Superlife's Retainer (22)

"Dragons really are extraordinary."

Hearing Sheo's confident assurance, Ian could not help feeling somewhat moved.

Ever since Sheo had arrived in Xiahui Territory, Ian and Adalbert had begun researching "dragon souls."

Although they could only make indirect observations through Sheo's medical examinations, the results had already been quite astonishing.

A dragon soul itself was a perfect soul-body that was not bound by "form or state," immensely free and fluid.

Whether split apart, shattered, sliced, or dispersed, the separated portions of a dragon soul could maintain their own existence and wait to recover once reunited.

In other words, even if a super soul-crushing machine pulverized a dragon soul into a mosaic-like mess, as long as that mosaic was gathered together, compressed, and spun, it could spontaneously reassemble into a complete dragon soul.

And throughout that process, not a single shred of information would be lost.

Back then, the Spirit Cognition Institute had relied precisely on the dragon soul's natural tendency to gather in order to restrain Sheo's dragon soul.

It sounded simple, but in truth, it was utterly inconceivable.

Shatter something, then rebuild it without losing any information or expending any observable energy; have it all occur independently of the outside world and without any external energy... if that was not negative entropy, then what was?

Especially when Sheo demonstrated how she could effortlessly fuse the dragon soul portions separated within her artificial body, then split them apart again—repeating the process dozens of times without the slightest loss—Ian and Adalbert, who fully understood the significance behind it, both drew several sharp breaths.

This process of "self-repair" left Ian deeply shocked. To explain such a negative-entropy phenomenon, utterly inexplicable in a three-dimensional world, one could only throw it onto something current human technology had no way of comprehending: "Primordial Aether," or perhaps