The Golden Finger Arrives
In the original story, there were roughly three reasons the Shrek Academy Team had been able to defeat the Star Luo Royal Academy Team.
First was Tang San's protagonist halo;
second, the emotional bond between the original owner of this body and Zhu Zhuqing had deepened in a crisis, causing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger, to evolve and grow stronger;
third, the Shrek Seven Devils included exceptionally talented and highly dependable teammates like Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong.
But even so,
the battle between the Shrek Academy Team and the Star Luo Royal Academy Team had been a grueling struggle, and their final victory had been a narrow and costly one.
Luck had played no small part in it.
If it happened again,
he honestly couldn't guarantee another victory.
Especially now that he had transmigrated here-even if he didn't deliberately disrupt the plot, the flapping of his butterfly wings as a transmigrator...
He had no doubt that many things in the future would change because of him, creating countless uncertainties.
Moreover, among the Shrek Seven Devils,
Tang San, a fellow transmigrator, was deep and calculating.
On top of that, he was a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Hao's son.
The enmity between Tang San and Spirit Hall was bound to expose those connected to him to more dangers, filling the prospects and fates of those around him with even more uncertainty.
Dai Mubai didn't dare place too much faith in the original plot.
Nor did he dare pin his hopes of changing his fate on someone else.
He preferred to rely on himself rather than others.
For now, he could set aside the other dangers and crises he would face in the future, as well as the trouble Tang San might bring him.
But the life-and-death duel between the Star Luo Imperial Family's heirs to the throne hung over his head like a sharp sword.
This was an obstacle he had to find a way to overcome.
At the future Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament,
the Shrek Academy Team he led had to defeat the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, which included his older brother, Dai Weisi.
In the original story, at the time of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament,
every member of the Star Luo Royal Team was a Soul Ancestor above level 40.
Zhu Zhuyun, the older sister of his fiancée Zhu Zhuqing, had reached level 47 in Soul Power;
his older brother Dai Weisi's Soul Power Level had reached level 49, the very peak of the Soul Ancestor realm.
He was only one step away from becoming a level 50 Soul King, and he wasn't much weaker than the Golden Generation of the Spirit Hall Academy Team.
Dai Mubai wasn't particularly fixated on leading the Shrek Academy Team to the championship at the future Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
Winning the championship would naturally be best. After all, the prize for that year's Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament was three precious Soul Bones.
If they didn't win the championship, he could accept coming second or third, or even failing to place at all.
But he had to make it to the finals and defeat the Star Luo Royal Academy Team his older brother belonged to.
If he failed, what awaited him was death, or the loss of his cultivation and lifelong confinement.
To achieve that goal without pinning his hopes on Tang San, relying instead more on himself,
he had to work hard to improve his strength-
by the time of the future Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, his Soul Power cultivation had to surpass his older brother Dai Weisi's, reaching the level of a level 50 Soul King.
Only if his Soul Power cultivation reached the Soul King realm by that point
would he have the greatest chance of defeating his older brother Dai Weisi and winning the Star Luo Imperial Family's contest for the throne, and only then would it be the safest course.
I'm thirteen now. I'll be fifteen when Tang San and the others arrive two years from now, and the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament takes place another two years after that.
By then, I'll have just about turned eighteen, which is precisely when the Star Luo Imperial Family's heirs to the throne hold their life-and-death duel.
The Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament just happens to fall at that time, making it the perfect arena for my duel with my older brother.
In short, there are only a little over four years until the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament and my life-and-death duel with Dai Weisi. You could say I don't have much time left-
Right now, my Soul Power Level is only twenty-seven, and I'm still just a Soul Grandmaster. Over the next four years and change, I have to raise my Soul Power cultivation another twenty-three levels to become a level fifty Soul King.
That's quite a challenge. Under normal circumstances, you could even call it impossible.
No wonder the original owner gave up on himself. With only four years left to live, he naturally wanted to enjoy himself in the time he had left.
That was what Dai Mubai thought to himself.
Still, although raising his Soul Power cultivation by twenty-three levels in a little over four years sounded like a tale from the Arabian Nights,
he wasn't frightened by the goal.
In the original story, the original owner had managed to cultivate his Soul Power to level 43 by the time of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament four years later.
As long as he started working hard sooner and put in more effort than the original owner over the next four years and change,
and made fuller use of a series of fortuitous opportunities,
it wasn't necessarily impossible for his Soul Power Level to break through to the level 50 Soul King realm by the time of the future Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
Especially since this body has considerable cultivation talent, and at my current age, cultivation is at its fastest and most efficient, and Soul Power cultivation rises the quickest.
As long as I work hard enough to outdo everyone else, I still have a chance of success.
Dai Mubai silently encouraged himself.
But just as he was thinking this,
suddenly,
an indifferent, mechanical voice rang out in his mind.
[Ding! System binding successful. Activating and starting up...]
"Huh?? A sys... system!! So I have a golden finger too?!"
Hearing the voice in his mind, Dai Mubai's face lit up with shock and wild joy.
"They say a system golden finger is a must-have for transmigrators. Sure enough, the transmigrator seniors in the web novels I read before didn't lie to me."
Raising his Soul Power cultivation by twenty-three levels in four years to reach the Soul King realm-
even if he worked hard enough and made full use of opportunities like the Immortal Herbs and other treasures of heaven and earth in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well-
would be fraught with difficulty.
Now he had a system golden finger, though he didn't yet know what kind of system it was.
But with a golden finger system, achieving his goal of gaining twenty-three levels in four years would definitely be much less difficult, far easier than it would be without a golden finger to help him.
At that thought, the delight in Dai Mubai's eyes grew even stronger.
He immediately asked the system in his mind, What kind of system are you? Tell me your functions and what you do.
As you command, host~
This system is called the "Favorability System," and its function is very simple.
As long as a target's favorability toward the host reaches a certain level, the host can obtain a treasure chest. Opening it will grant various random rewards related to the target.
At 80% favorability, you can obtain a Common Treasure Chest. At 100% favorability, you can obtain an Ultimate Treasure Chest.
Besides that, the host can use the system to view his own information and a target's favorability toward him. This system also comes with a system storage space.