Take This Village Good Sword and Challenge the Demon King Next Door

"Uh..."

Chen Ming, hoisted up like Simba, felt the fervent gazes around him and heard the fanatical chants. His emotions were indescribably complicated, and he had no idea what to say.

Born into a great sect, possessing Heavenly Godly Strength, a super Martial Soul, Innate Full Soul Power...

Any one of those would have been a decent start for a transmigrator. Chen Ming admitted that his own start was exceptionally, exceptionally good. But the problem was...

Matching such an outstanding start was a main quest that could equally be called hellish.

"Defeat the evil Sea God and crush filthy, decaying Shrek! Glory to the Dragon Elephant Sect!"

Chen Ming shouted passionately on the surface, playing along with the fanatical mood of the crowd, but inwardly, he fell somewhat silent.

Was the Dragon Elephant Sect strong?

Yes, the Dragon Elephant Sect was strong. There was no doubt about that.

As descendants of Spirit Hall's former Holy Dragon Legion, the Dragon Elephant Sect inherited genuine top-tier Martial Souls. The mainstream ones were the Diamond Mammoth and White Armored Earth Dragon. There was also the Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, born from the fusion of the two and even stronger in terms of power. Every one of those inheritances was a genuine top-tier Martial Soul.

As for Chen Ming's Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, something that appeared only once in a thousand years, legends said it possessed ultimate strength. It was a super Martial Soul among super Martial Souls.

Perhaps because of the Huyan Family bloodline, the Dragon Elephant Sect had few members, but they had almost perfectly inherited the physique advantage so crucial to Battle Soul Masters. Even children under ten here often weighed over a hundred jin. Adult men and women alike stood just over two meters tall and weighed at least three hundred jin.

Such massive bodies meant they were naturally stronger and more resistant to blows than ordinary people. Combined with Martial Souls already geared toward strength, they became even more formidable.

Battle Soul Masters of the same rank would struggle even to break through a Dragon Elephant Sect Soul Master's defenses, while Dragon Elephant Sect Soul Masters could often end their opponents with one punch or a single Soul Cannon blast. After a battle, they might have consumed plenty of Soul Power, yet at most suffered a few scratches. There was a certain beauty to that sheer toughness.

Because of their physique and bloodline inheritance, the Dragon Elephant Sect's average Innate Soul Power was around Level 6 to Level 7. Every one of them was a recognized genius in the outside world.

Moreover, in this era, drug abuse was also a cultivation method. Drug resistance and financial resources were talents in themselves. The Dragon Elephant Sect's powerful bodies and Martial Souls happened to grant them better drug resistance than ordinary people.

Thus, although the entire sect, men, women, old, and young combined, had only 305 members, it possessed two Titled Douluo, seven Soul Douluo, thirty-one Soul Sages, and over one hundred and fifty Soul Emperors—a terrifying fighting force.

Though Titled Douluo were no longer as valuable in this era as they had been Ten Thousand Years Ago, such a massive sect was still one of the top sect forces across the four nations of Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent. Within the Sun Moon Empire, it was a powerful force capable of stirring the nation's affairs and drawing the Imperial Family's attempts at recruitment.

Judging by the strength of a single sect alone, if the Dragon Elephant Sect stomped its foot, the entire Sun Moon Empire would hear the echo. If the Dragon Elephant Sect grew angry, both continents would feel the tremors.

But how should one put it? Everything feared comparison...

Shrek Academy: one Level 99 Titled Douluo, one Level 98, one or two Level 97s, and more than five other Super Douluo.

As for Titled Douluo...

They were too numerous to count, but there were at least over twenty. The academy likely had more than a hundred Soul Douluo.

Four Thousand Years Ago, when Shrek Academy fought Sun Moon Continent, it relied on its own influence to summon sixty Titled Douluo from across Douluo Continent in one go, reversing the course of the war. Although present-day Shrek was also feared by the Three Great Empires, and many Titled Douluo now had ambiguous relationships with Shrek,

with Shrek's influence, gathering sixty or even more Titled Douluo again at a critical moment would not be especially difficult.

What was more, Shrek had Sea God Tang San above it. In this era, there was also Huo Yuhao, a Child of Destiny, who would enter Shrek Academy and be caught by the great net Tang Shenwang had woven with his daughter, becoming a loyal watchdog for the Tang Family.

Wanting to oppose Shrek... could no longer be explained by merely calling it difficult.

After Chen Ming completed his Martial Soul awakening and awakened the Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, a rare sight once in a thousand years, the Dragon Elephant Sect's awakening ceremony did not stop because of it. Yet compared to previous years, the process sped up as though it had been wound tight.

In truth, many people had anticipated this long before it happened. Compared with the ordinary children of the Dragon Elephant Sect, Chen Ming's talent was visibly on an entirely higher level. Even before he awakened his Martial Soul, many had already believed that he was the person most likely to awaken the sect's legendary Martial Soul.

Among the remaining seven children, two awakened White Armored Earth Dragon Martial Souls, four awakened Diamond Mammoth Martial Souls, and one awakened a Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, which was also relatively rare within the Dragon Elephant Sect.

The child with the lowest Innate Soul Power was a girl who had awakened a Diamond Mammoth. Her Innate Soul Power was only Level 6, the ordinary lowest tier within the Dragon Elephant Sect. The highest was the child who had awakened the Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, with Innate Soul Power at Level 8—a genius even across the continent.

The other five all had Level 7 Innate Soul Power. They were the kind of geniuses commonly recognized across the continent, with the potential to become pillars of any great faction. With a few fortunate encounters, even becoming Titled Douluo was not impossible.

In previous years, after the Martial Soul awakenings, the Sect Master would inevitably deliver a long speech. For the next hour, he would recount a speech that had originally been simple, but had been revised over and over across Four Thousand Years Ago until it became unbearably long and tedious.

But not this year.

After hastily saying a few words, Chen Li, the Dragon Elephant Sect's Sect Master, immediately picked up Chen Ming, who had become somewhat helpless under the crowd's burning stares. Together with the Great Elder, he rushed straight toward the ancestral hall. Ignoring all protocol, he combined the keys in their hands, opened the inner doors of the ancestral hall, and plunged inside with Chen Ming.

The Dragon Elephant Sect clansmen wore all kinds of expressions at the sight, but in the end, they all nodded in approval.

The Dragon Elephant Sect's ancestral hall remained open year-round, welcoming clansmen to worship their ancestors at any time. But its inner doors were usually opened only three times a year: New Year, the autumn harvest, and Angel God Ascension Day.

Beyond that, there were only two special circumstances. One was when a matter of life and death arose within the Dragon Elephant Sect and the upper ranks had to gather before their ancestors to make a decision. The other was when the next Sect Master was chosen.

With the Sect Master and Great Elder, the sect's only two Titled Douluo, carrying Chen Ming into the ancestral hall's inner doors, they were clearly announcing to everyone that Chen Ming was the next generation's Sect Master heir.

Most people had no objections. They believed that if Innate Full Soul Power, the Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul, and Heavenly Godly Strength combined still could not make him the Sect Master's heir, then it would be fairer for the next generation to have no Sect Master at all.

The few who were dissatisfied were not denying Chen Ming's right to become the next Sect Master's heir. They simply felt the decision was too hasty. If Chen Ming's information was exposed and the Dragon Elephant Sect's once-in-a-thousand-years genius was threatened because of it, that would be far too dangerous.

As for why the Dragon Elephant Sect was so united internally?

As Spirit Hall's successor—self-proclaimed—and Shrek Academy's great enemy—also self-proclaimed—as well as the actual inheritor of the Diamond Mammoth and White Armored Earth Dragon, the Dragon Elephant Sect had inherited the fine qualities of Ten Thousand Years Ago. It had also firmly established its own position and passed it down generation after generation as part of its family tradition.

As villains, the most important thing was unity. Against outsiders, strike hard and use any means necessary. Within the sect, be as close as family and never fight among yourselves.

Apply double standards to the same matter. When one of your own did it, it was right. When an outsider did it, it was wrong.

Hit the young, and the old would come. Hit the old, and the even older would come. When necessary, the entire family would join the fight. Against anyone who infringed upon their interests or familial bonds, they would strike ruthlessly, even shamelessly!

Protective, united, stubborn—those were the key principles that had allowed the Dragon Elephant Sect to stand against Shrek for Four Thousand Years Ago without Shrek ever finding the time to crush it, and to instead grow stronger and stronger.