Chapter Summaries

Li Shunchen emerged from his domain in a perfectly healthy special grade cursed spirit body, confronting the guilt behind his past simulations while regaining control of his mind. He began testing his transformed abilities before Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo, and left Rainbow Dragon nearly annihilated in a single attack.

• Li Shunchen realized his murderous urges had been a defense against the truth that his power came from the souls of real parallel-world versions of himself, and resolved to carry on despite his guilt.
• Li Shunchen cursed his own actions, then focused on adapting to his special grade cursed spirit body as Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo watched in disbelief.
• Suguru Geto called out to Li Shunchen, who confirmed his identity and announced that he was beginning.
• Li Shunchen compressed his vast cursed energy with precise control, alarming Suguru Geto, then charged at him through the sewer.
• Suguru Geto summoned Rainbow Dragon as a defense, but Li Shunchen used Projection Sorcery to trap it in a two-dimensional frame and shattered it with a knife-hand strike.

Li Shunchen tested the power and limitations of his Cursed Spirit body before overwhelming Suguru Geto in the Sewer. Satoru Gojo stopped Li Shunchen’s near-lethal punch, and Li Shunchen ended the confrontation by saying he had not been serious.

• Li Shunchen assessed his domain’s lack of a sure-hit effect and the severe cost of healing or using positive energy in his Cursed Spirit body.
• Li Shunchen combined extreme overload control with Projection Sorcery and rushed toward Suguru Geto at a speed Geto could not follow.
• Suguru Geto tried to unleash his Maximum Technique, but Li Shunchen’s punch passed close enough to cut Geto’s cheek before he could summon his Cursed Spirits.
• Satoru Gojo teleported beside them and grabbed Li Shunchen’s wrist, stopping the attack before it could become fatal.
• Li Shunchen let Gojo hold his wrist and calmly told him and Geto not to be nervous because he had not been serious.

Li Shunchen explained that his Domain Expansion let him manifest the state of a past dream, while concealing the real danger he had learned from his simulations. He then began testing a devastating technique and left Gojo and Geto alarmed as its power gathered between his hands.

• After Li Shunchen's wind pressure faded, Geto and Gojo recovered from the near-lethal attack, and Gojo demanded an explanation for Li's Domain Expansion and Cursed Spirit form.
• Li Shunchen said Ālaya Consciousness let him select a past dream and manifest the physical state he had in it, explaining that his current body came from a nightmare in which he became a Cursed Spirit.
• Gojo and Geto accepted that the explanation fit what they knew about Li's dreams, but they doubted his claim that he was fine and chose not to press him further.
• Li Shunchen resolved to hunt the Mysterious Woman who had killed him in a simulation, then asked Gojo and Geto to help with an experiment and handle the consequences if it failed.
• Li Shunchen chanted “Phase,” “Twilight,” and “Eyes of Wisdom” as a destructive orb formed between his hands, and Gojo cried out in alarm at its power.

Li Shunchen prepared a delayed, extraordinarily powerful Hollow Purple while using Phantom Parade to copy the Ten Shadows Technique. He began Mahoraga’s subjugation ritual as Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto watched from a safe distance.

• Li Shunchen compressed Blue to an extreme and poured the last of his cursed energy into it, causing his Ālaya Consciousness domain to collapse.
• Li Shunchen returned to his human body while the stable Blue sphere remained suspended in the air, and he told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to retreat.
• Li Shunchen used Ballistic Intuition and copied Satoru Gojo’s Limitless to launch a fully incanted Red toward the stationary Blue, setting up a delayed Hollow Purple.
• Satoru Gojo realized Li Shunchen had calculated Red’s fall so the spheres would collide later, leaving Li Shunchen free to act in the meantime.
• Li Shunchen switched Phantom Parade’s copied technique to the Ten Shadows Technique and began the incantation to summon Mahoraga.

Li Shunchen trapped Mahoraga in a finishing attack, using the Soul Liberation Blade to hold it in place before Red and Blue collided. Satoru Gojo rescued Li Shunchen from the blast, which annihilated Mahoraga and left a perfectly smooth pit behind.

• Li Shunchen summoned Mahoraga and unleashed a rapid barrage with the Soul Liberation Blade, tearing apart its body and pinning it in place.
• Li Shunchen knew Mahoraga could regenerate unless its Dharma Wheel was destroyed, so he relied on the approaching collision of Red and Blue to finish it.
• Unable to change techniques without failing the subjugation ritual, Li Shunchen signaled Satoru Gojo to take him away from the blast zone.
• Satoru Gojo used Limitless to teleport beside Li Shunchen and carry him out moments before Red and Blue collided.
• The collision formed a purple-black sphere that swallowed and vaporized Mahoraga, leaving a smooth, ten-meter-wide pit where it had stood.

After subjugating Mahoraga and demonstrating Domain Expansion, Li Shunchen stunned Masamichi Yaga, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto. He earned two more simulation counts and secretly began pursuing information about the Star Plasma Vessel bounty from the Time Vessel Association.

• Masamichi Yaga arrived at the ruined field and scolded Satoru Gojo before Li Shunchen explained that he had tested his Domain Expansion.
• Li Shunchen confirmed that Gojo and Geto had witnessed his domain, and promised to compensate the school for the damage.
• The system announced that Li Shunchen had completed the hidden mission and awarded him two simulation counts.
• Li Shunchen asked to rest, then left Jujutsu High and contacted Shiu Kong using his phone for impersonating Toji Fushiguro.
• Li Shunchen asked Shiu Kong about negotiations over the Star Plasma Vessel bounty and paid Mei Mei for the Time Vessel Association leader's private contact information.

Li Shunchen arranged to obtain the Time Vessel Association leader’s private contact information while pressuring the Association to raise the Star Plasma Vessel bounty. He laid out a plan to use a voice imitation and escalating financial pressure to force the Mysterious Woman out of hiding, declaring that his hunt had begun.

• Mei Mei accepted Li Shunchen’s request to find a private way to contact the leader of the Time Vessel Association, but said she could not provide an answer until the next afternoon.
• Li Shunchen told Shiu Kong to secure the previously proposed bounty increase before introducing a second, larger demand.
• Shiu Kong agreed to continue negotiations the next day and believed Toji Fushiguro’s high price was justified by the danger of facing Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.
• Li Shunchen planned to imitate the Mysterious Woman’s voice to command the Association leader to ensure Toji Fushiguro completed the hunt, then use a second price increase to drive the leader into contacting her.
• Li Shunchen considered fallback methods to force the Mysterious Woman to reveal herself and began his hunt that night.

Li Shunchen confronted the guilt of the deaths caused by his simulations, then began a new plan to ensure Toji Fushiguro was indispensable to the Time Vessel Association. He manipulated the Association’s leader and hired Mei Mei to secretly surveil him, leaving her preparing to head for the group’s headquarters.

• Li Shunchen reflected on the countless deaths caused by his simulations and decided he had to keep going to change the predetermined ending.
• Li Shunchen used Mei Mei’s discovery of the Time Vessel Association leader’s private number to impersonate the Mysterious Woman and order the leader to secure Toji Fushiguro’s involvement at any cost.
• Shiu Kong told Li Shunchen that the Association had accepted two steep price increases, and Li Shunchen persuaded him to provide the leader’s internal contact number.
• Li Shunchen asked Mei Mei to monitor the leader’s contacts and meetings, especially any women he contacted.
• Li Shunchen offered Mei Mei eight times her original pay, and she sent him a navigation map to the Time Vessel Association’s headquarters.

The narrator discovered that the Time Vessel Association’s mysterious backer was Kaori Itadori, Yuji’s mother, and grew alarmed about her schemes. He then asked Masamichi Yaga to support his promotion to Special Grade in exchange for publicly revealing Panda’s creation technology, arguing that there was no time to hide their ability to save people.

• The narrator pressured the Time Vessel Association’s leader into accepting Toji Fushiguro’s increased price, prompting the leader to contact the Mysterious Woman for approval.
• Mei Mei traced the Mysterious Woman’s real phone number to Kaori Itadori, and the narrator recognized her as Yuji Itadori’s biological mother.
• The narrator recalled that Yuji had not recognized Kaori during a previous encounter and suspected she had separated from him when he was very young and may have altered his body.
• The narrator visited Masamichi Yaga and requested promotion directly to Special Grade so he could gain greater authority and freedom of action.
• The narrator offered to publicly disclose Panda’s independent cursed corpse technology and asked Masamichi Yaga’s consent, saying they should use their abilities to save people before time ran out.

The narrator persuaded Masamichi Yaga to consider making independent cursed corpse technology public, then used Mei Mei’s intelligence to locate Kaori Itadori. Disguised as a deliveryman, the narrator attacked her through her front door and declared an intent to kill her.

• The narrator proposed revealing the technology for independent cursed corpses and mass-producing them, leaving Masamichi Yaga to weigh the consequences.
• Masamichi Yaga approved the narrator’s request for a few days away from Jujutsu High.
• Mei Mei sent the narrator precise coordinates for the woman’s residence, and the narrator realized Kaori Itadori had already abandoned her child, Yuji Itadori.
• The narrator bought a deliveryman’s uniform and parcel box, then used concealment Cards and suppressed cursed energy to approach Kaori’s home.
• When Kaori came to the door, the narrator switched to extreme overload control, drew the Soul Liberation Blade, and cut through the security door while announcing the attack.

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.”