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Coiling Dragon Saga #7
The Planar Wars
This is the seventh of eight fantasy novels comprising the translation of the seminal 'Coiling Dragon Saga' [盘龙] by famous Chinese author Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi [我吃西红柿], originally hosted on wuxiaworld. This authorized translation created by Ren Woxing and published by Wuxiaworld Limited.
703 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 1, 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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June 7, 2023
Covers books 18-19
We take a break from the Infernal Realm and the problems of the Divine Beast clan now that the conflicts between them and the 8 great clans have been resolved. This book covers a completely new realm: The Netherworld.
Overall I enjoyed this book, and I'm amazed that the author found new ways to make the already OP Linley seem less powerful compared to a new set of peers and then find a way for him to power up even more. And even super rare items like Sovereign's Might become commonplace, as hard as that is to believe.
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
Now that Linley isn't under such great pressure to train, he and Delia and Bebe make a leisure trip back to Yulan continent to see how his family and everyone else is doing. However, to their surprise, other than the Baruch Empire, all of the other kingdoms and empires got swallowed up into the Odin Empire. Turns out Odin was yet another escaped prisoner from the Gebados Planar Prison and one of the 5 Kings to book, so it was fairly easy for him to take over most of the continent. In the process, he killed and tortured multiple people, among them many of Linley and Delia's close friends and family, so Linley kills him in revenge.
Unfortunately, Odin has a divine clone that went to the Netherworld, thus Linley follows him there to destroy his surviving clone. Once he's there, he learns that he may be able to ask one of the Death Sovereigns for help in locating the undead souls of his deceased friends and family. And that's the whole premise that this book is based on.
With much difficulty, Linley makes it to the top of Abyssal Mountain, home to the Chief Death Sovereign. Normally that'd be enough for her to grant him a boon, but unfortunately because on the way up, Bebe killed a snake spirit that has close ties with the Sovereign, she refuses his request. She does allow Linley another option though, to go to the Planar Battlefield and fight. For each commander that he kills, she'll find and restore the memories of one person.
Thus we finally get to learn more about the Planar War that we've been hearing so much about! Essentially it's a war that happens once in a trillion years and is meant to cull the numerous amount of high experts, since anyone at or past the Saint level no longer die of natural reasons. Because of the high requirements to enter the battlefield, everyone who is there is an expert. So yet once again, Linley finds himself on the weaker end of the spectrum. He and Bebe have to stealthily walk around and hide in mountains to avoid being taken advantage of by opponents who are far stronger than them.
Linley and Bebe have a few close calls, but luckily they run into Reisgem again and form a small group of 4 with him and his buddy. They cruise for a bit with Reisgem and Bebe's's powerful innate divine abilities, but then they run into trouble with old enemies of Reisgem. When they kill the divine clone of a member of the Augusta clan, the clan invite one of the most powerful Paragon Highgods, Magnus, to join them in taking revenge.
Linley and co quickly find out that fightining against a Paragon is no joke, and they can't flee even if they want to. Magnus hits Linley with his most powerful attack, a soul attack, and Linley almost dies. Luckily he has the Soulstone that Reisgem's mom, the Redbud Sovereign, gave him which barely manages to sustain his life. Linley lies comatose for many years, and in the process of healing somehow manages to survive the 4-way mutation of the elements he has divinity in: fire, water, earth, and wind. Even someone with a 2 element mutated soul like Olivier or Learmonth has their fighting strength at 10x, so you can imagine how much more powerful someone with a 3 or even 4 elements fused together would be.
With his mutated soul, Linley now has fighting power equal to or even slightly surpassing a Paragon, even with his limited understanding of the profound mysteries. The hole in his soul protecting Sovereign artifact is now fully healed as well and both Linley's material and soul attack and defense are completely perfect. The book ends on a satisfying note with Linley fighting against Magnus in a 1-1 duel between two Paragons, and even though he doesn't manage to kill Magnus, he overpowers him enough to push him into a spacial tear. He returns triumphantly back to the Netherworld and is finally united with his friends and family again! Plus Bebe finally gets to meet his parents for the first time :D
I'm excited to see what direction the author takes the last book! I'm sure we'll finally learn what Beirut has planned for Linley and why he values him so much that he even sent Bluefire to the Planar Battlefield to protect Linley. And also find out the mystery behind the broken down crown that Linley picked up from a spacial tear. It has to be a Sovereign artifact. Maybe Linley will become king of the Sovereigns by the end of the story??
We take a break from the Infernal Realm and the problems of the Divine Beast clan now that the conflicts between them and the 8 great clans have been resolved. This book covers a completely new realm: The Netherworld.
Overall I enjoyed this book, and I'm amazed that the author found new ways to make the already OP Linley seem less powerful compared to a new set of peers and then find a way for him to power up even more. And even super rare items like Sovereign's Might become commonplace, as hard as that is to believe.
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
Now that Linley isn't under such great pressure to train, he and Delia and Bebe make a leisure trip back to Yulan continent to see how his family and everyone else is doing. However, to their surprise, other than the Baruch Empire, all of the other kingdoms and empires got swallowed up into the Odin Empire. Turns out Odin was yet another escaped prisoner from the Gebados Planar Prison and one of the 5 Kings to book, so it was fairly easy for him to take over most of the continent. In the process, he killed and tortured multiple people, among them many of Linley and Delia's close friends and family, so Linley kills him in revenge.
Unfortunately, Odin has a divine clone that went to the Netherworld, thus Linley follows him there to destroy his surviving clone. Once he's there, he learns that he may be able to ask one of the Death Sovereigns for help in locating the undead souls of his deceased friends and family. And that's the whole premise that this book is based on.
With much difficulty, Linley makes it to the top of Abyssal Mountain, home to the Chief Death Sovereign. Normally that'd be enough for her to grant him a boon, but unfortunately because on the way up, Bebe killed a snake spirit that has close ties with the Sovereign, she refuses his request. She does allow Linley another option though, to go to the Planar Battlefield and fight. For each commander that he kills, she'll find and restore the memories of one person.
Thus we finally get to learn more about the Planar War that we've been hearing so much about! Essentially it's a war that happens once in a trillion years and is meant to cull the numerous amount of high experts, since anyone at or past the Saint level no longer die of natural reasons. Because of the high requirements to enter the battlefield, everyone who is there is an expert. So yet once again, Linley finds himself on the weaker end of the spectrum. He and Bebe have to stealthily walk around and hide in mountains to avoid being taken advantage of by opponents who are far stronger than them.
Linley and Bebe have a few close calls, but luckily they run into Reisgem again and form a small group of 4 with him and his buddy. They cruise for a bit with Reisgem and Bebe's's powerful innate divine abilities, but then they run into trouble with old enemies of Reisgem. When they kill the divine clone of a member of the Augusta clan, the clan invite one of the most powerful Paragon Highgods, Magnus, to join them in taking revenge.
Linley and co quickly find out that fightining against a Paragon is no joke, and they can't flee even if they want to. Magnus hits Linley with his most powerful attack, a soul attack, and Linley almost dies. Luckily he has the Soulstone that Reisgem's mom, the Redbud Sovereign, gave him which barely manages to sustain his life. Linley lies comatose for many years, and in the process of healing somehow manages to survive the 4-way mutation of the elements he has divinity in: fire, water, earth, and wind. Even someone with a 2 element mutated soul like Olivier or Learmonth has their fighting strength at 10x, so you can imagine how much more powerful someone with a 3 or even 4 elements fused together would be.
With his mutated soul, Linley now has fighting power equal to or even slightly surpassing a Paragon, even with his limited understanding of the profound mysteries. The hole in his soul protecting Sovereign artifact is now fully healed as well and both Linley's material and soul attack and defense are completely perfect. The book ends on a satisfying note with Linley fighting against Magnus in a 1-1 duel between two Paragons, and even though he doesn't manage to kill Magnus, he overpowers him enough to push him into a spacial tear. He returns triumphantly back to the Netherworld and is finally united with his friends and family again! Plus Bebe finally gets to meet his parents for the first time :D
I'm excited to see what direction the author takes the last book! I'm sure we'll finally learn what Beirut has planned for Linley and why he values him so much that he even sent Bluefire to the Planar Battlefield to protect Linley. And also find out the mystery behind the broken down crown that Linley picked up from a spacial tear. It has to be a Sovereign artifact. Maybe Linley will become king of the Sovereigns by the end of the story??
August 14, 2019
A good book.
Ok this book was good and finally had the MC go to the utter peak of power in this world. The author surprised me and kept me wanting more. Overall it was good.
Ok this book was good and finally had the MC go to the utter peak of power in this world. The author surprised me and kept me wanting more. Overall it was good.
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!
January 11, 2024
Contrived, boring and bland
The realm for all dead people felt really contrived the same goes for the Orpheus-like story to get them back to life. The quest to kill heroes to revive his friends reminded me of cultists/necromancer stories..
The timing of the current planar wars is a bit too convenient - an event that happens every trillion of years just happens now? Really? The war itself is boring. Once again the protagonist gets saved again and again. The plot about the magical crown is way too arbitrary and forced...
The realm for all dead people felt really contrived the same goes for the Orpheus-like story to get them back to life. The quest to kill heroes to revive his friends reminded me of cultists/necromancer stories..
The timing of the current planar wars is a bit too convenient - an event that happens every trillion of years just happens now? Really? The war itself is boring. Once again the protagonist gets saved again and again. The plot about the magical crown is way too arbitrary and forced...
October 8, 2019
Even when he's so powerful, our main character has to rely on friends and known persons to travel through one of the more challenging spaces: The planar wars.
A different kind of book where, even when he's powerful, he faces enemies that have him running away, in a meatgrinder, hide and seek kind of battle where everybody is a high god, and some are even Paragons.
A different kind of book where, even when he's powerful, he faces enemies that have him running away, in a meatgrinder, hide and seek kind of battle where everybody is a high god, and some are even Paragons.
August 17, 2021
Much laughter in this book
I’m 7 books in and I love this series. The universe is spectacular and I love how the story is going -it’s funny how much main character laughs in joy, in humility, the laughter in rage as well as the cold snort… much laughter. On to book 8 this story has been such an adventure
I’m 7 books in and I love this series. The universe is spectacular and I love how the story is going -it’s funny how much main character laughs in joy, in humility, the laughter in rage as well as the cold snort… much laughter. On to book 8 this story has been such an adventure
May 26, 2020
Another excellent addition
Going back into the world of coiling dragon, I found another excellent and fantastic journey with adventure, terror, and heart pacing action. Another excellent addition to the series that any fan would enjoy.
Going back into the world of coiling dragon, I found another excellent and fantastic journey with adventure, terror, and heart pacing action. Another excellent addition to the series that any fan would enjoy.
May 2, 2021
Loved it
Even though I knew how the book would end. It was still worth reading and it actually made my seasonal allergies kick in a little bit. Really enjoy this series and will definitely keep reading it
Even though I knew how the book would end. It was still worth reading and it actually made my seasonal allergies kick in a little bit. Really enjoy this series and will definitely keep reading it
June 5, 2020
Actually the best part
January 3, 2021
Scope of novel's world on full display
August 3, 2019
Great concept. The planar war was really cool. I love how much progression is made during the war. The battles and fighting were really cool.
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