[{"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-hounds-of-the-eight-hour-workday-chapter-593":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2225651,4113,"Chapter 593","the-imperial-hounds-of-the-eight-hour-workday-chapter-593",593,"\u003Cp>\"Nanao is of the Emperor's lineage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are many people like her within Kyoto. According to that Sword Saint, I fear there are no less than a thousand. In daily life, apart from being monitored by Shinto, they are no different from ordinary people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even they themselves do not know this point.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shinto keeps them like pigs, just waiting for a certain time to slaughter them... That time is the day when the women in these families grow to sixteen years old.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It matched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor's lineage, shrine maiden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The story Kurama Heihachi told before about meeting the shrine maiden named Tachibana actually had a suspicious point—if Tachibana was of royal blood, she should have lived in the Imperial Palace, and it would not have been his turn to come to Kyoto to search according to Tachibana's letters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the reason he could not find Tachibana's family was because Tachibana's origin was actually the same as Nanao's... They were all Emperor's lineage kept by Shinto among the people. At the same time they were sent to the shrine to become shrine maidens, the traces of their families' existence would be erased by Shinto.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, Kurama Heihachi could not find Tachibana's family, until he saw the Emperor's appearance from afar and realized the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Lu Wushuang continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After these women reach sixteen, Shinto will send them to the shrine to contemplate the divine painting of the Sun Goddess and brainwash them into shrine maidens who guard the shrine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And their families—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Lu Wushuang pointed to the priest's corpse on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Will also become tools of Shinto after being brainwashed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This practice has been going on for who knows how long. During this time, it's not that no descendants of the Emperor noticed this and tried to resist. But because Shinto's power is too vast, these resistances have never succeeded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until the appearance of one person, a turning point appeared.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Lu Wushuang said word by word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True Man Zhang Sanfeng.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After he came to the East Island, he first captured Kyoto, and only then went to the Ise Grand Shrine. I had been thinking before, if the Emperor was a member of Shinto, why didn't True Man Zhang Sanfeng directly kill the contemporary Emperor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, True Man Zhang Sanfeng's 'Sweeping Away Demons' in the Jiazi year... facing evil people, he never showed mercy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now I understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The so-called Emperor, and descendants of the Emperor like Nanao, were never members of Shinto. On the contrary, Shinto has been keeping them, treating them like pigs to be slaughtered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True Man Zhang Sanfeng knew this the moment he saw the Emperor, so he left them two means to resist Shinto's control.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Lu Wushuang waved her left fist, while her right hand gestured a sword move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked at the sword move she gestured and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had seen it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a few days ago, at the Hachiman Shrine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword move Lu Lu Wushuang gestured was exactly the sword move Kurama Heihachi obtained from Tachibana to awaken the Shinto shrine maiden. And the fist technique Lu Lu Wushuang gestured with her left hand, although it only had the appearance, could be seen at a glance—it was authentic Taiji Fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the origin of this sword move was also clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Lu Wushuang looked at Li Miao and suddenly mentioned a seemingly unrelated topic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, when did the East Island's tribute to the Great Ming begin, and when did it end?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao raised his eyebrows, pondered for a few breaths, and answered affirmatively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thirty years after the founding of the country, tribute began in the third year of Emperor Jianwen, which was the year before the Chengzu Emperor raised his army for the Jingnan Campaign and inherited the throne. As for the end... it should have been around the seventh or eighth year of Jiajing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait... Hiss!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao's twisting fingers suddenly stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>",663,"2026-06-17T21:54:32.236Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","c47bdf92a2231371b86e06014723d6fe7ae1027d5fbac1046b97eac2e2ea776e","the-imperial-hounds-of-the-eight-hour-workday-chapter-594","the-imperial-hounds-of-the-eight-hour-workday-chapter-592",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]