shinji agreed to handle logistics and settlement.
• Jianxia used cursed spirits to clear a hill and build wooden homes from gathered timber.
• Jianxia worried that houses alone would not attract settlers because the farmland still needed to be prepared.
• Shinji brought nearly twenty displaced people to Hiraizumi and said they were willing to farm in exchange for homes.
• Jianxia showed the group the completed houses, asked their elder to assign them, and promised they would always have somewhere to live.

Jianxia and the Zenin Clan turned Hiraizumi into a thriving settlement, and Tengen and Michisada Kamo arrived to meet their allies. Inside the Zenin Estate, they found Jianxia embracing a cursed spirit he called House-Maker.

• Shinji recruited refugees and artisans as Jianxia built houses and installed a sewer system, helping Hiraizumi's population surpass a thousand.
• Megumi Zenin, Uraume, and Zenin Wu Yan hunted cursed spirits for Jianxia, while Jianxia bound Wu Yan to serve him and assigned him to Auspicious.
• Tengen and Michisada Kamo traveled to Hiraizumi to inform Shinji that preparations for the great barrier were complete, and they were astonished by the settlement's rapid growth.
• Uraume welcomed the visitors and escorted them through a barrier after Michisada nearly attacked the cursed spirits guiding their horses.
• Tengen and Michisada entered the Zenin Estate and saw Jianxia embracing House-Maker.

Jianxia completed the first phase of Hiraizumi’s construction and won House-Maker over, gaining more cursed energy and the ability to use its building-altering technique. He escorted Tengen and Kamo Michisada to meet the Zenin Clan head after showing them how he had transformed the settlement, and the visitors continued toward the reception room.

• Jianxia fully won House-Maker over, completing a system task and increasing his cursed energy.
• Uraume introduced Tengen and Kamo Michisada to Jianxia, who agreed to take them to the Zenin Clan head.
• Kamo Michisada questioned why the Zenin Estate looked modest, and Jianxia transformed a corridor building with Clumsy House.
• Jianxia explained that he had used the technique to build Hiraizumi’s houses and city walls.
• Jianxia rebuked Kamo Michisada for calling cursed spirits tools, and Kamo Michisada apologized.
• Jianxia led Tengen and Kamo Michisada toward the reception room.

Jianxia left a meeting about establishing a great barrier and found Gojo Gen provoking Megumi Zenin at the stables. Gojo Gen revealed his Six Eyes and challenged them to defeat him, then released an overwhelming amount of cursed energy.

• Jianxia left the reception room and found Uraume, Megumi Zenin, and Gojo Gen at the stables.
• Gojo Gen insulted the Zenin Clan and provoked Megumi, who attacked him with Max Elephant, but Limitless stopped the water from reaching him.
• Gojo Gen introduced himself to Jianxia, and Megumi explained that he had dismissed the Zenin Clan's strength and her efforts.
• Jianxia asked Gojo Gen to take back his words, and Gojo Gen agreed on the condition that someone defeat him.
• Gojo Gen removed his blindfold to reveal the Six Eyes, challenged the group, and declared himself the strongest as his cursed energy surged.

Jianxia prepared to challenge Gojo Gen to restore the Zenin Clan’s reputation, but the duel began with a foul ambush at the mountain summit. Gojo Gen blocked the attack with Limitless, only to realize the projectile was filled with shit.

• Jianxia claimed his system reward and received forbidden knowledge about creating Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, which he rejected as useless and unacceptable.
• Megumi Zenin, Uraume, and Zenin Wu Yan encouraged Jianxia before he headed to the mountain to fight Gojo Gen.
• Gojo Gen searched the mountain, underestimated Jianxia’s strength, and used the Six Eyes to look for his concealed cursed energy.
• Jianxia hid near the summit and launched a cursed spirit from a buried Crate, which threw a Small Wooden Bucket at Gojo Gen.
• Gojo Gen blocked the bucket with Limitless, then recoiled from the stench after its brownish-yellow contents splashed into view.

Jianxia used cursed spirits and filth to drain Gojo Gen's Limitless, then attacked him in armor that concealed his cursed energy. The two prepared to continue their duel, with Jianxia relying on Evening Mist to bypass Limitless and Gojo Gen promising to fight at full strength.

• Jianxia's cursed spirits hurled barrels of sewer filth at Gojo Gen, forcing him to maintain Limitless at an expanded range.
• Gojo Gen used Blue to clear the filth and sweep up the cursed spirits, then deduced that Jianxia had Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
• Jianxia approached unseen in armor made with the Clumsy House technique and slashed at Gojo Gen with Evening Mist.
• Gojo Gen deactivated Limitless and dodged the blade, which had sliced his clothes, after learning Jianxia had soaked it in a latrine.
• Jianxia prepared to attack again, knowing Evening Mist could bypass Limitless, while Gojo Gen removed his outer garment and declared he would go all out.

Jianxia used Evening Mist’s sure-hit ability and an enormous wastewater attack to overwhelm Gojo Gen. The battle continued beneath a dome flooded with sewage, while the horrified spectators fled or resumed watching the broadcast.

• Gojo Gen dodged Evening Mist but was cut by its extending blade, then punched Jianxia away and identified the weapon’s sure-hit ability.
• Jianxia summoned Banquet of Fated Remnants and House-Maker, which raised an earthen dome over the mountaintop.
• Jianxia explained that the dome held a month’s worth of wastewater from Hiraizumi, then triggered the barrels and pipes to release it onto Gojo Gen.
• Tengen cut off the broadcast as Kamo Michisada, Megumi Zenin, and others left the viewing room, while Zenin Wu Yan fainted.
• Shinji Zenin resumed the broadcast from his own barrier as Tengen hurried away and Uraume watched eagerly.

Jianxia overwhelmed Gojo Gen with sewage to weaken his Cursed Energy output, but Gojo Gen answered by expanding his domain. Jianxia's Hollow Wicker Basket shattered, leaving the sparring match poised to turn dangerous.

• Jianxia flooded the earthen dome with sewage and churned it with wooden tentacles to force Gojo Gen to maintain Limitless.
• Gojo Gen emerged from the sewage, filthy and furious, and activated Domain Expansion: Void Sea of Consciousness.
• Jianxia used Hollow Wicker Basket to counter the domain's sure-hit effect as Gojo Gen explained that he could extend infinity to attacks, movements, and thoughts.
• Gojo Gen offered to dispel his domain if Jianxia conceded and promised the Gojo Clan leadership of the plan.
• Jianxia refused to concede, and Gojo Gen intensified his domain until Jianxia's Hollow Wicker Basket shattered.

Jianxia used Clumsy House’s concealment and House-Maker’s wooden pillars to evade Gojo Gen’s domain sure-hit and prepare the battlefield. He then revealed that another Cursed Spirit had broken the domain’s fragile outer shell, leaving Gojo Gen in Cursed Technique Burnout and falling from the sky.

• Gojo Gen realized Jianxia and Banquet of Fated Remnants had escaped the domain’s sure-hit by hiding their Cursed Energy behind Clumsy House’s membrane.
• Jianxia revealed that he had maintained Hollow Wicker Basket to buy time while House-Maker raised wooden pillars from the filthy water.
• Gojo Gen praised Jianxia, then launched Maximum Output Blue at him from the air.
• Jianxia explained that a domain reinforced on its inner shell was vulnerable from outside and warned Gojo Gen about his height.
• A Cursed Spirit cracked and shattered the domain’s outer barrier, triggering Gojo Gen’s Cursed Technique Burnout and sending him falling.

Jianxia defeated Gojo Gen by having a revived cursed spirit break the domain’s outer shell, but the collapsing barrier released foul water toward the Zenin Estate. The flood covered the estate and its residents in filth, and Tengen arrived to find the aftermath.

• Jianxia revived a Grade 3 cursed spirit and ordered it to break Gojo Gen’s domain while he used Hollow Wicker Basket to endure the sure-hit effect.
• Gojo Gen’s domain shattered, leaving him unable to use Limitless, and he conceded defeat to Jianxia and promised him one request.
• The remnants of Gojo Gen’s barrier vanished, releasing the foul water down the mountain toward the Zenin Estate.
• Tengen explored Hiraizumi, sampled Mantou, and then found Kamo Michisada covered in sludge and unconscious.
• Tengen entered the Zenin Estate and found Shinji Zenin, Megumi Zenin, and Zenin Wu Yan unconscious amid the filth, while Jianxia, Gojo Gen, and Uraume stood nearby.

After flooding the Zenin Estate with filthy water, Jianxia cleaned it up and used his cursed technique to renovate the ruined property. Megumi Zenin woke in a guest estate after the Great Barrier was deployed, then learned Jianxia had finished the renovations and invited them home to inspect them.

• Jianxia and Uraume cleaned the Zenin Estate while the unconscious clan members stayed in a protected estate in Hiraizumi.
• Jianxia decided to renovate the damaged Zenin Estate with his Clumsy House cursed technique and summoned House-Maker.
• Megumi Zenin woke beside Shinji Zenin in a vacant Hiraizumi estate and learned she could not remember what happened after the previous day's battle.
• Shinji Zenin told Megumi that he and the Gojo and Kamo clan heads had helped Tengen deploy Japan's Great Barrier.
• Uraume arrived and told Shinji and Megumi that Jianxia had finished renovating the estate and invited them to inspect it.

Jianxia showed Shinji Zenin, Gojo Gen, and Kamo Michisada the dramatically expanded Zenin Estate, complete with maid-clad cursed spirits and a huge modern villa. Impressed by the renovation, Gojo Gen and Kamo Michisada were invited to move their clans to Hiraizumi and receive matching estates.

• Shinji Zenin, Gojo Gen, and Kamo Michisada entered the Zenin Estate and encountered cursed spirits dressed as maids welcoming them home.
• Jianxia showed the group the five-story villa and explained its public rooms, living quarters, facilities, and sewer connections.
• The visitors toured the expanded estate, including its grounds, training hall, and spare houses, before gathering in the villa's main hall.
• Shinji Zenin praised Jianxia's design, and Gojo Gen said he wanted Jianxia to rebuild the Gojo Estate.
• Jianxia reminded Gojo Gen of his promised favor and invited the Gojo clan to settle in Hiraizumi, then offered to build ancestral lands for Kamo Michisada's clan as well.

Jianxia visited Tengen in the Tombs of the Star Corridor to learn how the Great Barrier tracked cursed energy and discovered that processing Sukuna’s enormous traces could overwhelm the mind. After recovering from the information overload, he learned of a special grade cursed spirit in Kawazu Township and decided to investigate.

• Gojo Gen and Kamo Michisada accepted Jianxia’s offer to move their clans to better grounds, while Shinji and Megumi Zenin accepted the cursed spirit maids.
• Jianxia entered the Tombs of the Star Corridor and asked Tengen to explain the Great Barrier’s operation and condition.
• Tengen revealed that red lights in the Void Barrier represented cursed energy fluctuations across Japan, with a massive sphere containing traces of Sukuna’s activity.
• Jianxia touched Sukuna’s sphere, was overwhelmed by its information, and suffered a nosebleed before Tengen pulled him away.
• Jianxia used Light Returns at Dusk to repair his brain and safely accessed information about an ordinary special grade cursed spirit in Kawazu Township, Izu Province.
• Jianxia left the Tombs of the Star Corridor and set off home, intending to investigate the cursed spirit.

Shinichi Zenin tried to convince a Fujiwara Northern House nobleman that Ryomen Sukuna had insulted the court by killing his envoy, and the nobleman ordered him to confront Sukuna in Hiraizumi. Shinichi was assigned U as an escort, and she was told to retrieve a mysterious item from the Forbidden Storehouse before they departed.

• A Fujiwara Northern House nobleman berated Shinichi Zenin for failing to find allies to help him become Kampaku.
• Shinichi Zenin claimed his envoy to Mutsu Province had likely been killed by Ryomen Sukuna, who had joined the court's enemies in Hiraizumi.
• Shinichi Zenin argued that Sukuna's attack reflected poorly on the nobleman and proposed sending someone to force Sukuna into their service.
• The nobleman ordered Shinichi Zenin to go to Hiraizumi and teach Sukuna a lesson, then assigned U to accompany him.
• The nobleman told U to retrieve 'that thing' from the Forbidden Storehouse, and Shinichi Zenin hurried out after being dismissed.

Jianxia, Uraume, and Megumi Zenin set out for Izu Province, hoping to publicize Hiraizumi and attract jujutsu sorcerers with Uraume’s cooking and modern cookware. They stopped at a small village, where Jianxia and Uraume assembled a food cart and prepared to impress the villagers with stir-fried dishes.

• Jianxia and Uraume woke Megumi Zenin and persuaded her to guide them to Izu Province, carrying their cooking supplies along the way.
• Jianxia explained that their journey would help spread Hiraizumi’s name and draw unaffiliated jujutsu sorcerers to the settlement.
• The three mounted horses and began the journey, with Megumi estimating that the trip would take a week or more.
• After about two hours, the group reached a small village where farmers were repairing their homes before winter.
• Jianxia and Uraume assembled a wooden food cart and arranged their cookware into a roadside stall.
• Jianxia asked Uraume to stir-fry dishes for the watching villagers.

Jianxia, Uraume, and Megumi Zenin introduced Heian-era villagers to reheated dishes from Hiraizumi, offering food in exchange for firewood and encouraging them to move to the city. After one villager tasted the fried rice and returned with the news, nearly the whole village arrived for a meal.

• Uraume reheated frozen egg fried rice in an iron wok while Jianxia invited villagers to trade firewood for food.
• A nervous villager brought firewood, tasted the fried rice, and thanked Jianxia for the meal.
• Jianxia and Megumi Zenin told the villager that Hiraizumi offered farmland, housing, and help registering as a resident.
• The villager returned to his village, and nearly a hundred people from a dozen households hurried to the food cart.
• Uraume prepared several kinds of dishes while Jianxia and Megumi Zenin served the villagers and directed them to Hiraizumi.

Shinichi Zenin returned to Hiraizumi with U to find Ryomen Sukuna, but was distracted by the city’s growth and its food before Shinji Zenin confronted him. Shinji greeted his elder brother with Gojo Gen and Kamo Michisada at his side, leaving Shinichi and U facing the people of Hiraizumi.

• Shinichi Zenin and U entered Hiraizumi in disguise, intending to find Ryomen Sukuna and bring him under Shinichi’s command.
• Shinji Zenin recognized Shinichi’s cursed energy and told Gojo Gen and Kamo Michisada about their family history and his brother’s likely ill intentions.
• Gojo Gen and Kamo Michisada joined Shinji as he went to confront Shinichi.
• Shinichi stopped at a vendor’s stall to buy mantou, while U warned him to focus on their mission.
• Shinichi asked the vendor where Ryomen Sukuna could be found, but the vendor did not understand the question.
• Shinji approached Shinichi with Gojo Gen and Kamo Michisada and greeted him, then tentatively asked whether U was his niece.

Shinji Zenin tried to learn why Shinichi Zenin had returned to Hiraizumi, but U attacked him and Gojo Gen intervened. Gojo Gen took U to a forest to fight, where she wounded him with a cursed tool that pierced Limitless.

• Shinji Zenin greeted Shinichi Zenin and asked why he had returned to Hiraizumi.
• U vanished and thrust a short blade at Shinji Zenin, but Gojo Gen caught it with Limitless.
• Gojo Gen recognized U's Heavenly Restriction and took her to a forest outside Hiraizumi.
• U escaped Gojo Gen's grip during their fall and launched another attack, but he knocked her down and struck with Blue Fist.
• U used her Heavenly Restriction to dodge Blue Fist and wounded Gojo Gen with a strangely shaped cursed tool.

Gojo Gen fought U, a Heavenly Restriction user wielding the Inverted Spear of Heaven, and initially overwhelmed her with his physical strength. U tricked his Six Eyes with the cursed tool and a rabbit, then struck his neck and left him collapsing in the dirt.

• U ambushed Gojo Gen with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, which nullified Limitless, but he dodged a fatal blow and recognized the tool's effect.
• Gojo Gen introduced himself and pressed U for her name, but she remained silent and focused on the fight.
• Gojo Gen used his enhanced physical strength to knock U through trees and crash down on her, creating a huge crater.
• Gojo Gen followed the cursed energy of the Inverted Spear of Heaven to an injured rabbit, unaware that U was preparing to attack him.
• U seized the Inverted Spear of Heaven and pierced Gojo Gen's neck after he activated Limitless, then told him he relied too much on his eyes.

Shinichi Zenin was captured at the Zenin Estate, where Kamo Michisada used a revolting pot of heated excrement to force him to reveal why he had come to Hiraizumi. Shinichi confessed that he was seeking Ryomen Sukuna, but Kamo insisted he first eat the pot’s contents as an initiation meal.

• Shinichi Zenin berated Zenin Wu Yan for working with the court’s enemy after coming to Hiraizumi to search for him.
• Shinji Zenin questioned his bound older brother, but Shinichi refused to explain himself, so Shinji left Kamo Michisada to handle him.
• Kamo Michisada ordered Zenin Wu Yan to fetch aged excrement and had cursed spirits heat it in a giant pot to frighten Shinichi into talking.
• Shinichi confessed that he had come to find Ryomen Sukuna and teach him a lesson, then offered information in exchange for his release.
• Kamo agreed to release Shinichi only after he ate an initiation meal, and a cursed spirit began feeding him the foul slurry.

After mastering Reverse Cursed Technique, Gojo Gen returned to Hiraizumi and found U dying from her injuries. U died after thanking him for their fight, and Gojo Gen began using Externalized Reverse Cursed Technique to heal her.

• U struggled back to Hiraizumi, reflecting on her unexpected excitement during her fight with Gojo Gen.
• U reached the closed stall where Zenin Shinichi had bought steamed buns, then collapsed against a wall as her injuries worsened.
• Gojo Gen appeared alive, explained that he had healed himself with Reverse Cursed Technique, and declared that he had mastered the core of cursed energy.
• U thanked Gojo Gen for their fight and died from her injuries.
• Gojo Gen realized U had stopped breathing and used Externalized Reverse Cursed Technique to begin healing her body.