Like I said last time, there was another surprise: Sakura that had traveled so far with the group from the very start was not the real Sakura, she was (another) clone made by Fei Wong Reed.
To remind you once again, Fei Wong Reed wished to change the logic that pronounced a dead person could never be revived. In order to do so, he needed to gain the power to transcend time and space. That's why he transformed Sakura's memories to feathers. These feathers, scattered throughout dimensions, would engrave the whereabouts of those various dimensions on them, which were needed by Fei Wong in pursuit of the power he wished to have.
Why cloned Sakura then? Well, who knew what would happen during the long journey. There might be casualties, including Sakura, and if such thing happened, then Fei Wong's plan would fail miserably. As long as he kept the real Sakura with him, and let the clone roam about instead, he could repeat the same course of action (cloning Sakura, sending the clone version on a journey, and so on) again and again and again, until he gained all the memories of dimensions.
However, Clone Sakura was different from Clone Syaoran (C!Syaoran) because she had a heart. Fei Wong cloned Sakura (using a mirror, by the way) completely, both her body and her heart (while in C!Syaoran's case, only the body was cloned, and the heart he had once had was R!Syaoran's). But since the no-way-you-could-clone-something-that-perfectly-resembled-the-real-thing principle was applied to CLAMPverse, right after C!Sakura was made, R!Sakura's body fell apart and disappeared. Only her soul remained.
So, C!Sakura's soul was stabbed by C!Syaoran in the dream world, her soul slowly disappeared, leaving a tiny part of her heart to be given to heartless C!Syaoran who, after receiving the heart, realized what he had done and screamed in agony.
The dream world had been shaking and merging with the real world (a room inside Shirasagi Castle) for some time, so everyone in the room--Kurogane, Fai, Mokona, Tomoyo, Amaterasu, Souma, Fuuma, Seishirou--could see the outcome of the fight and C!Sakura's tragic end. And then, Kyle (Fei Wong's minion, the one who played good doctor in Jade) came out of nowhere, grabbed Sakura's body that had been place on top of the sacred sakura tree and the feather from the dreamscape, and disappeared once again, taking all the he'd got to his boss.
In the end of Chapter 181, R!Syaoran (C!Syaoran didn't fall to Nihon with him when the dream world had been closed), Kurogane, and Fai determined to save Sakura (the cloned body and the real soul) from the evil clutches of Fei Wong. Yuuko told them that Fei Wong was inside a "cut off time" in Clow. They didn't have to hand over a payment to Yuuko because someone who was closer to Syaoran more than anyone else--Watanuki--had paid the price with his memories, causing him to forget his past, parents' name, and even the fact that he had given away his memories. Poor Watanuki! And the fact that they have only published volume 1 of xxxHOLiC here in Indonesia is really upsetting because we're 10 volumes-or-so behind.
Note: Terrible use of tenses, I know. Please bear with me....
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