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.

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

and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago,

tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to

weekend, Mother and I were washing our

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

came too, but he just swam

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

was too far out in the river

“That’s how

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

seemed to remember this as well, her

husband had just

had drowned

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

Lilly was speechless

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

that he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the

you kill that girl

older spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so, she gave

glanced at her mother, before describing what

kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on

I got closer to try to lure her

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

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only watch as

but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left out

water spirits saying

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

She

her mother told her not to feel too

for others, but no

her mother dragged Jane into the

on, but

she died. She couldn’t find her after