Obstacles

As Alex started moving his Qi around his body, Pearl started cultivating as well. 

At first, Alex felt nothing. However, slowly he started feeling the familiar feeling of skin splitting from the body cultivation that happened with Pearl.

He hadn't felt this feeling for over 2 years, so he started to forget the worry he was feeling about cultivating for a whole month in one go.

He wasn't worried so much as he was anxious, after all this was the first time he was going to cultivate for so long without any alchemy or training breaks in between.

Even that was gone now that he was starting to feel the slight, tingling pain around his skin which was starting to extend to his muscles.

As his muscles started tearing up, his bones started to show signs of fractures while the cut on his skin started to grow to be longer and wider.