Wuxia Mood: A Lone Figure With a Sword on the Back in a Misty Bamboo Forest

A woman in black stands with her back to the camera in a dusk desert, her long sword planted in the sand, footprints trailing behind her out of frame. Uses a line of footprints to say the person has already gone far. Image 3 of Zhao Yifan's Wuxia Mood set.

Two people face off in a bamboo clearing with swords still sheathed and twin short blades held across the chest, fallen leaves frozen in mid-air and their breath visible. Uses the detail of leaves that never land to write tension. Image 6 of Zhao Yifan's Wuxia Mood set.

A figure in white and one in black face each other across a desert, with a burning sunset and a dead tree in silhouette behind them. Holds a wuxia standoff with the simplest two-point composition. Image 1 of Zhao Yifan's Wuxia Mood set.