Boom!

The stone wall collapsed with a boom, and a beam of light entered Xia Lei’s field of vision. Then, a breeze blew past his cheeks. There was a small cavern behind the stone wall, about 50 metres long. The light and wind were coming from the cavern’s entrance.

This cavern looked like a reinforced doghole.

Xia Lei smiled wryly and braced himself as he climbed in. Climbing into this doghole was bound to be better than turning back. He didn’t want to return to that maze ever again.

Xia Lei crawled for a full thirty minutes before he got to the mouth of the cavern.

An ancient church sat underneath the precipice at the mouth of the cavern. It was very similar to the church that Ning Jing had drawn. The only differences were that it seemed shabbier and more decayed from the vicissitudes of time. Other than that, it was exactly the same as the church that the old man had described.

Xia Lei realised that he had actually passed through the mountain through the maze, and gotten to the other side of the mountain. The church was right in the valley of the mountain, and there was a village further away, with seemingly...