Recaps

The disguised assassin ambushed the woman behind the security door, using the Soul Liberation Blade and copied Cursed Techniques to counter her Gravity and sever her body. When she unleashed Domain Expansion: Womb Profusion, he answered with Domain Expansion: Ālaya Consciousness, leaving their clash unresolved.

• The assassin struck through the security door with the Soul Liberation Blade and interrupted the woman's attempt to crush him with Gravity using Nagi Daytime Prohibition.
• The woman attacked with Blood Manipulation, but the assassin reversed Gravity's force to stop her blood arrows and complete a cut that severed her at the waist.
• The assassin cut off the woman's left arm and sealed her severed body parts in shadow to hinder her recovery with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• The assassin entered the room through the shadows and found the woman gravely wounded, but she formed a one-handed sign and activated Domain Expansion: Womb Profusion.
• The assassin responded by activating Domain Expansion: Ālaya Consciousness.

You defeated the woman’s Domain Expansion by sealing its Gravity sure-hit and destroying its monument, leaving her mutilated and unable to resist. You held the Soul Liberation Blade to her brow and demanded to know what she was trying to accomplish.

• You transformed into a cursed spirit and expanded Ālaya Consciousness, clashing domains with the woman’s Womb Profusion.
• You sealed her Gravity technique and used Simple Domain to defend yourself from the domain’s sure-hit effect.
• You attacked with Iaijutsu: Oborozuki, severed her remaining arm, and crushed the Womb Profusion monument with the Gravity technique you had taken.
• The domains collapsed, and you kicked her severed hand away to prevent her from fighting back.
• You pressed the Soul Liberation Blade to her brow and demanded that she reveal her scheme, noting that she could survive by changing bodies.

Li Shunchen held the defeated woman at blade-point in a sewer and demanded to know her plans. She identified him as the force that had disrupted the expected course of events, but she never answered his question.

• Li Shunchen kept the woman alive and let her use Reverse Cursed Technique while he waited for answers.
• The woman recognized Li Shunchen and deduced that he could reproduce or employ multiple cursed techniques through his innate technique.
• Li Shunchen silently guarded his secrets and pressed the woman to explain what she wanted to do.
• The woman marveled at Li Shunchen’s rapid growth and power, comparing him to Satoru Gojo and noting his New Shadow Style skill.
• The woman concluded that Li Shunchen’s appearance had altered the course of events, accelerating Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto’s development.

Li Shunchen confronted the woman in the sewer and uncovered her plan to control an evolved Tengen and fuse her with Japan’s non-sorcerers to create an ultimate cursed spirit. After she dismissed his goal of eradicating cursed energy as impossible, he killed her and vowed to succeed.

• Li Shunchen explained that he had killed Toji Fushiguro and demanded to know why the woman had sabotaged Tengen’s assimilation.
• The woman revealed that she wanted Tengen to evolve into a cursed spirit, then use Cursed Spirit Manipulation to force her to assimilate with every non-sorcerer in Japan.
• Li Shunchen realized the woman had targeted him because Phantom Parade could reproduce Cursed Spirit Manipulation, making him another way to control Tengen.
• Li Shunchen declared that he wanted humanity to break free of cursed energy, but the woman called his goal naive and insisted he would never succeed.
• Li Shunchen killed the woman with the Soul Liberation Blade and vowed that he would achieve his goal.

After killing Kaori Itadori, Li Shunchen absorbed her Blood Manipulation and Brain Transplant techniques and considered how they might help him gain power, but her death coincided with a nationwide eruption of cursed spirits. When Yaga ordered him to join the overwhelmed defenders, a special grade cockroach curse formed inside the ruined apartment and confronted him.

• Li Shunchen analyzed Kaori Itadori’s corpse with Phantom Parade and acquired Blood Manipulation and Brain Transplant, deciding Brain Transplant would constrain his techniques while Blood Manipulation could strengthen his ranged attacks.
• Li Shunchen considered using Blood Manipulation to gain control over the weakened Kamo Clan, while also resolving to eliminate the four special grade cursed spirits who had accompanied Kaori.
• Li Shunchen disposed of Kaori’s remains with Ten Shadows Technique, dispelled his domain, and returned to the ruined apartment, where he sensed that something was wrong.
• Masamichi Yaga called Li Shunchen and reported that huge waves of cursed spirits had erupted across Japan, forcing even first-year students into combat; he ordered Li Shunchen to exorcise curses and evacuate nearby people.
• Li Shunchen suspected Kaori’s death had triggered the outbreak, then watched thousands of cockroaches swarm into the apartment and assemble into a special grade cursed spirit.

After killing the mysterious woman, the protagonist realized her death had ended her contracts and unleashed a nationwide horde of cursed spirits. He joined Mahoraga in the desperate response, then concluded that simulations alone could not make him strong quickly enough to prevent future disasters, while the catastrophe exposed cursed spirits to people across Japan and drew the world’s attention.

• The cockroach cursed spirit revealed that the mysterious woman’s death had ended her contract, and the protagonist understood that her death had released the curses she had accumulated over centuries.
• Mahoraga appeared and destroyed the cockroach cursed spirit with the Sword of Extermination, allowing the protagonist to see cursed spirits rampaging through the city.
• The protagonist confronted his helplessness at being unable to save people across the country, resolved to pursue more effective ways to grow stronger, and joined Mahoraga in sweeping through the city.
• Jujutsu society and Window later estimated that at least a million cursed spirits had appeared nationwide, with the total exceeding five million as sorcerers fought for days amid severe civilian casualties.
• The widespread disaster left more than 70% of ordinary people in Japan affected to some degree, creating a crisis for the higher-ups as videos and witness accounts spread and drew attention from around the world.

After the nationwide cursed spirit disaster, the narrator explained how they had concealed the Mysterious Woman’s death and questioned Masamichi Yaga about the official cover-up. The narrator then urged Yaga to approve creating independent Complete Cursed Corpses to address Jujutsu Society’s lack of manpower, leaving Gojo, Geto, and Shoko stunned.

• The exhausted sorcerers gathered at Jujutsu High after the million-strong Night Parade, while Suguru Geto struggled with the physical toll of consuming Cursed Spirit Orbs.
• The narrator recalled falsifying their report to blame the Mysterious Woman’s death on the Special Grade Cockroach Cursed Spirit’s attack, with their disaster-response efforts helping make the account credible.
• The narrator asked Masamichi Yaga what explanation the authorities would give the public, and Yaga said they would likely describe the disaster as mass hallucinations, poison gas leaks, and supernatural tales.
• The narrator considered the danger of public panic and recalled Nanako and Mimiko being abused by villagers who feared their cursed energy.
• The narrator asked whether Yaga had made up his mind and argued that independent Complete Cursed Corpses could help overcome the shortage of jujutsu sorcerers.
• Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri reacted with astonishment to the narrator’s proposal.

Li Shunchen defended his plan to mass-produce Fully Independent Cursed Corpses by revealing that their third core contained his own soul information. He left Masamichi Yaga and the others horrified by his resolve to make copies of himself bear the risks of the war against Cursed Spirits.

• Masamichi Yaga challenged Li Shunchen to explain whether he viewed Panda and other conscious Cursed Corpses as expendable tools.
• Li Shunchen insisted that Panda was a living being and said he had already considered the ethical consequences of mass production.
• Li Shunchen called Panda into the classroom and explained that Panda's three resonating cores enabled his independent soul.
• Li Shunchen revealed that he alone had created the third core and that Panda could speak in Li Shunchen's voice.
• Li Shunchen admitted that he had placed his own soul information in the third core so that mass-produced Cursed Corpses would be copies of himself.
• Masamichi Yaga realized that Li Shunchen intended to send countless versions of himself into battle, and he nearly collapsed in horror.

Li Shunchen proposed mass-producing cursed corpses using copies of his own soul, horrifying Masamichi Yaga and his classmates with his willingness to sacrifice his humanity. He then demonstrated that Phantom Parade and Pseudo-Body Formation could create doubles to accelerate production, leaving Yaga facing a plan that could scale far beyond his control.

• Li Shunchen explained that his cursed corpses would use his own soul information, avoid harming others, and conceal their nature as autonomous beings.
• Masamichi Yaga, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto reacted with horror, while Shoko Ieiri considered the plan pragmatically.
• Li Shunchen clarified that he had originally placed part of his soul in Panda’s third core to help train and protect Panda, not to prepare for mass production.
• Masamichi Yaga hoped the time and effort needed to make cursed corpses would prevent Li Shunchen from producing an army quickly.
• Li Shunchen activated Phantom Parade and Pseudo-Body Formation, splitting his cursed energy evenly and creating an identical double.
• Li Shunchen said he and his double could make cores together and that further splitting could multiply their production speed.

Masamichi Yaga realized he could not stop Li Shunchen from mass-producing independent cursed corpses, so he questioned Li’s motives and asked him to promise they would only be used to protect humanity. After Li offered a binding vow and self-destruction mechanisms, Yaga accepted that he could not change his mind and said he understood.

• Masamichi Yaga recognized that Li Shunchen’s duplicate and control of Pseudo-Body Formation made him capable of carrying out the cursed-corpse plan alone.
• Yaga asked whether Li would proceed even if it meant desecrating souls, and Li answered that he would sacrifice personal ethics to save countless lives.
• Yaga pressed Li about hidden motives, and Li insisted he wanted only to exorcise curses and protect people, offering to make a binding vow.
• Li proposed installing self-destruction mechanisms in the cursed corpses, deepening Yaga’s unease about Li’s disregard for his own soul and identity.
• Yaga finally accepted that he could not stop Li and said, “I understand.”

Li Shunchen explained why his own memories and thought patterns were suitable for imprinting into cursed corpse cores, and rejected Satoru Gojo’s suggestion to use Gojo’s instead. After warning that using cursed spirits could create a catastrophe after Suguru Geto’s death, Masamichi Yaga interrupted to announce a secret mission requested by Lord Tengen.

• Li Shunchen deactivated Pseudo-Body Formation, and Panda’s imprinted core fell dormant as he regained control and left the classroom.
• Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo that he imprinted memories and thought patterns rather than a literal soul, and explained that Gojo’s abilities could not be transferred to a cursed corpse.
• Li Shunchen rejected Suguru Geto’s proposal to use cursed spirits as cores, arguing that their malice made them untrustworthy and that they could become uncontrollable after Geto died.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo silently respected Li Shunchen’s decision to bear the risks of his plan, while Masamichi Yaga composed himself.
• Masamichi Yaga announced that Lord Tengen had personally requested a secret mission for Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.

Shunchen joined the Star Plasma Vessel escort mission while secretly arranging to use a black-market bounty to draw Curse Users and help shape the mission’s outcome. At the hotel, Phantom Parade detected an unknown sorcerer’s Cursed Energy, revealing a variable Shunchen had never encountered in any simulation.

• Masamichi Yaga assigned Shunchen, Shoko Ieiri, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto to escort Riko Amanai, and Shunchen asked Yaga to apply for his promotion to Grade 1.
• Shunchen secretly accepted the Time Vessel Association’s commission, then ordered Shiu Kong to post a bounty on Riko using the Association’s payment as bait.
• Shunchen volunteered to lead Riko’s protection, and Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri agreed to let him take charge.
• At the hotel elevator, Shunchen detected traces left by Q members Kekun and Baier, along with a third trace belonging to an unfamiliar sorcerer.
• Shunchen realized Phantom Parade’s analysis of the third trace had started at zero, proving its owner had never appeared in his simulations.

The narrator reached the hotel floor where Riko Amanai was staying and encountered two members of Q alongside an unknown paper-wrapped man emitting unfamiliar cursed energy. After Baier attacked, the narrator copied and combined cursed techniques to kill Baier and Kekun in an instant, then questioned the survivor.

• The narrator noticed Kekun and Baier approaching Riko Amanai’s room with an unfamiliar man wrapped in paper who radiated unknown cursed energy.
• Baier attacked the narrator with knives controlled by his Blade Manipulation technique.
• The narrator copied Blade Manipulation and used Nagi Daytime Prohibition to strip the knives of their controlling cursed energy, then deflected them.
• The narrator switched to Projection Sorcery, strengthened their arm, and threw two knives that killed Baier and Kekun with precise headshots.
• The paper-wrapped man froze in terror as the narrator approached and asked whether he belonged to Q or was an unknown curse user.

The narrator interrogated Reggie Star after recognizing that he had allied with the Q Organization and killed a modern sorcerer for information. When Reggie attacked with his receipt-based Cursed Technique, the narrator evaded him, immobilized him with Cursed Speech, and began cutting him apart.

• The narrator killed two Q Organization members and confronted the paper-clad sorcerer who had been traveling with them.
• Reggie Star revealed that he was a sorcerer from the distant past who had been revived in the modern era.
• Reggie admitted that he had allied with the Q members by helping them kill a modern sorcerer, prompting the narrator to turn hostile.
• Reggie manifested a metal safe from a receipt and hurled it at the narrator, who escaped through a shadow using the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Reggie unleashed a torrent of objects from receipts, but the narrator appeared beside him and immobilized him with Cursed Speech.
• The narrator severed Reggie's arm and slashed open his torso, then told him they could now have a proper talk.

You overpowered Reiji and kept him alive with Reverse Cursed Technique while torturing him to force him to answer questions. After analyzing and suppressing Reiji’s cursed technique, you left him with no way to escape or die, demanding his cooperation.

• You confirmed Reiji could not use Reverse Cursed Technique, then healed his wounds enough to keep him alive.
• You dismissed Reiji’s accusations and summoned Rabbit Escape rabbits to devour his organs while your healing repeatedly restored them.
• Reiji tried to activate Recontract Manifestation to kill himself, but you had analyzed his technique and used Nagi Daytime Prohibition to block it.
• You failed to use Reiji’s receipt yourself, then cut his face with it and healed the wound to show him that he could neither escape nor die.

Li Shunchen interrogated Reggie Star about Kenjaku’s resurrection plan, then dissected him to study whether incarnation could be reversed. The chapter ended with Li Shunchen preparing to test the Inverted Spear of Heaven on Reggie’s exposed brain.

• Reggie Star told Li Shunchen that Kenjaku had made him an Incarnation Cursed Object and promised him a second life in exchange for joining a future plan.
• Reggie confirmed that Kenjaku had stitches across his forehead and said Kenjaku had recruited powerful sorcerers from multiple eras.
• Li Shunchen deduced that Kenjaku’s death had prematurely triggered the resurrection of ancient sorcerers and made hunting them his next objective.
• Li Shunchen dissected Reggie to investigate incarnation, discovering that Reggie’s soul had completely overwritten the modern host’s body.
• As Reggie cursed him with his final breath, Li Shunchen drew the Inverted Spear of Heaven and asked which time Reggie meant when he predicted Li Shunchen would die miserably.

Li Shunchen killed Reggie Star, concealed the body, and persuaded Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi to leave their room. At the elevator, he swiftly killed the arriving Jiro Awasaka, leaving the car empty as the group prepared to descend.

• Li Shunchen discovered that the Inverted Spear of Heaven only slightly affected Reggie Star's incarnated body, then stored Reggie's corpse and the blood in Shadow Space.
• Li Shunchen used Life Is Like a Play to convince Misato Kuroi that he was a Jujutsu High student sent to protect them, and she opened the door despite Riko Amanai's doubts.
• Li Shunchen led Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi through the bloodstained corridor toward an elevator, concealing the bodies and debris from their view.
• Jiro Awasaka appeared in the elevator and prepared to attack Li Shunchen, assuming he could steal the bounty after Li had exhausted himself.
• Li Shunchen used Projection Sorcery to strike Jiro Awasaka and suppressed Jiro's Inversion with Cursed Technique Reversal: Nagi Daytime Prohibition, then swallowed his head and body into Shadow Space.
• Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi reached the elevator and found it empty, unaware of Jiro Awasaka's death.

Li Shunchen reported that ancient sorcerers were being resurrected and revealed that he had killed Reiji and two Q Organization curse users while protecting Riko Amanai. Masamichi Yaga approved his actions, then told him that the Zenin Clan wanted to see him.

• Li Shunchen warned Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that resurrected ancient sorcerers might target Riko Amanai for the bounty.
• Li Shunchen revealed that he had tortured Reiji for information and killed him alongside two Q Organization curse users.
• Suguru Geto confronted Li Shunchen over killing three people, while Li Shunchen calmly defended his actions as necessary to protect Riko Amanai.
• Masamichi Yaga told Li Shunchen that killing the attackers was no problem and that he had done the right thing.
• Masamichi Yaga changed the subject and told Li Shunchen that the Zenin Clan wanted to see him.

Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga that he would deal with the Zenin Clan after the Star Plasma Vessel escort mission, then received Master Tengen’s order to fulfill Riko Amanai’s every request. Riko took the order as a guarantee of authority and boldly demanded that the students obey her.

• Shunchen considered why the Zenin Clan was seeking him after he openly summoned Mahoraga during the Million-Demon Night Parade.
• Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga he would postpone dealing with the Zenin Clan until the escort mission was over.
• Masamichi Yaga relayed Master Tengen’s order to Shunchen, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto to fulfill every request Riko Amanai made.
• Satoru Gojo suppressed his complaints after hearing the order came from Master Tengen, and Shunchen ended the call.
• Riko Amanai stepped out from behind Misato Kuroi and announced that the students had to obey her as though she were a god.

Li Shunchen, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto guarded Riko Amanai at Renchoku Girls' Academy while debating whether to protect her wishes or use her as bait. The chapter ended with Li Shunchen confronting a powerful, likely incarnated ancient sorcerer who asked him for a light.

• Shoko Ieiri disguised herself as a transfer student to stay close to Riko Amanai, while Suguru Geto spread cursed spirits throughout the school for surveillance and defense.
• Satoru Gojo complained that they should take Riko to Jujutsu High, while Suguru Geto reminded him that assimilation with Master Tengen would erase her sense of self.
• Li Shunchen proposed using Riko as bait to lure out and eliminate the curse users, unsettling Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto with his cold, calculating attitude.
• Li Shunchen sensed a man with a pompadour outside the school and used Phantom Parade to analyze his immense cursed energy and unknown technique.
• Li Shunchen suspected the stranger was a powerful ancient sorcerer revived through incarnation, and the man casually asked him, "Got a light?"

The protagonist tried to learn why the pompadoured ancient sorcerer had come to Renchoku Girls' Academy, then discovered he wanted to provoke powerful opponents rather than pursue the Star Plasma Vessel bounty. After the man annihilated Suguru Geto's Cursed Spirits with a blast from his hair and revealed his appetite for slaughter, the protagonist abandoned hopes of reforming him and prepared to kill him.

• The protagonist lit cigarettes and questioned the pompadoured man, pretending to be an ancient sorcerer to find out what he knew about the bounty and Kenjaku.
• The man showed no interest in the bounty and explained that he had fired his Cursed Technique to draw strong opponents to him.
• The pompadoured man blasted Suguru Geto's Cursed Spirits from the sky with a devastating beam fired from his hair.
• The man described his desire for a more satisfying life filled with battle, and the protagonist concluded he posed an intolerable danger.
• The protagonist dropped his disguise, pointed the Soul Liberation Blade at the man, and used Cursed Speech to command, "Don't move."

The narrator used Cursed Speech, Projection Sorcery, and Circulating Corridor in a calculated sequence to kill the pompadoured ancient sorcerer before he could unleash a devastating attack. Satoru Gojo arrived in time to witness the bloody aftermath and was shaken by how much the narrator seemed to have changed.

• The narrator immobilized the pompadoured man with Cursed Speech, then used Projection Sorcery and the Soul Liberation Blade to sever his arms and destroy his eyes.
• The narrator trapped the man’s cursed energy inside his pompadour with Circulating Corridor, then decapitated him with a second slash.
• The narrator released the looping barrier as the severed head pointed skyward, causing its blast to drive it into the body’s neck stump and spray blood across the street.
• Satoru Gojo arrived as the narrator stood in the blood and calmly told him he had not needed to come.
• Satoru Gojo stared at the narrator’s detached demeanor and wondered when his cautious, considerate classmate had become a cold executioner.

After killing an ancient sorcerer and securing Renchoku Girls' Academy from attackers, Shunchen argued that Riko Amanai should leave school to protect her friends. He then revealed that he intended to stop her assimilation and personally persuade Lord Tengen, leaving everyone stunned.

• Shunchen analyzed the ancient sorcerer's corpse, copied his Cursed Energy Discharge technique, and stored the remains in his shadows.
• Suguru Geto's cursed spirits stopped most attackers at Renchoku Girls' Academy, while Shoko Ieiri exposed and captured an assassin disguised as a schoolgirl.
• Shunchen urged Riko Amanai to leave school because her presence endangered her friends, and Riko struggled with the choice.
• Shunchen told Riko that leaving school would only be temporary and revealed he never intended to let her assimilation proceed.
• Shunchen explained that he believed Riko could be spared without causing a disastrous future, then declared that he would personally persuade Lord Tengen.

Shunchen insisted on entering the Tombs of the Star Corridor alone to meet Tengen, while entrusting Riko Amanai’s protection to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. Geto and Gojo feared Shunchen might do something irreversible, but he vowed that he only intended to speak with Tengen and confirm his suspicions.

• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo objected to Shunchen leaving them out of his plan and promised to protect Riko Amanai if she refused assimilation.
• Shunchen explained that the ancient incarnated sorcerer’s appearance meant Riko could face further threats, so he trusted Geto and Gojo to guard her while he went to Tengen.
• Shunchen resolved to enter the Tombs of the Star Corridor to learn Tengen’s true condition and role in Kenjaku’s thousand-year plan.
• When Shunchen said he would leave immediately and had no intention of seeking permission, Suguru Geto grabbed his wrist and demanded that he promise not to do anything irreversible.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto realized Shunchen might be planning to assassinate Tengen, but Shunchen freed himself and promised he was going only to talk and confirm a few things.

Li Shunchen infiltrated Jujutsu High’s Restricted Storehouse and confronted Tengen, urging her to abandon the Star Plasma Vessel assimilation. After Tengen questioned his age and hinted at his long-worn soul, Li Shunchen revealed that he had killed Kenjaku.

• Li Shunchen sent Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to Okinawa with Riko Amanai and told them to keep his departure secret from Masamichi Yaga.
• Li Shunchen used stealth abilities and the Ten Shadows Technique to infiltrate Jujutsu High and reach the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• Tengen appeared before Li Shunchen in a projected form and greeted him by name.
• Li Shunchen asked Tengen to abandon the assimilation with the Star Plasma Vessel, and Tengen said she had observed him since he enrolled.
• Tengen asked how old Li Shunchen was, and he answered that he had lived for perhaps several decades.
• Li Shunchen ended their small talk by telling Tengen that he had killed Kenjaku.