Chapter Summaries

Ling Donglai met Saitama in Z City’s monster-infested ghost zone and examined the supposedly invincible hero. Genos then invited Saitama to the Hero Association’s emergency meeting about humanity’s survival, despite Saitama not receiving a summons.

• Ling Donglai read the Monster Encyclopedia and concluded that Uranus had conducted experiments on Earth’s monsters.
• Ling Donglai entered Z City’s uninhabited zone, eliminated the monsters around him, and approached Saitama.
• Saitama excitedly asked whether Ling Donglai was a fan after Ling Donglai recognized him as a hero.
• Ling Donglai scanned Saitama, who sneezed and then remarked that Ling Donglai seemed strong.
• Genos arrived and said the Hero Association had summoned him to discuss humanity’s survival.
• Saitama discovered he had not been summoned, but Genos urged him to come along anyway.

Ling Donglai accompanied Saitama and Genos to the Hero Association, where he impressed Tatsumaki by creating and disassembling a car with his powers. The heroes learned that Shibabawa had predicted Earth’s destruction, but the timing and location remained unknown.

• Ling Donglai joined Saitama and Genos and brought them to the Hero Association in a magnetic-levitation car.
• Tatsumaki confronted the group about their fast driving, then watched Ling Donglai make the car disappear and realized he had extraordinary telekinetic control.
• Genos took his place among the S-Class heroes while Saitama and Ling Donglai listened from the back of the meeting hall.
• The host announced Shibabawa’s final prediction that Earth would be destroyed, and explained that she had died before revealing when or where the disaster would occur.

Elder Centipede attacked the Hero Association headquarters, searching for the gold thief who had taken its treasure. Ling Donglai revealed that the theft had been his, killed Elder Centipede, and questioned where monsters got the energy to transform and whether their power came from consumed souls.

• Elder Centipede demolished the Hero Association headquarters and blamed humans for stealing its gold.
• The heroes, including Genos and Tatsumaki, attacked Elder Centipede, but it regenerated from their damage.
• Ling Donglai discovered that Elder Centipede had tracked him because he had extracted its gold, then pinned the monster down with golden weapons.
• Ling Donglai destroyed Elder Centipede with psychic energy, but no soul appeared from its remains.
• Ling Donglai wondered whether monsterization drew power from souls, since ordinary bodies could not supply the energy needed for such transformations.

Ling Donglai destroyed Elder Centipede and realized the monster’s regenerative power demonstrated soul materialization, then revealed his overwhelming abilities to the heroes. After he subdued the city and searched the planet for Frieza’s army, a man aboard a spaceship awakened underground.

• Ling Donglai analyzed Elder Centipede as purple light broke down its body, concluding that the monster’s soul had altered its physical structure and sending his findings into space.
• The Hero Association representative offered Ling Donglai hero qualifications, but Ling Donglai refused and confronted Tatsumaki about the message he had sent.
• Ling Donglai read Tatsumaki’s memories and explained her distrust of others, prompting her to attack him with telekinetically controlled rocks.
• Ling Donglai stopped time to approach Tatsumaki, then unleashed Overlord’s Domain across the city, causing the monsters to collapse.
• Ling Donglai sensed across the world, found no trace of Frieza’s army, and withdrew his force field.
• Deep underground, a muscular, spiky-haired man opened his eyes inside a spherical spaceship.

Ling Donglai left the heroes after using his Overlord's Domain to immobilize them, then drew Tatsumaki into the wilderness, where he fought her while claiming to study monsterification. He destroyed a vast horde of monsters, survived Tatsumaki's attacks through illusions, and continued provoking her.

• Ling Donglai's Overlord's Domain paralyzed the heroes, and he placed a rose in Tatsumaki's hair before departing.
• Tatsumaki pursued Ling Donglai into the wilderness and found him observing two monsters mating; he said he was studying the cause of monsterification.
• Tatsumaki demanded his identity and the information he had launched into space, then crushed the monsters and nearby land with her psychic power.
• Tatsumaki summoned a meteor, but Ling Donglai destroyed it with Positron Cannons and disintegrated a swarm of underground monsters.
• Tatsumaki's gale tore apart Ling Donglai's apparent body, but he appeared behind her and revealed it had been an illusion.
• Tatsumaki crushed Ling Donglai again with psychic power, but he reappeared beneath her and continued irritating her.

Ling Donglai used illusions and psychological manipulation to overwhelm Tatsumaki, claiming her body had fallen in love with him while her rational mind resisted. Tatsumaki fled to a hero tavern for alcohol, and Ling Donglai left her with a way to contact him.

• Ling Donglai watched Tatsumaki fight his illusion and waited until she noticed him and calmed down.
• Ling Donglai conjured false versions of Tatsumaki that fought each other, then told the real Tatsumaki that he wanted her and regarded humans as objects.
• Ling Donglai claimed Tatsumaki's body had accepted his advances through instinct, causing her to feel both happiness and disgust.
• Ling Donglai told Tatsumaki he would stay away until she confronted her feelings and said she could contact him through her communication device.
• Tatsumaki flew into a hero tavern and demanded alcohol, while Ling Donglai returned to the city.

Ling Donglai explained that Saitama's training had triggered an Anti-Life Equation that unlocked his soul materialization, then offered Genos a different way to become stronger. He began trying to activate Genos's hidden liberation code using monster blood.

• Ling Donglai joined Saitama and Genos, explained that he had not harmed Tatsumaki, and asked Genos whether he wanted to become stronger.
• Saitama punched Ling Donglai's head apart, but Ling Donglai reconstructed it with his elementalized body and explained that he had read Saitama's attack.
• Genos said he could not study the science needed to upgrade himself, so Ling Donglai confirmed that Saitama's exercise routine could make him stronger.
• Ling Donglai described the Anti-Life Equation as the cause of Saitama's power and said his training had supplied the necessary variables.
• Ling Donglai dragged a weak monster to them, drew its blood, and told Genos to eat it to begin activating his liberation code.

Ling Donglai transformed Genos into a controllable weapon, then realized Uranus might still pose a threat and resolved to weaponize his crew and find a way to kill him. In the God Realm, Grand Kai demanded the Life Equation from Uranus and ordered him taken to hell before announcing a martial arts tournament.

• Ling Donglai used Overlord's Domain to transform Genos, whose first monster-like form was adjusted until he returned to his original appearance with greater strength.
• Ling Donglai discovered that liberating Genos as a weapon gave him ownership and control over him.
• Ling Donglai worried Uranus could return and use hidden codes against his crew, so he decided to weaponize Nami, Robin, and the others and seek a way to kill Uranus.
• Grand Kai demanded the Life Equation from Uranus, who denied knowing what it was and challenged the gods to destroy his creations.
• Grand Kai ordered Uranus taken to hell and announced a martial arts tournament.

Ling Donglai explained soul materialization as Genos tested his new power against Saitama, then offered Genos the choice of paying a price to reach full potential. Genos asked whether monsters could be restored to humanity, and Ling Donglai warned that helping would mean ruling the planet.

• Genos challenged Saitama to test his new power, and Saitama defeated him with a Serious Punch before Ling Donglai pulled him back.
• Ling Donglai explained that Genos had reached fifty percent soul materialization and that Saitama's full release continued to grow stronger.
• Genos called Ling Donglai his Master and asked what it would take to reach one hundred percent; Ling Donglai offered to complete the process if Genos accepted the cost.
• Genos realized soul materialization had stripped away his cyborg modules and asked whether monsters could become human again.
• Ling Donglai said restoring monsters was possible but would require correcting their soul materialization, and warned Genos that asking him to intervene meant asking him to rule the planet.

Ling Donglai explained how the Hero Association’s failures and humanity’s capacity for monsterization had left the world in need of rule, while Genos wondered whether such rule might bring peace. When Saitama challenged Ling Donglai, he began a consciousness-overclocking battle, but an unknown being invaded the consciousness space.

• Ling Donglai described the Hero Association’s self-serving leadership, inadequate heroes, and inability to analyze or prepare for monster threats.
• Ling Donglai explained that monsters were abnormal humans and argued that reversing monsterization would amount to ruling the world; Genos considered the possibility of peace but said nothing.
• Saitama challenged Ling Donglai to a serious fight, and Ling Donglai warned that their full power could destroy the planet.
• Ling Donglai used Feather of Consciousness to let Saitama experience battle through consciousness overclocking, and crimson feathers appeared before the two entered the consciousness space.
• Ling Donglai realized another life-form had invaded the space and entered it to confront the intruder.

Ling Donglai, Saitama, and Genos entered a battlefield inside a consciousness space and confronted Line Man, who blamed Ling Donglai for destroying his plans. Ling Donglai drove Line Man away and destroyed the planet, while Line Man resolved to accelerate his plans for One-Punch Planet.

• Ling Donglai explained that someone had intruded into the consciousness space and led Saitama and Genos toward the battlefield’s center.
• Line Man revealed himself as the being fighting the aliens, destroyed a continent, and accused Ling Donglai of ruining tens of thousands of years of work.
• Line Man’s attack injured Genos and sent Saitama and Genos flying, so Ling Donglai warned them that damage in the consciousness space felt real.
• Ling Donglai fought Line Man with a lightspeed punch and the Tai'a Sword, blasting him away and threatening to find and kill him.
• Ling Donglai used Stellar Flame to dry up and collapse the planet, then Saitama resumed fighting him as their fists collided among the stars.
• Line Man swallowed the last scientist and decided to speed up his plans for One-Punch Planet, where Uranus’s unfinished experiment remained.

Homeless Emperor joined the Monster Association after gaining power from God, while Ling Donglai tested whether Saitama could turn into light. Ling Donglai warned that another god with a higher dimension threatened the world, but Saitama became eager to face stronger opponents.

• God gave a vagrant power, and the man joined the Monster Association as Homeless Emperor.
• Ling Donglai fought Saitama in a consciousness space and challenged him to turn into light, but the Feather of Consciousness ended the fight before Saitama could strike back.
• Saitama said the attacker had been defeated, but Ling Donglai said a god with a higher dimension remained a threat.
• Genos connected Ling Donglai's warning to the prophecy of a God-level disaster and feared the enemy who had destroyed countless worlds.
• Ling Donglai explained dimensional ascension to Saitama, who became excited about facing more opponents in the universe.

Tatsumaki investigated monsters distributing Monster Cells and crushed a newly transformed Dragon-level monster. A human calling himself a monster then attacked her, revealing himself as the Hero Hunter.

• Genos reported the alien intelligence to the Hero Association, which circulated it to the S-Class heroes.
• Tatsumaki left a bar after receiving the Association's warning and encountered monsters trying to make a bruised man eat a Monster Cell.
• Tatsumaki pinned down the monsters, but the man transformed into a giant monster and attacked her captives.
• The Hero Association reported a new Dragon-level monster, and Tatsumaki crushed it with her telekinesis.
• Two monsters escaped while Tatsumaki was struck and sent through several walls by a sudden attacker.
• The attacker called himself a human monster, and Tatsumaki recognized him as the Hero Hunter.

Tatsumaki fought Garou, whose strength and Monsterization increased as she attacked him. Gyoro-Gyoro returned with Homeless Emperor to seize Garou and keep Tatsumaki occupied, leaving her to unleash meteors against them.

• Tatsumaki overwhelmed Garou with psychic force after he interrupted her operation, but he broke free and attacked her with Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist.
• Garou recalled how children had cast him as a monster and beaten him, then insisted that he would never accept the majority's idea of justice as his Monsterization advanced.
• Garou's power surged, but Tatsumaki struck him into a wall and realized that her attacks were accelerating his transformation.
• Garou breached Tatsumaki's defenses, and Gyoro-Gyoro returned, declaring him a promising prospect and ordering Homeless Emperor to hold Tatsumaki back.
• Homeless Emperor blasted Tatsumaki and destroyed a street while Gyoro-Gyoro lifted Garou away.
• After the crowd evacuated and heroes rushed in, Tatsumaki flew into the sky and pulled down a series of meteors.

Tatsumaki and Ling Donglai fought Homeless Emperor, but a High-Dimensional God stripped him of his power and triggered his self-destruction. The blast devastated Z City, weaponized its surviving citizens, and left Ling Donglai sensing that the god had not fully descended.

• Tatsumaki attacked Homeless Emperor while Ling Donglai warned that she would need Zombieman to defeat him.
• The god reclaimed Homeless Emperor's power and activated his self-destruction ability.
• Ling Donglai shielded Tatsumaki as the explosion destroyed Z City's surface, killed half its population, and badly injured Genos.
• The High-Dimensional God turned the surviving citizens into weapons, and Ling Donglai used his Wave Sword to destroy them.
• Saitama carried the injured Genos across the scorched earth and materialized clothing, while Ling Donglai sensed the god's signal from deep space.

Ling Donglai warned Saitama and the other heroes that the gods were preparing to cleanse the planet, then brought them to Q City and summoned the S-Class heroes. He began revealing humanity’s origins to the gathered heroes, while the Monster Association prepared Garou for a transformation.

• Ling Donglai explained that the gods had begun destroying human cities and that the destruction of Z City was only an appetizer.
• Ling Donglai used a Black Hole to bring Saitama, Tatsumaki, Genos, and the surviving unconscious heroes to Q City, where Watchdog Man met them.
• Tatsumaki ordered Watchdog Man to gather the heroes, then flew to a hotel and fell asleep.
• Gyoro-Gyoro brought Garou before the Monster King, who ordered a monster to offer him a Monster Cell.
• Tatsumaki convened the S-Class heroes, and Ling Donglai used his Overlord’s Domain to command their attention before beginning to explain humanity’s origins.

Ling Donglai explained that humans were weapons created by High-Dimensional Gods, then activated the Weaponization of people already transforming into monsters. He told Saitama they would have to wait for God to descend, while a god’s call reached Paragus beneath the planet.

• Ling Donglai told the heroes that humans were manufactured biological weapons and that Monsterization was an innate power tied to Weaponization.
• Child Emperor asked Ling Donglai to demonstrate Weaponization, and Ling Donglai decoded the transforming humans, giving them complete Soul Materialization and enough strength to break free.
• Ling Donglai ordered the newly empowered men to sit, then told Saitama that they would wait for God to descend rather than travel to the Higher-Dimensional Universe.
• Saitama asked how to reach higher dimensions, and Ling Donglai said he needed to learn to release energy outward and create effects.
• A god’s call echoed beneath the planet, and Paragus recognized it as the voice of a celestial.

Paragus accepted the gods’ offer to help them kill Ling Donglai in exchange for Broly’s recovery and a chance to leave the North Galaxy. Broly’s awakening split the continent, and Ling Donglai revealed that the gods had united Saiyans and countless monsters against him, leaving humanity to survive until his army arrived.

• A god offered Paragus a deal, and Paragus agreed after being promised that Broly would be healed and strengthened.
• The god drew out Broly’s power, and Broly shattered his nutrient tank as his energy split the continent and sent seismic waves across the world.
• Ling Donglai shielded humanity’s island from the destruction and sensed that the gods had allied with Saiyans and weaponized monsters to attack him.
• Ling Donglai told the heroes they could be weaponized by him or the gods, or hold out for twenty-four hours until his army arrived.
• A gigantic octopus-like monster attacked the island, and Tatsumaki crushed it after destroying surrounding monsters with meteors.
• The heroes realized that monsters claiming to protect Earth had likely been influenced by the gods to attack humanity.

Ling Donglai prepared for the approaching monster assault and unlocked Tatsumaki’s weaponization, giving her a major increase in power. Meanwhile, God observed Broly’s strength after destroying another continent and sent Paragus to act.

• Ling Donglai estimated that the monsters would launch their full assault in about a day and worried that one of the two Saiyans might be Broly.
• The heroes debated undergoing weaponization, while Tatsumaki left the Hero Association and went to Ling Donglai’s villa.
• Tatsumaki asked Ling Donglai to unlock her weaponization so she could gain the power to protect her younger sister.
• Ling Donglai used a magnetic field to awaken Tatsumaki’s soul materialization, and she departed with her psychic power greatly increased.
• God destroyed another continent, remarked on Broly’s power, and told Paragus that he had drawn out part of Broly’s potential and that Paragus should proceed.

Broly awakened as the Legendary Super Saiyan, broke free from his father Paragus’s control, and began destroying the planet. Tatsumaki tried to stop him, but his casual attack overwhelmed her and left the Hero Association in despair.

• Broly unleashed his awakened power, shattered a continent, and nearly broke the limiter on his forehead.
• Paragus imagined Broly conquering the galaxy and ordered him to rule the planet as the Saiyan glory’s new starting point.
• Broly grabbed Paragus by the throat, remembered how his father had controlled and tormented him, and killed him.
• Broly sent energy blasts raining across the planet, raising mushroom clouds and destroying a continent.
• Tatsumaki blocked Broly’s attack, while the Hero Association realized the planet was nearly doomed.