The basics of this fighting style are formed around the combination of unique white chakra and the five chakra natures of fire, water, lightning, wind, and earth. The end result is a powerful white chakra that embodies the term that the color white is a "combination of all the colors in the world". Using the available white chakra the user, will shape it around their blade, and when in play, it increases a person's speed significantly, while wrapping them in a storm of white chakra that vaguely resembles a multitude of animals. However, like all powerful jutsu, Gugen has a major drawback, in that it will slowly consume the user's life in direct proportion to how often and how much this technique and its derivatives are used.