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 are your names,

living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the

There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere

were

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

came too, but he just swam

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

help, but Father was too far out in

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling

remember this

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

drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone home,

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

did you kill

words. Seeing as there was no

glanced at her mother, before describing what had happened in

the river after arguing with her

I got closer to try to

calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane

see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think you’re scaring, going down to

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch

to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left out

were the water spirits saying

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

continued to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt by the river,

kill Jane, but her

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

she hesitated, her mother dragged

with herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

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