Apparently, the reason Bai Jingshen had taken such a long time to get his hands on a core was because he wanted to get one that was as near to perfect as possible. For that reason, he had used his connections to find one of the elders in the family who still held the core of one of their children that had died very early on.
According to Bai Jingshen, the White Tiger that this core belonged to had such a strong bloodline that he could have been considered a 2nd generation White Tiger by today's criteria. That meant having a bloodline strong enough to belong to the Patriarch's offspring, or Bai Jingshen's grandparent.
Alex couldn't help but stare at Bai Jingshen with his face agape. Had the tiger really taken this long just so he could get his hands on one of the best White Tiger beast cores out there? And worse than that, he was willing to let it die?
