"Alright, no problem!"

Howard Zhou was still caught up in the euphoria of having his severed leg fully regenerated and gaining extraordinary healing abilities. Rowan's request made sense, so he nodded without hesitation.

"Howard, you can pick any of the guest rooms on the first floor to stay in, but don't leave the house. You're still in the observation phase, and I need you within my line of sight at all times."

Rowan gave a clear directive.

"Got it. I understand."

Howard nodded earnestly as he continued moving his body, trying to reacquaint himself with the strength and agility he once had.

With instructions given, Rowan headed upstairs.

In his room on the second floor, Rowan activated his virtual computer and placed a large order of household supplies through the HR Alliance marketplace. He had no plans to leave the Mingyue District for at least a month.

Given the immense implications of the Extremis serum, staying in the safety of the district was the best way to minimize risk.

After confirming his order, Rowan noticed a new email in his inbox. His heart skipped a beat when he saw the sender: Limit Martial Hall.

He opened the email immediately, revealing a video attachment.

The video began with the holographic image of a cheerful young woman appearing on the virtual screen.

"Greetings, newly-ranked Warrior Rowan. On behalf of Limit Martial Hall, I welcome you to our family," she said with a warm smile. "You're now accessing the internal network for the first time welcome to the Limit Hub! Let me give you a quick overview of its features."

"Here in the Limit Hub, you can purchase an extensive range of equipment everything from weapons, movement techniques, energy-guiding methods, and offensive martial arts like swordplay, spearwork, and blade techniques, to firearms, vehicles, armor, communication systems, specialized explosives, medical agents, gene serums, and rare materials or artifacts. If you have the credits, we have the goods."

"Once payment is processed, all items will be delivered within 24 hours."

"Additionally, you can book one-on-one training sessions with warriors at the general or even Warlord level. Of course, you'll need the money to match."

"And if you accumulate enough contribution points, all prices are slashed by 50%."

Rowan nodded thoughtfully. Looks like Limit Hall already registered me in their system. That means the credit limit Commander Norris promised should be available now.

He closed the video and logged directly into the Limit Hall's internal network Limit Hub.

Once inside, he found a robust interface with different sections: task board, chat rooms, warrior forums, and the online marketplace.

He checked his account balance 20 million credits and a separate quota of 150 million credits available specifically for purchasing martial arts manuals.

Without wasting time on the other sections, Rowan dove straight into the marketplace.

An avalanche of categories appeared before him: weapons, manuals, vehicles, armor, and more.

He clicked into the martial arts manuals first.

"World-Ender"

Category: Spear Techniques

Rating: Ultimate

Price: 100 billion credits (full), 50 billion credits (half, requires 4-star contribution)

"Ninefold Thunder Blade"

Category: Blade Techniques

Rating: Ultimate

Price: 100 billion credits (full), 50 billion credits (half, requires 4-star contribution)

"Phantom Blade Arts"

Category: Blade Techniques

Rating: SS-tier

Price: 10 billion credits (full), 5 billion (half, requires 3-star contribution)

"Mist Sword"

Category: Sword Techniques

Rating: S-tier

Price: 3 billion credits (full), 1.5 billion (half, requires 3-star contribution)

Rowan didn't hesitate. He immediately chose to learn Ninefold Thunder Blade.

Compared to the martial arts systems of interstellar civilizations, Earth's methods were outdated and inefficient.

But Ninefold Thunder Blade was an exception it represented the most advanced power-execution technique among Earth's blade arts.

After all, it was developed by Thunder Lord, a planetary-tier Level 8, possibly even Level 9 powerhouse.

Why bother with something like Phantom Blade Arts when he could study the work of a living legend?

That said, Rowan didn't plan to limit himself to just one offensive style like Luo Feng did in the original story. He wanted to branch out to diversify his combat options.

Besides, he had the money.

He clicked into the purchase interface for Ninefold Thunder Blade and reviewed the tiered pricing:

Full Technique (All Nine Layers): 100 billion credits (full), 50 billion (half, requires 4-star contribution)

First Three Layers: 2 billion (full), 1 billion (half, requires 2-star contribution)

First Two Layers: 1 billion (full), 500 million (half, requires 2-star contribution)

First Layer Only: 500 million (full), 250 million (half, requires 1-star contribution)

Rowan decided to purchase the first three layers, which cost 2 billion at full price or 1 billion credits at half-price.

"Confirm Purchase: Ninefold Thunder Blade, Layers 1–3. Cost: 1 billion credits. Proceed?"

Because this was Rowan's first purchase of a core technique whether offensive, movement-based, or energy-guiding the Limit Hall waived the contribution point requirement, allowing him to purchase it at the discounted rate per their contract.

"Confirm."

"Please verify your identity with a fingerprint scan."

Rowan placed his finger on the biometric reader embedded in his wireless keyboard.

Beep.

"Fingerprint confirmed."

"Purchase successful."

"Payment processed."

"The manual for Ninefold Thunder Blade (Layers 1–3) will be delivered to your residence within 24 hours."

Rowan leaned back, satisfied.

One more thing to note: the Ninefold Thunder Blade wasn't just an offensive manual it came with integrated movement and energy-guiding techniques.

Anything crafted by Thunder Lord himself was bound to be top-tier, so there was no need to look for alternatives in those areas.

Next, Rowan turned his attention to other offensive skills.

He browsed the Attack Techniques section, scanning through listings like:

Phantom Blade Technique

Mist Sword

Thunderclap Hammer Style

All S-tier and above. But again, each came with its own bundled movement and energy-guiding system.

According to the descriptions, these auxiliary methods were integral. Using them was the only way to unleash the techniques' full power.

Which made sense. Even traditional martial arts paired footwork with strikes of course advanced warrior manuals would do the same.

That created a problem.

Rowan didn't want to study multiple, potentially conflicting movement and guiding systems.

So he applied a filter to show only techniques without integrated movement or energy methods.

Instantly, the search results dropped to mostly B-tier or lower manuals.

These were typically created by veteran Warrior-level fighters or low-tier Warlords and to Rowan, they were underwhelming.

Next to Ninefold Thunder Blade, they felt like crude scrap.

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