The process of breaking through from the Qi Introduction Ninth Layer Peak to the Soul Emergence Realm is also called Foundation Establishment.
Foundation Establishment, as the name implies, is about building a foundation. The quality of its completion determines the difficulty of a Cultivator's future path of cultivation and the ultimate heights they can achieve.
If one can cultivate and strengthen their Divine Soul before their breakthrough, causing it to reach the point of Soul Emergence and Body Separation ahead of time, then when beginning the Foundation Establishment breakthrough, they can absorb Heaven and Earth Treasures, seize their Five Elements' fortune, and forge a Spirit Body...
Whether or not a Spirit Body is formed is the threshold for whether one can advance to the Profound Pill Realm in the future...
