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.

what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are

hesitated, before her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was

at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there

were washing our

big for the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went to the

but he

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

but Father was too far out in the river

“That’s how Mother

to be

older spirit seemed to remember this as well,

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

had drowned along

force of talking.

Lilly was speechless

fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought

a bamboo pole and fished around the

“How did you kill

the words. Seeing as there was no use

before describing what had happened in the past two

to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on

alone, my mother and I got closer to try

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

short, pursing her lips. “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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

could only watch as she

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

the water spirits saying to

mumbled, “This is boring. We

“Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to feel too

could feel sorry for others, but no one’s

she hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

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

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