Dragon Canon – the industrialization of Xianxia, by Misty Rain of Jiangnan!

Hi everyone,

We're excited to introduce Dragon Canon! It's written by City of Sin author Misty Rain of Jiangnan, from whom we haven't launched a novel since 2017! And it's being translated by XuanHearts (also known as Truth), who is easily one the biggest webnovel fanatics on our team. He really knows what he's talking about, and his intro is below:

Summary

Zhang Sheng, a peerless prodigy, was just going about his business when he accidentally altered the fate of Wei Yuan, a baby boy who had just been born in the Wei estate. Their karmas became permanently bound since, and the master and disciple would eventually go on to change the world.

As the author’s unserious synopsis summarized rather succinctly, this is a novel about an industrial revolution unfolding in a fantasy world. The beginning of the story is pretty medieval with sprinkles of “Huh?” here and there that keeps you intrigued. I really don’t want to spoil anything, but imagine finding a digital watch while living in the Middle Ages. Later, in two hundred chapters or less if memory serves me right, Wei Yuan stumbled upon a source of the weird shit that doesn’t quite belong in his world and opened his eyes to the almighty power of industrialization. After that, it’s “Oh? You’re bringing a sword to a gunfight? How cannon of you!”, baby!

XuanHearts' self-intro

Good day, everyone. My name is XuanHearts. I’m the translator of Spirit Realm, VRMMO: The Unrivaled, Against the Gods, and Stranger Danger. You might have read some of them.

Dragon Canon is a novel written by the famous author, Misty Rain of Jiangnan. Some of you might still remember the work that made him famous on Wuxiaworld, Monarch of Evernight. The extremely brief summary is that it is a cultivation novel with some unexpected twists, kinda like how Cultivation Chat Group features a chat group, or how Who Let Him Cultivate?! features scientific measurements, so on and so forth. You get the idea.

I’ve read two works from Misty Rain of Jiangnan, Monarch of Evernight and 天阿降临 (loosely translates to Arietis Descends), and frankly, both novels peter off into the “Okay, where the hell do we go from here?” territory eventually. Especially Arietis Descends. Luckily, that’s not the case for Dragon Canon. From the start until the current chapter, there is a strong protagonist motivation that drives basically everything he does. As a reader, you may not always know what is going to happen next, but you’re never lost as to where the story goes from a certain point. It’s a significant improvement from his previous novels and why I strongly believe it deserves a read. That’s all from me.