Chapter Summaries

After earning Grade 1 status, Li Shunchen took Megumi Fushiguro to the Zenin Clan’s Kyoto estate, intending to seize control of the clan directly. He revealed Megumi as Toji’s son and the rightful inheritor of the Ten Shadows Technique, and Ranta Zenin escorted them inside, realizing the meeting could overturn the clan’s balance of power.

• Li Shunchen picked Megumi up from school and explained that they were going to meet relatives on his father’s side at the Zenin Clan estate.
• Li asked Megumi whether he would help take over the Zenin Clan, and Megumi agreed hesitantly; Mei Mei overheard and was shocked by the plan.
• Li and Megumi arrived at the Zenin Clan’s main gate, where Li intimidated the guards and announced that Naobito Zenin had summoned him.
• Ranta Zenin came to escort Li and questioned Megumi’s presence, so Li revealed that Megumi was Toji’s child and the rightful inheritor of the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Ranta was stunned by Li’s revelation and led them inside, understanding that the meeting was more than a simple negotiation.

Li Shunchen brought Megumi Fushiguro to meet Naobito Zenin and demanded that Megumi be named the next Zenin Clan head. After demonstrating their Ten Shadows abilities and challenging the clan to test his strength, Li Shunchen defeated Naoya Zenin’s surprise attack and asked Naobito whether the fight had started.

• Ranta Zenin escorted Li Shunchen and Megumi Fushiguro to Naobito Zenin, who recognized Megumi as Toji’s son.
• Li Shunchen summoned Mahoraga and proposed that Megumi inherit the Zenin Clan leadership because he had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Megumi summoned Divine Dog: Totality, convincing Naobito that he had already developed the technique under Li Shunchen’s instruction.
• Li Shunchen challenged Naobito to summon Hei and the Kukuru Unit so they could test his strength before discussing Megumi’s succession.
• Naoya Zenin charged Li Shunchen with Projection Sorcery, but Li Shunchen trapped him in shadow, shattered the resulting seal with a strike, and sent him crashing into the courtyard.

The narrator defeated Naoya Zenin and Ogi Zenin with precise uses of the Ten Shadows Technique, then faced Naobito Zenin as the Zenin Clan’s guards gathered. Naobito launched a desperate attack, but the narrator used Toad to interrupt his Projection Sorcery and trap him in a two-dimensional plane.

• The narrator defeated Naoya Zenin by manipulating his shadow and exploiting Projection Sorcery’s rules, leaving Naobito Zenin shocked by the narrator’s strength.
• The narrator told Megumi Fushiguro to stay back and promised to demonstrate the Ten Shadows Technique while sparing Naobito for later.
• Ogi Zenin charged the narrator with a sword, but the narrator broke the blade and wounded him with a partial summoning of Divine Dog: Totality.
• The narrator explained how shadows could serve as a medium for partial shikigami summonings, while Naobito decided to attack with all his strength.
• Naobito charged while avoiding the shadows beneath the narrator, but the narrator revealed that Toad had been secretly summoned elsewhere.
• Toad caught Naobito’s ankle and disrupted his preset trajectory, causing Projection Sorcery’s backlash to seal him inside a two-dimensional plane.

The narrator defeated the Zenin Clan’s elite fighters as they attacked, using the Ten Shadows Technique to evade and disable them. Naobito finally acknowledged the gap between them and ordered everyone to stop.

• The narrator kicked Naobito free of Projection Sorcery’s seal and explained that his fight had been an instruction meant to show why Megumi Fushiguro should take over.
• Ranta Zenin and Jinichi Zenin attacked the narrator, but Divine Dog: Totality carried Megumi to safety while the narrator escaped into the shadows and wounded Jinichi.
• The narrator used Rabbit Escape to block Ranta’s line of sight, then struck his eyes and disabled his cursed technique without destroying them.
• As more Zenin Clan members gathered, the narrator fully summoned Divine Dog: Totality, and Naobito rose to order everyone to stop, admitting that he understood the gap between them.

After defeating the Zenin Clan’s elites, the narrator used Megumi Fushiguro’s healing ability to demonstrate his potential, then told Naobito Zenin that Megumi would inherit the clan. The narrator revealed plans to secure a Special Grade classification through fully independent cursed corpses and use them to transform Jujutsu Society, leaving Naobito horrified by the scale of the scheme.

• The narrator stabilized the wounded Jinichi Zenin, Ogi Zenin, and Ranta Zenin, then had Megumi Fushiguro use Round Deer to continue healing them before the watching clan members.
• The narrator and Naobito Zenin moved to an intact room, where the narrator demanded that Megumi take over the Zenin Clan.
• The narrator told Naobito that he wanted the clan’s connections to help him become a Special Grade Sorcerer, but not through combat strength or cursed techniques.
• The narrator explained that he would base his Special Grade assessment on technology for producing fully independent cursed corpses, then use them to replace dangerous intelligence and frontline exorcism work.
• Naobito realized the technology could overturn Jujutsu Society’s established order and called the narrator an absolute madman.

After overwhelming the Zenin Clan, you left with Megumi Fushiguro and secretly copied three injured sorcerers’ cursed techniques. Mei Mei drove them away, sensing that you had done something that could shake Jujutsu Society.

• You left Naobito Zenin to reckon with your proposal for fully independent cursed corpses and led Megumi Fushiguro out of the ruined courtyard.
• You used Phantom Parade on the weakened Ranta Zenin, Jinichi Zenin, and Ogi Zenin, copying their Sight-Binding Cursed Technique, Giant Arm Cursed Technique, and Brow-Burning Slash.
• You assessed the copied techniques and judged Sight-Binding Cursed Technique the most useful, though its continuous casting and backlash limited its value.
• Megumi Fushiguro calmly trusted your actions, explaining that the Zenin Clan had attacked first and that you had only retaliated.
• You and Megumi left the Zenin Clan at night, and Mei Mei noticed blood on your uniform but refrained from asking questions.

After collecting the Time Vessel Association’s payment, Li Shunchen set aside the organization and prepared to create a fully independent cursed corpse using his complete memories and soul information. He resolved to imprint his pain, rationality, and compassion into it to reduce the risk that his long-lived creations would betray his mission to end curses.

• Li Shunchen used Toji Fushiguro’s voice to persuade Shiu Kong to demand the outstanding mission payment from Shigeru Sonoda.
• Shigeru Sonoda’s Time Vessel Association paid the full balance after hearing that the Star Plasma Vessel’s assimilation had failed.
• Li Shunchen judged that the Time Vessel Association would eventually collapse without Kenjaku’s guidance and chose not to interfere with it for now.
• Li Shunchen prepared to create the world’s first fully independent cursed corpse, using the stable three-core structure and his complete memories and soul information.
• Li Shunchen considered how his creations might develop extreme ideas over centuries and resolved to imprint his pain, rationality, and compassion into their souls.

The narrator told Masamichi Yaga they planned to create a fully independent cursed corpse and explained their preparations to secure special grade status and political backing. Yaga accepted that he could not stop them and, recognizing their careful preparations, told them to do as they saw fit.

• The narrator informed Masamichi Yaga that they had decided to create a fully independent cursed corpse.
• Yaga considered the ethical and political dangers but abandoned his attempt to dissuade the narrator.
• The narrator explained that they had arranged support from the Zenin Clan and would seek help from the Gojo Clan for their special grade assessment.
• Yaga inferred that the narrator had gained the Zenin Clan's support through force and recognized the political leverage of aligning with both clans.
• Yaga accepted the narrator's plans and told them to do as they saw fit.

Li Shunchen tried to inscribe three soul cores with three clones, but his human brain could not withstand the strain. He expanded his domain, transformed into a cursed spirit, and resumed the work without suffering the same overload, leaving Masamichi Yaga stunned by his use of a Domain Expansion as a workshop.

• Li Shunchen used Pseudo-Body Formation and the Three Hearts, Two Minds [R] card to control three bodies and begin inscribing the cores simultaneously.
• Li Shunchen’s brain overloaded under the combined strain of the clones and Time Perception Expansion, forcing him to stop after blood streamed from his nose.
• Li Shunchen expanded Ālaya Consciousness and transformed into a cursed spirit to overcome his human body’s limitations.
• Masamichi Yaga sensed the domain, entered its barrier, and found himself in the sewer from Li Shunchen’s previous simulation.
• Li Shunchen used Pseudo-Body Formation again inside the domain, splitting into three cursed spirit bodies without suffering an overload.
• Li Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga that he had expanded his domain to make the cores better, leaving Yaga awed and alarmed by the effort involved.

Li Shunchen used Time Perception Expansion to engrave the memories and values of his past simulations into three cursed corpse cores. After completing the first stage, he paused, burdened by the exhaustion and emotions of reliving the experiences that had shaped him.

• Li Shunchen activated Time Perception Expansion and began carving memories into three cursed corpse cores without risking the physical collapse that had threatened him as a human.
• He engraved his first simulation, including his family's deaths, his discovery of the Zenin Clan's indifference, and his conclusion that revenge against individuals would not change the jujutsu world's oppressive system.
• He recorded his later experiences with Suguru Geto and the sorcerers who abandoned their professed principles, then recalled sensing a hidden force behind Jujutsu Society during Riko Amanai's escort mission.
• Li Shunchen engraved his fourth simulation, including his guilt over Satoru Gojo, Riko Amanai, and Suguru Geto, his efforts to care for Megumi Fushiguro, and his insistence on fair boundaries for Yuta Okkotsu and Rika Orimoto.
• He recalled meeting Kenjaku after Suguru Geto's death and being killed by Kenjaku's Domain Expansion, Womb Profusion, then finished engraving the memories into the three cores.
• Li Shunchen paused his work as the cores began to glow faintly, feeling mentally exhausted from reliving the experiences that had shaped him.

After spending half a month engraving three cores with memories from his simulations, the narrator emerged exhausted and told Masamichi Yaga the work was only halfway complete. He realized that handcrafting independent Cursed Corpses could not break the deadlock quickly enough, since no physical creations could leave the simulation with him.

• The narrator ended his domain, returned to human form, and showed Masamichi Yaga three densely engraved cores, explaining that they were only partly complete.
• Masamichi Yaga examined a core and was horrified by the narrator’s microscopic, heavily layered engravings and the vast amount of information they contained.
• The narrator said that the cores were only about halfway finished and explained that he had stopped because his soul was nearing its limit after working for half a month.
• Masamichi Yaga urged the narrator not to strain himself for the Special Grade assessment and offered to credit him with Panda’s creation.
• The narrator said his urgency was not solely about the assessment, declined to explain what he meant by having been wrong from the start, and left the workshop.
• The narrator recognized that his plan was too slow: even if he crafted an army of Cursed Corpses in the simulation, he could take only memories and blueprints back, not the physical creations.

Li Shunchen left the Underground Workshop and encountered Yuki Tsukumo, who suspected he had killed Toji and investigated his impossible rise in strength. After he confirmed he had killed a curse user, Yuki attacked to subdue him and uncover his secrets.

• Li Shunchen emerged from the Underground Workshop after half a month and went to a vending machine for cola, where Yuki Tsukumo confronted him.
• Li Shunchen ignored Yuki, then used Limitless’s Blue to guide an empty can precisely into a distant trash can.
• Yuki recognized that Li Shunchen knew her identity and tried to grab him, but he slapped her hand away and admitted killing Toji, asking what was wrong with killing a curse user.
• Yuki said Li Shunchen’s rapid rise in strength was suspicious and locked onto him with her cursed energy.
• Yuki charged and swung a Star Rage-enhanced punch at Li Shunchen, declaring that she would subdue him and make him reveal his secrets.

The narrator used Star Rage's reversal to nullify Yuki Tsukumo's punch, then revealed plans to create independent cursed corpses and use them to overturn Jujutsu Society's hierarchy. After Yuki challenged the plan's feasibility and warned of political resistance, the narrator condemned her inaction and seized her neck with Blue.

• The narrator switched from Limitless to Star Rage and used Nagi Daytime Prohibition to erase the virtual mass in Yuki Tsukumo's punch, then caught it with his strengthened right hand.
• Yuki Tsukumo concluded that the narrator's Grade 2 rating was camouflage, and he said he was now Grade 1 and would soon become Special Grade.
• The narrator revealed that he planned to create independent cursed corpses, replace lower-ranking sorcerers and Window personnel, and dismantle Jujutsu Society's existing order.
• Yuki Tsukumo questioned how cursed corpses without innate techniques could fight powerful curses, and the narrator proposed New Shadow Style, Simple Domain, and sealed cursed objects as solutions.
• Yuki Tsukumo warned that the Three Great Families and conservative higher-ups would oppose his plan, but he said he would make them unable to refuse.
• The narrator accused Yuki Tsukumo of enjoying Special Grade privileges while doing nothing for those dying on the front lines, then seized her neck with Blue.

The protagonist nearly killed Yuki Tsukumo in anger over her refusal to take missions, but stopped himself and demanded proof that her research could change the world. He exposed her knowledge of Tengen’s barrier and its role in concentrating cursed energy in Japan, leaving her unable to offer a practical solution and deepening his contempt for jujutsu sorcerers.

• The protagonist restrained his irritation and released Yuki Tsukumo from the grip of his Cursed Technique, Blue, after briefly threatening her life.
• Yuki Tsukumo healed her neck and explained that she avoided missions to research how to prevent cursed spirits from being born.
• The protagonist challenged Yuki Tsukumo to name concrete results from her research and accused her of neglecting people in danger.
• The protagonist revealed that Tengen’s barrier concentrated cursed energy across Japan, and Yuki Tsukumo admitted she had known about the barrier but had no practical way to dismantle it or change society.
• Yuki Tsukumo conceded that she could not implement her theories on a population-wide scale, and the protagonist concluded that jujutsu sorcerers were often foolish and impractical.

Shunchen rejected Yuki Tsukumo’s offer to help with his cursed corpse plan and forcibly sent her away. He returned to the workshop and told Masamichi Yaga he would complete the remaining work in isolation, sealing the room behind his domain.

• Shunchen condemned Yuki Tsukumo’s inaction and ordered her to get lost when she asked to help with his Fully Independent Cursed Corpses plan.
• When Yuki Tsukumo tried to grab him, Shunchen reversed Circulating Corridor to fold space and hurl her onto the distant lawn.
• Shunchen ate sugary food, returned to the underground workshop, and told Masamichi Yaga that he had sent Yuki Tsukumo away because she was annoying.
• Masamichi Yaga asked how strong Shunchen had become, and Shunchen replied that he did not know but probably would not lose.
• Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga he would handle everything remaining in the plan at once, entered the workshop, and sealed it with his domain.

Li Shunchen divided himself into four bodies to continue engraving a Cursed Corpse core while another clone studied Barrier Techniques. As he engraved memories from his fifth simulation, he recalled learning that each simulation created real parallel worlds and resolved to keep gaining power so he could save his own world, despite the suffering his choices caused.

• Li Shunchen summoned a fourth clone and assigned it to practice Barrier Techniques while two other clones continued engraving the Cursed Corpse cores.
• Li Shunchen began engraving memories from his fifth simulation, recalling how he had prevented tragedies and protected people before encountering Kenjaku through Yuji Itadori.
• In that simulation, Li Shunchen fought five Special Grade beings, awakened Ālaya Consciousness, and discovered that failed simulations created real parallel worlds whose inhabitants suffered and died.
• Li Shunchen recognized that his simulations made him responsible for countless deaths but believed stopping would doom his own world and render earlier sacrifices meaningless.
• Li Shunchen resolved to keep using the power gained through simulations to save people and eradicate the world's curses, continuing his work without hesitation.

After inscribing the memories and guilt of his fifth simulation into three cores, you assembled them inside a Great Sage doll and brought the fully independent Cursed Corpse to life. The new being recognized you as his creator and vowed to become your blade and fulfill your wish.

• You finished recording the fifth simulation’s memories and despair into the three cores, knowing that starting another simulation would create another doomed world.
• You chose a half-meter-tall Great Sage doll body for political discretion, social acceptance, and agility in combat.
• You dissolved your clones, used Limitless to precisely position the three identical-memory cores, and completed the doll’s assembly.
• The Great Sage doll awakened, tested his new body, and began generating cursed energy independently.
• You apologized for making him bear your memories and burden, but he said he had no need for an apology.
• The doll declared that he was not another you, called you his creator, and promised to become your blade and fulfill your wish.

After creating Great Sage, the first cursed corpse capable of acting independently on missions, the protagonist sank into guilt over the deaths caused by the simulations and the limits of his plan. At Jujutsu High’s smoking corner, Shoko Ieiri noticed that his hair had turned completely white as he admitted the work had taken too much mental effort.

• The protagonist and Great Sage completed a long exchange to stabilize Great Sage’s memories, test his judgment, and bind him to secrecy and restrained public behavior.
• The protagonist confirmed that Great Sage’s cursed energy and combat skills could handle complicated Grade 1 Cursed Spirit incidents, then concluded that mass-producing independent cursed corpses could not solve the world’s problems at their root.
• The protagonist sent Great Sage to speak with Masamichi Yaga about applying for Special Grade Sorcerer status and went alone to smoke in Jujutsu High’s secluded corner.
• Shoko Ieiri joined the protagonist, shared a cigarette with him, and warned that he looked close to needing medical care.
• Shoko noticed that the protagonist’s hair had turned completely white, and he said making Great Sage had gone smoothly but required too much mental effort.

Li Shunchen confided in Shoko Ieiri about the overwhelming task he felt compelled to carry alone. Her questions helped him reaffirm that he would blame himself if he gave up, and he left ready to advance his plans for the Great Sage and negotiate with the Gojo and Zenin clans.

• Shoko noticed Li Shunchen's hair had turned white, and he admitted that something beyond his cursed-corpse project was proving too difficult.
• Shoko asked whether Li Shunchen had to continue and whether Satoru Gojo or Suguru Geto could help, but he said only he could resolve the problem.
• Shoko challenged Li Shunchen to consider stopping, and he concluded that though no one else could blame him, he would blame himself if he quit.
• Li Shunchen thanked Shoko for helping him regain his resolve and for the cigarettes.
• Li Shunchen headed to Masamichi Yaga's office to plan the announcement of the Special Grade cursed corpse Great Sage and prepare political discussions with Satoru Gojo and Naobito Zenin.

Li Shunchen used Great Sage’s overwhelming demonstration to pressure the Higher-Ups into considering his Special Grade classification. At their meeting, he announced that he would make the Fully Independent Cursed Corpse technology public, leaving one Higher-Up shocked by the implications.

• Naobito Zenin cooperated with Li Shunchen, and Satoru Gojo agreed to deliver his demands to the Higher-Ups.
• Great Sage defeated a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit with the New Shadow Style before the Higher-Ups, demonstrating the cursed corpse’s independent combat ability.
• The Higher-Ups summoned Li Shunchen, who faced them with an intimidating calm as they weighed his power, alliances, and rapid rise.
• Li Shunchen asked whether they had any further issues with his Special Grade classification.
• When a Higher-Up questioned whether Great Sage could justify the classification, Li Shunchen interrupted and said he would make the technology public.
• A middle-aged Higher-Up first rebuked Li Shunchen, then lost his composure and demanded to know what he meant.