Explanation

Grimsight turned to look around the barrier. A moment later, the barrier exploded into glittering light, no longer blocking Alex's escape or contorting the space around him.

The pain in his body was also slowly fading, with his passive Qi collection doing enough to heal where he was hurt. His body also began destroying the toxin from the sect master's skull Spirit, giving him more relief as time passed.

With a few seconds more, he had enough strength in himself to pull out a healing pill and eat it. He let the pill flow down to his stomach and diffuse as a regular pill. He did not need it to turn into qi right now and instead needed the healing.

Alex turned to the side and noticed Silvermist's arrival in the sky. He flew down quickly and landed next to Grimsight, looking at Alex worriedly. "What happened? Are you alright?"