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.

about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and

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

tall building erected there now, the old houses

weekend, Mother and I were washing

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

came too, but he just

into the water. Roxie ran

too far out in the river and didn’t

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and I

drowning, we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a

spirit seemed to remember this as

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

had drowned along with

the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down,

bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never

“How did you kill that

as there was

at her mother, before describing what

the river after arguing with

I got closer to try to

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

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 don’t

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only watch as she spoke

these spirits, but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their

what were the water spirits

mumbled, “This is boring.

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

hadn’t wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to feel

sorry for others, but no one’s going to

mother dragged Jane into

on, but ended

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