[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday":3,"chapter-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-125":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2225183,4113,"Chapter 125","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-125",125,"\u003Cp>Once Xingchi appeared, the scene suddenly went quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, they stopped talking and stood up one after another, bowing to Xingchi as juniors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Xingchi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi started walking the Wu Lin in his twenties, and it had been nearly seventy years since then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In these seventy years, he had done good, eliminated evil, saved people, killed people, but had never done a single wrong thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reign title of Great Shuo had changed four times, and four emperors had been changed. Wu Lin people came and went, and seven or eight batches had been changed. Almost every Wu Lin person, before stepping into the Wu Lin, would be told by their master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Xingchi of Shaolin is the most virtuous and respected holy monk in the Wu Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If there is any major event in the Wu Lin that cannot be solved in the future, go to Shaolin to find Master Xingchi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you have no way to heaven and no door to enter the earth, go find Master Xingchi to preside over justice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seniority, virtue, Wu Gong, deeds; if one wanted to find a \"perfect person\" in the Wu Lin, except for Xingchi, no one else could be thought of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi turned around, Yongjie helped him, and he returned the salute to everyone one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He no longer had the vigor of three days ago, and that \"Diamond\" bone structure that exceeded common sense had also become withered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could no longer walk on his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi was going to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, a supreme expert who had reached perfection all the way, unless they possessed other incomplete realms, would not fall into the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xingchi relied on Shaolin's foundation, took an evil path, and forcibly pushed \"Diamond\" to a level beyond perfection; how could he not pay the price?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao had also thought about saving him, and had checked his body and meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi's body could no longer be considered a \"human\"; his bones had gradually solidified, and his Qi had turned into some kind of extremely concentrated gelatinous substance, which was constantly evolving toward crystals, piercing every inch of his meridians and tearing every one of his internal organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this Qi could not break through his \"Diamond\" skin and flesh, so it trapped all the blood inside Xingchi's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, his face looked normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that ever since the battle with Ji Tianrui, Xingchi had been experiencing pain far exceeding the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, a \"thousand cuts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this situation, the Wedding Dress Divine Art was useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao had only one way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His \"biological welding\" Wu Gong that cured Liu Baiyun might be able to cut off limbs and internal organs from evil people and graft them onto Xingchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao mentioned this method to Xingchi, and Xingchi refused with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Killing life to prolong life is like the demonic path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The monk has been trembling and walking on thin ice all his life, and finally managed to be a good monk. Doing such a thing at the end, wouldn't it ruin this ninety-plus years of cultivation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fate arises and fate falls, all are cause and effect. The monk should let go of this stinking skin bag and go see the Buddha the monk has believed in all his life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao could only respect Xingchi's choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back to the present, as soon as everyone saw Xingchi, they were busy bowing their heads in salute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they raised their heads and saw Xingchi's appearance, they were shocked and lost color one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Xingchi!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This! This!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't just panic; some people hadn't even opened their mouths before tears streamed down, sobbing uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ming Cult attacked the mountain gate, Xingchi suddenly wanted to abdicate, and even waited only three days, not waiting for those major sects with real weight to come and pay respects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, it was easy to deduce the conclusion that Xingchi might have an accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, there was truly not a single person who had thought that Xingchi would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he die?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besieging Bright Peak, the Ming Cult ignited a mountain fire, Xingchi rushed into the fire alone, saved the Wu Lin people trapped, and Xingchi didn't die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disaster in Fujian, Xingchi exhausted his Qi several times, nearly dried up, and even gave up his own rations to the disaster victims, not eating for nearly a month, withered like a corpse under internal and external distress, and Xingchi didn't die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Green Willow Tower ran rampant in the Wu Lin, exterminating the entire Hidden Sword Villa, Xingchi traveled five hundred miles overnight to go up the mountain, protected the villa master's orphan daughter on the mountain peak, resisted the siege of hundreds of Green Willow Tower killers for three days, bathed in blood, and finally dragged it until the Wu Lin righteous path returned to help, and Xingchi still didn't die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going up the mountain, going down the mountain, eliminating evil, saving people; these things, some were even forgotten as time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi was always there, in the Wu Lin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Lin people had long regarded him as some kind of faith belonging exclusively to Wu Lin people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as he was still there, this Wu Lin still had justice, still had a reliance when there was no way to heaven and no door to enter the earth, and still had a righteous path that could be sincerely entrusted and completely believed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one said Xingchi believed in Buddha, then the Buddha in the hearts of Wu Lin people was Xingchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Xingchi's appearance now, everyone felt as if the sky had collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This, this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sect Leader Xiao, who was thinking about arguing with Li Miao just now, no longer had the heart to fight for jealousy, stammering, his hands tightly clenched into fists, tears streaming from his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first entered the Wu Lin, he provoked an expert who was both righteous and evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Wu Lin rules, it was his fault at the time. Although it was a bit extreme for that person to want his life, firstly that person's Wu Gong was too high, and secondly, it was his fault first, so no one stood up for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With no way out, he found Xingchi, who was doing disaster relief nearby at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi took him to find that expert, bowed his head and apologized for him, and said a few words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young Hero Xiao is still young, perhaps he can save many lives in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The monk lacks merit the most in practicing Buddhism; why not let the monk repay this debt for him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the future, the lives he saves will all count as the monk's merit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Wu Lin road is long, confused and difficult. Too many people take the wrong step because of a single thought.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The monk should pull him up and give him a chance to make up for it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, Xingchi hit himself with a palm and was immediately seriously injured, vomiting blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That expert then wrote off the grudge with Sect Leader Xiao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Sect Leader Xiao still couldn't change his temper in the future and would always do some stubborn, childish things, he remembered Xingchi's words firmly in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that day, every time Sect Leader Xiao saved someone, he would send a letter to Xingchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying that the Young Hero Xiao of that year had repaid a merit to Master Xingchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi would then reply with a letter, writing a word of encouragement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Sect Leader Xiao continued to save people and continued to write letters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people present had had similar experiences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The square, which was very lively just now, suddenly sounded with sobbing, and many Wu Lin people who usually put on airs couldn't hold the weapons in their hands, dropping them to the ground and covering their faces and crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ma, Master, is there, is there any way?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sect Leader Xiao asked tremblingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi smiled, and at this smile, Sect Leader Xiao was stunned for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi's teeth had already fallen out quite a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivating to the supreme level, he already had a few points of the charm of seeing God and not being bad; he would not appear with the appearance of death like hair thinning and teeth loosening until he was about to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The monk has disturbed everyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I thought about talking to everyone about this later, but the monk's skin bag broke too fast and couldn't hold the scene anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xingchi said a few words and seemed unable to hold on. After resting for a while, he continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today, besides wanting to abdicate to my inferior disciple.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed, I also want to tell everyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The monk is going to enter Nirvana.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1483,"2026-06-17T21:41:15.265Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","3884a4536973f296d51d4d6bac14ef4ff0e3aebf51780f319f6cc7e9938d64c0","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-126","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-124",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]