Shenyan scowled deeply and looked at the other party carefully with discerning eyes and finally concluded that the other party was definitely a monster with some intelligence and that there was no need to fight it like he would with a human.
He should not give it a chance to retaliate as much as possible; He simply needed to go all out and kill it before it realized what was going on.
After finally breaking through to the next realm of cultivation, he was very confident about his current range of abilities and if used right he might be able to obtain victory with less damage to himself.
However, that was only possible if he manages to seize the right opportunity during combat and use those techniques and abilities appropriately.