Lu Ning glanced at the bewildered group and repeated, "A thousand or so items, what's wrong?"

"Hiss..." Osiris gasped, his expression one of utter shock: "Lu Ning, are you serious?! There really are a thousand or so items??"

Lu Ning nodded: "Mm."

The group exchanged glances, even the usually composed Yan Bing seemed incredulous. She couldn't help but ask, "Lu Ning, are you running low on your materialized extremely dangerous items? Have you run out of Pale Crystals?"

Lu Ning shook his head: "No, actually, I consume very little Pale Crystal when I materialize one-time-use extremely dangerous items. On average, it only costs about a hundred Pale Crystals per item. I still have a lot of Pale Crystals on me right now."

Upon hearing this, Yann was even more shocked.

Especially Yan Bing, who has lived in the Exile City-State for so many years, knows best how many Pale Crystals are needed to exchange for extremely dangerous goods.

One hundred pale crystals could be exchanged for one item, something Yan Bing had never imagined.

"Even with a thousand times exchange rate, it wouldn't be this low, would it?" Yan Bing's voice was trembling.

Lu Ning nodded: "Yes, now that my strength has improved, the exchange rate has increased again."

In the air, everyone fell silent.

The news was so explosive that it left everyone somewhat dazed.

Given the status of the three of them, who were Saint-level experts, within the Mist Bureau, they had some understanding of how many one-time-use, extremely dangerous items the Mist Bureau possessed.

The entire Mist Bureau probably only has around a thousand single-use, extremely dangerous items.

After all, such disposable dangerous goods either come from scientists and individuals with special abilities, are scavenged from other cults, or are discovered by chance in the fog.

Regardless of the approach, the process is never easy.

As far as Arn knows, the Mist Bureau can probably only obtain no more than twenty disposable dangerous items each year.

Adding in the annual consumption, over the years, the Mist Bureau actually doesn't have that many single-use, extremely dangerous items left.

Lu Ning only slightly manifested it, yet it already possessed the entire inventory of the Mist Bureau.

This really startled them.

However, Yann quickly took a deep breath and came to his senses.

A look of surprise appeared in his eyes, and he said, "Great! With so many disposable, extremely dangerous items, we have even more confidence!"

“Yes!” Osiris also realized, and an excited smile appeared on his face: “These extremely dangerous items can be used to arm Saint-level Awakened Ones, which will greatly reduce our pressure!”

After all, the pressure from a single-use, extremely dangerous item is immense, and it can even have some effect on a demigod.

The only regrettable thing is that the backlash from the use of single-use, extremely dangerous materials can be enormous.

Even a Saint-level expert would face serious problems under such a backlash.

Therefore, these single-use, extremely dangerous goods can only be used in critical moments.

Even so, this is already quite good.

Especially now, with multiple cracks appearing in the barrier, problems are likely to occur in various areas. This batch of disposable, extremely hazardous materials has arrived just in time!

Aishalin smiled and said, "Let's speed things up. With these extremely dangerous items, closing the rift will be much easier."

…………

The group quickly arrived at the city walls of the exile city-state. They passed through the barrier and entered the wilderness. Then, they quickened their pace and moved rapidly towards the outer edge of the wilderness.

Because they were somewhat worried about the situation on Earth, the group only took a few hours to reach the outer barrier. They then passed through the barrier and returned to the mist.

Yan Bing seems to have a special ability to find the way back.

Led by Yan Bing, they once again walked through the mist, heading towards Earth.

Considering the situation on Earth, they were able to return much faster than when they arrived.

The path leading to the Earth's rift was perfectly peaceful, just as it had been on the way there; they encountered no monsters or evil gods.

A few days later, Lu Ning clearly sensed a slight change in the density of the fog not far away.

He looked over there, and that was the direction where the Earth Barrier was located.

Not long after, they saw that familiar crack again.

Then, Yan Bing led the way, and the group passed through the crack one after another.

As soon as Lu Ning passed through the crack, a loud roar rang out.

Boom!!

A tremendous sound, accompanied by incredibly violent fluctuations, came from afar. The terrifying mental fluctuations made even Lu Ning's hair stand on end.

The three of them, including Yann, had their pupils shrink, their bodies tense up, and they even felt a little short of breath.

A battle at the demigod level!

The thought immediately popped into the minds of the three of them, including Yann.

After all, this mental energy fluctuation was far too powerful, far surpassing that of a Saint-level being!

Yan Bing, who was the first to emerge, looked expressionlessly toward the ocean, which was also the direction from which the waves were coming from.

Ya'en and his two companions, along with Lu Ning, also looked over immediately.

Then they witnessed a horrific scene.

The space in the sky seemed to be folded into multiple layers by some force, forming a special folded space barrier.

A barrier enveloped the sky, drawing in scorching sunlight from who-knows-where.

Sunlight gathered continuously in the folded space, condensing into an incomparably blazing golden pillar of light, hundreds of meters in diameter, shooting towards the distance.

The beam of light was directed towards a monster formed from the remains of countless marine creatures.

The moment they saw the monster, Yann and the others widened their eyes.

"Is it that monster? The demigod we encountered when we first arrived?"

When they entered the ruins of Base City 3, they saw this demigod-level monster on the sea.

However, the demigod-level monster did not seem to notice them at the time, and disappeared after only staying on the sea surface for a short while.

Unexpectedly, we ran into each other again.

Moreover, it seems that there are demigod-level powerhouses attacking this monster!

"Holy crap?! Look at the sea!"

Just then, Osiris noticed something, his eyes widening in horror as he looked towards the sea.

Lu Ning shifted his gaze from the demigod-level monster to the surface of the ocean.

He saw countless writhing marine creatures floating up from the deep sea, rapidly approaching the land.

These monsters are numerous, seemingly endless, and the first wave has already approached the shore.

Horde of Calamity Beasts!

Is it because the Earth's barrier has malfunctioned, causing the marine monsters in this region to rebel?

The thought popped into Lu Ning's mind.