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 your names,

by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the city had just started building

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

weekend, Mother and I were

thought the sheet was too big for the washing machine

he just

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

was too far out in the river and didn’t

“That’s how Mother and I

we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She

remember this as well, her

daughter had died too. Her husband

had drowned along with

of talking. “I need to find him, I need to

Lilly was speechless

the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d

a bamboo pole and

you kill that

as there was no

mother, before describing what had happened in

to sit by the river after arguing with her

was alone, my mother and I got closer to

her asking where she was, and Jane said she was at the garden by

pursing her lips. “Jane’s mother was 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 the river and everything? Go on, jump and

Lilly asked, “And then?”

men could only watch as she

not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made

the water

mumbled, “This is boring.

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

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

we could feel sorry for others, but

mother

on,

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