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Bàn Long (Novel)
Panlong (Novel)
盘龙 (小说)

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v.21 c.44 (end) by Wuxiaworld over 8 years ago
v.21 c.43 by Wuxiaworld over 8 years ago
v.21 c.42 by Wuxiaworld over 8 years ago
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21 Volumes (Complete)

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Coiling Dragon  
by Ren Woxing
January 19th, 2015, 2:12pm
Rating: 10.0  / 10.0
This is the translation of 盘龙 Coiling Dragon, the second internet novel written by popular Chinese fantasy webnovelist I Eat Tomatoes, 我吃西红柿, with the first being 星辰变 Stellar Transformations. Although IET is not a particular good writer, he is an exceptional storyteller with an incredible imagination, which is why in China, his stories have been made into games, and the man himself has become a millionaire. This is one of his finer works; power creep is kept under control, the story is well-paced and interest, and the size and scope of the world is appropriately vast without seeming too empty. Overall, one of the best works by IET. I welcome everyone to come take a look!

This translating is currently hosted at wuxiaworld.com. I invite everyone to come check it out!

... Last updated on January 19th, 2015, 2:13pm
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its a light novel  
by paradoX
January 16th, 2015, 7:05am
Rating: N/A
Don't know about you, but I don't mind OP-esnessnessness if its done atleast in a semi-believable manner. That is, when happenings dont throw you out of the loop to wonder - where the hell did that come from.. The setting for Coiling Dragon is honestly well done.
Our MC comes from an ancient family of dragonblood warriors that is barely a shadow of what it used to be. Just that there explains his drive to get stronger and means of doing so.
The ring. Its name is the title of this novel. Is it supposed to have little impact upon the story? Hell no. Its supposed to have universe altering capabilities in some way! If it didn't, then this novel wouldn't be worth writing - not to mention reading.. Might aswell read about someone average doing average things. Everything "lucky" that happens later is either because of the ring or bloodline.

Pace of the story is incredible. It rarely delves very deep into anything, but because of that its snappy. Things actually happen in each chapter. Its pretty hard to stop reading. Wanted to wait and read when full volume is out.. Didnt work out haha.

This is a light novel. LIGHT. NOVEL. Please dont expect something else from it so you can enjoy it the way its meant to be enjoyed.

alphaGULP - have you ever gotten dumped in such a way? By your first love no less. He went bananas, but then processed it inside and outside of him int those 10 days. This is the only outcome possible. To be strictly civil with the person, and not involve emotions anymore. I Eat Tomatoes is throwing those situations into our face a bit too often, but the outcome as such is believable.

I cant wait to see where this ends up at. As soon as we found out about Haiden, this clearly became huge. Linley is very-very low strength wise, no matter what we read about. Those thousands of years it takes to progress into top levels arent easily cheated.

I am thoroughly entertained by this read. Odds are you are too.
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Fun but with major flaws  
by alphaGulp
January 13th, 2015, 11:35am
Rating: 5.0  / 10.0
The author is good at creating tense situations for the MC and cast, but there are some really annoying details that make it hard to read without feeling how ridiculous much of it is, in addition to how unlikable the MC is, quite frankly.

For one thing, the MC is ENORMOUSLY foolhardy (ie: dumb) and consequently he gets into such huge trouble that it is only through repeat deus (ex-machina) interventions that he survives even to adulthood.

The author also tries to falsely portray the MC as a genius, when in fact he only keeps winning due to being so lucky and so OP. Far from being a genius, the MC seems more like some poor autistic kid with limited social skills and shallow, thug-level political awareness and goals.

The imaginary combat arts are completely broken, since they increase in speed by orders of magnitude that constantly imply infinite speed in reaction from the protagonists, who somehow are hitting (and defending!) fairly early on with trillions of sword blows, with the imaginary arts frequently shifting from cosmic-scale annihilation back to human-scale kicks and punches (except that punch is a million, trillion times faster and power powerful than Mike Tyson's left hook - ORAAAAAA! Oh but the enemy had time to activate his magical defense so he took just 10% damage!!! OMG! The tension! What could be imagined next!?).

So the author makes up for his lack of many things by having constant advancement by the MC in his insane sequence of increasing to greater than a trillionxtrillionxtrillion times more than a human being could hope to do - this works out positively in that there is a constant feeling of advancement, even though in reality nothing has changed: the next enemies just all end up being in a one-order of magnitude increase in speed/power/defense so everything is essentially the same.

The problem though with this is that most of the items and people that the MC binds himself with (to form a big thuggish gang, nothing more) - these people and items end up losing ENORMOUSLY in value each time the MC powers up, since hardly any of them can keep up.

A greater problem though is that the MC is so soul-less. He has basically nothing in him other than training and fighting, but worse yet, he is also very callous. For example, once he reaches immortality, he stops caring for mortals and sees no problem with a system of constant artificial war to thin the masses.

So regular people living and dying miserably because they weren't born totally uber OP and lucky is of no concern to him, but his personal heartache is for reals, and his commitment to his gang-bros and hos is FOR REALS. Y'know what 'm sayin'?

Other than that, a very LONG part of the beginning is filled with insane punishment for a totally lame reason:

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The ridiculously lucky and OP teenage MC gets dumped by some dumb broad and you would not believe all the SHIT that happens to that poor girl afterwards to make her learn how, really, she should NEVER have dumped the MC/author/reader!

First the MC's best friend uses his immense financial power to wreck the jerk's ENTIRE clan's income, which forces the clan into contraband, which once discovered is used by the vile kingdom to extort 90% of the clan's wealth (the result of millennia of their hard work robbing and extorting from others!)...

But that's not enough! Nuooooo. After all that, when the poor jerk and his dumb bimbo gf are finally celebrating their wedding, the MC's 'cool' and uber-noble buddies all show up to make fun of her right in her face (at her own wedding!), and to then bear witness to the freak attack that occurs and obliterates not only the jerk but also his jerk father - *luckily* though all this happens before the bimbo gf was set to spread her legs on wedding night, so she's still pure!

So of course, the MC later shows up in the nick of time to once more literally save his ex-gf's life from the JAWS OF DEATH, only this time around, he's so cool and blasé that he doesn't even bother talking to her as he just takes care of business and then leaves - dude has 'grown up' and has more important things to worry about than some has-been 'ho, y'know!?

LOL. That'll learn her.

Oh? Did I mention that her cattiness and lack of judgement for value was also immortalized in a sculpture that EVERYONE agrees is amongst the top works of art of all time, worth hundreds of millions and with huge crowds forming and waiting for hours for just a few minutes' experience of the amazing 'art' highlighting the little pouf MC's momentary heartbreak!

As you can imagine, being such a focus of attention is so bad that the ex-gf is now a marked woman that is no longer socially 'good enough' to be considered a 'first wife' by any leading man, unlike before...

FWIW, my main problem with all this is that this poor girl basically did nothing more than dump the freaking MC - but even if she had done far worse, the clearly better strategic choice is to just re-adjust your unrealistic expectations, then MOVE ON (emotionally) while also excluding her from serious consideration henceforth. Seeing the MC get so bent out of shape about his poor little failed 'first love' is pathetic, especially considering how vapid the girl is.

The lamest thing though is that the MC ultimately does not have any better morals than the jerk - his only advantage over him is social, in that he later gets far more power and wealth. So I guess the LN serves as a cautionary tale for social climbers: pick well and be prepared to suffer, 'cos the space is full of self-absorbed manginas that dream of nothing but to inflict the most intense suffering (ie: the dearest lessons) onto those they 'love'!

LOL.


... Last updated on May 20th, 2015, 12:53pm
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Minor spoilers  
by thesshadowbow5678
January 12th, 2015, 7:53am
Rating: 6.0  / 10.0
This is in my 3rd favorite action novels i have read so far.
This story has some problems first this mc has unbelievable luck and other small things. And something i'm kinda pissed about but might happen he hasn't got a pet dragon or something like that.
Things i do like. I like bebe that mouse is fucking awesome but still be great if he got a dragon or something like that. Mc is hard-working and doesn't turn into someone with justice freak morals nor does he become a arrogant ass people might say he is too talented but he worked hard on those talents to come to the level he is now. Also like how it linley awhile to get close to bebe level. Also i cannot wait until linley reaches saint level in magus the worlds great but up to where am its only been alittle explored that makes it all the more exciting.

Overall i recommend reading it but hey its just my opinion someone could think that this is utter garabage but overall you fucking decide.

Edit, I forgot to mention the martial arts in this novel is good but it's not a in-depth martial arts like say The breaker where you have all these techniques, styles and stuff like that it'd probably be closer to sensei negima i'm not saying there aren't stuff like this they have martial arts schools they just Did not shown them. On the other hand magus has gotten a good explanation about all sorts of spells although so far he only uses 2 to 3 spells regularly which sucks most likely when he reaches higher there will be more. Also i just saw that this is shounen that is a kicker this really does not seem shounen at all maybe manga version but i don't think that suits it but whatever.

Edit 2, The characters in this series are mainly Linley, Bebe, Doehring Cowart that are devolped Delia has really no personality which i don't care because she doesn't have really no major role accept when shes about to die from poisoning. The only character that is really well flushed out is Alice I'll say that they really didn't have to do to much irony but well whatever and did she ever meet Linley after the events in either 6 or 7.

Edit 3, Completed the series enjoyed the ride that CD had to offer but i am disappointed little with the ending but hey it is hard to end a series with pleasing everyone.

... Last updated on April 3rd, 2015, 5:57pm
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his ring is too OP  
by cy316
January 7th, 2015, 7:09am
Rating: N/A
i just realised that
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His ring which supposedly allows him to use 1/6th of his spirit and mage powers to cast spells might be the reason why he was shown to have such amazing aptitude for magic in the first place. His teacher which is trapped in the ring have earth aptitude and this might be have conferred to him through the ring, he is probably supposed to have wind aptitude and the ring magnified it. resulting in his dual aptitude for magic. the saint level bear and the wyrm might have been fighting for days or even years being the powerhouse they are, it might be Linley's intrusion which prompts them to finish the fight so that they can deal with this intruder.
then everything might just make sense for him being so gifted and being in the right place at the right time.
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A Guilty Pleasure  
by bnad
January 7th, 2015, 3:55am
Rating: 6.5  / 10.0
Linley is a young sociopathic noble of a declining clan full of lazy ancestors. He has large aspirations to become so strong so his clan can produce more lazy nobles who sit around doing nothing.

Linley's journey begins with an accident when he discovers a super awesome deus ex machina ring. He took a liking to this ring, because, I mean, come on, it's my precioussss. Upon being injured during an unlikely battle between two powerful fighters in his small hometown, the day after another unlikely battle between another powerful fighters, he discovers that his ring is not what he thought it was (errr... obviously) and possesses powers to move the plot.

This is a Chinese psudo-Wuxia novel. This means it is a story about martial arts at its heart. Okay, not really. Actually, this is just a another fantasy story of a faux-genius MC with a talent for getting lucky by being at the right place at right time, every single time. Because, well... who needs Chekov's gun and solid plot?

But here's the thing, looking back, even after aforementioned flaws, it was still an enjoyable read.

I honestly didn't see that coming.

Btw, if this novel is in your top 3 favorite novel, you might wanna try reading more than 3 novel.

... Last updated on January 13th, 2015, 5:56pm
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fantastic fantasy story  
by dharmox
December 23rd, 2014, 2:56am
Rating: 10.0  / 10.0
The Author is i eat tomatoes. The translator is nick name ren wo xing @spcnet.tv . The story about young guy linley who gain a 3 magic affinity which has wind and earth magic is extraordinary, and fire is only average. He also have warrior inheritance whic his great great grandfather was a dragon warrior. This story is great, suspense with fantastic fantasy world in it. And also i eat tomatoes has a lot of his work becoming the greatest mmorpg in china. So i suggest to you all read it. It is fantastic pieces of work.
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This story is good  
by archknight
December 22nd, 2014, 11:15pm
Rating: 10.0  / 10.0
Sorry I suck at writing summaries, if someone can provide one on here it would be great.
This is the same author as the one who wrote Stellar transformation https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=117226

MC is the hard working cunning type that gets all the girls wants. super genius in his school and he power up faster than everyone else his age. goes on near-death adventures and have fun with his bros when he is back.

the first few chapter was a little slow but than it picks up and every chapter becomes a cliffhanger making you want to know what happens

there romance in volume 4

... Last updated on December 22nd, 2014, 11:21pm
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