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.

did not care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you from? How did

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

tall building erected there now, the

were washing our sheets by

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

he just swam

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

but Father was too far out

spoke. “That’s

here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be

older spirit seemed to remember this as

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

she had drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

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

that he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the water,

did you kill that

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

glanced at her mother, before describing what had happened in the past

to sit by the river after arguing with

was alone, my mother and I

her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch as she

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

were the water

“This is boring. We should’ve brought

my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even

but her mother

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

her mother dragged Jane

with herself watching on, but ended

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