Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26422475-20181104100351/@comment-26422475-20181104114843

It's interesting to think of the Divine Tree as an invasive species, it'd make for a fascinating subplot (though I wonder if it could go anywhere).

That aside, senjutsu chakra couldn't exist without chakra (as the term itself implies), but senjutsu itself could, surely? I mean, that's basically how Naruto mastered sennin mode--independent of chakra usage, right?

An AU where the Divine Tree never took root and maybe the Shinobi World sourced it's power directly from nature energy might make for a dope stand-alone story. Though I wonder if they'd ever have become shinobi then.

Or (in the canon) normal humans that can't mold chakra seeking out and learning the use of nature energy--that could move in some interesting directions.