Genres
Wuxia
Martial-heroes fiction: mortal, peak-human martial artists centered on moral codes and human relationships.
Wuxia is the Chinese martial-heroes tradition: protagonists are mortal, peak-human martial artists, and the stories center on moral codes (honor, righteousness, brotherhood) and human relationships rather than on transcendence. That is the dividing line from xianxia, where cultivation reaches for immortality.
Wuxia's serialized history long predates the web, but modern audiences often meet its conventions through cultivation stories that borrow its honor structures and sect politics.