Chapter Summaries

Masamichi Yaga openly disclosed the technology for creating fully independent cursed corpses, using Great Sage and a live engraving demonstration to secure the final approval process for his Special Grade Assessment. The higher-ups rejected his plan to replace sorcerers with cursed corpses but agreed to let Great Sage accompany Jujutsu High’s assistant supervisors as an experimental subject.

• Masamichi Yaga offered to disclose all the theories and procedures for making fully independent cursed corpses and asked whether anything still blocked his Special Grade Assessment.
• A Gojo Clan representative said the assessment would receive final approval after the disclosed technology was verified.
• Masamichi Yaga summoned Great Sage, showed the cores inside its chest, and demonstrated engraving a new core before the higher-ups.
• Masamichi Yaga proposed using mass-produced cursed corpses to replace Window personnel and ordinary frontline sorcerers, but the higher-ups resisted the plan.
• A moderate elder proposed that Great Sage accompany Jujutsu High’s assistant supervisors for field observation, and Masamichi Yaga calmly accepted.

Li Shunchen’s plan succeeded when Jujutsu Society failed to reproduce Great Sage and promoted him to Special Grade Sorcerer. He arranged for Great Sage and Panda to train Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami, then began planning the next Cursed Corpse and weighing whether to standardize its appearance.

• The higher-ups kept Great Sage for a week while their experts tried to reverse-engineer it, but Masamichi Yaga admitted he could not reproduce a Fully Independent Cursed Corpse.
• The higher-ups abandoned their attempt to mass-produce the technology without Li Shunchen and formally promoted him to Special Grade Sorcerer.
• Li Shunchen agreed to have Great Sage work joint missions with Assistant Supervisors and assigned it mainly to Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami’s team alongside Panda.
• Li Shunchen secretly instructed Great Sage and Panda to teach Nanami and Haibara New Shadow Style techniques for countering domains.
• Li Shunchen prepared to create another Cursed Corpse and considered giving it a distinct appearance or reusing Great Sage’s standardized design.

While engraving cursed corpse cores in his domain, the protagonist learned that Panda and Great Sage had been badly defeated by an overwhelmingly powerful enemy. The clues led him to suspect that the attacker was an incarnated ancient sorcerer.

• The protagonist resumed engraving cores inside his domain, Ālaya Consciousness, until Panda and Great Sage entered in a severely damaged state.
• The protagonist took the ruined Great Sage and questioned Panda, who confirmed that Nanami and Haibara were unharmed because the enemy considered them too weak to attack.
• The protagonist examined the scorched damage on Panda and Great Sage and used Causal Deduction to assess what kind of opponent could have defeated them.
• The protagonist ruled out ordinary cursed spirits, modern jujutsu sorcerers, and underground curse users, then suspected the attacker was an ancient sorcerer who had returned through incarnation.

Li Shunchen learned that an enemy’s lightning technique had destroyed Great Sage and badly injured Panda, then insisted on handling the attacker himself. Masamichi Yaga agreed to send Shunchen to Suguru Geto’s location, leaving the confrontation in Shunchen’s hands.

• Panda’s combat personality explained that the attacker used a lightning technique that locked onto targets and could not be evaded, forcing him to sacrifice an arm while Great Sage’s cores shut down.
• Li Shunchen analyzed the attacker’s fighting behavior and Great Sage’s damage, then ended his domain and went to Masamichi Yaga’s office.
• Suguru Geto called to report that his Cursed Spirits had located the attacker, and Li Shunchen demanded his coordinates so he could take charge.
• Li Shunchen argued that Great Sage was his private property and that he had priority to handle the damage, while Suguru Geto hesitated to let him pursue the attacker.
• Masamichi Yaga weighed the risks of sending either sorcerer and concluded that Li Shunchen was the best choice to prevent casualties.
• Masamichi Yaga ordered Suguru Geto to give him his exact coordinates so he could send Li Shunchen.

The narrator confronted the ancient incarnated sorcerer who had destroyed Great Sage and injured Panda, questioning why he had seized a modern person’s body. The sorcerer attacked after learning the narrator knew Sukuna’s location, but the narrator countered with copied cursed techniques and severed his arm.

• Suguru Geto warned the narrator to show restraint, and the narrator descended from the rooftop using the Ten Shadows Technique.
• The narrator confronted the blue-haired sorcerer, who admitted he had attacked Great Sage and Panda because he wanted a fight.
• The narrator challenged him for taking an innocent person’s body and learned that he had revived to fight Ryomen Sukuna.
• The narrator revealed that he had killed Kenjaku and knew Sukuna’s whereabouts, prompting the sorcerer to launch a full-strength attack.
• The narrator negated the staff strike, immobilized the sorcerer with Projection Sorcery, and severed his right arm with a Star Rage-enhanced blow.

You defeated the lightning-wielding man after he unleashed his forbidden technique, Mythical Beast Amber, and Suguru Geto watched the execution. The man died when you nullified his transformation and crushed his spine and chest.

• You blocked the man's lightning with Limitless and pinned him beneath a stomp empowered by Cursed Technique Reversal: Red.
• Suguru Geto watched as the lightning destroyed his nearby cursed spirits and judged that he could not match your control of the fight.
• The man activated Mythical Beast Amber, choosing to burn his life in a final attempt to defeat you.
• You analyzed the technique through Phantom Parade and nullified it with Cursed Technique Reversal: Nagi Daytime Prohibition.
• You crushed the man's spine and chest, killing him, and Suguru Geto came down to confirm that the fight was over.

After killing the ancient sorcerer, the narrator planned to strengthen their cursed corpses and improve their own fundamentals, then investigated Yuji Itadori after sensing that Sukuna's return might still be in motion. In Sendai, the narrator discovered that Sukuna was already sealed inside the young Yuji, apparently awakened early after Kenjaku's death.

• Suguru Geto reported the attack to Masamichi Yaga, who accepted that the narrator had been justified in killing the attacker but privately considered the execution cruel.
• The narrator planned to reinforce Great Sage, Panda, and the other cursed corpses with Special Grade Cursed Objects and to improve their own barrier skills, combat abilities, and cursed energy control.
• Worried by the dead sorcerer's obsession with Ryomen Sukuna, the narrator hired Mei Mei to locate Yuji Itadori in Sendai City.
• Mei Mei found Yuji's address and reported that he was being raised by his grandfather, Wasuke Itadori, while his parents were missing.
• The narrator approached the young Yuji and saw an extra eye open in his cheek, recognizing it as Ryomen Sukuna's presence within him.
• The narrator concluded that Kenjaku had created Yuji as Sukuna's vessel before birth and that killing Kenjaku had caused Sukuna to awaken early.

The narrator met young Yuji Itadori and discovered that Ryomen Sukuna had awakened inside him but remained imprisoned by Yuji’s body. The narrator promised to find a way to remove Sukuna, identifying Mahito’s soul-affecting technique as a possible solution, while Sukuna challenged him to prove his confidence.

• The narrator asked Yuji Itadori whether someone else lived inside his body, and Sukuna manifested an eye on Yuji’s cheek.
• Yuji said the voice had appeared recently and had not taken over his body, then asked the narrator to remove it.
• The narrator inferred that Kenjaku had prepared Yuji as a cage for Sukuna and decided he could separate Sukuna by targeting his soul.
• The narrator recalled Mahito’s soul-manipulating cursed technique and planned to find and copy it with Phantom Parade.
• Sukuna mocked the narrator’s promise, but the narrator said he had erased Kenjaku and would erase Sukuna too.
• Sukuna recognized the narrator’s resolve as unusual and told him not to keep him waiting too long.

After deciding to leave Yuji Itadori in peace, you repaired Great Sage and Panda while struggling with soul-deep exhaustion and assessing the threat of Kenjaku’s ancient sorcerers. You secured approval to strengthen cursed corpses with ordinary cursed objects and began creating a second fully independent cursed corpse.

• You rejected the idea of abducting Yuji Itadori, reasoning that Sukuna could not currently harm anyone and Yuji deserved an ordinary childhood.
• You considered whether Mahito and the other disaster cursed spirits had yet to emerge, while Mei Mei searched for signs of Mahito across Japan.
• You repaired Great Sage, whose soul wavelength remained unchanged, and Masamichi Yaga repaired Panda.
• You assessed the danger posed by Kenjaku’s ancient sorcerers and continued working despite growing disorientation and exhaustion.
• You won the higher-ups’ approval to let fully independent cursed corpses seal ordinary-grade cursed objects, then integrated objects into Great Sage and Panda to boost their cursed energy.
• You began creating your second fully independent cursed corpse in Ālaya Consciousness.

Shunchen prepared for the remote village mission by arranging police and legal intervention, hoping to stop Suguru Geto from committing a massacre. After Geto confronted him, Shunchen warned him against acting as judge and executioner, leaving their friendship intact for now.

• Shunchen completed a second Great Sage but concluded that fully independent cursed corpses could not be mass-produced safely.
• Shunchen drew and equipped Unheralded Ligament Launch, testing its ability to let him charge without warning.
• Shunchen sent both Great Sages and Suguru Geto to investigate the village while arranging for police to arrest the abusive villagers and Hiromi Higuruma to prosecute them.
• At the village, Suguru Geto nearly unleashed his cursed spirits on the villagers after finding Nanako and Mimiko imprisoned, but the Great Sages intervened until the police arrived.
• Suguru Geto called Shunchen angrily, and Shunchen admitted arranging the arrests before warning him not to kill people in the name of justice.

The narrator’s cursed corpse project reached its current limits while he arranged care for Nanako and Mimiko and watched the Zenin Clan rally around Megumi. After the Great Sages killed an incarnated ancient sorcerer, the narrator began searching for others and received troubling information from Mei Mei about the timing of abnormal disappearances.

• The narrator completed the third independent cursed corpse, Great Sage, and assessed that he could produce around ten powerful units a year, while expecting the higher-ups to eventually seek control of the technology.
• Suguru Geto became Nanako and Mimiko’s guardian, and the narrator arranged for them to live near Megumi and hired Mei Mei to help care for them.
• Members of the Zenin Clan showered Megumi with support as they treated him as the likely future clan head, while the narrator relied on the Great Sages and Mei Mei for outside information.
• Two Great Sages brought back the severed head of an ancient sorcerer whose Self-Sacrifice Manipulation Technique caused detached body parts to explode; the narrator analyzed the technique and learned that they had killed him to prevent a catastrophic detonation.
• The narrator suspected that Kenjaku had enabled many ancient sorcerers to incarnate and hired Mei Mei to investigate abnormal disappearances across Japan, but the timing in her report seemed wrong.

After noticing a steady rise in unexplained disappearances, you investigated two recent cases and traced a faint cursed-energy trail to an abandoned construction site. There, you confronted the curse user behind the abductions and revealed your Grade 1 sorcerer power, leaving him terrified.

• You spotted an unusual upward trend in missing-person reports and asked Mei Mei to obtain details about two recent disappearances.
• You disguised yourself in ordinary clothes, concealed your cursed energy with Low Presence and Natural Perfection, and investigated the victims’ last known locations alone.
• You realized the culprit was using extremely faint cursed energy to guide vulnerable people toward a hidden trap without alerting ordinary passersby or sorcerers.
• You followed the subtle cursed-energy threads to an abandoned construction site and entered its layered isolation barrier.
• A man welcomed you as his latest captive, but you removed your concealment Cards and overwhelmed him with your Grade 1 cursed energy.

The narrator interrogated a human trafficker and learned that overseas buyers were purchasing Japanese people with Cursed Energy or the ability to perceive curses. After questioning Shiu Kong while impersonating Toji Fushiguro, the narrator realized the trade had followed the Million-Demon Night Parade and wondered whether killing Kenjaku had triggered the chain of events.

• The narrator grabbed the sickly-smiling man by the throat, broke his finger, and forced him to confess that he had captured people to sell to overseas buyers.
• The narrator called Shiu Kong while mimicking Toji Fushiguro's voice and asked about black-market kidnappings.
• Shiu Kong explained that the Million-Demon Night Parade had drawn foreign governments and wealthy buyers' attention to curses, sorcerers, and Cursed Energy.
• Shiu Kong said that overseas buyers were paying for Japanese people with Cursed Energy or the ability to see curses, while brokers also traded corpses carrying Cursed Residue.
• The narrator connected the trafficking boom to the fallout from killing Kenjaku and recognized that secrecy protected Japan's jujutsu world from foreign greed and interference.

After discovering a man who had been torturing and dismembering people for the curse-material trade, the narrator killed him and found that the broader disappearances implicated foreign powers and a government unwilling to act. The narrator resolved to use violence to disrupt the agents operating in Japan, build an army of Fully Independent Cursed Corpses, and eventually dismantle Tengen's barrier.

• The narrator saw torture tools and human remains in a basement, activated Blue, and crushed the man while Shiu Kong listened over the phone.
• The narrator ended the call, considered the disappearances and the black-market demand for cursed materials, and asked Mei Mei to coordinate cleanup and pursue other dens.
• The Jujutsu Higher-Ups investigated after receiving the narrator's intelligence, but Japan's government suppressed the international crime cases rather than confront powerful foreign interests.
• The narrator concluded that revealing Japan's cursed energy and sorcerers could provoke global persecution or war, endangering civilians and sorcerers alike.
• The narrator decided to eliminate foreign proxies in Japan, accelerate production of Fully Independent Cursed Corpses, and ultimately dismantle Tengen's barrier.

Shunchen continued fighting human trafficking by disrupting the supply of victims, then pushed himself relentlessly to build stronger independent cursed corpses. When Satoru Gojo discovered Shunchen bleeding from the strain of his time-perception technique, he confronted him about his self-destructive work, and Shunchen admitted he envied Gojo’s ability to accept his power without guilt.

• Shunchen recognized that his crackdown had disrupted trafficking networks but could not eliminate ordinary human criminals, so he focused on developing ten Great Sages and eventually nineteen cursed corpses enhanced with Sukuna’s Fingers.
• After a sleepless night engraving a Great Sage, Shunchen went to a secluded smoking area and stretched his brief break into hours of subjective time, straining his brain in the process.
• Satoru Gojo found Shunchen and noticed blood beneath his nose; Shunchen casually repaired the damage with Reverse Cursed Technique and dismissed Gojo’s concern.
• Satoru seized Shunchen by the collar and demanded to know why he was living so recklessly, then destroyed Shunchen’s cigarette with Cursed Technique Reversal: Red.
• Shunchen told Satoru that he envied him and could not accept his power with a clear conscience, privately remembering the innocent people and sins tied to his own strength.

Li Shunchen expanded his Great Sage force to ten while the higher-ups failed to reproduce his cursed corpse technology, then used his growing political support to force concessions. The higher-ups approved using Ryomen Sukuna's Fingers as Great Sage power sources and allowed a limited deployment near Tokyo Jujutsu High; after another year passed, Li Shunchen received a new mutation card.

• Li Shunchen's researchers among the higher-ups failed to replicate his soul engraving and create working Great Sage cores, while he quietly expanded his force to ten.
• Li Shunchen demanded that Ryomen Sukuna's Fingers power Great Sage and that cursed corpses begin replacing sorcerers and Window; the higher-ups rejected the broader replacement plan.
• The Kamo Clan shifted toward neutrality, strengthening Li Shunchen's political position alongside Satoru Gojo, the Gojo Clan, the Zenin Clan, and Suguru Geto.
• The higher-ups agreed to let Li Shunchen place Ryomen Sukuna's Fingers inside Great Sage, and he signed a binding vow accepting responsibility for any consequences.
• Li Shunchen secured permission to test Great Sage on low-level exorcism work around Tokyo Jujutsu High while the higher-ups handled preparations for broader deployment.
• After another year passed, Li Shunchen received the Esophageal Concealment Sac mutation card.

Li Shunchen protected Atsuya Kusakabe’s nephew, Xiaowu, while spending a year mass-producing Great Sages and studying Tengen’s barrier. After graduating and staying at Jujutsu High as a teacher, he began considering how many Great Sages would be needed to preserve the world’s balance as their technology attracted wider attention.

• Li Shunchen’s Great Sage saved Xiaowu from a truck, and the higher-ups suppressed the resulting public incident under their agreement with Li Shunchen.
• Atsuya Kusakabe learned Li Shunchen had saved Xiaowu, tried several times to thank him at the sealed workshop, and asked Masamichi Yaga to convey his offer of help.
• Li Shunchen chose to remain at Jujutsu High to study Tengen’s barrier, but Satoru Gojo broke into his workshop and dragged him to graduation.
• Li Shunchen said he would stay to teach and explained that his cursed corpses could instruct students around the clock, prompting Satoru Gojo to announce that he would become a teacher too.
• Shoko stayed as the school doctor, while Suguru Geto planned to care for Nanako and Mimiko outside the school.
• As Li Shunchen continued producing Great Sages, he considered how many he needed to maintain the world’s balance and how to handle the prospect of their technology spreading to governments and other powers.

Li Shunchen completed a force of twenty Great Sages, confirmed their safety and durability, and shifted his attention to studying Tengen’s barrier. At Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara’s graduation, he learned they planned to leave jujutsu work because his powerful Great Sages had made them feel their own contributions were no longer needed.

• Li Shunchen deployed twenty Great Sages and verified that Sukuna’s Fingers could power their cursed corpse cores without causing Sukuna to incarnate.
• Li Shunchen observed that Great Sages gradually wore down, but external special grade cursed energy nearly eliminated that wear and greatly strengthened their defenses.
• The Jujutsu Higher-Ups adopted a cover story that assistant supervisors remotely controlled the Great Sages through brain-computer interfaces.
• Li Shunchen left his domain more often to study Tengen’s barrier and attended Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara’s graduation ceremony.
• Nanami and Haibara told Li Shunchen they planned to leave registered jujutsu work because the Great Sages made them feel ordinary sorcerers were no longer needed.

Li Shunchen accepted Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara’s decision to leave jujutsu sorcery, then learned the higher-ups had created a crude independent cursed corpse sooner than expected. Fearing the weaponization of cursed corpses would arrive early, he visited the Kamo Clan and revealed that he had mastered Blood Manipulation.

• Li Shunchen respected Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara’s choice to leave sorcery and promised to help them if they faced difficulties in ordinary society.
• Yu Haibara explained that he wanted his younger sister to avoid the dangerous work of a jujutsu sorcerer.
• Li Shunchen learned that the higher-ups had accidentally created a defective independent cursed corpse and planned to continue their research.
• Li Shunchen grew alarmed that the higher-ups’ progress could bring the mass production and weaponization of cursed corpses ahead of schedule.
• Li Shunchen traveled to the Kamo Clan’s Main House and told the clan head he had mastered Blood Manipulation.
• Li Shunchen formed a controlled sphere of blood, shocking the Kamo Clan head into demanding to know how he had copied their inherited technique.

Li Shunchen revealed to the Kamo Clan head that he had copied Blood Manipulation from Kenjaku, exposing the truth behind the clan’s disgraced ancestor and explaining that he had killed Kenjaku. He demanded the Kamo Clan’s absolute support for his plans, and the clan head proposed that Li become the teacher of his son, who had awakened Blood Manipulation.

• Li Shunchen demonstrated his control of Blood Manipulation and told the Kamo Clan head that he had obtained it from the clan’s former wielder, Kenjaku.
• Li explained that Kenjaku had possessed the body of the Kamo Clan head from history, survived by changing hosts, and had recently been killed by Li.
• The Kamo Clan head accepted Li’s account and asked what Li wanted from the clan.
• Li demanded that the Kamo Clan support him and his plans absolutely, even if his cursed corpses replaced sorcerers and overturned Jujutsu Society’s traditions.
• The Kamo Clan head agreed to the demand and proposed that Li formally become the teacher of his legitimate son, who had awakened Blood Manipulation.