The beautiful female cultivator spoke slowly, a faint smile on her face, as though she had great confidence in her scroll-refining method.
Listening to the female cultivator's words, Qin Fengming rapidly pondered and weighed the meaning behind them.
"Senior Immortal Fairy, this method of refining a clone should require splitting off a portion of one's soul and sealing it inside the clone. If its soul energy is only consumed and cannot recover, wouldn't that mean it couldn't even fight someone of the same rank?"
"Mm, what you said is exactly right. As the saying goes, every gain has its loss. This clone method allows a cultivator to avoid the punishment of the Heavenly Dao, so naturally it cannot be perfect or be the same as a true clone. However, it is not completely incapable of fighting. Otherwise, no mighty cultivator would leave behind a divided soul to guard an important place.
"This type of clone has no sea of consciousness within it and cannot store vast amounts of soul energy. However, the divided soul itself possesses immense soul energy, so it can still fight someone of the same rank. It is only that after the clone consumes its soul energy, it cannot slowly recover through cultivation like the main body. Instead, it needs to rely on external objects, such as Soul Stones or an environment where external soul energy gathers.
"If it has neither Soul Stones nor an environment where soul energy gathers, it will truly weaken as its soul energy disappears. In the end, once its soul energy vanishes, it will completely perish."
After Fairy Yaoxi finished speaking, she fell silent. She had already explained the advantages and disadvantages of this clone-refining method very clearly. Whether it was what the young man before her needed was no longer her