"But..." Ai Qinglan changed tack. "Actually, your senior sister has a personal guess. Just take it as something to hear—'order' can also be regarded as information, and annihilating 'order' means annihilating information. And information has material properties..."
"I see..." Wang Qi pondered for a moment and realized that this seemed highly possible!
Information was a physical quantity that eliminated uncertainty. A system necessarily contained information. On the other hand, "information," like "mass" and "energy," was an attribute of matter. In other words, information was matter.
That famous formula of Special Relativity showed that mass and energy could be converted into each other. Shannon's Information Theory, meanwhile, derived the energy required to input or erase one bit of information. Perhaps because the physical laws of the two worlds differed, Shenzhou's Information Theory went a step further and even derived conversion formulas between spiritual energy, mass, energy, and information!
Simply put, in Shenzhou, if a USB drive had enough information written into it, it would grow heavier, become more spiritually charged, and possess more inherent energy!
"This isn't the Path of Living Beings, so your senior sister's guess can't be taken as certain. All right, snap out of it!" Ai Qinglan clapped her hands. "Back to the original question: the reason you possess the divine ability to see through lifespan is because you cultivate other cultivation methods alongside it."
"So that was it—it was the Tian Shang Jue..."
Wang Qi had already harbored a few suspicions. After Ai Qinglan's guidance, how could he still fail to understand? The Tian Shang Jue possessed an instinctive perception of entropy; the Tian Ge Xing was keenly sensitive to changes in the surrounding spiritual-energy field; the Geometry Book excelled at abstraction, the Yao Ding Suanjing at calculation, while the Tianyan Tulu pointed directly at the essence