"Hehehe... Fellow Daoist, you want to know who I am? Then I'll tell you—I come from the Tianli Clan!"
The stunned expression on "Yang Youxian's" face vanished in an instant, and even his voice had changed into one utterly unfamiliar to Venerable Bihai.
The difficulty in ambushing a Nascent Soul cultivator like Venerable Bihai lay in how to approach him, how to leave him completely unguarded, and how to precisely control the dosage of poison.
Thus, the most troublesome part was the process, not the truly fatal strike.
Every cultivator had hidden trump cards for preserving their life. The divine abilities and secret arts of Nascent Soul cultivators were even more impossible to predict, and Li Yan could not foresee a desperate counterattack at death's door.
Li Yan had come to kill, but he had no intention of dying because of his own carelessness.
As long as he killed any one of their Nascent Soul cultivators, the Tianli Clan's initial goal of revenge would be achieved. It would also let the Qionglin Sect learn the Tianli Clan's methods, leaving them to sit on pins and needles in the future and stripping them of the capital to confront the Sea-Breaking Beasts.
But Li Yan could not kill him here. After poisoning him into collapse, he wanted to take him out of the Qionglin Sect. Better yet, he could capture him alive and offer him as a living sacrifice.
It was not that Li Yan was cruel. A person like this had certainly left behind something akin to a soul lamp within the sect. The moment Li Yan made his move here, the Qionglin Sect would know, and it would become difficult for him to get out.
Li Yan always planned before acting. Even after deciding to eliminate someone, he would consider