Northern India, a remote village.
At some unknown point, this inconspicuous village began to be enveloped by a massive Barrier Technique.
However, in this country with an extremely large population but few Jujutsu Sorcerers, this Barrier Technique did not attract attention.
Perhaps it once did, but those who noticed it all disappeared in the end.
Kenjaku, who had been away from the island nation for several years, leisurely walked into the village.
"I wonder how the experimental progress is here."
Ever since Kenjaku learned a few years ago that Suguru Geto had returned to the island nation, he found a way to give the Star Religion to Suguru Geto as a base.
After that, his life became more difficult day by day.
First, the Zenin Clan and Gojo Family among The Big Three Families, as well as other Jujutsu Sorcerer Families affiliated with them, all began to heavily pursue any Curse User with stitches on his forehead.
This made Kenjaku's movements much more difficult.
The key was that this was a nationwide manhunt.
The south was personally handled by the Gojo Family and Zenin Clan, and the inspections were extremely strict.
The central region was overseen by the Disciples of Shinkage-ryu and some neutral Jujutsu Sorcerer Families.
The north was jointly searched by the Isayama Family and Tsuchimiya Family.
For a time, even many ordinary people and cosplayers with patterned foreheads or wearing strange decorations were taken away for inspection.
Originally, Kenjaku planned to hide out in Hokkaido to avoid the commotion.
However, when he got there, he found that while the Jujutsu Sorcerers of Hokkaido were not widely pursuing a certain stitched-forehead Curse User...
The police in Hokkaido, however, were heavily pursuing terrorists with stitches on their heads.
The Hokkaido police department stated, regarding such a large donation, that they only needed to pay attention to a person with such obvious features when dispatching officers?
Arrangements, absolutely must be made.
Helpless, Kenjaku could only leave the country to avoid the limelight.
Kenjaku truly racked his brain but couldn't figure out how he was exposed.
He was not the public spokesperson for the Star Religion, nor was he the one who interacted with Suguru Geto.
He wasn't the one who connected Suguru Geto, nor was he the one who helped Suguru Geto become the Great Master.
Why was he the only one on the wanted list?
Kenjaku truly felt completely bewildered.
At the same time, he also lamented that, at some unknown point, a few 'little guys' in his eyes had grown to such an extent.
Not just growth in power, but also in influence.
They mobilized forces from all over the country in just a few days.
For several centuries since taking control of the Kamo Family, Kenjaku had always relied on the Kamo Family's power to scheme against others.
This was the first time he himself had been targeted in such a way.
For this, Kenjaku hid in the Kamo Family for a long time, but found that everything he did was restricted, so in the end, he simply left the country temporarily to avoid the situation.
After leaving the island nation, Kenjaku remotely operated the Kamo Family to gather various intelligence on Suguru Geto and the Jujutsu World of the island nation.
At the same time, he began a new experiment.
The experiment for creating Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirits.
The inspiration for this experiment actually came from Eichi's Special Grade Imaginary Heroic Spirits.
In his view, both Special Grade Imaginary Heroic Spirits and Special Grade Imaginary Vengeful Spirits are products that turn imagination into reality.
He had seen many such things.
Most of them manifested in the form of various yokai.
He himself had also studied their principles.
He just didn't expect that someone could use this method to create Heroic Spirits indistinguishable from an Immortal Master.
Kenjaku, unaware of the System and the Holy Grail, believed that Eichi must have used some special means to transform Heroic Spirits from imagination into reality.
Kenjaku believed that as long as this matter was proven feasible...
Then he, a Great Master of Cursed Energy who had studied Cursed Energy for a thousand years, would be able to replicate it.
So he needed a place where he could conduct his experiments properly.
A place with a large population, chaotic conditions, poor local government control, allowing him to do as he pleased.
Finally, Kenjaku chose India.
First, the population of this country is very, very large.
Secondly, the national education level of this country is poor.
The people of India receive very perfunctory compulsory education for ordinary people.
Many people pass exams by cheating.
It is also because of this that one school, after announcing stricter measures against cheating, saw a large number of students abandon the exam and wait for a retest.
If the island nation's reverence for gods and spirits is determined by its culture and external output...
Then India's situation is purely due to inadequate education, leading to superstition because of ignorance.
For Kenjaku, such a populace was exactly what he needed.
Because they believed in these things the most, Kenjaku only needed to use a few tricks to gain a large number of 'believers'.
These believers would continuously provide the 'gods' created by Kenjaku with Cursed Energy generated from negative emotions, gradually transforming these imaginary gods into true Imaginary Vengeful Spirits.
But this required solving three problems.
One was the need for a Barrier Technique with similar functions to the Barrier Technique established by Tengen in the island nation.
Through the Barrier Technique, Cursed Energy would not dissipate, allowing it to stably concentrate and flow towards the Imaginary Cursed Spirits.
This was the easiest point for Kenjaku to resolve.
Because Kenjaku was the foremost expert in Barrier Techniques after Tengen.
Moreover, Kenjaku had also lived for over a thousand years; even if he didn't specialize almost exclusively in Barrier Techniques like Tengen...
Kenjaku, also a Genius, had extremely high attainments in Barrier Techniques.
Therefore, after selecting a location, Kenjaku only spent a few days setting up a Barrier Technique in a village.
Later, to speed things up and conduct comparative experiments, Kenjaku found more than a dozen other villages.
By connecting the Barrier Techniques of several villages, he could conduct multiple Imaginary Cursed Spirit creation experiments simultaneously, ensuring similar population sizes.
The second point was the need for a dense population.
If the number of people was too small or too scattered, it would lead to slow Cursed Energy convergence and slow formation of Imaginary Vengeful Spirits.
This point was perfectly solved by the densely packed villages of India.
Kenjaku connected the Barrier Techniques of several villages, allowing multiple villages to simultaneously provide Cursed Energy for one target.
Since these villages were not far apart, it was not difficult to implement.
The third point was an environment suitable for stable experimentation.
Simply put, because his experiment involved too many people, the process could easily cause some strange phenomena, thereby attracting the attention of local authorities.
So, for the experiment to proceed smoothly, he had to control the local authorities or ensure that they wouldn't interfere with him.
Kenjaku found a suitable place for this in northern India.
How chaotic was northern India? Large numbers of ordinary people here were using drugs or substances with similar effects.
Many who couldn't afford these even actively caught venomous snakes and lizards.
Then they would let these animals bite them, relying on these poisonous, hallucinogenic creatures to alleviate their symptoms.
But animals don't understand what you're trying to do; in their panic, they only strike hard.
Therefore, these people couldn't control the dosage, and many died from these things every year.
According to estimates by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, over 180 million people in India use drugs or abuse substances.
Police even seized over a hundred kilograms of powdered chocolate, which was sold to children, at the entrance of an elementary school.
Moreover, it happened more than once that over a hundred kilograms of seized contraband disappeared from the police station.
The police department publicly announced that these contraband items were eaten by rats.
This shows how chaotic these few regions in northern India were, making it Kenjaku's perfect experimental site.
Even if someone ran away while he was out, people would only assume that the person had taken too much and gone mad.
And not that Kenjaku was doing something strange here.
The mad Cursed Energy scholar Kenjaku had found his perfect experimental ground.
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