For Zhang Tie, the month or so since leaving the Black Armor Battle Fortress had been the month in which his strength had risen fastest. During that month, especially within that Devil Race base, he had not only killed several hundred Spider Devils, but also several hundred ordinary Minotaur Devils. This alone had earned Zhang Tie two brand-new Origin Fruits. It was precisely after consuming those two Origin Fruits that, in the great battle between humans and the Devil Race ten days ago, while still in the consolidation phase of Earth Knight, Zhang Tie had been able to kill several Devil Race Earth Knights head-on in succession.
One Origin Fruit increased the abilities awakened by every Bright Point throughout Zhang Tie's body by one-twelfth. This was an all-around enhancement of his physical qualities. Two Origin Fruits had almost allowed Zhang Tie to undergo two super enhancements. Thus, although Zhang Tie appeared to still be in the consolidation phase of Earth Knight, the effects brought by those two Origin Fruits were nearly equivalent to the two enhancements gained by cultivating half a chakra through a viscount-level secret manual such as the Five Forms Earthly Phenomena Scripture.
If the enhancement brought by his advancement to the first transformation of Earth was included, then Zhang Tie's current abilities, purely in terms of the number and effects of enhancements gained after advancing to Earth Knight, were already comparable to—perhaps even slightly beyond—the ninth transformation of an Earth Knight cultivating the lowest-ranking baron-level secret manual.
This was because baron-level secret manuals could only bring three enhancements at each knight stage, while Zhang Tie had already completed three enhancements. Some effects of the Origin Fruits were even better than a knight's enhancements.
Without Origin Fruits, the number of enhancements Zhang Tie gained at the third transformation