Following the release of Young Zhang Sanfeng, several other television series starring Li Boda began broadcasting one after another.
In these dramas, he played either extra roles or minor supporting characters.
Moreover, the frequency of triggering his Golden Finger in these shows was quite high.
Take Borden for example.
It was a pity, however, that Li Boda only played a bit part in this production. Even though he dreamed through the character's entire life, he merely acquired some basic knowledge about horse breeding and riding.
Still, this knowledge was bound to be of some use to Li Boda, more or less.
At the very least, with this knowledge, Li Boda wouldn't need to ask anyone for instruction; as long as he could get his hands on a horse, through gradual practice, he might just master a fairly decent riding skill.
As for the television series Smart Chaser, which also triggered his Golden Finger, it left Li Boda feeling deeply regretful.
In this show, Li Boda once again played nothing more than an extra.
Granted, there were many beautiful women in this series, but because he was just an extra whose character arc was already fixed, he had no chance to gallop wildly and test whether these women were as tender as they looked. Yet, as a man of noble character, Li Boda didn't care about such things at all! Not at all! Truly, not at all!
What genuinely filled Li Boda with regret was the fact that this drama featured an insanely powerful martial art—the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic!
This martial art was extraordinarily formidable. By cultivating just the first level, one could become an unrivaled master protected by an automatic defensive aura of internal energy, to say nothing of the higher levels.
And the crucial part was that the barrier to learning this martial art was remarkably low!
All one had to do was read the manual upside down to easily master it, thereby transforming into a super-powerful expert.
In Smart Chaser, this martial art was actually engraved right on the prison walls. Anyone who simply looked at the illustrations on the wall could effortlessly practice and master it.
Yet Li Boda's extra role in Smart Chaser happened to be a prison guard at that very jail!
That's right, a prison guard, with the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic displayed right in front of him.
Yet, he didn't practice it—or rather, he never even considered that stuff to be martial arts.
Then Li Boda's dream ended, and he woke up with some knowledge about finger-guessing drinking games in his head.
Therefore, in the depths of his heart, Li Boda felt truly, genuinely, supremely regretful.
Of course, the fact that those drawings on the prison wall were the supreme martial art of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic was something Li Boda only realized after watching the television series and learning that those things were martial arts manuals.
Back when Li Boda was playing that nameless extra, the production crew certainly wouldn't hand a script to a bit player like him, especially since the drama had no original novel.
So it was completely normal that Li Boda hadn't known those wall drawings were martial arts manuals beforehand.
Besides, even if he had known they were martial arts secrets, as a mere background extra, Li Boda would have had no way of smuggling the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic manual out with him.
During this period, television stations continuously broadcasted dramas in which he had played extras or small supporting roles.
His Golden Finger was triggered frequently as well.
To some extent, Li Boda had managed to summarize certain settings and rules regarding his Golden Finger.
First of all, for extra roles, he could only dream of the extra's life and had no power to change it. Moreover, the rewards yielded by extra roles were mostly quite low-level things, such as horsemanship, swordsmanship, or palm techniques—things that existed in reality, and even then, incomplete versions.
Just like the Hengshan Sword Technique he obtained the first time, Li Boda only received about sixty to seventy percent of the complete Hengshan Sword Technique.
On the other hand, if he played minor supporting roles, Li Boda gained a certain degree of agency within the dream, or rather, within the life of the supporting character.
In the dream, Li Boda felt as though his soul had transmigrated into the minor character he had played, allowing him to independently decide the character's future choices and trajectory.
However, the rewards he received after waking up from the dream were always based strictly on what the original character had experienced.
For instance, when he turned into Yu Daiyan in Young Zhang Sanfeng, he had been wildly daring—snatching Zhang Junbao's opportunity, learning the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic, and even mastering the Eight Forms of the Famous Sword with eight swords flying simultaneously, thereby preventing Zhang Junbao from creating Tai Chi and leaving this world without Tai Chi.
Yet, once he woke up from the dream, the reward he received was still the standard feedback for Tai Chi. There was no sign of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic, nor the Eight Forms of the Famous Sword—nothing at all.
The feedback from a minor supporting role strictly followed the broadcast of the television series. If the TV show depicted you becoming Zhang Junbao's disciple and learning Tai Chi, then no matter how brilliantly you performed in the dream—even if you didn't learn Tai Chi—the outcome in reality would not change by the slightest bit.
It was as if, because you were merely a minor supporting role, you had no right to alter anything.
Thus, if Li Boda wanted his character roles to yield better rewards, he had to play more significant roles.
As for whether playing a leading role would yield more and better rewards, and whether changes in the dream would affect the rewarded prizes, Li Boda simply didn't know, because he had never played a leading role.
Furthermore, regarding the triggering of the Golden Finger:
Li Boda discovered that any television series capable of triggering the Golden Finger shared traits of decent popularity, good ratings, and high evaluations.
As for the dramas that failed to trigger the Golden Finger, they either lacked the qualification to be broadcast on television, or they were broadcasted but suffered from abysmal ratings and poor reviews.
Therefore, if Li Boda wanted to trigger his Golden Finger, he had to seek out television series that could secure TV broadcast slots and achieve relatively good ratings and public praise.
Additionally, the rewards yielded by extra roles were mostly mediocre, and the non-mediocre ones were invariably incomplete.
The rewards from supporting roles were somewhat better than those from extras—for instance, a relatively complete Tai Chi and the like.
However, internal energy, internal breath, and other transcendent elements had yielded zero feedback to Li Boda up to this very point.
Li Boda suspected that unless he could star as the leading role, he could forget about receiving any feedback involving internal energy or breath.
Furthermore, Li Boda seemed to have discovered that his own understanding of the character during filming, his acting skill level, and his compatibility with the role would also influence the quality of the reward feedback.
Therefore, Li Boda's acting skills, his choice of character size, the completeness of the script, the viewership numbers of the TV series, and its public reputation all seemed to impact the triggering of his Golden Finger and the quality of the rewards.
Ultimately, Li Boda summed it all up in one conclusion: he needed to become an exceptional, skilled actor capable of performing brilliantly in hit productions. Only then could he reap greater benefits.