A department certainly couldn't consist of just a research team. It needed managers, too. Besides, the payment platform and the Merit Welfare Lottery involved a great many moving parts. The Heavenly Court would be easy enough: it was small and manageable. But this meant little to the immortals there. Qin Fen had established Lanxiang earlier as groundwork for educating the Demon Tribe. Now, his real target was the Demon Tribe.
Only when the Demon Tribe had hope would they stop committing so much evil. Naturally, they would then earn merit to buy lottery tickets, keeping them off the wrong path. Whatever they did, even the tiniest good deeds could, over the years, change their desire to eat people and even lead them to help the Human Tribe. That was one benefit. To help them lead normal lives, Lanxiang could also use the lottery to keep drawing in more demons to study, creating a mutually reinforcing cycle.
This was an undertaking of historic importance that would resolve the threat posed by the Demon Tribe once and for all.
To borrow the Heavenly Dao's words, it would bring boundless merit. Putting it into practice, however, involved countless complications.
Mobile access was a distribution channel, and the main one at that. But relying solely on phones wasn't practical. They also needed physical shops, because Qin Fen knew perfectly well that the lesser demons weren't sufficiently enlightened and might not know how to use a phone. Old Ox and the other Seven Great Sages could lend a hand with that. This was also why he had first approached Old Ox and won Monkey over. Qin Fen had spent a long time thinking about this lottery plan. It was the grand scheme he had always looked forward to: an unlimited, steady stream of merit.
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