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 spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and

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

building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to

Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

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

came too, but he just swam in

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

far

“That’s how Mother and

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

older spirit seemed to remember this as

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

she had drowned along

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

Lilly was speechless

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

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

“How did you kill that

as there was

her mother, before describing what had

the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

was alone, my mother and I got closer to try to lure

her asking where she was, and Jane said she was

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 don’t come

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only

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

what were the water spirits saying to

mumbled, “This is boring. We

continued to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother

Jane, but her

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

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane into

on, but ended up not stopping

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