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.

was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you from? How did you

eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank.

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

were washing our

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

too, but he just swam in

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

but Father was too far out in the river and

as she spoke. “That’s how

here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward

older spirit seemed to remember this as well, her eyes

fine that she had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a

had drowned along

I hate it!” the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to

Lilly was speechless

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

out with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never

frowned. “How did you kill

as there was no

describing what

to sit by the river after

and I got closer to try to lure

heard her calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where

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

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

water spirits saying to

is boring. We

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

her

sorry for others, but no one’s going to feel

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane into the

on, but ended up not

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