Li Dan walked out of the council hall, turned right, and followed a gravel path through an ancient cypress, and after a few breaths, he came to the ancestral shrine of Li in Zhao County.

The ancestral shrine is in the middle of a cypress forest, surrounded by tall cypress trees, and is a low courtyard.

The white walls and green tiles, without too many carvings, look very ordinary, however, this is the core of Zhao Jun Li, and the big things that really matter to Zhao Jun Li's life are decided here, not the council hall next door.

The thirteen halls are only deliberative bodies, implementation bodies, not decision-making centers.

To use an inappropriate analogy, the thirteen halls are like the six departments of the imperial court, and the ancestral shrine of Zhaojun Li is the same as the three provinces of the court, which is the center of the mind, and the thirteen halls are just five senses and siblings.

Li Dan is the patriarch of Zhaojun Li, however, after entering the ancestral hall, although he is still in a high position, he can't do a word.

The core decision-making body of the Li clan in Zhao County is the Elder Group, Li Dan is only one of the members of the Elder Group, and most of the members of the Elder Group are in the ancestral shrine of Zhao County Li, which is connected to the secret realm of the Li family.

If you want to become a super-first-class gate valve, you must have three conditions.

First, the family must be inherited for more than a thousand years, has a long history, has a noble bloodline, this more than a thousand years, even if it is a decline, it must be the county where the hope is, like Fan Yang Lu's family, almost destroyed and had to go away to the country and then make a comeback after all, there are a small number of them, most of the first-class gate valves are like Zhao Jun Li, Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui This has an ancient heritage, noble bloodline.

Second, there must be a great master, and within two hundred years, there will definitely be a great master, and it must not exceed two hundred years.

Even if it is a great martial arts master, it is only a hundred years old, this is the limit, when the limit comes, you have to go to the gate of heaven, if you can break through the gate of heaven, you can break the void and fly to the upper realm, if you can't, then you can't escape the fall.

That's why it's been limited to 200 years.

If there is no great master for a hundred years, the entire clan will fall from the super-first-class gate valve, even if it still maintains the record of the first-class gate valve in the clan chronicles, it is not super-first-class.

Nowadays, in the whole world, there are only ten super-first-class gate valves.

The four major gate valves in Guanzhong, the six major families in Kanto, in addition, there are still some first-class clans, but they are not super first-class gate valves, this is because although these first-class families can also produce great masters, they are not frequent, and some have not even produced one for thousands of years.

Like Fan Yanglu, there are great masters in every generation, and there are very few, even the royal Du clan can't do it.

The last condition is that there must be a secret realm.

There is no exclusive secret realm, there is no huge amount of resources, it is impossible for a family or a sect to produce a great master, even if you are a genius, even if you are a celestial reincarnation, it is impossible to do it, after all, the martial arts of this world are built up by resources, even if it is in the later stage, mainly to cultivate the divine soul, but there are not some precious resources.

Take Du Rui as an example, if he hadn't entered the Yellow Dragon Secret Realm and obtained the Dragon Ball, he would not have come this far.

If a family's secret realm is taken away, it will basically be difficult to turn over.

At the beginning, Fan Yanglu was able to make a comeback because the secret realm had never been taken away.

The secret realm owned by the Lu family is strange, the only person who can open the secret realm passage is a person with the blood of the Lu family, and this secret realm can be moved, the entrance to the passage is not fixed, and the Lu family must use a secret password to open it, so even if it is moved from the south of the river to Fan Yang, who was still a remote place at that time, the Lu family can still work hard.

Most of the secret realms are fixed somewhere, and so are the entrance to the passages.

This Zhao Jun Li's secret realm is no exception, the entrance to the passage is in the ancestral hall, to be precise, Zhao Jun Li's ancestral shrine is actually in the secret realm, and the small courtyard outside is just the entrance to the secret realm, which is used to confuse people's ears and eyes.

It's just that it's just as heavily guarded here.

It seems to be ordinary, but it is located in the cypress forest, in fact, this cypress forest is a huge rune array, if you want to enter this rune array, you must wear a special jade pendant, otherwise, even with Li Dan's ability, it will take a lot of effort to break in, and it is impossible to be silent.

Passing through the cypress forest, Li Dan entered the ancestral hall, walked through the front yard, which was not wide, and crossed nine steps to the main hall.

The sunlight fell from behind and entered the main hall, but it seemed to be swallowed by a black mist, dissolving and invisible, and the only light in the entire main hall came from the darkness, which was a small dancing flame, like a candle in the wind.

Li Dan walked into the darkness.

Darkness is silent, but there is great terror.

Something fell on him, it was cold and biting, Li Dan did not stimulate his true qi to reject this induction, but let this thing fall on him.

It's like a long wet and slippery tongue licking on the soul, most ordinary people can't stand it, but Li Dan is used to this, after all, after becoming the patriarch, he often goes back and forth between the secret realm and the outside world.

There are very few people from the Li clan who can enter and exit the secret realm at any time, and the thirteen hall masters outside are high and powerful, but they cannot be summoned and cannot enter and exit here.

As the patriarch, Li Dan naturally knew a lot about the history and secrets of the Li family.

The secret realm of Zhaojun Li is actually the abdomen of a turtle, this turtle floats in the endless void, and the passage into the secret realm is the mouth and neck of the turtle, so at this time, Li Dan is in the mouth of the turtle, of course, this turtle has died, and its soul was taken by Daojun, leaving only this exorcism, which was obtained by the Li family and became the secret realm.

The turtle is an ancient giant beast, a great monster at the top of the food chain 100,000 years ago.

At the beginning, Daojun penetrated the void and came to this world, and the first big demon he encountered was the Xuan Turtle, this Xuan Turtle didn't know what to do, and regarded Daojun as an ordinary human being, and wanted to swallow it in one bite, not wanting to hit the iron plate, and its soul was also taken by Daojun.

From this point of view, it can be seen that the ancestor of the Li clan of Zhaojun is the little Taoist boy next to Daojun is actually grounded, otherwise, this turtle would not have been controlled by the Li clan of Zhaojun and passed down from generation to generation.

There is a world in the belly of the turtle, and its operating rules are very different from those of the outside world.

In the beginning, the world was also more dangerous, with many cracks.

This is because the soul of the Xuan Turtle is not there, just like the computer has lost its processor, there are no rules, and from time to time there are strange penetrating cracks in the void that appear in the secret realm, after tens of thousands of years of conquest and fighting, these cracks are gradually blocked by the Zhao Jun Li clan with the formation, although, occasionally there will be mistakes, and the formation is torn by strange and forcible tears, but it can be regarded as safe, not a fierce place.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that most of the elders of the Elder Body are in the secret realm.

As soon as there is a problem, the elders will arrive as soon as possible to drive away and disperse or kill those monsters that want to infiltrate the secret realm through the cracks, and those monsters are powerful, but they are not invincible.

Becoming an elder is very simple.

The Li clan, the grandmaster level, as long as these two conditions are met.

The passage seemed to be endless, and the light in the darkness was so far away, in fact, it was just a blink of an eye, and after enduring the disgusting touch of divine thoughts, Li Dan appeared in the secret realm.

He vanished through the flames and appeared in a temple.

The hall had high columns and cornices, but it was not built by physical objects, but by a shadow of light, but it was not illusory, but like substance, and the high walls of the temple had several doors open, and now they were closed.

Around the hall, there are more than a dozen chairs.

Now, some chairs are empty, but some chairs have a light and shadow, a light cluster in the shape of a human figure, and now, Li Dan landed on an empty chair and turned into a light cluster.

Each light and shadow represents an elder, and now, there are a total of eight lights and shadows, that is, eight grandmaster-level powerhouses, representing the high-end combat power of the entire Zhaojun Li, if there are five or six grandmaster-level powerhouses, with the blessing of the rune array, they can compete with a great grandmaster, of course, it is impossible for the great grandmaster to stand in place and wait for the siege, so this comparison is actually meaningless.

Now, in addition to the empty chairs, there are five other chairs with clusters of light, but these five clusters of light are dull in color and do not flicker.

Li Dan had just sat down, and before he could speak, a light flashed above his head, accompanied by a clicking sound, the hall shook slightly, Li Dan looked up, and the flash was like a scar in the dark, hanging above his head like that, and it took a long time to dissipate.

"Are you coming?"

He muttered to himself.

"Li Dan, have they come back?"

The light and shadow on the opposite side flashed red, and there was a sound like thunder.

The person who spoke was Li Dan's uncle, a veteran grandmaster strong, who lived to be one hundred and thirty years old, and his longevity was about to end, so he could only survive in the secret realm, once he was out of the secret realm, he would be bombarded by thunder, but even if he hid in this secret realm, he would not live long, at most ten years, he would die, and before he died, he should walk out of the hall through the light gate behind him, enter the rune array, turn into a part of the rune array, and block the cracks.

It's just that in the past ten years, the cracks in the secret realm have suddenly increased.

There is a certain existence that wants to tear the void into the secret realm, in order to resist this strong enemy, there are already five elders who are about to die to abandon their bodies, and the divine soul enters the secret realm rune array to maintain the operation of the rune array and resist the strong enemy.

That's why the light on the five chairs dimmed.

Next, it was the turn of the uncle who spoke.

"They're rushing back to ......"

Li Dan said in a deep voice.

In the secret realm, there are still some elders, some of these elders have traveled abroad many years ago, seeking the opportunity to break through the great grandmaster, if someone becomes a great grandmaster, the current crisis is not a crisis.

If no one in the entire Zhao Jun Li was promoted to the Great Grandmaster, this matter would be a big deal.

There is only one way in front of the Li family, and that is to ask for foreign aid.

However, inviting a big man into his own secret realm is equivalent to the entire Li family being naked in front of the other party, which is not a simple matter!

Compared with this big event, the fact that Zhao Wang Du Rui came to Handan is insignificant!