Although he had mentally rehearsed how to face a demigod's true body, when he truly faced, no, merely saw it from afar, the overwhelming pressure shattered most of his confidence.
The reason why he still retained a sliver of confidence was that the concentrated lethal poison in his hand was indeed formidable, and he had Jade Abyss City as a shield.
Without either of these elements, he would never have conceived such a risky idea.
As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold, and there are many in this world who venture through fire and water for the sake of profit.
A certain thinker once said that fifty percent profit would tempt most capitalists to take risks; with a hundred percent, they would dare to trample all human laws; and with three hundred percent, they would risk the noose.
Moreover, the profit that Lin Xiao sought to grab was not merely three hundred percent but ten times, even a hundred times that, enough to risk the loss of a large part of his clan for it.