Lin Shuo glanced appreciatively at his wife; the topic shift was very well-handled, even though she couldn't possibly know the family secrets.
The family rules dictate that a wife, being married into the family, is not qualified to know the fundamental secrets of the Lin Family; daughters will eventually marry out into others' families and thus cannot be told about the bloodline heritage.
In the past, the matter of awakening the bloodline and thus receiving the Heavenly Level Cultivation Technique was cautiously and vaguely disclosed by the father when the child successfully established their Foundation, but only the patriarch was qualified to know all the secrets.
It wasn't until an elder who had traveled to other worlds returned years ago that they discovered that due to the lack of Spiritual Energy, no one had successfully awakened for many years, prompting that elder to create the Silent Cultivation Tower.
