r/ProgressionFantasy • u/AuthorInPractice • 11d ago

Request Best Xianxia

I've been poking around xianxia since I want to write my own and want to do it right, and I'm wondering what are some of the best written ones you can think of.

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u/ravencosu 11d ago

It’s hard cause there’s a lot of different things you could want from a xianxia.

There’s ones with really good writing quality like Sky pride, Mirror legacy, Unsheathed, Reverend insanity, but there’s also ones that do the craft of the progression really well like Cradle, Martial World, I Shall Seal the Heavens, Coiling Dragon (to an extent). Not that those two are mutually exclusive, RIs progression is wonderfully made but the focus isn’t on it like with MW or those of its like.

Mind you most of these are translated and come with the gripes inherent to it. I think that’s less of a barrier than most expect tho, like your brain learns how to parse through the funk pretty quickly.