[{"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-527":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},2225585,4113,"Chapter 527: Two Suns Scorching the Sky","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-527",527,"\u003Cp>At the end of the path, Kurama Heihachi had already walked within ten zhang of the woman in priestly attire—breaking through the siege of more than ten Hachimangu Shrine sword saints to do this, he naturally paid a considerable price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His left eye was blind, his right hand had only three fingers left, and there were seventeen wounds on his body, the longest one spanning his chest and abdomen, and the deepest one piercing his right lung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And beneath his feet and behind him lay thirteen corpses of Hachimangu Shrine sword saints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventeen wounds, exchanged for thirteen lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurama Heihachi suddenly raised his hand, scaring the remaining four sword saints into instinctively raising their swords to block in front of them, fearing he would suddenly rush up to fight for his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand to cover his mouth, coughed up a handful of pink blood foam, threw it on the ground, and then laughed wildly and wantonly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahaha—trash!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old man just coughed up some blood, look how scared you trash are!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Scared!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those four sword saints retreated half a step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahaha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurama Heihachi laughed even more wantonly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just you trash, you are worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as my Kurama style, and you are worthy of setting up this dog-fart ascending the steps...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mockery suddenly turned into violent anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you are worthy of killing my! Dis! Ci! Ple!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurama Heihachi suddenly grasped a short sword that had pierced his calf; it was a masterpiece of a seriously injured Hachimangu Shrine sword saint before he died, which had been restricting his movements, and at least four wounds were related to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled the short sword from his leg without any hesitation, grasped it in his crippled right hand, then lowered his head to tear off his collar, and slowly tied the sword hilt to his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You trash, you thought I was dead back then, so you set a trap and lured my disciples over, and shamelessly killed them here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you wondering why, since I didn't die, I haven't come to find trouble with you for so many years?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurama Heihachi tied the sword hilt seriously, his tone flat and serious, no longer as arrogant and mocking as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But facing him, the four sword saints swallowed their saliva in unison. They felt a chill, and as Kurama Heihachi’s calm tone without any fluctuation spoke, it gripped their hearts bit by bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four looked at each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although thirteen companions had been beheaded by Kurama Heihachi and they were temporarily stunned, the remaining four sword saints were not mediocre, and they knew clearly—Kurama Heihachi was seriously injured, and the next exchange would be the time to decide life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what other means Kurama Heihachi had, he couldn't be allowed to complete them; now was the best time to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, amidst Kurama Heihachi’s calm speech, the four moved their feet bit by bit, their sword tips pressed into the scabbards and slowly accumulated momentum, carefully surrounding him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurama Heihachi still tied the short sword unhurriedly, glanced at them, snorted coldly, but didn't react, instead continuing to speak without caring at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where was I just now? Oh, where I went all these years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You all know that the roots of the four oldest Intent Sword Arts seem to be connected, and I think this is exactly the reason why your Shintoism suppresses us at all costs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Back then, although I had a few useless disciples under my command, they couldn't withstand the suppression of Shintoism. So I, as their master, wanted to find a way out for my disciples.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But outsiders don't know, so how could I not know that Shintoism had already taken root in the whole world, and even Enryaku-ji, which was ostensibly at odds with it, was secretly colluding with it. How hard it is to find a way out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, we still have to start from the four Intent Sword Arts.\" \u003C\u002Fp>",680,"2026-06-17T21:41:17.211Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","45ebebe09fc956a6a79f1330dc1b76a76db695594b592cdaeeaabc5dd23a52ef","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-528","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-526",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]