Chapter 57: Settling Accounts After the Harvest
She used Earth Escape to travel back along the route she had come, emerging into the original mining tunnel. Jiang Yuebai discovered that most of the surrounding tunnels were abandoned, littered with broken bamboo baskets, piled stones, and even some skeletal remains—no living souls in sight. Over these years, she had explored downward from the other side of the valley but had never ventured to this area. In the tunnel that once bore Ye Lianyi’s mark, the leaf symbols on the stone walls had been chiseled away, and the spirit stone deposits had been completely excavated. "Who's there?" A noise came from behind. Jiang Yuebai turned to see a figure holding a torch, peering cautiously. She narrowed her eyes and smiled. "Peng Sanyang, do you still recognize me?" Peng Sanyang, now much older and covered in grime, couldn’t make out Jiang Yuebai’s face clearly. He raised his torch to illuminate her features. Once he saw her clearly, he froze for a moment before his expr...