Following the river upstream, the mist in the forest grew thicker, creating a peculiar boundary of shattered ice between the snow eroded by the mist and the Hot Spring River.
The terrain beneath Yang Yu and his companions' feet had somehow turned into one patch of pebbles after another.
These Mud Monsters, a kind of demon, do not have a fixed form. They often morph into a puddle of water, hiding among the pebbles near the Hot Spring River to capture small animals or demons to survive the winter.
However, Yang Yu and his companions didn't need to worry about encountering Mud Monsters nearby, as most of them had been hunted nearly to extinction by Qiuye Doreen, leaving only some particularly powerful ones gathered at the source of the hot springs.
There are many strategies to deal with Mud Monsters, but the most important one is to prevent different Mud Monsters from uniting and forming a larger Mud Monster to fend off invaders.
