Alex was done with 4 of the trials already. He had completely passed through the Alchemy and Talisman trials and had nearly reached the end with the Artifact and Formation trials. He could have returned and tried to see if he could go further, but he saw no point.
There wasn't much to gain by passing a single test in those two categories. It wasn't like he failed because of missing ingredients like he had with the talisman trial.
So, he was intent on moving away from them all.
There were only two trials he hadn't visited yet, and having decided from early on that he wouldn't be visiting the Music trials, the only one that Alex had yet to visit was the Painting trials.
He was quite looking forward to this one. Over the last 6 months since he left Goldheart City, aside from his physical body, his focus had been on painting. He had done a lot of other things at that time as well, but painting was what he came back to each time.
