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.

turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What

her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the

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

were washing

thought the sheet was too big for the washing machine to clean,

too, but he just swam

she fell into the water.

help, but Father was too far

as she spoke. “That’s

water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not turning

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 hundred meters

she had drowned along with

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

Lilly was speechless

down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that

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

frowned. “How did you

words. Seeing as there was no use in

what had happened

She came to sit by the river after arguing with her

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

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

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?

Lilly asked, “And then?”

four men could only watch

see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made

water spirits

“This is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

she felt. She

Jane, but her mother

but no one’s going

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

watching on, but ended

couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into the water at