Chapter Summaries

Lu Li brought Gohan to train with Goku, Vegeta, and Piccolo, then studied Goku’s Kaio-ken and tested combining it with Super Saiyan 3. The chapter left Lu Li pushing his newly learned Kaio-ken to tenfold.

• Lu Li took Gohan to a wilderness training ground, where Goku, Vegeta, and Piccolo joined them.
• Lu Li defeated Super Saiyan 3 Goku with a single finger and created a Shadow Clone to train Vegeta.
• Goku demonstrated twentyfold Kaio-ken and then combined it with Super Saiyan 3, reaching a onefold Kaio-ken multiplier.
• Goku explained Kaio-ken to Lu Li, who understood its principles after half an hour of meditation.
• Lu Li activated Kaio-ken and rapidly increased its multiplier from onefold to tenfold.

Lu Li demonstrated tenfold Kaio-ken, then healed Gohan instantly with Healing Kidō after Piccolo badly injured him. Goku and Vegeta wanted to learn the technique, but Lu Li explained that their volatile ki made delicate healing difficult in their current state.

• Lu Li tested tenfold Kaio-ken, found it put severe strain on his body, and decided it was his current limit.
• Goku praised Lu Li's rapid mastery of Kaio-ken, while Vegeta considered learning it but rejected the idea of asking Kakarot for help.
• Piccolo struck Gohan with a Special Beam Cannon, leaving him badly wounded, and Lu Li healed him while restoring his energy.
• Lu Li urged Gohan to keep training and promised to teach him new moves after he defeated Piccolo.
• Goku asked Lu Li to teach him Healing Kidō, but Lu Li said Goku and Vegeta could not use it in their current state because their ki was too violent for delicate control.
• Lu Li explained that he fought with his body and spirit, used Divine Sense rather than ki to detect others, and planned to adapt Kaio-ken to his Martial Saint Sutra system.

Lu Li taught Goku and the others about ki, learned Instant Transmission, and began arranging special training for them. He sent Gohan home to maintain Super Saiyan during daily life, hoping to help him reach a higher realm while preparing Goku and Vegeta for separate training.

• Lu Li explained that Healing Kidō required a high enough realm and learned how Instant Transmission worked from Goku.
• Lu Li sensed Vegeta's ki and successfully used Instant Transmission with Goku to travel from North Kai's Planet to Earth.
• Lu Li announced special training for the group and told Gohan that ordinary combat practice would not suit his goal of surpassing his former strength.
• Lu Li instructed Gohan to maintain Super Saiyan while living normally, including studying and spending time with his wife, to cultivate a calm mind in that state.
• Gohan accepted the assignment and left, while Piccolo and Vegeta questioned whether the unconventional training would work.

Lu Li trained Goku and Vegeta through illusion-based trials while refining his own power control, and after five days Whis contacted him about Frieza’s revival. The chapter left Lu Li preparing to investigate the trouble Frieza was causing for Beerus.

• Lu Li explained his cultivation plans, sent Goku and Vegeta into separate illusion worlds, and let Piccolo choose to train alone.
• Goku faced stages in a challenge game, while Vegeta relived a childhood encounter with Beerus and struggled against enemies drawn from his own fears and memories.
• Lu Li practiced concentrating his power with Whis’s board, eventually shattering its blue crystal but bursting the surrounding balloons.
• After five days of training, Lu Li received a call from Whis, who said Beerus’s former subordinate Frieza had been revived and was causing trouble.
• Whis asked Lu Li to investigate Frieza, and Lu Li agreed to hear more.

Lu Li learned that Frieza had been resurrected with Namek’s Dragon Balls and traveled there with Piccolo to investigate. After discovering that an Explorer had taken the Dragon Balls, Lu Li sensed Frieza nearby and appeared aboard his spaceship, where Frieza recognized him with uneasy familiarity.

• Whis told Lu Li that Frieza had returned using Namek’s Dragon Balls and left Lu Li to deal with him.
• Lu Li brought Piccolo through a spatial portal to Namek, where they learned an Explorer had taken the Dragon Balls to resurrect Frieza.
• The Grand Elder transmitted the Explorer’s appearance to Lu Li, who identified him as a visitor from another space.
• Lu Li declined to take Piccolo along to confront Frieza and used Instant Transmission to reach Frieza’s spaceship.
• Frieza’s lecture to his subordinates stopped when Lu Li appeared before him.

Lu Li confronted Frieza aboard his spaceship on behalf of Beerus, criticizing his conduct and neglect of his duties. Frieza claimed he was suited to succeed Beerus, but Lu Li revealed that he was the new candidate for God of Destruction.

• Lu Li appeared aboard Frieza's spaceship, took the main seat, and demanded to know who had revived Frieza.
• Tagoma scanned Lu Li's combat power as 5, then angered Frieza by calling him a poser.
• Lu Li earned the "Combat power of 5" achievement and told Frieza that Beerus had sent him to teach Frieza a lesson.
• Frieza defended his service to Beerus and argued that he was the best choice to succeed him as God of Destruction.
• Lu Li introduced himself as Lu Li, the new candidate for God of Destruction.

Frieza transformed into Golden Frieza and fought Lu Li, but Lu Li effortlessly outmatched him and spared him. Frieza asked what Lu Li wanted, and Lu Li questioned him about the person who revived him and provided his training method, leaving Frieza wary about betraying that person.

• Frieza resented Beerus's choice of God of Destruction candidate and transformed into Golden Frieza, raising his attributes to 252 points.
• Frieza attacked Lu Li, but Lu Li caught his punch, dodged his follow-up strikes, and remained seated on the Void Throne.
• Frieza fired ki blasts and used Earth-Splitting Slash, but Lu Li appeared beside him unharmed and continued to block his attacks with a finger.
• Lu Li pointed a finger at Frieza's forehead, then stopped and explained that he wanted to educate Frieza rather than kill him.
• Frieza reverted to Final Form after Lu Li dispersed his transformed state and asked what Lu Li wanted.
• Lu Li asked who had found the Dragon Balls and revived Frieza, and whether that person had given him his training method; Frieza hesitated because he believed the mysterious human was still useful.

Lu Li confronted Frieza’s Explorer ally, Lannite, and took the dimensional-space door he had obtained from Shenron. Frieza killed Lannite, and Lu Li allowed Frieza to pursue revenge on Son Goku under conditions that kept Earth safe.

• Lannite revealed that he had revived Frieza, failed to wish himself the strongest, and used another wish to obtain a door to a fast-flowing subspace.
• Lu Li took the door and discovered that it opened to a dangerous subspace with a time ratio of roughly four hundred to one.
• Frieza killed Lannite after he begged Lu Li to spare them both.
• Lu Li told Frieza that Son Goku and Vegeta were training under him and offered Frieza a chance to seek revenge away from Earth.
• Lu Li warned Frieza to suspend his real estate business and focus on more proper matters.

Lu Li asked Beerus why he had allowed Frieza to rule and learned that a God of Destruction judged threats by their effect on the universe’s balance, not by ordinary ideas of good and evil. Beerus and Whis explained the duties of their roles, leaving Lu Li to wonder whether Beerus’s neglect had helped make Universe 7 one of the least-developed universes.

• Lu Li told Frieza to stop collecting delicacies and focus on growing stronger, then left him and returned to Beerus after sending Piccolo to Earth and leaving a Shadow Clone to train Goku and the others.
• Lu Li brought Shrimp Meat’s deluxe bento to Beerus’s castle, where its smell woke Beerus and the food delighted both him and Whis.
• Lu Li asked Beerus why he had not executed Frieza, and Beerus argued that Frieza’s rule restrained disorder and that another power would replace him if he were killed.
• Whis explained that Gods of Destruction maintained universal balance by destroying threats such as Majin Buu, while Frieza sought to rule rather than destroy the universe.
• Lu Li asked if Beerus’s lack of work explained Universe 7’s low civilization level, and Beerus insisted that it was only second from last.

Lu Li trained with Beerus to learn Destruction Energy and tested himself against the God of Destruction. He shattered Beerus’s attack, then launched a transformed Kamehameha as Beerus fired back.

• Beerus and Whis explained the duties of a God of Destruction, and Beerus offered to teach Lu Li Destruction Energy through combat.
• Lu Li activated Kaio-ken and clashed with Beerus, who overwhelmed him with a guided ball of Destruction Energy.
• Lu Li raised Kaio-ken to fifteen times, used the Gourmet Demon’s black matter and Primordial Chaos to push back and shatter Beerus’s attack.
• Beerus and Whis recognized the unusual power of Lu Li’s black energy, and Beerus prepared another attack.
• Lu Li shaped a Kamehameha and infused it with black matter, creating a black-and-white energy wave that he fired as Beerus launched another ball of Destruction Energy.

Lu Li developed a dangerously powerful Kamehameha and surprised Beerus and Whis by learning to wield Destruction Energy after seeing it once. Whis began training Lu Li in Ultra Instinct, and the chapter ended with Whis challenging him to use Causality Soul Intent during their sparring.

• Whis shielded the group as Lu Li's modified Kamehameha clashed with Beerus's Destruction Energy, then warned Lu Li to stop before their battle endangered Beerus's castle and the universe.
• Lu Li explained that his Origin Seed could turn developed skills into passive abilities and that it had reached its seventh irrigation stage, removing cooldowns from skills placed in it.
• Lu Li formed Destruction Energy after watching Beerus use it, then stabilized it into a sphere on his second attempt, astonishing Beerus and Whis.
• Whis agreed to train Lu Li, assigning him crystal-shattering practice and extended sparring while teaching him the core of Ultra Instinct.
• Lu Li found that he could not hit Whis even when Whis matched his attributes, refused to use Causality Soul Intent, and heard Whis ask him to try it.

Lu Li struggled to grasp Ultra Instinct as Whis taught him that battle powers could counter one another and that true mastery required acting without conscious thought. Whis then challenged Lu Li to explain why Goku stayed ahead of the more talented Vegeta, leading Lu Li to recognize Goku’s pure pursuit of strength.

• Lu Li used Causality Soul Intent to try to land a punch on Whis, but Whis rewound time slightly and evaded it.
• Whis explained that powers such as causality and time could cancel each other out, while pure martial skill remained essential, and reminded Lu Li that his thoughts still affected his movements.
• Whis showed Lu Li Goku and Vegeta training on Earth and asked him to compare their talents with Gohan’s; Lu Li realized that Vegeta’s talent exceeded Goku’s and Gohan’s was greater still.
• Whis asked why Goku kept reaching new realms ahead of Vegeta despite Vegeta’s talent and effort, then explained that Goku was godlike in a transcendent sense rather than simply being a Saiyan.
• Lu Li realized that Goku pursued strength for its own sake and even felt pleased when his enemies became stronger.

Lu Li reflected on how Goku’s purity differed from Vegeta’s insecurity and decided he did not want to abandon his own human attachments in pursuit of strength. He paused his training with Whis and returned to Earth, where Chi-Chi asked Goku to attend Goten’s sports day.

• Lu Li concluded that Goku pursued strength for its own sake, while Vegeta’s desire to become stronger was driven by fear, pride, and the need to surpass Goku.
• Whis agreed that purity mattered in becoming stronger, and Lu Li considered Goku and Beerus unusually pure while recognizing that he wanted to keep his own goals and attachments.
• Lu Li asked Whis to pause their training so he could return to Earth, and Whis told him to bring back souvenirs for Beerus and himself.
• Lu Li arrived at the wilderness training ground, where Goku and Vegeta had just finished sparring and Goku asked to fight Lu Li’s real body.
• Chi-Chi demanded that Goku attend Goten’s school sports day, and Goten asked his father to participate with him while Vegeta urged Goku to make time for his son.
• Lu Li smiled and stepped forward as Goku remained reluctant to leave training for the sports day.

Lu Li trained Vegeta to turn his drive to surpass Goku into strength, then told him to spend a month mastering Super Saiyan Blue before killing the revived Frieza. Lu Li confronted Frieza over his continued wrongdoing and prepared to destroy him, but withdrew his Destruction Energy as Frieza transformed into Golden Frieza.

• Chi-Chi took Goku home to spend time with his family after Lu Li argued that ordinary life was also a form of training.
• Lu Li sparred with Vegeta, explained his plan to make himself Vegeta’s goal, and helped Vegeta stabilize Super Saiyan Blue.
• Lu Li told Vegeta that Frieza had been revived and assigned him a month of training before he killed him.
• Lu Li went to Frieza and condemned him for continuing his harmful actions despite Lu Li’s orders.
• Frieza transformed into Golden Frieza to resist Lu Li, who then withdrew the Destruction Energy in his hand.

Lu Li arranged for Vegeta to fight Frieza and spoke with Gohan about why he trained, then showed him a possible future where Gohan and Trunks fought amid Earth’s ruins. Gohan recognized how fragile their peace was and felt a renewed urgency to become stronger.

• Lu Li set Frieza’s execution battle for the next day on Planet Konylon, naming Vegeta as the one who would kill him.
• Lu Li visited Gohan at the university and learned that Gohan trained to protect others, despite disliking fighting and killing.
• Lu Li praised Gohan’s kindness and explained that Gohan’s sense of responsibility, rather than a love of battle, shaped how he fought.
• Gohan admitted that maintaining his Super Saiyan state was embarrassing because students teased him about his blond hair.
• Lu Li showed Gohan a possible future in which he and Trunks fought across a ruined Earth after Goku and Vegeta had died.
• Gohan remembered Future Trunks and the Cell Games, clenched his fists, and felt urgency to prepare for future crises.

After showing Gohan the future timeline, Lu Li urged him to prepare to protect Earth and Future Trunks. Vegeta defeated Golden Frieza in a fierce duel and discovered the satisfaction of achieving a goal himself, but Beerus and Whis then arrived to recruit fighters for a Universe 7 competition with Earth at stake.

• Gohan accepted Lu Li's warning about the future and vowed to keep training to protect his family and Earth.
• Lu Li took Vegeta to Planet Konylon, where Vegeta fought Frieza through their transformations and defeated him with Final Flash.
• Lu Li healed Vegeta and explained that he had arranged the fight so Vegeta could experience accomplishing a major goal himself.
• Vegeta resolved to return to Earth and challenge Kakarot again, then learned Bulma would be angry that he had hidden the dangerous fight from her.
• Beerus and Whis arrived and told Lu Li they needed four strong fighters for a competition against Beerus's younger brother, with Earth at stake and the Super Dragon Balls as the prize.

Lu Li agreed to serve as Universe 7’s wager in a five-on-five contest against Universe 6, hoping to win the Super Dragon Balls, and Beerus promised them to him if he helped secure a decisive victory. While training Vegeta, Goku, Gohan, and Buu, Lu Li received a long-term quest to raise Universe 7’s mortal ranking and began considering how to strengthen its strongest fighters.

• Whis explained that Beerus and Champa had wagered Earth after Champa became interested in Lu Li’s food, and Beerus refused to wager Lu Li without his consent.
• Lu Li offered to become the wager in exchange for the Super Dragon Balls, but Whis explained that the prize could not compete; Beerus later agreed to give Lu Li the Dragon Balls if he helped Universe 7 win.
• Beerus set a five-warrior, one-on-one tournament for six days later, and Vegeta recommended himself, Lu Li, Goku, Gohan, and Buu as Universe 7’s competitors.
• Lu Li trained the competitors and received a quest to raise Universe 7 from its eleventh-place mortal ranking, with rewards for each rank it gained.
• Lu Li learned that Aizen had a corresponding quest for Universe 3 and, after consulting him, concluded that Universe 7 should focus on improving its top fighters because its chaotic history had weakened its mortal civilization.

Lu Li’s team faced Champa’s fighters in the Universe 6 tournament, where Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan were eliminated after underestimating their opponents, while Fat Buu forced a double elimination. Beerus sent Lu Li in as Universe 7’s final competitor, and Champa’s remaining fighters underestimated him after scouting his attributes.

• Lu Li ended the group’s training and restored everyone before Beerus and Whis brought them to the tournament planet.
• Goku lost to Frost after Frost used a poisoned needle, and Vegeta defeated Frost before a Chaos Space Explorer knocked Vegeta off the arena.
• Gohan stepped in to fight the green-skinned Chaos Space Explorer, but the Explorer struck him down while he was transforming.
• Fat Buu endured the Explorer’s attacks, then got carried off the arena with him after wrapping himself around the brute.
• Beerus sent Lu Li into the match as Universe 7’s last fighter, while Champa’s three remaining competitors reacted with surprise and one dismissed Lu Li’s strength based on his attributes.

Lu Li defeated Hit and Champa’s remaining contestants, securing the Super Dragon Balls for Beerus. As the group searched for the final Dragon Ball, Lord Zeno appeared, and Beerus and Champa knelt in fear.

• Lu Li endured Hit’s attacks, shattered his Time Prison, learned Flash Time, and knocked Hit out of the arena.
• Lu Li defeated Boiling and drove Three-Eyes out, winning Champa’s wager and the Super Dragon Balls.
• Champa conceded defeat and left, while Goku and the others discussed Lu Li’s strength.
• Gohan searched for the final Dragon Ball with Bulma’s radar as Lu Li realized it was the planet beneath them.
• Lord Zeno appeared in the stands, and Beerus and Champa knelt and told Lu Li and the others to do the same.

Zeno spared Lu Li and the others after befriending Goku and forgiving Beerus and Champa for their secret competition. Lu Li then summoned Super Shenron to test its limits, and the dragon agreed to raise every Spirit Seed on his body to the highest level it could manage.

• Lu Li stood before Zeno without kneeling, and Zeno said Lu Li looked evil before Beerus explained that he was a candidate for God of Destruction.
• Goku casually challenged Zeno to a fight, befriended him, and began calling him Zenny.
• Zeno forgave Beerus and Champa for holding the competition and left after inviting Goku to play with him.
• After Champa returned to Universe 6, Lu Li revealed the Super Dragon Balls, and Whis summoned Super Shenron.
• Lu Li asked Super Shenron to raise every Spirit Seed on his body to its highest possible level, and Super Shenron agreed.