Chapter 413: Mocking Swine (2/2)

1 of the pills made the right hind leg of the swine slightly longer than the left one. Alex shook his head when he saw that effect. He doubted anyone would ever need such a pill, but still decided to sell it since that was the only thing he could do.

2 of the pills healed at a different rate but were both not as good as the other healing pills out there.

1 of the pills opened up the sweat glands of the pig and made it sweat far faster than normal.

The last pill, however, was something he hadn't expected, or rather, didn't dare expect. When he fed the last pill to the pig, he looked at the information the formation was giving him regarding the swine's vitals and other things.

He looked at the vitals and back at the pig. He was expecting the current pill to have something to do with the non-physical aspect since the main ingredient of this pill didn't have any physical effect.

The ingredient was a type of grass that he hadn't found in the alchemy garden of the Hong Wu Sect. He could only find it in the southern forest or by buying it through the stores.

The ingredient was called the Bright Soul Grass. According to the book Zhou Mei had given him, the grass was supposed to help the soul of anyone that ate the grass to be more profound.

Alex didn't understand what it meant, but he still expected to see some non-physical. He waited for a few seconds for the pill to do its work, but nothing happened at all. He didn't even feel any Qi movement in the swine's body.

The swine started turning left and right, up and down, and even tried to turn around at one point, but nothing more happened at all.

'What?' he was confused. He waited a bit longer, but there was nothing. The light in the enclosure had lit up from the swine eating the pill but there was definitely something wrong here as he didn't have the slightest hint of where the energy affected.

He went against his instincts and fed the swine another pill. The swine didn't immediately eat the pill and instead looked at Alex with its clear human-like eyes.

'What does it want?' Alex wondered as he looked at the pill and pushed the pill towards its mouth. The swine hesitated for a bit, but still ate the pill in the end.

Alex carefully looked for the pill's energy in the stomach now. The energy appeared for a split second before dissolving into the bloodstream. After that, he had no idea where the blood took the energy.

He waited for something to change in the vital signs information to the right. Aside from a slightly faster-beating heart, everything else was fine.

He looked at the final pill he had of this type as it wasn't really necessary to have a lot to test it.

”Sigh, am I really gonna feed this pill and not know what it did?” he thought. Still, he needed to learn, so he brought the pill in front of the pig again.

Instead of trying to eat the pill, the swine instead turned its head sideways so as it didn't have to. It went so far as to tilt its head and not give Alex any attention.

”The hell is wrong with this swine?” he thought and waited for it to eat the pill. However, the swine didn't eat the pill at all.

”Sigh, it must be a really bad pill if even a swine refuses to eat it any further,” he believed. So, he pulled back the pill and turned around to feed it to another pill if he could find anything.

Just as he was going to do that, the swine turned to him and stuck its tongue out to mock him.

”What?” Alex was really surprised now. ”Why is the swine teasing me? Are the swines supposed to be this intelligent? I thought they were a dull creature with no mind for themselves,” he thought. He couldn't understand what was happening here, so he decided to call the elder.

However, just then he stopped. 'Could it be?' he wondered and walked towards the swine once more. It looked a little afraid now that he had suddenly returned.

”Do you want to go free?” Alex suddenly asked. The swine looked at him with a confused stare. 'So it doesn't understand what I'm saying, but is smart enough to understand that I'm trying to communicate,' Alex thought.

'Did my pill make it intelligent?' he wondered. He needed to stop experiments on this swine as it had gained enough sentience.

'Do I test if I'm correct though?' he thought and turned to another swine that was just a normal pill swine with no emotions on its face. Alex walked up to it and handed it the last pill he had left.

The swine made no fuss and ate the pill without hesitation. Within a few seconds, Alex looked at the swine's face and saw that it was starting to look up and down as if it had just noticed that it was in a cage.

It then looked left and right and saw that it was inside a cage. Finally, it turned around to see that it had no place to go at all and had a face of acceptance.

Alex sighed when he saw that face. Seeing a swine have emotions made him sympathetic towards the swine.

However, the biggest surprise he got here was definitely going to be the pill he had made. If he was not wrong, the pill increased the mental ability of someone. Meaning, it increased their mental strength.

If the pill did what he thought it did, then he could definitely use it to increase the density of the spiritual sea and thus better his spiritual sense by a lot.

He would have to work hard to make the pill with a very high harmony, but that was acceptable for him if he truly could somehow improve his spiritual sea in any way.

Once he was done with the swine, he didn't know what to mark them and called an elder for help. The elder took the swine away after seeing their change and Alex was free to return home to do what he wanted to do.