Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30168130-20170115054258/@comment-4912646-20170116231650

Thekillman wrote: Here i disagree. I think the Statue is a second source of Black Rods. It seems that the Rods are able to multiply (Pains with Rods embedded could make more rods). If Gedo were embedded with Black Rods by either Madara or Hagoromo for better control, it could conceivably make more. This is also entirely plausible. The only places we've seen receivers come out of are Rinnegan users' bodies, the Demonic Statue, and the white substance created by Madara (which was made using Hashirama's cells and the Demonic Statue's chakra/life force). Though if the white stuff alone is enough to create black rods, it's a little strange we never saw any of the White Zetsu do it. Thekillman wrote: Yea i think the releases add specific abilities. IE Water -> fluidity, Air -> floating. To back this up, according to the databook, the balls are apparently able to change their composition by combining the different natures inside of them to achieve different effects. So probably the matter-erasing is done by combining Fire+Wind+Earth, the nullification is done by combining Yin+Yang, and maybe the healing effect is achieved using either Yin+Yang or Yang on its own. So it seems using each of the different natures' properties is kind of their gimmick.