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.

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

hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was

a tall building

Mother and I were washing our

too big for the washing

he just swam in

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

but Father was too far

she spoke. “That’s how

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

seemed to remember this as well, her eyes

daughter had died too. Her husband had just been

had drowned along

older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking.

Lilly was speechless

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

out with a bamboo pole and

you

the words. Seeing as there was no

what had happened in

to sit by the river after arguing with

she was alone, my mother and I got closer to try to lure her

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

that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only watch

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

were the water spirits

boring. We should’ve brought Drake

to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her

her mother

others, but no one’s going to feel

her mother dragged

herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

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 into the water