Ise Xin's clan's "Bloodline Imprint" was, in fact, a degraded form of the "Heaven-Man Landscape."
The "Heaven-Man Landscape," also known as the "Heavenly Human Interference Pattern," was originally the manifestation of a Great Monarch-level Self-Rule power forcefully interfering with the laws of the universe. Here, "Heaven" referred to the universe, "Man" to the Great Monarch, and as for "Landscape," it could mean distortion or collaborative construction—any interpretation worked. The level of power was there for all to see.
But as the cultivation system of Genetic Species gradually improved, the difficulty of deploying a "Heaven-Man Landscape" steadily declined. As a result, a group of people who studied the great powers of the past, standardized imitation through Form and Spirit Frameworks, and gained the preliminary ability to interfere with the external world could also use a "Heaven-Man Landscape."
Not to mention that the emergence of the "Collective Interference Pattern" allowed for partial imitation and the achievement of certain effects.
The value of the "Heaven-Man Landscape" inevitably declined.
It was said that, in order to describe such people, theoretical researchers had specifically refined the concept of "Celestial," inserting a Celestial category between ordinary cultivators and "Great Monarchs."
Some also called it the "Sky Ladder" stage.
Of course, this view was not universally accepted. At least, Ise Xin believed that the Celestial or Sky Ladder stage, even when using a "Heaven-Man Landscape," was merely a degraded version like his clan's "Bloodline Imprint," a compromise and simplification achieved through Bloodline Project and true inheritance.
Generally speaking, the emergence of an ability like a "Bloodline Imprint" meant that at least one ancestor of that clan had been a Great Monarch. Unfortunately, his clan was anything but ordinary. The "degraded landscape" buried deep within their bloodline was merely a "curse" acquired by some muddleheaded ancestor through a