Veil

"You're… you're going to get taken away?" the snake asked Senior Yang, unsure how to process this information.

"I probably will," Senior Yang said. "I have only so long before they realize that I am here. I will be taken away now, and given that I lost most of their treasures, I have my doubts whether I will survive henceforth or not."

"Senior!" the snake spoke, hearing the pessimistic tone in the man's voice. 

"No need to worry I suppose," senior Yang said. "It was always coming. I was only wrong to hope that I would get to ride someone's Immortality out of here. I suppose I'm going back the normal way."

The snake worried. He wanted to use the talisman, which was meant to call for his clan to take him away in case of life and death urgency, to send the senior away and hide him. 

However, it was the Tortoise that had held onto it. So he couldn't do anything.