Chapter 413: Mocking Swine (1/2)

”Huh? What do you mean?” Luo Mei asked.

”We've been searching for you all this time. Even when we learned about your arrival, we were deep in the southern forest, looking for you,” Wen Cheng said.

”Huh?” Alex was confused now. ”But I should have been visible. There was a massive fog created by the formation and there was a barrier too, so that should have been visible at least. Or maybe you heard some explosions. I was constantly exploding cauldrons many times throughout the night too.”

”Huh?” Luo Mei said in confusion. ”We definitely flew through that part of the forest multiple times. We did it at night too. I can swear that it was so silent in the forest, if a single wolf howled, we would've heard it from far away. However, we didn't hear a single explosion any time, ever.”

”Yes. We definitely looked through that place. Are you sure you're not getting the location of your imprisonment wrong?” Wen Cheng asked.

It was Alex's turn to get confused now. He was absolutely sure that he had gotten the location correct. 'Then why did they nev— Ah!' he thought.

He suddenly rummaged through his bad and brought out the paper that explained the Spirit Disorienting formation and made sure he knew what the formation did.

'3 base formations - Fog, Disorientation, and Space bending,' he read the description again. That wasn't it. He then took out the information about barrier formation.

'2 base formation - Barrier, and space expansion,' he read. He remembered how the space inside the barrier was expanded.

”Hmm… neither of them have anything to do with hiding noise though,” Alex said as he showed them the two formation rods. Just as he said that he remembered.

”Ah! Wait a second,” he said as he brought out another 2 rods. These were the same rods and Alex quickly presented them to his master.

”There was this rod outside the formation too. However, I never got around to learning what it is or if it is even part of a formation,” Alex said. ”Maybe this was it?”

”Hmm… I will take these and get them tested,” Wen Cheng said and took the rods.

The three talked for a little while longer and caught up.

”Alright, we will return now. I've been ignoring sect work for the last month and need to urgently get back to it. The first elder is good at handling the sect in my absence, but I shouldn't rely on him too much. My change in power won't be smooth once your sister breaks through if I neglect it any further,” Wen Cheng said.

”When do you plan on returning to the sect?” Luo Mei asked.

”Umm… I don't know. I made a lot of pills during the last month and need to get them tested. So, maybe after 10 days. Hopefully, I can test all of my pills during that time,” Alex said.

”Alright. Come whenever you are ready,” Wen Cheng said. ”We'll leave for now. Take care of yourself.”

”Goodbye Master, Sister.” Alex saw them off.

Once the two of them left, Alex looked around for the grand elder, but the old man seemed to have gone somewhere, so he went to the core mountain, and through there, he went to the location of the swine farm once again.

Alex greeted the Elder on guard and went in. He went to the location where the swine were locked up and took out the pill that increased the nail once again.

He quickly fed the swine and watched the hoof grow out a little more. It grew about 2 centimeters again. He broke off the hoof of the right leg and kept it.

He then fed the swine another pill and watched. This was something he was curious about so he was making sure every step was recorded.

The hoof on the right leg of the swine grew to about 2 centimeters, but the one on the left grew only 1 centimeter.

”Oh, so another pill does help in growing the nail more, but it reduces effectiveness,” he concluded. He cut the hooves once again to bring the swine back to its original form.

He fed another pill and watched the hoof grow 2 centimeters again. This pretty much confirmed that if someone didn't have long nails, to begin with, they would grow about 2 centimeters of it.

He then checked the durability of the hooves he had and found that the strength in the nail did in fact increase as the number of Harmony in the pill increased.

An increased number of pills however had decreased effectiveness, so taking more than one pill at a time was unnecessary.

The only thing he still couldn't figure out was the duration these nails lasted, but he was pretty certain they didn't expire and that this was a permanent effect.

'That's one pill done,' he thought and sent his spiritual sense through his storage space to look at the 8 other pills he had made while stuck in the formation.

After the first pill, he had come to an understanding that increasing the Harmony of the pill was not necessary at all. He needed the pill to just enter Mortal grade so he could test it out. He could perfect the recipe once he learned that it was a good pill.

He went through the swine to test the rest of the 8 pills. 2 of those pills turned out to be pills that just gave Qi, which was useless to him so he crossed them off of his list.

1 of the pills made the swine's heart beat faster, almost as if it was doping the swine, but to a much weaker level when compared to actual doping pills that existed, so he ignored that as well.