"Wait, let me sort this out..."
At the temporary Home Star where Borton was stationed, Feng Doudou went over the factions Grandpa Lu had just mentioned and said, "That Emerald Dream is a faction barrier hidden in the New Realm, something like the Kunlun Secret Realm, right?"
"More or less..." Grandpa Lu replied. "But... it's much bigger..."
"How big?" Feng Doudou asked curiously.
"Very big! In theory, it can be infinitely large..." Grandpa Lu thought for a moment before saying, "At first, I kept thinking the places we were transported to were temporary scenes. Later, I found out those worlds were real. Each fragment was equivalent to a world. Do you know how many fragments there are?"
"How would I know?" Feng Doudou rolled her eyes, then continued, "The special missions Lord Borton announced afterward were the infiltration of the Demon Faction here and that Emerald Dream. I can barely understand the Demon Faction one. Their lord is gone, but because their faction's background is so powerful, someone needs to impersonate Lord Borton to maintain the situation and buy time. But what is the Emerald Dream mission about?"
Grandpa Lu: "Development!"
"Development?" Feng Doudou was stunned.
"Yes..." Grandpa Lu nodded. "It's an extremely exaggerated artificial universe, theoretically usable directly as a real world. It can be used to nurture a population, and even create one. That's why Mu Yunji was sent there immediately. As for astral materials, that place is practically an infinite source of them."
"Isn't that a good thing?" Feng Doudou asked blankly. "Why was it labeled high-risk?"
"Because there really are risks!" Grandpa Lu said somberly. "The reason the Moon Elves and the dragons were able to cooperate back then was that the Emerald Dream and the otherworld passage could complement each other!"
Feng Doudou: "Complement each