BEAST FORM

"HE'S dying?" Luo Yan exclaimed unbelievingly.

"One might look at it that way," the leader answered all mysteriously.

Luo Yan almost rolled his eyes at the vague talk.  Seriously, he didn't even look like a mysterious old man with no otherworldly desires.  Those should be the only ones allowed vague talk.  Well, at least he looked like a hermit.  That would probably do. 

"Can the Leader explain it more profoundly?" he still said politely.  He almost added, 'because if you don't talk quickly, that guy would probably be dead by the time we got there'.

"The light in the lamp represents the life of the person it was connected to.  If they were alive and well, the light would be very bright.  If they were dying, the light should be very weak.  But as you can see, the light in this lamp is flickering.  Which meant that there's something that's taking his life force slowly.  And its ember would soon die down."