Inside the guesthouse.
Princess Qinghua trembled all over, looking to be in excruciating pain. Only after a long while did she calm down.
Then she lost consciousness.
Chen Lin carefully laid her on the bed and waited quietly.
She had activated the Soul-Pulling Guide divine ability, transferring her consciousness into her clone, Lvliu, to investigate the Imperial Grand Uncle's condition for Chen Lin.
Princess Qinghua had not lied. At present, she could indeed maintain only one clone, and she could transfer her consciousness and descend into it only within a certain distance.
The barriers between countries were especially difficult to penetrate.
She had only managed to descend across such a great distance this time thanks to the Soul-Condensing Bracelet Tan Shiyi had made.
As for why the Xuanyin Patriarch could maintain so many clones, it was mainly because he possessed the Spirit Treasure, the Yellow Springs Scroll. He had also abandoned his body, merging his consciousness into the Soul-Pulling Guide and anchoring his existence in the Yellow Springs Scroll.
Without a physical body to hold him back, its power increased tremendously.
Even so, he could not break through the boundary.
Chen Lin also felt that Qiu Daoxuan must have modified the Soul-Pulling Guide divine ability to allow cultivators to practice it, making it considerably different from the original Soul-Pulling Guide of this world.
For someone with a physical body like Princess Qinghua, the drawbacks of using the Soul-Pulling Guide were far too obvious. Once she descended into her clone, her original body was left completely defenseless, and anyone could kill her. If her original body died, her consciousness could only remain in the clone forever.
If the clone was then killed as well, she would truly die.
The Xuanyin Patriarch, however, had transformed into the divine ability itself. As long