It wasn't that they didn't want to kill the Level 9 star beasts with a single strike, the way they did Level 8 star beasts.
The problem was that many Level 9 star beasts had already blurred the concept of a "fatal weakness."
Their weak spots were still weak spots.
But destroying them wouldn't kill the beasts outright. More often than not, it would only leave them gravely wounded.
Only by dealing enough damage in a short period of time
could they land a fatal blow before the life energy inside the beasts was completely depleted.
But for the Sky Peng Horizontal,
the difference between Level 9 and Level 8 star beasts
was simply that it took longer because the Four Symbols Origin Crystal could be fired fewer times.
Whether it was the counterattack of a Level 8 or Level 9 star beast,
when it landed on the Sky Peng Horizontal,
it could barely raise a ripple.
There was no denying it.
The unrelenting investment in the Sky Peng Horizontal's defenses over the years,
and, more importantly, acquiring and upgrading the Sky-Shield,
along with the benefits of integrating its Defense System,
had brought the Sky Peng Horizontal's defensive capabilities
to a level
far beyond what most people could imagine!
Wang Dong even wondered
whether a Kindling Warship, one level above a Star Destroyer,
could match the Sky Peng Horizontal's defensive capabilities.
That was a question in itself!
Based on the patterns they had observed before,
whenever they launched a large-scale hunt deep in the Weijing River,
the high-level star beasts within a certain radius
would sense the danger and flee deeper into the river.
And there had been a considerable gap between this hunt and the last one.
So they had encountered quite a few high-level star beasts.
After this