When Wan Shouqing received your request to contact her through a disciple, she was overjoyed. The three Soul Crystals you had given her had been of great use, but they still could not completely help her break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm. To open her meridians, she still needed several more Soul Crystals to strengthen her divine soul before she could combine them with the treasures Wan Shicheng had given her and have some chance of succeeding in her breakthrough.
When you put the question to her and promised to give her another two Soul Crystals, Wan Shouqing was no longer so troubled and truly came up with two solutions for you. Her first solution was for you to find a treasure for the exchanged virtual image that would make it difficult for others to investigate. So long as outsiders could not discern the virtual image's movements or the specific location of the demon pearl's true body, that flaw would be remedied.
The former meant they could not bypass the strange dragon and seize the demon pearl, while the latter meant that if they did not even know where the demon pearl was, there would naturally be no chance to exploit a loophole.
But this method was clearly unsuitable for you. Wan Shouqing's thinking had been too simple; she did not know the strength of the Eight-Winged Strange Dragon, nor what level of opponents it would encounter.
Those who could use methods that reached, or even surpassed, your perception might not be in the Imperial Realm, but their strength would be little different from that of the Medicine Master Liu Guang. Against such opponents, relying on a single treasure was not impossible, but at the very least, you had not obtained such a treasure, nor had you heard of anywhere