Ascending the Jade Palace

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“Think you’re in charge of your own destiny, huh? Still planning to cross the river? Got spirit, I’ll give you that. Then how about you go practice holding your breath at the bottom of the river first? Don’t come up for three days.”

“Whether you’re demon beast bait at the Western Front or an administrator at the Alliance headquarters… you’re serving the Immortal Alliance either way. One job isn’t nobler than the other.”

“The cultivation restrictions protect everyone. The lower-level cultivators never seem to grasp that we senior cultivators are already being generous by letting them cultivate and extend their lives at all. They’re just never satisfied!”

“Let the cultivators tighten their belts a little more. The Alliance will handle the bad publicity.”

“Policy reform isn’t your concern. A newly-formed Golden Core has no business lecturing us about how to run things.”

“They keep complaining about every little thing wrong with the cultivation world, but have they ever stopped to think what would happen to low-level cultivators without the current system? They’d just become cultivation resources, that’s what!”

“The evidence is right here and he’s still making excuses? Beat it out of him! If we don’t refresh his memory properly, he’ll never admit what he’s done.”

【No Tropes】【No System】【Not Naïve】【Stable Economy & Power Systems】【Original Combat Mechanics】

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Ascending to the Jade Palace
上玉阙
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sbnull
sbnull
Oct 06, 2025
Status: c290
This is a masterpiece that deserves a great translation.

The story (till the point of this review -c166 at least) deals with more with politics and scheming rather than flashy life or death battles. The MC is a clan cultivator, a scion of a minor cultivation family who are vassals of a great cultivator. He is working to develop his clan, following the will of their patron, while trying to stay alive without becoming a 'cost' in great cultivator battles. This is NOT a story of the super special protagonist fighting... more>> across realms and challenging the world order for righteousness or hypocrisy. This is a story of staying in the corrupt system, and using whatever he can to keep himself and his family alive.

Disclaimer: This is a reincarnation novel, but no signs of a system. There is a small cheat, and maybe it'll play a vital role later, but it hasn't even been mentioned in the last 50 or so chapters. The MC has to survive using his brain, not personal strength or cheats.

Spoiler

The story is set in a world where the great cultivators have literally changed the rules of the world to make it harder for new cultivators to make it to their level. So all lower level cultivators exists only to serve and be exploited, and no chance of advancement without support of existing great powers.

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Update: (ch 290)

After ~200 chapters, the quality begins to slowly become worse. The chapters stay as long as before, but the amount of real content is less, so it feels like reading half a chapter worth of useless filler. Usually just a single action being explained again on why it was done, why its such a great move, etc. So a lot less stuff is happening for the same number of words.

Also, as the MC becomes stronger, the veils of the great cultivators start coming off... they start turning into just more greedy people trying to stay alive, plus lots of cursing and little real action.

The story is still interesting, but the interesting parts are getting drowned in word padding. <<less
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