Rise of the Dark Moon

43 hrs. 18 min.

Language Russian

Author Sedrik&Rakot

Narrator Ivan Malki

Description

Being caught in Lián Yu — a run-of-the-mill villain from the manhwa "The Technique of God’s Star Martial Arts", who in the original story was supposed to play the role of an insignificant early antagonist: a kind of spherical aristocrat-... in a vacuum, whose vile behavior was meant to awaken in readers class solidarity with the poor and unfairly mistreated main hero, and then be repeatedly punished and humiliated by him in return.

Author’s note

We’ve long wanted to write something “China-themed,” but touching the main characters of a xianxia story is just repeating their canonical path—because without it they don’t stand a chance of survival. The authors there simply love drawing their heroes into hopeless situations out of nowhere, and the only salvation is a well-timed piano arriving from the bushes. We wanted to write something where success depends on the hero’s own efforts, not on the author’s “piano factory,” where results are achieved by straining your brain, not by the ability to hide behind a powerful tian and cover yourself with artifacts that, thanks to the author’s arbitrariness, have somehow come to hand just because you happened to pass by. Of course, since it’s the genre, we can’t completely do away with “pianos”—at least because they exist in the canon—but we’ll try to keep them in our hero’s story at the level of auxiliary tools.