The moment had come.
Both the snake and the tortoise were beginning to show significant changes to their body. The colors on the brown snake had grown darker, inching closer to becoming black.
The same was true of the tortoise, its shell losing its barely visible spots, and the gray getting much darker than before. Its hide grew quite thick as well.
Their bodies grew since they had entered and improved their bloodline, so their body and soul were no longer similar enough for them to remain as one.
The body did what it had to. It trembled violently, wounds appearing all around, trying to change to match the soul, while the soul too changed on the inside to match the body.
Only the difference had grown far too much and far too fast for any of that to work. The unity that existed between a body and soul had also ended up degrading as a result, so their cultivation didn't help at all.
At this point, unless Alex helped them, they would die.
