Hi everyone, I'm new here, but I hope you can help me. I'm looking for wuxia dramas, or xianxia dramas with strong martial arts elements, from recent years (maybe the last 5 years, but I'm not too particular about this).
I grew up reading classic wuxia novels (Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yushen, etc) and watching wuxia dramas of the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. After a long vacuum, I very recently started watching wuxia dramas again (beginning early January) and I was lucky that the first three I watched were all phenomenal: "Bloody Romance", "Handsome Siblings", and "The Untamed".
However, after those three, I'm having trouble finding more good wuxia dramas. What I'm looking for:
* Strong martial arts elements (hopefully with good fight choreography)
* No or little palace intrigues (intrigues between martial art clans/schools are fine)
I tried watching the first episodes of several dramas and dropping them, e.g. "Six Flying Dragons" (too military), "The Rise of the Phoenixes" (palace intrigues), "Once Upon a Time in Lingjian Mountain" (too weird with the glasses and all, might have to try again if people recommend it), "Eternal Love" (no martial arts). Other C/K-dramas on Netflix seem to involve palace intrigues or non-martial-art romance, so I didn't try them (unless someone recommend it to me here).
Right now I'm watching "Swords of Legends 2", which is somewhat in line with what I want, but the pace is very slow and the characters are average. I've also seen "Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (2019)" but I'm already familiar with the story so I only watched my favorite parts.
I hope you can give me some recommendations. Thank you so much.
Afty