The flaw was not buried or softened.
The Death God All Heavens Mandate declared it on the opening pages with the specific, unembellished directness of a text written by someone who understood that a cultivator beginning an irreversible technique without understanding its structural weakness was not bold — just uninformed in the particular, permanent way that irreversible techniques punish.
It worked against Genesis...
Not against weak cultivators. Not against the unprepared or the under-resourced. Against the best ones — the five-star distributions, the six-star prodigies, the specific, celebrated category of people the Star Domain's entire assessment infrastructure had been built to identify and elevate. Each star they had been born with became, in the context of this technique, another node of resistance — another point at which the cosmos's divided architecture would push back against the attempt to undo what the ancient figure's revolution had spent an era establishing.
