Long Chen shook his head. “It might be hard to hear, but I’m not going to skirt around it. I’m unable to understand why your senior experts all look like… shoehorns that gained sentience. They all look like they have a permanent scowl on their donkey faces. If they weren’t with you, I really would have trouble believing they also came from the Illusive Music Immortal Palace.”

“What do you mean, sentient shoehorns? They… that really is rude.” Zi Yan glared at Long Chen. “Although they look fierce, that’s because they’ve fought against invaders several times. They’ve killed so many of them that they accumulated darker auras. If they used the Music Dao to suppress those auras, it would suppress their realms...