A Simple Lacking

Alex chose one of the many ideas of which energy he should use and tried to implement it.

To do so, he needed to understand the energy at its base level and replicate it. Since the energy he was going to be was mostly Fire, with True Fire Dao, Alex was more or less certain it would be easier.

He produced a regular fire aura then slowly started tweaking it to get closer to the result he needed. He added some energy here and then took out some there. He lowered the Metal energy while improving on Wood energy at the same time.

With the Dao of Seven-Elemental Interaction, manipulating the aura of the energy was a much easier task than he previously anticipated. 

However, even as he tried to do his best to reach the final desired point, Alex simply couldn't. He tried and tried, but he failed each time. Even without knowing why he was failing, he knew that he was.