This Young Lord here to address a review I got on this Fanfic some days back but haven't had the mental energy to write anything since I expended it in writing the last few chapters I wrote on Wednesday on Patron.
The person who wrote the review gave it a 1 star simply because there was a mention of Skin Refining.
He did mention Murakami being autistic, which I had no understanding on. In my part of Africa, we don't have such disabilities so I can't relate. He's simply an adult pulled into a dangerous world that didn't promise the same experience he got while watching it.
But that's aside the issue.
The issue here is the skin refining.
I responded to that review with a question.
Would it have been pleasant if he did 10,000 pushups under 10X gravity for it to be interesting to him.
This is my problem with this particular set of humans that refuse to use the logical part of their brain when exploring their creativity.
Firstly, Martial arts and Cultivation in their raw form aren't the same.
One is the art of training the body to handle more stress and unlock vital energy, no?
Cultivation is the art of refining the energy of the world and introducing it into the body to achieve immortality at the end.
I can understand why most would confuse the two because most Xianxia include body refining before being able to unlock spirit root necessary for refining the energy of the world.
Now, did you think I am not aware of that?
The energy of the world of Naruto, is Senjutsu or in English; Natural Energy.
A very mundane name if you think about it.
Which is my problem with the world building of the anime.
Because if you say you hate cultivation, then you should HATE Hashirama, Jiraiya, Minato and Naruto because they're cultivators, no?
But then, you don't.
Why is that?
Because they simply characters that can use Senjutsu... Wow... they're geniuses.
Fools.
This is my problem with this particular set of humans.
They see their own truth and refuse to see the plain truth.
Now, I've been writing Fanfics for a while... It doesn't feed me, so if I write, I write for my enjoyment.
So as the anime I love the most, I sought to correct that notion we all had about Chakra as an energy.
If you compare Chakra, Mana, Reiryoku, and Ki, used in Naruto, Magical animes, Bleach and Dragon ball, you'd find that after Chakra is a higher form of energy.
I know you all would argue, so allow me to tell you why I said so.
Mana is Life Force within a Mage.
Reiryoku is plain Spiritual Energy
Ki is Plain Vital energy
Now, what is chakra?
Chakra is Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy combined.
Physical Energy here is Ki, because Ki is Vital Energy. And Vital energy is the very energy that powers a human body, so by extension...Life Force.
Spiritual Energy is self explanatory. Energy gotten from the Soul, no?
If you've watched Bleach, you don't need much explanation into it so I'll explain it in another direction.
Spiritual Energy governs everything invisible. Mind, consciousness, soul, will, perception, mental power.
Now what is chakra?
Chakra is the very energy generated when a Shinobi's body combines Vital/Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy.
That....is chakra.
So chakra, is not a common energy.
Once it's exhausted, a Shinobi dies.
Why is that?
Because it indicates that their Life Force and Mind is exhausted.
Doesn't that classify as Death?
This is why Granny Chiyo could resurrect an already dead Gaara in exchange of her life by channeling her chakra into him, no?
That's why the possessor of the Rinnegan can use the Rinne-Rebirth Technique to bring a dead person back to life, no?
Because possession of the Rinnegan indicates a higher level of life akin to God.
And not just God, but true Divinity in the essence of their ability: Creation of All Things.
Now, that's aside the issue right now.
Tell me ABC_LOGAN... How did Hagoromo reach that stage?
Wasn't it by "Cultivation"?
And unlike Naruto, Hashirama, Jiraiya and Minato, he cultivated for years.
Years.
Remember in the flashback, he went there as a young man, and came back as an old man.
Now let define cultivation again.
The art of refining the energy of the world into the body to achieve immortality.
Was Hagoromo immortal? Yes.
Was he a God? Yes.
Did he cultivate? Yes.
Then why the f*CK is some mutt saying he doesn't like cultivation in Naruto Fanfic?
And I haven't even introduced the concept yet.
What would happen when he finally trains his body to the stage I want him to and then gains assess to Natural Energy?
Mr. LOGAN, would you then expect me to write: And Murakami leaned Senjutsu from the land of toad and became a sage master.
Like... How?
Use your common sense man. It was given to you freely for your own good.
If, and if you're reading this right now LOGAN, and not only him, the whole lot of you who can't read a book to enjoy the world building for what it can be, then please, after reading this particular write up, feel free to remove it from your library so you won't get notified when I post a chapter.
That shouldn't be difficult, yes?
And just as a spoiler for those that are going to hang around... Murakami will go through bone refinement, muscles and flesh refinement, marrow refinement and perfect his body before he gains the ability to cultivate natural energy.
And just so you know, his own cultivation won't be like Hashirama and co. His would be a permanent state of being.
In case you don't understand, the idea of someone elevating from Genin combat power to Kage just because he enters sage mode is foolish to me, I don't know about y'all.
So, I rather he grows steadily within logical frameworks to the point where he's able to fight the Otsutsukis within a logical framework.
If they perform Shinjutsu(Divine Technique), he's able to perform his.
Within A Logical Framework.
Anyways, that's what I wanted to tell y'all before I go continue on Patron.
I've left them there on hanging since Wednesday.
Imagine I expend mental energy to write something and some dumb mutt comes says whatever comes to their mind simply because they can.
If you get offended by what I've written, feel free to go hug a transformer or something and die, we'd probably have one less fool taking in our air.
PS: I'm a Virgo by zodiac, I don't really give a f*ck what y'all think or feel.
If you feel offended, go f*ck yourself, if you don't...well, I should be done with the volume one this weekend, so next week, I'll be releasing on a daily basis for a short while till I've figured out how Murakami would cultivate his body during the 20 years of armistice and what moves he'll make.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to join my membership over there and give me your opinion, that's the one I'm most likely to listen to...
Not that I don't listen to those made here... It's just more irrelevant in comparison.
Have a wonderful or.... disastrous weekend y'all... Depending on who's reading.
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