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.

younger spirit named

said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when

at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there

Mother and I were washing our sheets by

washing machine to clean,

but he

washing the sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie ran to

Father was too far out in the

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

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

to remember this as well, her

daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a

she had drowned along with

older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need

Lilly was speechless

held us down,

with a bamboo pole and fished around

did you kill that girl

spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there

mother, before describing what had happened in the

to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

she was alone, my mother and I got closer to

where she was, and

short, pursing her lips. “Jane’s mother was really angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten

Lilly asked, “And then?”

men could only watch

being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’

water spirits saying

mumbled, “This is boring.

and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before

Jane, but her mother told her

sorry for others, but no

hesitated, her mother dragged

herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into the