It is said that Ye Yan ascended to the second floor of the Xuanhe Tower, but in fact, the so-called ascension to the second floor is just to move his room to the second floor of the Xuanhe Tower, and obtain the qualification to enter and exit the second floor of the library at will. The only good thing is that the rooms on the second floor are indeed much larger than the first floor, and they are relatively luxuriously furnished. It didn't mean much to Ye Yan, he flipped through the time of the three pillars of incense in the library pavilion, and found that there were only some yellow-level mid-grade martial arts in it.

Ye Yan asked the other students and learned that in the nine floors of the Xuanhe Tower, the library pavilion on the first to third floors was all about the middle and upper grades of the yellow level, the fourth to sixth floors were the Xuan level, and the seventh to ninth floors were the prefecture level. Only the Ninth Layer Master had the opportunity to enter the Immortal Crane Tower to learn the heaven-level exercises. It was useless to stay on the second and third floors for a long time, and Ye Yan planned to go directly to the examiner after a while, and strive to ascend to a higher floor as soon as possible.

One day, Ye Yan was meditating in his room, and suddenly a person came outside. This person's name is Yiping, and he said that Xu Bugui, the second-level master, led his subordinates to visit Ye Yan, and he specially came to inform Ye Yan in advance.

What is he doing here? Ye Yan felt strange, it stands to reason that a newcomer who has just entered the second layer should take the initiative to visit the master of the second layer to show his respect. Not only did Ye Yan not visit him, but he took the initiative to come to the door, probably to find trouble. Ye Yan said, "Oh, I know, call him in," and then closed his eyes and continued his meditation.

For a newcomer, this attitude is extremely arrogant. Yiping was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained: "This time I visited the famous Thousand Swords Undefeated Ten Guards of the second layer, including the Lord of the Xu Layer, didn't you go out to greet him personally?"

"A Thousand Swords Undefeated Ten Guards?" Ye Yan opened one eye, this name that sounded quite loud aroused his interest.

"You don't know the Ten Guards?" Yiping made a crying and laughing expression, and secretly sighed that Ye Yan, as a member of the second layer, didn't even know that the Ten Guards were undefeated by a thousand swords. So he had no choice but to explain to Ye Yan the origin of the Thousand Swords Undefeated Ten Guards.

The Thousand Swords Undefeated Ten Guards are actually the fourth-layer master Sun Bu Chop gave Xu Bugui and the other ten people the name. Sun Bu Chop is known as "Knife Mania", famous for a golden knife in the ground gate, well versed in the five elements ** knife method, known as "Sun Bu Chop, three knives must be chopped" rumors. At the beginning, there was a person on the second layer who offended Sun Buqi, and Sun Buqi wanted to behead him to show the public, Xu Bugui led the nine strongest elite masters of the second layer to ask Sun Buqi to let that person go. As soon as the two sides disagreed, they drew their swords and faced each other. No, Xu Bugui and the other ten people each held ten different weapons, covered each other, and the martial arts they used complemented each other, making up for each other's shortcomings and flaws, and they actually resisted Sun Bu with a thousand swords and was not defeated.

Sun Buqi was very surprised, and he also had a sense of appreciation and admiration for Xu Bugui and the other ten people, so he let that person go, and gave them the title of Ten Guards Who Are Undefeated with a Thousand Swords.

"I see. Ye Yan nodded, to be honest, he was a little disappointed, he thought that such a resounding name of the Ten Soldiers Guard must have come from a lot of background, but he didn't expect it to be just a name given by the Lord of the fourth layer.

"Call them in. Seeing Yiping standing stupidly still, Ye Yan said again.

"Huh?" Ichihei was puzzled, usually when he announced the name of the Ten Guards to a second-tier person, that person should have run out to greet him with five points of trepidation and five points of honor.

In fact, it's not that Ye Yan is arrogant, first of all, he doesn't like these cumbersome secular etiquette very much, and then it is also the most important, he thinks that everyone is a student of the earth, and their identities should be equal, what is high and low, it is just an excuse for the strong to bully the weak, based on this idea, he has prejudices against almost all the floor masters of Xuanhe Tower.

Seeing that Ye Yan closed his eyes and did not move, Yiping was very embarrassed. If Ye Yan didn't go out to greet him, Xu Bugui would definitely feel disgraced. Originally, he took the initiative to visit Ye Yan and was already a great way to put down his figure, but now Ye Yan actually refused to even greet him, obviously he didn't take him seriously, and when this matter spread, Xu Bugui's reputation in the underground gate will be greatly reduced. What Yiping was afraid of was that Xu Bugui would sprinkle his anger on him first and make an example of him.

Just when Yiping was hesitant and didn't know what to do, Xu Bugui and his party broke in directly. Yiping hurriedly caught up, but Xu Bugui directly ignored his existence, and walked towards Ye Yan with a smile: "I have long heard that Brother Ye Yan is extremely talented, and he is invincible in the first layer. I didn't expect to be so hard, I am still cultivating at this time, it seems that if Xu doesn't hurry up, I'm afraid he will be surpassed by Brother Ye Yan in a few days."

Ye Yan opened his eyes and glanced at Xu Bugui, this person had never fought with Ye Yan, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he took it for granted that Ye Yan's strength was below him. Pride and arrogance are probably a common problem for all Xuanhe floor masters, Ye Yan didn't care about it, and smiled lightly: "Brother Xu, why did you come here for such a big battle?"

"Brother Xu?" A man in green clothes next to Xu Bugui shouted: "You should be called Master Xu, how can a newcomer He De be commensurate with the Lord of Layers as brothers." ”

Ye Yan was dumbfounded, he had already called Xu Bugui Brother Xu out of politeness, but he didn't expect that this would not satisfy them. After thinking about it, he secretly felt funny, this Xu Bugui looked like he was only a weak crown year, but the people around him called him like a thirty or forty-year-old gang leader.

"Hey, what layer master is not layer master, just call me Brother Xu, everyone is a second-layer person, and they can be regarded as their own brothers. Xu Bugui pulled the person who accused Ye Yan just now with a smile and said, "Brother Ye Yan, don't be surprised, my brother is straightforward and can't speak." You've probably heard of him, he's the sword leader of the Ten Guards. ”

Xu Bugui introduced everyone's titles one by one, in addition to Xu Bugui, the other nine people of the Ten Guards were Sword Kui, Spear Kui, Whip Kui, Axe Kui, Bow Kui, Stick Kui, Hammer Kui, Sickle and Fork Kui. Ye Yan was dizzy when he heard this group of "kui", and he didn't remember the last one, and he was really not interested in remembering the names of these people.

Xu Bugui never said the real purpose of his visit to Ye Yan, only that he heard that Ye Yan was shocked by the first floor, so he came to pay a visit. Ye Yan knew that Xu Bugui must have other plans, but he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he had to smile and deal with it perfunctorily.

Just as Xu Bugui was talking and laughing and telling Ye Yan about his brave deeds in the second layer, there was a sudden commotion outside. Xu Bugui ordered Yiping to go out to investigate the situation, Yiping went out in response, and after a while, he ran in in a panic with sweat on his head.

"Out of ...... Something big is wrong. ”

"What's wrong?" asked Xu Bugui.

Yiping looked at Ye Yan with a strange look, and said slowly, "You...... It's best to go out and see it yourself. ”

Ye Yan got up in confusion, walked to the corridor outside the second floor of the Xuanhe Tower and looked forward, and was stunned, and shouted in his heart that it was impossible.

Directly opposite the gate of the Xuanhe Tower, there is a hundred-year-old towering tree that Ye Yan is familiar with, Ye Yan once carved on the big tree "Ye Yan cut Lotte under this tree" nine big characters, and later the white wolf cut off the bark in order to provoke Ye Yan and carved on the tree again "The white wolf bites Ye Yan to death under this tree". Now, the words on the tree have been changed again, and this time the words written are "Ye Yan killed the white wolf under this tree".

"Brother Ye Yan, why did you carve those words on the tree?" asked Xu Bugui.

"I didn't carve it. When Ye Yan replied, he saw a corpse hanging from the trunk.

"Could it be ......" Ye Yan's face changed suddenly, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart, he immediately jumped down from the corridor on the second floor, rushed to the tree, squeezed through the crowd, looked up at the corpse, and was suddenly terrified.

Sure enough, as he thought in his heart, the corpse hanging from the tree was the white wolf.