So, this one involves a newspaper employee who gets caught up in a Cultivator sending demons to get him lunch. He ends up shanghaied as a bureaucrat(With massively generous compensation by the standards of our world though) into the Cultivation research branch of the Immortal Imperial Court of Celestial Body Seizer, the Eternal Sovereign. It's an extremely nice job by our standards. The problem? Cultivators are violent. Very, very, violent. Someone losing an arm in an argument over a vacation spot is not even commonly considered worth mentioning as a fight. And as a mortal, our protagonist is squishy. Considering losing an arm is as easily repaired as putting it back on with telekinesis in Sorcerously Advanced, there may be people in the Great Basin who take violence this lightly.
I'd recommend this quest for the sheer, absurd, scale, the power and pervasiveness of the magic, and the exotic magic items.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/white-collar-cultivator.44460/reader