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

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

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

weekend, Mother and I were washing our sheets by

for the washing

came too, but he just

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

but Father was too far out in the river and

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

to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward

remember this

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

had drowned along with

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

Lilly was speechless

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

out with a bamboo pole and

“How did you

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

what had happened in the past

the river

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

where she was, and Jane said she was at the

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only watch

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

the water spirits

“This is boring.

my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before

her mother told her not

could feel sorry for others, but

she hesitated, her mother

herself watching on, but

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