Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25787298-20160519120227/@comment-734582-20160519210532

Seelentau wrote: You've never read the manga, huh? I'm sorry i forgot about a small panel with cats with barely distinguishable rinnegan-reflections.

Jawnaphino wrote: I don't know if this is the appropiate place to ask this, but if every living thing, human or not has physical energy, and the world, the air, anything non-animate has nature energy, then where did chakra come from? It seems the Tree has the ability to connect the spiritual and physical energy of it's victims and turn that into chakra. It is also accumulating Nature Energy, presumably to grow.

It makes sense that Nature Energy can be used on it's own in jutsu, after all if you can absorb the energy in water, can't you expel that energy to recreate water? Chakra simply seems to add a versatility factor to it, and in a way Nature Energy seems superior to normal chakra.