Tamura Hiroshi settled down on this deserted island, cultivating his strength while pondering the Sage's Talent.
His guess had been correct. The Sage's Talent was indeed an application of Natural Energy, and could also be considered a form of Senjutsu.
However, unlike the Three Great Sage Lands' method of absorbing Natural Energy into the body and merging with it, the Sage's Talent used Spiritual Power to sense and merge with Natural Energy before applying it outside the body.
That was why the body could not move while using the Sage's Talent. It was necessary to maintain stillness and guide the surrounding Natural Energy more effectively.
At the same time, because it relied solely on Spiritual Power to guide and merge with Natural Energy, without absorbing Natural Energy into the body, it did not carry the risk of losing control during Senjutsu cultivation in the Three Great Sage Lands. The difficulty of cultivation was far lower, and practically every monk at the Temple of Fire knew a little of it.
Even Asuma, who was not a monk of the Temple of Fire, could use it. However, his Thousand-Armed Guanyin was far smaller than Chiriku's.
Moreover, because it was guided by Spiritual Power, even monks without Chakra could still create these corporeal energy constructs, much like Susanoo.
The monks' lineage had been passed down for an extremely long time, existing even before the Sage of Six Paths. The Sage of Six Paths himself had even called himself a monk, and his weapon was a khakkhara commonly used by monks.
As for those who called the energy used by monks Chakra, ninjas regarded every kind of energy as Chakra. They even called Natural Energy Natural Chakra.
"Perhaps I can make this thing take root and sprout. Once that happens, its absorption of Natural