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.

saying. She turned to the younger

hesitated, before her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That

There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to be

Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

was too big for the washing machine to clean,

he just swam

when she fell into the water. Roxie ran

far out in the river and didn’t hear

“That’s how Mother and I

refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not

spirit seemed to remember this as

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

she had drowned along

I hate it!” the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to

Lilly was speechless

quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone home, and went back as

out with a bamboo pole and fished around

“How did you kill that

spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so,

at her mother, before describing what

came to sit by the river after arguing

I got closer to try to lure her

at her asking where she was, and Jane said

mother was really angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think you’re scaring, going down to the river and everything?

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only watch as she spoke

to see these spirits, but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left

water spirits

is boring.

I understood how she felt. She couldn’t

hadn’t wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to

others, but no one’s going to

her mother

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up

mother only came looking for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls