The piano music came without warning.
It was not a modern tune, with no stirring drumbeats and no complex chords.
It was a pure, flowing sorrow.
The moment the music began, the lingering humiliation and rage on Gao Tianliang's face abruptly froze.
An overwhelming despair, suffocating in its sheer magnitude, erupted from the music hall stage and swept through the entire corridor!
This was neither a physical impact nor an energy-based suppression.
It was a contamination that struck directly at the very source of the soul.
"Argh!"
Liu Min, at the rear of the group, was the first to break.
She let out a pained wail, her eyes instantly losing focus as her whole body crumpled to the floor like her bones had been pulled out.
A deep terror, as though facing the end of the world, appeared on her face, as if she had witnessed the tragedy she had most dreaded throughout her life.
"Liu Min!"
Lin Zhuo cried out and immediately formed a hand seal. A cluster of orange-red flames ignited at her fingertips as she tried to shield her mind with the fire of pure yang.
Yet the moment the flames appeared, the all-pervading piano music seeped into them.
The firelight flickered violently, waxing and waning like a candle in the wind, ready to go out at any moment.
Her own face turned deathly pale, cold sweat streaming down her forehead.
"Steady your minds! This is a Quasi B-Class mental attack!"
Shen Bingyue's voice was like an ice spike, viciously piercing everyone's consciousness.
She reacted the fastest. Frost erupted around her, and a layer of ice crystals as thin as cicada wings instantly covered her skin.
[Ice Heart Art]!
The Shen Family of Ice City's secret mental cultivation method, capable of isolating one from inner demons and