In the end, Di Tou decided to take a bath first…
Although he could be considered pretty clean, considering his experiences, he was by no means clean. After all, the last time he had a good chance to bathe was when he was in his little mountain hideout, and even then, it had been quite a while as he had been stressing about the strange bird beast and had been placing most of his attention on cultivating.
Since then…
Well, he had been chased around a long time, and naturally, he hadn't had many chances to wash up then, especially after the strange bird beast had actually caught onto his trail not to mention the fact that he had entered a gorge filled with bugs! Even if he hadn't touched anything, he'd feel a little gross and would want to wash up, and the reality of the matter was that he had been covered with the creepy little critters.