A few days passed since Sam let Night Ghost leave the mission for the heirloom of the Tundra Sect.

At this moment, the Tundra sect leader and the elders along with all the external branch members are searching in the mountain regions and its vicinities in which Sam and his team disappeared.

And Sam and the team are currently watching their helpless and fruitless search on a screen as they camped on different mountain which exactly in the opposite direction of the mountain they disappeared on.

As soon as they entered the mountain region, Sam used the dimensional drifted to quickly transport everyone out of that mountain region to the mountain they are currently staying in.

After they came here, he slowly released small bird puppets everywhere that established a temporary network to see what is happening in the mountain region and how the Tundra sect is searching for him.

From the occasional discussions they had and particularly the one the small bird puppets managed to eavesdrop on, he realized that the leader of the sect is actively participating in the search.

He couldn't help but feel a bit surprised, but he didn't change his plans that much.

At this moment, he is looking at the leader who is having a meeting with some of the core disciples in a cave and in the dark corner of the cave, there is a rotten corpse of a beast inside which one of the bird puppets is currently giving a live feed to Sam.

"What do you guys think about all of this?" He asked the core disciples.

The disciples looked at each other and nobody wanted to answer first.

Seeing them like this, he sighed and said.

"I think we are being played by the other party. From the looks of it, they are clearly not in this mountain region, but they appeared here and disappeared into thin air. I think they deliberately lured us into this complex range of mountains to divert us."

When the sect leader said this, some of them had a regretful expression, they thought the same too, but they couldn't bring themselves to say it out loud. The sect leader continued without minding their expression.

"If that is true, then what could their goal be? Are they really after our blade or are they just trying to find the location of our sect for the fun of it? Or are they trying to play us because we are always hidden and they wanted to give us the taste of our own medicine?

When the core disciples heard this, they started discussing their ideas since they lost of the first because of their timid reaction.

While Sam saw this, he couldn't help but raise a brow and changed the screen to a different live feed.

This one is actually given to him by the shadow mice he left back in the city. Since most of the external branch is busy, they are not that vigilant, there are not many people to keep a tight security, so he let the shadow mice fix some surveillance devices here and there to get a proper look at what is happening there.

And his main focus is on the backyard of the external branch from which the primary target disappeared.

After checking different angles and making sure that all corners are covered, Sam selected the tundra sect on the wrist screen.

A few minutes after he did that, Hel arrived at the Ice statue in the hidden temple of the Tundra Sect. The attendants who were assigned to manage the temple saw it and the word went to the sect leader in no time.

The sect leader widened his eyes in disbelief as he immediately used his golem to rapidly go to the external branch.

He directly went to the backyard and Sam is looking at the scene with utmost concentration.

He looked as the sect leader jumped into the lake along with his golem. Sam was stunned when he saw this. He did have some expectations regarding this and thought that lake might be somehow related to the hidden route, but he couldn't think of. After