Similar scenes played out beyond Lin Siyuan's team.
The Light Group's branches in every city mobilized in full, sweeping frantically across the entire Human Race.
Countless wealthy locals were arrested.
Even some prominent businesses were among them.
For those with powerful abilities, people from headquarters were sent in.
The entire operation unfolded on a massive scale.
The whole Human Race seemed to have been plunged into a state of tense confrontation.
Of course, not everyone had cloaked themselves in the guise of a philanthropist.
Some were simply brainless, habitually arrogant, bullying men and abusing women, and terrorizing their communities.
But when the Light Group took action, its reputation showed no improvement whatsoever.
The ordinary people watching merely scoffed.
"Do you really think the Light Group is ridding the people of these scourges?"
"They're just amassing wealth. They don't care who's good or bad, only who has more money!"
This view clearly met with everyone's agreement.
Their contempt and disdain for the Light Group only deepened.
Some had even proposed asking the Human Race's Ninth Awakening Sages to emerge from seclusion and put an end to this farce.
But the majority voted against it.
Because a Sage's emergence meant exposing his identity.
For them, the moment their identities were exposed, they lost their value as a hidden threat. If the Demon Domain really had any operations or plans, it would factor in that unpredictable element, and might even devise a specific scheme to kill him.
It would even analyze the exposed person's identity to determine whether other geniuses from his generation might still be alive.
That was why Ninth Awakening experts would not show themselves unless there was absolutely no alternative.
Unless...
The people petitioned them.
Once the number of petitioners exceeded fifty percent of the Human Race's total population, a