Living Spiritual Foundations were usually buried within the solid state of the Spiritual Foundation they were birthed from. As a result of this, until one could plant their Cosmic Seeds and shattered their Spiritual Foundation, forming their World Sea, it would remain stuck.
This truth added an extra layer of complexity to understanding Living Spiritual Foundations. Because they spent so much of the early cultivation process dormant and asleep, its communication with its owner was non existent, and as such it was far more difficult to comprehend the wants and needs of this never before seen beast.
Essentially, the Spiritual Foundation was like the egg shell of the beast, and only by cracking through it could only give birth to this beast and finally be able to study and comprehend it. The fact that this was happening to Ryu three cultivation Realms ahead of time made little to no sense… but that was when he noticed another oddity.