Ascending the Jade Palace上玉阙

It's so hard to read, so I have to stop at chapter 266. It's not a bad book, but it's far from good. The author often repeats himself and tries to impose his point of view, which is ruthlessness.
Are you here to escape from the real world, where old people revel in power at the head of your countries? Oh, well, then you're in the wrong place...
P.S. The author often complains about his health problems and depression, so we can expect this.

After reading quite a lot i can see why the rating isn't that high. To be honest the author has a problem with a lot of over explanation and also telling us stuff we already know. Every chapter i read im always skipping some paragraphs because between each piece of dialogue there's like 6 paragraphs explaining something we already know.

The content of the novel is decent to good imo. There are some parts that are very entertaining to read. It does take a lot of inspiration from mirror legacy. However be aware that this is not a cultivation novel. This is a political novel set in a cultivation world. MC does not seclude him self or fight to compete for resources.

some people will like that but its not traditional xianxia. All in all, i think if you have nothing else to read its good, but there is quite a lot of fluff in every chapter.

This maybe slow paced but it's so good
The scheming here is one of the best

im really surprised this has such a low rating considering how good it is.

Wow, surprised to see this at 3.3
Could've sworn someone glazed this so hard on NU that i thought it was some sort of masterpiece.

Read till Chapter 50ish and then skimmed about a hundred more before stopping.

A story about modern systemic oppression build on top of a cultivation setting told through a slow, almost slice of life style plot progression. The author focuses too much on what the current cast are doing and thinking, rushing to paint a bigger picture to the story while leaving the rest of the setting barebones. Almost 50 chapters in and I still can't tell what the protagonist's hometown is suppose to be like, what the finer details on their cultivation are and even the artifact creation which was the meat of the first 'arc' felt vague and non-committal with zero passion put into the process. The author seems to be venting out his political frustrations into the novel, repeatedly jamming the systemic oppression bad message down our throats while doing the bare minimum on other aspects of the story, resulting in it feeling so lop-sided.

Chapter 1 is the best part of the story. The writing quality tapers off in subsequent chapters until it steadies on a middling tolerable but consistent read.

Characters doesn't have character development. The protagonist, Yulou, was a child that felt the oppression of the setting and was dissatisfied with the state of the world grows up to be an oppressor who's dissatisfied with the state of the world. He doesn't express his own agency and when he takes actions, it is when opportunity drops upon his lap. Other character exists in a similar vein, being mostly reactive to the events that surrounds them.

For the first couple dozen chapters, the plot progresses at a glacial but steady, consistent pace. Then at . From there, you could feel the story accelerate and writing quality was compromised, with the man being repeatedly labelled as greedy when that wasn't his established character before the OOC moment, strings of fortune being attached to said man (that was never establish before the OOC) that Yulou profits from. It devolves from a slowburn low-stakes political story to more of a typical cultivation novel with all its plot contrivances.

Conclusion: Can't recommend. If you want an action or worldbuilding story, this ain't it. And if you like political thrillers or slice of life, it stops being that a couple dozen chapters in.

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Long ass book might take me a month to review. My review will be one sentence

People are hating because it's slice of life that's up my alley I'll check it out

The title should be changed to Everyday Life in the World of Cultivation - it's very boring and sometimes the idea started in the last chapter no longer appears in the next 30. Perhaps the author will remember this later, but I probably won't know. The author writes a lot, but there is little meaning in it.