Chapter Summaries

In 2027, Lin Mo rushed to a military base in Northern Bell City to report that he had discovered another world, but the soldiers mistook the glowing gemstone he brought as proof for a radioactive threat. He ended the chapter pinned to the scorching ground while chemical defense troops were summoned.

• Lin Mo approached the military base and told the sentry he had discovered a new world that could save lives.
• After the sentry fired a warning shot, an officer and several soldiers came out and demanded Lin Mo's identity.
• Lin Mo identified himself and described a world with elves, magic, and an enormous World Tree, but the officer dismissed him as delusional.
• Lin Mo held up an emerald-green gemstone from the other world, and the officer feared it was dangerously radioactive.
• The soldiers tackled Lin Mo and called for the chemical defense team to test the gemstone while he insisted it was just a stone.

Lin Mo was detained after bringing a glowing gemstone to a military compound, where chemical-defense soldiers found it was not radioactive. During interrogation, he insisted it came from another world and argued that its unknown composition would prove his claim.

• Chemical-defense soldiers tested the glowing gemstone and found its radiation levels were within the normal background range.
• The officer ordered the soldiers to secure the gemstone and take Lin Mo to an interrogation room for questioning.
• Lin Mo waited in handcuffs, believing an analysis of the gemstone would support his claim that it came from another world.
• A military officer and a female soldier entered the interrogation room and questioned Lin Mo about his identity and claims.
• Lin Mo told the officer that the gemstone's composition would match no known substance on Blue Star, insisting that this set him apart.

While being interrogated by a military officer, Lin Mo described how his consciousness had traveled to another world in his sleep. There, he woke in an elf’s bedchamber, saw a vast World Tree, and lost consciousness after she bound him with water magic.

• The officer examined abnormal laboratory results from the stone and asked Lin Mo to explain the other world he had visited.
• Lin Mo told the officers that he had traveled there twice after falling asleep and began recounting his first journey.
• Lin Mo woke in an unfamiliar treehouse beside an elf who accused him of trespassing in her bedchamber.
• The elf cast Water Binding, and Lin Mo ran onto the terrace, where he saw a colossal World Tree.
• A water rope caught Lin Mo’s ankle, and he fell, struck the railing and floor, and lost consciousness.

Lin Mo recounted how he tested whether he could cross worlds again, then woke bound in the elf Fendona’s home with only the lighter in his mouth. After proving his claim with the lighter, he was on the verge of speaking with her when a war horn announced a Demon Clan attack.

• Lin Mo told the field officers he had taken sleeping pills and tried crossing again with a lighter in his mouth, his phone in his hand, and the gemstone in his pocket.
• Lin Mo woke bound in the Sleeping Garden, where Fendona accused him of trespassing and ordered a Truth-Detecting Art spell.
• Lin Mo truthfully claimed he was a traveler from another world and offered the lighter as proof.
• Lin Mo demonstrated the lighter’s flame, and Fendona accepted it as a gift and said she would provisionally believe his story.
• A war horn sounded, and Fendona announced that the Demon Clan was attacking.

Lin Mo followed Fendona to the edge of the Elf city and saw an enormous Demon Clan army advancing on the living treant defenses. The Elves began fighting back, but a thunderous roar from behind the demonic tide signaled a new threat.

• Fendona rushed to defend her people, and the vines released Lin Mo, who followed her through the Elf city.
• Lin Mo saw the world tree and realized it could sustain millions of people in an independent ecosystem.
• Lin Mo reached the city's edge and learned from Fendona that the approaching monsters were the Demon Clan, enemies of all life on the Terra Continent.
• Fendona led the Elemental Elves in launching magic and arrow volleys against the advancing demons, while the treants deflected the monsters' ranged attacks.
• A powerful roar sounded from behind the demonic tide, and Lin Mo sensed that a major threat was approaching.

Lin Mo recounted his battle against the demons and convinced military officers that he was telling the truth about another world. Zhao Gang arranged a monitored test of Lin Mo’s ability to travel between worlds, and Lin Mo prepared to sleep under observation.

• A flying demon crashed into Lin Mo after an elf archer killed it, knocking him unconscious.
• Lin Mo insisted that his account was real and said he had come to the military district because only the people's soldiers could help avert disaster.
• The field-grade officer and a team of experts questioned Lin Mo, then reported his case for further investigation.
• Zhao Gang examined the unusual gemstone Lin Mo had brought back and demanded repeatable proof that another world existed.
• Lin Mo said he could bring back small objects after sleeping, so Zhao Gang moved him to a camera-filled room while scientists monitored him.

Lin Mo awoke in the elven infirmary and learned that the Demon Clan was pushing the surviving races toward defeat. After helping Fendona care for the wounded, he asked her for an elven souvenir and accidentally caused confusion with an expression that sounded like he had been bragging about a cow.

• Lin Mo woke in the elven infirmary and found Fendona healing wounded warriors.
• Fendona sent Lin Mo to help carry the wounded, and a young elf easily lifted the stretcher Lin Mo could not move.
• Lin Mo asked Fendona about the battle, and she explained that the elves were defending their last line at Lothia City while the other races faced collapse.
• Fendona grew weak after healing the wounded, and Lin Mo urged her to rest before asking her for a distinctly elven souvenir.
• Fendona misheard Lin Mo's expression about blowing a cow and looked toward a nearby sleeping minotaur.

Lin Mo received a glowing leaf from the World Tree and returned to Blue Star with it in his mouth. The experts confirmed his interdimensional travel was real, and Zhao Gang classified the discovery as top secret as Professor Zhang took charge of the leaf.

• Fendona gave Lin Mo a glowing World Tree leaf as proof of his visit and arranged a room where he could rest.
• Lin Mo tucked the leaf into his mouth, fell asleep, and later awoke in the underground base with it still there.
• The monitoring team watched Lin Mo produce the leaf, convincing Professor Zhang and Zhao Gang that interdimensional travel was real.
• Zhao Gang ordered the discovery classified at the highest level and rushed to inform the higher-ups.
• Lin Mo tried to wipe saliva from the leaf, but Professor Zhang stopped him and carefully took it for research.

Lin Mo recounted his crossing to the Terra Continent and described the Elves, their world tree, and the conflict with the Demon Clan, convincing the experts that his account was credible. Zhao Gang offered him accommodation while scientists began analyzing the world tree leaf and discovered that it was alive and rapidly healing.

• Professor Zhang took the glowing leaf to the laboratory, and the other researchers followed eagerly.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang and the remaining experts about the wounded-soldier camp, Fendona, the Elves, the world tree, and the war on the Terra Continent.
• The experts questioned Lin Mo about the otherworld's races, society, magic, and warfare, then a sociology professor judged his account logically consistent.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that they believed him, promised to report his information to their superiors, and offered him better accommodations.
• Professor Zhang and the scientists found that the leaf exchanged energy with its surroundings and that its puncture was healing rapidly.

Researchers discovered that a leaf from the World Tree rapidly healed wounds, eased Professor Zhang’s arthritis, and revived a dying plant. The report prompted Great Xia’s leader to make the leaf the country’s highest priority, and Zhao Gang brought it to the National Academy of Sciences for verification.

• Researchers found that the leaf’s energy greatly exceeded the gemstone’s and watched it heal a sampling wound, relieve Professor Zhang’s arthritis, and restore a withered plant.
• Professor Zhang ordered an encrypted report, and the secretary delivered it to the leader, who ordered Zhao Gang to escort the samples to the National Academy of Sciences.
• The leader suspended Academician Qian Zhenhua and Academician Liu Chengen’s projects so they could verify the samples.
• Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and other scientists complained about the interruption until Zhao Gang arrived with two secure cases.
• The cases opened to reveal a glowing green gemstone and a shimmering, seemingly breathing leaf.

Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen’s tests confirmed that the glowing gemstone and leaf possessed extraordinary biological properties, giving Elder Zhao hope that Great Xia could survive. After Zhao Gang delivered the verification data, Elder Zhao summoned the other leaders for an emergency meeting and asked Zhao Gang to explain Lin Mo.

• Qian Zhenhua ordered the laboratory team to analyze the glowing objects, and Liu Chengen concluded that their findings surpassed the team’s understanding of life.
• Qian Zhenhua called Elder Zhao and declared the objects a miracle, while Elder Zhao asked about their origins and awaited the verification results.
• Zhao Gang brought Elder Zhao the signed report confirming the objects’ extraordinary properties and the claims associated with Lin Mo.
• Elder Zhao recognized the objects as a possible hope for Great Xia and ordered an emergency meeting with the other four leaders.
• Elder Zhao invited Zhao Gang to the meeting, and Zhao Gang began telling him about Lin Mo as the leaders studied the reports.

As Blue Star’s leaders approved the secret New Hope project to secure cooperation with Lin Mo’s other world, Zhao Gang traveled to Bell City to take charge. Lin Mo moved into a new underground-base suite after collecting his belongings, but an unexpected visitor knocked at his door.

• Officials warned that the other world and Lin Mo’s connection to it posed grave risks, but Zhao Gang argued that Blue Star had no other path to survival.
• The leaders agreed to support Lin Mo’s cooperation with the other world and created the S-class New Hope project, placing Zhao Gang in command.
• Zhao Gang reviewed Lin Mo’s background and flew with his chosen team to Bell City, concerned that the pressure might overwhelm him.
• Lin Mo returned to his old apartment with two guards, collected sentimental clothes and his computer hard drive, and left for the underground base.
• Lin Mo settled into his new suite and prepared to open his private files, but someone knocked at his door.

Zhao Gang appointed Lin Mo supreme leader of the New Hope Plan and introduced him to the experts who would support his operations on the Terra Continent. The chapter ended with Academician Qian Zhenhua eagerly asking Lin Mo about the world tree’s possible reversal of entropy, leaving Lin Mo baffled.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the National Supreme Academy of Sciences had verified his findings and that humanity depended on him.
• Zhao Gang announced the New Hope Plan, named Lin Mo its commander-in-chief, and offered three priorities: stay alive, seek world tree seeds through the Elves, and gather intelligence about the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo saluted Zhao Gang and learned that Great Xia would provide resources and pay him a regular salary.
• Zhao Gang led Lin Mo to meet the New Hope Plan’s think tank of experts and military staff.
• Academician Qian Zhenhua asked Lin Mo whether the world tree involved a localized reversal of entropy, and Lin Mo failed to understand the question.

Lin Mo received a miniature camera from Zhao Gang so Great Xia could gather firsthand footage of the Terra Continent. After returning to the Elven city and recording its tense streets, he found Fendona watching the demon-shrouded land from a tower.

• Experts crowded Lin Mo with questions about the World Tree, rune technology, the Demon Clan, and other aspects of the Terra Continent until Zhao Gang intervened.
• Zhao Gang gave Lin Mo a silent miniature camera and instructed him to record as much as possible during his next crossing.
• Lin Mo hid the camera in his mouth, returned to his room, and crossed back to the Elven city with it.
• Lin Mo turned on the camera, clipped it to his shirt, and filmed the city as he wandered through its wartime streets.
• Lin Mo spotted Fendona standing alone atop an arrow tower and called up to ask what she was looking at.

Lin Mo comforted Fendona after the Elves’ costly battle and offered to ask his people for help, giving her hope as their city faced the prospect of falling after two more attacks. During lunch, he began describing Blue Star’s technology and life, leaving Fendona fascinated by his world.

• Fendona told Lin Mo that the Elves had lost nearly thirty percent of their warriors, were short on supplies, and feared their city would fall after two more attacks.
• Lin Mo recognized an opportunity to pursue a partnership and told Fendona that his people might be able to help, though he needed to discuss the details with them first.
• Fendona invited Lin Mo to lunch, and he sampled the Elves’ fruit, whose effects immediately relieved his fatigue.
• Fendona asked Lin Mo about his world, and he described its towering buildings, high-speed rail, planes, and mobile phones.

Lin Mo learned that Fendona was 180 years old and returned from the Elves’ world with miniature-camera footage. The footage stunned Great Xia’s experts, who watched it reveal the Elves’ city, battlefield, World Tree, and Fendona’s meal.

• Lin Mo choked when Fendona said she was 180, then learned Elves generally lived for over a thousand years.
• After lunch, Lin Mo wrapped his miniature camera in a leaf, returned to Great Xia, and contacted Zhao Gang.
• Zhao Gang brought Academician Qian Zhenhua and other experts to Project New Hope’s central command center to review the footage.
• The experts watched footage of the Elves’ plant-built city, damaged battlefield, World Tree, and Fendona.
• Liu Chengen asked Lin Mo what the glowing blue fruit tasted like.

Great Xia’s command center debated how to help the Elves survive without giving them dangerous modern weapons, and settled on supplying improved bows, repeating crossbows, and better arrow-making methods. The plans were prepared for delivery to Commander-in-Chief Lin among the Elves.

• Old Li warned Zhao Gang and the command center that the Elves’ handmade weapons and limited supplies would not sustain them through two more sieges.
• Qian Zhenhua proposed giving the Elves compound bows and repeating crossbows to increase their range, firing rate, and combat endurance.
• Qian Zhenhua suggested sharing a simple metal formula and smelting process so the Elves could make stronger, reusable arrowheads.
• The experts agreed to make clear, durable instructional drawings and chose production methods suited to the Elves’ craftsmen.
• Zhao Gang ordered the team to prepare the complete set of improvements.

Lin Mo brought Great Xia’s blueprints to Fendona and helped the Elf artisans build a Compound Bow as they struggled to find a way to fight the Demon Clan. The first bow was complete, but its effectiveness had yet to be tested.

• Zhao Gang gave Lin Mo the blueprints and metalworking instructions, reminding him to prioritize his safety.
• Lin Mo found Fendona at a workshop, where Elf artisans were discouraged by their broken bows and arrows.
• Lin Mo presented blueprints for a Compound Bow and a Repeating Crossbow, explaining how each could help the Elves fight.
• Fendona ordered Master Elder and the artisans to build a weapon from the blueprints, and Master Elder reluctantly agreed.
• With Lin Mo guiding them, the artisans used ironwood, spider silk, and Mithril Ore to make the first Compound Bow.

Master Elder and the Elves tested Lin Mo’s Compound Bow and Repeating Crossbow, whose power and rapid firing stunned them. After enchanting a Compound Bow, Leon fired an arrow that formed a cyan airflow cone and exploded a stone target at five hundred meters.

• Master Elder fired the Compound Bow through a hundred-forged steel target and staggered in disbelief.
• Fendona tested the Compound Bow against a traditional Elf longbow and declared it a divine weapon.
• Lin Mo had a young Elf guard fire the Repeating Crossbow, which shredded five straw dummies with ten bolts in seconds.
• Master Elder enchanted a Compound Bow, and Fendona called on Leon to test it.
• Leon fired at a stone target five hundred meters away, and the enchanted arrow exploded it on impact.

Lin Mo’s new weapons proved overwhelmingly effective in the Elves’ tests, giving their archers greater range and speed while making close-range defense and mass armament practical. Fendona ordered immediate production and sent a messenger to Avenor to report the breakthrough to the Queen.

• Leon used the Compound Bow to hit a cliff face one thousand meters away, astonishing the Elves.
• An Elf guard tested the Repeating Crossbow, firing ten bolts in three seconds and hitting all ten targets.
• The Elves tested durable three-edged arrows that could be repaired and reused, easing their ammunition shortages.
• Fendona thanked Lin Mo and ordered Master Elder and the craftsmen to produce the weapons and arrows without delay.
• Fendona instructed Leon to send a messenger with weapon samples and manufacturing instructions to the Queen in Avenor.
• An Elf messenger rode toward Avenor carrying the new weapons, arrows, and instructions.