A broad river rolled with waves, while the wind carried its foul stench to both banks.
Su Ze looked at the river before him. Its muddy waters were littered with floating trash. So this was the legendary holy river?
He had long heard of this holy river in the hearts of the Luofan people and listened to many legends about the Fan River.
It was said that the Luofan people liked bathing in the Fan River. They washed their clothes by the riverbank, dumped their daily household waste—and even chamber pots—into the river, and discharged industrial wastewater into it as well.
Even more outrageous was the Luofan burial culture. They soaked corpses in the river before cremating them, then scattered the ashes into the Fan River afterward.
Some families who were truly poor simply threw bodies directly into the river, leaving them to rot in the water and become food for the Fan River's mutated beasts.
This very river contained household waste, feces, industrial wastewater, corpses, ashes... and countless things no one could imagine. They said a single drop of its water contained the entire periodic table.
Yet this layered pollution had not driven the creatures within it extinct. Instead, it had created a unique, irreproducible ecosystem in the Fan River, and the animals that survived had evolved thick hides and tenacious vitality.
In short, anything that survived was a tough customer.
Many of the Fan River's unique mutated beasts could not be found in other waters. They were aberrant species shaped by their environment.
What was even stranger was that the mutated beasts in the Fan River almost never came ashore to attack humans, nor did they often actively attack boats on the river. Some, such as the Fan River Turtle, were even easily tamed by humans.
"Big Brother,