After graduating from middle school, Tsai came to Taipei with a classmate to seek his fortune. His classmate was put to work delivering goods for a paper factory. As the paper factory had business dealings with a comic book publisher, Tsai made use of the connection and began to draft up illustrations for the comics.
國中畢業後，和同學到台北「闖天下」，同學受聘到紙廠送貨，該紙廠與漫畫出版公司有生意往來，蔡百峻順勢展開畫漫畫稿的工作。