The wizards' study of the information beings' entropy reduction cycle shows it violates the law of conservation of energy, absorbing outside entropy increase into its own entropy reduction. 1
Obtained by Martin from the information beings after their surrender; digesting it takes him ten-odd years of seclusion. 2
Jie Ming's cultivation system has always leaned toward entropy reduction, which lets him understand the silence more deeply than many high-level wizards. 2