Lin Yi paid no mind to what the Jinling City Settlement's high-ranking officials might think.
At that moment, he stood motionless at the edge of the rooftop of an abandoned high-rise. More than a dozen Little Steel Beads, their surfaces flickering with fine golden-red arcs of lightning, hovered slowly around him, poised to strike.
After landing on the rooftop, he had already spread his soul power like an invisible net, precisely sensing every powerful energy source in the area.
The targets whose energy readings fluctuated around five thousand points stood out clearly, like beacons in the dark.
"Next."
Lin Yi's thoughts stirred.
At his will, the golden-red lightning on the surface of a Little Steel Bead beside him began to whirl faster. In an instant, the two forces merged, turning into a deep black bolt of lightning that coiled around it.
The next moment, the black light flashed, and the Little Steel Bead vanished.
Almost simultaneously, through his soul sense, a blazing energy source several kilometers away abruptly went out, like a flame snuffed between two fingers.
He had settled on this strategy on his way here.
A Large Nest produced Abyss Beasts worth 125,000 points of Source Energy each day. That sounded terrifying, but converted into elite units of this five-thousand-point caliber, it amounted to only twenty-five beasts.
Killing higher-level Abyss Beasts would make too much of a commotion and risk provoking a swarm of Leader Rank Abyss Beasts. Dealing with that would be troublesome.
Lower-level Abyss Beasts, on the other hand, would make the process too inefficient. Beasts around the five-thousand-point mark were just right.
Besides, these Abyss Beasts were numerous and powerful. They were the key force behind the Nest's expansion and posed a genuine threat to the settlement's defenses.
"As for how efficiently I can clear