[{"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-399":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},2225457,4113,"Chapter 399: Final Battle","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-399",399,"\u003Cp>Liu Jin stood in place, his gaze crossing with An Ziyang’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Escape, it has no meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firelight had already extended from the end of the Imperial Road, from An Ziyang’s feet; the speed was not very fast, but the officials in the crowd who had never practiced martial arts would definitely not be able to escape this long and narrow Imperial Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made a mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Ziyang, this notorious playboy, had been building his \"persona\" since the moment he started wandering the Jianghu; even now, even after doing so many big things, this \"persona\" was still playing a role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were anyone else who did something like \"bombing with golden juice,\" I fear Liu Jin would suspect his purpose. But only An Ziyang doing such a thing would make everyone feel it was reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A miss is as good as a mile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He once had the opportunity to grasp the clue, but he missed it, so he had to swallow the bitter fruit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firelight gushed out from under the ground, extending all the way to Liu Jin’s front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Factory Master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Eastern Depot official flashed to Liu Jin’s side, picked him up, and leaped onto the wall of the Imperial Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firelight spread into the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wailing had just come out of their mouths before it was cut off together with their bodies. The crowd was pierced by the flying broken stones, and the scorched blood splashed open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Jin closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of a misjudgment of An Ziyang, the whole game was lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could not attain the perfect realm, An Qisheng would not fight Li Miao head-on, but would directly leave the capital and return to Yingzhou, wait for a few hundred years, and return to the Central Plains after Li Miao died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he would die meaninglessly, together with the Eastern Depot, buried here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Factory Master, Factory Master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the shouts of the Eastern Depot Heaven-men came to his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look, Factory Master... the explosion, stopped!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Jin opened his eyes suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smoke steamed up; broken limbs, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, people who were still alive were rolling, struggling, wailing on the ground, and more were motionless broken corpses—at least that was the case in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eastern Depot Heaven-man waved his palm to spit out Qi, dispersing the smoke in front of him for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene of the second half of the Imperial Road was revealed in front of Liu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panicked crowd was rushing toward the second half of the Imperial Road; screams, trampling, and pushing were all there, but... just like the Eastern Depot, the explosion stopped and did not cover the entire Imperial Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Jin turned his head violently to look at the exit of the Imperial Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Ziyang and Mei Qinghe had long disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So... that’s it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Jin muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood; An Ziyang might indeed have made two preparations, but Li Miao pushed the situation too fast and too fiercely; speaking of which, from Li Miao’s return to the capital until now, it was only four days... Even if An Ziyang tried his best to mobilize people, with the Great Shuo’s technology of making gunpowder, he could not get gunpowder that could cover the entire Imperial Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He deceived Liu Jin to go over just now, not to provoke, but to hook the crowd to the first half and then detonate, but Liu Jin didn't move, so he had to pull that rope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Jin waved his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eastern Depot Heaven-men immediately understood, flying to the second half of the Imperial Road to intercept the fleeing crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, the crowd was blocked back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eastern Depot Heaven-men walked to Liu Jin’s side with an ugly face, saying in a low voice: \"Factory Master... the number of people is not enough... \"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The explosion just now, although it stopped halfway, also killed quite a few people; now there are only two hundred people left, and there is one last Fengtian Gate, no matter what, thirty or forty people will die... But An Qisheng needs at least one hundred and seventy or eighty people to restore his realm... \"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We—were still turned over by that An Ziyang...\" \u003C\u002Fp>",722,"2026-06-17T21:41:16.704Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e1b2a50e280351ef5b105f463562e60eab502abd75badc5aaa7ab545674882f1","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-400","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-398",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]