Negligence

1 week later.

Alex sat in an alchemy room in the guild and focused as well as he could while making the pill.

For the pill that improved one's Earth spiritual roots, Alex still had 4 more ingredients to gather. So, in the last week, he only had two ingredients to work with, which he did easily in a single day.

The rest of the week, he had worked on the other ingredients for the other pill he was making.

He had finished it finally last night and had spent the rest of the night thinking of the perfect combination for it.

Now, it was time to make that pill. 

Remembering the combination, Alex sent his spiritual sense into the cauldron and started using his new technique to combine the individual particles. 

Once his Qi knew what to do, it started working on its own. Soon, his cauldron was full of the combined powder and all that was left was putting the energy into the powder.