After selecting the herbs, the next step was to test the pills.
Without enough experience in concocting medicine, the only way for a novice like Lü Zhong—who could only crudely follow a recipe—to determine a pill's true effects was to test it.
This testing, of course, would be done on the Yellow Jade Rat.
After calling over the Yellow Jade Rat, Lü Zhong fed it a Mouse-Breeding Pill and began observing its reaction.
'Good, no vomiting, no bleeding from the mouth or nose... Hmm, it's starting to convulse. I need to write that down.'
After observing for an ancient hour, and seeing that the Yellow Jade Rat wasn't about to die, he rewarded it with half a jin of wild boar meat and waved it away.
The entire testing process couldn't be completed in a day, as the pills also took some time to take effect.
After half a month of observation, Lü Zhong determined the effects of the first batch of Mouse-Breeding Pills.
It was a success, but not a complete one.
