At present, Lin Qing obtained around 180 to 200 Soul Shards every day.
After several months of saving, along with the occasional rewards from intervening along the way, he had more than seventy-six thousand Soul Shards at his disposal.
If he used them all on regular pulls, considering that the cost of raising one from Level 1 to Level 5 was 7,400 Soul Shards, he could get seven fully built five-star Stands, plus several four-star Stands.
That said, Lin Qing had no intention of using his resources that way.
"At least fifty thousand Soul Shards have to be kept in reserve."
It was not because Lin Qing had grown used to hoarding like a squirrel, unwilling to spend even with a great enemy looming. This decision was based on two reasons:
First, most five-star Stands were genuinely not that helpful to Lin Qing.
From a purely rational perspective, even Civil War—the Stand he was about to pull—would not have been worth pulling if not for his need to revive Whitesnake, and for the fact that Whitesnake was exceptionally suited to dealing with enemies like the Otsutsuki, who possessed overwhelming defenses and vitality.
Lin Qing would not even have pulled Civil War.
Its limitations and vulnerabilities were simply too great.
Especially since using it would occupy one Stand slot, which would instead affect Lin Qing's effective output.
For example, during the same thirty seconds of high-intensity combat, "using a six-star Stand for twenty seconds and a five-star Stand for ten seconds" would inevitably be more destructive than "using a five-star and a six-star Stand for fifteen seconds each."
Of course, even a mosquito was still meat. Raising a batch of five-star Stands and relying solely on their first-meeting kill effects to cause trouble for Momoshiki, Isshiki, and the others before seizing