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.

not care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where

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

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

weekend, Mother and I were

sheet was too big for the washing machine

came too, but he just swam in the

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

but Father was too far out in the river

“That’s how Mother and

spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to

to remember this as well, her eyes

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

she had drowned

spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need

Lilly was speechless

held us down,

came out with a bamboo pole

did you kill that

as there was no use in doing

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

kill herself. She came to sit by the river

mother and I got closer to try

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

“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 you think you’re scaring, going down to the river and everything? Go on, jump

Lilly asked, “And then?”

her, the four men could only

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

water spirits

is boring. We should’ve brought

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

but her mother told her

but

she hesitated, her mother dragged

with herself watching on, but ended

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