Alex found clarity some time later, opening his eyes to the world around him. He was still in his room, preparing for the breakthrough. His Spiritual Sea was safe, the Sun God still sealed away.
It all really had just been an Inner Demon.
'So I'm going to start getting those again, huh?' Alex thought.
Had he known he might be facing this, he would have prepared for it. The lack of preparation had nearly caught him off guard. There was a major difference between going into cultivation having faced all of your threats and going into it without considering any of them, after all.
Alex felt it was more luck than anything that he managed to get out of it without regressing and maybe going through Qi deviation.
"I should've known it wasn't him from the start," Alex thought with a sigh.
