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When Hu Meiniang uttered the curse, Wang Chen was already seven hundred miles away.
The reason he stood her up was because he believed that this Hehuan Sect female cultivator simply could not keep her promise to exchange three Aperture Opening Pills for the Sword Pill.
Hu Meiniang had agreed too readily.
Aperture Opening Pills have always commanded a price beyond measure, and back when the Cloud Sun Sect was still around, an inner sect disciple like Wang Chen would need to complete many sect missions and accrue enough merit points for an exchange to obtain one.
Occasionally, Aperture Opening Pills appeared for sale in the Four Seas Commerce Association and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, but they were always pre-ordered by someone else.
Even having spirit stones doesn't mean a common cultivator can buy them!
