Slashes Rendered Ineffective

"When the most important Buddha statues were enshrined in Buddhist worship, they were usually placed in a shrine called a 'Mishoyoshi' and publicly displayed only on designated days. Such displays were also known as 'Okaicho.'"

This was a passage from Kyoto Temple Records.

And when the oni god known as Ryomen Sukuna unfolded his own Innate Domain—Demon Subjugation Kitchen Shrine—Riezel witnessed such a scene.

A shrine slowly rose from the reflection of a rippling, water-like world, appearing beneath a blood-red sky.

Above was an endless crimson mist.

Below was a reflection like the surface of water.

The shrine, resembling a miniature palace, stood upon the watery reflection. Before it stood Ryomen Sukuna, a lawless smile hanging on his face.

That shrine possessed neither holiness nor righteousness. Its appearance was incomparably ferocious, and it was covered in ornaments resembling beast bones and skulls.

Rather than a Buddhist shrine, it was more like a demonic shrine.

Standing within such a domain felt no different from standing in hell.

Riezel opened his eyes and looked upon it all. His gaze flickered slightly, yet he made no response.

"Oh?"

Seeing that Riezel remained unmoved, Sukuna lowered the hand he had used to form a seal, his deep voice sounding out.

"You're not going to unfold a domain and fight me?"

"Don't tell me... you mean to say you don't even need to unfold a domain to deal with me?"

"Or do you think I'm not even as good as that trash you squeezed into a lump of flesh earlier?"

The smile remained on Sukuna's face, but an astonishing killing intent erupted from him. It made one feel an overwhelming pressure crashing down like mountains and seas, as though they stood amid mountains of corpses and oceans of blood, surrounded by endless bloody malice.

Riezel