The Clan-Suppressing Jade Seal hung high in the sky above Shi Hao's head.
Endless, dazzling golden radiance of the Human Dao flowed slowly, spanning the time and space of all ages.
The Power of Faith, unyielding convictions, and ages of blood and tears of billions of members of the Human Race scattered across the heavens gathered into a boundless ocean of the Human Dao.
Vast and surging, it poured into every limb and bone, every layer of flesh, and even the deepest source of Shi Hao's Divine Soul.
Having just experienced, imprinted upon himself, and shouldered the Human Race's tragic fate through the ages, his state of mind became utterly flawless.
Bearing the rise and fall, honor and disgrace of the entire Human Race, shouldering the lives, deaths, and paths of billions of beings, his Human Emperor Dao Heart stood firm as an eternal divine mountain, without flaw or wavering.
Under the cleansing nourishment of this endless Human Dao faith, Shi Hao's Berserk Secret Art, already honed to the absolute, perfected pinnacle of mortal attainment, began to evolve and iterate at a frenzied pace.
The art's essence transformed layer by layer, continually ascending, reshaping, and remaking itself.
The former berserk art had merely been a mortal secret art of slaughter that overtaxed the body's potential.
It had a ceiling on combat strength and a time limit, and its use inevitably brought severe backlash and weakness. It had never escaped the limitations of mortal Martial Dao. Greater strength merely reduced its side effects, but some effects remained.
But this moment was different.
It drew upon the devout Human Dao faith of billions of beings, rooted in the unique foundation of the Human Emperor Great Way.
This long-inherited secret art of slaughter completely shed its mortal shackles and broke free of every