Yin and Yang Meaning: Definition, Origins & Xianxia Use

The Five Elements (Wuxing) are the foundation of Chinese cosmology, medicine, and xianxia elemental cultivation. Learn the generation and overcoming cycles, and how novels use them.

Daoism is the religion that supplies most of xianxia’s cultivation framework — qi, golden cores, tribulations, immortals. This article explains what real Daoism teaches and how xianxia uses it.

Neidan (内丹) is Daoist internal alchemy – refining qi inside the body to produce an immortality elixir. Learn the 4-stage cascade and how it gave xianxia its realm system.