And this was a step Song Ciwan had accomplished long ago!
She thus bypassed this most difficult step and proceeded directly to the second: sinking her divine spirit into her Dantian, absorbing her consciousness, and connecting all of her Essence Qi to it.
This would allow her to achieve the goal of her divine spirit surviving in the world, even if her physical body were one day destroyed.
There are many Heroic Spirits in the world whom the Court ennobles as Divine Officers. Typically, such Heroic Spirits can only persist in the world and accept this ennoblement because they have some foundation in Divinity Transformation.
Song Ciwan cultivated both spirit and body, and her physical form was already as formidable as an Earth Immortal's. Only at this stage did she realize that her path was vastly different from the typical one for Divinity Transformation.
