[{"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-76":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},2225134,4113,"Chapter 76","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-76",76,"\u003Cp>Li Miao glanced at Mei Qinghe and then looked at Liu Baiyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Baiyun was an old Jianghu hand and immediately understood, taking advantage of Mei Qinghe's distraction to tap her on the neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mei Qinghe collapsed softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao twisted his fingers and said: \"The situation is unclear right now, and I don't know what this Yun Zelin is plotting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To take revenge, wait until I slaughter him, and then let Little Mei hack at the corpse a few more times. There's no need to be so desperate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Baiyun bowed deeply to Li Miao: \"My lord, thank you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao waved his hand: \"No need.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to the three sect leaders and said: \"The three of you did very well today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You first collect the corpses of your disciples, and then, together with Sect Leader Liu, search the city to see if there is any remaining insect poison or Ming Cult members.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Among the officials guarding the city gate, there is one named Jiao Qingfeng who is capable of handling things. After you clean up the aftermath in the city, let him lead the able-bodied common people to put out fires and see if there are any trapped citizens.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will go to the Mount Taishan sect first. After you finish your work, go to the foot of Mount Taishan and guard the road down the mountain. Don't let the insect poison on the mountain leak into the surrounding villages and towns, otherwise, this matter will never end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll go see what this Ming Cult Right Envoy is plotting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I let him live fifteen years ago; today it is time to settle it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his voice faded, Li Miao had already disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others went to clean up the aftermath, not to mention, let's talk about Li Miao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was still some distance between Taian City and Mount Taishan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao could be said to have been rushing all night without stopping at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First he saved Wang Hai, then he rushed back to Taian City with Wang Hai. After arriving in Taian City and wanting to rest for a moment, he discovered the common people were poisoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he rushed to the Prefectural Yamen, ordered the officials and soldiers to guard the city gate, and searched for the common people in the city, using true Qi to remove the insect larvae.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Wang Hai brought Li Xiaosi back, Li Miao rushed to the outside of the city without stopping, found Mao Yingxia, and killed five hundred insect soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After killing them, he rushed back to Taian City, saved Jiao Qingfeng, and then went to support Wang Hai and the others in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each and every one of these things was not easy. It was only Li Miao who could take on all these things in one night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even without considering other things, the consumption of true Qi was real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao did not stop for a moment and rushed toward the Mount Taishan sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the three sect leaders, there was still a pile of Mount Taishan sect disciples poisoned on the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Mount Taishan sect was not Taian City; it had no city walls. If these people were allowed to run down the mountain and rush into the surrounding villages and towns, it would inevitably be another repeat of the Taian City disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he didn't care about the insect poison, Li Miao couldn't leave Yun Zelin alone and let him cause trouble on the Mount Taishan sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao didn't know about the internal affairs of the Ming Cult, but he clearly felt that the Ming Cult's plan had been stabbed in the back by someone other than him beforehand, creating loopholes, which was why he was able to break them one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it had followed the Ming Cult's plan, Mao Yingxia would have entered the city with five hundred insect soldiers, plus the Flood Flag Master's group causing trouble everywhere. The number of people who died tonight would definitely be more than what was currently there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the person who stabbed the Ming Cult in the back was most likely Yun Zelin, who appeared on the Mount Taishan sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth Flag Master Zhou Mingxu was truly given to Li Miao by Yun Zelin to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these Ming Cult people, although they knew Li Miao, did not understand Li Miao's Wu Gong realm well. That was why Lan Lechuan appeared alone on the Mount Taishan sect and ended up being killed by Li Miao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this Yun Zelin seemed to be certain from the beginning that Lan Lechuan would die at Li Miao's hands. You know, even Zhu Zai didn't know Li Miao's current realm, so how could this Yun Zelin be so sure?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao used his light-body technique to the fullest, and his speed was much faster than a horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than half an hour, he appeared at the foot of Mount Taishan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before going up the mountain, Li Miao faintly smelled a fishy stench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking up the mountain along the stone road covered by the mountain forest, one could see corpses lying on both sides of the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority were Mount Taishan sect disciples, as well as some Taian City soldiers, and a small number of eunuch and Embroidered Uniform Guard corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao walked to the corpse of a Mount Taishan sect disciple, reached out and picked a branch from the tree on the side, and after channeling true Qi into it, made a stroke on the corpse's chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The originally fragile branch was now like a sharp blade, easily cutting open the flesh and revealing the chest bone inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao poked with the branch again and shattered the chest bone. The corpse's heart was revealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shape was already different from that of an ordinary person, pitch black, covered with proliferating flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao raised his eyebrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found a few more corpses and did the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the identical internal organs, Li Miao twisted his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The insect larvae in these Mount Taishan sect disciples... why did it seem like the mother insect was already dead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the host dies, the insect larvae will remain as they are, just losing their vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they were forcibly dug out, they would be shriveled and white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only if the mother insect dies and these insect larvae die together will they turn into this black, gelatinous mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throwing away the branch, Li Miao walked quickly toward the main hall of the Mount Taishan sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the main hall of the Mount Taishan sect was a square, which was now full of blood and corpses, and there was not a single living person left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from far away, Li Miao saw Yun Zelin sitting leisurely on the main seat inside the open door of the main hall of the Mount Taishan sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao smiled, raised his hand, and pointed a \"Profound Heaven Finger\" from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be said that this unique skill of the Ming Cult was really easy to use: the power was not bad, and there was no need to worry about getting one's hands dirty. Although Li Miao looked down on the Ming Cult's actions, he couldn't put down this martial art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sharp true Qi whistled past, piercing toward Yun Zelin's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Zelin was sitting on the main seat at this time, his hands on the armrests, his head lowered, his eyes closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He actually had no reaction at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the \"Profound Heaven Finger\" hit his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood splattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of the skin on Yun Zelin's forehead was lifted, revealing the white skull underneath!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao raised his eyebrows and stepped into the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't held back at all with that strike just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Zelin took that strike head-on, but the skin was only lifted, and there wasn't even a trace left on the bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Vajra.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no doubt that Yun Zelin had already achieved \"Vajra.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Yun Zelin moved, slowly raised his head, and opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao finally saw his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrinkles were everywhere, his eyes were dim, he looked exactly like an old man of seventy or eighty!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Zelin opened his eyes, but his vision was blocked by the flesh hanging down from his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand to touch it, smiled, and actually reached out to tear off that piece of meat and threw it on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Li... cough, cough, Lord Li, you've come.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his mouth to speak, his voice old and sticky, like an old man on the verge of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked Yun Zelin up and down and said: \"Five Decays of Heaven and Man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you sick in the head? Making such a big scene just to seek death?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was wondering, with your Wu Gong, how could you not know I had arrived, how could you not dodge that strike of mine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are in so much pain that you have no energy to pay attention to the outside world, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Zelin pulled the corners of his mouth, revealing an old and terrifying smile on his face: \"Yes, this 'Five Decays of Heaven and Man' is much harder to endure than I expected.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Being able to see Lord Li makes it all worth it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I must thank Lord Li for this greeting. A distinguished guest has come, but I was completely unaware, losing my manners; I hope you will forgive me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying this, he bowed to Li Miao with a face full of sincere apology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, for a mediocre person like me, if I don't spend some effort and pay some price, how can I discuss the Dao with Lord Li?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It took fifteen years, the death of Left Envoy Lan, the death of Sect Leader Zuo, and I myself am on the verge of death, just to exchange for this moment of standing side by side with Lord Li.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao said: \"You speak as if we are very familiar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I remember correctly, I only met you once fifteen years ago, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You sacrificed half the Ming Cult and your own life just to say these irrelevant things to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yun Zelin smiled and gestured to the seat beside him: \"Lord Li, please sit for a moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those five hundred insect soldiers of Protector Mao, although they couldn't hurt Lord Li, must have consumed a lot of Lord Li's true Qi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I am not mistaken, Lord Li still hasn't taken that step, and your true Qi is limited.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why not sit for a moment and listen to me say a few words. Afterward, I will hand this life over to you to deal with, how about that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1805,"2026-06-17T21:41:15.265Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","de8ffe1864c4e4dfab25a7fd75c96a1c7d2372e964772a9d62b942b42a4b2679","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-77","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-75",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]