Do You Believe In Fate?
Fang Yuan enters a dream realm in his sovereign immortal aperture, where he is the rockman Tu Ji but cannot control him. He can only watch. Under the setting sun, Fairy Ruo Li asks whether he believes in fate. Tu Ji cultivates rule path and says he does, declaring her his fated partner and the one he will love all his life. Fairy Ruo Li smiles slightly, her brows furrowed a little, and accepts him, saying they are fated to be an immortal couple. After failing over three thousand times, Tu Ji trembles with excitement so intensely that rock fragments fall from his body. ch. 1618
Twelve years later, Tu Ji swears to do anything she wishes. Ruo Li asks him to kill an infant who was just born. She says the baby will become a Gu Venerable called Reckless Savage and that she will definitely die at his hands. Tu Ji vows to kill the infant, refusing to accept that a rank eight Gu Immortal cannot kill an infant. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan’s soul foundation keeps falling. ch. 1618
In the third scene, Tu Ji appears before Ruo Li heavily injured. She says he met his fated enemy on the way and that she deduced it the moment he was attacked. She did not help him, because this is fate’s arrangement and anyone who tries to change fate meets its punishment. Asked to stay and accompany her in her final moments, Tu Ji refuses and roars that he will stop believing in fate. ch. 1618
In the fourth scene, an earthly calamity makes the infant disappear. Tu Ji kills some mortals and, after a huge battle, a few righteous path immortals, and he becomes a major wanted criminal among the human Gu Immortals. Several years later, a tribulation of unsurpassed strength almost kills him. He hears that Ruo Li has finally deduced the infant’s location, but he falls unconscious after a few steps. He wakes to find her hair completely white from lost lifespan, and she says she can deduce it again. ch. 1618
A beast tide comes in the sixth scene. In the seventh, a failed deduction costs Ruo Li her youth, and she becomes an old lady whom Tu Ji still loves. Every chase fails: he captures the infant once and it escapes by an unexpected mishap, and three times he catches up but coincidences let it escape. The infant grows into a Gu Immortal. As the day of Ruo Li’s death nears, Tu Ji cultivates bitterly at any risk, while she vainly persuades him not to risk his life. ch. 1618
In the eighth scene, Tu Ji blocks the fatal attack with his body and counterattacks, forcing back the great enemy. On the verge of death in Ruo Li’s arms, he says joyfully that they have won against fate. She tells him that she cultivates wisdom path but never believed in fate. Having deduced her fated death and unwilling to die, she sought him out, though their marriage was no part of fate’s arrangements. She did not love him and only wanted to use him. Tu Ji answers in an extremely faint voice that he knew and is willing to be used, and his eyes close. ch. 1618
Ruo Li weeps loudly and says that she did not used to believe in fate, but now she does. Pure-white light from her body enters Tu Ji, restoring his aura while her body grows frail and illusory. He wakes and begs her to stop, but he has no strength left. She says her killer move cannot be stopped once activated, tells him she loves him, and fades, vanishing from the world. Tu Ji roars in anger and sorrow. ch. 1618
