"Could... he still be alive?!"
The giant bull had lost his lofty composure.
His eyes, glowing blue-green, stared fixedly into the abyss.
But after that faint noise, nothing else followed.
He listened carefully again, but detected no sign of life.
The gleam in the giant bull's eyes gradually faded, and he shook his head. "It seems I was so desperate that I started imagining things."
Sitting alone atop the devastated mountain ridge, the giant bull felt his disappointment deepen.
Crack-
Just as he sank into melancholy, another sound came from the abyss.
The giant bull was even more shocked. "It wasn't my imagination! He's really still alive?! But... how? I couldn't hear any breathing at all... could the dead have come back to life?!"
Crack, crack-
The noises grew more frequent and louder, until the giant bull finally sensed a trace of human activity. But it was so faint that he could hardly tell whether there was a living person or a tiny crawling insect in the abyss.
Disbelief filled the giant bull's face. "He really survived?! That's impossible. The force of the third-stage trial was far beyond what he could withstand!"
Thud-
Suddenly, there was a sound like a massive boulder being shoved over. Immediately afterward, the giant bull heard breathing from the abyss, as faint as the buzz of a mosquito.
The giant bull stared into the abyss, his blue-green pupils suddenly contracting. "He's still alive, even with injuries like those?!"
At the bottom of the abyss, a figure was slowly writhing and twitching.
It was just difficult to recognize it as a person.
Every bone in Qin Siyang's body had been crushed, and his organs had been flattened into pulp. Even his Crimson Armor had shattered into fragments. He could not have been in a worse state.