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 older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are

said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about

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

and I were

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

came too, but he

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

far out

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented

spirit seemed to remember this as

daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming

she had drowned along

the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill him! What were his ears for,

Lilly was speechless

weeds held us down,

bamboo pole

“How did you kill that girl

Seeing as there was no use in

at her mother, before describing what had happened in the past

sit by the river after arguing

I got closer

mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said she was at the garden

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only

to see them… or ‘listen to their

what were the water

mumbled, “This is boring. We

she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her…

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told

but no one’s going to

hesitated, her mother

on,

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