God of Pets-Chapter 392: Celestial Destiny Star
The fourth awakening of human cultivators will be a watershed compared to the first three awakenings; it marks a tremendous rise in power.
The first awakening is lifebound talent, the second awakening is mutant true energy, the third awakening is secret collection, and the fourth awakening will be the celestial destiny star.
Lifebound talent is the innate talent of one’s physical body, given by one’s parents, and cannot be changed.
The celestial destiny star of the fourth awakening will be an opportunity for changing fate postnatally.
The celestial destiny star can grant a cultivator an identity, which will strengthen the cultivator comprehensively. How much it can strengthen depends not only on one’s cultivation secret technique but also on some luck. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
From ordinary to unparalleled, the celestial destiny star has five qualities, which endow cultivators with different identities. The quality of the cultivation secret technique corresponds to the different qualities of the celestial destiny star.
Cultivators practicing ordinary secret techniques can only see the ordinary quality celestial destiny star during the fourth awakening. The chance of a high-quality celestial destiny star emerging is minimal, making it nearly impossible to choose a high-quality celestial destiny star.
Yet, cultivators practicing unparalleled secret techniques can generally see celestial destiny stars of unparalleled quality, and even if they choose blindly, it won’t be too bad.
Since many cultivators have practiced other secret techniques in the early stages without high-quality ones, or switched secret techniques midway, the celestial destiny stars they can see are somewhat different.
Celestial destiny stars also have popular and unpopular distinctions. Based on the experience of predecessors, humans know that some celestial destiny stars endow particularly powerful identities, becoming almost mandatory choices when they appear.
For instance, the very famous "Mars," "Wenqu Star," "Taibai Sword Immortal," and "Celestial Demon Calamity Star" are all relatively popular choices.
After choosing a celestial destiny star, one will form the secret star mask. Activating the secret face allows the transformation into the identity of the celestial destiny star and gains the empowerment of that identity.
The popular unparalleled lifebound star "Mars," with a primordial base of 2.0, added to an ordinary person’s 1 point primordial base indicates that when cultivators transform into Mars, their primordial base becomes 3, with a corresponding change to the primordial energy limit.
Besides this, hidden attributes like strength, speed, endurance, physical toughness, etc., will also be enhanced, albeit without explicit data.
The visible data besides primordial base includes celestial duty ability of the celestial destiny star.
Different celestial duty abilities will endow cultivators with a special passive ability.
Mars’ celestial duty is "Martial Saint." Having the Martial Saint duty enhances all martial arts secret skills. The power of the same martial arts secret skills used by someone with the Martial Saint duty is stronger than others.
The scope of martial arts secret skills is relatively broad and is also the most common secret skill, so Mars, once it appears, is almost a mandatory choice.
The reason why many choose Celestial Demon Calamity Star is because its duty is "Doom Bringer." However, it only causes misfortune to others, with virtually no impact on itself, so some sinister cultivators prefer choosing this celestial destiny star.
A counterpart to Celestial Demon Calamity Star is Celestial Killer Lone Star, which also brings misfortune but specializes in affecting friends and family, making it less popular than Celestial Demon Calamity Star.
Except for some utterly evil, inhuman individuals, few people choose Celestial Killer Lone Star.
Although Celestial Killer Lone Star affects relatives, it strengthens one’s abilities, so some might still choose it.
However, the chance of being able to see Celestial Killer Lone Star is not high, sometimes making it impossible to choose even if one wants to.
At the fifth awakening, one will obtain the celestial destiny secret treasure, like Jin Taohua’s Peach Blossom Sword, which is her celestial destiny secret treasure.
The sixth awakening grants the second secret collection, entirely reliant on personal cultivation, with a wide variety of secret collections obtained.
Chen Guan followed Jin Taohua, standing on the tower wall. When seeing the approaching demons, he saw not their original appearances but rather the forms after transforming using the lifebound star mask.
He saw many demons wearing matching black armor, black crowns, and black face masks, holding a black sword, but these were not their standard equipment.
The black armor and black crown are the marks of transformation using Celestial Demon Calamity Star, and the black sword is the celestial destiny secret treasure, Celestial Demon Sword.
This means these demons are at least five awakened cultivators.
A large army composed of Celestial Demon Calamity Star will make the enemy’s luck exceptionally bad, causing chaotic situations in battle. In some cases, individuals with very low fortune may even accidentally die from misfortune.
Apart from the demons transformed into Celestial Demon Calamity Star, there were demons in white clothes, white crowns, white face masks, with wings on their backs.
Those are demons with the White-clothed Angel lifebound star, having the celestial duty of "Divine Doctor," with strong enhancement effects when using healing class secret skills.
There were other demons with different transformations, forming various phalanxes, appearing neatly organized, advancing and retreating in formation, entirely unlike the rabble who fought driven solely by murderous desire in people’s minds.
Gu Chengfeng and the personnel of Abyss City felt their hearts sinking constantly.
Faced with tens of thousands of demon corps, defending Abyss City was already difficult, and now this demon army appeared distinct from the usual.
"Damn it, when did demons develop to such an extent, yet we haven’t received any intelligence? Are the intelligence department’s officers eating for free?" A commander under Gu Chengfeng cursed.
With a grave expression, Gu Chengfeng asked the priest beside him, "Old priest, do you know who the commander of the demon troops is?"
Abyss City has no city lord, and the people here mainly follow the old priest’s direction, so the old priest counts as Abyss City’s interim commander.
Staring at the demon corps, the old priest saw several demons at the back viewing Abyss City from a high position.
"Never seen them before." After looking for a while, the old priest shook his head.
"Commander, abandon the city. We cannot withstand so many demons sieging..." A commander already suggested Gu Chengfeng abandon the city and retreat.
"It’s too late. Retreating now will only make us die faster." Gu Chengfeng remarked with a bitter smile, shaking his head.
With no time left for further discussion, the demons began the siege directly. Numerous demons with black armor, black crowns, and black masks charged forward with their pets, swinging their Celestial Demon Swords.
The speed of these demons was extraordinarily fast, akin to sprinting beasts, quickly approaching Abyss City.
Just as everyone’s hearts began to shiver, Jin Taohua summoned the Blood Spirit Banner. Blood gas shrouded the sky as countless blood spirits emerged from the Blood Spirit Banner, confronting the demon troops.
Indeed, there were many strong blood spirits in the blood spirit troops. However, lacking spiritual wisdom and missing many abilities from their past lives, these became merely a mob in army confrontations, quickly scattered by the demon army attacking with their pets.
If they could disperse the demon troops, the blood spirit troops might have some use. Given the current situation, it was almost impossible to form effective combat power.
When demons broke through the blood spirit troops and charged to Abyss City, the battle officially began.
