Log 7 Natural Energy
Disclaimer
I am no historian and not the kind of person to comb over every piece of data. I also never watched Shippuden or Baruto so basically a good chunk of this info is circumspect. I did the best I could with the info I had at hand but I have a limited time to write these logs for you kids and a back story isn't all that important.
If you have any notes to correct your pops, please comment in the margins. I will be combining contradicting information and circumstantial information to produce this hypothesis. Others may come to other conclusions but based on physical evidence and my understanding of the world's culture this is my best guess on what natural energy is.
Part one History
Long ago on a planet much different than this one a civilization found a way of infinite growth and longevity. It was through the use of large amounts of external chakra being added to the body via chakra fruit. This makes sense as life energy is connected to one's physical energy, half of the power required for chakra.
This civilization is known as the Otsutsuki; they created artificial life in the form of a tree with the ability to create chakra fruits and the ability to change forms. This was likely to protect the Otsutsuki if they ever found themself at risk on the planets where they harvest these trees as well as for the tree to protect its crops.
These trees were seeded across life-bearing planets across space. They needed to be planted on life-bearing planets, not planets in habitable zones because they did not grow on sunlight, water, CO2, and fertilizers like plants on my earth but these trees feed on the world's natural energy. The crop these trees produced absorbed the world's natural energy and converted it into chakra that the Otsutsuki could absorb along with all the biological information of the planet. This biological information could be used to further improve their species.
This means two things: the tree can convert the natural energy of a world and process it into chakra and remove whatever is in natural energy that contains biological information. Natural energy is not just energy but the knowledge of life in the world that the energy exists.
I do not know how natural energy is produced and how chakra, the energy that is the link between soul and body, is produced through the processing of the world's natural energy. I suspect that natural energy, which is the energy of the world, is used by the body to produce physical energy. This is a slow process as a person rests. People likely intake natural energy as they breathe the air in the atmosphere and partake in the bounty of nature (eating). We can get back to this when I talk about natural energy.
The god tree's bounty of chakra fruit has been eaten by Kaguya Otsutsuki. Kaguya used this power to bring the never-ending wars across lands now known as the elemental nations to an end. I could not find out why these wars were so prevalent but in most cases, wars happen due to resources.
Religion, bigotry, and racism are all common means of directing hate and vilifying your enemies which make it easier to not see them as human and easier to kill but usually war is caused by greed. A world being drained of its natural energy I can not imagine being rich in healthy farmland.
I might be mistaken and this god tree had farmed the world sustainably. Slowly the tree drained the world at the same rate the world creates natural energy. The God tree landed on earth several millennia ago and a god tree produces a chakra fruit every 1000 years. For a fruit to ripen, Otsutsuki must sacrifice the physical body of a member of their clan.
This theory for sustainable farming has a bit of credibility as the Otsutsuki chose to base their chakra harvesting device off a fruit tree which is meant to be a tree that provides fruits for a long time. This sustainable farming method also makes sense if you are looking at things logically but some people can over fish or cause soil degradation from over farming.
However all Otsutsuki I know of are now extremely powerful beings and now travel planet to planet draining them of life. This might be just due to the fact all the peaceful ones stay on one planet and farm that planet in peace and balance with the world.
In all likelihood in the beginning all Otsutsuki started as fairly tame farmers as before eating these fruits they were weak and needed to think about sustainability. Limited resources and greed is a great motivator for war and violence.
An example of their superiority complex and selfish the draining of the world of natural energy is that once Kaguya brought peace to the world she enslaved parts of the human population and trapped them in the god tree to drain them of everything to the point they become pale identical humanoid puppets called "White Zetsu"
Kaguya had two kids Hagoromo and Hamura. These two became the first two on earth born with chakra. No known reasons why but after many years she seemingly became jealous of her children's chakra and believed it was her right to have all the chakra. She fused with the god tree (the ten-tailed) and attacked her children. If Kaguya had a psychotic break, the constant war and bloodshed affected the chakra fruit thus her mentality, or if she was always this lustful for power given she ate the chakra fruit without permission from her clan I will likely never know.
In the end Hagoromo and Hamura believed that the tree was at fault and that it had attempted to take back its chakra. Hagoromo and Hamura split the beast into energy and body before sealing the body into the moon and energy into Hagoromo becoming the first jinchūriki.
Part Two Chakra and Energies
After Hagoromo sealed his mother and the stone statue of the god tree into the moon, the tree's power was sealed into himself creating the first jinchūriki. Hagoromo took it upon himself to uplift the dying world frequently filled with war and strife he was born and raised.
He went about doing this by teaching a spiritual creed known as Ninshu. Hagoromo's gifted his and the sealed ten tail's chakra to be treat as a bridge to connect people's spiritual energies. This would create people who could connect empathetically and understand one another without the need for words and especially without the need for war.
This is interesting as it proves that people had spiritual energy even before the tree landed on the planet. This makes sense as all living creatures on the planet have souls and all one needs for spiritual energy is to use the power of the mind/soul.
What is interesting is that instead of following Hagoromo's will they used this chakra as a bridge between their body's energy and their soul's energy creating chakra of their own. Before this, no human had chakra or could produce their own as there was no way to connect both body and spirit.
Hagoromo's Chakra became the link between the physical and the mental. The imaginary and the real, between the spirit and life. A torch passed from person to person a never-ending flame of life connecting everyone for without one to light the spark of the next generation to connect the spirit and the body. How else does one obtain chakra?
This is one of the two reasons I will never have chakra. I was not born with it like ninjas with parents with chakra or like Hagoromo and Hamura nor was chakra ever given to me. The second is because I lack chakra coils and tenketsu points as I am not a person born of humans in this world.
What's even a greater mystery is why humans have what we nowadays call a chakra coil, the chakra network or even tenketsu points. Quite interesting for the body to have a circulatory system for an unobtainable power. I don't know what power was used before chakra as due to all the wars no records that I can find tell us what specifically they used before this. Did they use only their hands and feet, other mystical power, or tools?
What we do know is that these energies could exist without chakra, natural, pure, negative, positive, phantasmal, void, mental(spiritual), or physical(life) energy.
(Got these definitions off of naturto's wiki wishing to give credit where credit is due Aurthor's Note)
Natural Energy ー energy that is found within the atmosphere and terrain.
Pure Energy ー natural energy that originates from the Pure Land. It is much more clean and pure than regular chakra energy. When it is combined with Spiritual Energy it can become what some call Priestess Chakra.
Spiritual Energy ー energy that is found within and born from the soul. Those with large or strong spiritual energy are capable of transmigrating after death. When it is combined with chakra it forms Spiritual Chakra.
Negative Energy ー energy born from negative emotions such as rage, hatred and sorrow. It is known to have a corrupting effect and when combined with chakra it forms Dark Chakra.
Positive Energy ー energy born from positive emotions such as love, happiness and hope. It is known to have a calming effect and when combined with chakra it forms Light Chakra.
Phantasmal Energy ー energy originating within the Phantasmal Vein and is known to not only repel but destroy any type of Natural Energy.
Void Energy ー energy originating within Void Ore or Void Gemstone and is known to rapidly absorb and breakdown any chakra that it comes in contact with.
Mental Energy ー energy produced by one's studying, meditation, and experiences.
Physical Energy ー energy collected from each and every one of the body's cells and can be increased through training, stimulants, and exercise.
Part Three The tailed Beasts
You know what is really interesting is the God tree, a being made of natural energy and chakra from another world that absorbs a good chunk of the world's natural energy and has an undistinguishable energy signature from the natural energy of our world.
The same natural energy which contains all the biological records of life on the planet. Most trees when "chopped down" decompose, turning back into nature. Although the body never really decomposed after natural energy was removed and turned to stone it was sealed in the moon, and all the chakra and natural energy it stole and processed from the world was removed and sealed in Hagoromo.
Later Hagoromo split all this energy into 9-tailed beasts and released these young natural energy beasts back into the world. Now we have beasts made up of natural energy and chakra made from a beast from outside this world whose purpose was to assimilate and convert the natural energy from the world it visited into chakra.
It is unknown what this could have done to the world's natural energy if the destruction of the god tree and the release of the natural energy that used to make up its being affected the world's natural energy but I do have to mention these three circumspect facts.
The tailed beasts are made from the same energy that made up the ten tails, that the tailed beasts are immortal, and once they die their chakra, spirit, and natural energy will recondense elsewhere on the planet. Finally, the ten-tailed beast's energy from another world was an indistinguishable energy signature from the natural energy of our world. I don't know if that means that our world's natural energy was fully tainted by the ten tails or if natural energy everywhere is the same which is unlikely as natural energy contains biological information from the world it comes from. This leaves me with a question I hope you can one day find answers to.
Part Four Natural Energy
Senjutsu or sage arts has only three places to learn this skill known as the three sacred lands. Once one absorbs this natural energy their body takes on the biological characteristics of the animals in the sacred lands you trained under.
These Senjutsu techniques are made by and for animals thus the biological information in the world natural energy does not affect them the same way it does for humans. If one absorbs too much biological aspect of the natural energy their bodies turn to animals.
As a freshly turned animal with no energy control training one quickly loses control of this energy before turning to statues. This is interesting as you know what else absorbed a bunch of natural energy and transforms but once that energy was lost it turned to stone the god tree.
Back to what I mentioned about how natural energy is created. I have mentioned much of what we know about natural energy is about the god tree, the tailed beasts, and senjutsu but nothing about this mentions what produces natural energy and how this energy affects nature.
I believe that the best people one can look towards on how natural energy can affect life are Hashirama Shenju and jugo's clan. I will go in depth about Hashirmasm I will talk about jugo's clan in part six where I talk about a theory I have about natural energy.
Hashirmasm had a massive chakra pool and was known to be one of the greatest with Senjutsu. This made him the only one know to be able to produce large constructs out of wood even for those lucky few to obtain his Kekkei Genkai.
Even the cells in his body had such strong vital energy when the village elder Danzo stole his body from tsunade's clan grounds. Tsunade, the student of the third hokage, the leader at the time, must have known about any experiment Danzo could have done; he even shut down this experiment when it wasn't producing results.
Back to the topic I will make a log later on why not to trust the elder but first it is shown here that vitality is what is unusual. Vitality comes from one physical energy but natural energy is also what Hashirmasm used to grow such large trees which given the feats it mentions he has completed it can not be done by chakra alone. I am nearly certain that our bodies use natural energy to create physical energy.
My final reason for this idea is the god tree. How does it absorb nature's energy to create chakra in its chakra fruit? Humans need physical and spiritual energy to create chakra so it is likely the tree. The tree has the spirit of the 10 tails which is extremely pure and does not contain emotions and
My biggest theory against this nature energy fuels life force and creates physical energy when absorbed is that an Otsutsuki sacrifices their physical body to ripen a chakra fruit. If this is the case what does all that physical/life energy fuel.
Does natural energy instead fuel the spirit to produce mental energy which is why jugo's clan who were natural sages were affected mentally. Or is the mental effect due to the natural energy affecting the growth of hormones in the brain causing these issues.
In conclusion I believe that natural energy is a higher form of Yang energy. Natural energy is the energy found amongst the physical world and energy that permeates the ground and sky. I suspect that all lives in the process of living and dying produce natural energy by interacting and growing and producing more life.
This would explain how it contains biological info of all life on the planet and be used to create chakra. I suspect an Otsutsuki's sacrifice is either an activation condition to prevent others from acquiring the fruit or a catalyst to kickstart the maturation of the tree.
Part Five possibilities for before Chakra
I believe that there were 4 different energy professions in the past: pure energy, spiritual, physical, and natural energy. This decision stems from the fact that these energies were accessible, usable, and have a place in the architecture of the world.
Priests: Pure & Spiritual Energy
For instance Pure Energy is the energy made from the energy of the afterlife and the combination of one's spiritual energy now known as Priestess chakra. Shrines exist throughout the elemental nations.
These shrines worship ancestors like the Uchiha or spiritual beings like the uzumaki's worship of the shinigami. These temples worship those beyond the physical ones connected to the pure lands either as desist spirits or spiritual entities.
As Pure energy is natural energy that originates from the Pure Lands combined with one's spiritual energy I suspect that these Priestess were not warriors but protectors for to be connected to the spiritual they likely had to spend a lot of time at temples in prayer to connect to the pure lands.
Warriors: Physical Energy
As for the Warriors, I believe they looked close to Mike Guy. Men and women train their yang energy in their body to empower themselves physically and to heal themself from wounds. I believe this to be the case as it is said that people always had access to physical energy they just never had the ability to connect and combine it with their spiritual energy to create chakra
Sage Natural & Spiritual Energy
Where there are warriors there are peacekeepers and I suspect these to be sages. I suspect these sages were ones that used their chakra coils and were closer to what I know as druids. I don't remember seeing much lore about these people in texts here but in my world the idea of a druid are secular people that lived away from people as off of nature and as a part of it as its protectors.
For a dying planet like the one the god tree was creating when it was stealing the world's natural energy it makes sense that there were wise and learned people that realized this and tried to fix this problem. These are I believe the origin of the people I call druids
I believe this to be the case as in modern Senjutsu knowledge a person takes in natural energy and balances it in their body with their chakra. This PROVES that natural energy is capable of being channeled through a person's "chakra coils". In addition, Priestesses also channel a form of natural and spiritual energy through their physical bodies.
These druids were likely a small community of extremely long lived humans due to the difficulty of natural energy practice. The fact is that all known animals that channel natural energy are at a minimum of 800 years old. If I just take a common toad and find out its total natural lifespan and compare it to the oldest known toad, the difference in lifespan is 100 times.
If these sages were likely capable of living thousands of years, where are they now? As protectors of nature I suspect they were killed by Kaguya Otsutsuki when they attempted to protect the world from her attempt to drain it of Ann natural energy.
Part 6 What happened to natural energy
Why has the use of natural energy been lost? I believe that natural energy now is different from when Kaguya Otsutsuki roamed the world. For two reasons the first is circumspect as I believe that the nature of natural energy may have been mutated or rain by the release of the processed natural energy of the tailed beast.
The second and more like funny enough is because the world tree absorbs natural energy. This reduces the natural energy in the world making it even harder to sense but safer to use as there would be less to overwhelm them. Also there would be less biological changes likely allowing these sages to more fully control these changes.
These small secluded people of love living animal people likely left descendants the greatest example of animals with human-like intelligence are the ninja animal summons. It is mentioned that chakra is what elevates a lot of these creatures to intelligence but let me ask you the Toad Sage living before chakra where did he get the chakra to gain sentience.
I believe newer chakra animals may awaken but I believe at many animal sacred grounds started as druid sanctuaries Who's kids have lost this knowledge as it was never written down and those that knew die Kaguya Otsutsuki or took that information with them to their grave.
Now after a thousand years have passed since the tree was sealed, nearly no one can handle natural energy and those clans that naturally could control this energy for generations long enough to build a large village like Jugo's clan are going crazy and dying out. This means that the energy now is different from the past.
Footnote: I have explained natural energy and the log before with all the phase changing gave me a headache to explain like do an easy one. Let's look back at the air that is easier to explain as I don't have to worry about phase changing and why Kekkei Genkais makes no sense. How about I talk about how one could combine Kenjutsu with Air nature transformation that is some pretty dangerous shit. Of fuck that reminds me of a high-pressure hydraulic leak accident. GOD, I hope when the internet becomes developed enough that those kinds of injuries are never discovered and posted for you to look at.