Alex went in and out of the Demonic Forest, returning to the sect every 2 to 3 weeks and spending about a week cultivating.
His cultivation speed had dropped vastly, but his overall ability was growing rapidly.
In the last 2 months he had remained alone in the forest, he had trained all of his Dao to the best he could, and then some.
He also helped train Pearl to get used to his Saint realm abilities, but it didn't need much on his end. Pearl was naturally talented and it took him no time to get used to his new strength.
Whisker on the other hand was very troublesome. Despite his cultivation base, he was very easily scared by every beast Alex put him up against and more times than not simply run away.
Alex tried to get him to fight a few times before giving up entirely. If he wasn't meant to be a fighter then that was alright. He would follow him into the production profession and learn to make pills and medicinal pastes.