The physician's archive was already running.
Bloodline physiques—the rare category of cultivator whose cultivation advancement was not limited by their own qi refinement but by a genetic lock placed on the bloodline's full expression, usually by an ancestor who had been afraid of what the bloodline's complete form could do.
The lock prevented the cultivator from accessing the full power of their lineage regardless of their cultivation stage.
Which was why she was Nascent Soul Late and had been hiding it since childhood—not because the stage was dangerous, but because the physique beneath the stage was, and the bloodline lock was the only thing keeping it sealed, and the lock's seal key was—
'The specific qi signature of someone whose cultivation is compatible with the bloodline's architecture.'
'A trigger. Not training. Not time. A specific person whose qi unlocks the bloodline seal by entering the cultivator's meridian network.'
