To be this delighted at a time like this, it naturally wasn't just because he could slip out of the Sword Formation safely. He simply couldn't contain himself at the prospect of gaining another Magical Treasure.
If the Boundless Banner belonged to him, didn't the Magical Treasures taken into it belong to him too?
The umbrella that released the flying swords had already been taken by the Boundless Banner. Now that it could take these flying swords too, didn't that entire set of flying-sword Magical Treasures belong to him?
Earlier, to kill Wu Shanshan, he had even prepared himself to sacrifice the Immortal-Strangling Sash. In the end, he hadn't killed her, but he had kept the sash and helped himself to several Magical Treasures along the way.
The Six-Path Golden Wheel in You Mu's hands looked formidable too. That should ultimately end up in his hands as well.
Adding it all up, he felt he had won so much he was numb. Suddenly, Wu Shanshan's escape didn't seem like such a bad thing. If he had killed her in one stroke at the outset, how could he have gotten so many treasures?
All at once, her escape no longer seemed so infuriating.
With his spirits soothed, her getting away no longer mattered. At worst, he would have to work a little harder afterward and run all over the place with pursuers on his heels. With this much compensation for his trouble, even being worked like a dog would be worth it.
Any single Magical Treasure would let him live out his life in comfort and luxury in the Cultivation World. How many did he have now?
Back in the Land of Exile, he had dreamed of making his fortune once he got out, but he had never imagined becoming this