Chapter Summaries

The narrator advanced his Open Domain research and began removing cursed energy from ordinary people, while Mei Mei confronted him about his growing distance from life. He told her that the man named Li Shunchen had died years ago, on the night a cursed spirit broke into his home.

• The narrator concluded that expanding Malevolent Shrine to cover Japan was impossible and too costly, even with more of Sukuna's Fingers.
• The narrator asked Mei Mei to find ordinary people who could see cursed spirits but could not exorcise them, then performed soul-altering surgeries on the first ten with their consent.
• The narrator arranged follow-up examinations for the participants and refused to use coercion to recruit a pregnant woman for further experiments.
• Mei Mei lit the narrator's cigarette and remarked that his cursed energy had become frighteningly powerful; he attributed the increase to Sukuna's Finger.
• Mei Mei questioned why the narrator seemed perpetually tense and unlike a living person, and he reflected that time had made his memories feel more than a century old.
• The narrator told Mei Mei that Li Shunchen had died on the night a cursed spirit broke into his home.

From 2020 to 2022, the narrator continued soul research, managed changes in Jujutsu Society, and guided his graduating students while receiving three underwhelming N-rank Cards. Three years of monitoring suggested cursed-energy removal was not causing severe harm, and the chapter ended with war breaking out in Europe.

• In 2020, the narrator drew Muscle Fiber Micro-Frequency Heating and set it aside while continuing to monitor ten people whose cursed energy he had removed; their souls showed signs of incongruity, so he postponed further experiments.
• Kinji Hakari asked the narrator to fund and protect his proposed underground Jujutsu Sorcerer Arena, and the narrator agreed to keep the venture under his supervision.
• In 2021, the narrator drew Edge Contour Highlighting and dismissed it as too limited to be useful to him.
• In 2022, Maki Zenin and Toge Inumaki graduated, and the narrator gave each a custom cursed tool capable of striking the soul.
• After three years of follow-up monitoring found no severe collapse among the experimental subjects, the narrator began considering expanding the trials as Jujutsu Society remained stable under his rule.
• War broke out in a major European power.

After seeing battlefield evidence that two foreign powers were using Cursed Energy weapons, you investigated the spread of the technology and later examined how escalating wars generated uncontrolled Cursed Energy. You concluded that Kenjaku had understood war’s potential but focused on Japan because Tengen’s barrier made it uniquely suited to her plans.

• Yuki Tsukumo sent you photographs of a soldier harvesting a comrade’s brain and a brain-powered mechanical spider fighting on a European battlefield.
• You inferred that the belligerents were manufacturing Cursed Energy through battlefield trauma and using brains as batteries and machine cores.
• You asked Mei Mei to gather intelligence on the weapons and avoided sending Yuki Tsukumo to investigate further.
• In 2023, you dismissed a new card that let you seal wounds with specialized saliva, then learned that war had intensified in Europe and erupted across the Middle East.
• Mei Mei’s reports showed that the massacres were producing extreme negative emotions and uncontrolled Cursed Energy, prompting you to assess their implications for Kenjaku.
• You concluded that Kenjaku had likely explored war as a source of Cursed Energy but chose Japan because Tengen’s barrier could concentrate and refine it.

As Megumi Fushiguro, Yuji Itadori, and Nobara Kugisaki graduated, you helped each choose a path while keeping foreign cursed-energy weapons under observation. You approved the gradual closure of Jujutsu High, but ended the chapter confronting your responsibility for the overseas atrocities enabled by the cursed-corpse technology you had published.

• Nobara Kugisaki chose to leave sorcery for an ordinary career, while you suggested Yuji Itadori consider firefighting or police work and arranged for Megumi Fushiguro to join the Zenin Clan.
• Naobito Zenin named Megumi the next clan head, and Megumi's Divine Dog: Totality severely injured Naoya Zenin when he tried to ambush him.
• You refused Mei Mei's offer to send Ui Ui into a war zone to retrieve cursed-energy weapon specimens, fearing the risks and the political consequences of Satoru Gojo intervening.
• At the start of 2024, you drew a card that let you forcefully deplete liver glycogen for five seconds of peak physical performance, then approved a shift from Jujutsu High schooling to a discovery-and-registration system as Great Sages replaced sorcerers in dangerous work.
• You told Masamichi Yaga that Jujutsu High would close gradually, and Yaga reassured you that foreign atrocities were not your fault, though you recognized that your published cursed-corpse technology had helped drive the countries toward inhumane experiments.
• The fighting on the overseas battlefields intensified, with more cursed-energy weapons deployed and more lives lost.

The narrator learned that foreign powers had built cursed-energy weapons from human brains and established secret “Human Ranch” facilities to produce more victims. To avoid exposing Japanese jujutsu sorcerers, the narrator prepared Great Sage for a covert mission and trusted it to make its own choices amid the horrors of war.

• The narrator reviewed battlefield footage and intelligence from Mei Mei, discovering that foreign militaries had built combat machines using human brains and cursed objects.
• Mei Mei revealed that major powers had created secret “Human Ranch” facilities to address their shortage of people with cursed energy talent.
• The narrator decided to destroy the brain-powered weapons but chose to send Great Sage rather than intervene personally and risk drawing the world’s attention to jujutsu sorcerers.
• The narrator rebuilt Great Sage into a humanoid soldier, equipped it with soul-attacking weapons, a concealed Chain of a Thousand Miles Chain, and reconnaissance capabilities.
• The narrator warned Great Sage that its mission would force it to confront cruel choices and said they would trust its decisions.

Over eight years, the Great Sage dismantled cursed-energy weapons in a major overseas war, uncovering the horrific human ranches that bred children to exploit their cursed energy. By early winter 2033, he returned to Japan traumatized and begged to stop carrying out his orders.

• Between 2026 and 2033, the narrator gained several powerful cards, including Dual-track blind operation and Split-track compound eyes.
• The Great Sage secretly destroyed cursed-energy weapons across the war zone, prompting rival powers to discover an unknown force was targeting them all.
• The narrator learned that the Human Ranches bred children with cursed-energy aptitude and raised them for harvesting or transplantation.
• As cursed-energy weapons disappeared, the war shifted to conventional fighting and eventually ended with every participating country weakened.
• In Japan, Jujutsu High closed, mentors replaced its training system, and the narrator kept Jujutsu Society's weakened leadership in place as a bureaucratic buffer.
• After destroying the last major Human Ranch, the Great Sage returned to the narrator's workshop in early winter 2033 and said he no longer wanted to continue.

Great Sage told you how years of killing soldiers, civilians, and cursed energy constructs had left him questioning what he was and unable to bear destroying beings he saw as his kindred. Recognizing the burden his orders had placed on Great Sage, you apologized and resolved to confront the source of the curses alone.

• You asked Great Sage what had happened, and he asked what he really was.
• Great Sage described killing enemy soldiers to protect civilians, knowing that both sides contained people desperate to live.
• Great Sage explained that he saw the cursed energy constructs as kindred beings like himself and felt each one he destroyed was another version of himself.
• You acknowledged that your order to destroy the constructs had made Great Sage bear the guilt of killing his perceived kin.
• You resolved never to create and deploy another fully independent cursed corpse and to face the source of all curses alone.
• You looked at Great Sage and apologized.

After restoring Great Sage to his original body, you spent thirteen years studying Tengen’s barriers and searching for a way to end curses, while Japan’s jujutsu society settled into a stable peace. The story left you receiving word that Masamichi Yaga wanted to see you one last time.

• You honored Great Sage’s wish to return to his original body and watched him resume his exorcism work.
• After the war, governments suppressed evidence of cursed energy, while Japan’s jujutsu strength became a hidden deterrent.
• You traveled for years to study Tengen’s barriers, crafted support cursed corpses, and continued searching for a way to end curses.
• Jujutsu Society adapted to your independent cursed corpse system as its old leaders gave way to a new generation.
• Mei Mei relayed that foreign forces wanted to contact you, but she declined their approaches on your behalf.
• You received a message saying Masamichi Yaga wanted to see you one last time.

Shunchen visited the dying Masamichi Yaga, who confronted him about his guilt over releasing cursed corpse technology and the suffering caused by the Great Sages. Yaga died after urging Shunchen to remember the lives he had saved, leaving Shunchen grieving and reflecting on a farewell that would stay with him even after the simulation ended.

• Shunchen visited the aged Masamichi Yaga in the hospital and explained that his appearance had not changed because of his unusual nature.
• Yaga admitted that he regretted teaching Shunchen cursed corpse creation because Shunchen carried the guilt for the chaos unleashed by publishing the technology.
• Yaga told Shunchen he worried most about him, fearing his empathy and self-reproach might eventually drive him to do something disastrous.
• Shunchen confessed that he blamed himself for accelerating the tragedies and for treating the Great Sages as tools despite recognizing their independent souls.
• Yaga urged Shunchen to remember the innocent lives he had saved, then died as the heart monitor flatlined.
• Shunchen mourned Yaga and reflected that the vivid farewell would remain with him even after he returned from the simulation.

After Masamichi Yaga’s funeral, the protagonist spent decades studying Tengen’s barriers and eventually dismantled the Sendai Barrier, only to discover that the land’s cursed energy ecosystem persisted. Years later, sensing that his lifespan was running out, he contacted Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to verify the method he had found.

• Megumi Fushiguro arranged Masamichi Yaga’s simple funeral, which the protagonist watched from afar before leaving on a solitary journey.
• Over the following decades, the protagonist relied on Megumi Fushiguro, Noritoshi Kamo, Mei Mei, Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and the Great Sages to maintain the Jujutsu Society while he studied barrier techniques.
• After years of research, the protagonist shut down Tengen’s Sendai Barrier, and the Great Sages successfully handled the disruption that followed.
• The protagonist observed Sendai for several years and discovered that its cursed energy remained entrenched in the land, so removing the barrier did not stop cursed spirits from arising.
• Discouraged by the failure of his plan to restore Japan through dismantling the barriers, the protagonist abandoned that research and searched for another path.
• In 2074, the protagonist sensed that his life was nearing its end and contacted Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to confirm details of the method he had found.

The narrator met Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto at the ruins of the old Jujutsu High and confessed that he was dying, while condemning himself for using Great Sage and the others to reshape the world. As his life ended, he resolved to pursue his goal without seeking redemption and promised to give Great Sage and the others their freedom, before the Forever Seventeen effect failed and the system announced his death.

• The narrator explained to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that he remained human despite his youthful appearance, while his soul had continued to age and wither.
• The narrator admitted that he viewed his work with Great Sage and the Fully Independent Cursed Corpses as enslavement, and called himself a hypocrite for forcing them to protect Japan.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto tried to reassure the narrator, but he rejected their absolution and said he would stop seeking redemption and do whatever it took to uproot every curse.
• The narrator told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that he intended to give Great Sage and the others the freedom to stay or leave after his death.
• Satoru Gojo demanded to know what the narrator planned to do, but the Forever Seventeen effect failed, his body rapidly aged, and he died as the system notification appeared.

After the sixth simulation ended, the protagonist remembered a full lifetime of failure and resolved to use the final opportunity to change reality, accepting that a bloodless solution might be impossible. He returned to the moment after contacting Mei Mei about the Time Vessel Association, where Satoru Gojo noticed his greatly increased cursed energy and demanded an explanation.

• The protagonist received the sixth simulation’s memories, techniques, and increased cursed energy after living a complete life as Li Shunchen.
• He regretted exposing cursed corpse technology and failing to free that world from curses, and accepted that ending curses might require painful choices.
• He confirmed that reality had returned to the moment after he called Mei Mei and Shiu Kong about investigating the Time Vessel Association.
• The protagonist decided to use his final simulation opportunity to carry out the plan he had formed at the end of the previous simulation.
• Satoru Gojo sensed the protagonist’s sudden increase in cursed energy, grabbed his shoulder, and demanded to know what had happened.

Li Shunchen used his powers to overpower Kenjaku and reveal that he wanted to cooperate with her rather than stop her plan. He left her stunned by declaring that he would become the most powerful curse and curse the world himself.

• Li Shunchen vanished from Jujutsu High and used his future memories to find Kenjaku at her hiding place.
• Li Shunchen confronted Kenjaku, nullified her control of Kaori Itadori's body with Nagi Daytime Prohibition, and trapped them inside a barrier.
• Li Shunchen manifested his Open Domain, Ālaya Consciousness, and revealed cursed energy carrying the traits of Ryomen Sukuna.
• Li Shunchen told Kenjaku that he needed the details of her thousand-year plan and wanted her to carry it out with him at its core.
• Li Shunchen declared that he would become the most powerful curse and curse the world.

Li Shunchen revealed his knowledge of Kenjaku’s plans and explained that countless failed attempts to end curses had led him to seek power through the mass assimilation. He proposed a Binding Vow partnership, leaving Kenjaku to consider a deal that would place Li Shunchen at the plan’s center.

• Kenjaku invited Li Shunchen into his apartment and served him tea while Li Shunchen kept his domain active.
• Li Shunchen identified Kenjaku’s past experiments, his plans for Tengen and Yuji Itadori, and his goal of assimilating Japan’s population.
• Li Shunchen claimed he had learned these secrets by obtaining information from alternate timelines, including one in which he killed Kenjaku.
• Li Shunchen explained that repeated failures to eradicate curses had driven him to seek control of the ultimate curse through Kenjaku’s assimilation plan, potentially extending it worldwide.
• Li Shunchen proposed a Binding Vow: he would help Kenjaku complete the plan if Kenjaku ensured Li Shunchen became its central subject and brought it to fruition.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku established a binding vow and discussed how he could become the core of the assimilation plan by occupying Tengen’s evolved body. Kenjaku revealed that her Culling Game would use mass slaughter to prepare Japan’s population for the final assimilation.

• Kenjaku accepted Li Shunchen’s proposal, and they formed a binding vow to work together on the assimilation plan.
• Li Shunchen asked how he could become the plan’s core, and Kenjaku recommended taking over Tengen’s body rather than copying Tengen’s technique.
• Kenjaku suggested that Tengen’s evolved body might let Li Shunchen assimilate cursed spirits as well as humans.
• Li Shunchen described his idea of drawing power from humanity’s fear, and Kenjaku explained that fear would instead give rise to new cursed spirits unless a global barrier system gathered it directly.
• Li Shunchen asked how Kenjaku planned to trigger assimilation, including how she would use her ancient contracts and more than a million cursed spirits.
• Kenjaku revealed that she would use the Culling Game to provoke mass death and suffering, tempering the souls across Japan before the final assimilation.

Li Shunchen discussed Kenjaku’s Culling Game and agreed to stop Tengen’s assimilation himself, while Kenjaku continued preparing the larger plan without involving him. He concealed his remaining concern for his Jujutsu High companions and intended to leave Satoru Gojo as a last safeguard if the plan produced an uncontrollable monster.

• Li Shunchen explained that the Culling Game would use Tengen’s barriers and brutal combat to refine human souls before the planned assimilation.
• Kenjaku revealed that she had intended to hire Toji Fushiguro to stop Tengen’s assimilation, and Li Shunchen disclosed that he had killed Toji and impersonated him while contacting the Time Vessel Association.
• Li Shunchen volunteered to handle Tengen and copy his cursed technique, while Kenjaku questioned how he would deal with Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.
• Li Shunchen admitted he had not resolved how to treat his former companions and privately considered keeping Satoru alive as a safeguard against losing control of the final power.
• Li Shunchen identified Kenjaku’s intended use of the Prison Realm and agreed the plan should proceed slowly until her preparations and Yuji Itadori’s readiness were complete.
• Li Shunchen told Kenjaku to follow her original blueprint without involving him until every piece was ready, then left her residence.

After resolving to prepare himself for the mass slaughter required by his plan, Shunchen arranged the Star Plasma Vessel assassination and challenged Satoru Gojo to spar. He ended the chapter behind Gojo after nearly striking him with the Inverted Spear of Heaven, asking him to take the fight seriously.

• Shunchen decided to steady his mind before carrying out Kenjaku's plan and accepted that his next simulation attempt was his last.
• Shunchen told Mei Mei to stop investigating the Time Vessel Association and instructed Shiu Kong to accept the negotiated assassination payment.
• Shunchen returned to Jujutsu High and asked Satoru Gojo to spar, agreeing not to use Limitless or his Domain Expansion.
• Shunchen used Emptiness Barrier, Unobservable, and Projection Sorcery to teleport behind Gojo and attack with the Inverted Spear of Heaven.
• Shunchen stopped the blade before it injured Gojo, tore his uniform, and told him to take the fight more seriously.

Li Shunchen overwhelmed Satoru Gojo during their spar, forcing him to confront his inexperience and accept a new goal: surpassing Li. As Gojo began adapting, Li escalated the fight by activating Projection Sorcery and Simple Domain.

• Li explained that his teleportation technique required him to be undetectable, then said he would not use it again during the spar.
• Satoru Gojo rejected Li’s advice to fight at range and charged into close combat, where Li evaded and countered his Blue-enhanced attacks with the Inverted Spear of Heaven.
• Li used his advanced swordsmanship and bullet-time reactions to suppress Gojo and cut his uniform, then challenged him to surpass Li and claim the title of the strongest.
• Gojo began adapting to Li’s attacks as Li activated Projection Sorcery and cast New Shadow Style: Simple Domain, leaving Gojo shocked.

The narrator defeated Satoru Gojo in a sparring match, then advised him to master domain expansion and gave Suguru Geto guidance on using cursed spirits with domains. Tengen witnessed the encounter and wondered how this unexpected variable would shape Jujutsu Society’s future.

• The narrator stopped attacking Satoru Gojo and let him heal, while Suguru Geto realized how difficult it would be to survive the narrator’s assault himself.
• After recovering, Satoru Gojo asked the narrator how he could beat him, and the narrator told him to master domain expansion.
• The narrator advised Suguru Geto to prioritize collecting cursed spirits capable of deploying domains and explained how they could be used against an opponent’s domain.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto absorbed the narrator’s lessons on combat and domain battles after witnessing his strength.
• Tengen watched the sparring match through the barriers and fell into silence, contemplating how the narrator would affect Jujutsu Society’s future.

Li Shunchen entered the Tombs of the Star Corridor to confront Tengen, stop the Star Plasma Vessel assimilation, and copy Tengen’s Immortality technique. After Tengen agreed to abandon assimilation, Li Shunchen revealed his far more ruthless plan, then faced Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Masamichi Yaga as they arrived believing he meant to attack Tengen.

• Li Shunchen bypassed Tengen’s barriers and destroyed her projected phantom to reach her true body.
• Li Shunchen accused Tengen of using her barrier system to amplify curses and sacrifice people for her own survival.
• Li Shunchen demanded that Tengen abandon the upcoming assimilation, and Phantom Parade copied her Immortality technique.
• Tengen agreed to cancel the assimilation, believing Li Shunchen acted to protect the Star Plasma Vessel.
• Li Shunchen resolved to sacrifice every human being in Japan as part of his plan to eradicate curses.
• Suguru Geto, Masamichi Yaga, and Satoru Gojo arrived and confronted Li Shunchen, who calmly said he had only come to see Tengen.