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

she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when

building erected there now, the old houses

weekend, Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

washing machine to clean, that’s why we

he just swam in the

she fell into the water. Roxie ran to help

Father was too far out in

spoke. “That’s how Mother and I

to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward

older spirit seemed to remember this as

died too. Her husband had just been swimming

had drowned along

her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to

Lilly was speechless

speaking. “Because we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t

with a bamboo pole and fished

“How did you kill that

the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so, she

describing what had happened in the past two

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

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

mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where

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 down to the river and everything? Go

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch

see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them

were the water spirits saying

“This is boring.

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

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

for others, but no one’s going

she hesitated, her mother dragged Jane into the

watching on,

her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into

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