I know for a fact that whatever I am currently doing is stupidest thing I have done in this new life. It might well be the worst thing for the next couple of years. I am literally trying for have my body adapt to a foreign energy form.
Natural chakra was used in the story to unlock 'Sage Mode'. The user mixed her own chakra with that of the environment and profited with larger chakra reserves, better physical capabilities and one can feel nearby chakra sources. Sage Mode also has its flaws, for one is it not possible to gather natural chakra while moving. In the series characters found ways to bypass that flaw and one of those ways really stands out.
In the series exists a character that from birth on is known to passively gather nature chakra; Juugo. His clan had the ability to gather natural chakra and transform themselves in various forms to enhance their physical attributes.
To be honest I am aware how unlikely it is for anything to be happen and I know that should something happen, then it will at least be super painful. I am secretly hoping that I can purge it from my system should something unwanted happen, like for example my insides petrifying.
Since I was told that I am naturally inhaling that volatile chakra without myself dying, I noticed that something is weird about that. What is happening with that chakra and how is that only small portions of it are absorbed?
My theory is that the body was conditioned to transform the natural chakra into 'something'. One half was absorbed by the chakra pathways and the other half is absorbed by the blood. So what is happening with it at that point?
I anticipate the blood to transport its half to every cell in the body and having them 'transform'. With transforming I mean that the natural chakra is used as the necessary energy to enact a change. After all how is that so many shinobi seem to be so abnormal fast? I am not buying the excuse that they are all supplying their muscles with their own chakra to boost their body. True that might help out, but their muscles would have to be able to sustain such forces over longer times. I am just hinting that the muscles already are superhuman in power and designed to go into high-maintance mode when supplied with chakra.
The other half is meanwhile absorbed by the chakra pathways. How do these pathways change? It is multiple times hinted, that the chakra pathways of children are not fully developed which in turn makes them highly adaptable. For the same reasons Orochimaru, our fearsome mad, snake scientist, is conducting his disgusting experiments on children. Need a subject to test whether bloodlines are transferable? Use a highly adaptable child. Guaranteed success rate of 1%!
Well my theory at least is that there is a simple reason why childrens chakra pathways are so adaptable. Of course there is growth, but I am more talking about the influence of natural chakra.
Why should the natural chakra have so much influence on the humans in the Elemental Nations? I do have an idea for that too.
Years before Kaguyas arrival at the Elemental Nations, there had already existed natural chakra. In fact there even existed a living being, which absorbed this life force, the Shinju (God Tree). It literally sprouts by absorbing the blood of the fallen and then eats the natural chakra of every other living being. The story already explains that natural energy has been a part for every human being, but it never said anything about chakra-wielding supersoldiers. This leads me to believe that humans had the capability to use natural chakra, but must have transformed that ability, when Kaguyas son, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, shared his chakra with everyone.
In my opinion the humans, before Kaguyas arrival, could have learned to utilize natural chakra and started transforming their own bodies into gods. That is after all what the Shinju is doing, eating natural chakra. With its arrival it must have gotten harder to 'cultivate' by reducing the natural chakra density in the air and also robbing people of their own energy.
So I conclude that humans were once able to cultivate, but were stopped by the arrival of the Shinju. In fact I am pretty sure that humans of the Elemental Nation can still cultivate by amassing natural chakra and forcing changes to their body. They just never learned how to do so and you can bet that I am going to be the first one to do so.
"Boss, we have been breathing in and out and amassing small energy bits for three hours now. Maybe you should stop talking to yourself and inspecting the changes in your body."
"Yeah you are right. Sorry can you maybe tell me what has been happening?"
"No problem Boss.
We started collecting natural chakra with every breath instead of only every ten cycles. I made sure to have the amount slowly increase to so in case of a problem, we could have simply puked out everything. Anyway I had the natural chakra slowly move to the dantian and once it entered the dantian it slowly started turning into this fog you can clearly see right now. Everytime we add more natural chakra the fog starts getting denser."
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"Wonderful. Let's try condensing the fog into a Qi string. It might well be waiting for exactly that."
Together we started willing the fog to move closer to each other. It didn't repel each other, which might mean that we are still lacking more chakra. For that reason I am trying to be a little risky and have half of my physical energy combine with an equal amount of spiritual energy. That newly formed is then moved closer to the fog and slowly absorbed by it.
"Oh did you see that? Both energies are changing into something else. Help me with trying to combine both into one energy."
We steadily move both energies closer and have them spin, because they started repelling each other at one point. Minutes go by in which both energies slowly move closer and closer, when something in the center starts glowing and greedily absorbing the vortex of chakra. Once the chakra in the dantian was used up, I started to feel pain all over my body. While spasming like crazy that glowing something sucks in physical energy from the surrounding cells and I tried to supply the spiritual missing portion.
After 5 minutes of intense pain, that glowing thing stopped and it revealed itself as liquid. We literally condensed the fog. Damn this headache...
"...oss! Hey!"
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"Son. How was your day?"
Hm? Where am I? Why am I sitting at my old dinner table? Is that dad?
"Son! Hey are you there?"
"Hm oh sorry, what did you say?"
"I asked how your day has been."
"Ah yeah fine."
"Really? Alan informed me that there has been a problem with your girlfriend Lea."
Lea? My first girlfriend? Damn. That had been a cringeworthy experience. I just can't seem to remember how everything turned out so uncomfortable between us.
"Matt? Are you really alright?"
"Yeah sorry. Just a little headache."
"Hm. You might want to take a short rest then."
"Good idea...dad."
"Matt. You are my son and if anything is bothering you, then we can talk it over some nice cold beer. Especially when it is a problem like your girlfriend."
"Of course dad. But I am alright. I am just going to take a short rest."
"Ah yeah. See you later son."
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Secret: Chakra Theory
You came up with a theory about this worlds energies in relation to others and may have unlocked a well kept secret of the Narutoverse.
Your theory states that natural chakra consists of physical and spiritual energy and did exist in all life forms until the Hagoromo Otsutsukis act of sharing his chakra.
The natural energies in the human body seemed to change and made it impossible for the human race to reach a higher realm via energy cultivation.
Humanities chakra and the original natural chakra share similarities, but have major differences that have yet to be discovered.
'Energy Control' changed into 'Qi Energy Control (Intermediate 5)'.
+15 Int
+20 Wis
Title unlocked! Pioneer of Heavenly Qi
Pioneer of Heavenly Qi
For being the first human to unlock 'The Heavenly Energy Qi' in the Elemental Nations.
+1 additional Stat Point each lv
+1 Talent Point on acquiring this title
"...rghh."
"Hinata! !$)&&=!!"
Oh god. Do they all have to scream. My headache is killing me.
".a.a.f.fhh."
Damn woman. You are suffocating me. My body is only roughly 2 months old and can't survive such fearsome hugging. Please let me breath~
So taking a look around there are currently only four people present: Hiashi, Hitomi, Ko and an old guy that somehow resembles Hiashi, that couldn't be his father right? For those who don't know who Ko is, he is the person that follows and protects Hinata the whole time during her childhood. He is the always supportive bodyguard.
"))!=§$!=@) Hitomi )§==!)white chakra"
"&!( Hinata."
White chakra? They couldn't mean Qi, could they? I really should dedicate more time in learning this language. Well lets play the cute kid that doesn't have an idea what is happening around it.
"Fufuuw? Fufuuw!"
Yes. You might have no idea what I just said, but my parents will know for sure.
"Fufuuw? Aaah! Ko! Hinata %)= ="
And there goes the Ko Hyuga and only six seconds later comes back with my always fluffy companion Sir. Fluffykins. Yes whenever I am playing with Sir. Fluffykins I am refering to him as 'Fufuuw'. Now all I have to do is grab him close to me and start smiling uncontrollably.
With that I take Sir. Fluffykins and hug him close to my face and look with upturned eyes to my parents while smiling happily. Their worries instantly disappear when Hiashi signals something to Ko and he packs out a camera out of nothing and snaps a shot. Damn. They got me.
At least with this the mood is more lightheartened and I feign sleep to have a look at my 'Qi'. But there is one huge thing to notice. My chakra pathway changed. They now have a slight white sheen to them and feel like the Qi inside myself. It might well be that the Qi is already starting to transform my body. Might be one of the reasons why that process hurt like hell.
'Other me did you notice anything while I was out cold?'
'Hm. Our body itself only changed with the pathways, but what did change is the level where able to control energies. It is at least four times faster than before and mixing energies is simpler too. Regarding the current Qi, I suspect it to slowly completely turn physical and spiritual energy to Qi. At that point we will always have to convert Qi to other forms first if we plan to use specific techniques.'
'Show Qi Energy Control'
Qi Energy Control (Intermediate lv 5/9)
Allows the user to move and shape Heavenly Energy.
Currently able to reform Qi into:
-Liquid Qi
-Chakra
Ah. Whatever. I will just sleep for now. Tomorrow I will start figuring out what to do next.