After Zhongli Wu left the imperial palace.
Xu Tianran barely hesitated before personally writing an imperial decree.
He then summoned a guard and had the decree delivered to Prince Ming's Estate and the Royal Soul Engineer Legion.
The decree was simple: Prince Ming, Xu Tianyao, was ordered to lead the Royal Soul Engineer Legion in a comprehensive purge of all human trafficking, illegal experiments, and underground criminal organizations within Ming Capital within seven days.
To restore clear skies to Ming Capital and justice to the Empire's people.
Thus, the Sun Moon Empire's first large-scale "crime and evil crackdown" officially began.
Over the following week.
Under the Royal Soul Engineer Legion's powerful execution and with Xu Tianyao personally directing the operation, large numbers of criminal organizations hidden beneath Ming Capital were uprooted.
In the end, nearly a thousand innocent civilians were rescued.
More than five hundred Evil Soul Masters and criminal organization members were killed.
Dozens of underground strongholds were destroyed, and by following the trail, tens of thousands of people implicated in the crimes were uncovered.
The operation quickly caused a massive stir throughout the Sun Moon Empire.
For the first time, countless citizens felt that the Empire was truly willing to act on their behalf. They praised Prince Ming as the Empire's greatest virtuous prince and His Majesty as the sole wise ruler of the age. He had the people's support and lived up to all expectations!
Under the deliberate promotion of the Sun Moon Empire's official intelligence agencies, news of the matter even spread to the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
With interested parties fanning the flames, the royal families and noble classes of the Three Great Empires likewise came under tremendous pressure.
After all, a considerable portion of those artificially created beast-human hybrids had ultimately flowed into the black