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 from?

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

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

Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

too big for the washing

but he just

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

screamed for help, but Father was too far out in the river and didn’t

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and I

angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a

older spirit seemed to remember this as well,

her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been

drowned along with

of talking.

Lilly was speechless

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

out with a bamboo pole and fished around the water,

did you kill that girl

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

mother, before describing what had happened in

sit by the river after

was alone, my mother and I got closer

heard her calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said she was at the garden

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

her, the four men could only watch

see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made

water spirits saying to

“This is boring.

how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt by the

but her mother told her not

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

her mother dragged Jane into

on,

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