Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-33156423-20170923231447/@comment-734582-20170926201925

Elveonora wrote: Except there is no evidence they already had the basic components, that's just an unfounded assumption. It's not. Part 1 clearly explains that chakra is comprised of physical and mental energy, and that said energies are from chemical energy in the cells and experiences, thoughts and willpower. You're implying that before Kaguya, people were inert toughtless rocks. Starscream1998 wrote: Wasn't chakra supposed to be a fricken' life force where you were screwed if your chakra levels went to 0? It is. If you use up all the energy in your body and mind, then there's nothing for your own body to use. I mean, your body needs that energy to function, it's not just some extra power you have for no reason.

The distinction between chakra types has faded and as i said before, i blame poor terminology for this. I think it's evident that people don't really have chakra reserves but rather potential reserves. IE a certain amount of physical and mental energy that they could mold into chakra. Use up too much of that energy and your body simply ceases to function, as if you are underfed or undercooled.

Elveonora wrote: Exactly, so that means if humans had had physical and spiritual energies before, they would have also had chakra Nope. It's fairly evident that chakra is more than the sum of it's parts, or else your brain (where physical and mental energies meet) would be a complete madhouse of elements and jutsu effects. With Hagoromo came the power to combine these energies into something more, the same way that protons and electrons combine into something more, or the same way water and cement turn into concrete. Chakra has demonstrably different properties from either chemical energy or mental energy.

Plus, the whole chakra network thing is apparently necessary to gather these energies and combine them, so without that it's not possible to mould chakra.