The Statsguy's Mag 21 Coiling Dragon

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Website : qidian china

Views : 99.91million

Rating : 9.1(1062)

Chapters : 806

Status : completed

Word count : 3.34million

Author : I Eat Tomatoes

author level : platinum

No of works : 9

Disscussion : 784

Year started : 2008

Translated works : The Desolate Era, Swallowed Star, Stellar Transformations, Lord Xue Ying, The Nine Cauldrons, Seeking The Flying Sword Path

Genres : Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Xuanhuan

Tags : Academy, Adapted to Manhua, Angels, Artifacts, Beast Companions, Beautiful Female Lead, Bloodlines, Body Tempering, Calm Protagonist, Cautious Protagonist, Clan Building, Cold Protagonist, Cultivation, Dao Comprehension, Dragons, Fast Cultivation, Genius Protagonist, Hard-Working Protagonist, Immortals, Late Romance, Magic, Male Protagonist, Marriage, Monsters, Multiple Realms, Politics, Protagonist Loyal to Love Interest, Protagonist with Multiple Bodies, Revenge, Romantic Subplot, Sculptors, Souls, Spirit Advisor, Time Skip, Wars, Weak to Strong, World Travel

Popularity : One of the most popular novel in China.

Last edited : 28/nov/2018

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Website : qidian international

Views : 8million

Rating : 4.7(411)

Chapters : 806

Status : completed

Translator : RWX

Editor : RWX

Popularity : Very popular outside Webnovel.com. It's the first completely translated webnovel of xianxia genre.

Last edited : 27/nov/2018

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Synopsis :

Empires rise and fall on the Yulan Continent. Saints, immortal beings of unimaginable power, battle using spells and swords, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Magical beasts rule the mountains, where the brave – or the foolish – go to test their strength. Even the mighty can fall, feasted on by those stronger. The strong live like royalty; the weak strive to survive another day.

This is the world which Linley is born into. Raised in the small town of Wushan, Linley is a scion of the Baruch clan, the clan of the once-legendary Dragonblood Warriors. Their fame once shook the world, but the clan is now so decrepit that even the heirlooms of the clan have been sold off. Tasked with reclaiming the lost glory of his clan, Linley will go through countless trials and tribulations, making powerful friends but also deadly enemies.

Come witness a new legend in the making. The legend of Linley Baruch.

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POSITIVE REVIEW :

CD has a very special place in my heart, which is why I'm also a bit bias towards it, being one of the first Xianxia I read.

This is an amazing piece to begin with if you're new to Xianxia, reason being that it's a complete translation, no need to wait a day, or week for a new chapter. Just binge through it all.

What really makes this one great is the relations.h.i.+ps the MC has with different characters, which just helps flesh out the personality of the MC. This story should've been a bit longer in my opinion, to focus a bit more on certain characters, because this story suffers greatly from ignoring certain character for quite some time, until they become necessary for the story again, which is a bit sad, because many of them has been a great part of the story, until they're not. It makes it feel a bit rushed.

The world, the adventures, everything is extremely well written, it's such an amazing joy to read, and you just wish you could experience something like it while reading it, it's simply amazing. CD has its flaws, but I'm uncertain if it's because I'm bias toward it, or that it's just simply that good, that I gave it a 5/5. The non-bias part in me would like to rate it at 4/5, but in the top tier of 4s, because I feel like there's the possibility it could've been even better with more chapters, exploring characters, adventures and romance more.

UPDATE:

So I've read CD again, for the second time. Why should you read this? Because I Eat Tomatoes, the author is simply a genius at tugging at your heart strings, and making up likable characters and creating an amazing world, which shares the same universe as some of his other works. Of course reading it a second time, you notice some of the flaws.

In general all of I Eat Tomatoes works revolves around "Luck" which can be noticable in CD quite a bit, but I didn't find it overly so, except for a few cases, where luck simply is the only thing keeping the MC alive, but I can let it slide, since I can't come up with a better way of making such a rich and interesting story to begin with.

Also, the fighting becomes more or less the same at a point in the story, but the Author has still done a good job at keeping it interesting, but it does become predictable as it gets closer to the end. The most serious "flaw" this novel faces, though, is still the abandonment of characters, as most are really well written and introduced and to just forget about them is really the big flaw of CD. Getting a conclusion of what happened to some characters at the end would've been the cherry on the top for this novel.

This is still one of the best written novels out there, and I can't recommend it enough.

- By s.h.i.+kaz(NU)

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NEGATIVE REVIEW :

Well, where should I start.. Okay~

Coiling Dragon (Panlong) is honestly.. my first Chinese Novel. People regard their first novel as 'The one that made them read more', but it wasn't the case for me.

First, I'll start with good points of Coiling Dragon:

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1. CD is a good novel for beginners. Unlike other Novels like ISSTH and TMW, this novel doesn't use 'Qi' or any chinese power leveling. In return, the story uses our typical Four Elements + Other Add-in to rank their powers.

2. CD has a very good initial setting. The MC, Linley is a scion of Baruch Clan, which is known for their Dragon Bloodline. He was branded as a failure after a test, but all of these changed when he acquired the *tada* Coiling Dragon Ring. There comes Grandpa Doehring. He became his teacher and taught him ways how to improve his strength and to obtain a way how to activate his Dragon Bloodline.

3. CD has a good 'Early' Romance setting. The part when Linley chose Delia over Alice is the highest point of their romance, In my Opinion.

4. For people who likes to read long novels, this is the novel for you. It is the first one of the Xianxia Genre to be fully translated. The quality of translation is good also.

5. If you like astronomically large numbers, the Author likes to give those kind of numbers.

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The bad points of Coiling Dragon

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1. Coiling Dragon, in a sense, has a very ridiculous PLOT ARMOR. Like IET's Novels, ALL coincidences happen to him, as if the author inserts them just to make a new objective. His Luck is way past the luck of other lucky protagonist, that you'll think his survival along the story was due to luck. Yes, he is hardworking, but much of his strength comes from luck.

2. Romance and Family setting is also ridiculous. There is a part where the MC leaves his family for almost 10 years and just to see his son and daughter grown up. Yes, he is a peerless expert, but he is a bad father.

3. Battle scenes are very annoying. If you want to describe their battle scenes, It looks like two saiyans fighting together. You won't see anything because of their very fast movement. All the audience can say is 'How fast!' and 'Such Strength!'

4. CD's plot is just confusing. Many characters are introduced, but almost the same number was forgotten.

5. In short, CD is a story with OP MC that flaunts 'MY MC's Soooo OP that...' It's that kind of story.

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All in all, CD is good for new novel readers in it's early parts, but there are MUCH BETTER Novels out there in translation. If you want uninterrupted reading, this one's for you. (If you can handle the repet.i.tivene plot of story)

- by Rafu the s.h.i.+(NU)

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My thoughts : This novel is the first novel for many veterans here. It's also my third webnovel and first full webnovel. This novel is like DBZ for webnovels outside China. This novel is a good novel for those who are new webnovel.

In my library : No (completed reading this before even this site started.)