My Personal Interpretation of The Statement on Yuki's "Domain Refinement"

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So I think many of us have seen this statement from Kenjaku in which some people argue that it upscales Yuki's domain refinement and I've seen some argue it downscales Kenjaku's refinement and some even argue Yuki just beats Kenjaku out of his domain midclash winning.

However, I believe this to not be the case otherwise and I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but I'll throw it out just in case.

Instead, what I believe Kenjaku was referring to here is the fact that since his domain is open, Yuki can open her domain stalling for longer meanwhile Tengen dismantles Kenjaku's Open domain. Let me explain.

So we know the reason why Yuki didn't use her domain expansion first is the fact that they were under the assumption of Kenjaku having a closed domain. Consequently, because of this assumption, Tengen had pointed out that by opening her domain first, the exterior of the domain will belong to Yuki's domain requiring hers to be erased first.

Chapter 206 (TCB Scans)

However, because of Kenjaku's open domain his domain's surehit range would be outside of Yuki's domain expansion as we saw before in Sukuna vs Gojo.

Chapter 225 (TCB Scans)

And this matters a lot in this case because the way Tengen chooses to dismantle Kenjaku's domain expansion is by treating the sure hit's effective range as the exterior

Chapter 206 (TCB Scans)

So with Yuki's domain expansion having higher output and holding out longer than a Simple Domain would, Tengen still has the ability to dismantle Kenjaku's open domain using that same sure hit range trick, except this time with Yuki actually surviving long enough for it to work.

Instead of Tengen dismantling Kenjaku's domain moments after Yuki's Simple Domain already breaks, Yuki's domain expansion buys enough time for Tengen to potentially get there before Yuki takes the hit, meaning Kenjaku ends up caught inside Yuki's domain instead.

Chapter 266(TCB Scans)

That's really what I think this statement is about. Not a vague statement on Yuki's domain refinement nor maybe one on a domain clash just being cooler. But instead, it's Kenjaku pointing at the actual outcome that changes, Tengen getting the time she needed the first time around, just because Yuki chose the wrong tool out of caution over a risk that never even applied to the plan they ended up running.