Douluo Continent, Shrek City.
Dugu Yan stood in the city, gazing at the incomparably bustling metropolis before her and unable to stop herself from clicking her tongue in amazement. "This is the heart of the Douluo Continent? It looks way too grand."
A single academy had monopolized an entire city outright.
That kind of prestige was simply absurd, even across the entire Douluo Continent!
And this was no small city. Shrek City was on the scale of an imperial capital, with a total population nearing five million!
Five million people! That was about the same as a provincial capital in China.
At this scale, let alone an academy controlling it, even the New Interception Sect currently led by Lin Ya, the state religion of the Douluo Empire, had never pulled off something as extravagant as claiming an entire city for itself.
Dugu Yan immediately felt a little indignant and muttered, "Our New Interception Sect is so powerful now, yet we don't even have a city of our own. How is some mere academy getting all this glory?"
With the New Interception Sect's current size, let alone one city, it would have had more than enough power to imitate the old Spirit Hall, carve out its own territory, and establish an independent power base.
But Lin Ya had kept it restrained, never deliberately elevating the New Interception Sect's power or status.
He knew very well that while he was alive, he could keep every situation under control, and no one would dare act recklessly.
But if one day he let go and left, a religious force that stood above all nations and wielded overwhelming authority would definitely become the greatest hidden danger.
He had no desire to create another Roman Church from his previous life, only to leave himself with a