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, and where are you from? How did

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

were washing our sheets

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

came too, but he

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

for help, but Father was too far

spoke. “That’s how Mother

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

older spirit seemed to remember this as

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

had drowned along with

her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find

Lilly was speechless

weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone

came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the

did you kill that

around at the words. Seeing as there was no use in

glanced at her mother, before describing what

herself. She came to sit by the river after

was alone, my mother and I got closer to try to

mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where 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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only

able to see them… or

were the water spirits saying

mumbled, “This is boring. We should’ve brought

felt. She couldn’t even explain before her

Jane, but her mother told her not to

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

hesitated, her mother dragged

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up not

came looking for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching