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.

about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you from?

villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the

There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to be

I were washing our

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

came too, but he just swam in

washing the sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie ran

was too far out in the

“That’s how Mother and

and refused to be

older spirit seemed to remember this as

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

drowned

it!” the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I

Lilly was speechless

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

with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but

frowned. “How did you kill that

as there was no use in doing

before describing what had happened in the

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

mother and I

yelled at her asking where she

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 as she

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

were the water spirits saying to

boring. We should’ve

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

kill Jane, but her mother told her

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

her mother dragged Jane into the

with herself watching on, but ended

her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into

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