Senior Bu

Alex started fidgeting. He didn't know what was happening with Pearl, but he knew that he was fighting his inner demon at the moment.

Pearl was done breaking through the hard shell on his beast core. 

Similar to how a human had a dantian, beasts stored their Qi in their core, which was attached to their spiritual roots. Alex could feel the significant improvement in Pearl's aura, so he knew he was just two steps away from actually breaking through.

However, it was exactly these 2 steps that were the hardest and that was what made Alex so worried.

This was Pearl's first time trying to fight against an Inner demon. If he failed, he would face a backlash that could severely harm his progress and even drop it a considerable amount.

That alone wouldn't have been much of a problem, but Pearl had also learned the Dao, which meant that he had to fight against the lightning that was ready to come for him as a weaker version of himself.