Nimda

Myriad Reality

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Start small and just slowly add more until you get the hang of it.

@Yatagarasu

*Rubs a small portion onto the back of my hand*

Myriad Reality

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Not particularly.

@Yatagarasu

Alright. How much oil should I use, then?

Myriad Reality

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Yes, of course, and no.

@Yatagarasu

Are there any I should be wary about?

Myriad Reality

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In general or in terms of chakra?

@Yatagarasu

Either or.

Myriad Reality

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I've never bothered to look into it. Theoretically, it's because your cells get overwhelmed by the nature energy and are calcified.

@Yatagarasu

That's unique. Will anything else cause that?

Myriad Reality

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No, just small doses to start. If you poured it all on you'd be way overloaded and probably turn to stone.

@Yatagarasu

Why stone, specifically?

Myriad Reality

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Yep. *A small portal opens and a container of several gallons of oil falls out onto the ground*
I'd recommend starting small.

@Yatagarasu

Do I douse myself and go?

Myriad Reality

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Right.

@Yatagarasu

*Nods*
I understand. Are we going to start now?

Myriad Reality

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Well, basically, you apply an oil to your exposed skin and then remain completely still. The oil makes you passively absorb nature energy, so then it's a matter of learning to shape it and combine it with your chakra. If you start getting too much, I can knock the energy out of you, but in order to get enough to really learn anything you'll have to learn to draw in more than the oil will provide.

@Yatagarasu

Like starting a siphon.

Myriad Reality

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Alright, so an overview. Natural energy, this kind of energy by that name at least, is a form of energy that exists in the atmosphere and the earth of some universes, usually those with chakra. By gathering the natural energy in their surroundings and combining it with their own chakra, sages are able to enter Sage Mode and use senjutsu. Natural energy circulates all throughout the world, but it is usually imperceptible. In order to use senjutsu, one must first learn to sense the natural energy in their surroundings and draw it into their body, which requires becoming "one with nature" by remaining perfectly still.

To control the natural energy they absorb, the user must balance it with their own physical and spiritual energies, which together make up chakra, in order to create senjutsu chakra. If this balance contains too little natural energy, senjutsu cannot be used, but too much makes the user turn to stone; in the case of humans, they first turn into animals before petrifying. This is where the danger of sage chakra lies.

You really only need perfunctory training with sage chakra, since you'll be eating chakra fruit.

@Yatagarasu

What do I have to do to learn it?