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.

the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names,

by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the city had just started building

pointed at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses

were washing our sheets

washing machine to clean, that’s

came too, but he just swam

when she fell into the water. Roxie ran

far out in the river and didn’t

“That’s how Mother

refused to be reborn. She

remember this

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

drowned along

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

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down,

bamboo pole and fished around

frowned. “How did you

the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so,

describing what

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

was alone, my mother and I

at her asking where she was, and

to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only watch as she

see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel

water

is boring.

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

Jane, but her mother told her not to feel too

sorry for others, but no one’s going to

hesitated, her mother dragged

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up

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