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.

not care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you from? How did you

hesitated, before 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

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

I were washing our sheets by

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

but he just

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

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

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother

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

seemed to remember this as

but her daughter had died too. Her husband had

she had drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t

pole and fished around the water, but never found

frowned. “How did you

as there was no use in doing

her mother, before describing what

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

mother and I got closer to try

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

angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do

Lilly asked, “And then?”

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

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

the water

boring. We should’ve brought

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

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

said we could feel sorry for others, but

her mother dragged

watching on, but ended

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