He turned back once more and took a deep look at the children imprisoned in the iron cages.
Those pairs of numb, fearful, despairing eyes seemed to silently recount the darkest side of this world.
Xu Tianyao said nothing more. He merely clenched his fists in silence before turning and leaving.
He walked out of that underground castle filled with sin, and out of that nauseating place of darkness.
Escorted by the estate guards, he returned all the way to Prince Ming's Estate.
Yet his expression remained terrifyingly grim.
He knew full well that this matter could not be handled casually.
Those children were not numbers, not commodities, and certainly not experimental materials in certain people's eyes. They were also citizens of the Empire, and they too had the right to live.
If even something like this could be tacitly allowed, then what meaning did the so-called order of the Empire still have?
Thus, early the next morning, Xu Tianyao began to act.
He joined forces with several high-ranking Soul Engineers and several ministers within the Empire responsible for state affairs, submitting a jointly signed memorial to Emperor Xu Tianran.
The memorial laid out the details of the incident and requested that the Empire thoroughly investigate the matter, bring everyone involved to justice, and give the Empire's people the justice they deserved.
Moreover, to prevent certain people from secretly suppressing the matter, Xu Tianyao directly leaked the relevant information to the major newspapers of Ming Capital.
The next day, under the Plain Alliance's deliberate publicity campaign, the entire Ming Capital was thrown into an uproar.
Countless citizens were shocked and enraged after reading the contents of the newspapers.
They never would have imagined that in the Sun Moon Empire, now hailed as the continent's strongest nation, and in Ming Capital,