Just opening one acupoint could bring such a huge change to Edward Sutton, so he was very curious to see how powerful his qi and blood would become after reaching Postnatal Perfection and refining all one hundred and eight acupoints.

“Creak!”

The door was pushed open, and Grace timidly walked in.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing Grace come in, Edward Sutton stopped his training posture.

“I’m scared to stay in the room by myself. Brother, can I sleep with you?”

Grace blinked her big eyes at Edward Sutton, with a look that said, “If you don’t agree, I’ll cry right here.”

Edward Sutton glanced outside and realized it was already getting dark.

“Alright, but you have to behave when you sleep, and don’t wet the bed.”

In the past, Edward Sutton’s family only had one room and one bed, so of course Grace used to sleep with Edward Sutton.

The little girl didn’t have much sense of security and really wasn’t used to staying alone in a room.

“Brother, you’re so annoying!”

Grace’s little face immediately turned red.

When she was younger, their mother had to work to help support the family, so it was always Edward Sutton who looked after her. Whenever she misbehaved, Edward Sutton would tease her about wetting the bed when she was little.

After settling Grace in, Edward Sutton also went to sleep.

Chapter 7: The Great Sumeru Sword Style

The next morning, after Edward Sutton woke up, he saw that Grace was still sleeping like a little pig, so he didn’t disturb her and went straight outside the courtyard.

Outside, there were two sharp-eyed gang members arranged by Richard Howard standing guard.

Originally, Richard Howard had arranged for four people, but Edward Sutton felt it wasn’t necessary, so he kept two and had them take turns with the other two for night watch.

When Edward Sutton came out, the two gang members hurriedly greeted him respectfully, “Boss Sutton.”

Edward Sutton nodded, took out a tael of silver, and stuffed it into one of their hands. “Go buy ten meat buns and a jin of soy milk. Use the rest of the money to buy some wine for yourselves. You’ve worked hard guarding all night.”

Ten meat buns and a jin of soy milk only cost eleven wen, so the rest of the money was basically their reward, which made the two gang members extremely excited.

“Thank you, Boss Sutton!”

Seeing how excited they were, Edward Sutton was a bit surprised. It was just a little reward—was it really worth getting so worked up over?

Actually, he didn’t know that when David Lewis was the boss, he was much stricter with them, often beating or scolding at the slightest thing.

David Lewis’s personality was never fit for greatness. When he was a low-level member, he was sociable and acted bold with everyone.

But once he got promoted, he showed his true colors as a petty man who let a little power go to his head.

They had all witnessed Edward Sutton’s ruthless performance at Drunken Moon Pavilion, which had left them chilled to the bone.

They originally thought they’d ended up with another fierce boss, but to their surprise, Edward Sutton was actually so approachable and even generous enough to casually hand out a whole tael of silver as a reward.

For low-level gang members like them, a tael of silver was enough to live on for a month.

Back in his room, Grace Sutton was still sound asleep, so Edward Sutton entered the system.

Inside the vast white system space, the big screen was no longer blank. Instead, there was a column that read: Villain Points: 10.

“Congratulations, Host, on taking the first step. You’re one step closer to becoming the ultimate villain.”

“Beginner mission complete. Main quest activated.

Main Quest: The Heroic Ambition (I)

Mission Explanation: A true man cannot go a day without power; a lesser man cannot go a day without money. To gain power, you must first have money. Time limit: six months. Earn ten thousand taels of silver.

Failure Consequence: One of your already learned permanent skills will be randomly stripped away.

Mission Reward: One intermediate lottery draw, 200 villain points.”

“Ten thousand taels of silver! Tsk tsk, that’s really not a small sum.”

Right now, Edward Sutton’s main way of making money was collecting protection fees from the merchants in Happy Forest.

Normally, the monthly protection fees only amounted to a little over five hundred taels. The reason David Lewis was able to scrape together several thousand taels recently was because he was squeezing them for all they were worth.

But if Edward Sutton did the same, Happy Forest would go bankrupt in less than two months.

To get ten thousand taels, he really needed to come up with a good plan.

Besides, Edward Sutton really did need money right now.

A gang’s development depends on people, but even more so on money.

Without money, do you think those gang members would draw their knives to help you fight? If they don’t turn their knives on you, you’re already lucky.

“By the way, why is the punishment for this main quest so light—just losing one skill? But the punishment for the beginner mission was losing an arm?” Edward Sutton asked.

The punishment for failing the beginner mission was actually harsher than for the main quest, which Edward Sutton thought made no sense.

“If you can’t even complete the beginner mission, it proves the host is too useless. The sooner you die, the better, so as not to waste time.”

Edward Sutton: “……”

“Oh right, I should still have one basic lottery draw left. I want to draw.”

With a new day, Edward Sutton naturally had another chance at the basic lottery.

Although the basic lottery was a bit underwhelming, for the currently penniless Edward Sutton, even drawing a single Qi Nourishing Pill would be pretty good.