Time passed. The blood before Xuanwu Gate had been wiped clean, but the impact of the incident could not be erased.
To suppress the repercussions, Xu Chengjing first secretly executed every officer and soldier who had followed Xu Tianran in the Xuanwu Gate Incident that day.
As for the members of the Crown Prince's Residence, very few of them had known about Xu Tianran's scheme. Thus, Xu Tianchen did not wipe them all out and instead spared those innocent people.
However, Xu Tianchen still worked with Xu Chengjing to purge Xu Tianran's remaining forces. In other words, they eliminated all of Xu Tianran's last remnants of influence within the military, while leaving everything else largely untouched.
Xu Tianran's cause of death was publicly declared to be an assassination by Titled Douluo from the Three Douluo Kingdoms. The soldiers secretly executed by Xu Chengjing were said to have been killed by the assassins while protecting the Crown Prince.
Once this information was released, it immediately shook both the court and the public. First came the news of Xu Tianchen's assassination attempt, followed by Xu Tianran's assassination and death.
Taking advantage of these two incidents, Xu Chengjing formally declared war on the Three Douluo Kingdoms, vowing to demand an explanation for the empire.
At the same time, when the order to go to war was issued from Mingdu, the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion and the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion rushed to the border between the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Empire. There, they joined forces with the border troops and attacked the Star Luo Empire.
The Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion and the Dreadclaw Soul Engineer Legion headed for the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Sun Moon Empire, where they joined the border troops and