Chapter Summaries

After killing San'dai Rokujūyon, the narrator studied his soul and acquired Ui Ui's Unobservable technique to improve travel and investigate soul transfers. The narrator then located another ancient sorcerer in a crowded Tokyo shopping district and attempted a discreet assassination, but she sensed the attack and identified the narrator.

• The narrator analyzed San'dai Rokujūyon's sumo-based Simple Domain, then brutally subdued him and examined his soul with Idle Transfiguration.
• The narrator confirmed that San'dai Rokujūyon's original vessel's soul had been consumed and destroyed the ancient sorcerer's soul, considering what this meant for a future attack on Sukuna.
• Mei Mei recommended Ui Ui's Unobservable technique, and the narrator paid to study it, learning its rules for spatial jumps and soul exchanges.
• The narrator used Unobservable to travel more efficiently and considered whether its soul-swapping ability could let them borrow Satoru Gojo's body.
• The narrator tracked an unregistered ancient sorcerer, a woman with ink-black eyes, to a crowded Tokyo shopping street and prepared an invisible Blood Manipulation attack.
• The woman sensed the Cursed Energy in the breeze, turned toward the narrator, and met their gaze across the crowd.

The protagonist assassinated an ancient sorcerer and acquired Sky Manipulation, then spent over a year hunting incarnated sorcerers and delegating ordinary curse-user cleanups to Great Sages. Although the hunt left possible perfectly concealed infiltrators unaccounted for, the protagonist decided to confront Ryomen Sukuna inside Yuji Itadori.

• The protagonist used Blood Manipulation to destroy an ancient sorcerer's organs, then used Idle Transfiguration to kill her soul and hid her body in Shadow Space.
• Phantom Parade analyzed the dead sorcerer's Sky Manipulation, revealing a technique that solidified spatial planes for defense, movement, and flight.
• With help from the Three Great Families and Mei Mei, the protagonist hunted ancient sorcerers across Japan for more than a year, killing them with rapid attacks or long-range Piercing Blood shots.
• The protagonist assigned Great Sages to eliminate ordinary curse users after jujutsu sorcerers verified their identities.
• The protagonist recognized that ancient sorcerers might have inherited their hosts' memories and escaped detection by perfectly imitating modern people.
• After months of training with Idle Transfiguration, the protagonist decided to deal with Ryomen Sukuna inside Yuji Itadori.

The narrator arranged for Satoru Gojo to stand by while they attempted to separate Ryomen Sukuna from Yuji Itadori without irreparably harming Yuji. At the training ground, Yuji agreed to the procedure, but was shocked when the narrator told him to surrender control of his body to Sukuna.

• The narrator called Satoru Gojo and explained their plan to weaken Yuji Itadori's body before using Idle Transfiguration to attack Sukuna's soul, asking Gojo to intervene only if the operation went wrong.
• Gojo agreed to act as the narrator's safeguard, ready to use Unlimited Void if Sukuna made a dangerous move.
• The narrator went to the training ground, where Yuji Itadori, Nobara Kugisaki, and Megumi Fushiguro stopped sparring to listen.
• The narrator told Yuji they were ready to remove Sukuna, prompting Sukuna to manifest on Yuji's cheek and watch the narrator warily.
• Yuji readily agreed to the procedure, and the narrator instructed him to stop suppressing Sukuna and surrender full control of his body.
• Yuji, Sukuna, Megumi, and Nobara were stunned when the narrator warned that Yuji's body could suffer severe damage and pain, possibly nearing death.

Yuji Itadori willingly handed Ryomen Sukuna full control of his body so the narrator could confront him, while Satoru Gojo and Jujutsu High's students watched from a safe distance. Sukuna tried to kill the narrator with a surprise slash, but the narrator blocked it and mocked him.

• The narrator asked Yuji Itadori to surrender complete ownership of his body to Ryomen Sukuna, and Yuji agreed because he trusted the narrator.
• Satoru Gojo persuaded the narrator to let Jujutsu High's students watch the fight remotely, while he prepared to intervene if necessary.
• At the outdoor field, Yuji closed his eyes and gave Sukuna control, allowing Sukuna to emerge in his body.
• The narrator warned Sukuna against escaping and offered to return his remaining nineteen fingers if Sukuna won.
• Sukuna attacked the narrator's neck with Dismantle during the offer, but the narrator's Inversion blocked the slash without injury.
• The narrator looked down on Sukuna and asked if that was all the thousand-year-old strongest could do.

Sukuna tested your Inversion defense with increasingly powerful attacks, then nearly discovered its weakness by trying a gentle touch. You switched techniques and used the Soul Liberation Blade to sever his right arm, leaving Satoru Gojo and the classroom observers stunned.

• Sukuna's Dismantle and a barrage of slashes failed to harm you, so he probed your defense's limits with attacks from different angles and strengths.
• Sukuna struck your abdomen with Cleave, but your Inversion nullified it, and he began to suspect that weakness might overcome your defense.
• As Sukuna gently tested the back of your hand, you withdrew Inversion, drew the Soul Liberation Blade from your shadow, and seized his wrist with Extreme Overload Control.
• You chained Phantom Parade, Projection Sorcery, Unheralded Ligament Launch, and Blink-Synchronized Entry to slash off Sukuna's right arm with the Soul Liberation Blade.
• Satoru Gojo and the people watching from the multimedia classroom reacted with astonishment at the fight's speed and your decisive attack on Itadori's body.

The narrator used the Soul Liberation Blade and Idle Transfiguration to destroy part of Sukuna’s soul, but Sukuna restored his hand by swapping in the soul blueprint of a spare arm. As Sukuna began expanding his domain, the narrator moved faster than he could react and severed both his hands.

• Sukuna retreated after the narrator severed his right arm and concluded that the narrator’s techniques depended on limited cursed energy.
• The narrator touched Sukuna’s severed arm with Idle Transfiguration and reached the portion of Sukuna’s soul connected to his main body.
• Sukuna recognized the narrator’s plan and attacked with Dismantle while the narrator’s defensive technique was inactive, but the narrator switched back to Inversion and survived.
• The narrator destroyed the soul corresponding to half of Sukuna’s palm, leaving his regenerated hand malformed.
• Sukuna substituted the intact soul blueprint of a spare right arm to restore the missing palm, and the narrator realized that he had two sets of arms.
• Sukuna began chanting for Domain Expansion, but the narrator rushed him and severed both hands at the wrists before he could finish.

Li Shunchen ambushed Sukuna to stop his Domain Expansion, repeatedly damaging his soul and disabling his right-side hands. Sukuna formed Malevolent Shrine with a one-handed seal, but the domains collided, and Li Shunchen used his enhanced strength to smash Sukuna into the malformed shrine at the heart of his domain.

• Li Shunchen used Blink Synchronization, an Emptiness Barrier, and Unobservable to appear beside Sukuna and sever his wrists as he attempted Domain Expansion.
• Li Shunchen switched to Inversion to withstand Sukuna’s slash, then wounded his chest and arm before teleporting behind him and impaling him with the Soul Liberation Blade.
• Li Shunchen used Idle Transfiguration on Sukuna’s severed palm to damage his soul and restrict his ability to form a two-handed seal.
• Sukuna restored his left palm, trapped the blade with his damaged right arm, and expanded Malevolent Shrine with a one-handed seal.
• Li Shunchen countered with Domain Expansion: Ālaya Consciousness, and the domains’ sure-hit effects neutralized each other as his cursed spiritification greatly increased his cursed energy.
• Li Shunchen charged through Sukuna’s slashes, seized the embedded blade, and hurled Sukuna into Malevolent Shrine’s malformed core, shattering it.

The narrator defeated Sukuna but discovered that Sukuna had destroyed Yuji Itadori’s heart as a final spiteful gambit. With Shoko Ieiri’s help, the narrator removed Sukuna’s soul and struggled to save Yuji, then collapsed from exhaustion, left wondering what it would cost to save everyone.

• The narrator shattered Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine, severed his legs, and used Idle Transfiguration to overwhelm his soul defenses.
• Sukuna revealed that he had crushed Yuji Itadori’s heart and stopped sustaining his body, hoping Yuji would die even if Sukuna lost.
• The narrator destroyed Sukuna’s consciousness and remaining soul fragments, then teleported Yuji to the multimedia classroom and called for Shoko Ieiri.
• The narrator and Shoko worked together to stabilize Yuji, repair his soul and body, and begin regenerating his limbs while Satoru Gojo and the students watched.
• After Yuji’s heart began beating again, the narrator collapsed, and Shoko told them to rest while she handled the remaining physical injuries.
• As the narrator lost consciousness, they wondered what price they would have to pay to save everyone and reach a perfect ending.

After saving Yuji Itadori by removing Ryomen Sukuna’s will, the narrator considered the risks and ethics of a plan to sever people’s souls from cursed energy. Masamichi Yaga then asked the narrator to run the Goodwill Event, whose future looked uncertain because the narrator’s Great Sages had reduced sorcerers’ combat experience and Tokyo’s students had become overwhelmingly powerful.

• The narrator examined Yuji Itadori and confirmed that he had inherited Sukuna’s remaining power through a deep fusion of their souls, while recognizing Itadori’s instinctive fear of the narrator.
• The narrator concluded that dormant incarnated sorcerers could be separated from their hosts more safely, then planned to study whether ordinary people’s souls could be altered to prevent cursed energy.
• The narrator hired Mei Mei to find people tormented by their ability to perceive curses and planned to ask them to volunteer for the experiment, while questioning the resemblance between the plan and Kenjaku’s work.
• Masamichi Yaga asked the narrator to organize the Kyoto Jujutsu High Goodwill Event because Satoru Gojo had gone on vacation after claiming he had done enough work.
• Masamichi Yaga explained that the narrator’s Great Sages had reduced sorcerer casualties but also deprived students of combat experience, putting the event’s future in doubt.
• The narrator argued that Tokyo’s lineup, including Kinji Hakari, Megumi Fushiguro, Noritoshi Kamo, and the newly empowered Yuji Itadori, was so strong that competing against Kyoto risked becoming one-sided bullying.

Tokyo Jujutsu High quickly defeated Kyoto Jujutsu High in the Goodwill Event, and Li Shunchen learned how Kokichi Muta used his heavenly restriction to control Mechamaru from afar. After realizing Idle Transfiguration might restore Kokichi’s body by reshaping his soul, Li offered to try, and Kokichi eagerly accepted despite the risks.

• Noritoshi Kamo defeated Aoi Todo by detonating microscopic blood particles inside his body, while the Tokyo students easily overcame Kyoto’s remaining participants.
• Li Shunchen learned from Utahime Iori that Kokichi Muta operated Mechamaru remotely from Kyoto and used his heavenly restriction’s vast cursed energy to power puppets across Japan.
• After examining Mechamaru and seeing a photograph of Kokichi’s severely damaged body, Li considered whether Idle Transfiguration could reshape Kokichi’s soul and heal him.
• Li approached Mechamaru’s wreckage and asked Kokichi whether he would risk an untested method that might heal his body.
• Kokichi called out to Li and agreed to undergo the treatment, no matter the danger or cost.

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.