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.

care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named

living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the city had just started building these

a tall building erected there now,

weekend, Mother and I were washing our

washing machine to clean, that’s why

but he just swam in

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

screamed for help, but Father was too far out in the river and

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s how

and refused to be reborn. She resented

older spirit seemed to remember this as

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

she had drowned along with her

the force of talking. “I need to find

Lilly was speechless

weeds held us down,

pole

“How did you

thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no

describing what had happened in the past

the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

was alone, my mother and I got closer to

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

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

her, the four men could only

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

what were the water

is boring. We should’ve

She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung

Jane, but her mother told her not

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

mother dragged

watching on, but ended up not stopping

she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the