Alex was a little surprised by the amount of time it took to learn a Dao. Back when he learned about explosions, he had taken about 2 days to understand them. While he had some understanding of the explosion at the time, the real understanding had come from witnessing the explosive technique of the Blueflame monkey.
In addition to that, he had eaten some Enlightening Mangoes which helped him understand further, not unlike what he was going through right now.
Right now, Alex was nowhere close to learning a Dao, but thanks to the help of the scent that made him fall into a trance, he had the time and necessary mental ability to possibly understand some concepts and learn some Dao.
This made Alex think back to the time when he learned the Heat dao. That had come out of nothing as he simply thought about heat and hadn't taken a lot of time either.
