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Coiling Dragon Saga #2
Dragonblood
This is the second of eight fantasy novels comprising the translation of the seminal 'Coiling Dragon Saga'.
What should have been a joyous, triumphant return has turned into ashes in Linley's mouth. Now a powerful and highly respected magus, Linley Baruch had finally completed his father's greatest desire and retrieved the family heirloom warblade known as 'Slaughterer'... only to find that his father, Hogg Baruch, had passed away.
Hogg's death was not a natural one, and the more Linley learned, the hotter his rage blazed. Some crimes demand justice, and sometimes justice comes through blood and blood alone. For too long had the Dragonblood Warriors slumbered. The time had come for Linley Baruch to remind everyone in the Yulan Continent why the Four Supreme Warriors were once feared above all others.
What should have been a joyous, triumphant return has turned into ashes in Linley's mouth. Now a powerful and highly respected magus, Linley Baruch had finally completed his father's greatest desire and retrieved the family heirloom warblade known as 'Slaughterer'... only to find that his father, Hogg Baruch, had passed away.
Hogg's death was not a natural one, and the more Linley learned, the hotter his rage blazed. Some crimes demand justice, and sometimes justice comes through blood and blood alone. For too long had the Dragonblood Warriors slumbered. The time had come for Linley Baruch to remind everyone in the Yulan Continent why the Four Supreme Warriors were once feared above all others.
855 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 25, 2018
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Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
332 books59 followersAssociated Names:
* Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
* I Eat Tomatoes (English)
* 我吃西红柿 (Chinese)
* หว่อชือซีหงสื้อ (Thai)
* Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
* I Eat Tomatoes (English)
* 我吃西红柿 (Chinese)
* หว่อชือซีหงสื้อ (Thai)
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September 11, 2018
Most excellent
I love each book as I go through the series. I am in total love with the characters and all the great images.
I love each book as I go through the series. I am in total love with the characters and all the great images.
July 25, 2022
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A highly divisive series that forced me to get over many of my peeves, but one that was worth it all! I simply loved this!
Let me start off on why many readers would be instantly put off when starting this…
This is a translated novel, and so comes with a heavy baggage of peeves that struck me quite hard when I started this series. Though the translation captures the content well, it does not flow smoothly in English. The dialogue is stilted and often the emotions behind the dialogue wasn’t translated. So at times, I was unsure on whether the dialogue was spoken in anger or respect or sarcasm. In many occasions, it felt very abrupt both at the start and at the end of the dialogue making it hard to establish a confluence between the dialogue, the context and the prose. I believe the cause is that the translation is more literal rather than qualitative.
Then we have the modern westernization that permeates the prose which does not gel well with the Chinese themed setting. You get characters named Brad and Dillon fighting over the town of Wushan, the mix of Chinese customs with modern swear words (“you can all f*ck off” and people calling each other “bros”) creating a very dissonant world building that neither captures the majesty of ancient China nor the modernity of current civilization. It’s made for a very uncoordinated and awkward read, that I personally found it hard to get over with.
Here’s why I highly recommend you turn your peeve filter off and get past the above:
It’s Progression Fantasy at it’s finest! If you love a overpowered MC who starts off as underdog and smashes his way to the peak in a very Goku (Dragonball Z) kind of way, this should me a must read. The progression is literally non-stop and to capture a phrase from the book itself, when you climb a mountain all you see are higher mountains. I simply have not read a book that has so many vertical and horizontal levels of progressions as this. Every time, I see a peak climbed, a level attained and expect the book the taper off, it threw me into a loop and kept my expectations completely smashed as the progression continued full steam!
The book is quite epic in scope, in cast and in progression. The worldbuilding just keeps expanding and more and more powerful casts kept appearing all through 8 books till the last great finale, which let me completely pleased. Considering the sweeping scope, it was near impossible to maintain a flow of character development for supporting cast and it does show in the series, but overall a admirable job in keeping them together. The main cast is more or less constant through the books making it a easy read to follow through the progression.
The timeline progression takes some getting used to. The progression happens over millions of years or so. For example, You can get instances of MC meditating for a couple of centuries before making a breakthrough. It really forced me to reassess my preconceptions on timeline progression as most of the characters are near immortal. A very unique concept that I loved (after taking some time to get used to it)
The magic system and power progression is solid. The transition in power up is smooth and the power progression blends in smoothly with the character progression. There is a structure to the plot progress that we see happen cyclically, but the world and setting change keeps things fresh all through. New world, new monsters, new people, new magics, yet the underlying consistency is maintained making it one progression novel rather than a set of staggered books.
The MC has a lot of plot armor all through. He gets the right breaks, gets lucky at the right instances, people turn up giving him what he needs at the right occasions etc. For many, this would be a turn down, but I loved it because it was a happy fun read. There enough plot tension to keep you turning the pages, but we soon realize this would be a Happily Ever After book rather than one that drags you through moral grey traumatizing events.
To conclude, it’s a flawed book, but one which bought out the simply joy of power progression in me. Has shades Dragonball Z and Hunter x Hunter running through which I thoroughly loved.
I hope you pick this up, get past the flaws and enjoy yourself!
A highly divisive series that forced me to get over many of my peeves, but one that was worth it all! I simply loved this!
Let me start off on why many readers would be instantly put off when starting this…
This is a translated novel, and so comes with a heavy baggage of peeves that struck me quite hard when I started this series. Though the translation captures the content well, it does not flow smoothly in English. The dialogue is stilted and often the emotions behind the dialogue wasn’t translated. So at times, I was unsure on whether the dialogue was spoken in anger or respect or sarcasm. In many occasions, it felt very abrupt both at the start and at the end of the dialogue making it hard to establish a confluence between the dialogue, the context and the prose. I believe the cause is that the translation is more literal rather than qualitative.
Then we have the modern westernization that permeates the prose which does not gel well with the Chinese themed setting. You get characters named Brad and Dillon fighting over the town of Wushan, the mix of Chinese customs with modern swear words (“you can all f*ck off” and people calling each other “bros”) creating a very dissonant world building that neither captures the majesty of ancient China nor the modernity of current civilization. It’s made for a very uncoordinated and awkward read, that I personally found it hard to get over with.
Here’s why I highly recommend you turn your peeve filter off and get past the above:
It’s Progression Fantasy at it’s finest! If you love a overpowered MC who starts off as underdog and smashes his way to the peak in a very Goku (Dragonball Z) kind of way, this should me a must read. The progression is literally non-stop and to capture a phrase from the book itself, when you climb a mountain all you see are higher mountains. I simply have not read a book that has so many vertical and horizontal levels of progressions as this. Every time, I see a peak climbed, a level attained and expect the book the taper off, it threw me into a loop and kept my expectations completely smashed as the progression continued full steam!
The book is quite epic in scope, in cast and in progression. The worldbuilding just keeps expanding and more and more powerful casts kept appearing all through 8 books till the last great finale, which let me completely pleased. Considering the sweeping scope, it was near impossible to maintain a flow of character development for supporting cast and it does show in the series, but overall a admirable job in keeping them together. The main cast is more or less constant through the books making it a easy read to follow through the progression.
The timeline progression takes some getting used to. The progression happens over millions of years or so. For example, You can get instances of MC meditating for a couple of centuries before making a breakthrough. It really forced me to reassess my preconceptions on timeline progression as most of the characters are near immortal. A very unique concept that I loved (after taking some time to get used to it)
The magic system and power progression is solid. The transition in power up is smooth and the power progression blends in smoothly with the character progression. There is a structure to the plot progress that we see happen cyclically, but the world and setting change keeps things fresh all through. New world, new monsters, new people, new magics, yet the underlying consistency is maintained making it one progression novel rather than a set of staggered books.
The MC has a lot of plot armor all through. He gets the right breaks, gets lucky at the right instances, people turn up giving him what he needs at the right occasions etc. For many, this would be a turn down, but I loved it because it was a happy fun read. There enough plot tension to keep you turning the pages, but we soon realize this would be a Happily Ever After book rather than one that drags you through moral grey traumatizing events.
To conclude, it’s a flawed book, but one which bought out the simply joy of power progression in me. Has shades Dragonball Z and Hunter x Hunter running through which I thoroughly loved.
I hope you pick this up, get past the flaws and enjoy yourself!
May 25, 2023
The second book focuses on Linley's investigation into his dad's murder and his mom's disappearance 10 years ago.
I enjoyed it for the most part but was frustrated by Linley's single-minded focus on enacting revenge for his parents, to the point of going against all of the established organizations. Maybe other readers enjoy reading about his impulsiveness, but I wanted him to take a step back and think about things more rationally before taking action.
And it's like he only thinks in black and white. He likes a person before knowing they were behind his mom's kidnapping, but the instant he's told that person was behind her disappearance, his thoughts flip 180 and instantly that person is his enemy and must be killed. And then that's all he thinks about until he accomplishes it. That kind of thinking is too simplistic and was frustrating to read.
He also really fell apart after the death of a character, and while I empathized with him, I wamted to shake him hard and ask him if he realizes the dangerous situation he's in. Thank god his three friends were able to rouse him up from his depression.
Honestly the story of Linley taking revenge wasn't that interesting. I'm much more interested to see what's going to happen to this whole continent now that half of the Holy Union and the Dark Alliance has been taken over by magic beasts under this Dylin guy and even his home kingdom of Fenlai has completely fallen. And how much stronger Linley will get now that he has his fancy new adamantine heavy sword :D
I enjoyed it for the most part but was frustrated by Linley's single-minded focus on enacting revenge for his parents, to the point of going against all of the established organizations. Maybe other readers enjoy reading about his impulsiveness, but I wanted him to take a step back and think about things more rationally before taking action.
And it's like he only thinks in black and white. He likes a person before knowing they were behind his mom's kidnapping, but the instant he's told that person was behind her disappearance, his thoughts flip 180 and instantly that person is his enemy and must be killed. And then that's all he thinks about until he accomplishes it. That kind of thinking is too simplistic and was frustrating to read.
He also really fell apart after the death of a character, and while I empathized with him, I wamted to shake him hard and ask him if he realizes the dangerous situation he's in. Thank god his three friends were able to rouse him up from his depression.
Honestly the story of Linley taking revenge wasn't that interesting. I'm much more interested to see what's going to happen to this whole continent now that half of the Holy Union and the Dark Alliance has been taken over by magic beasts under this Dylin guy and even his home kingdom of Fenlai has completely fallen. And how much stronger Linley will get now that he has his fancy new adamantine heavy sword :D
January 2, 2021
It's skirting the line of "nonsense" overpowered MC where it barely makes sense how convenient things are going for the MC. I didn't find this aspect to be too egregious BUT, the MC is kinda dumb.
I'm not saying that he should be particularly smart, dude is an upfront type. But he just downright becomes dumb in this book for no particular reason. I suppose the author was maybe pressed for time or maybe was rushing things to get from point a to b. For a more specific example of what I'm speaking about, details in the tag.
I'm not saying that he should be particularly smart, dude is an upfront type. But he just downright becomes dumb in this book for no particular reason. I suppose the author was maybe pressed for time or maybe was rushing things to get from point a to b. For a more specific example of what I'm speaking about, details in the tag.
July 24, 2021
I, being a sucker for good world building, really loved this first part. The way every piece of land was detailed in this book was just breathtaking. The description of scene, of the characters, of the beasts and fight choreography was astounding.
The only reason I'd give it a 4 star is due to its translation issues. Being a student of japanese, I can understand why translating directly from Chinese to English can be messy, added with the fact that (as I've heard) the books initially was fan translated, I wouldn't criticize much.
I would definitely put it alongside Harry Potter, dragon and other fantasy books.
The only reason I'd give it a 4 star is due to its translation issues. Being a student of japanese, I can understand why translating directly from Chinese to English can be messy, added with the fact that (as I've heard) the books initially was fan translated, I wouldn't criticize much.
I would definitely put it alongside Harry Potter, dragon and other fantasy books.
January 22, 2026
What I dislike about these Chinese webnovels is that they would make a statement, explaining a fact of the world. Then a hundred chapters later, it is rewritten so the protag will be at disadvantage.
I'm wondering if I should read all of these in one go, or try something else.
I don't know where the series is going. Gramps is gone, and he (the protag) is out for blood.
I will read the other books mixed into my regular fare. I can't read all these books in one go.
Story is meh now.
Maybe isekai protags that use modern day knowledge and apply magic has rotted my brain (not that this series is a masterpiece).
3/5 Stars
I'm wondering if I should read all of these in one go, or try something else.
I don't know where the series is going. Gramps is gone, and he (the protag) is out for blood.
I will read the other books mixed into my regular fare. I can't read all these books in one go.
Story is meh now.
Maybe isekai protags that use modern day knowledge and apply magic has rotted my brain (not that this series is a masterpiece).
3/5 Stars
November 29, 2024
Awesome!
I really like this series and book 2 was really great. Firstly I love how long it is…kept me occupied for a nice period of time. The characters are well developed and the story line is very elegant (not too shallow and not too over the top). Looking forward to the rest of the series.
I really like this series and book 2 was really great. Firstly I love how long it is…kept me occupied for a nice period of time. The characters are well developed and the story line is very elegant (not too shallow and not too over the top). Looking forward to the rest of the series.
April 18, 2025
Hate issue
Quite a good storyline. Unfortunately the author seems has hate issue with Christianity and Catholic Church. The author uses religious symbols and catholic church structure to represent the most evil antagonist organization in the story, the Radiant Church. People are free to not believe or don’t like something, but please don’t spread hate propaganda.
Quite a good storyline. Unfortunately the author seems has hate issue with Christianity and Catholic Church. The author uses religious symbols and catholic church structure to represent the most evil antagonist organization in the story, the Radiant Church. People are free to not believe or don’t like something, but please don’t spread hate propaganda.
August 6, 2019
A very good cultivation book.
The story continues to grow and develop into a very enjoyable read. The MC has worked hard to improve and continues to grow as a leader. The pacing was good and I enjoyed how the world building has progressed.
The story continues to grow and develop into a very enjoyable read. The MC has worked hard to improve and continues to grow as a leader. The pacing was good and I enjoyed how the world building has progressed.
January 11, 2024
This book is really annoying and the protagonist acts rather dumb and rash. The protagonist was very unrelatable and unlikeable (beatings for a maid who wants to bring him refreshments)
The repetitions were really aggravating and i loathed reading about A and her clan all the time.
The repetitions were really aggravating and i loathed reading about A and her clan all the time.
January 8, 2019
Great book
Great book I can't wait to read the next book in the series I would recommend this book to anyone
Great book I can't wait to read the next book in the series I would recommend this book to anyone
April 23, 2019
very emotional in some chapters. Two of them even provoked me to tears lol.
January 30, 2020
I have to say, this book is extremely silly. If Linley wasn’t such an unlikeable nong I’d probably have had a great time. But without someone to root for it’s just a giant cacophony of nonsense.
April 24, 2020
Can't put this series down, so addictive.
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May 18, 2020This one was really great couldn't even put the book down for a second.
May 23, 2020
Excellent
Another excellent and highly enjoyable addition to the series, I had fun throughout the entire book. Definitely a must read if you enjoyed the first book.
Another excellent and highly enjoyable addition to the series, I had fun throughout the entire book. Definitely a must read if you enjoyed the first book.
June 5, 2020
Still good
January 3, 2021
Just wow
February 15, 2021
Great job
Such a classic, love this story. Great job with the formatting into ebook format. Glad I don’t have to wait to read the third book
Such a classic, love this story. Great job with the formatting into ebook format. Glad I don’t have to wait to read the third book
March 26, 2021
More than a book more than words its a journey that you witness alongside
Amazing an truly something that has the power to send you on a journey that pulls you all the way in .
Amazing an truly something that has the power to send you on a journey that pulls you all the way in .
February 3, 2023
Action
This is fighting and developing one inner powers. The growth and dedication one has in not giving up, during trial and errors
This is fighting and developing one inner powers. The growth and dedication one has in not giving up, during trial and errors
February 20, 2025
Interesting but predictable. I will continue the series.
January 19, 2022
4.75 stars
I really liked how Linley had grown and the fights was firckin awesome
I really liked how Linley had grown and the fights was firckin awesome
August 3, 2019
I like how we know get some more plot driven actions. There is still plenty of cultivation and progression.
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