Chapter Summaries

Xia Xia regained his original bloodthirsty nature and received a powerful Innate Cursed Technique and Domain Expansion built around stealing power and inflicting soul damage. In a normal simulation, he killed Choso and Yuji, then killed himself before Sukuna could take control.

• Xia Xia recovered his original cruel impulses and obtained the Azure Soul Life Theft technique and Midu All-Works Body domain.
• Xia Xia entered a normal simulation at the hotel where Yuji and Choso had sworn brotherhood, then opened his domain and inflicted agony on both.
• Xia Xia killed Choso, deciding that he would spare him in a future simulation.
• Xia Xia taunted Yuji and killed him by piercing his skull, while thinking aloud about Jujutsu Kaisen power comparisons.
• Xia Xia summoned a Demon Blade and slit his own throat before Sukuna could take over Yuji's body.

After killing Choso in a simulation, Xia Xia reflected on his pursuit of immortality and settled into an “ordinary heart” free of attachment. He then began a special simulation centered on Yorozu, set in the Heian Era, with Yuji Itadori’s interference removed.

• Xia Xia opened Choso’s Treasure Bag and received Cursed Womb Affinity.
• Xia Xia accepted that he still could not defeat Sukuna and resolved to pursue immortality by becoming stronger.
• Xia Xia decided that his heart held only ordinariness and that Choso and the others could be left alone.
• Xia Xia selected Yorozu as the core character for his final special simulation.
• The simulation placed Xia Xia in the Heian Era, where Ryomen Sukuna ruled through strength, and ended on the resolve to become an asura again.

After unleashing the cursed womb and dying, Xia Xia Ashiya was reborn in the past as a powerless child of the Ashiya Clan. He awakened [Cursed Spirit Manipulation] despite his faint cursed energy, leaving him poised to begin again.

• Surrounded by enemies after his battle with Sukuna, Xia Xia Ashiya released Rakshasa Hundred Demons, triggering a deadly Night Parade that slaughtered his pursuers.
• The cursed womb absorbed the surrounding fear and despair, revealed its name as Myriad Karma, and sent Xia Xia Ashiya back through time.
• Xia Xia Ashiya awoke in the Ashiya Clan as a child named Xia, while the clan held a ritual to awaken the children's Cursed Techniques.
• The clan's barrier ritual revealed that Xia had almost no cursed energy, so the elders dismissed his prospects and expected him to serve the clan.
• Xia discovered that he had regained [Cursed Spirit Manipulation], the Cursed Technique of the legendary Great Onmyoji.

Ashiya Xia Xia returned to the Ashiya family’s shrine and used his Cursed Spirit Manipulation to turn a group of young sorcerers into cursed spirits and absorb them. He left the bamboo grove the following morning with more cursed energy and a captured spider cursed spirit.

• Ashiya Xia Xia recognized a young sorcerer leading a group that demanded his monthly resources.
• Ashiya Xia killed the ringleader with a thread, and the boy’s body began transforming into a spider-like cursed spirit.
• Ashiya Xia used his Cursed Spirit Manipulation technique, Netherworld, to subdue and absorb the spider cursed spirit.
• Ashiya Xia restrained the remaining apprentices, drained their blood, and transformed them into cursed spirits despite their pleas for help.
• Ashiya Xia left the grove the following morning, picked up a jewel-inlaid hairpin, and headed home.

Ashiya Xia Xia supported his cousin Ashiya Xia Cheng as Xia Cheng joined the main house, and he continued working to strengthen himself while clinging to their family bond. After finding a jade kingfisher carved by Xia Cheng around a courtesan’s neck, Xia Xia bought her freedom as a surprise for his cousin, then fell asleep dreaming of impossible riches and power.

• Ashiya Xia Xia returned home and praised Ashiya Xia Cheng’s jade carving before learning Xia Cheng would become the clan elder’s adopted son.
• Ashiya Xia Xia congratulated Xia Cheng and took him to their favorite teahouse for sugar cakes.
• Ashiya Xia Xia reflected on how he had protected and cared for Xia Cheng through years of hardship, despite being neglected by their uncle and aunt.
• Over the following months, Ashiya Xia Xia recovered old skills, grew stronger through cursed spirit missions, and saved money while Xia Cheng settled into the main house.
• Ashiya Xia Xia spotted Xia Cheng’s carved kingfisher on a courtesan’s necklace and bought her freedom, intending to surprise Xia Cheng.
• Ashiya Xia Xia went to sleep after arranging the purchase and dreamed of wealth and authority.

Ashiya Xia Xia bought Xunko’s freedom, but his younger brother Natsunari accused him of mistreating her, prompting Xia Xia to sever their relationship. When Natsunari offered all his savings to take Xunko, Xia Xia let them leave and remained alone at the tavern.

• Xunko packed her belongings and, at Ashiya Xia Xia’s request, went to buy sugar cakes and red bean cakes.
• Natsunari confronted Ashiya Xia Xia, accused him of hurting Xunko, and knocked the cakes onto the floor.
• Ashiya Xia Xia slapped Natsunari twice, said they were no longer brothers, and offered to transfer Xunko to him for six silver ingots.
• Natsunari offered his saved silver to take Xunko, and Ashiya Xia Xia accepted the money and told them to leave.
• Natsunari took Xunko away while Ashiya Xia Xia sat alone until evening, then ordered food and wine and decided to stay the night.

Ashiya Xia Xia exterminated the Ashiya clan, went to Kyoto, and became the powerful State Preceptor Ashiya Doman. Five years later, he confronted Yorozu, a strange woman who broke into his residence, and left her bound to question her motives.

• Ashiya Xia Xia decided to leave for Kyoto after securing his position in the Ashiya clan, then exterminated the clan while sparing the town below the mountain.
• Xia Xia traveled to Kyoto and, five years later, had become the State Preceptor Ashiya Doman, while Myriad Karma remained an unborn cursed womb in his shadow.
• A woman entered Doman's residence using a letter from the Fujiwara Clan, and Doman revealed that he had detected the intruder posing as his guard.
• Doman attacked the woman and trapped her in his domain, where she introduced herself as Yorozu and declared her love for him.
• After Yorozu touched Doman's face and he pierced her with a short sword, Doman dispelled his domain, bound her with cursed-energy chains, and demanded to know why she had come.

Ashiya Xia Xia read the Fujiwara Clan’s invitation to join a coalition against Ryomen Sukuna and discovered the clan had also uncovered his identity and was holding his younger brother Natsunari and Natsunari’s wife. The letter’s threats and offer of Yorozu left Xia Xia weighing the situation, and he questioned her about when the Fujiwara Clan planned to act.

• Ashiya Xia Xia took the Fujiwara Clan’s invitation from Yorozu and read its appeal for an alliance against Ryomen Sukuna.
• The letter revealed that the Fujiwara Clan had discovered Xia Xia’s identity and that Natsunari and his wife were staying with the clan.
• Xia Xia learned the clan planned to use Natsunari’s wife and the Bloodline Severance technique to threaten him into joining its effort against Sukuna.
• The letter explained that Sukuna had arrived at the Fujiwara Clan’s seat, prompting the clan to gather forces and invite Xia Xia to join them.
• Xia Xia freed Yorozu from his chains and asked when the Fujiwara Clan planned to make its move.

Ashiya Xia Xia prepared to meet the Fujiwara Clan and agreed to support their plan against Ryomen Sukuna. He saw through the clan head’s scheme to use the festival and its people as bait, then refused to lead the attack or spare the Fujiwara members marked for sacrifice.

• Ashiya Xia Xia packed his belongings, dressed with help from cursed spirits including Tamamo-no-Mae, and prepared to leave with Yorozu.
• Yorozu admired Ashiya Xia Xia’s appearance and followed him despite his warnings to keep her distance.
• The Fujiwara Clan gathered for a banquet, expecting Ryomen Sukuna to arrive after their scouts tracked Uraume.
• Ashiya Xia Xia told the Fujiwara Clan head he would help kill Natsunari and seek Uraume if he survived, but would only provide backup against Sukuna.
• The Fujiwara Clan head revealed that the clan planned to crown Sukuna king at the Summer Festival, and Ashiya Xia Xia realized the gathering was a trap meant to sacrifice selected clan members.
• Ashiya Xia Xia refused to lead the attack or spare the people the Fujiwara Clan had marked, leaving the clan head uneasy that he had seen through the plan.

Ashiya Xia Xia negotiated to fight Uraume instead of Sukuna, then discovered the Fujiwara Clan had hidden its true formation across the entire estate. He secretly spread cursed spirits through the formation to turn its power against the clan as preparations for Sukuna’s festival continued.

• Ashiya Xia Xia agreed to release his cursed spirits for the Fujiwara Clan’s battle against Sukuna while he targeted Uraume, and he secured Yorozu’s place at his side.
• Ashiya Xia Xia questioned the ominous formation beneath them, then used a false body to buy red bean cakes while his real body surveyed the estate from above.
• Ashiya Xia Xia discovered the Fujiwara Clan estate formed a concealed ritual space and suspected the Fujiwara Clan head planned to profit from the fight regardless of its outcome.
• Ashiya Xia Xia released thousands of concealed cursed spirits and sent them through the formation’s pathways to redirect its effects.
• Preparations for the festival continued as Ashiya Xia Xia reflected on Sukuna’s cruelty, Uraume’s role, and the malice behind jujutsu sorcerers.