"Frank Keaton and Mark Lee—are they both settled in?" Edward Sutton asked.

Richard Howard quickly replied, "Everything has been arranged. The places they're staying in are the best rooms at the Dongsheng Inn, costing one or two taels of silver per day."

Although these two were nominally following him, Edward Sutton, in reality, they belonged to Tiger Senior.

Before Edward Sutton had fully established himself, he still needed to keep up appearances.

"Boss, I've tidied up your room as well. You can move in anytime."

Richard Howard wore a fawning smile; right now, he was full of admiration for his boss.

In just one day, he had gone from being a gang member who killed the boss and faced an uncertain future, to becoming the youngest lieutenant in the Flying Eagle Gang and the adopted son of Tiger Senior.

Such a thing—Richard Howard had never seen in his entire life.

"I have my own room?"

Richard Howard explained, "This was left behind by those people from the Green Bamboo Gang. Now that Happy Forest is ours, naturally this place belongs to you, boss."

Edward Sutton nodded.

Happy Forest had always been the territory of the Green Bamboo Gang, but recently, for some unknown reason, the Flying Eagle Gang suddenly started a war with them and managed to seize Happy Forest.

Thinking of his own dilapidated old home, Edward Sutton didn't bother with more small talk with Richard Howard and left Happy Forest directly.

Grace was still at Granny Wang's noodle stall.

"Brother! You're back!"

Seeing Edward Sutton's figure, Grace immediately ran over and clung to him like a sloth.

"Alright, alright, you're a big girl now, aren't you embarrassed?" Edward Sutton patted Grace's little head. "Come on, let's go move into our new home."

Edward Sutton picked up Grace Sutton, and before leaving, left a silver ingot—just one tael—at Granny Wang's stall.

It wasn't that Edward Sutton didn't want to give more, but in a slum like Changle Lane, having money was a crime in itself.

If Edward Sutton gave too much, it would only bring harm to Granny Wang.

Although they called it moving, there really wasn't much to take from Edward Sutton's old home.

The most valuable thing in the whole house was probably the plot of land itself.

So Edward Sutton just took a few changes of clothes and that was it.

"By the way, Grace, where's the bracelet mother left behind?"

Edward Sutton remembered that his mother had left a bracelet, which he had always entrusted to Grace Sutton for safekeeping.

It was the only valuable thing in their family. Even in the hardest times, he had never thought of pawning it.

"The bracelet... the bracelet..." Grace's little face showed a fearful expression, and she couldn't speak out of grievance.

Edward Sutton rubbed her head and said gently, "Grace, don't be afraid. Tell brother where the bracelet is. Did you lose it?"

Grace Sutton pursed her lips, her eyes brimming with tears. "The bracelet isn't lost. I saw brother was hurt before, so I wanted to steal some medicine from the pharmacy, but the old shopkeeper caught me.

He said I had to make up for his loss, so he took the bracelet away. Brother, am I useless?"

Seeing Grace Sutton like this, a murderous intent surged in Edward Sutton's heart.

But he spoke softly, "Don't worry, brother will get the bracelet back for you tomorrow. For now, let's go see our new home."

Over at Happy Forest, Richard Howard had arranged everything, so Edward Sutton could move in directly.

The courtyard was right next to Happy Forest. Although it wasn't a grand mansion with three entrances and three exits, it was still a sizable siheyuan.

Having grown up in the slums, Grace Sutton was overjoyed to suddenly move into such a "luxurious" place. She couldn't stop smiling all afternoon, her eyes squinting like crescent moons.

After settling Grace Sutton in to rest, Edward Sutton returned to his own room and took out the basic Qi-nourishing pill.

Compared to the inferior Qi-nourishing pill from before, this basic one looked much better and was rated one star.

He swallowed it in one gulp, and immediately felt a warm current swirling in his dantian.

As Tiger Senior had said, the most important thing for a martial artist in the acquired stage was refining their own acupoints.

The human body has one hundred and eight acupoints, corresponding to the numbers of the stars in the sky and the spirits of the earth.

Each one you open greatly increases your stamina, vitality, and true qi.

Tiger Senior said refining acupoints was extremely difficult. Edward Sutton both agreed and disagreed.

For some mediocre people, even with internal skills, refining acupoints was indeed not easy.

Back then, Tiger Senior had no famous teacher to guide him, his internal skills weren't advanced, and his martial talent was average. He could only focus on external skills like Iron Sand Palm, so it was normal that he refined only thirteen acupoints in forty years.

But Edward Sutton had the Villain System, so he lacked no resources.

With countless powerful martial arts at his disposal, if he still got stuck at the acquired stage, he might as well hang himself with a hair.

Using the powerful true qi from the Qi-nourishing pill, Edward Sutton quickly began attacking the first acupoint in his body.

With the power of the pill, the acupoint was soon fused with true qi. As blood flowed through it, it instantly became thick and abundant, and the true qi passed through smoothly, without the slightest obstruction.