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 younger spirit named Roxie.

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

pointed at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected

Mother and I were washing our sheets

thought the sheet was too big for the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went

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when she fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her,

far out

spoke. “That’s how Mother

here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She

remember this as well, her

that she had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had

had drowned along

I hate it!” the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking.

Lilly was speechless

and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find

came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the

you kill that

words. Seeing as there was no use

glanced at her mother, before describing what had

to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing

my mother and I got closer to

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

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?”

to her, the four men could only watch

able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left

were the water spirits saying

“This is boring.

She

to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to feel too

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

she hesitated, her mother dragged

on,

for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another