Placing bets

"By the way senior Yen Xu, was the corpse of their daughter collected?" asked Yang Qing.

He made sure to use voiceless incantation as he posed the question. Regardless of how he felt about the two obsidian serpents, he had to at least pay some modicum of respect and care to their loss which was why he opted to ask the question covertly.

"We didn't. They most likely ate her as their way of honoring her last rites. Why?"

"It's what the male obsidian serpent said, the way he said it. He seems to think he implicated his daughter, but why would he think that not unless she was also exhibiting the same signs of evolution, same as him?