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.

older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are

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

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

and I were washing

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

came too, but he just swam

fell into the water.

far

she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

drowning, we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not turning

older spirit seemed to remember this

died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred meters

had drowned along with her

talking. “I need

Lilly was speechless

we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that

a bamboo pole

frowned. “How did you kill that

Seeing as there was no use in doing

her mother, before describing what had happened in

to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on

was alone, my mother and I

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 do

Lilly asked, “And then?”

could only watch as she spoke to thin

see them… or ‘listen to

water spirits saying

mumbled, “This is boring. We

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

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

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

mother dragged Jane into the

with herself watching on, but ended up not

a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day.