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.

to the younger

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

riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the old

and I were washing our sheets

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

he just swam

been washing the sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie ran to help

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

spoke. “That’s

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

remember

had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred meters away, her daughter

had drowned along

the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill him! What were his ears

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone home, and went back as

came out with a bamboo pole and fished

you

older spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there

what had happened

herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on

and I got

her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said she was

She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with

Lilly asked, “And then?”

could only watch as she

terrifying to see these spirits, but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made

were the water spirits saying to

boring. We should’ve

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

kill Jane, but her

sorry for others, but no one’s going

mother dragged

with herself watching on, but ended

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