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.

saying. She turned to the younger

her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank.

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

I were washing our

was too big for the washing machine to clean,

came too, but he

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

too far out in the river and

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother

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

to remember this as

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

drowned along

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

Lilly was speechless

“Because we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t

pole and

did you kill that

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

what had happened in

to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with

and I

at her asking where she was, and Jane said

‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think you’re scaring,

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch as

to see them… or ‘listen to

the water

“This is boring. We should’ve

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

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother

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

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

watching on,

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