Recaps

After the Goodwill Event’s team competition was canceled, Li Shunchen examined the differences between Maki Zenin’s and Toji Fushiguro’s heavenly restrictions and considered what might happen if Maki’s remaining cursed energy were erased. During the break, he gave Kyoto Jujutsu High students practical guidance, ending with a demonstration that trapped Aoi Todo and exposed a weakness in Boogie Woogie.

• Li Shunchen concluded that Maki Zenin’s faint remaining cursed energy might explain why her physical abilities fell short of Toji Fushiguro’s, and wondered whether a heavenly restriction could change after birth.
• The Goodwill Event’s individual battle was canceled, and Kyoto Jujutsu High students approached Li Shunchen for advice after hearing he planned to treat Kokichi Muta.
• Li Shunchen advised Kasumi Miwa to build combat experience and offered her access to a Kyoto-area Great Sage for sparring.
• Li Shunchen demonstrated Momo Nishimiya’s Tool Manipulation with Asagirimaru and urged her to form connections with a wider range of objects.
• Li Shunchen used Ten Shadows Technique and Boogie Woogie together to swap Aoi Todo into solid earth, then pinned Todo’s wrist and advised him to overcome the technique’s reliance on clapping.

After hearing Mai Zenin explain the limits of her Construction Technique, you tested it in your cursed spirit form and discovered that creating an object exacted a punishing price beyond ordinary cursed energy consumption. You advised Mai to deepen her understanding of what she wanted to create, while deciding to investigate the technique’s potential for producing weapons to strengthen your cursed corpse forces.

• Mai Zenin explained that her Construction Technique created permanent matter but consumed enormous cursed energy and strained her body, leaving her able to make barely one ordinary revolver bullet per day.
• You opened Ālaya Consciousness, revealed your cursed spirit form, and used Mai’s technique to create an exact copy of Asagirimaru.
• The creation nearly depleted your vast cursed energy reserves, leading you to conclude that the technique imposed a binding-vow-like cost for bringing permanent matter into existence.
• You dismissed the domain, returned to human form, and advised Mai to study the materials and principles behind whatever she wanted to create.
• Mai accepted your advice, while you resolved to research the technique and explore using it to make copies of the Soul Liberation Blade for your cursed corpses.

Li Shunchen restored Kokichi Muta’s body with Idle Transfiguration, confirming that heavenly restriction’s benefits were dynamically tied to its costs. He then proposed removing Maki Zenin’s remaining cursed energy to strengthen her heavenly restriction, and Maki agreed to begin.

• On the train to Kyoto, Li Shunchen repaired Mechamaru and recognized Kokichi Muta’s talent for building remote-controlled combat puppets.
• Li Shunchen met Kokichi Muta in his hidden underground facility and used Idle Transfiguration to restore his damaged body, causing his immense cursed energy to dissipate.
• Kokichi rejoiced in his recovery and explained that stored cursed energy in his puppets and batteries could preserve their destructive power; he promised to repay Li Shunchen.
• Back at Tokyo Jujutsu High, Li Shunchen told Maki Zenin that restoring Kokichi’s body had confirmed heavenly restriction was dynamically assessed, then asked whether she still wanted greater power.
• Maki affirmed that she wanted strength for herself, and agreed to let Li Shunchen try erasing her remaining cursed energy despite the unknown risks.

The narrator discovered that Maki’s Heavenly Restriction could not fully awaken because the world treated her and Mai as one person, then confirmed the theory in ancient records. After failing to create a Heavenly Restriction in himself, he abandoned that method and revealed that it had been only the first step in a plan to amplify his power as a Cursed Spirit.

• The narrator erased the remaining Cursed Energy in Maki and greatly improved her physical abilities, but a ghostly trace of Cursed Energy soon reappeared.
• The narrator traced the trace to Mai, concluded that the twins shared one Heavenly Restriction, and explained his theory to Maki.
• Maki thanked the narrator but chose to pursue strength through other means rather than involve Mai in her pursuit of ultimate power.
• The narrator consulted ancient texts from the Three Great Families, which confirmed that twins were treated as one soul and could hinder each other.
• The narrator inflicted injuries on his own soul to try to create a positive Heavenly Restriction, but the world’s rules prevented him from imposing one on himself.
• The narrator revealed that he had planned to carry the resulting Cursed Energy boost into a Cursed Spirit transformation, but the failed first step ended the plan.

Unable to find a way past the world's laws to reach his desired strength, the protagonist rejected becoming a Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit or absorbing Sukuna's Fingers as inadequate solutions. He turned to equipping the Great Sages, only to discover that Construction Technique drained cursed energy beyond what his Domain Expansion could reset, leaving him determined to grow strong enough to break the world's rules.

• The protagonist considered becoming a Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit through Yuta Okkotsu, but feared losing his rationality and becoming bound to Yuta.
• He concluded that absorbing Sukuna's Fingers would not give him enough power to solve the curse crisis or match the Great Sages' nationwide work.
• He recognized that individual combat strength could not eliminate curses at their source, and that removing Japan's barriers would not prevent curses from appearing elsewhere.
• The protagonist decided to use Mai's Construction Technique to create equipment that would raise the Great Sages' combat capabilities.
• After materializing powerful armaments, he discovered that Construction Technique consumed vast cursed energy and that his Domain Expansion could not reset the resulting depletion.
• He felt the pressure of the world's laws and vowed to become strong enough to tear through its rules and shackles.

Li Shunchen spent a peaceful year upgrading the Great Sages with Soul Liberation Claws and preparing to replace the support provided by Tengen’s barrier. After reaching 2019 and drawing a new card, he planned to seek information from Sukuna by absorbing more of his fingers.

• Li Shunchen used the Construction Technique to forge Soul Liberation Claws for all twenty deployed Great Sages, giving them soul-striking attacks suited to their small bodies.
• The Great Sages gained countermeasures against Domain Expansion, while Li Shunchen turned his attention to mastering barrier techniques and preparing to replace Tengen’s barrier and the assistant supervisors’ functions.
• Li Shunchen realized he had reached 2019, a year he had never survived to in his simulations, and recognized that he had changed his fate.
• Li Shunchen drew the R-rank Phantom Pain Induction Strike card and added it to his collection after assessing its combat value.
• Li Shunchen put absorbing Sukuna’s Fingers on his agenda so he could try to pry hidden information from Sukuna.

Li Shunchen began a dangerous attempt to absorb the soul fragment in Sukuna’s Finger by using Idle Transfiguration to fuse with it directly, while Gojo stood by in case the process went wrong. As Li Shunchen’s consciousness entered his Sewer, a boundary opened onto Sukuna’s blood-soaked domain, where Sukuna sat on a throne of bone and flesh.

• Li Shunchen accepted Sukuna’s Finger from the Great Sage and explained to Gojo that failure could let Sukuna inherit his memories, plans, and knowledge of the system.
• Li Shunchen asked Gojo to avenge him if Sukuna took over his body, but Gojo jokingly declined the responsibility even as he prepared to intervene.
• Li Shunchen activated Idle Transfiguration and began using his soul to fuse with the fragment inside Sukuna’s Finger rather than swallowing it.
• Li Shunchen’s consciousness descended into his Sewer, where he saw a rift leading to a blood-filled landscape of bone mountains and found Sukuna seated on a throne.

Li Shunchen confronted Sukuna inside their fused Innate Domains, using a soul link to reveal memories and question whether Sukuna was truly the strongest. When Sukuna dismissed the question, Li Shunchen summoned the Ten Shadows Technique’s Mahoraga to make him take it seriously.

• Sukuna awakened in his Innate Domain, which had fused with Li Shunchen’s Sewer, and found Li Shunchen waiting there.
• Li Shunchen told Sukuna he had erased one-twentieth of Sukuna’s soul from Yuji Itadori, and Sukuna attacked him with Dismantle.
• Li Shunchen used replicated Inversion to nullify the slash, while their soul connection carried fragments of his memories into Sukuna’s mind.
• Sukuna learned about Li Shunchen’s Phantom Parade, Satoru Gojo, and the system’s card draws, then demanded an explanation.
• Li Shunchen asked whether Sukuna was truly the strongest and, after Sukuna dismissed the question, switched to the Ten Shadows Technique and summoned Mahoraga.

The narrator questioned Sukuna in their shared soul domain, using Mahoraga to overpower him and deducing that Sukuna had been the strongest sorcerer of the past thousand years but had reached his limits. When Sukuna unleashed Malevolent Shrine, the narrator withstood its sure-hit slashes by channeling power from their real body, then approached him to begin Soul Devouring as Sukuna glimpsed the narrator’s hidden secrets.

• The narrator summoned Mahoraga, whose Sword of Extermination deflected Sukuna’s Dismantle and whose adaptation healed the wound Sukuna had inflicted.
• Sukuna identified a limit in the narrator’s Phantom Parade technique and attacked them, but Mahoraga intercepted the slash and impaled Sukuna with the Sword of Extermination.
• The narrator pinned Sukuna down and questioned whether he had been the strongest of the past thousand years; Sukuna’s reactions confirmed the narrator’s deductions that he was the era’s ceiling and had reached his limits.
• Sukuna saw the narrator’s memory of exorcising his soul from Yuji Itadori, realized the narrator had held back, and expanded Malevolent Shrine in a desperate counterattack.
• The narrator withdrew Mahoraga and used Ālaya Consciousness through their real body to reinforce their soul, then walked through Sukuna’s slashes unharmed and prepared to devour his soul.
• As the narrator pressed a hand to Sukuna’s head, Sukuna glimpsed the narrator’s repeated deaths, the system, and the abyss-like nature of their soul.

Li Shunchen annihilated Sukuna’s remnant soul, fused its empty soul shell into his own, and gained Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine technique. He tested an open-domain version of Malevolent Shrine infused with Idle Transfiguration on Satoru Gojo, then deactivated it after confirming it could bypass Limitless.

• Li Shunchen used Idle Transfiguration to destroy Sukuna’s remnant soul and collapse Sukuna’s domain.
• After deactivating Ālaya Consciousness, Li Shunchen completed the soul fusion and suppressed the Cursed Patterns spreading across his body.
• Li Shunchen used a barehanded Cleave to destroy a reinforced wall, revealing that Malevolent Shrine had become part of him.
• Li Shunchen expanded an open Malevolent Shrine and demonstrated that he could use it immediately after Ālaya Consciousness.
• Li Shunchen infused Malevolent Shrine with Idle Transfiguration and made it a sure-hit effect that bypassed Satoru Gojo’s Limitless.
• Li Shunchen deactivated the domain after confirming his technique could reach Satoru Gojo’s soul, then told him it had been only a test.

The narrator advanced his Open Domain research and began removing cursed energy from ordinary people, while Mei Mei confronted him about his growing distance from life. He told her that the man named Li Shunchen had died years ago, on the night a cursed spirit broke into his home.

• The narrator concluded that expanding Malevolent Shrine to cover Japan was impossible and too costly, even with more of Sukuna's Fingers.
• The narrator asked Mei Mei to find ordinary people who could see cursed spirits but could not exorcise them, then performed soul-altering surgeries on the first ten with their consent.
• The narrator arranged follow-up examinations for the participants and refused to use coercion to recruit a pregnant woman for further experiments.
• Mei Mei lit the narrator's cigarette and remarked that his cursed energy had become frighteningly powerful; he attributed the increase to Sukuna's Finger.
• Mei Mei questioned why the narrator seemed perpetually tense and unlike a living person, and he reflected that time had made his memories feel more than a century old.
• The narrator told Mei Mei that Li Shunchen had died on the night a cursed spirit broke into his home.

From 2020 to 2022, the narrator continued soul research, managed changes in Jujutsu Society, and guided his graduating students while receiving three underwhelming N-rank Cards. Three years of monitoring suggested cursed-energy removal was not causing severe harm, and the chapter ended with war breaking out in Europe.

• In 2020, the narrator drew Muscle Fiber Micro-Frequency Heating and set it aside while continuing to monitor ten people whose cursed energy he had removed; their souls showed signs of incongruity, so he postponed further experiments.
• Kinji Hakari asked the narrator to fund and protect his proposed underground Jujutsu Sorcerer Arena, and the narrator agreed to keep the venture under his supervision.
• In 2021, the narrator drew Edge Contour Highlighting and dismissed it as too limited to be useful to him.
• In 2022, Maki Zenin and Toge Inumaki graduated, and the narrator gave each a custom cursed tool capable of striking the soul.
• After three years of follow-up monitoring found no severe collapse among the experimental subjects, the narrator began considering expanding the trials as Jujutsu Society remained stable under his rule.
• War broke out in a major European power.

After seeing battlefield evidence that two foreign powers were using Cursed Energy weapons, you investigated the spread of the technology and later examined how escalating wars generated uncontrolled Cursed Energy. You concluded that Kenjaku had understood war’s potential but focused on Japan because Tengen’s barrier made it uniquely suited to her plans.

• Yuki Tsukumo sent you photographs of a soldier harvesting a comrade’s brain and a brain-powered mechanical spider fighting on a European battlefield.
• You inferred that the belligerents were manufacturing Cursed Energy through battlefield trauma and using brains as batteries and machine cores.
• You asked Mei Mei to gather intelligence on the weapons and avoided sending Yuki Tsukumo to investigate further.
• In 2023, you dismissed a new card that let you seal wounds with specialized saliva, then learned that war had intensified in Europe and erupted across the Middle East.
• Mei Mei’s reports showed that the massacres were producing extreme negative emotions and uncontrolled Cursed Energy, prompting you to assess their implications for Kenjaku.
• You concluded that Kenjaku had likely explored war as a source of Cursed Energy but chose Japan because Tengen’s barrier could concentrate and refine it.

As Megumi Fushiguro, Yuji Itadori, and Nobara Kugisaki graduated, you helped each choose a path while keeping foreign cursed-energy weapons under observation. You approved the gradual closure of Jujutsu High, but ended the chapter confronting your responsibility for the overseas atrocities enabled by the cursed-corpse technology you had published.

• Nobara Kugisaki chose to leave sorcery for an ordinary career, while you suggested Yuji Itadori consider firefighting or police work and arranged for Megumi Fushiguro to join the Zenin Clan.
• Naobito Zenin named Megumi the next clan head, and Megumi's Divine Dog: Totality severely injured Naoya Zenin when he tried to ambush him.
• You refused Mei Mei's offer to send Ui Ui into a war zone to retrieve cursed-energy weapon specimens, fearing the risks and the political consequences of Satoru Gojo intervening.
• At the start of 2024, you drew a card that let you forcefully deplete liver glycogen for five seconds of peak physical performance, then approved a shift from Jujutsu High schooling to a discovery-and-registration system as Great Sages replaced sorcerers in dangerous work.
• You told Masamichi Yaga that Jujutsu High would close gradually, and Yaga reassured you that foreign atrocities were not your fault, though you recognized that your published cursed-corpse technology had helped drive the countries toward inhumane experiments.
• The fighting on the overseas battlefields intensified, with more cursed-energy weapons deployed and more lives lost.

The narrator learned that foreign powers had built cursed-energy weapons from human brains and established secret “Human Ranch” facilities to produce more victims. To avoid exposing Japanese jujutsu sorcerers, the narrator prepared Great Sage for a covert mission and trusted it to make its own choices amid the horrors of war.

• The narrator reviewed battlefield footage and intelligence from Mei Mei, discovering that foreign militaries had built combat machines using human brains and cursed objects.
• Mei Mei revealed that major powers had created secret “Human Ranch” facilities to address their shortage of people with cursed energy talent.
• The narrator decided to destroy the brain-powered weapons but chose to send Great Sage rather than intervene personally and risk drawing the world’s attention to jujutsu sorcerers.
• The narrator rebuilt Great Sage into a humanoid soldier, equipped it with soul-attacking weapons, a concealed Chain of a Thousand Miles Chain, and reconnaissance capabilities.
• The narrator warned Great Sage that its mission would force it to confront cruel choices and said they would trust its decisions.

Over eight years, the Great Sage dismantled cursed-energy weapons in a major overseas war, uncovering the horrific human ranches that bred children to exploit their cursed energy. By early winter 2033, he returned to Japan traumatized and begged to stop carrying out his orders.

• Between 2026 and 2033, the narrator gained several powerful cards, including Dual-track blind operation and Split-track compound eyes.
• The Great Sage secretly destroyed cursed-energy weapons across the war zone, prompting rival powers to discover an unknown force was targeting them all.
• The narrator learned that the Human Ranches bred children with cursed-energy aptitude and raised them for harvesting or transplantation.
• As cursed-energy weapons disappeared, the war shifted to conventional fighting and eventually ended with every participating country weakened.
• In Japan, Jujutsu High closed, mentors replaced its training system, and the narrator kept Jujutsu Society's weakened leadership in place as a bureaucratic buffer.
• After destroying the last major Human Ranch, the Great Sage returned to the narrator's workshop in early winter 2033 and said he no longer wanted to continue.

Great Sage told you how years of killing soldiers, civilians, and cursed energy constructs had left him questioning what he was and unable to bear destroying beings he saw as his kindred. Recognizing the burden his orders had placed on Great Sage, you apologized and resolved to confront the source of the curses alone.

• You asked Great Sage what had happened, and he asked what he really was.
• Great Sage described killing enemy soldiers to protect civilians, knowing that both sides contained people desperate to live.
• Great Sage explained that he saw the cursed energy constructs as kindred beings like himself and felt each one he destroyed was another version of himself.
• You acknowledged that your order to destroy the constructs had made Great Sage bear the guilt of killing his perceived kin.
• You resolved never to create and deploy another fully independent cursed corpse and to face the source of all curses alone.
• You looked at Great Sage and apologized.

After restoring Great Sage to his original body, you spent thirteen years studying Tengen’s barriers and searching for a way to end curses, while Japan’s jujutsu society settled into a stable peace. The story left you receiving word that Masamichi Yaga wanted to see you one last time.

• You honored Great Sage’s wish to return to his original body and watched him resume his exorcism work.
• After the war, governments suppressed evidence of cursed energy, while Japan’s jujutsu strength became a hidden deterrent.
• You traveled for years to study Tengen’s barriers, crafted support cursed corpses, and continued searching for a way to end curses.
• Jujutsu Society adapted to your independent cursed corpse system as its old leaders gave way to a new generation.
• Mei Mei relayed that foreign forces wanted to contact you, but she declined their approaches on your behalf.
• You received a message saying Masamichi Yaga wanted to see you one last time.

Shunchen visited the dying Masamichi Yaga, who confronted him about his guilt over releasing cursed corpse technology and the suffering caused by the Great Sages. Yaga died after urging Shunchen to remember the lives he had saved, leaving Shunchen grieving and reflecting on a farewell that would stay with him even after the simulation ended.

• Shunchen visited the aged Masamichi Yaga in the hospital and explained that his appearance had not changed because of his unusual nature.
• Yaga admitted that he regretted teaching Shunchen cursed corpse creation because Shunchen carried the guilt for the chaos unleashed by publishing the technology.
• Yaga told Shunchen he worried most about him, fearing his empathy and self-reproach might eventually drive him to do something disastrous.
• Shunchen confessed that he blamed himself for accelerating the tragedies and for treating the Great Sages as tools despite recognizing their independent souls.
• Yaga urged Shunchen to remember the innocent lives he had saved, then died as the heart monitor flatlined.
• Shunchen mourned Yaga and reflected that the vivid farewell would remain with him even after he returned from the simulation.

After Masamichi Yaga’s funeral, the protagonist spent decades studying Tengen’s barriers and eventually dismantled the Sendai Barrier, only to discover that the land’s cursed energy ecosystem persisted. Years later, sensing that his lifespan was running out, he contacted Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to verify the method he had found.

• Megumi Fushiguro arranged Masamichi Yaga’s simple funeral, which the protagonist watched from afar before leaving on a solitary journey.
• Over the following decades, the protagonist relied on Megumi Fushiguro, Noritoshi Kamo, Mei Mei, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and the Great Sages to maintain the Jujutsu Society while he studied barrier techniques.
• After years of research, the protagonist shut down Tengen’s Sendai Barrier, and the Great Sages successfully handled the disruption that followed.
• The protagonist observed Sendai for several years and discovered that its cursed energy remained entrenched in the land, so removing the barrier did not stop cursed spirits from arising.
• Discouraged by the failure of his plan to restore Japan through dismantling the barriers, the protagonist abandoned that research and searched for another path.
• In 2074, the protagonist sensed that his life was nearing its end and contacted Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to confirm details of the method he had found.

The narrator met Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto at the ruins of the old Jujutsu High and confessed that he was dying, while condemning himself for using Great Sage and the others to reshape the world. As his life ended, he resolved to pursue his goal without seeking redemption and promised to give Great Sage and the others their freedom, before the Forever Seventeen effect failed and the system announced his death.

• The narrator explained to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that he remained human despite his youthful appearance, while his soul had continued to age and wither.
• The narrator admitted that he viewed his work with Great Sage and the Fully Independent Cursed Corpses as enslavement, and called himself a hypocrite for forcing them to protect Japan.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto tried to reassure the narrator, but he rejected their absolution and said he would stop seeking redemption and do whatever it took to uproot every curse.
• The narrator told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that he intended to give Great Sage and the others the freedom to stay or leave after his death.
• Satoru Gojo demanded to know what the narrator planned to do, but the Forever Seventeen effect failed, his body rapidly aged, and he died as the system notification appeared.

After the sixth simulation ended, the protagonist remembered a full lifetime of failure and resolved to use the final opportunity to change reality, accepting that a bloodless solution might be impossible. He returned to the moment after contacting Mei Mei about the Time Vessel Association, where Satoru Gojo noticed his greatly increased cursed energy and demanded an explanation.

• The protagonist received the sixth simulation’s memories, techniques, and increased cursed energy after living a complete life as Li Shunchen.
• He regretted exposing cursed corpse technology and failing to free that world from curses, and accepted that ending curses might require painful choices.
• He confirmed that reality had returned to the moment after he called Mei Mei and Shiu Kong about investigating the Time Vessel Association.
• The protagonist decided to use his final simulation opportunity to carry out the plan he had formed at the end of the previous simulation.
• Satoru Gojo sensed the protagonist’s sudden increase in cursed energy, grabbed his shoulder, and demanded to know what had happened.

Li Shunchen used his powers to overpower Kenjaku and reveal that he wanted to cooperate with her rather than stop her plan. He left her stunned by declaring that he would become the most powerful curse and curse the world himself.

• Li Shunchen vanished from Jujutsu High and used his future memories to find Kenjaku at her hiding place.
• Li Shunchen confronted Kenjaku, nullified her control of Kaori Itadori's body with Nagi Daytime Prohibition, and trapped them inside a barrier.
• Li Shunchen manifested his Open Domain, Ālaya Consciousness, and revealed cursed energy carrying the traits of Ryomen Sukuna.
• Li Shunchen told Kenjaku that he needed the details of her thousand-year plan and wanted her to carry it out with him at its core.
• Li Shunchen declared that he would become the most powerful curse and curse the world.

Li Shunchen revealed his knowledge of Kenjaku’s plans and explained that countless failed attempts to end curses had led him to seek power through the mass assimilation. He proposed a Binding Vow partnership, leaving Kenjaku to consider a deal that would place Li Shunchen at the plan’s center.

• Kenjaku invited Li Shunchen into his apartment and served him tea while Li Shunchen kept his domain active.
• Li Shunchen identified Kenjaku’s past experiments, his plans for Tengen and Yuji Itadori, and his goal of assimilating Japan’s population.
• Li Shunchen claimed he had learned these secrets by obtaining information from alternate timelines, including one in which he killed Kenjaku.
• Li Shunchen explained that repeated failures to eradicate curses had driven him to seek control of the ultimate curse through Kenjaku’s assimilation plan, potentially extending it worldwide.
• Li Shunchen proposed a Binding Vow: he would help Kenjaku complete the plan if Kenjaku ensured Li Shunchen became its central subject and brought it to fruition.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku established a binding vow and discussed how he could become the core of the assimilation plan by occupying Tengen’s evolved body. Kenjaku revealed that her Culling Game would use mass slaughter to prepare Japan’s population for the final assimilation.

• Kenjaku accepted Li Shunchen’s proposal, and they formed a binding vow to work together on the assimilation plan.
• Li Shunchen asked how he could become the plan’s core, and Kenjaku recommended taking over Tengen’s body rather than copying Tengen’s technique.
• Kenjaku suggested that Tengen’s evolved body might let Li Shunchen assimilate cursed spirits as well as humans.
• Li Shunchen described his idea of drawing power from humanity’s fear, and Kenjaku explained that fear would instead give rise to new cursed spirits unless a global barrier system gathered it directly.
• Li Shunchen asked how Kenjaku planned to trigger assimilation, including how she would use her ancient contracts and more than a million cursed spirits.
• Kenjaku revealed that she would use the Culling Game to provoke mass death and suffering, tempering the souls across Japan before the final assimilation.