A member of the Pleiades Guild could redeem a drop of Ancient Immortal Dew in exchange for 60,000 merits. 60,000 merits could be exchanged for 120,000 silver taels. Did this mean that when converted to silver, the jade vial was roughly equivalent to 1,200,000 silver taels?5

Killing and arson fetch golden belts [1], the ancients did not deceive me. Wu Yuan sighed inwardly. Plundering indeed brought swift wealth. 11

However, Wu Yuan understood that such precious natural treasures couldn't be measured with silver. Converting it into silver was not difficult, but buying it back with silver was very troublesome, requiring the right channels. 3

Even the act of killing a regular first-rate Adept or a Savant expert doesn’t guarantee the acquisition of such a treasure. 2

Chen Tangru, who could barely be considered a Savant expert, was a disciple of a Land Ranker. It was unsurprising for him to own more treasures than the average Savant expert.0

The acquisition of treasures boiled down to luck. When his luck was good, he could procure four drops of Ancient Immortal Dew just by killing a second-rate Adept, such as in Yang Long's case. When his luck was mediocre, killing a first-rate Adept only yielded a handful of gold and silver, such as in Bai Yuxian's case.1

Everything went smoothly...2