This was, of course, the outcome Li Yan wanted to see.
Thus, he usually struck in the wilderness, where it was also easier to lay an ambush. His opponents would have no chance to escape and expose the possibility that a cultivator was using illusions to kill.
Of the three times he had nearly been killed in return, one opponent had been at the late Golden Core Realm, while the other two had both been at the False Nascent Soul stage.
When dealing with cultivators at the middle Golden Core Realm and above, Li Yan mostly relied on ambushes to kill his opponents. That was his specialty.
Among those three, the one who had surprised Li Yan most was the late Golden Core Realm cultivator. He had belonged to the Three-Eyed Divine Ape clan, whose third eye possessed an innate talent for breaking illusions.
After encountering Li Yan's illusion, that cultivator had actually seen through it in merely one and a half breaths. Li Yan had only learned this after performing a Soul Search once the man had collapsed from poison, weak and helpless.
After seeing through the illusion, the Three-Eyed Divine Ape did not reveal it immediately. Instead, he continued pretending to be immersed within it, unable to extricate himself, putting on all manner of displays.
When Li Yan slowly approached to observe him, the Three-Eyed Divine Ape finally found his chance and instantly unleashed his magic treasure, striking out with a fatal blow.
Even though Li Yan had been prepared, he had still misjudged the situation. Had his body not been so powerful, that strike would have shattered his flesh.
When a Golden Core cultivator's magic treasure struck his body directly, even with Li Yan's formidable physique, his internal organs suffered tremendous shock. He was injured on the