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.

saying. She turned to the younger

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

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

Mother and I were washing our sheets

the washing machine to clean, that’s

but he just swam in

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

was too far

she spoke. “That’s how

was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a

remember this as well, her eyes

Her husband had

she had drowned along

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

Lilly was speechless

fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down,

came out with a bamboo pole and fished

frowned. “How did you

Seeing as there was no use

at her mother, before describing what

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

mother and I got

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

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

could only watch

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

the water spirits

mumbled, “This is boring. We

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

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

her mother dragged Jane into

watching on, but ended up not stopping

only came looking for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into the water at

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