[Ever since the day you successfully released the Open Domain version of "Malevolent Shrine," it was as though a boulder blocking the river of your understanding had been toppled. The stumbling block that had held you back in barrier techniques for so long was utterly swept away.]
[With your thoughts suddenly clear, your barrier techniques made a staggering leap forward in this relatively short span of time.]
[Yet "Malevolent Shrine," stripped of its shell and manifested directly in reality, brought you more than a technical breakthrough. It also brought endless contemplation, reaching into deeper abysses.]
[After all, the unreasonable "sure-hit" effect within that domain was a trait your own original domain, "Ālaya Consciousness," had never possessed.]
[Admittedly, since you had only fused with one of Sukuna's Fingers so far, this version of "Malevolent Shrine" did not cover a particularly large area.]
[But the feeling of expanding a domain into real space without the slightest resistance, forcibly engraving the "sure-hit" rule into the air and applying it to every inch of space, remained a novel and deeply enticing experience for you.]
[In that state, the boundaries of the Open Domain seemed to become a direct extension of your bodily senses. You did not need to set foot somewhere yourself. As long as a target remained within this "territory" you had defined, you could rely on the sure-hit rule to unleash your cursed technique upon it as naturally as breathing.]
[But once you calmed down and analyzed it again, problems of the utmost severity still stood before you.]
[First, the effective radius of this Open Domain was far too small, nowhere near the standard of your grand vision; second, compared with your silent, enduring "Ālaya Consciousness," which spread like ripples, the cursed energy consumed by activating and maintaining "Malevolent Shrine" was nothing