Just as the heavy rain had ceased, and the sky was showing the pale hue of a fish's belly, the hefty gates of Chengtian Gate were flung open with a thunderous boom. A large number of heavily armored royal camp soldiers and Xiuyiwei guards surged out from within.
Their darkly-clad mass was akin to a tide of iron, submerging over a thousand kneeling students and all of them were forcibly arrested and suppressed.
Some competitive scholars and Jiansheng who considered themselves powerful attempted to resist but the Forbidden Army Soldiers did not hesitate to use their weapons, even crossbows.
Those ambitious students were either forcibly knocked unconscious on the ground or directly pinned to the ground by crossbow arrows.
Wei Bailong, the head of Xiuyiwei, rode back and forth on a tall horse, proclaiming loudly with an imperial decree in hand, "By His Majesty's decree, you scholars are unable to distinguish right from wrong, ignorant, and siding with Prince Xiang!
