Recaps

Li Shunchen expanded the Great Sages while confronting ancient sorcerers, human trafficking, and political resistance within Jujutsu Society. He secured new allies and oversight of cursed corpse research, but discovered that the higher-ups had considered using human souls to power their creations.

• Masamichi Yaga demonstrated Great Sage to the higher-ups, and Li Shunchen received his Special Grade promotion after they failed to reproduce its independent cores.
• When an incarnated sorcerer crippled Great Sage and Panda, Li Shunchen tracked him down and killed him after learning he wanted to fight Ryomen Sukuna.
• Li Shunchen found the young Yuji Itadori carrying Sukuna within him and decided to seek a way to separate them while allowing Yuji an ordinary childhood.
• Li Shunchen investigated kidnappings tied to the overseas trade in people with cursed energy and cursed materials, then resolved to suppress foreign interference and dismantle Tengen’s barrier.
• Li Shunchen built up the Great Sage force and secured approval to power its members with Sukuna’s Fingers, while Satoru Gojo confronted him about his exhausting work and reckless self-neglect.
• After Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara left registered jujutsu work, Li Shunchen won the Kamo Clan’s support by revealing Kenjaku’s past and teaching the clan heir Blood Manipulation.
• Li Shunchen trained to improve his combat skills, monitored Yuta Okkotsu and Rika Orimoto, and inspected the conservatives’ crude attempt to build an independent cursed corpse.
• Li Shunchen discovered that a cursed corpse maker had proposed using human souls as cores, punished him, and exposed the plan to the higher-ups, who removed the maker from his posts.

Li Shunchen built surveillance and safeguards as foreign powers exploited cursed corpse research, then hunted ancient incarnated sorcerers and defeated Sukuna to save Yuji Itadori. After recovering, he turned toward experiments to prevent cursed energy and offered Kokichi Muta a chance to heal his body.

• Li Shunchen expanded the cursed-spirit surveillance network and government protections after Yuki Tsukumo revealed that foreign researchers were using human brains to create Steel Brains.
• Li Shunchen taught Noritoshi Kamo microscopic Blood Manipulation, then investigated an attack designed to discredit Great Sage and ordered the Great Sages to trust their instincts if future incidents crossed a line.
• Li Shunchen captured Jogo, Hanami, Dagon, and Mahito, then gave the four Special Grade Cursed Spirits to Suguru Geto.
• Li Shunchen studied souls and hunted ancient incarnated sorcerers, discovering that some had destroyed their hosts’ souls before deciding to confront Ryomen Sukuna inside Yuji Itadori.
• Li Shunchen fought Sukuna while Satoru Gojo and the students watched, using Idle Transfiguration and the Soul Liberation Blade to destroy Sukuna’s soul and stop Malevolent Shrine.
• Li Shunchen and Shoko Ieiri restored Yuji’s heartbeat and began repairing his body, while Li Shunchen collapsed from the effort.
• Li Shunchen considered experiments to remove cursed energy from willing volunteers and organized the Goodwill Event, where Noritoshi Kamo defeated Aoi Todo and Tokyo overwhelmed Kyoto.
• Li Shunchen examined Kokichi Muta’s Mechamaru and offered to try reshaping Kokichi’s soul to heal his body, and Kokichi agreed despite the risks.

Li Shunchen spent decades trying to reduce the suffering caused by curses, but failed to end them and died with his resolve fixed on a final plan. After returning to the past, he joined forces with Kenjaku to make himself the core of her assimilation scheme and become the world’s most powerful curse.

• Li Shunchen restored Kokichi Muta, then erased Maki Zenin’s remaining cursed energy, but discovered that Mai’s shared Heavenly Restriction brought it back.
• Li Shunchen forged soul-striking weapons for the Great Sages and fused with Sukuna’s remnant soul, gaining Malevolent Shrine and testing its ability to reach Satoru Gojo through Limitless.
• Li Shunchen studied ordinary people with cursed energy, supervised Kinji Hakari’s arena, and watched Jujutsu Society shift toward the Great Sages as war spread overseas.
• Li Shunchen sent Great Sage to destroy cursed-energy weapons and Human Ranches, but Great Sage returned burdened by killing beings it considered its kin, so Li Shunchen apologized and let it resume its original work.
• After Masamichi Yaga died, Li Shunchen spent decades studying Tengen’s barriers, but shutting down the Sendai Barrier failed to stop cursed spirits from arising.
• As his body aged and his soul withered, Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that he would stop seeking redemption and do whatever it took to uproot curses, then died.
• Li Shunchen received the sixth simulation’s memories and techniques, returned to the moment after contacting Mei Mei and Shiu Kong, and vanished to confront Kenjaku.
• Li Shunchen revealed his knowledge of Kenjaku’s assimilation plan, proposed becoming its central subject in exchange for helping her complete it, and formed a binding vow with her.
• Kenjaku advised Li Shunchen to take over Tengen’s body and explained that the Culling Game would prepare Japan’s souls through mass death and suffering before assimilation.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku prepared the Culling Game while Li Shunchen tried to shape the people around him and accept the sacrifices his plan required. The arc ended with him confronting Jogo as Kenjaku’s plan to seal Gojo and recruit Sukuna moved forward.

• Li Shunchen revealed his plan to stop Tengen’s assimilation, copied her Immortality technique, and told Tengen to cancel it while resolving to sacrifice Japan’s population to eradicate curses.
• Li Shunchen protected Riko Amanai from attackers, arranged for her to be taken to Jujutsu High, and tested whether sorcerers killed without cursed energy would become cursed spirits.
• Li Shunchen trained Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, rescued Nanako and Mimiko with Geto, and later left Jujutsu High to prepare his plan with Kenjaku.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku marked potential Culling Game players, gathered cursed spirits and Sukuna’s Fingers, and recruited Jogo, Hanami, and Dagon while Li Shunchen watched Rika Orimoto’s death turn her into a vengeful cursed spirit.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku persuaded U.S. and other Asian leaders to send troops to Japan, intending to use fear and human lives to fuel the Culling Game.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku manipulated events at Sugisawa Third High School until Yuji Itadori swallowed Sukuna’s Finger and Sukuna incarnated within him.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku told Jogo and the other special grade cursed spirits that they needed to seal Satoru Gojo and recruit Ryomen Sukuna.
• Jogo attacked Li Shunchen after demanding the Prison Realm, and Li Shunchen stopped his flames with a copied Limitless technique before Jogo launched lava at his unguarded back.