[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades":3,"chapter-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-104":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Endless Winter: My Camp Infinitely Upgrades",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2266530,4425,"Chapter 104: The Thrill of New Clothes","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-104",104,"\u003Cp>It wasn’t that Xia Hong looked particularly handsome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the outfit added so much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hat was woven from fine velvet of pale blue frostwolf hide, adorned with two white snowmane fangs five to six inches long; the mountain goat’s mane wasn’t pure white but a whitish brown, and the straight long pants made from it were also whitish brown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most striking piece was the black greatcoat made of snowmane hide—Xia Hong was tall but slender, and wearing this greatcoat instantly made him look far more imposing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paired with the black snowmane hide boots, he radiated sheer dominance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when compared to Xia Chuan and Xiang Mudong standing beside him, he seemed an entire size larger, the two white fangs on the hat’s brim making him look both ferocious and commanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chief, your aura is way stronger than those two from a while back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Cheng clearly loved this outfit the most; after stepping closer to inspect it, he praised it with obvious envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Yuan Cheng mention Yang and Li, Xia Chuan’s eyes flashed with coldness as he sneered, “Those two wastes? They only got ahead because of their family background—how dare they compare themselves to our chief!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the last incident with the wooden puppet demon, when Xia Chuan awoke, he learned how Yang and Li had screamed for his death and tried to drag him away from Great Xia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without that, Li Hu’s kicks that knocked him out weren’t light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Xia Chuan still held a grudge against those two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong had no good impression of them either, but he didn’t follow up on Xia Chuan’s words—only swept his greatcoat aside and sat sideways on the chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the large group of burly men before him, all dressed in animal-skin skirts, then down at his own attire and the chair he sat on, Xia Hong suddenly thought of the three words “mountain king,” and his expression turned peculiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t understand what Xia Chuan meant by “aura,” but with him sitting like this and hundreds of men in animal-skin skirts before him, the aura of a mountain king was undeniably there—especially with the icy snowscape outside…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forest and snowfield?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those four words popped into Xia Hong’s mind, and he chuckled silently to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking off the strange thoughts, Xia Hong scanned the crowd before him and saw their eyes still filled with envy; his mind stirred slightly, and after a moment’s thought, he called out loudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t rush—our camp is bringing back more frostbeasts than ever, and hides will eventually overflow. Haven’t you forgotten? When the camp first merged, many could only wear straw clothes and couldn’t even get an animal-skin skirt.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd nodded—his words were true; animal-skin skirts had only become standard issue for everyone half a month ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once frostbeast hides overflow, Mu Dong can easily make several more sets—you’ll all get yours eventually.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, the crowd’s faces brightened noticeably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then Xia Hong changed tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“However, making these clothes is complicated—excluding the decorations, each full set will take several days to complete, and frostbeast hides aren’t easy to come by, so we need standards for who gets priority.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the crowd’s anticipation was hooked; all eyes fixed on him, waiting for his next words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they believed his claim that everyone would get one eventually,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one knew when “eventually” would come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though frostbeasts were large and yielded plenty of hide per kill,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the camp’s demand was enormous too!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong’s outfit used three kinds of frostbeast hide—snowmane, mountain goat, and frostwolf—and added many other embellishments, clearly requiring significant effort; everyone wanted something like this, but they knew they had no right to it now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even by hide quantity alone, a full set required at least the pelts of two adult frostbeasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, clothing wasn’t truly scarce—those of us living in the camp spent our days near the iron furnaces, so temperature wasn’t an issue; the real purpose of the animal-skin skirts was to avoid going naked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hide consumption was too high, and since clothing wasn’t critical, it was obvious that when Xia Hong said everyone would get one, it would take a very long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting one even one day sooner was obviously best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So everyone waited eagerly for his next words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mu Dong, I estimate the ground stakes will take another four months to finish—during this time, take some time and make fifteen sets of clothes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Chief!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong gave Mu Dong his order first, then turned to face the crowd and smiled: “You all heard that—the first batch will be fifteen sets. The first ten who break through to Earth-Digging, and the first five who break through to Tree-Felling, each get one. Whether you wear it or not depends on yourselves!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the instant Xia Hong finished speaking, the circle of men—hunters, woodcutters, and reserves alike—scattered instantly to train.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within moments, continuous sounds of fist training echoed inside and outside the wooden hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some who hadn’t eaten frostbeast meat rushed to eat it, clearly planning to train immediately after.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sudden shift made Xia Hong’s smile deepen, and new thoughts stirred in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Influenced by his past-life habits, Xia Hong believed the camp’s most vital element was unity and cohesion; to foster this, he had deliberately and unconsciously downplayed hierarchical distinctions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he understood that due to differences in cultivation level and individual contribution, class and hierarchy would inevitably arise—and deepen as cultivation gaps widened—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he still believed such distinctions would eventually fracture the camp’s unity and cohesion, so he chose to suppress them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, when Mu Dong brought him the wooden chair and clothes, his first reaction wasn’t acceptance but resistance—this was his way of resisting such notions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, witnessing this scene, he realized such hierarchy wasn’t entirely bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, it had given these men far greater motivation to train.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a gap between Earth-Digging and Tree-Felling, and between Tree-Felling and ordinary people; different cultivation levels produced different contributions. Division always existed. Since this mindset was unavoidable, he had to accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong reminded himself again: this wasn’t his past life. The cruelty of the Ice Abyss World made “collapse of rites and music” sound far too mild—if he clung to the mindset of a civilized society, he’d eventually pay a heavy price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A single outfit triggered such a surge—soon we’ll build new huts, distribute Golden Wound Powder, forge weapons, and I’ve got martial arts stored in my mind… looks like I can make use of all of them…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the crowd’s training enthusiasm surge even higher than before, and remembering all the other tools he could leverage, Xia Hong’s eyes gleamed with renewed energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the night the standard for the fifteen sets was set, nearly everyone in the camp, from top to bottom, trained day and night, plunging the entire camp into a training frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when Xia Hong returned from nightly hunts, wearing that outfit and walking past the crowd toward his hut, he clearly felt their fist-training intensity grow fiercer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hunters and woodcutters were even more driven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Training for Earth-Digging and Tree-Felling involved expending physical strength and absorbing the essence from frostbeast meat; hunting and woodcutting themselves were highly effective ways to expend physical strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when they went out, they worked far harder than before, naturally increasing their yields—and the camp’s mine warehouse stockpile grew visibly larger, accelerating progress on the ground stakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months later, the first person besides Xia Hong to earn the right to wear the full outfit finally appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, he wasn’t from the hunting team or the woodcutting team—he was from the reserves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he was someone Xia Hong knew well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Qing’s son, Shi Ping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1298,"2026-06-19T20:30:15.201Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","aa4297da7734992e06beec62fd77f00ecd12ae4c819e45940f3c5411314347f5","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-105","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-103",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fendless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-cover.jpg"]