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Xianxia Gallery — Art from the Cultivation Worlds

Original artwork in this site's ink-and-gold style, inspired by the worlds of the dramas and donghua we track. New pieces land as new hits premiere. Free to share with credit to MySpiritRoot.

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Battle Through the Heavens gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a young cultivator seen from behind in a black robe with gold trim, a giant black ruler wreathed in flame on his shoulder and a five-colored fire lotus blooming in his hand, before a great sect gate on a mountain peak

Battle Through the Heavens

1 fan concept · the finale run

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Renegade Immortal gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a silver-haired cultivator in white in distant side view before an ice coffin holding a faintly glowing silhouette, one hand raised toward a swirling black thunder vortex, a guqin resting nearby

Renegade Immortal

1 fan concept · new episodes Mondays

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Martial Universe gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of three brother cultivators on a great sect gate above a sea of clouds, one holding a long spear, with a small purple marten and a large tiger beside them and a giant stone stele glowing with golden runes behind them

Martial Universe

1 fan concept · Season 7 soon

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Perfect World gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of an ancient charred willow tree with jade-green shoots trailing emerald light down to a tiny child holding a bowl, beside a small stone village at the foot of wild mountains with giant beasts faint in distant mist

Perfect World

1 fan concept

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Mortal's Journey gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a plain grey-robed cultivator standing last in a line of figures, half-hidden behind a stone pillar with a small glowing green bottle concealed in his hand, gazing toward a misty dangerous valley

Mortal's Journey

1 fan concept

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Pursuit of Jade gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a sturdy village girl with a sheathed butcher's knife at her waist carrying an injured man on her back through a snowy field toward warm village lights, with a great old tree hung with red love-knots at sunset

Pursuit of Jade

1 fan concept

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Tigers Sniff the Rose gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a princess in a flowing red robe seen from behind at a dusk riverbank, surrounded by a swirling cloud of golden fireflies, with a tiger's shadow silhouette lurking at the dark forest edge across the misty river

Tigers Sniff the Rose

1 fan concept · #1 on the weekly chart

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Swallowed Star gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a lone warrior seen from behind standing on ruined futuristic city ruins, a glowing ring of telekinetic blades floating around him, facing a colossal golden-horned beast looming in a deep indigo ink starfield

Swallowed Star

1 fan concept · the cosmos saga

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The Lament of Autumn gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of a young marshal seen from behind in a dark Republican-era military uniform amid swirling golden autumn leaves, clutching a glowing slender hairpin, with a red sachet hanging on a bare branch beside him

The Lament of Autumn

1 fan concept · the hairpin he kept

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Where the Mask Ends gallery cover — ink-wash fan concept art of two identical female figures seen from behind, one in coarse grey cloth by a muddy rainy alley and one in red wedding silk with gold embroidery in a lantern-lit hall, with a glowing golden lotus between them

Where the Mask Ends

1 fan concept · one face, two fates

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The Worlds gallery cover — ink-wash painting of a heavenly tribulation storm over nine mountain peaks, with golden lightning bolts striking the highest peak in a xianxia cultivation world

The Worlds

8 paintings · the worlds themselves

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