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Coiling Dragon Saga #3
Baruch Rising
Linley Baruch has gained his vengeance against those who destroyed his family, and for now has escaped the tyranny of the Radiant Church. Yet vengeance alone sustains no one, and so the Dragonblood Warrior begins to turn his attention from bloody revenge to assisting his kith and kin. Linley is not the only Baruch, after all... and for that matter, the time has come for Baruch to become more than just a clan. A Saint can treat with kings and emperors as equals, and Linley will let neither Holy Emperors nor Dark Patriarchs stand in the way of Baruch's rising.
This is the third of eight fantasy novels comprising the translation of the seminal 'Coiling Dragon Saga'.
This is the third of eight fantasy novels comprising the translation of the seminal 'Coiling Dragon Saga'.
706 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 25, 2018
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Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
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* 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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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 28, 2023
There's a LOT that happens in this book, which I believe includes books 8-10 in the original publication.
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
Linley finally is ready to part with the Holy Union kingdom and travel to the O'Brien Empire to find his brother. On the way, he saves a bunch of people, including a necromancer of the ninth rank called Zassler and 5 extremely strong brothers who had been captured by the Radiant Church. He's got the beginning of the makings of his own powerful army! Plus he finally gets a new magical beast companion, a Blackcloud panther called Haeru.
When Linley finally makes it to the O'Brien empire, he easily finds Wharton, who is in a bit of a love pinch. Linley doesn't want his younger brother to suffer in love like he did, so he's determined to do whatever he can so that his brother can marry Nina, the love of his life and also the 7th daughter of the O'Brien empire's king. There's some battling here so that Linley can stand up for Wharton and it's established that Linley has gotten strong enough to fight evenly against other Saint level experts.
Once he settles all of his family's affairs in the empire, Linley then decides it's time to move to the Anarchic Lands and start moving against the Radiant Church, which has a huge presence there. Next thing you do, he's established first his own duchy and then his own kingdom and established Wharton as king. As you can imagine, the Radiant Church isn't too thrilled about Linley infringing on their territory, but a powerful Deity called Desri forces all parties to sign a treaty to chill for 20 years.
In those years of peace, Linley finally marries the love of his life, Delia, who has been patiently waiting for him ever since their days as students at Ernst Institute, and starts his own family. There's a 12 year time skip, after which Linley hits Saint level as a warrior and is pretty OP. When the Church and the Cult of Shadows comes attacking because of a precious magicite mine worth billions of gold coins that's discovered in the Baruch Kingdom, Linley's forces look like they're in a tight spot when they're helped out by millions of magical mice from the nearby Forest of Darkness, courtesy of Bebe's heritage.
When confronted by top folks from both the Radiant Church and the Cult of Shadows, who are willing to concede a little to him, Linley completely refuses and a number of the top experts from the Church and the Cult are both killed by Linley's side.
Like I said, there's a lot that happens in this book. Linley gains a bunch of allies, starts his own family, and becomes a strong force that the Radiant Church and the Cult of Shadows has a hard time dealing with. We finally learn a bit more about the higher planes and how the existence of the Necropolis of Gods draws a lot of experts from these other planes to the Yulan continent. I'm excited for Linley to continue leveling up in there. Also, it looks like we're finally going to learn more about Bebe's heritage soon, as it's clearly related to the hidden magical beast expert in the Forest of Darkness. Been wondering what exactly Bebe for a while now (haven't we all?), so excited for that reveal!
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
Linley finally is ready to part with the Holy Union kingdom and travel to the O'Brien Empire to find his brother. On the way, he saves a bunch of people, including a necromancer of the ninth rank called Zassler and 5 extremely strong brothers who had been captured by the Radiant Church. He's got the beginning of the makings of his own powerful army! Plus he finally gets a new magical beast companion, a Blackcloud panther called Haeru.
When Linley finally makes it to the O'Brien empire, he easily finds Wharton, who is in a bit of a love pinch. Linley doesn't want his younger brother to suffer in love like he did, so he's determined to do whatever he can so that his brother can marry Nina, the love of his life and also the 7th daughter of the O'Brien empire's king. There's some battling here so that Linley can stand up for Wharton and it's established that Linley has gotten strong enough to fight evenly against other Saint level experts.
Once he settles all of his family's affairs in the empire, Linley then decides it's time to move to the Anarchic Lands and start moving against the Radiant Church, which has a huge presence there. Next thing you do, he's established first his own duchy and then his own kingdom and established Wharton as king. As you can imagine, the Radiant Church isn't too thrilled about Linley infringing on their territory, but a powerful Deity called Desri forces all parties to sign a treaty to chill for 20 years.
In those years of peace, Linley finally marries the love of his life, Delia, who has been patiently waiting for him ever since their days as students at Ernst Institute, and starts his own family. There's a 12 year time skip, after which Linley hits Saint level as a warrior and is pretty OP. When the Church and the Cult of Shadows comes attacking because of a precious magicite mine worth billions of gold coins that's discovered in the Baruch Kingdom, Linley's forces look like they're in a tight spot when they're helped out by millions of magical mice from the nearby Forest of Darkness, courtesy of Bebe's heritage.
When confronted by top folks from both the Radiant Church and the Cult of Shadows, who are willing to concede a little to him, Linley completely refuses and a number of the top experts from the Church and the Cult are both killed by Linley's side.
Like I said, there's a lot that happens in this book. Linley gains a bunch of allies, starts his own family, and becomes a strong force that the Radiant Church and the Cult of Shadows has a hard time dealing with. We finally learn a bit more about the higher planes and how the existence of the Necropolis of Gods draws a lot of experts from these other planes to the Yulan continent. I'm excited for Linley to continue leveling up in there. Also, it looks like we're finally going to learn more about Bebe's heritage soon, as it's clearly related to the hidden magical beast expert in the Forest of Darkness. Been wondering what exactly Bebe for a while now (haven't we all?), so excited for that reveal!
July 29, 2019
I found this book pretty amazing. In this book we get to see not only the MC growth, but how he regains relationships with those he values.
Also of note is that his duality in magic and fighting finally starts to mature and he starts to take advantage of magic while fighting, making for a really entertaining style.
Watch as the MC struggles to try and get his clan once more shining to the place his ancestors had.
Also of note is that his duality in magic and fighting finally starts to mature and he starts to take advantage of magic while fighting, making for a really entertaining style.
Watch as the MC struggles to try and get his clan once more shining to the place his ancestors had.
January 11, 2024
I found the contant bragging and showing off in fights rather tiresome. The sword saint was acting really bizarre. I was no fan of O.
The fact that you need to have a pure soul to become either necromancer or abusive slaver/ human sacrificing cultist is "interesting"..
Seeing the Radiant church pull bigger and bigger assets seemingly out of their collective a$$ they should have been able to reconquer their lost territories and dominate most of the continent...
The fact that you need to have a pure soul to become either necromancer or abusive slaver/ human sacrificing cultist is "interesting"..
Seeing the Radiant church pull bigger and bigger assets seemingly out of their collective a$$ they should have been able to reconquer their lost territories and dominate most of the continent...
January 3, 2021
This just turned into a shounen anime
"oh you were only using 10% of your power?! HAHA! I was only using 5% of mine!"
well if you came for a shounen anime type of read, then you'd enjoy this more than I did. It's not bad by the way, if goodreads would allow it then it'd be 2.5 which is "decent enough". There's a lot of garbage literature both fiction and non-fiction. Decent enough is alright.
"oh you were only using 10% of your power?! HAHA! I was only using 5% of mine!"
well if you came for a shounen anime type of read, then you'd enjoy this more than I did. It's not bad by the way, if goodreads would allow it then it'd be 2.5 which is "decent enough". There's a lot of garbage literature both fiction and non-fiction. Decent enough is alright.
August 7, 2019
A nice addition to the series.
I enjoyed reading this book and liked how the author worked to show the progression of the characters and plot. The action scenes are well written and fun to read.
I enjoyed reading this book and liked how the author worked to show the progression of the characters and plot. The action scenes are well written and fun to read.
May 23, 2020
Excellent
Once again another excellent addition to the series, a highly enjoyable storyline, very enjoyable characters, and I am definitely anticipating what comes next. The cliffhanger was great too, luckily the next book is already out LOL.
Once again another excellent addition to the series, a highly enjoyable storyline, very enjoyable characters, and I am definitely anticipating what comes next. The cliffhanger was great too, luckily the next book is already out LOL.
February 16, 2021
Classic
Great third installment, much more lighthearted with lots of satisfying battles although magic continues to be seriously underutilized by the MC. Look forward to the next book.
Great third installment, much more lighthearted with lots of satisfying battles although magic continues to be seriously underutilized by the MC. Look forward to the next book.
January 9, 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
January 16, 2020
Wow!!
It gets better and better!!! I had never read this type of book before I started this saga, but I sure am glad I'm reading it now!!!
It gets better and better!!! I had never read this type of book before I started this saga, but I sure am glad I'm reading it now!!!
May 6, 2020
Nothing new to add here, still a cracking read.
December 8, 2020
Great book VERY ENTERTAINING
An outstanding book and series, so incredible, and fun! I can't imagine a better series and am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
An outstanding book and series, so incredible, and fun! I can't imagine a better series and am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
April 26, 2021
Loved it
I have really enjoyed this series up to the point and will continue to read more books in the series. If you like cultivation books it's pretty good
I have really enjoyed this series up to the point and will continue to read more books in the series. If you like cultivation books it's pretty good
June 20, 2021
Great work of cultivation
Really enjoy the process of growth in each of these novels. The natural growth of Linley and those around him does not feel forced.
Really enjoy the process of growth in each of these novels. The natural growth of Linley and those around him does not feel forced.
November 8, 2021
The arrogance of the main cast and how its highlighted is very far from Western fantasy, where the MC would work well as a villain.
August 3, 2019
I loved the overcoming of adversity and the revenge propelled actions. Linley is a really cool character.
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