The Heaven-Piercing Constable

The core concept of the title is cause and effect. The protagonist, Xiao Qiyue, possesses the "Great Freedom Karmic Eye," which allows him to perceive the vital energies and karmic threads upon people: good and evil, sin and guilt, life and death are all rendered as visible traces. This ability has three tiers: "With one eye of karma, one glimpses life and death; with two eyes of karma, one sees past and present lives; with three eyes of karma, one comprehends heaven and earth." Armed with this eye, he begins as a county constable and, amid bizarre cases and jianghu conflicts, reads people and discerns guilt, investigates murders and solves cases. Navigating clashes with sects, government offices, and jianghu factions, he gradually uncovers the karmic chains behind each case, rising from a lowly constable to earn the name "Divine Constable."

The work takes a brisk, satisfying approach: cases move at a fast pace, and the protagonist relies on his karmic eye to "see through the truth," creating a satisfying sense of contrast without the need for layered deduction. The interweaving of jianghu, officialdom, and sect factions builds a mid-tier martial fantasy world. Readers generally find it an easy, pleasure-dense read, though character and plot logic are only moderately rigorous, with some passages leaning toward adolescent edginess and self-indulgence. It is the kind of long diversionary novel that is easy to keep reading when you are short on books.