As an enforcer, Xia Qin was a typical altruist, yet her ability was purely self-serving.
This was normal for most Professionals. It wasn't merely a matter of individual affinity; the "inside the body" was the area most easily affected by will and power. After most abilities Awakened, the first thing they affected was oneself.
The sheer number of transformation-types was inevitable. The ubiquity of beastmen and their above-average strength were the clearest proof.
Rule-types were the rarest and weakest in the early stages because "interfering with other things (setting rules)" was far more difficult than "changing oneself."
Cat Cat stood at the pinnacle of the Transformation-type. She could shift freely between flesh and spirit, and the most difficult step of Rule-level advancement—"physical ascension"—posed no challenge to her at all.
In Big Cat's assessment, once Cat Cat's level was high enough, she would not need to worry about getting stuck at a bottleneck. Even if she truly did get stuck, she could simply throw down one God Descent after another. Breaking through would only be a matter of how many Life Points it cost.
Xia Qin was another kind of extreme. Her Sun Pattern could turn her will into "patterns" that covered her body, changing her flesh layer by layer.
Both of them involved consciousness changing the body. For top-tier Professionals like Big Cat, this was the "better" kind of innate ability, because above Rule-level, it was difficult to say whether they existed as "flesh" or "consciousness." They had already fused together and become "rules."
That was also why Big Cat did not think highly of Hua Xueyi. Her combat power was exceptionally formidable, but "keratin cell Metalization" instead restricted her "body." Overly pure physical types were easily stuck at bottlenecks.
"Purely altruistic abilities are exceedingly rare. Yours is simply too