Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Edward and Jean were in a state of shock, their jaws agape.

They stared at Lilly’s bold provoking, listening to her ask for a fight.

Then she chanted some prayers, and attacked using a fart… and it worked!

Before they could return to their senses, she had thrown out the jar of souls and shouted “Come on!”…

They couldn’t see much more after that. After all, the water spirits had been drawn out already.

The harem spirit herself was quite confused too.

She had gone into this like any other battle, and was holding down a resentful spirit when the one next to it fell to her knees and began begging for forgiveness for her mother. What was going on?

Lilly clapped her hands, impressed. “You’re amazing, Auntie Harem!”

The harem spirit blinked. “Who’s this…”

The younger spirit continued to kneel, sobbing as she begged. “Mother and I are sorry, we won’t do anything bad anymore. Please let us go, please…”

Lilly shook her head. “Do you know how many lives you’ve taken?”

The young spirit’s eyes flickered. “Just, just seven or eight…”

Lilly frowned. The word ‘just’ for seven or eight lives was hardly appropriate

The resentful spirit being held down by the harem spirit spoke up in a hoarse whisper, “Roxie, don’t beg her…”

“It’s our bad luck that we were caught this time…”

The spirit glowered at Lilly, furious that she had lost.

She had only needed one more innocent soul… just one more!

And she would become a malignant spirit, leaving this river forever.

She had drowned tens of thousands of times in this river! It was too much to bear, and she began to usurp other spirits so she could leave sooner.

Only for everything to fall apart.

the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you

her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the

at the riverbank. There was a tall building

were

the washing machine to clean, that’s why

came too, but he

the water. Roxie ran to help

screamed for help, but Father was too far

spoke. “That’s how Mother and

water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him

seemed to remember

she had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred meters away, her daughter could have

she had drowned along with

talking. “I need to find him,

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us.

bamboo pole and fished around the

you kill that girl

at the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing

describing what

the river

she was alone, my mother and I got closer to try

calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and

see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only

them… or ‘listen

what were the water spirits saying

“This is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her…

her mother told

could feel sorry for others, but no one’s going to

mother dragged Jane into

with herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

couldn’t find her after searching