After Xian Wu's experiment, he discovered that when Soul Force compressed Carbon Atoms to a certain degree, they bonded together to form a stable substance—graphite.
Graphite was gray-black and chemically stable. The lead in ordinary pencils was made of it.
In other words, with graphite, they could make pencil leads, and with pencil leads, they could make pencils.
At present, people in the City of Brilliance used brushes and ink. They were inconvenient to carry, troublesome to use, and expensive.
If pencils could be popularized, they would greatly benefit the cultural industry of the City of Brilliance.
However, although Xian Wu had managed to produce graphite, a pencil was more than just graphite. It also needed a hard casing. A pencil made entirely of graphite would easily snap.
Without solving that problem, the plan to produce pencils would have to be put on hold.
With the successful synthesis of graphite as a precedent, Xian Wu began working on synthesizing water.
Water was a compound, and far more difficult to synthesize than graphite.
When he used Soul Force to apply pressure to hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the process produced not only water, but also hydrogen gas and oxygen gas.
So the water created this way wasn't pure; it was a mixture.
Though hydrogen and oxygen were mixed in, most of the mixture was still water—more precisely, liquid water.
Compressing liquid water further would turn it into ice.
But direct compression would consume a great deal of Soul Force, so Xian Wu chose a simpler method.
Using the Absolute Zero he had just acquired, he froze the liquid water directly into solid water—in other words, ice.
After a series of complicated experiments, Xian Wu could now produce graphite, Three-state Water, Three-state Oxygen, Three-state Hydrogen, and Three-state Carbon Dioxide.
There were other compounds