Xianxia yuri, or xianxia GL, is girls’ love set in a cultivation world of sects, spiritual energy and demon beasts. Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is a xianxia yuri manhua in official English on Baiheverse: 31 sections so far, ongoing, free to start.
Twelve of the seventeen chapters so far follow one sect assignment: children missing from Qingshan Village. It takes Ji Linxue and Lan Qinghe from Xingyun Peak to a town inn, a village under the ground and the mountain behind it.
Xuanqing Sect is made up of five peaks, and none will bow to the others.
“There’s no place for me in this sect anymore.”
A cultivator can change someone’s clothes in an instant, by garment transformation.
“You can change mine next time, then we’ll be even.”
Only a Core Formation cultivator could hide a whole village beneath the ground.
“Look, I can find lost villages. I’m pretty awesome, right?”
Ji Linxue sleeps where she sits, sabre still at her shoulder.
“…she was so tired that she fell asleep.”
To the villagers, cultivators are “enlightened” folks who live somewhere up in the mountains.
“But do those ‘enlightened’ folks really live in caves?”
A Windstride Talisman lets even an ordinary person cross ten thousand miles in a day.
“No, the rejection was genuine.”The assignment starts in Chapter 6. The story starts in Chapter 1.
Cultivators in this world climb in stages, and each one changes what they can do. Lan Qinghe arrives knowing none of it, so the story explains it to her, and to you.
Lan Qinghe’s spiritual root is wood, which sharpens her senses; Ji Linxue’s is ice, the element spirit beasts keep away from.
“Your spiritual root is that of wood, so your senses are naturally sharper than most.”Chapter 6
The first stage the story names. The next one is Core Formation.
“You can’t fly like our heroine yet, but as long as you work hard...”Chapter 2
The stage after Foundation Building. Once it is complete, a cultivator can fly.
“Within Xuanqing Sect, those who have reached the Core Formation stage may venture into Spirit Beast Valley to pick out a familiar.”Chapter 8
The stage above Core Formation. Ji Linxue had three talismans that could each stop one fatal blow at that level, and kept none for herself.
“A Shielder Talisman that can withstand a single fatal blow from someone at the Nascent Soul stage...!”Chapter 17
Where Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! pairs a seasoned cultivator with a newcomer, The Beauty’s Blade starts with two equals on opposite sides.
By Feng Ren Zuo Shu
Fu Wanqing, heir to the jianghu’s leading righteous cultivation sect, wants a duel with Yu Shengyan, who leads a demonic sect. She trades the rare medicine Yu Shengyan needs for three months at her side, sure the duel will come at the end of them.
Xianxia grew out of wuxia. Wuxia has had a queer icon on screen since 1991; xianxia yuri in official English is much newer.
| Compare by | 武侠WuxiaMartial arts · wǔxiá | 仙侠XianxiaCultivation fantasy · xiānxiá | 仙侠百合Xianxia yuriGirls’ love · xiānxiá bǎihé |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swordsmen in the jianghuHistorical tales of heroic swordsmen; Jin Yong’s novels kept to real Chinese history.Booth and Zhang 2025, p. 2 · Ni 2020, p. 8 | Cultivators after immortalityA later branch of wuxia that turns to magic: cultivators refine their qi to become immortals.Booth and Zhang 2025, p. 2 · Ni 2020, p. 2 | The same sects, two women at the centerSects, spiritual energy and demon beasts, around a love story between two women, as in Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! | |
| From a masterMartial skill passes from master to disciple, as part of the codes of the jianghu.Ding et al. 2026, p. 3 | Level by levelStages taken from Daoist inner alchemy, such as laying the foundation, stretched into long ladders of levels, as in a game.Ni 2020, pp. 10–11 | Spiritual root to Nascent SoulHave No Fear, Shijie’s Here! names them in official English: Foundation Building, Core Formation, Nascent Soul. | |
| Swordswomen from the startThe earliest swordswoman on record, the Maiden of Yue, appears in a Han-era collection; in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), women drive the story.Altenburger 2009, p. 48 · Ding et al. 2026, p. 8 | The romance heroineXianxia romance dramas such as Love Between Fairy and Devil (2022) offer women viewers an ideal romance, and found audiences at home and abroad.Yang 2023, p. 4364 | Both leadsBoth leads are women: two sect sisters in Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, a sect heir and a demonic sect leader in The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian. | |
| Dongfang BubaiSwordsman II (1991) cast Brigitte Lin as Dongfang Bubai and made a villain a queer icon; a 2013 TV version rewrote the role as a woman.Zhou 2017, p. 112 | In fan worksFans of Heaven Official’s Blessing rewrite and redraw its two men as women, and one reader asked for “something similar but with lesbians”.Guo and Wang 2025, pp. 60, 64 | In official EnglishHave No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, free to start on Baiheverse, and The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian, a Seven Seas novel from 2025. |
Chapters 14 and 16Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!
Ji Linxue, top disciple of Xingyun Peak in the Xuanqing Sect.
Chapters 15 and 17Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!
“How come she gets a fancy magic circle when she uses her powers?!”
Chapter 12Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!
“I wish to help you with that personal collection of yours… May I?”
Yes. Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is a cultivation-world GL manhua in official English on Baiheverse: 31 sections so far, ongoing, free to start.
Yes. The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian by Feng Ren Zuo Shu is a girls’ love novel set between a righteous cultivation sect and a demonic one, published in English by Seven Seas in 2025 as a single volume.
A little. The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian sets its two swordswomen among the jianghu’s righteous and demonic sects.
Yes, two in English. Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! and The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian. One Heaven Official’s Blessing reader asked for exactly this: “something similar but with lesbians”.
Yes. Baihe is the Chinese word for girls’ love and yuri the Japanese one, so xianxia baihe and xianxia yuri name the same stories. More in What Does Baihe Mean?.
A senior sister in the same sect. She is a woman who became a disciple before you. In Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, Ji Linxue is Lan Qinghe’s shijie; more in What does Shijie mean?.
