The chapter opens with a description of the river, which is described as a "great river of reincarnation" . The river monsters are described as being either liquid or solid or intangible. They are born with "resistance to that poison" , and they are the "absolute dominators" across the magmell. The chapter ends with a discussion of the possibility of traveling through the river on a capsule in outer space, which would allow them to "pass through here one by one" without the need for any gravity in the capsule.