After the sect leader and the formation were gone, everything else was easy. Some of the members tried to run away and some just wanted to fight to the death, the team gave whatever they wanted. They killed the people who sought death and they just let the people who wanted to escape without any pursuit.
After they escaped, they gathered some information from the dead soul about how to enter.
Sam was quite surprised by this.
There is an underground river that passes through the area under the city. The Tundra Sect dug a hole and created a lake connecting to this river in their backyard and used a formation from which the water wouldn't be able to enter the city.
The exit is also somewhat similar, but instead of a lake, the underground river was directed even deeper and in the downwards direction to make a waterfall.
Between this bend of the river after which it turns into the waterfall, there is a formation that filters all kinds of spiritual imprints and stuff on the golems before letting them enter the sect.
And since the current of the underground river is extremely cold and fierce, even the elders wouldn't dare to go there normally.
They would use ice elemental fusion and then fuse with their golems before jumping.
Sam finally understood how they are traveling and he also learned that the sculptor blade was inside the sect itself. The thing is nobody can wield it yet and it is a mere decoration in the sect by now.
It was said that the blade's spirit is extremely stubborn and wouldn't even be let stored into the storage unless someone worthy wields it and according to the sect's tradition the worth of the person was not decided by a simple spirit battle with the spirit of the weapon, rather a sculpting challenge. The blade should approve of the final result.
Sam didn't care much about how unique the blade is. He is going to leave it for the gods to take and exchange it for resources. If it really doesn't enter the divine dimension, then he will just immediately exchange it for resources.
But before that, he needs to enter the sect.
Sam sent Night ghost to deal with the Deacon of the external branch before proceeding towards the path that he marked with the small liquid energy cells.
He and the team stood far away before he took out the tokens and destroyed all of them.
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A series of explosions occurred in a blink of an eye.
Actually, Sam made this to be a contingency plan in case things go wrong, but now they came in handy.
After the explosions which eliminated a lot of ice and rocks covering the ground, the underground river gave out some large high pressured streams.
Only after the final explosion did everything calm down and the high pressured and high-speed current turned a bit mellower as the current expanded a bit.
Sam took out a breathing device and said to his team.
"I will check it a bit and then call you."
After that, he dove into the water as swan deeper to search for the entrance.
It is actually pretty easy, from the information he got, at the point of the entrance, half of the river will split into two before going through the entrance as a water wall, so the water movement will lead him to it and it did.
But when he reached the entrance, Sam was shocked.
For the sect members who entered secretly, it is impossible for them to see what he saw now.
Because, the light couldn't penetrate the underground river and since they would be in the middle of it completely and the pressure is also high, the only thing they care about it is entering.
But Sam could see it, from what he could see, there is a membrane in front of him and it is not an ordinary membrane it has rich spatial energy inside it.
Sam placed his hand through it.
He could see the faint spatial fluctuations happening through it.
He swam back upwards and took a few more breathing devices, gave them to his teammates, and dove back inside with them.
All of them passed through the spatial membrane and they felt like they were falling down through a waterfall.
They fell into the lake created by the waterfall and came out. Since the tundra sect is so sure that their secured location was not seen by anyone, they didn't place any guards here. But there are still some people meditating near the waterfall.
Before they could react, Sia and Gran knocked them out one by one.
Sam looked at the whole scene and was very surprised. His shock was way beyond what his teammates could imagine.
Because he felt the feeling of entering a membrane, like this before. This place which looked like any other ice field that spanned a very large area is giving him a familiar feeling and that feeling was not because of the familiarity in the appearance, but rather in the familiarity of the atmosphere.
This place is a divine dimension.
Sam never thought that he would enter a divine dimension this early in his journey. Even though the Astral Plane cultivators are powerful, they are still far beyond acquiring the divine dimension like this.
The divine dimension is obviously not as high quality as the one Sam had and it is definitely not as versatile and vast as the one Sam had.
But this is definitely a divine dimension, but the access of the dimension is a bit different than Sam's.
The team separated and they started exploring the place.
There is a large ice structure that seemed like the main base of the sect. Night Ghost who finished of the external deacon joined them together as he came following the stream and Sam entered the ice structure along with him. Inside there are some elders who are still discussing the situation and when they heard the commotion outside, they were stunned by the two unfamiliar faces.
They were about to yell, but Night Ghost's aura made them admit defeat instantly.
After that Sam walked in and said.
"I don't have anything against you, I don't care to kill you all. Escape now and don't look back while you leave. I am only here for the sculptor blade."
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Just as the information they got suggested, the blade didn't let Sam hold it, Sam just smiled and tried to force it into a spatial ring, it didn't budge.
Sam wanted to try a different method, so he asked the shadow sword which is the oldest spirit he knew, and the spirit of the Lightning saber to give him suggestions.
After following their instructions, Sam managed to put the spirit to sleep and managed to carry it around.
Even though he could have traded here, it would take some time and he doesn't want to waste so much time, he would much rather just carry it around a bit. Anyway, the sculptor blade is small and could fit in on his body without any trouble.
After that, they ransacked the whole dimension and stored all kinds of resources.
Turned out the main source of ice elemental energy for the sect is not the spirit stones rather, the waterfall. The underground river carries rich frost essence with great purity. It is just a bit diluted with water.
Once they managed to process it, they would be able to use it for their own development.
After that, Sam came back into the stream and tried to look for the container of the divine dimension. Just like the blue crystal on Sam's hands, there should be a container for every divine dimension as long as it is separated from the user who created it.
There is bound to be a container.
But for that Sam had to approach the membrane from the other side.
He came out and started digging the ground from the other side and finally found an ice crystal.
He immediately signed a blood contract with it and the space membrane was closed instantly.
This divine dimension not only holds the riches of the sect, but also the legacy of their ancestors. This is a bountiful harvest.
As for talking with Hel, he decided to give that a break and go back to the city first.
He is going to modify the tower a bit and he is going to do that in an eye-catching way.
He let some of the external members of the sect give out the news that he and his team are the reason for the destruction of the Tundra Sect and some of the elders who wanted to stay even after the blade was gone and continue the sect in a smaller scale, legitimized the information.
Sam took this chance given by the fear caused to the people and started modifying the tower as he wished.