Chapter Summaries

Qingxiao endured Sukuna’s barrage while opening his domain, Seeking Truth by Abandoning Cleverness, which erased cursed techniques and healed his injuries. Sukuna realized he might lose as Qingxiao told him to get back to the basics.

• Qingxiao retreated, took a motionless stance, and began opening his domain as Sukuna watched warily.
• Sukuna unleashed slashes, Blue, Piercing Blood, and other cursed techniques to stop Qingxiao, leaving him severely wounded.
• Qingxiao completed Domain Expansion: Seeking Truth by Abandoning Cleverness, and its Three-Colored Lines spread across the battlefield.
• The domain erased Sukuna’s incoming attacks and restored Qingxiao’s cursed energy, allowing his wounds to heal instantly.
• Sukuna recognized the domain’s unprecedented nature and feared he might lose as Qingxiao told him to get back to the basics.

Qingxiao unleashed his Domain Expansion, erasing Sukuna’s attacks and leveling the battlefield into a vast gray expanse. The observers watched in awe and fear, while Shoko worried about Qingxiao’s injuries and Yuji looked forward to asking him for Black Flash training.

• After punching Sukuna away, Qingxiao retreated and stood in a formal stance instead of pursuing him.
• Sukuna unleashed a barrage of Cursed Techniques that swallowed Qingxiao in blinding light.
• Qingxiao expanded his domain, Seeking Truth by Abandoning Cleverness, and its Three-Colored Lines silently erased Sukuna’s attacks and leveled the battlefield.
• Takako Uro called Qingxiao a walking natural disaster as the operations room fell silent.
• Naoya Zenin, Yu Haibara, Yuji Itadori, and Shoko each watched Qingxiao with awe, determination, or concern.

Qingxiao’s Three-Colored Lines dissolved Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine and nullified Jacob’s Ladder, while Sukuna used Boogie Woogie to keep escaping. The two fighters paused across the gray battlefield and mocked each other, with neither able to gain the upper hand.

• Sukuna activated Malevolent Shrine, but Qingxiao’s Three-Colored Lines dissolved its slashes and chased him through the battlefield.
• Sukuna stretched his domain and used Boogie Woogie to swap positions while strengthening Dismantle and trying to keep Qingxiao at a distance.
• Sukuna cast Jacob’s Ladder, but Qingxiao’s domain erased the golden pillar before it could affect him.
• Sukuna repaired Malevolent Shrine at the edge of his domain while Qingxiao stopped across from him, and both considered the other’s fighting style unbearable.
• Qingxiao taunted Sukuna for running away, and Sukuna answered that Qingxiao was laughably overconfident.

Qingxiao expanded his domain to sweep Sukuna into its dissolving waves, but Mahoraga helped Sukuna escape and devise a layered Dismantle to batter through the barrier. Qingxiao countered by contracting the domain, adjusting its density as he waited for Sukuna’s attack to reach a critical point.

• Qingxiao unleashed his accumulated Cursed Energy and expanded his domain, sending a gray tide crashing toward Sukuna.
• Mahoraga completed its analysis, allowing Sukuna to fire Jacob's Ladder: Revised and retreat beyond the domain’s boundary, though the waves corroded his clothing and wounded him.
• Qingxiao pushed the domain forward, crushing the ruined surroundings and forcing Sukuna to keep retreating.
• Sukuna decided to overwhelm the domain through raw power and stacked layers of Dismantle, with Mahoraga adapting each layer to endure the dissolution longer.
• Qingxiao recognized Sukuna’s change of tactics and began contracting the domain, concentrating its rules and dissolving power while adjusting to each slash.

Qingxiao survived Sukuna’s Hundredfold Dismantle and transformed Remove Qiaocunzhen into the True Martial Dharma Form, embodying his domain. Sukuna’s next attack dissolved against Qingxiao, who stepped toward him and declared that he could die.

• Sukuna unleashed a hundred-layer Hundredfold Dismantle that tore through Qingxiao’s domain and opened a deep wound across his chest.
• Qingxiao realized he could contract Remove Qiaocunzhen until the domain merged with his body, then drew its rules inward to form the True Martial Dharma Form.
• Qingxiao thanked Sukuna for helping him grasp the core of a domain as his armor embodied Remove Qiaocunzhen’s power.
• Sukuna fired a second, even heavier Hundredfold Dismantle, but the True Martial Dharma Form dissolved it without a mark.
• Qingxiao stepped toward Sukuna and calmly told him that he could die.

Qingxiao overwhelmed Sukuna with a relentless barrage of Black Flash punches while Neural Overload and Xiqu’s awakening amplified his strength. Sukuna sacrificed his techniques and Mahoraga’s future to fortify his defense, but Qingxiao only grew more excited and continued pounding through it.

• Qingxiao activated Neural Overload, entered a slowed perception of the world, and rushed Sukuna with a punch that shattered his collarbone.
• Xiqu awakened as Qingxiao’s Imaginary Mass grew, and Qingxiao broke Sukuna’s Blood Armor with a string of Black Flash punches.
• Qingxiao became absorbed in the battle, ignoring his pain and exhaustion as each solid hit made him stronger.
• Sukuna, close to collapse, sacrificed Blood Manipulation, Mahoraga, and other advantages to strengthen his armor, speed up technique stacking, and gain defense and cursed energy.
• Sukuna mocked Qingxiao as the layered Blood Armor resisted his blows, but Qingxiao answered with an even faster barrage of Black Flash punches.

Qingxiao defeated Sukuna with an overwhelming Black Flash that devastated Shinjuku, though the fight left him nearly drained. As dust concealed Sukuna’s fate, Itadori learned that Guyue Qingxiao had won.

• Qingxiao gathered all his strength and unleashed an Intentional Heavy Punch infused with Black Flash.
• Sukuna committed his remaining Cursed Energy to a countering Black Flash, and Mahoraga’s wheel reached its final frequency.
• Qingxiao’s Black Flash overwhelmed Sukuna’s, destroyed Mahoraga’s wheel, and blasted Sukuna through several skyscrapers.
• Qingxiao stood amid the ruins, exhausted but wary as dust hid Sukuna from view.
• Itadori watched the Spectator Screen as someone confirmed that Guyue Qingxiao had won.

Sukuna discovered how to extend his techniques to target space, then used a World-Cutting Slash to kill Guyue Qingxiao. After failing to gain Qingxiao’s power by eating his heart, Sukuna recovered enough to face four approaching special-grade sorcerers and vowed to kill every jujutsu sorcerer.

• Sukuna realized his slashes and Boogie Woogie could target space itself, then used a binding vow to unleash an instantaneous World-Cutting Slash.
• Sukuna swapped positions with Qingxiao and severed the upper half of Qingxiao’s face, killing him.
• Sukuna tore out and ate Qingxiao’s heart but gained no cursed energy or technique from it.
• Sukuna reflected on Qingxiao’s death and began healing as Hajime Kashimo, Suguru Geto, Yuta Okkotsu, and Yuki Tsukumo approached.
• Sukuna inferred that Kenjaku had died, recovered his resolve, and challenged the approaching sorcerers to stop him from killing them all.

After Sukuna killed him, Qingxiao confronted his younger self in a vision and realized Heavenly Motion could let him revive as long as any of his flesh remained. He returned to the battlefield with renewed resolve, naming his resurrection technique Everlasting Life.

• Qingxiao died believing he had lost to Sukuna and entrusted the remaining fight to Geto, Yuta, and the others.
• Qingxiao met his younger self in his former apartment, where the youth accused him of becoming cowardly and accepting defeat.
• The young Qingxiao questioned how Heavenly Motion united Qingxiao’s soul, body, and Cursed Energy, leading Qingxiao to realize his flesh could restore him through Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Qingxiao rejected death, named his ability Everlasting Life, and stepped back through the vision’s door onto the battlefield.

Suguru Geto and the others killed Kenjaku at the cost of several cursed spirits, but Kenjaku used a binding vow to send his soul toward Sukuna. As the group prepared to rejoin the main battlefield, Mei Mei’s note revealed that Satoru Gojo had been sealed and Guyue Qingxiao was dead.

• Kenjaku realized he could not escape after his cursed techniques and cursed energy were exhausted.
• Suguru Geto ordered Jogo to use Maximum: Meteor, which killed Kenjaku and destroyed Hanami, Dagon, and several other cursed spirits.
• Kenjaku made a binding vow to follow Sukuna until Sukuna completed the merger of Tengen and all humanity, then sent his soul toward the main battlefield.
• Hajime Kashimo, Yuki Tsukumo, Yuta Okkotsu, and Suguru Geto confirmed Kenjaku’s death and prepared to help fight Sukuna.
• Mei Mei’s black bird delivered a note stating that Satoru Gojo had been sealed and Guyue Qingxiao was dead.

After reading that Qingxiao had died, Yuta Okkotsu, Suguru Geto, Hajime Kashimo, and Yuki Tsukumo set aside their grief and headed for the Main Battlefield. Kashimo prepared to break his promise and use Mythical Beast Amber as they advanced toward the distant gray-white light.

• Yuta Okkotsu vowed to kill Sukuna, even if it cost him his life and soul.
• Suguru Geto remembered his promise to Qingxiao and, through tears, told Okkotsu that it was not yet his turn to carry everything.
• Hajime Kashimo recalled Qingxiao’s advice and chose to use Mythical Beast Amber despite having promised not to.
• Yuki Tsukumo, Okkotsu, Kashimo, and Geto gathered at the edge of the ruins and set off toward the Main Battlefield.