It has to be said that Pei Yun's performance was far beyond their expectations. If what Pei Yun's team had said before was true, the person in front of them had just dealt with a powerful vengeful spirit, yet he was still able to heal his teammates as if nothing had happened, which showed his strength.

Some people present are now beginning to believe that this team has indeed completed the trial mission of the previous "gate".

After a while, Pei Yun finally put his hand down. Fu Lingchen and the other three opened their eyes and felt much better. At least they were no longer so hungry. At this time, only their group remained in the main hall on the first floor. The others began to choose their rooms.

According to the housekeeper, each of them could choose any room to stay temporarily. The housekeeper's last sentence, "The room is your sanctuary," aroused everyone's vigilance. In addition, the medium "Paper" that Xu Wei found was also found in a room. So now the other teams are carefully searching for the medium again, inside and outside each room.

“Let’s go, let’s search these bedrooms too…” Pei Yun said.

Time passed slowly, and Pei Yun and the other four found a lipstick in the fifth bedroom. The lipstick contained a faint trace of resentment, and their eyes lit up. Although they didn't know which painting the lipstick corresponded to, they at least had a clue.

Just as the five teams were scattered and investigating, the grandfather clock in the main hall struck a heavy "clang," a sound that seemed like a death knell striking everyone's heart.

The next second, all the lights in the villa, including the crystal chandelier in the main hall and the wall lamps in the corridor, went out at the same time, plunging the villa into complete darkness, while not a single ray of moonlight shone in from outside.

"what happened?"

“It’s midnight.” Pei Yun’s divine sense probed the grandfather clock on the first floor.

As she finished speaking, a chilling wind swept over everyone present, and the shivering feeling in their hearts rose up again uncontrollably.

“Paint! Paint…” A participant who was close to the painting suddenly shouted. At the same time, he immediately took a few steps back and set up a defensive barrier in an attempt to block the vengeful spirits emerging from the painting.

At this moment, hundreds of paintings in the villa's corridors have become distorted, with a black vortex appearing on their surfaces. From the vortex, vengeful spirits emerge, carrying immense resentment as they rush towards the five teams...

These vengeful spirits, with their狰狞 (zhengning - ferocious) faces, roamed wildly throughout the villa, their resentment soaring to the heavens, even stronger than the resentment emanating from the dagger Pei Yun had just pulled out...

"Attack!" The crowd's eyes widened. Upon seeing the scene before them, they forgot their shock and began to unleash their spells. In the next moment, magic filled the villa, bursting forth with dazzling light...

"Get behind me!"

Pei Yun knew that Fu Lingchen and the other three had not fully recovered yet. She took out the golden key around her neck, infused it with spiritual power, and sure enough, the golden light emitted by the key easily repelled the approach of these vengeful spirits.

The other four stayed close to Pei Yun. Although the golden light could not completely cover the five of them, it made dealing with the vengeful spirits much easier.

"No, there are just too many vengeful spirits, and their resentment is extremely strong. How can we possibly withstand so many vengeful spirits with only one-tenth of our strength..."

“Why don’t we try destroying the painting…” one of them suggested, but they soon discovered that the closer they got to the painting, the deeper the resentment became.

As soon as someone touched the painting, they were instantly sucked into it and never moved again.

"Zhang Jian!" This person was a member of Wu Ziwei's team. Wu Ziwei desperately shouted while resisting the attacks of the vengeful spirits, but the person who was sucked into the painting never responded again.

"What should we do?!"

As time passed, many of the people present had exhausted most of their spiritual energy, but the number of vengeful spirits did not seem to have decreased much.

At this moment, Pei Yun and his group of five attracted a lot of attention. It should be said that the golden key around Pei Yun's neck attracted everyone's attention. Almost everyone noticed the golden key, and their envy was evident on their faces.

Pei Yun's treasure is perfect for this situation. Now, the five of them have the fewest vengeful spirits around them, and some people are secretly plotting to head towards Pei Yun, hoping to benefit from his influence.

Pei Yun's expression darkened slightly as she saw many people approaching her. If she could protect these people, she wouldn't mind letting them come closer. However, it was clear that the golden light emanating from the golden key couldn't even protect their own team, let alone so many people on the scene. By doing this, they would only attract the vengeful spirits and create a situation where they would be surrounded. It was simply a lose-lose situation.

Pei Yun said, "Have you all forgotten that the steward said the rooms are our sanctuary? Why don't we try hiding in the rooms first?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's spirits lifted, and they quickly found the nearest room and hid inside.

Pei Yun originally wanted the five of them to hide in one room together, but she found that it wouldn't work. In the daytime, so many people could enter one room, but now only one person could enter one room.

"Each of you find a room to hide in, close the door, and don't come out," Pei Yun immediately said.

"And what about you?" Fu Lingchen asked, seeing that she didn't seem to be heading back to her room immediately.

"Do you remember what the butler said today? Don't leave the villa after midnight. I want to see what happens if you leave!"

Pei Yun acted immediately, escorting the four people to their rooms one by one. Now, apart from Pei Yun, all twenty-four others had entered their rooms and closed the doors.

As expected, these vengeful spirits continued to wander in the villa's corridors, unable to enter the rooms. They gradually gathered around Pei Yun, but Pei Yun was surrounded by golden light, which they feared and dared not approach. They could only hiss softly at Pei Yun...

Ignoring the vengeful spirits around him, Pei Yun calmly walked down the stairs and arrived at the villa's door.

"Huh?!" She realized she couldn't open the villa door. After thinking for a moment, she swung a sword aura at the door, but the villa door remained completely undamaged.

Pei Yun attacked the French windows next to her again, but it still had no effect. She took a chair from the main hall and smashed it directly at the French windows and the door, but she still couldn't break it.

Helpless, Pei Yun had no choice but to give up leaving the villa. However, she didn't immediately go into the room. Instead, she went to the painting that had sucked people in. The black vortex in the center of the painting was still there. She hesitated for a moment, then slowly raised her hand and put it into the vortex...

The moment she touched it, it was as if an immense force suddenly grabbed her hand, trying to pull her into the painting.

Pei Yun's heart tightened. She mobilized all the spiritual power in her body and desperately tried to pull her hand back. After a lot of pulling, she finally managed to pull her hand back. There was a black mark on her wrist, leaving a trace of resentment. However, under the golden light, the mark quickly faded and disappeared.

Pei Yun took a breath, and just then, a small figure appeared in the dark corridor filled with resentment. This figure was also a vengeful spirit, but unlike other vengeful spirits, her face was not visible. Instead, she looked like a little girl: "Sister, can you play with me?"

The girl in front of him was clearly innocent and cute. She even tilted her head and smiled at Pei Yun, but Pei Yun felt inexplicably uneasy.

Pei Yun frowned, his probing gaze fixed on the girl before him. After a long pause, he said, "Okay."

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