Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-45273751-20200322060033/@comment-4961229-20200408172524

Rfear32 wrote: I like these kind of discussions too, so it's always great to have someone to talk with.

Needless to say, this hypothetical person we are talking about has complete control over all of these techniques individually, as it'd be not possible to perform them at the same time if they couldn't perform them in the first place. So I think it'd be possible for that person to keep 8 Gates and the other jutsus going as mentioned. The only thing that I'm still not entirely sure of is what Sage Mode would grant to Shikotsumyaku. I mean, Shikotsumyaku is a Kekkei Genkai derived from Kaguya herself so I'd imagine someone with complete Sage Mode control would be able to achieve more than just a normal sage would. Assuming the user is not using 8 Gates and only activates Sage Mode, what new abilities could they unlock? Well, we kind of have an example. Kimmimaro was only as strong as he was because he had the cursed seal, which is derived from Juugo's sennin transformation. It makes ninjutsu much stronger than ones using regular chakra. A perfect sage mode would be on an entirely different level than a bootleg sennin transformation, which is already a broke man's sage mode.

Let's say a toad sage has Shikotsumyaku. Shikotsumyaku users can move their bodies through the bone forest they create with the Dance of the Seedling Fern. It's like those bone stalagmites were an extension of Kimimaro's body; he could merge with and emerge from any one of them. Imagine being able to launch frog kata attacks on opponents with natural energy from an entire forest of bone.

Also, Kimimaro was able to make his bones hard enough to become highly resistant to being cut by chakra flow blades. I imagine that they'd become all but invulnerable in sage mode.