Launching this attack,
Lin Xuankong was, of course, acting in self-defense.
After all, the five Cat Tribe Source Beasts had clearly targeted everyone inside the armored bus first!
His other reason
was what Han Liu and Han Bao had discussed—the Cat Tribe Source Beasts were extremely powerful, but killing them came with a high chance of obtaining Source Beast Crystals!
There was no way Lin Xuankong could remain unmoved by that!
The Elemental Gene Warrior path possessed formidable abilities, and in battle it could practically crush all Gene Warriors and Source Beasts of the same tier. Only a small number of Gene Warriors with powerful manifestations could compare! Yet activating the abilities of the elemental gene path consumed far too much!
Even though Lin Xuankong had already cultivated the Ice Blade Technique to perfection, and its consumption was far lower than that of Elemental Gene Warriors of the same tier, he still could not sustain it for long. The source energy gained from training twenty-four hours a day could only maintain it for several dozen seconds at most!
Under such circumstances, the only way to maintain his combat power was to get more Source Beast Crystals!
And this battle had not disappointed Lin Xuankong.
Killing five Cat Tribe Source Beasts close to the Ninth Tier limit had yielded a full three Source Beast Crystals!
Three Source Beast Crystals might not sound like much, but even Deputy Captain You Rui, already a mid-Eighth Tier lifeform, only had three in her possession. Those three were her entire fortune!
Deputy Captain You Rui might have obtained more than three Source Beast Crystals before, and perhaps she had used the ones she acquired along the way. But no matter what, after roaming Stone City for nearly two years, she could indeed only produce three