Chapter Summaries

Jianxia transmigrated to the Heian Era with Cursed Spirit Manipulation and a system that offered no direct power, but assigned him missions to participate in the Culling Game and screw Kenjaku. After the system directed him toward a promising Zenin Clan sorcerer, Jianxia found the sorcerer invoking a technique as he arrived.

• Jianxia woke in the Heian Era and learned from his phone that he had Cursed Spirit Manipulation and two missions he was required to complete.
• Jianxia discovered that the system offered no missions or shop, but could provide information to guide him.
• The system told Jianxia that a strong Zenin Clan sorcerer with a normal personality was exorcising cursed spirits nearby and could become clan head.
• Jianxia ran toward the sorcerer, noticing his body was fitter and that he had cursed energy.
• Jianxia pushed through bushes and heard the Zenin sorcerer say, "Furube, yurayura..."

Jianxia woke in the Heian era after a brutal encounter with the system avatar and interrupted Megumi Zenin’s fight with a cursed spirit. After Megumi accidentally wounded him, he absorbed the spirit, healed, and struck her with Black Flash, leaving her convinced he was a powerful senior sorcerer.

• Jianxia argued with the system avatar about its misleading account of the Heian era and punched it with Black Flash.
• Megumi Zenin stopped summoning Mahoraga when Jianxia distracted a powerful Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, then defeated it with Divine Dog: Totality.
• Megumi’s shikigami accidentally slashed Jianxia across the chest, but his hand absorbed the cursed spirit and his wounds rapidly healed.
• Jianxia woke and hit Megumi with Black Flash, while she mistook his reaction for a test of her strength by a senior sorcerer.
• The system announced an additional objective to romance the subdued cursed spirit, and Megumi landed before Jianxia and called him “Senior.”

Jianxia realized the girl he had rescued was Megumi Zenin, then discovered his Cursed Spirit Manipulation had subjugated the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit. He explained his technique and defended the spirit to Megumi, who watched him embrace it and declared them a pair of star-crossed lovers.

• Jianxia recognized Megumi Zenin and checked his system, which listed a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit among his subjugated spirits.
• Megumi Zenin apologized for failing to meet Jianxia’s expectations and prostrated herself, misunderstanding why he had helped her.
• Jianxia summoned the restored Grade 2 Cursed Spirit and told Megumi Zenin that his technique had placed it under his control.
• Jianxia questioned Megumi Zenin’s assumption that cursed spirits were disgusting because of their appearance and argued that actions mattered more.
• Jianxia embraced the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit and called it an ally of justice, while Megumi Zenin admired their bond.

Jianxia accepted Zenin Megumi’s invitation and traveled with her to the Zenin Clan grounds in Hiraizumi, hoping to find a safe place to build his strength. After passing through the clan’s hidden barrier, they heard someone nearby reciting a familiar incantation.

• Jianxia learned that Hiraizumi was near and decided he would avoid Heian-kyo rather than risk meeting powerful sorcerers or cursed spirits.
• Zenin Megumi invited Jianxia to visit the Zenin Clan, hoping to secure his help, and he accepted, glad to have somewhere to stay.
• Jianxia and Zenin Megumi reached Hiraizumi and passed through a barrier concealed within a boulder.
• Zenin Megumi led Jianxia into the clan grounds and said her father, the clan’s third head, was resting nearby.
• Jianxia and Zenin Megumi heard someone in the next room reciting “Furube, yurayura...” and stared at each other in alarm.

Jianxia met Shinji Zenin after interrupting his imitation of the hand signs for summoning Mahoraga, and learned that Megumi Zenin believed he could use Reverse Cursed Technique. After Megumi asked him to teach her, Jianxia said he did not know the technique, but she misunderstood his answer and left convinced it was too advanced to teach.

• Jianxia rushed into the sitting room and found Shinji Zenin imitating the hand signs for summoning Mahoraga.
• Megumi Zenin introduced Jianxia as the sorcerer who had helped her exorcise a cursed spirit and explained that he could use Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Shinji apologized to Jianxia and arranged for Megumi to take him to a guest room in the west wing.
• Megumi Zenin bowed before Jianxia and begged him to teach her Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Jianxia told Megumi that he did not know Reverse Cursed Technique, but she took his words as a tactful warning that his methods were unsuitable for others and left.

Jianxia weighed two ways to complete his missions and chose the harder path: breed Kenjaku before she occupied a male body, then survive a thousand years to join the Culling Game. The system offered mystery rewards for completed missions, and Jianxia began pursuing his remaining immediate objective by asking a captured cursed spirit on a date.

• Jianxia learned that the system hid his phone use and system-related speech from others, and reviewed his three mission objectives.
• Jianxia asked what would happen if he failed to breed Kenjaku and learned that his soul would become a Sukuna-style pee-pee cursed object.
• Jianxia rejected the easier plan of breeding Kenjaku in Suguru Geto's body during the Culling Game and chose to pursue her before she occupied a male body.
• The system activated hardcore mode, but its only change was flashy fonts and effects; it then explained that mission completions granted mystery rewards.
• Jianxia decided to work on romancing his captured cursed spirits and announced that their date was beginning.

Jianxia sparred with Megumi Zenin, using his Grade 2 Cursed Spirit and overwhelming close-range attacks to keep her from summoning shikigami. Megumi took a decisive risk to summon Nue, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Jianxia asked Megumi Zenin to spar so he could test his newly captured Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, while Shinji Zenin watched from the courtyard steps.
• Jianxia and the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit attacked together, forcing Megumi to dodge Jianxia’s punches while Divine Dog: Totality fought the curse.
• Jianxia overwhelmed Megumi with cursed-energy-enhanced attacks and interrupted her attempt to summon Nue.
• Shinji Zenin assessed Jianxia’s crude fighting style and exceptional cursed energy control as the battle continued.
• Megumi called Divine Dog: Totality to her side, but the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit pinned it to the ground.
• Megumi abandoned her defense as Jianxia struck her abdomen and completed the hand sign to summon Nue.

Megumi Zenin used Nue to free Divine Dog: Totality and force Jianxia into a two-on-two fight, while Jianxia relied on his Grade 2 Cursed Spirit to counter her shikigami. The chapter ended as Megumi and Jianxia unleashed powerful attacks that collided and engulfed the Zenin Estate in light.

• Megumi Zenin summoned Nue while taking Jianxia's punch, then used its lightning attack to free Divine Dog: Totality from the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit.
• Megumi Zenin revealed she had aimed to make Jianxia summon another cursed spirit, but Jianxia and the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit charged her together.
• Megumi Zenin switched her shikigami's opponents, while Jianxia dodged Divine Dog: Totality and wounded it badly enough that Megumi recalled it.
• Megumi Zenin powered up Nue for a decisive strike as Jianxia drew on the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit's energy to prepare a blast of his own.
• Megumi Zenin's purple lightning and Jianxia's azure cursed energy collided, filling the Zenin Estate with light.

Jianxia discovered that the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit was born from people’s regret at festivals ending, and he named it “Banquet of Fated Remnants” after absorbing its cursed energy. After Jianxia defeated Megumi Zenin in their spar and left her badly injured, he used the spirit’s healing technique to restore her, and she woke up complaining about her luck.

• Jianxia entered the cursed spirit’s memories and learned that it had formed from regret over festivals and beautiful moments ending.
• Jianxia accepted the spirit’s trust, absorbed its cursed energy, and named it “Banquet of Fated Remnants.”
• Shinji Zenin maintained a barrier around Jianxia and Megumi Zenin’s fight and realized Jianxia’s cursed energy exceeded Grade 4 levels.
• Jianxia defeated Megumi, leaving her unconscious and severely burned, and Shinji pleaded with him to save her.
• Jianxia used “Banquet of Fated Remnants’” innate technique, “Light Returns at Dusk,” to heal Megumi, who woke up and complained about her luck.

Jianxia explained how his newly awakened cursed technique, Light Returns at Dusk, had restored Megumi Zenin after their spar. He learned that the Zenin Clan had split into three factions, leaving Shinji Zenin and Megumi as the only members in the ancestral home.

• Jianxia explained that Light Returns at Dusk could reverse the state of objects and, through Banquet of Fated Remnants, affect sorcerers and cursed spirits.
• Jianxia thanked Shinji Zenin and Megumi Zenin for helping him bond with Banquet of Fated Remnants, and Megumi said she valued their spar.
• Jianxia asked why the estate seemed deserted, and Shinji Zenin revealed that his brother Shinichi Zenin and uncle Kago Zenin had left with the other clan members.
• Shinji Zenin said the Zenin Clan had split into factions backing him, Shinichi Zenin, and Kago Zenin, then asked Megumi Zenin to show Jianxia to his room.

Jianxia discovered that romancing Cursed Spirits was a permanent, repeatable objective, but his claimed reward only gave him a mysterious instruction to travel north at dawn in five days. While staying with the Zenin Clan, he trained with Megumi Zenin and Shinji Zenin, mastered Hollow Wicker Basket, and set out to follow the system’s information when the appointed day arrived.

• Jianxia learned that romancing subjugated Cursed Spirits was a permanent objective, then claimed a reward directing him to travel ten kilometers north at dawn five days later.
• Jianxia sparred with Megumi Zenin and studied Cursed Energy, growing strong enough to overwhelm her even when she summoned two Shikigami.
• Jianxia sought lessons from Shinji Zenin and mastered the advanced Barrier Technique Hollow Wicker Basket after several days of training.
• Jianxia grew capable of exorcising a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit alone and potentially fighting a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit.
• The five days passed, and the dawn specified by the system’s information arrived.

Jianxia and Megumi Zenin investigated a disturbance ten kilometers north and found a frozen ruin deep in a bamboo forest. They discovered a living, snow-haired child encased in ice, whom Jianxia recognized as Uraume.

• Jianxia joked that his intelligence network had located Cursed Spirits, and Megumi Zenin followed him north.
• Jianxia and Megumi reached a bamboo forest but found no immediate signs of Cursed Spirits, so they searched deeper.
• Jianxia asked Megumi where Ryomen Sukuna was active and learned that he was near Hida Province, far from Mutsu Province.
• Megumi detected Cursed Residue and Cursed Energy ahead as the forest grew colder, and she and Jianxia prepared for a fight.
• Jianxia and Megumi found a ruined thatched house, ice-covered human remains, and a living child encased in ice; Jianxia identified the child as Uraume.

Jianxia and Megumi Zenin found Uraume unconscious in a bamboo grove and hurried away, fearing Sukuna might appear. After Uraume woke and begged to die for the deaths caused by his uncontrolled ice, Jianxia reassured him that he was not a curse and offered to teach him to use his powers; Uraume accepted and asked to follow him.

• Megumi Zenin found Uraume alive but unconscious in the icy ruins, and Jianxia recognized him as a key figure from the Heian era.
• Jianxia used Banquet of Fated Remnants to carry Uraume away, urging Megumi Zenin to flee before Sukuna could arrive.
• After reaching safety, Jianxia and Megumi Zenin discovered that Uraume had awakened but remained withdrawn and silent.
• Uraume introduced himself and called himself a curse who brought misfortune, then asked Jianxia to send him to the underworld.
• Jianxia asked whether Uraume had deliberately harmed anyone, then told him he could learn to control his power and use it to exorcise curses.
• Uraume took Jianxia's hand and asked to follow him.

After Sukuna wandered into a bamboo grove in Mutsu Province, he left, irritated by the ice. At the Zenin Estate, Shinji asked Jianxia to lead an elite sorcerer unit called Auspicious as the clan prepared for a possible attack.

• Sukuna learned he was in Mutsu Province, ate a hearty meal, and wandered into a bamboo grove where he sensed traces of three sorcerers before leaving in irritation.
• Megumi worried Shinji would refuse to take Uraume in, while Jianxia argued that Uraume could strengthen the Zenin Clan against its rival branches.
• Shinji told Jianxia and Megumi that Uraume wished to remain by Jianxia's side rather than join the Zenin Clan.
• Shinji revealed that his elder brother and second uncle had allied with the Fujiwara Clan and might attack the Zenin Clan.
• Shinji asked Jianxia to lead Auspicious, an elite unit of sorcerers with innate cursed techniques, and help him protect the clan.

Jianxia accepted Shinji Zenin’s request to lead “Auspicious” and swore to protect the Zenin Clan unless it became monstrous. After making plans to recruit and train sorcerers, Jianxia left Uraume’s instruction to Megumi Zenin and went to hunt cursed spirits.

• Shinji Zenin explained that he wanted Jianxia’s help preventing the Zenin Clan from adopting his relatives’ belief that non-sorcerers were not human, then knelt and asked him to lead “Auspicious.”
• Jianxia agreed to lead “Auspicious” and made a binding vow to protect the Zenin Clan, promising to kill anyone who turned it into a monster.
• Jianxia and Shinji discussed plans to develop “Auspicious,” including recruiting promising sorcerers and improving their strength through training.
• Jianxia asked Megumi Zenin to teach Uraume cursed energy control and sorcerer basics, then left the estate to hunt cursed spirits.

Jianxia used the system’s new navigation feature to search for a cursed spirit and reached a strange house that resisted his cursed-energy-enhanced strength. Just as he decided to retreat and return with Megumi Zenin, the house began to shake and stood up.

• Jianxia left the Zenin Estate at night to hunt cursed spirits and strengthen his Cursed Spirit Manipulation.
• The system apologized for ignoring him and offered free navigation to things that existed.
• Jianxia followed the system’s directions through the forest to a remote stretch of farmland.
• Jianxia found a brightly painted wooden house whose doors he could not push open and suspected a powerful cursed spirit was involved.
• Jianxia decided to return during daylight with Megumi Zenin, but the house shook and stood up.

Jianxia fought the House Cursed Spirit after it revealed itself, then smashed its wooden body with a Black Flash. A powerful surge of cursed energy emerged from the wreckage, and Jianxia prepared to face what came next.

• The House Cursed Spirit emerged from concealment and told Jianxia that escape was impossible.
• Jianxia summoned Banquet of Fated Remnants and provoked the House Cursed Spirit by calling himself Ryomen Sukuna.
• The House Cursed Spirit attacked, and Banquet of Fated Remnants used Light Returns at Dusk to trap its arm in an unfinished movement.
• Jianxia deduced that the House Cursed Spirit's affected body contained no cursed energy, then struck its red doors with a Black Flash and shattered it.
• A powerful surge of cursed energy burst from the wreckage, and Jianxia took a fighting stance.

Jianxia and Banquet of Fated Remnants fought the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit, whose technique manipulated buildings and wooden fragments. The spirit pinned Banquet of Fated Remnants with spikes, leaving Jianxia to face a genuine special grade opponent.

• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit emerged from the ruined houses and threatened to devour Jianxia.
• Jianxia unsettled the spirit by calling it beautiful and saying he wanted to make it his.
• The spirit attacked with Clumsy House, but Jianxia evaded the straw house while Banquet of Fated Remnants was flung away and returned using its technique.
• Jianxia and the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit each struggled to identify the other's technique as they prepared to attack.
• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit used Clumsy House: Foundation to grow spikes from wooden fragments embedded in Banquet of Fated Remnants and pin it down.
• Jianxia realized the spirit was a genuine special grade and felt the pressure of facing it.

Jianxia fought the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit, learned the two effects of its Clumsy House technique, and relied on healing and endurance while searching for an advantage. The spirit unleashed its full power by turning the battlefield’s scattered debris into hardened weapons, leaving Jianxia and Banquet of Fated Remnants facing a lethal attack.

• Jianxia revealed Cursed Spirit Manipulation and used the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit’s distraction to rush it, but a wooden wall severed his wrist before he healed it with Light Returns at Dusk.
• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit revealed that Clumsy House let it manipulate buildings and create new ones that concealed cursed energy, then formed two wooden swords and attacked Jianxia.
• Jianxia and the spirit traded blows, and Jianxia used Light Returns at Dusk to recover from injuries while trying to wear his opponent down.
• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit kicked Jianxia away, returned to the battlefield’s center, and activated Clumsy House Manifestation to turn the scattered wood and straw into hardened weapons.

Jianxia defeated the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit by using Banquet of Fated Remnants's technique to turn the spirit’s wooden constructs back into cursed energy, then absorbed the wounded spirit. After receiving a first-time achievement reward, he headed back to the Zenin Estate.

• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit’s technique failed against Jianxia, while Banquet of Fated Remnants revealed its immense cursed energy and the technique Light Returns at Dusk.
• Jianxia explained that Banquet of Fated Remnants had reverted the cursed spirit’s scraps of wood, restoring the cursed energy used to build its mansion.
• The Long, Thin Cursed Spirit raised a stone foundation to block Banquet of Fated Remnants’s cannon, and Jianxia transformed the foundation into cursed energy and reinforced himself with it.
• Jianxia struck the Long, Thin Cursed Spirit with a flying kick as Banquet of Fated Remnants fired its cannon, leaving the spirit defeated in two pieces.
• Jianxia absorbed the wounded Long, Thin Cursed Spirit, received a system reward for subduing his first special grade cursed spirit, and set off for the Zenin Estate.