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.

younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you from? How did

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

building erected there now, the

weekend, Mother and I were washing

the washing machine to clean,

he just swam in

mother had been washing the sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie

was too far out

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

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

older spirit seemed to remember

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

drowned

of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill him! What

Lilly was speechless

we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought

out with a bamboo pole

“How did you kill

as there was no use in doing so,

her mother, before describing what had happened in the past

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

and I got closer to try

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

“Jane’s mother was really 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?”

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

to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left out

were the water spirits saying

mumbled, “This is boring.

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

but her mother told her not to feel too

for others, but no one’s going

hesitated, her mother dragged

herself watching on, but ended up

her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into the