The city lord is looking at the blasted city gate and a bunch of broken corpses along with the few Black Curtain members who are struggling with severe injuries as they are being healed by the healers the city lord brought.

The whole scene left people stunned and even nauseated.

At first the City lord really didn't want to bother with the whole fight. Even though initially he helped the Black curtain members a bit and gave them freedom to deal with the matter and let them use some of the city guards if they needed, when the first team was hung on the city gate and the second team arrived, he realized that he is currently in the middle of two powers that he couldn't mess with.

So, he decided to take a step back and let them duke it out all they want so that he could at peace.

But this time, he has to get involved, because the two explosions one at the inn and the other at the city gate are too eye catching and too powerful for him to ignore. Now the whole city is living in fear and he has to make a move and show them that he cared and he is capable enough to handle the mess for them to be at peace.

That is why, he started investigating the things himself. Luckily he managed to get some of the information from the spatial rings of a few dead bodies of the group 2 sent by the Black Curtain. They seemed to be recording everything step by step to create a detailed report.

The information he got was that there are a few people who arrived at the inn and one of them placed a mission on a fellow member of their group and the Black curtain failed again and again to deal with them and finally when they tried to use the cursed inn, things backfired and everyone died.

As for the information regarding the investigation of the second group, very little was left. He couldn't find out anything relating to that.

He could only think of investigating from here, but he didn't have many hopes of it. All he could do is make the elders and all the powerful people under him to start looking around the city and the forests surrounding it to avoid another mishap. Any suspected individual is being arrested instantly.

But the rest of the Black curtain members particularly the three that went out to follow the investigation route of the group 1 managed to find some clues.

It turned out there is a way for the Black Curtain members particularly those that are under the Leader 3 have their own method of leading their members for the clues. Sam failed to observe this or might have never even bothered with this even if he has seen as it as he was so focused on the tracker, but the group 1 left some marks on the trees, rocks and on the ground as they followed the route completely.

Only when the three members of the group three managed to reach the first location did Sam understand about this.

After not finding anything at the collapsed inn, those three also decided to join this group. So, now six late stage transcendent cultivators in red cloaks are trying to track Sam and his group down. They are obviously not as fast as the tracker, in fact nowhere near. So, Sam has enough time to make a plan and this time after he saw how they are handling things, he wanted two of them be captured and the remaining four can be killed.

So, they started setting up traps for one after another in the path to the second hideout.

First trap is within a small rocky path they would come across.

Sam went there and for the first time in a while he made a golem. But the golem is not that sophisticated neither does it have some impeccable work put on it, it is the most basic and crude. He then placed a medium liquid energy cell inside and left it there.

When the group of six reached there, the golem which is lying in the middle of the rocks opened its large mouth and bit on the leg of one of them.

As he was struggling the group stopped by the sudden streak,