Little Bad King really did want to make something "human" of himself, enter the third-rank realm as soon as possible, and reach the transformation stage. But he also felt that simply cultivating without some stakes to motivate him would leave him a little shortchanged.
So he had a flash of inspiration: he would hold an ascetic cultivation competition on Yaoguang Peak to see "who reaches third grade first." He called on everyone to contribute five hundred thousand star source to a prize pool, which would ultimately reward the top three.
To be fair, Little Bad King's prestige and influence were beyond question. Apart from the Buddha’s Son, who could handle both Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenix, everyone on Yaoguang Peak decisively expressed the same position—not participating, not paying, and keep talking about it and we're through.
Seeing his competition plan fall through, Little Bad King figured that even a mosquito had meat on it and immediately decided to compete against the Buddha’s Son alone. The latter first proposed that if he reached the transformation stage first, Little Bad King would owe him ten of his best Potent Little Pills.
Considering that the other fellow was a broke bastard who surely didn't have a single bit of star source in his pockets, Little Bad King cleverly proposed that if he won, the Buddha's Son would have to acknowledge him as his big brother for a hundred years...
After hearing each other's terms, both fools felt certain that something was wrong with the other's head. Each thought he had landed an incredible bargain, and so... the wager took effect, and the competition began.
In life, people actually encountered many places "you know you'll leave someday, but have to stay in for now." School was like that, and so was work; putting