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Such a terrifying attack could not be escaped even if one hid underground.

The immense weight of the impact is enough to create a terrifying earthquake; if you try to hide underground using earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique in Chinese fantasy novels), you will only be crushed to death by the mud.

But how could you possibly run three kilometers in just a few seconds?

The ninja's Body Flicker Technique is ineffective; among ninjutsu, perhaps only space-time ninjutsu can escape the ice brick's attack.

Perhaps Naruto could use the decapitation sword to fly with himself, covering three kilometers in a few seconds.

However, the decapitation throwing knife could only carry him away. Taking Sasuke and Sakura along would only significantly slow down the knife, making it impossible for either of them to escape.

Abandoning Sasuke and Sakura, and running away on his own?

Naruto would never even consider this option.

Without a second thought, he said, "Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi-sensei, grab my throwing knife and let it take you away from here."

Sasuke looked at the ice blocks above his head and asked seriously, "What about you? Aren't you going to run away with us?"

Naruto shook his head and replied, "I'm staying here to buy you some time, otherwise none of us will be able to leave."

When Sakura heard that Naruto wasn't leaving, she panicked: "No, Naruto, staying behind to cover our retreat will surely mean certain death. We won't leave. Let's work together and shatter the huge block of ice above us."

Sasuke shook his head from the side: "It can't be broken. How do you plan to break such a big block of ice? My Magnet Gun? Or your dust explosion?"

"Listen to Naruto, let's go first. I believe Naruto has a way to survive."

Sasuke remained calm. After the ice block formed above his head, he had already simulated various ways to break it in his mind. But in the end, he had to admit that they were powerless against such a large block of ice. Even if he broke through his strength to the point where the magnetic field could rotate at 10,000 horsepower, he would still be helpless against this huge block of ice.

This is a massive ice and snow continent, three kilometers long, two kilometers wide, and one kilometer thick.

He has difficulty even breaking through white ice crystal fortresses, so how could he possibly break through a snow and ice continent a kilometer thick?

Sakura wanted to say something, but Kakashi stopped her: "Sakura, don't waste time. The longer we delay, the less time we have for Naruto to escape on his own. Let's listen to Naruto and leave here first!"

Sakura isn't the kind of character who drags Naruto down in romance dramas. She's well aware that her indecisiveness is causing trouble for Naruto, so she makes up her mind to leave with the others.

Naruto laughed and enlarged the decapitation throwing knife, turning it from the size of a door panel into the size of a small boat.

Sasuke jumped onto the throwing knife, gathered chakra at his feet, and used it to hold the knife in place, allowing him to stand firmly.

Kakashi and Tazuna jumped up as well. Sakura glanced back at Naruto one last time, giving him a look that said, "You must survive," before jumping onto the throwing knives as well.

Driven by magical power, the decapitation flying knife sped forward, carrying Sasuke and the others out of the area covered by the icy continent.

Although the icy continent is only three kilometers long, the shockwave it creates after crashing can spread for at least several kilometers.

The shattered ice can scatter dozens of kilometers away, just like artillery shells.

Therefore, a decapitation throwing knife needs to fly more than ten kilometers away to be considered a relatively safe distance.

Upon seeing his companions flee, he quickly fled.

Naruto took a deep breath, looked at the colossal ice block only a thousand meters above him, and then fused his magic power and chakra to create Sage Chakra, unleashing the Super Giant Sage Art Rasengan.

A spiral ball with a diameter of over 500 meters rose slowly from the ground.

Kakashi stared in utter shock at the Rasengan Naruto had created behind him.

"Naruto has such terrifying chakra, it seems he really can escape alive."

Sasuke and Sakura were also stunned, watching the colossal ice block fall, its speed slowed down by the resistance of the Super Rasengan, and they remained speechless for a long time.

Is this Naruto's true strength?

Unbeknownst to us, his strength had already surpassed that of all of us!

Thanks to Naruto's efforts, the decapitation knife, carrying everyone, successfully escaped its fall zone by skimming along the bottom of the icy continent.

Looking back, Naruto was still struggling to hold on.

The 500-meter-diameter Rasengan stubbornly pressed against the icy continent, grinding a 100-meter-wide crater into it.

Naruto's bones creaked and groaned as he tried to support the Rasengan.

Under this immense pressure, Naruto's magical power surged, and he spontaneously activated the body-strengthening technique from the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.

His physique rapidly transformed, and Naruto broke through when the Rasengan was compressed and destroyed by the icy continent, and when the icy continent crashed down on his head.

Just as Naruto broke through to the second stage of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, the icy continent crashed solidly into the earth.

Sasuke and the others, several kilometers away, witnessed this terrifying collision between heaven and earth.

At first, there was no sound during the massive collision.

They could only see the scene: the lush green forest was instantly covered by white ice.

Then a large amount of dust rose up thousands of meters high.

As dust billowed into the sky, a terrifying shockwave spread outwards.

The trees seemed to be pressed down by an invisible hand, and instantly fell over.

House-sized rocks, like marbles, were blasted everywhere by the shockwave.

Then, a deafening roar, as if the heavens and earth were collapsing, reached Sasuke and the others' ears.

Sound is essentially vibration; when the sound exceeds 130 decibels, the eardrum will rupture.

If the sound exceeds 160 decibels, the glass will shatter.

The vibrations and sounds generated by the huge block of ice hitting the ground are enormous.

The moment the sound waves reached everyone, the client, Tazuna, died instantly, bleeding from all seven orifices.

Sasuke, Sakura, and the others also suffered ruptured eardrums, internal organs churning, and excruciating pain.

If Sakura hadn't reacted quickly and created a dough buffer layer to absorb and isolate the sound waves, they might have suffered even more serious internal injuries.

Chapter 358 Escape and Breakthrough

Even though Sasuke and Sakura were more than ten kilometers away, the earth-shattering force still managed to injure them in many ways.

A massive icy continent fell to the ground from a height of over three thousand meters, sending countless shards of ice flying everywhere at a speed faster than a meteor and with a force exceeding that of a cannonball.

House-sized ice blocks flew more than ten kilometers, creating deep craters when they hit the ground, and easily snapping giant trees more than ten meters thick when they crashed into forests.

Large ice blocks can be avoided if spotted in time, but small ice blocks are more deadly.

The ice blocks, as big as fists, were so numerous they blotted out the sky. Animals fleeing through the forest were struck by the ice blocks, their bones broken, tendons snapped, and intestines ruptured.

The people standing on the throwing knives struggled to use ninjutsu to block the small ice blocks, but they quickly ran out of chakra.

A block of ice the size of a goose egg flew over and struck Kakashi in the chest.

Kakashi's sternum broke on the spot, his chest caved in, and he fell off the throwing knife.

Fortunately, the throwing knife had already carried everyone away from the forest and to the sea off the Land of Waves, so Kakashi didn't end up as a bloody pulp.

Kakashi endured the excruciating pain and, before losing consciousness, used his last bit of chakra to drift away from the impact of the fall by skipping stones in the waves, before slowly sinking into the sea.

Seeing Kakashi fall into the sea, Sasuke quickly said, "Sakura, we can't stay in the air anymore. There are too many ice shards above. Let's jump into the sea to hide."

The resistance of the water can dissipate the kinetic energy of the ice fragments, so as long as they are hidden under the sea surface, those ice fragments will not pose a threat to most people.

Sakura nodded, and the two of them immediately jumped into the sea.

They pulled Kakashi from the seabed and hid him behind a group of rocks, diving underwater to avoid the ice shards falling from the sky.

After five or six minutes, the amount of ice shards gradually decreased, and the commotion subsided.

……

The moment the icy continent crashed to the ground, Naruto stopped his attack with the Super Giant Jade Sage Art Rasengan.

He had already used Rasengan to grind a huge crater a hundred meters in diameter into the massive ice block. Now that the ice block is falling, he is right below the crater and will not be crushed by the weight of hundreds of millions of tons of ice block immediately.

Just before the icy continent made contact with the ground, Naruto used the Heavenly Calligraphy Technique to bless himself with the Golden Light Mantra, and then used Earth Release Technique to quickly dive underground.

Hiding underground using earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a method of escaping through the earth) is definitely not a good choice.

But compared to the impact of hundreds of millions of tons of ice directly on the surface, the compression suffered deep underground is nothing.

Naruto's body seemed to merge into the ground as if it were an illusion, and then a huge impact came from the surface.

The shockwave spread underground, and even Naruto, in his second golden body form, felt his internal organs churning and his whole body aching as if being torn apart.

He quickened his descent, but still couldn't keep up with the shockwaves. He felt the surrounding soil constantly squeezing him, as if it were trying to squeeze his internal organs out of his mouth.

Fortunately, Naruto managed to dive underground in time. If he were still on the surface, the violent collision of hundreds of millions of tons of ice would have ground him into dust like a bean.

After diving more than 100 meters underground, Naruto unexpectedly fell into an underground cavity.

This is an underground cave. When Naruto arrived here, although the cave pillars above his head kept falling and hitting him, the danger was no longer so great.

Naruto sat cross-legged, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to heal his injuries and restore his magical power.

He had previously used a super-powerful Jade Immortal Rasengan, which almost exhausted his mana. The last bit of mana he had left was also completely depleted after he arrived at this cave.

He needs to quickly restore his magical power, convert it into chakra, and then return to the surface so as not to worry his companions.

The Great Celestial Immortal Technique was circulating rapidly. Thanks to the breakthrough in the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, his cultivation speed of the immortal technique also increased significantly.

Naruto felt that he only needed one more step to break through to the Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness realm.

The first four stages of the Great Celestial Immortal Technique are refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Dao.

The process of refining essence into qi goes without saying; it involves tempering the body, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and accumulating magical power.

Refining Qi into Spirit is the realm of strengthening the soul and cultivating the primordial spirit using magical power.

Refining the spirit and returning to emptiness involves transferring the infant spirit from the middle dantian to the ancestral aperture (the space between the eyebrows) for nourishment, transforming it with the lower dantian into a void realm. This allows the yin and yang of the human body to blend together, nourishing the entire body and cultivating a state of emptiness, transcending the constraints of the mortal body.

Ordinary cultivators who practice the Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness stage often shed their mortal bodies at this stage, walking the world as a Yang spirit, gathering incense offerings, vows, or magical power to forge their Dharma body.

However, Naruto's Eight-Nine Arcane Arts do not require him to abandon his body. After reaching the Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness stage, he can disperse his primordial spirit and tightly combine it with his own flesh and blood. From then on, he becomes one with his spirit and body, and ordinary attacks on his primordial spirit cannot shake his soul.

When the primordial spirit and the physical body unite, the physical body becomes the Dharma body.

The moment Naruto broke through to the Great Celestial Technique, the two techniques complemented each other, causing Naruto's defense to advance by leaps and bounds once again.

Naruto's primordial spirit was scattered and merged with his flesh and blood. Consequently, he lost many of the wonderful uses of his primordial spirit. He could no longer use his primordial spirit to perceive the environment, possess others, or deduce the changes of heaven and earth, and became a pure martial arts cultivator.

However, Naruto didn't care about these things. If his soul couldn't perceive, so be it. He lost one thing but gained another. His soul dispersed into his body, but his five senses and intuition became extremely sharp.

Even without relying on his primordial spirit, his intuition can still detect enemies.