The Divine Eyes of the Embroidered Guard: One Glance Makes Me Max Level in the Ming Dynasty

Lin Xiao, a modern-day corporate drone, wakes up as a low-ranking officer in a fantastical version of the Ming Dynasty's Embroidered Uniform Guard.

He has a pair of eyes that can see through every martial art in the world. Watch someone perform a move once, and he learns it. The moment he learns it, his body has already mastered it completely. His roommate has trained with a saber for seven years, yet Lin Xiao masters it at a glance. He can reproduce an expert's aerial movement techniques or the White Lotus Sect's blade aura just by watching.

But there are things even these eyes cannot see through: he can't steal the true qi in someone's meridians, and a living Tai Sui with no moves to copy gives him a headache.

During a confiscation raid, he gets caught up in a deadly clash between the emperor's personal guard, the Taiping Bureau, and the White Lotus Sect. He encounters a Tai Sui refined from living people, an imperial estate mass-producing monsters, an underground vein of immortal stones, and a grand scheme for immortality that has driven the entire court mad. Everyone recognizes his face, and everyone is waiting and hoping for him to die.

Only the Daoist emperor bursts into laughter when he sees him.