History Literature / WayOfChoices

* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler: Against all opposition and threats to make him change his mind, the Pope revealed that he appointed Chen as his successor only because he wanted to. Nothing more.]]

* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler: Against all opposition and threats, the Pope revealed that he appointed Chen as his successor only because he wanted to. Nothing more.]]

* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler: Against all opposition, the real reason the Pope appointed Chen as his successor was because he wanted to. Nothing more.]]

* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler: Chen was finally healed after ]][[spoiler: the Empress sacrificed her life to heal him, plainly because she wanted to.]]

* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler: Chen was finally healed after [[spoiler: the Empress sacrificed her life to heal him, plainly because she wanted to.]]]]

* TooAwesomeToUse: The Thousand Li Button can only be used once to teleport anyone to anywhere. Because of its rarity, most people who own one would rather die than use it to escape danger.

* BadassBookworm: Chen is one of only three people alive who have read all 3,000 Scrolls of the Way, a vast collection of the history and philosophy of cultivation. As such, he breezes through even the hardest of written examinations, and his bookishness and intelligence are frequently commented upon.

* LargeHam: Su Li, at every opportunity possible.

* ChewingTheScenery: Su Li, at every opportunity possible.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Mei Lisha, the only Orthodoxy elder to genuinely care about Chen's well-being, was the first to die.]]

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Mei Lisha, the only one among the elders to genuinely care about Chen's well-being, was the first to die.]]

Fourteen years later, (Ten in the
Novel) Chen is gathering herbs on the mountainside when he begins exuding a strange odor that causes all the wildlife to raise a ruckus, and makes his brother disciple, Yu Fen's mouth water. Daoist Ji diagnoses these symptoms as a fated certain death when Chen turns nineteen,(Fourteen in the novel) something no medicine can help with. His only options for survival are to either change his fate (supposed to be impossible, at least three people have done it anyways but aren't around to explain how) or to ascend (cultivate) through at least five stages of enlightenment and become a divine being beyond both death and fate (at least theoretically possible, but the wisest and purest still take centuries to achieve this, and his chi meridians are too messed up to believe there's any real hope.) within five years.

So he sets out to do just that, attempting to purify himself towards divinity while pursuing knowledge on how to change fate.

The story has also been adapted into a live-action TV show, called Fighter of the Destiny. There is no complete translation available, but you can read up to chapter 104 in English [[http://gravitytales.com/novel/way-of-choices here,]] 105-191 [[http://shiroyukitranslations.com/ztj/?lcp_page1=2#lcp_instance_1 here]] and 192-281 [[http://gravitytales.com/novel/way-of-choices here]]

Fourteen years later, Chen is gathering herbs on the mountainside when he begins exuding a strange odor that causes all the wildlife to raise a ruckus, and makes his brother disciple, Yu Fen's mouth water. Daoist Ji diagnoses these symptoms as a fated certain death when Chen turns nineteen, something no medicine can help with. His only options for survival are to either change his fate (supposed to be impossible, at least three people have done it anyways but aren't around to explain how) or to ascend (cultivate) through at least five stages of enlightenment and become a divine being beyond both death and fate (at least theoretically possible, but the wisest and purest still take centuries to achieve this, and his chi meridians are too messed up to believe there's any real hope.) within five years.

* AnimalMotif: The Phoenix for Xu Yourong, the Dragon for Qiu Shan Jun, the cicada for Chen.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Both the book and the show have a dragon in the opening chapter/episode. In the book, the golden dragon who tries to eat baby Chen, in the show, a black frost dragon that attacks the Capital. In the book this event was a background legend.

* HealingHands: It may be easier to list the characters who ''don't'' display healing powers at some point. Quite literally when Chen massages illness out of Luoluo.

* HealingHands: It may be easier to list the characters who ''don't'' display healing powers at some point. Quite literally when Chen literally massages illness out of Luoluo.
* InsufferableGenius: Tang 36.

A golden dragon descends from the heavens to consume a most delicious smelling infant floating in a basket, before being driven off by Daoist Ji, a wise healer and hermit. Daoist Ji adopts the baby boy as his disciple, naming him Chen Chang Shang.

Fourteen years later, Chen is gathering herbs on the mountainside when he begins exuding a strange odor that causes all the wildlife to raise a ruckus, and makes his brother disciple, Yu Fen's mouth water. Daoist Ji diagnoses these symptoms as a fated certain death when Chen turns nineteen, something no medicine can help with. His only options for survival are to either change his fate (supposed to be impossible, at least three people have done it anyways but aren't around to explain how) or to ascend 9cultivate) through at least five stages of enlightenment and become a divine being beyond both death and fate (at least theoretically possible, but the wisest and purest still take centuries to achieve this, and his chi meridians are too messed up to believe there's any real hope.) within five years.

* MeaningfulName: 'Chang Shang' is Chinese for "live long." Pretty on-the-nose for someone who has to go on an epic quest to escape an early death.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Yao Fei Beastmen are people who can take the shape of animals at will, or possibly animals who can take the shape of people.

-> ''To pick is to choose. This is a story about choices. Three thousand world full of gods and demons, with a scroll in hand you are able to control the entire universe...

Fourteen years later, Chen is gathering herbs on the mountainside when he begins exuding a strange odor that causes all the wildlife to raise a ruckus, and makes his brother disciple, Yu Fen's mouth water. Daoist Ji diagnoses these symptoms as a fated certain death when Chen turns nineteen, something no medicine can help with. His only options for survival are to either change his fate (supposed to be impossible, at least three people have done it anyways but aren't around to explain how) or to ascend the five stages of enlightenment and become a divine being beyond both death and fate (at least theoretically possible, but the wisest and purest still take centuries to achieve this) within five years.

* TricksterMentor: Daoist Ji has definite shades of this in the show.

The story has also been adapted into a live-action TV show, called Fighter of the Destiny. There is no complete translation available, but you can read up to chapter 104 [[http://gravitytales.com/novel/way-of-choices here,]] 105-191 [[http://shiroyukitranslations.com/ztj/?lcp_page1=2#lcp_instance_1 here]] and 192-281 [[http://gravitytales.com/novel/way-of-choices here]]

Way of Choices (Ze Tian Ji) is a ''massive'' (1251 chapters!) Chinese WebSerial xianxia/xuahhuan novel. It has sometimes been called "Chinese [[Anime/DragonBallZ DBZ.]]"