Ideals

The unceasing lightning strikes outside had yet to stop. Pale violet lightning dragons continuously gathered, crashing heavily against the black barrier wall before being shattered and turning into lightning snakes that continued to pressure the barrier. Then another wave of lightning dragons had already condensed once more.

Such relentless attacks made the few people observing from within feel their scalps tingle. Heyan in particular felt tremendous pressure even with his immortal body and limitless chakra.

If it had not been for Heyan, that pressure alone would have been enough to give those inside a miserable time.

But Mizuki had no way back now. If he lifted the barrier here and exposed every trace of their presence, then no one—including Orochimaru—would be able to escape. They would become pariahs throughout the Shinobi World, and if their luck was bad enough, they might be directly wiped out by the Shinobi World's natural and man-made disasters.

However, having made such a choice, Mizuki naturally would not sit around and wait to die.

Under Mizuki's command, Hope began controlling Dreamplay as it eroded every tangible and intangible substance on Demon Realm Island.

If all the power of this spiritual construct, which Mizuki regarded as his ultimate weapon, had to be sustained by Mizuki alone, it would certainly never have developed this far. Although Mizuki's own spiritual power gave him a tremendous advantage over ordinary people due to his transmigration, it was still far from enough. That was why he had absorbed and assimilated fragments of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then used its properties to gather vast amounts of devout faith to nourish it.

But even that was far from enough.

A framework akin to that of a "godlike being" could not serve any great purpose without sufficient bones to support it.