Transmigrated As A Villain, The Heroines Are Also Regressors?

Chapter 144 One-Eyed Soul Devourer

When Ronald heard what Iris had stated, he quickly stopped in his tracks and turned back around.

"Hmm? You're still not finished yet?" Ronald furrowed his brows at Iris.

It was already getting pretty late out, and honestly, he was tired from sitting on the bench all day bickering to the group of criminals what they can and can't steal.

"Not yet, Young Master, obtaining the amulet was only part of my plan. Please go on ahead without me first, and I'll return back home after I finish up with something." Iris spoke as she took out the qi condensing plate and then dropped both the plate and the red amulet on the ground.

"Is that so..." Ronald followed Iris's gaze and looked at the amulet on the ground, "Well what else do you need to do? I don't mind helping you out."

Iris couldn't help but turn her head to the side and glance at Ronald after hearing his offer, and she hesitated for a bit before speaking, "Um, I'm sorry Young Master, but there's nothing else I need help with at the moment. It's probably best for you to go back home instead."

"Are you ordering me around right now?" Ronald pretended to get upset and folded his arms together.

"No, Young Master. I didn't mean it like that. It's just that what I'm about to do next is extremely boring, and I don't want to waste your time. Please forgive my rudeness." Iris immediately knelt down and apologized.

"Apology accepted, but what exactly are you going to be doing that's boring?"

"I plan on meditating here for a few hours, Young Master." Iris didn't hide it from Ronald and answered.

Hearing this, Ronald knew immediately that she was planning on cultivating here at the graveyard.

But what he couldn't understand though was why.

Since places like the graveyard are filled with yin qi, which is essentially the dark version of qi, it is extremely detrimental for a normal cultivator to cultivate there as the yin qi would significantly damage their dantian, and in most cases, destroy their soul.

Of course, some cultivators can absorb and cultivate yin qi though if they use the right cultivation method or if they have the right body constitution for it, but the thing is that Iris didn't have the right body constitution for it, and her current cultivation method is the Fragmented Soul Refinement Arts.

That cultivation method can't properly absorb yin qi whatsoever.

In fact, since the Fragmented Soul Refinement Arts requires Iris to split her soul up in order to cultivate faster, absorbing yin qi would cause significantly more damage to her than it would to a normal cultivator.

But then again, Iris is a supposed protagonist now, and seeing as though Iris knows what she's doing, Ronald decided to hold back his judgement and continue observing for now.

"Oh, you're right, that honestly sounds pretty boring, but since I have nothing better to do, I'm going to watch you mediate anyways. Be grateful that I'm willing to give up my precious time in such cold weather just to watch you." Ronald smiled arrogantly and went back to sitting on the bench.

Now, while the Ronald two weeks ago would've been absolutely shocked to hear that he was willing to waste his time with a heroine if it didn't benefit him in the overall grand scheme of things, Ronald was extremely curious as to what Iris was about to do next.

After all, it was now evident to him that his cultivation knowledge was extremely lacking compared to some of these heroines, even though his cultivation realm was significantly higher, and he wanted to see if he could secretly learn from them.

And if couldn't learn anything, then oh well, it won't affect him.

He won't have any use for cultivation knowledge after he returns back to earth, as cultivation isn't real anyways...

Right?

"Thank you, Young Master." Iris's heart couldn't help but become warm when she saw how arrogant Ronald acted.

Honestly, it was moments like these that made her realize how lucky she was to be able to serve him.

Sure, it sounded like he didn't care about her on the surface, but she knew that this was his way of showing how deeply he cared for her.

And if she wanted to continue having moments like these forever, then she needed to ensure that what she's going to do next will succeed.

"But Young Master, before I start meditating, may I request for you not to disturb me during my meditation? It'll disrupt my mental process if you do."

"I wasn't planning to, to begin with, but sure." Ronald reclined back on the bench and folded his arms behind his head, Let me know when you're done with your religious activities or whatever."

Iris nodded, and then sat close to the red amulet and qi condensing plate in a lotus position.

Afterwards, she swung her bag to the front, grabbed an ominous black elixir out of the bag, and drank it down in one gulp.

Iris's body temperature then immedately began dropping at an alarm rate, and within just a few seconds, her body temperature was lingering at around 10 degrees Celsius.

The cold didn't affect Iris though, and after ensuring that her body temperature wouldn't drop any further, Iris took a deep breath to fully calm herself down and closed her eyes.

Now, since she was using the Fragmented Soul Refinement Arts in order to absorb the yin qi around her, she needed to make sure that she didn't absorb too many at once.

This was the first time she was absorbing yin qi in this life after all, and if she wasn't careful enough, then the yin qi could seep into the fragments of her soul and shatter them beyond repair before she could use them during her next step.

And while the elixir she had drank helped reduced her qi absorption significantly, it was still extremely dangerous for her, as the elixir only acted as an alleviation, and not a safeguard.

With that in mind, Iris began to slowly absorb the yin qi around her.

As Iris was absorbing the yin qi, Ronald began to notice that the temperature in the area was dropping ever so slightly.

This wasn't anything out of the ordinary however, as it just means that Iris was attracting the yin qi from nearby areas to the graveyard, and so he didn't think too much about it.

A few minutes later, footsteps could be heard from outside of the graveyard gates, and two guards showed up at the front gates shortly after.

So Ronald got up and walked over to the gates.

"Evening, Master Kuangge. I presume you're not finished with your activities yet?" One of the patrolman, who had a burly physique and was holding a flashlight, tipped his hat.

Considering that his co-workers kept boasting about how much money they had recieved from Ronald today before he came in to work, he wasn't surprised to see Ronald here.

"Not yet. You guys are the night patrols for this area, right?"

"Correct. The night patrol usually starts at 9 PM... do you know when you will be finished with your activites?" The burly patrolman actually wanted to ask if he could be paid off as well, but he decided not to bring it up since he didn't want to offend Ronald.

Ronald might not be from a major family here in the capital city, but since he was still from a major family in a different city, he could easily make his life a living hell if he wanted to.

"Dunno, probably won't be finished for the next couple of hours though, so give me your bank account number and I'll wire you some money." Ronald shrugged and took out his phone.

The two guards immediately took out their phones as well after hearing this, and after they had told Ronald their account number, the two guards both received 50,000 yuan.

"Wow, thank you, Master Kuangge!" The burly patrolman expressed his gratitude.

"Yeah, thanks a lot, Master Kuangge!" The other patrolman, who was slightly more skinny, chimed in as well.

When Ronald said that he was going to wire them some money, they had assumed that he was going to only wire them a few hundred yuan, or even a thousand yuan max.

But 50,000 yuan?

That's more than double their monthly salary working as a patrolman!

And all they have to do is to turn a blind eye to Ronald's activities for today only!

It's no wonder why people can get corrupted so easily, and why their coworkers were in such a good mood.

"Yeah, yeah, just make sure no one else comes snooping at night." Ronald waved them off nonchalantly.

"Got it, have a good rest of the night, and make sure you don't get devoured by the one-eyed soul devourer tonight." The burly patrolman was in such a good mood that he cracked a joke.

"Hey, keep your mouth shut, stop trying to scare him off." The skinny patrolman elbowed the burly patrolman, "Sorry about that, he just loves spewing off about that urban myth all the time, we'll get out of your face now. Take care."

Watching the two patrolman disappear from his sights, Ronald couldn't help but frown.

He didn't know exactly what this 'one-eyed soul devourer' was, but this was now the second time he had heard about it within a span of an hour, and frankly, he was starting to suspect that Iris came here to absorb this thing...

Which probably explains why she had put a talisman on the amulet earlier to begin with.

Now of course, if Iris had planned on absorbing this ahead of time, and didn't mind him being here while she did so, then that meant that this 'one-eyed soul devourer' was probably a spirit that couldn't physically attack people.

That's right, spirits also existed in this world, although he has actually never seen one before in his previous life.

He only knew they existed because he had read about Ye Fan fighting one in the novel, and because some of his cultivation methods and techniques explained how to properly deal and absorb the pure yin from spirits.

That being said, he honestly wanted to see how Iris was going to absorb this thing, and what an actual spirit looks like, so he rushed back to his bench.

As he was heading back however, he saw a one-eyed translucent demonic monster, wrapped entirely in linen strips like a mummy, emerge from the amulet and enter directly into Iris's body.

And while it seems as though Iris had successfully absorbed the monster, which he assumes was was the One-Eyed Soul Devourer everyone was talking about, the situation wasn't like that at all.

No, he could tell that the One-Eyed Soul Devourer was actually eating Iris's soul fragments while she was still meditating.

'...'

'IS THIS HEROINE FUCKING NUTS!?'