ahahahah, not quite....
Wuxia is jackie chan, original journey to the west on the high end.
Xianxia is up to and including creating and destroying universes with your attacks.
It's a
bit more than just power levels. As I've said elsewhere:
For one, there does in fact need to be a focus on martial arts, not throwing around magic blades of light and eating monsters for power. The name literally means "martial arts heroes." It's the ancient Chinese equivalent of superhero comic books. It's about people using the power their martial arts give them to pursue whatever they think is right, even if they have to go against the established order to do it, and their own personal conflicts and struggles rather than some grand epic on the cosmic scale.
Journey to the West has absurd power levels, literal divine intervention, and the main character is an asshole. But it's not xianxia, even if I've made the comparison of Sun Wukong's backstory and the general power levels on display to xianxia. That's because Journey to the West isn't about becoming powerful enough to slap God with your dick, or about massive epic conflicts that decide the fates of entire worlds. The novel is about a monk who searches out the original sutras to help guide China to enlightenment, and the three guys he picks up along the way who join his quest searching for redemption for their past mistakes and find greater understanding along the way. All the awesome fights and mystical encounters are either entertainment, or are symbolic in some way that makes a point related to the characters' flaws and their attempts to move beyond them.
There's a lot of comparison to be made between wuxia and Westerns, actually: they both usually have a very national, historical context (even if its often fictionalized/fantasized to remove it from the exact timeline of history), they're usually not about "saving the world" (and when they are, it's usually in a "secret event no one will ever know about" kind of way), and there's a big focus on the relationships the characters have to each other and the world around them. There's usually a focus on questions of loyalty, brotherhood, love, revenge, etc. The characters being kung fu master supreme/the fastest gun in the West is usually just for fun, pulpy action scenes to break up the introspection and entertain people who aren't into the interpersonal stuff and to give characters a vehicle to interact with the world in a way that Joe Average can't because he's some dirt-poor farmer/rancher who's tied to his land and property.
But yes, generally much lower power levels and a lot less emphasis on "power levels" are also factors. For one, it means wuxia has more leeway in how a story can start and end, since they aren't expected to be about some dude starting at the very bottom and climbing to the very tippy-top so we get to see the whole spectrum of the power scale in this universe, because that's usually not the point (though it can be).
As far as martial arts go, it's somewhat decent but not that high ranked. Around Mid-Mortal rank, which is pretty good for the current area but shitty in the wider world. The style is a rougher form of Karate, less efficient though, as it leaves gaps so the user can make use of innate techniques.
Ah, alright (incidentally there's a wide variety of karate styles that look very different from each other, but I get what you mean).
So does anyone have any ideas on when we should start getting stuff to give back to the clan, or at least our close allies? Like, High-Mortal stuff alone is something normally restricted to elders and trusted clan members, so even just snagging one of the cheaper ones like the Iron Body cultivation manual (the cheapest option at 300, probably because the physical conditioning it requires usually causes a lot of broken bones that eat through healing items) to give out would raise our value to the clan considerably.
After all, Cho Mang's using a Mid-Mortal manual and a Low-Mortal technique right now; that's no way to treat our loyal combat butler.
