When Hu Meiniang uttered her curse, Wang Chen was already seven hundred li away.
The reason he had stood her up was because he believed that the Joyous Union Sect female cultivator could never possibly keep her promise and trade three Acupoint Breaking Pills for the sword pellet.
Hu Meiniang had agreed far too readily.
Acupoint Breaking Pills had always been pills with a price but no market. When the Yunyang Sect still existed, an Inner Sect Disciple like Wang Chen would have needed to complete numerous sect missions and accumulate enough Merit Points just to exchange for one.
The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion occasionally had Acupoint Breaking Pills for sale as well, but they had invariably already been reserved by others.
Ordinary cultivators might not be able to buy one even if they had Spirit Stones!
The market price of such pills also fluctuated wildly, ranging from ten thousand to twenty thousand, with some even selling for the astronomical price of nearly thirty thousand.
Since Wang Chen had begun preparing to advance to the Purple Mansion, he had acquired a considerable understanding of Acupoint Breaking Pills.
Yet for such a rare pill, Hu Meiniang had said she would give him three without a moment's hesitation.
Wang Chen would believe her only if Evil Spirits had gotten into his head!
He suspected that Hu Meiniang was one of the Nine Holy Maidens secretly nurtured by the Joyous Union Sect, with a status equivalent to one of the Yunyang Sect's ten true disciples, sent to Dongwu Stockade to temper herself.
Who knew what sort of trump cards someone like her held? Wang Chen would have to be stuffed senseless to get tangled up with her.
Naturally, he stayed as far away as possible.
Besides, the