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.

turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you

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

at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the

Mother and I were washing

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

he just swam in the

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

Father was too far out

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother

to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not

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 have been

she had drowned along with

the force of talking. “I need to find him, I

Lilly was speechless

“Because we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father

that he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never found

you

spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no

mother, before describing what had happened in the

herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with

mother and I got closer to try to

heard her calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said she was at the garden

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

her, the four men could only watch

to see these spirits, but not being able to see them… or

what were the water spirits saying to

“This is boring. We should’ve

and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t

hadn’t wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not

but no one’s

she hesitated, her mother dragged

herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

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

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