The Pill

Alex felt confident that this was it. He had tried so many different recipes and so many different ingredients, but none of them felt as good as the current one he was making.

After a dozen minutes or so of making the pill, Alex was done with it.

He brought out the pill and ate it without any hesitation. Since the pill did nothing to harm his dantian or meridians, he showed no fear of what else it could do.

Since he already knew it was a pill that affected one's mind, he had no reason to worry about the rest of his body.

Alex closed his eyes and let the pill affect him. As he let it do its thing, he slowly felt his head grow heavy and drowsy, as if he wanted to sleep right away.

However, instead of falling asleep, he simply just fell into a trance. He didn't realize that he had fallen into a trance and let his mind freely wander about the many things it had to think about.

He was suddenly woken up by loud banging on his door.