Talk:Korra vs. Sakura Haruno/@comment-27397663-20161007135443/@comment-27397663-20161007155050

 Enlightened individuals, such as Guru Pathik and Huu, further explained the concept of chi as the life energy that dwells inside every living being connecting them to each other, their surroundings, and the universe as a whole

wiki says chi is life energy, so if it was blocked, the person would die. like when chakra points are blocked and the person dies (the spiderman of narutoverse). when korra takes away people's bending it doesnt kill them, or make them any less alive. and when she restores the bending, people dont seem to be any MORE alive than they should be.

it means it doenst block the life energy/chi of a person. it means it wouldn't block/absorb/destroy chakra. it would take away the chakra affinity to an element/elements.

chi and chakra are pretty similar. chakra too is supposted to connect people to each other, but then people mixed it with physical energy and used it for ninjutsu and shit like that, so it became life force for them aswell - kakashi's kamui and the divine tree approves, also isnt chi=Ki? and isnt Ki spiritual in nature. chakra too is spiritual in nature until its mixed with physical energy/life force. so im not rly sure what is going on anymore.

so i dont see korra manipulating other people's chi, if it was the case, it would be much more serious than bloodbending, but it doesnt seem like she could do that, so it doesnt seem korra could manipulate chakra, not the person's internal chakra atleast (which definately consists of mental and physical energies). an example of that would be - korra could definately bend the robot's beam, but she couldnt bend the internal energy in the engine or the gun from the outside.

basically, energybending is kinda a non-factor here. against the likes of mei terumi, ohnoki, hiruzen, kakashi it would be a factor, if she could do the ritual uninterupted, that is.