Faced with Xuanzhou suddenly falling into chaos, Lu Bai refused to compromise.
To be precise, he had long expected this to happen.
Large numbers of Heavenly Venerate walkers, appointed from among the finest disciples of the various immortal sects, received the Heavenly Venerate's decree and went out to suppress unrest across the land.
Anyone found violating the law, whether mortal or cultivator, was arrested. Those who dared resist arrest could be killed on the spot.
In addition, the patrol teams, whose members were all at least at the Integration stage, had been expanded and sent out once more.
They were primarily responsible for suppressing cultivators at the Golden Core stage and above who broke the law. Whether Golden Core, Nascent Soul, or Spirit Severing cultivators, they could all be captured with ease. Even those at the Integration stage could only flee with their heads in their hands—and they still wouldn't get away.
Lu Bai's fearsome reputation ensured that the members of these immortal sects wouldn't dare slack off. They had to take their duties seriously.
Under these circumstances, law enforcement teams made up entirely of cultivators could be astonishingly efficient.
After all, high-level cultivators didn't need to sleep or eat, and they could even use certain avatar techniques to handle things for them.
In just half a month, millions of criminals had been arrested. Every day, tens of thousands or even over a hundred thousand more were brought in. The tiger-head execution blade had even developed a spirit of its own from all the use, yet countless death-row prisoners were still waiting in line.
And they weren't simply killing people without a word. Announcements of the verdicts and spell-recordings of the executions were also released.
One batch of lawbreaking cultivators after another was sentenced, the laws enforced at the cost