Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33545035-20200420172652/@comment-4912646-20200420190151

The biggest red flag is the idea that the God Trees now grow by consuming chakra. The anime version told us pretty much the same thing, but said the tree was sucking out the Earth’s natural energy (hence everything nearby wilting) in order to create chakra.

This chapter is either setting up for a reveal that humans actually had chakra all along (and thus Madara, Hagoromo, and the databook were all wrong) or it’s a sign that the people in charge of writing Boruto don’t understand the original story all that well. My concern is with the latter interpretation.

I agree that the “every thousand years” bit was likely just a legend though, much like Kaguya being a princess, which has never been mentioned again since Madara’s original telling of the story.