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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.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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First, he got divine artifact hidden in his own house for years by luck. The grandpa in the ring coincidentally was a magus with the same attribute as MC so he taught MC magic. Then he stumbled upon OP magical beast in his backyard and make it his. Not only the grandpa in the ring helped him progress in Magic. He also taught MC sculpting skill so that MC could conveniently earn both Money and progress in his magus rank even faster. He luckily find herb for awakening his bloodline while training in the magical beast mountain. Not long after, he encountered a 9th rank dragon which he needed its blood to awakening his bloodline. That dragon was coincidentally dying due to injury from the fight with another monster. Making him able to consume its blood. He even got lucky to accidentally consume its magic core. At the same cave he found the dragon, he tr*shed around to test his new power only to accidentally find the hidden magic formation above the cave ceiling which have another divine sword for him to conveniently stole it for his own use.
But I can endure some badly written novel.
I got a lot of time to read and have read a lot of titles.
This is to let you know that I got a lot to compare with against this novel. And what I can tell about this novel is, that this is what fantasy and cultivation is about.
Read along as MC cultivates and surpass the known to the unknown and becomes a legend. Goal-driven. All I can say about the works of IET is that each Main character he develops has a goal.
Not many has a goal as high as IET's Trilogy (?) (Coiling, Stellar, DE (?)) Anyway, My point is this. If you have not read IET's works yet. Try some. You might find it to your liking. Just keep in mind that this is a road to eternity, so lacking some worldly affairs are understandable, You put yourself in their shoes and understand that as the time goes by, some things are really not that important.
Recommended Read. Decent but overall mediocre with a weak ending. At least it's complete, unlike most of the works on NU. Starts off great, but apparently even the author himself lost track of various plot points halfway through, ass pulling ideas that contradict/negate previous points, & completely tosses characters aside, while following his bullet-pointed ideas. Examples of ass pulls/neglected ideas include:
1) The Warrior & Mage paths. Mage path completely forgotten. Anyone noteworthy is basically a warrior & no mage can become a deity without using the weaker/detrimental path of fusing sparks (All known mages end up fusing sparks, dying, or remaining saints). Which is ret*rded since everyone keeps spouting how Mages of the same level are generally STRONGER than the same level warrior..... then Deities happen and no mage exist up there because everyone realizes how useless they are.... thus began the Xianxia phase. Author tries to have that hidden village bring some face back to mages.... except that fails once you realize the prime example mage who spars MC got wrecked & lost his pet in the Tomb of the Gods.... only for MC to beat the same Tomb by relying on his warrior might in the dumbest way. (The whole point of mages is that they're better at fighting large groups, MC is swamped by large groups, realizes he can't spam forbidden spells fast enough so his warrior side gets strong enough to..... somehow slash through his enemies faster than his forbidden spells can kill them.
2) MC cast: Basically it's just Linley. (Even Bebe and Wharton become side characters)
Everyone else only have three things to do:
A) To sit around and gasp/cheer in amazement every time MC makes a breakthrough.
B) To get into some trouble to give the MC a reason to go somewhere & hamfistedly save the day. Rinse and repeat.
C) To trick the MC into some trouble which just ends up powering up the MC.
2) Magic/Spells: Apparently nobody realizes that spells are just simplified versions of "profound mysteries." For gods sake, like a dozen spells have the same effect & name as profound mystery. "Super gravity field" "Absolute zero" "Dimensional slash" "That Golem everyone forgets" etc.... how did nobody make the connections? Profound mysteries seem like they're ridiculously easy to grasp based on the spells. Just study the damn spells & save yourself a few thousand years. It takes the MC nearly 800 chapters to figure this out even though he had a hint of it when developing his cutting wind power in the Tomb hundreds of chapters earlier. No wonder only the MC and a few others master more than 1-2 diety clones.
3) The sparks/power levels/power creep: The whole buildup about Highgod MC being able to sense that "deeper layer of sovereign might" was completely discarded since MC went ahead and fused with sovereign sparks. Wtf, he had no trouble going deeper and deeper with his own understanding all the way to highlord status, why is there a vague/inexplicable blockade in going from natural Highgod to Sovereign? Even worse, they explicitly state that the sovereign sparks don't have any profound mystery so one can instantly fuse it..... except right afterwards MC starts receiving massive amounts of profound mystery anyways..... from where? Why?
Author gives half-baked reason why it's so bad to fuse sparks. Wouldn't fusing make you understand profound mysteries faster? Gives an excuse about "trees growing crooked". Pift, knowledge is knowledge. Would've made more sense if doing so made you go slightly insane or caused something which cripples your potential. (But I guess that wouldn't be good for MC's wife).
4) Fate Power: Likewise, completely glossed over then converted into basically the same thing as "soul power". Trumped up as some sort of healing essence & may have slight manipulative powers. Fine, it gives a reason why some people might want to harvest soul power (And also why a reason for the radiant/light sect to be as douchy as they are.) But turns out nobody really needs to actively harvest them to begin with.... But then later is only good for boosting comprehension like soul power does. Could've been used to explain Sovereign Light's healing factor (& therefore motivation in harvesting so much fate power & souls) but nah..... it's just a technique which allows him to do that. Wut?
5) The planes: 4 higher planes and 7 smaller planes! Yeah, most of them aren't even seen. Even when Cesar's wuv goes to the Life plane nobody goes there. The only important planes are the infernal plane, netherplane, & the MC's dinky material plane.
6) MC's naivety/growing s*upidity: Even after thousands of years, MC never figures out that he could solve most of his problems by..... asking a question or two & instead takes things at face value (Like his Mom situation, wtf whatshisface is clearly evil could've just asked another neutral sovereign for advice. Sovereign Fate doesn't count, he clearly wanted your blood collection). First explained away as MC having a lie detector (via spiritual sense) but that stops working in the higher realms. Then explained handwaved away by Bebe's animal instincts. Except Bebe stops helping out in that way..... Basically ends up making everything seem like MC is Forest Gump & just stumbling into massive amounts of luck/fortune where his opponents plots all just serve to power him up.
8) Derp Mcguffins/Equipment: Worst offender: the Coiling Dragon ring that just keeps getting stronger and stronger. Keep in mind it's "only" a sovereign artifact yet no other sovereign artifact has such a medley of ridiculous powers. It can store souls (Grandpa Doehring), increase magic efficiency (only costs 1/6 the cost), magical storage/lifesupport system (blood drops & sovereign mights that auto heal/activate near death), can defend against soul attacks, and can even easily consume souls..... how did such a "lower" sovereign even craft two of these broken artifact and die with them?
Second worst offender: The magi-cannon. Apparently as strong as a rank 8 magus. Came out of nowhere right after the MC just happens to find the biggest mine of elemental crystals, only one to use it just happens to be the MC. Supposedly the Radiant church had some but they were swamped before they could use it.... supposedly... Wut. Surprise, surprise there are no mages involved in the mook wars at all, just knights and magi-cannons. (Refer to point #1)
9) The antagonists: Many of them aren't even a threat or introduced then resolved in a silly way. Such as the Clayde & his brother, the radiant church dudes, sovereigns, etc. Most of them are only a threat because the MC is such a moron and decides to pull a Leeroy Jenkins while the heavens lines everything up for him. For example: Going after the church without knowing.... basically any combat skills and only relying on his dragonform causing Grandpa to die. Like holy crap, you do realize you're primarily a mage, right? Only needed to wait like 5 years and you could've steamrolled the king & his brother on your own? Hell, even a dead saint nearly killed them off yet MC was rekt by them. Or that purgatory commander guy that rekt MC & tried to soulseed MC but stopped just because he uses Gem-Gem's technique. Really? You couldn't make a simple divine sense phone call? MC s*upidity should've ended the story right there. And the sovereign fruit snake/tree. Good think Bebe unknowingly just straight up mu*dered the snake so MC didn't accidentally become an emissary. Derp. Then there's the big bads (Sovereign light & fate) MC just happens to hire a Balu emissary which lets him know all about the big bad. Wut.
For an instance, at the beginning the skills of the mages were described so greatly, I thought for sure Linley would use some awesome skills like the world protector, but in the end, none of that happened.
He did not become an Overgod and a new concept was introduced to a rushed ending; he became more than the edicts itself.
Linley had children, but we hardly got to see Linley, as a father, interact with them. Before we knew it, Linley’s children grew up to be boxes or exceedingly bulky men, the time skips went for Bebe’s child as well, whom they were there for (why was that part skipped). Same went for his little brother, male characters in general seems to be very bulky. I’m surprised the children did not resent him for not being there most of the time; ten years time he cultivates.
Coiling Dragon was a great novel and it's mainly about the story of a boy from a small town growing up, overcoming tribulations and rising up to become the most powerful of them all.
I loved reading it and hope anyone interested would try it out.
Thank you RWX.