[{"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-141":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},2225199,4113,"Chapter 141","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-141",141,"\u003Cp>The eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month, early morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the village of the twelve branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked at the few short men in front of him, smelled the cold earthy smell faintly emitted from these people, and couldn't help but frown, his fingers moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to point to death these few people with a Xuan Tian finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because these few are the grave robbers invited by the major sects—that is, tomb robbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it is in Li Miao's previous life or this life, Central Plains people value blood inheritance the most. Digging graves and disturbing ancestors' peace has been a life-and-death feud since ancient times. In terms of deserving death, tomb robbers are no worse than human traffickers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Li Miao thought about it, and forgot it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These few grave robbers have inheritance, and they look down on ordinary people's graves, all of them are aimed at some high-ranking officials and princes' graves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it's a clean official, there's nothing in the grave, and these people won't dig it. As for those corrupt officials and princes who buried a pile of things... dig it, anyway, those things were scraped from people, and someone has to ask for them back from their hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is it, right?\" Li Miao asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir, the Miao people's secret passage is here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A leading grave robber replied: \"We inserted some steel rods to explore, about the width of two or three people walking side by side, there is wind, it is a living mouth, not a sealed one that is not used.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, go down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao waved his hand, and several people nodded one after another, running away in a hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao turned to look at several sect leaders and said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone, I'll go in and see. You don't have to fight this village, surround it, just don't let these people run away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several sect leaders nodded one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao then looked at the secret passage dug by the grave robber and walked in leisurely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before letting the southern major sects do witchcraft and Gu things for him, it was actually to be lazy, thinking about fooling everyone over, and he could save some trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Li Miao didn't want these people to go in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this village is not just as simple as the inheritance of witchcraft and Gu. Ji Tianrui's origin, the Ming Cult's plan, and all the truths that have continued from fifteen years ago can be answered here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even, it may be more than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Ji Tianrui left the An family, he left a stack of draft paper for practicing calligraphy on the desk in the secret room. Li Miao certainly wouldn't believe that it was left unintentionally. What is written can be called heartfelt words? It was clearly left for him to see on purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are a few words in it that are particularly conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Da Shuo. Zhu family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Emperor, heaven-level expert.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ming Cult, founding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Matching these words, even Li Miao had to be cautious and had to seriously explore the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the first thirty years of coming to Da Shuo, he obtained enough martial arts to protect himself. But, simple martial arts have limits, he is not a lonely person, he cannot run around like a reckless person. He can't die, Zhu Zai, Wang Hai, Xiao Si may not be. He must have a thorough, deepest understanding of this Da Shuo to know what level he has reached and what he can do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the fewer people who know about these things, the better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking about a hundred zhang along the secret passage, Li Miao frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the direction of this secret passage is indeed extending toward the village, but the slope is getting steeper and steeper, diving toward the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking another hundred zhang, the stone walls on both sides were faintly protruding, as if something was embedded in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked carefully, but felt a sense of deja vu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this stone wall, there were brightly embedded a pile of mouse bones, exactly the same as the situation in the Miao King's tomb. And on the stone wall in front, there were also bones of chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, and cows embedded in sections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao doesn't understand the Miao people's faith. But these primitive faiths are all connected, and burials often have a certain religious attribute, and the various images that appear in them have their unique meanings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the stone wall here is exactly the same as the stone wall of the Miao King's tomb, it means that this place is on par with the Miao King in the primitive faith of the Miao people. In the faith of the Miao people, the Miao King is a human god, almost a supreme existence. What can be on par with him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao continued to walk forward, and sure enough, the bones of people and various animals began to appear mixed on the stone walls on both sides, exactly the same as the situation in the Miao King's tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After walking dozens of steps, he saw a cave entrance vertically downward, pitch black, bottomless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao jumped in directly, borrowed strength from the stone walls left and right, slid down dozens of zhang, and landed on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place is also a karst cave, but there are no dense coffins like the karst cave in the Miao King's tomb. Instead, the ground is extremely flat, and faint light-colored traces can be seen, as if someone often walks and leaves them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao walked forward along this path, and before long, he saw a firelight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a building there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked at it intently, it looked like no one was there on the outside, but there were faintly some disharmonious shadows hidden in several depressions of the stone wall around it. There were countless subtle breathing sounds surrounding it, not just people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the degree of defense, it should be that the main master has been found.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao walked along the stone wall, the circulation operated inside instantly changed a way, and his footsteps and breathing became imperceptible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is the light-body technique and internal strength of the Divine Thief Sect, most suitable for sneaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking all the way to a depression in the stone wall, Li Miao flashed and appeared in front of the person inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person's eyes blurred, and before he could speak, he lost consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao bypassed this place, followed the same pattern, and within a short while, pulled out all the secret sentries in this direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing all this, he climbed onto the roof, walked to the door of the highest room, and listened carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard a noise inside, as if they were arguing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said we shouldn't have been soft-hearted at the beginning! Afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, letting the people of those few sects escape, now they have found us! What to do!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You say it lightly. Even if they were all cast Gu by us at the beginning, several major sects could be controlled by us, but could they stop the imperial court's soldiers!? Don't forget how Gepu Tianrui died at the beginning!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what? Do we still have the qualifications to pick and choose? It's death either way, pulling a few cushions to die can also make us die at ease! It's better than being cowardly now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several people argued excitedly, listening as if they were about to make a move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, an old voice sounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop arguing, since the clues we left didn't work, then saying these things now is useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right now, we need to think about how to get through this pass.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... only by letting 'that one' out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as these words came out, the few people who were still arguing spoke in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Absolutely not!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are rebels! You haven't seen the 'Pupa Woman'? If you let him out, we will die a hundred times more miserably than the 'Pupa Woman'!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1351,"2026-06-17T21:41:15.265Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","0ec000bcac3566988773358db124c6e61a6b1b2af5e3f60c2a07e710ce807b9a","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-142","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-140",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]