Chapter 9

"Wow, that took way longer than I thought it would," Moa said.

He looked very hungry and dehydrated it took him four days to get to Koi town.

In truth, it should only have been a two-day journey but Moa got a little lost on the way so it took longer than expected.

Now Moa was exhausted and very thirsty but he didn't care because he had reached Koi town.

Moa was about a mile away from the town the reason he didn't just head in was because a golden boat the size of a bus would attract way too much attention.

So Moa decided to find another place to land preferably outside of town away from any prying eyes but before he does that.

Time to loot the boat Moa went below deck and search for anything of value he found nothing except a shiny black ring.

It had no gemstone and it had no carvings or marks on the outside but for some reason.

It was unusually heavy Moa pondered as to why until a strange idea popped into his head maybe it was some kind of storage device.

Like a space ring but if it is how can I use it Moa thought about it until he remembered something he had read in a novel about the main character using his blood to activate a space ring.

So Moa bite into his finger and dripped a drop of blood onto the black ring and it gave me an immediate response it began to heat up and vibrate but when it stopped Moa felt a connection to the ring and he couldn't help but smile.

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On an island shat three men playing cards these were the three cultivators Fu, Chao, and Xinjiang.

They were at first very angry and confused about who took their ship but luckily one of them carried a distress talisman so help was on the way.

As they lazied around Chao suddenly froze he then began to tremble in anger trying not to explode from sear rage.

"Hmm? are you okay Chao you're shaking pretty badly right now what are you cold or something dude?" asked Xinjiang.

"Someone just stole my space ring," said Chao in a barely audible voice.

"What?" asked Fu and Xinjiang in unison.

"SOME MOTHER FUCKER JUST STOLE MY SPACE RING ALL MY SHIT WAS IN THERE!!!!" howled Chao as he ran into the woods destroying everything around him in a fit of rage.

Both Fu and Xinjiang were shocked by Chao's behavior he never showed any kind of emotion before so his sudden outburst left them speechless.

But Fu understood his rage from what Chao just said someone most likely the guy who stole our ship had just taken ownership of Chao's space ring and apparently all of his possessions were in that ring.

"What Chao you kept all your stuff in one ring that's kind of stupid man," said Xinjiang in a mocking tone.

Just then a suffocating bloodlust filled the air choking both Fu and Xinjiang the men couldn't physically breathe they struggled and gasped for air until Chao finally calmed down.

At that point, both Fu and Xinjiang were sweating like crazy their faces looked pale and afraid.

That kind of bloodlust is something only an assassin who's killed thousands of men could achieve and it terrified both Fu and Xinjiang.

"I will find the one who took my ring and I will make him suffer for as long as possible until he dies a truly miserable death," said Chao in a voice so cold it seemed to cause the surrounding temperature to drop dramatically.

Fu and Xinjiang pitied the fool who just angered the assassin everyone calls the chilling reaper.

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Moa had no idea this was going on he just rummaged through the ring he found thousands of white glowing stones that he assumed was some kind of currency.

He also found many jars of dark liquid that turned out to be jars full of poison Moa also found many human body parts preserved in jars which even he found disgusting.

He also found a dozen black daggers inside the ring along with some senbon throwing needles which looked kind of strange they gave off a bizarre feeling almost as if they could pierce anything.

Moa admired the needles for a while until something else caught his eye a glass bottle containing a shining golden liquid that felt extremely hot.

Moa opened the bottle and dipped a finger into the gold slime and he immediately regretted it the liquid burned like acid melting through the flesh on the tip of his finger.

After a minute of the gold fluid melting his fingertip, the pain finally stopped but Moa's face paled when he looked at his finger very past the third knuckle was gone not even a bone was left.

That gold fluid must have been a very powerful acid of some kind what else could melt flesh like that luckily it was just the fingertip and not the whole finger.

It was painful but it was bearable probably because that stuff melted my wound close but God dammit that really fucking hurt I thought I was gonna die for a minute it hurt so bad.

Moa put the lid back on the bottle and put it away while he was at it Moa would just take this whole ship.

Moa was gonna leave the boat and take what he could with him but now that he has the space ring he could take the boat with him there was enough room in the ring for it

After all the ring had enough space for at least four equally sized boats so Moa jumped into the water then he stored the boat inside the black ring.

Moa then began to swim toward a distant beach at least a mile away from Koi town best not to swim directly towards Koi town don't want to draw any unwanted attention.

After an hour of swimming Moa reached the beach and walked for a few hours towards a distant road that lead to Koi town.

Before I go to the town I should change my clothes, after all, I'm only wearing a grass skirt and some old worn-out sandals.

Moa searched the space ring and found some normal-looking black clothes and put them on they were a little tight but they were still comfortable to wear.

Now it's just my physical appearance I look like a dirty fish I mean I don't look like some mutant fish-man or anything but I did have fish-like characteristics that made me look very strange.

But there's nothing I can do about that so fuck it let's go Moa walked slowly towards the town he looked around and saw many small ponds and lakes around him.

Around them were fishermen catching large dangerous looking fish some of them looked at Moa but only for a few seconds before going back to fishing.

Oh, thank God they don't care about my appearance that's very good hopefully no one else in Koi town will care either.

Moa eventually reached the town gates which looked like one of those Paifang gates you would see in China but the gate had an old and weather-beaten appearance so it wasn't very majestic looking.

On top of it were two golden koi fish in the middle of them was a sign that said Koi Town in large golden Chinese letters.

Moa went through it and saw many people buying and selling things to passers buyers I walked past them they didn't even give him a sideways glance this was good.

Moa didn't want too much attention he couldn't afford to offend anyone important especially because he was too weak to protect himself.

Moa wasn't dumb he knew from a book that this world was actually a cultivation world Moa didn't know any specifics about cultivation like realms or martial arts techniques.

All Moa knew was that the world is filled with cultivators and if it's anything like in those novels he read before it's a very competitive and dangerous place.

A place where a weak little fish like Moa can't afford to offend someone way stronger than him he'd only be asking for death if he did.

Moa walked around and looked at the salesman interacting with buyers he learned from those interactions that the white stones that they called spirit stones in his storage ring were a form of currency.

One stone is equivalent to one dollar in US currency so wait I have how many stones let me check my ring.

Oh fuck I have eight hundred thousand spirit stones I'm loaded and that's not including the value of those other items in the ring I could easily have a million spirit stones.

But what Moa didn't know is that those guys were using low-grade spirit stones and there are three kinds of spirit stones.

Low-grade, Mid-grade, and high-grade spirit stones.

Each one have there own value one hundred low-grade stones equals one mid-grade spirit stone and one thousand mid-grade spirit stones are equal to one high-grade spirit stone.

All the spirit stones Moa had were high-grade spirit stones so that's one thousand times eight hundred thousand that would be eight hundred million spirit stones.

Moa still thought it was eight hundred thousand but even so, he hide the ring inside his shirt pocket for safekeeping.

Moa then decided to find since he knew he had money now.

He found a nice-looking place that didn't look very expensive and walked inside and greeted a cheerful young girl working the front desk.

"Welcome to the Koi Koi Inn my name is Mai how long will you be staying with us," she said in an upbeat cutesy voice but Moa could tell it was a facade.

"Cut the bullshit and give me a room I'm staying a while so how can I stay for this," said Moa as he took out a high-grade spirit stone and laid it out on the reception counter.

The young girl's eyes popped out of her skull the second she saw me practically throw the high-grade spirit stone at her.

She picked it up and looked at it with a greedy look in her eyes but she calmed herself down and said.

"Honored guest I will gladly prepare our finest room for you," this time she was even a little seductive but I ignored her and asked again.

"You never answered my question of how long can I stay here with this spirit stone," Moa had doubts about the value of the stone after seeing those girls' eyes.

Remember Moa doesn't know the true value of a high-grade spirit stone.

"Oh pardon my ignorance sir with this one high-grade spirit stone that's worth a thousand low-grade stones and given that each night here costs just two low-grade spirit stones you could stay at this Inn for one year four months and 15 days," said the cheerful young girl named Mai.

Moa nearly fainted when he heard this but he kept a straight face and said "Okay then."

The girl called Mai then showed him to a room and then left the room he was in was pretty big and it had one bed and it also had a nice bathroom with its own shower.

So Moa took a shower for the first time since he was reborn After he came out and dried off Moa noticed a big difference.

His skin after a hard scrubbing with lots of soap was no longer yellowish and dirty it looked clean and normal not perfect like white porcelain but it did look way better than how it looked before.

His wavey black hair which once looked gross and oily was now silky and smooth.

Now that his skin and hair are clean the only things that make him look ugly are his big fat gut and my huge fish lips and whiskers.

I can get rid of my fat belly with some exercise but my lips and whiskers are another matter entirely.

My lips are like this because of my inherited blood from the fish God Kai same as my whiskers it only got worse after eating all those blood bonding pills which further increased the strength of my bloodline now I'm stuck like this.

Oh, whatever while I'm here in this room time for some ab crunches I need to get rid of my fat stomach then I'll be at least slightly more handsome.

Moa then began working out while he did this he thought about his future and as long as he had some fun he didn't care what happened.