Li Ping'an savored the information and indeed understood how the Western Sect had been inefficiently exploiting the power of incense merit.
[Step one, occupy a realm, bringing in a group of mortals, allowing them to multiply and thrive.]
[Step two, after several thousand or ten thousand years, when the realm's population of mortals reaches a certain number—at a minimum, tens of millions—allow malevolent demons to wreak havoc, devour a batch of mortals, and use the mortal souls to replenish the demons' strength, while also entangling the demons in karma, thus being abandoned by the Heavenly Dao.]
This second step also kills several birds with one stone.
It not only keeps the malevolent demons from escaping the control of the Western Sect, who must rely on the protection of the twelve-grade golden lotus, but it also firmly sets them against the Human Race;
It can also instill genuine fear in the mortals.
Then comes the third step.
