Zhang Tie turned his head and saw Heller walking toward him.
"You're saying I awakened a new ancestral bloodline?"
"Didn't Fortress Master feel it yourself? The ancestral bloodline awakened this time is sword affinity!" Heller said with a smile.
He truly hadn't felt it. This awakening of his ancestral bloodline had been completely silent and unnoticed. He had no idea when it had awakened. He had merely woken from a sleep, picked up those two swords, and found that everything felt different. He remembered that when he had eaten the Bloodline Fruit and activated his ancestral bloodline last time, activating sword affinity required 62 points of bloodline energy. Back then, he had casually tossed the last remaining point of bloodline energy into that cotton-candy-like cluster of sword affinity. He had never expected it to activate now.
Zhang Tie guessed that this activation of his ancestral bloodline might be related to his recent training. Right—just how long had he trained for...
As he thought about it, Zhang Tie asked the question aloud.
"By the time outside, it is already August. Fortress Master had long since exceeded the requirements for training in Basic Swordplay. It was through such bitter cultivation that you awakened your ancestral bloodline yourself..." Heller answered.
"Exceeded the requirements?" Zhang Tie truly had not considered that question. Ever since he had begun his grueling training amid the rushing current, he had lost track of how many times he had swung his swords.
"That's right. During this period of training, Fortress Master maintained a speed of sixteen sword strikes per second with each hand in the rushing current. Since Fortress Master cultivates with both hands, that is thirty-two strikes per second. There are 3,600 seconds in an hour, so Fortress Master strikes 115,200 times per hour. In the rushing current,