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I know it isn't true wuxia/xianxia, but Avatar the Last Airbender is worth a look, probably. The fights in it are really special.

If you find any let me know. I've always figured that a TV show would be a fantastic format for this kind of story, because they'd have to have, like, actual writers keeping things reasonably focused and stuff. As opposed to the random internet weirdos writing whatever comes to mind until they get bored that makes up the vast majority of the genre. But it's hard to browse this stuff in English at least, because most people who speak English have literally never heard of this genre.

It's probably not quite what you're looking for (the plot isn't usually about our main characters murder scheming to gain ULTIMATE POWER) but there are a lot of fun shows, mainly romance/comedy/dramas set in the world of Chinese fantasy folklore chock full of immortal cultivators and demonic beasts.

If you haven't already checked them out the 2019 Legend of the White Snake could be a fun one to start with.

What did you like about Reverend Insanity that you're looking for more of?

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I don't have any TV show recs, but Cradle was mentioned earlier (anyone who hasn't read Cradle owes it to themselves to change that, btw), and in that vein, I can recommend some books:

General Progression Fantasy (basically a broader category that includes wuxia/xianxia and other forms of fantasy whose plots focus on character power progression in particular):

• Bastion by Phil Tucker is an excellent book. Unfortunately, it's the beginning of a series, and no other books have yet been published.
• The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter, and its sequel The Fires of Vengeance, are both excellent as well. The fantasy setting is inspired, not by medieval Europe as so many others are, but instead by Bronze Age Africa. I think these are also the beginning of a series, though I haven't heard anything about another one in a while. (Recent quote from his twitter, which I checked to make sure he's still alive: "Billionaires shouldn't exist")
• Mage Errant by John Bierce is a bit more YA than the above two, and many Cradle fans don't like it (it's certainly not as good as Cradle, admittedly), but it's got a fun kind of atmosphere, similar to Cradle's, and the author is at least a radlib if not an actual leftist (he spent the pandemic in Vietnam, and is very outspoken about his belief in anti-imperialism both online and in the books, and he even once dunked on Ben Shapiro in the Cradle subreddit). There are 6 of 7 books in the series out so far; last one expected sometime this year. Audiobook is fine, but the narrator likes somewhat long pauses, which some people don't like.
• Stormweaver: Iron Prince by Bryce O'Connor and Luke Chmilenko is a sci-fi book about a future in which the sporting world is entirely focused on what are called SCTs (simulated combat tournaments) in which Users of power combat-assistance devices (CADs) engage in (simulated) gladiatorial combat. It's also YA-ish, and the author and story are definitely lib, and it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief (you have to accept that people can survive blows that would in truth be 100% fatal and get back up again), but it's also one of the few books that captures some form of the Cradle progression-fantasy magic, so I'm throwing it in here anyway. The second book is mostly finished being written (it's being posted on Patreon chapter by chapter currently, and also, delayed, in the Stormweaver subreddit), but is not out yet. The audiobook is not done by Travis Baldree, and as a result it's less good than it would be if it had been, but not bad.

Wuxia/Xianxia specifically:

• A Thousand Li by Tao Wong is a more traditional Chinese xianxia series, which in its text includes many footnotes explaining bits of Chinese culture. The audiobooks are, like Cradle's, narrated by Travis Baldree. This series is somewhat slower-paced than Cradle, though, and it's also unfinished.
• Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer is a fun read; it's a largely satirical xianxia isekai story in which the main character, upon arriving from Earth into the body of a young cultivator who has just been killed by a fellow sect disciple, then decides to abandon cultivation to start farming instead. It sounds kinda odd, I know, but it's a really fun read. It started as a webnovel on Royal Road, and volumes after 1 can still be read there, but here's a link where you can read volume 1 without paying Jeff Bezos for it: https://www.webnovelpub.com/novel/beware-of-chicken-09111244/chapters (note, though, that Beware of Chicken, too, has its audiobook narrated by Travis Baldree, so there is some reason to pay for the Kindle version, since that gets you a massive discount on the Audible version). Word of warning: this series is very taken with a pastoral, patriarchal vision of "the simple life" and occasionally exposes less-than-great politics in minor ways (there's an unfortunate transphobic joke during one of the final scenes of Volume 1, though it's one of a form that most cis people probably wouldn't even recognize as transphobic). The story really shines in particular when the main character and his friends interact with cultivators and others who are familiar with cultivation. The title is on account of the fact that the rooster starts cultivating, with many comic results.

Scissor Seven on Netflix sounds kind of like Wuxia.

I liked Handsome Siblings, I'm not familiar worth those other shows.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11541444/

Oh hey it's my topic. I love wuxia/xianxia and while I'm no expert, I at least have some recs and their caveats. As you are probably aware, there are two obvious issues with the genre: lots of the shows and media are really :yikes:, and often the show translations are either bad or hard to find. Harems, threatened and sometimes real sexual assault, slavery, and misogyny seems common across the genre. Think how shounen ends up with a lot of problematic elements. At least this features characters who often get older rather than being an eternally sexualized 14 year old. That said, I've watched and read more than I should and can at least go over what I've seen and try to be upfront with the problematic bits.

Martial World (Novel) is the xianxiaiest xianxia to ever xianxia. It has a pretty straightforward protag and world, and the cultivation system is pretty normal until the higher levels start coming around, and those get to be pretty fun. From what I remember, the only way it's problematic is that the main character has like 4 wives by the end of it. It has a hilarious sex scene where the main character is fucking but also punching ghosts at the same time. Extremely long novel, which is saying something as all of these are already very long running.

A Will Eternal (Novel w/ 2d show and I think manga adaptation) is a lighterhearted take, and at first seems pretty mild. The main character is an accidental troublemaker who is so afraid of death he stumbles his way into becoming a powerful cultivator. It starts :yikes-1: when he accidently makes extremely strong beast aphrodisiac pills and weaponizes them. I think the show made that less of a thing, but my memory is fuzzy of it, and it didn't have a great translation when I watched so I could barely understand what was going on anyways. I wouldn't really rec the novel (:yikes-3:), but if you can find a good translation for the show it's probably serviceable.

The Daily Life of an Immortal King (Show) is a comedy set in a modern xianxia setting about a kid who is just born too powerful. I don't remember the first season that much, but several of the bits in the second season had me laughing.

Way of Choices (Novel w/ 2d show adaptation and maybe a live action show) is pretty good as a novel, but I don't think it translated well to the show as it is kind of monologue heavy. I did watch the show first and liked it enough to read the novel, however. The romance was kind of cute, and the characters are all awkward and blunt to the point it's endearing. Has some unchallenged misogyny going on from secondary characters towards the female empress of the setting, which isn't really pushed back on at all.

Swallowed Star (Novel w/ 3d show adaptation) it's xianxia sci-fi. Solid enough show, the later events in the novel feature a lot of slavery of warriors, which the protag participates in, buying tons of slaves early on as a quick military when he steps on the intergalactic stage. Haven't finished the novel, it's kind of dragging so I have the chapter in an eternally open tab on my phone.

Battle Through the Heavens (Novel w/ 3d show adaptation) is another xianxia that seems pretty straightforward. The show has the advantage of being to the point that characters are power enough to break space itself when fighting, which is really cool. MC's path to power is the spirit of an old expert following him around. The main character seems to like to threaten sexual assault in the novel, which has dampened my enthusiasm for reading longer, and yet the main character will still likely develop a harem.

Soulmate Adventure (2d show) is a wuxia with softer power levels. Has GL vibes, and I love me a good jianghu adventure. Kind of short and I don't remember much except some cool fights.

Zhen Dao Ge (3d show) is a wuxia that's a classic revenge story of an angry dude killing his way through a conspiracy. Has long and cool fight scenes. Has cool jianghu characters with named moves and the whole deal, lots of fun. Easy enough to get that I can watch it with friends.