Heavenly Demon Marten Black Rat

Heavenly Demon Marten (×) Black Rat (√)

After that embarrassing incident, Mu Chen began diligently training his body. At the very least, he needed to put some strength into it.

Su Youwei had originally only been watching from the side, but Mu Chen dragged her over to train with him as well.

She was utterly speechless. Her resentful gaze made Mu Chen break out in a cold sweat, but they were only running. It was hardly some devilish training.

They were both still growing, and excessive training would negatively affect their development.

The two of them were dirt poor, so naturally they could not afford expensive Origin Beast meat. Their training methods were rather primitive.

Whenever they ran, Mu Chen got quite the feast for his eyes. As the wind swept over Su Youwei's delicate body, the curves of her still-developing chest became even more distinctly outlined.

Su Youwei was not blind, of course she noticed. All she could do was blush and glare at Mu Chen. No wonder he had asked her to run with him—he had ulterior motives.

Shameless pervert.

Picking up her pace, Su Youwei planned to teach Mu Chen a proper lesson.

"Bleh, bleh, bleh! Come catch me!"

Mu Chen stuck out his tongue and immediately left Su Youwei behind.

After becoming a teenager again, his mindset had become somewhat childish as well. Mu Chen did not dislike this change; on the contrary, he enjoyed it immensely.

The old nine-to-nine-six grind had worn down all his edges, turning life into that of a beast of burden. If he still maintained that same mindset now, then there would have been little point in transmigrating.

Seeing the distance between them grow wider and wider, Su Youwei stopped chasing so desperately, though a hint of a smile appeared on her face.

Previously, because of her grandfather, she had been unable to feel happy. She had been constantly worried, yet utterly helpless, with no money to take her grandfather to a doctor.

Mu Chen, who had barged into their lives, had changed so much for them.

Night fell, and cool moonlight poured over the earth like a waterfall, laying down a layer of silver frost.

Mu Chen held the Ancestral Stone in his hand. Strands of moonlight gathered toward it, while the ancient Stone Talisman emitted faint glimmers of light.

Mu Chen felt a wave of dizziness, and then he appeared in a pitch-black space. There was no light whatsoever, and the silent, cold aura made him instinctively wrap his arms around himself.

At this moment, he did not panic. After thinking about it, he figured this was probably the space inside the Ancestral Stone.

Mu Chen's eyes lit up. He had known he seemed to have forgotten something—it turned out he had forgotten the tenant inside the Ancestral Stone.

This space could be used to deduce martial arts, but he had not learned any Source Arts yet, so naturally there was nothing he could deduce.

"Still not coming out?"

After sensing carefully, Mu Chen found nothing unusual. This Heavenly Demon Marten is quite good at hiding.

His soul cultivation was not high enough, so he could not detect it.

"Not coming out? This world isn't the Heaven Xuan Continent. You can't go back anymore." Mu Chen thought for a moment and decided to scare him.

"Though I don't know who you are, I assume you've sensed it too. This isn't the world you know."

"The Stone Talisman belongs to me now. As a tenant, shouldn't you pay some rent?"

"Marten Lord will come out already. I really don't know how you sensed me." A helpless voice rang out in the dark space. Mu Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, it was here.

A palm-sized black rat appeared before Mu Chen, its lively little eyes filled with panic.

Clearly, what Mu Chen had said earlier had thrown it into a fluster. Anyone would react that way upon hearing such news.

"I was wondering what it was."

"So it's just a black rat?!"

Mu Chen pretended not to recognize the Heavenly Demon Marten. In this form, Little Marten was no different from a rat.

Its body was somewhat longer than that of an ordinary rat. This was not the Heavenly Demon Marten's true form, but it looked so much like a rat that Mu Chen was left speechless.

"Bastard! You're the rat! Marten Lord is a noble Heavenly Demon Marten! What an ignorant bumpkin. I'm not some rat!" Little Marten flew into a rage, glaring furiously at Mu Chen as it spoke in human language.

"Alright, whether you're a Heavenly Demon Marten or a rat, you've lived in the Stone Talisman for so long. It's time to pay rent, isn't it?" Mu Chen smiled. The Heavenly Demon Marten should have quite a few good things, and he was rather tempted.

"Oh my, what kind of upside-down logic is this? You're asking me for things? Do you know that Marten Lord is the owner of the Stone Talisman?" Little Marten's eyes flashed with disdain as it folded its paws across its chest.

"Are you sure?"

Mu Chen lightly manipulated the Ancestral Stone. Although the Ancestral Stone Spirit had not yet recovered, it still made the extremely weakened Little Marten feel a force rejecting him.

That discovery changed Little Marten's expression. He had not expected this brat to truly be capable of driving him out.

"Ahem, I was the former owner of the Stone Talisman. Now it's yours." Little Marten knew better than to refuse when under another's roof. He did not even have a physical body anymore and was merely a demon spirit. If he were kicked out, he would be finished.

Mu Chen merely smiled without speaking. Little Marten had only once possessed it, while he now controlled it. The difference was enormous.

"Kid, you said this isn't the Heaven Xuan Continent. Hurry up and tell me the details."

Little Marten already believed him, but he still found it hard to accept. How had he ended up in another world?

"Little Marten, what was your cultivation before?" Mu Chen asked.

Little Marten felt somewhat uncomfortable with the name "Little Marten," but this was not the time to care about that. He needed to learn about the current situation from Mu Chen.

"At the peak of the Death Profound Realm, not far from the Samsara Stage. If not for that disaster, Marten Lord would probably be a Samsara Stage expert by now." Little Marten was quite proud when speaking of his cultivation, but when the later ambush was mentioned, his expression darkened. Of course, in the form of a black rat, that darkness could not be seen.

Back then, he had been so spirited and high-spirited. He could be called a supreme genius of the Heavenly Demon Marten Clan, with pure and powerful bloodline, and he had still been young. Many old fellows had not even reached his realm.

"The Death Profound Realm... in this world, it's roughly equivalent to a late-stage Heavenly Sun Realm expert," Mu Chen said.

The laws of the Heaven Origin World were stronger than those of the Heaven Xuan Continent, so late-stage Heavenly Sun Realm experts should be somewhat stronger than late-stage Death Profound Realm experts. That was Mu Chen's guess.

Then, Mu Chen explained this world's cultivation realms and their rough equivalents to Little Marten. Little Marten said nothing as he processed the information.

"Heh, interesting. I never thought Marten Lord would come to a world like this."

After initially accepting it, Little Marten gave a curious laugh. According to Mu Chen, this world was far stronger than the Heaven Xuan Continent.

The strongest Ancestral Realm experts of his world did not even rank among the top in this world.

But there was also a problem: it had little to do with him. All he had left was his demon spirit, no different from a wandering ghost.

If he were still on the Heaven Xuan Continent, he would have ways to restore his physical body. But here in the Heaven Origin World, where he knew no one, restoring his body was a distant prospect.

"Don't worry, Little Marten. Your boss will help you restore your body someday." Mu Chen directly took advantage of him.

"What status do you have to dare call yourself Marten Lord's boss?" Little Marten immediately made it clear that it was impossible. Absolutely impossible.

PS: I followed Yuan Zun back in high school. Every weekend, during the two hours we were allowed to leave school to shop, I would read through the chapters that had updated that week. I'll just try writing this fanfiction and see how it goes.