Success?

"Arghh… so much thinking, and I feel like I've made barely any progress," Alex thought. 

It was 11 pm and Alex had decided to stop thinking about the structures and the composition of the pills. The information was way too overwhelming for him. 

And in the end, he had yet to figure out how any of the shapes had to do with absorbing energy. Was a certain shape supposed to only absorb a certain amount of energy? Was a certain shape supposed to only absorb a specific kind of energy? Was the threading-like shape from the clockwise and counterclockwise motion supposed to affect the type of energy or the amount?

There were so many questions that he just couldn't answer in a short period of time. At least, not by himself. He decided to start cultivating. 

He sat down and called Pearl to start cultivating. Pearl came as asked and got onto his lap and started shining a little as he started cultivating.