Lure the Tiger from the Mountain (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Bamboo Leaf Seed Pastry)

Old Village Chief Liu Ji could not be called a powerhouse. Asking him to stall a tenth-rank expert was something he would absolutely refuse to do.

"Kid, asking me to provoke a tenth-rank expert—isn't that asking for my old life? What ability do I have to stroke a tenth-rank expert's tiger whiskers?" the Old Village Chief complained, his voice full of helplessness.

Hearing this, Zhang Chen raised his brows slightly. The other party's reaction was exactly as he had expected.

"I have the control incantation for Absolute Defense!" Zhang Chen looked at Liu Ji with a smile.

Although the other party had gained Ten Directions Defense's recognition as its master, he was still a hundred thousand miles away from refining it and fully controlling it. Zhang Chen believed that Liu Ji could not refuse the terms he offered.

Nowadays, cultivators across the world relied on their lives to wield mysterious treasures. They had a parasitic relationship with those treasures: mortals paid with their lifespan to activate the treasures they obtained, while the mysterious treasures absorbed the lifespans of living beings as "interest" and bestowed unimaginable power upon them.

Note that vitality had to be paid as the price!

Whether it was the three great mysterious treasures that had brought great victory and safeguarded the nation, or ordinary mysterious treasures, all required life as payment.

But incantations were the keys to properly wielding Secret Treasures. As long as one mastered the incantations, one could avoid the backlash brought by the treasures and be exempt from all costs.

Sure enough, upon hearing Zhang Chen's words, Liu Ji's pupils contracted sharply, and disbelief appeared in his eyes. "What did you say?"

"I said I have the incantation for controlling Absolute Defense." Zhang Chen smiled. "As long as you are willing to lure the