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

were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when

was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to

were washing

thought the sheet was too big for the washing machine

but he just swam

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

help, but Father was too far

“That’s how Mother and

and refused to be reborn. She resented

remember this as well, her eyes

husband had just

had drowned

older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need

Lilly was speechless

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

bamboo pole and fished around the

you

words. Seeing as there was

mother, before describing what had

to sit by the river

alone, my mother and I got closer to

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

stopped short, pursing her lips. “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 you think you’re scaring, going down to the river and everything? Go

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only

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

water

“This is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt

Jane, but her mother told her not to

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

her mother dragged Jane into

herself watching on,

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