I never said I would run from him. I said I’d just focus on reaching Nascent Soul. If I need to fight Ruo to achieve that, I would, but if not, why would I waste time and take unnecessary risks for something that doesn’t offer a reward that’s worth it?
Fighting only makes you waste Qi, either by using regeneration or skills, depending on how you build your MC. Most of the time, fighting only weakens the MC. It’s slightly different now that you don’t need Qi to raise stat limits, so the XP gained from fights is a bit more worthwhile, but aside from a little extra XP, fighting just drains your resources, making you spend gold on the hospital or Qi on regeneration if you don’t want to go limping from one battle to the next.
I get more XP buying artifacts than from fighting, so why would I go looking for a fight? Especially if they aren’t to the death, considering they don’t even give Qi.