The setting sun bled across the sky, turning the river crimson. Its surging roar was like the fury of a god, burrowing into the soul.
Meng Qi watched for a while, then made his way upstream, searching for a place to cross. Just as ordinary rivers had stretches of rushing water and stretches of calm, the Angry River also had safe and dangerous sections. In the dangerous areas, powerful and eerie monsters from the riverbed could occasionally break through their seals and rise to the surface, waiting silently for prey or stirring up trouble. They were extremely dangerous.
Under normal circumstances, Meng Qi wouldn't have feared them too much. They weren't Great Sages, after all. Aside from transforming into a fish, he could also imitate a Blue Blood Person, parting the water to shield himself. Underwater, he could bring seven or eight tenths of his strength to bear, making him a genuine all-terrain, all-environment combat machine. Unless he encountered one of the monsters' foremost fighters, there was little to worry about. But he was trying to cross the river undetected. If he fought the monsters below and caused a major disturbance, alerting the enemy on the opposite bank, all would be lost!
The stretch of river directly in front of the Rebel Army's camp was a good place to cross, where monsters had a hard time rising to the surface. There were fewer than three such places along the entire Angry River. They were "passes" that needed to be guarded, and the other side had the same arrangement.
So Meng Qi gave up on crossing there and continued upstream, searching for a stretch of relatively calm water.
Thanks to the information True Person Wanshi, Hu Zhigao, and the others had provided, Meng Qi found a suitable place to cross not