Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-39350828-20200424153111/@comment-26636534-20200428145518

LegionZero wrote:

That whole scene is weird. He just stopped absorbing everything when he noticed the sand. He seemed to absorb the chakra in the sand in 560

I think he was just playing with them again. Like when he pretended to be captured and let them hit him to expose Hashiboob. Could be. Although, it's not clear if Gaara is using his gourd sand or ground sand. As his gourd sand has chakra in it, but ground sand would not.

Babyfriend1 wrote:

Are the wood clones made entirely out of the user's cells? That doesn't explain all the extra mass. One of the reasons WR sticks around and was not simply absorbed by Madara could be because it actually creates living trees. Kinda similar to Kimimaro's Shikotsumyaku, that creates osteoblast and osteoclast cells, Hashirama's WR creates WR cells. It seems to not be chakra that has the properties of wood, but rather using chakra to create WR cells.

Therefore, fundamentally different from most ninjutsu.