Chapter Summaries

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.