Jade Ruler Sect was a small sect with just over two hundred members, which had been assigned a mountain in Jincheng with scarce resources, necessitating a good relationship with the local government.
Life was quite tough.
In modern times, cultivation sects, simply put, were akin to the companies of old. Once you received a legal identity from the government, you had to play by the rules, not oppress the populace or act recklessly.
For a sect to survive and grow, it inevitably needed to run businesses, and that brought everything back to the familiar economic model for the government. To paraphrase a popular saying, "First they pull you into the system, then they soften you up with their extensive combat experience."
