Whoa, that's really fast results. He puts down more plant patches and records them all with a telescopic camera.

The ones that were not immediately affected do sometimes start developing things more slowly. There's definitely a roughly defined center - the stuff that stays unaffected is near the edges, and the plants auditioning for the little shop of horrors are all clustered together. How fast plants are affected seems to be random.

So it's like there's spots of screwy chakra? Can he map them and see if they form a pattern?

This is doable! 

The areas that have unnatural discoloration or geologic layers bleeding into each other or a significant chunk of the mantle just flipped upside down and at an angle are screwier. The chakra seems to sink, almost, too. It's less noticeable at the heights. The areas are arranged kind of like beads on a very tangled string.

Huh! That is all interesting but he can't draw any immediate conclusions from it. He goes home and sends Kurama photos.

fascinating

I suspect I would immediately be torn to shreds if I entered

I'm surprised none of the plants seem to have turned to stone but there might be a specific clustered type of nature chakra there

Or it takes longer, maybe? Where's turns-to-stone-place?

some traditions for humans to learn to use nature chakra will turn them to stone if they mess up

and also that was a problem in some areas in the very early days of my life

it is maybe a problem that only happens with very acute problems

Any guess why this pattern of epicenters?

some

those appear to be areas of higher initial damage or that were directly affected by the ten tail's chakra

likely the disruptions spread some between points of higher concentration making the networks you see

Man, this planet is so weird.

it is

naruto says you want to have civilian chakra use

you should look up the sage's writings on ninshuu

that was what chakra use was before ninjutsu and it was supposed to be peaceful uses only

Thanks, will do!

Lots of writings on this! The Sage was a prolific writer if nothing else. Most of it's philosophy. Some of it's instructions, though, or descriptions of techniques. Apparently they used to be able to treat mental illness with chakra use, as well as diseases like cancer that are currently really hard with medical ninjutsu. Ninshuu was a lot harder to learn, though, and required a very still and calm mind to use, and didn't have the same sort of spell-like discrete techniques modern ninjutsu has.

Huh, why was it so much harder - just because it wasn't divided into techniques and required the mindset (why did it require a mindset?) or were there other reasons?

That seems to be the case, yes - it was also not exploiting muscle memory properly. More like learning to actually program versus learning how to use console cheat codes.

The mindset was required to actually get the effects you wanted consistently. Apparently getting emotional would make your chakra too agitated.

Do modern users have that problem at all?

That'll require either some digging or emailing a modern user, but: strong emotions, especially in the area of 'frustration,' do make chakra harder to control, but this is mostly noticeable in novices learning chakra control for the first time.

Cam can do both digging and emailing modern users! Does anyone wanna try some ninshuu and see what happens?

Sasuke responds with interest. It'll be a break from working on improving the resurrection, at least.

It will! Cam sends him some techniques.

Cam gets an email a few hours later:

This would be more helpful if the Sage didn't insist on writing everything poetically or like he was trying to win a philosophy debate.

I think there's techniques we can rework into modern forms, but these are genuinely harder to learn.

How so?

They require a lot more chakra control and a finer understanding of what you're actually doing, as well as a lot more consistently applied will.

I guess I can see why they were displaced in favor of more point-and-shoot type stuff.