And That Was It?

After rinsing, the hides felt softer and smoother. With the wood ash residue washed away, their natural grain was fully revealed.

The faint silver markings on the tiger hide, barely discernible before, were now clearly visible; the boar hide retained its natural pebbled texture.

Finally, he stretched both hides out flat and hung them on a wooden rack to dry naturally in the shade.

"Once they're completely dry, they'll be ready to use." He hung up the boar hide he had treated the same way and dusted off his hands.

Ideally, they should have been left to dry in a well-ventilated spot out of the sun, but his current circumstances didn't allow for that. There was nothing he could do.

By the time he finished all this, Tang Zhixue was hungry.

Just as he was about to prepare breakfast, Tang Zhixue suddenly remembered the roast meat he had left by the door last night.

He hurriedly had the Shelter collect all the Spirit Clarity Tree trunks blocking the doorway as upgrade materials.

Once the trunks were cleared away, Tang Zhixue eagerly looked toward the door.

"Huh?"

At that sight, Tang Zhixue immediately frowned.

There was a card at the doorway, but the passage at the base of the Clear Spirit Tree was covered in water stains.

"Did the Giant View Weirds come calling last night?"

The Giant View Weirds were the most troublesome Weirds he had encountered so far.

Not because they were difficult to deal with, but because of their numbers and behavior patterns.

He had no idea why these Giant View Weirds kept coming after him so relentlessly.

Shaking his head, Tang Zhixue crouched down and picked up the card by the door.

[Item: Building Card]

[Rank: First Tier]

[Description: A gift from Biting Spring Granny. Once torn, it will automatically select a suitable location within the Shelter and generate a modern sanitation facility.]

"A modern sanitation facility?!"

Tang Zhixue's eyes lit up. "A toilet? Can I take a shower now?"

Without hesitation, Tang Zhixue tore the card.

Yet after waiting a long time, Tang Zhixue still noticed no changes. "What's going on? Did it fail? That shouldn't be possible..."

He hurriedly opened the Shelter panel.

[Shelter: Blazing Sun]

[Level: 2 (1000/1000) [Energy full, upgrade available]]

[Upgrade requirements: Supply materials yourself. The Shelter will upgrade itself according to the materials provided (note: the current amount of energy only allows the use of materials no higher than Second Tier) [Spirit Clarity Tree: 67/100]]

[Function: Regional trading]

[Buildings: Martial Arts Space, Planting Cottage, Modern Toilet]

[Effects: Clear spirit evil-repelling, purification · temporary]

"Phew~ thank goodness."

Seeing the buildings listed on the panel, Tang Zhixue immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

[Modern Toilet: Water is drawn autonomously from underground and the surrounding environment through roots, requiring no additional water supply; feces and wastewater are automatically transported through special channels to the Planting Cottage and converted into soil fertility, forming an ecological cycle. The toilet comes equipped with lighting and ventilation systems for comfortable use.]

"A Modern Toilet?!" Tang Zhixue's eyes widened, and he couldn't help laughing. "Biting Spring Granny really... came through when I needed it most!"

He had been worrying about personal hygiene all this time. Now, with this Building Card, he had not only solved the problem of going to the toilet, but could also turn waste into something useful, providing fertilizer for the Planting Cottage. It truly killed two birds with one stone.

"A sanitation facility..."

Thinking it over, Tang Zhixue carried the Clear Radiance Oil Lamp into the bedroom.

Since no new room had appeared outside, it had to be inside an existing room, and the bedroom was the most likely possibility.

"Just as I thought!"

The moment he entered, he saw a wooden door in the bedroom that hadn't been there before.

Delighted and a little curious, Tang Zhixue walked toward the wooden door-the newly appeared Modern Toilet.

"Whoosh~"

It looked like a wooden door, but the toilet door felt cold like metal to the touch.

"Tsk, a metal door," Tang Zhixue said, nodding as he opened it. "That's good, too. If it were wood, I'd worry about it getting soaked and rotting."

But when Tang Zhixue saw the inside of the toilet, he couldn't help curling his lip. "What happened to the modern toilet I was promised? There isn't even a light?"

If he hadn't still been holding the Clear Radiance Oil Lamp, he wouldn't have been able to see the interior clearly.

A squat toilet and a sink. That was everything in the room.

"Damn," Tang Zhixue said, somewhat disappointed. "I thought there'd be a water heater so I could shower. And this is all I get?!"

He looked down and searched the floor, finding a drain in the corner.

At the sight of the drain, a smile returned to Tang Zhixue's face. "Not bad. At least I finally have a suitable place to wash."

He had already bought a wooden tub yesterday. Once he bought something to boil water in, he would be able to take a hot bath.

Although he now had the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to cleanse filth from the surrounding environment, the problem was that it only cleansed the surrounding environment. Tang Zhixue himself, as its user, was excluded.

Still, even if the divine mantra could cleanse the filth from his body, Tang Zhixue would want to bathe anyway. Otherwise, he would feel uncomfortable.

Back in the main room, Tang Zhixue focused on preparing breakfast.

After eating and drinking his fill, he happily stepped out of the Shelter.

But the moment he went outside, his mood soured.

A gap had appeared at the edge of the Silent White Fog outside the Shelter, jarringly out of place amid its surroundings. A bizarrely shaped Weird was staring fixedly at Tang Zhixue.

Scattered around it were fragments of Giant View Weird corpses.

"Junweng came after all. What a pain..."

Tang Zhixue's good mood vanished completely at that moment.

He had indeed killed a clone of the Junweng Weird the day before yesterday, but who wanted to run into something foul first thing in the morning?

Seeing the Weird fragments around the Junweng Weird, Tang Zhixue already had a few guesses.

The Giant View Weirds from last night had probably just returned. So far, they were the only ones that could disperse the surrounding Silent White Fog.

And it just so happened that the dispersing Silent White Fog had revealed the Junweng Weird, with the end result being that Junweng had wiped out all those disgusting Giant View Weirds.

"Tsk, looking at it that way, I suppose I should thank you?" Tang Zhixue raised an eyebrow at Junweng, who stood motionless in the distance.

"Then I'll have to treat you properly~"

Tang Zhixue gave it a friendly smile, then turned and went back into the Shelter, heading toward the wooden table on the north side-the makeshift wooden table he had set up.

Looking at the bamboo tubes on the table, Tang Zhixue turned toward the Clear Radiance Oil Lamp nearby, which was still illuminating its surroundings. "Come to think of it, should I go big?"

"But that seems a little time-consuming. Maybe next time?"

With that thought, Tang Zhixue returned to the fireplace, opened his friends list, and found Fang Yunxi.

Tang Zhixue: "Hey, beautiful, you there?"

Fang Yunxi: "?"

Tang Zhixue: "Do you have any oil lamps left?"