Unable to get a shortcut from her disciple, Bi Lingkong had no choice but to prepare for large-scale experiments the honest way.
She carefully recalled the substances Zhao Sheng and Wen Chao had failed to break down in their experiments years ago, then made a list.
At the very top of that list was water.
Zhao Sheng and Wen Chao had once said that water was made of two elements, "hydrogen" and "oxygen."
But they had been unable to separate water into those elements.
At the time, Wen Chao had declared with absolute confidence, "Electricity and fire are both forms of motion at heart. If Electricity can split it, there's no reason high heat can't."
Then he had started boiling water.
Aside from producing a "Sauna," he had gotten nowhere.
Wen Chao had been baffled, but they were busy and had no time to pursue it further, so they had left it at that.
Since Electricity and fire were different, striking water with lightning ought to produce those two elements, shouldn't it?
She went to the Island, cast a spell to summon a bolt of lightning, and struck the water with a boom.
The surface instantly boiled. Rising steam became a thick white mist, then dispersed in the sea breeze.
But as that happened, Bi Lingkong clearly observed gas other than steam within the mist.
She turned to Pan Long.
Pan Long blinked and put on a blank look.
He was certain that an Electricity shock would split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, though it would probably produce a mixture.
But he had no ability to pick Hydrogen and Oxygen out of that dense cloud of mist.
"Other gases definitely appeared," Lanling Kuang said. "Could one of them be a new element?"
"Doesn't seem like it." Lie Yukou shook his