Chapter Summaries

Piccolo tried to rescue Pan and Bra from the Red Ribbon Army, but Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 overwhelmed him until Lu Li healed him and effortlessly stopped their attack. The commander-in-chief released Super Cell, who emerged far stronger than expected and left the Gamma brothers critically damaged after one blow.

• Piccolo freed Pan from her handcuffs and revealed himself, prompting Gamma 2 to attack him.
• Gamma 1 confronted Lu Li while Gamma 2 defeated Piccolo, but Lu Li healed Piccolo and erased the androids’ energy blasts.
• Lu Li urged the androids and Dr. Hedo to abandon the Red Ribbon Army, and Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 began to question who the real villains were.
• The commander-in-chief activated Super Cell, who destroyed the Red Ribbon Building and appeared as a towering, newly created version of Cell.
• Dr. Hedo warned that Super Cell was far stronger than the original Cell, but Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 charged at him and were nearly destroyed by a single strike.

Super Cell overwhelmed Goten, Trunks, and the others, but Lu Li protected them and destroyed Cell with ease. With the Red Ribbon Army’s island ruined and the threat gone, Lu Li prepared to take Pan and Bra home for dinner and asked Piccolo for help.

• Super Cell defeated Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, then swatted away Goten and Trunks when they rushed to fight him.
• Goten and Trunks attempted fusion, but their failed technique produced a fat Gotenks who was too weak to challenge Cell.
• Lu Li gathered the others beside Piccolo and blocked Cell’s devastating punch with one finger, leaving them unharmed as the Red Ribbon Army island sank.
• Pan admitted she was hungry, and Lu Li agreed to take her and Bra home for dinner.
• Cell fired a ki blast at Lu Li’s group, but the blast vanished and Cell exploded; Lu Li then asked Piccolo for help.

Lu Li joined the fighters at Beerus's castle and explained how Angels' long lives differed from those of humans and Saiyans. Whis suggested that Lu Li had already transcended the limits of lifespan, leaving the others to wonder what that meant for his aging appearance.

• Lu Li visited Pan and Videl for dinner, then told Bulma about Dr. Hedo, whom she agreed would be valuable to recruit.
• Lu Li arrived at Beerus's castle and watched Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and Broly training before they noticed his aged appearance.
• Whis explained that Angels could live for billions of years through their inherited nature and restrained cultivation, while Ultra Instinct could only modestly extend other people's lives.
• Goku said he wanted a longer life so he could both train and spend time with his family, and Lu Li sensed that Goku's soul had become more complete.
• The group worried that Lu Li might be nearing the end of his life, but Whis said Lu Li had likely grasped life's origin and that lifespan no longer limited beings at his level.

Lu Li explained how longevity worked, warned the group against relying too heavily on the Dragon Balls, and offered to teach immortality cultivation. After inspecting Beerus, he revealed that divine offices grant long life by absorbing finite longevity substances, and the group considered becoming gods to gain more time to train.

• Lu Li explained that true immortality required increasing one’s source of vitality, demonstrated by his white hair turning black, and warned Goku that the Dragon Balls had been overused and might carry a cost.
• Lu Li revealed that A'Huo had become a new Shenron whose limited power could grant small wishes but could not restore erased universes.
• Lu Li offered to teach immortality cultivation to those able to endure solitude, and Vegeta and Goku agreed to return with him for training.
• Beerus explained that he and Champa belonged to a naturally long-lived race, while Lu Li examined Beerus and traced divine longevity to substances gathered by the universe’s divine offices.
• Goku considered becoming a God of Destruction to gain time for training, and Lu Li cautioned that divine longevity was finite because the body developed repetition and tolerance to longevity substances.

Lu Li reflected on the limits of souls and longevity, then trained with Goku, Vegeta, and later Gohan in the subspace while helping them study longevity substances. After Frieza emerged from thousands of years of training and mistook Lu Li’s aged appearance for death, he brought the Frieza Force to invade Earth, where Lu Li watched their ships arrive.

• Whis explained that souls eventually reach their limits and disappear instead of entering the Other World, prompting Lu Li to consider the mysteries of life and death.
• Lu Li returned to Earth with Goku, Vegeta, and the others, inspected A'Huo’s progress in the Demon Realm, and later entered the subspace with Goku and Vegeta.
• Lu Li infused Goku and Vegeta with longevity substances, then trained them in the subspace as they studied how to produce longevity substances themselves; Gohan joined them later.
• After a thousand years of training, Lu Li’s grove shifted between life and death as he cultivated, and he eventually left the subspace to visit Earth.
• A hacker from the Frieza Force sent footage of Lu Li to space, and Frieza—after training for several thousand years in a subspace—mistakenly believed Lu Li had died of old age.
• Frieza ordered the Frieza Force to invade Earth, and Lu Li saw their spacecraft assemble above him while he relaxed beside the pool.

Frieza invaded Earth and fought Buu while Lu Li protected the planet and watched from afar. As Frieza gained the upper hand and Gotenks was badly wounded, Lu Li left the young fighters to face the danger and learn from it.

• Frieza ordered his forces to capture the Saiyans' families, but soldiers collapsing on Earth revealed that Lu Li was protecting the planet.
• Krillin and Android 18 fought the invasion, while Mr. Satan persuaded Buu to confront Frieza with a promise of pudding.
• Buu fought Golden Frieza to a standstill, prompting Piccolo to seek help from Goku and the others, but Popo refused to let anyone disturb their enlightenment.
• Goten and Trunks fused into Gotenks, who transformed into Super Saiyan 3 before Frieza pierced his chest and sent him falling.
• Bra rushed to catch Goten and Trunks and called on Lu Li to intervene, but Lu Li said he wanted the young fighters to learn from the pain.

Lu Li intervened when Black Frieza overpowered Buu and challenged him to attack, then revealed that Frieza could not harm him. Frieza was defeated and devoured by A'Huo, while Earth's defenders recovered and celebrated.

• Bra pleaded with Lu Li to stop Frieza, and Lu Li agreed to intervene.
• Black Frieza blasted Fat Buu apart and demanded to know where Goku and Vegeta were.
• Lu Li appeared before Frieza and recognized that Frieza had reached the peak of the Eighth Order after cultivating for thousands of years.
• Frieza attacked Lu Li, but Lu Li effortlessly blocked his blows and eventually incapacitated him with Acupuncture.
• Lu Li arranged for Frieza to fall into A'Huo's mouth, and A'Huo devoured him and absorbed his soul.
• The people of Earth cheered, while Pan and Bra rescued their family members and Goten and Trunks recovered after eating Senzu Beans.

After three thousand years of training and seclusion, Goku and the others returned to Earth for a family gathering while Lu Li remained beneath the tree, lost in a dangerous state of enlightenment. Earth had fallen to Baby, and Pan fled through the sewers with an injured Bra as the new enemy’s takeover left them in peril.

• Trunks chose to abandon the company presidency and pursue martial arts training, while Lu Li told Pan to focus on school before training with him.
• Lu Li returned to Subspace, discussed Ninth Order breakthroughs with Aizen, and then resumed his seclusion in the forest.
• Over the next three thousand years, Goku and the others learned to extend their lives, while Lu Li’s enlightenment caused a deadly phenomenon that Aizen warned them not to approach.
• Gohan suggested a family gathering, so Goku, Vegeta, and the others left Subspace for Earth while Lu Li, Aizen, and A'Huo stayed behind.
• Baby took control of Earth by possessing Trunks, Goten, Gohan, Vegeta, and eventually Goku, while Pan escaped with the injured Bra.
• Bra urged Pan to leave her behind and escape Earth with research materials she had hidden in Satan City.

Pan recounted how Baby arrived on Earth, parasitized Goten and Trunks, and spread control across the planet while she and Bra escaped. Baby had also blocked Kami’s Lookout and spread to other worlds, but Goku had contacted North Kai before being taken over.

• Baby came to Earth seeking revenge on the Saiyans and parasitized Goten after Goten fought carelessly, then controlled Trunks when he rushed to help.
• Pan escaped into the sewers, where she remained unconscious for over a week, while Baby took control of Earth’s population.
• Goku resisted Chi-Chi’s advances and discovered something was wrong, but Vegeta and Gohan had already been parasitized through Bulma and Videl.
• Goku fought Baby-controlled Vegeta and tried to protect Pan, but Baby used their friends and family against him until Goku was parasitized.
• Bra rescued Pan, and the two fled together after Bulma sent Bra away and Baby’s forces blocked access to Kami’s Lookout.
• Baby spread through alien visitors to Earth and their home planets, while Goku contacted North Kai to report the crisis before he was controlled.

Baby’s forces defeated Beerus and Whis, while Pan and Bra struggled to survive and Bra searched for a way to remove the parasites. After Baby’s hosts cornered the exhausted Pan in Satan City, she could not bring herself to kill the unconscious Bra and lay helpless as the dirt wall beside them began to crumble.

• Beerus, Goku, Vegeta, and the others fought Baby’s hosts, but Beerus was parasitized and Whis disappeared after the angels’ restrictions forced him out of the battle.
• Bra found an abandoned research institute and worked on a way to remove the parasites, but Baby discovered her and Pan, forcing them to flee through the sewers.
• Baby ordered Bulma to locate the hidden subspace entrance, and Bulma traced it to underground Satan City.
• Gohan blasted open the ground and cornered Pan, who had gone to retrieve Bra’s research data while carrying the unconscious Bra on her back.
• Pan faced Baby’s hosts, including Gohan, Satan, and Videl, and tried to use her last ki to kill Bra rather than let Baby parasitize her.
• Pan’s trembling ki blast missed Bra and struck the earthen wall, causing it to tremble as Pan and Bra lay helpless at its base.

Pan uncovered a hidden door beneath the pit and called Lu Li, who emerged from his seclusion and rescued her and Bra. He freed Gohan from Baby’s control and faced the remaining possessed Saiyans, promising to deal with them and train his disciples after the crisis.

• Pan discovered a door beneath the collapsing dirt and opened it, revealing Lu Li in the subspace beyond.
• Baby Gohan and Baby Goten and Baby Trunks tried to shut the door but froze in fear when Lu Li appeared outside it.
• Lu Li healed Pan and Bra, reassured them about the parasitized people, and placed them on A'Huo for protection.
• Baby Vegeta announced that the Sacred Water had been destroyed and sent the controlled Saiyans to attack Lu Li.
• Lu Li restored Gohan’s consciousness with a touch, and Gohan apologized to Pan as Baby stared in shock.

Lu Li confronted Baby after cleansing the parasites from Gohan and Goku, then overpowered Baby while he controlled Vegeta. Baby threatened to self-destruct and then used Earthlings as hostages, but Lu Li rejected his attempt to blame him for their danger.

• Gohan explained that Baby's true body was parasitizing Vegeta, and Lu Li removed Baby's fragments from Gohan and Goku.
• Baby powered up Vegeta and attacked Lu Li, who dodged his blows and crushed and twisted Vegeta's arm to demonstrate controlled use of strength.
• Baby threatened to make Vegeta self-destruct, but Lu Li called his bluff, and Goku admitted that his softheartedness had let Baby gain the upper hand.
• Baby stopped swelling and threatened Earthlings under his control, making some of them turn weapons on themselves and others.
• Pan, Goku, and Gohan condemned Baby, while Lu Li rejected his claim that the Earthlings would die because of him.

Lu Li taught Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta how soul power could counter Baby’s control, then severed Baby’s connection to every clone in a chain reaction. Baby was left without contact with his parasitized hosts as Lu Li’s lesson continued.

• Lu Li explained that Baby could not threaten him with hostages because he could revive the dead, then stopped Baby from making the Earthlings kill themselves.
• Lu Li struck Baby and knocked Vegeta’s soul out of his body, while his power froze the Earthlings before they could act.
• Lu Li blocked Baby’s commands from reaching his clones and demonstrated that Vegeta could fight Baby by returning to his body and using the Burning Soul Method.
• Vegeta fought Baby from within his body until Lu Li stopped him and explained that their neglected soul training had left them vulnerable.
• Baby regained contact with his clones and threatened to kill them, but Lu Li touched Baby’s brow and severed his connection to every clone in a chain reaction.

Lu Li destroyed Baby’s clones, defeated Baby, and left Pan and Bra to decide his fate before killing him at Pan’s request. His power triggered the Dragon Ball World’s Ninth Order Tribulation, and he began ascending to meet it.

• Lu Li used Source Level Soul Intent to destroy every Baby clone without harming their hosts, freeing everyone under Baby’s control.
• Lu Li offered Baby his own body as a target, then captured Baby’s true form with his solidified soul and handed him to Pan and Bra.
• Pan and Bra vented their anger on Baby, and Lu Li killed him after Pan asked him to destroy him.
• Satan mourned Buu, and Lu Li reassured him that everything would be all right.
• The Dragon Ball World gathered power to erase Lu Li as his Ninth Order Tribulation began, and Aizen’s spacetime-sealing device started failing.
• Lu Li walked toward the sky, returned to his youthful form, drew Prison Demon, and faced the world’s gathering power.

Lu Li faced the World Savior’s tribulation in the Thirteenth Universe and shattered its attacks with overwhelming force. As observers gathered, they realized he was attempting to break into the Ninth Order through his own power, a feat almost no Explorer in Primordial Space’s recorded history had achieved.

• Lu Li absorbed the first lightning tribulation, then shattered a second bolt and crossed into the Thirteenth Universe.
• The World Savior attacked Lu Li with spacetime power and chaotic matter, which he destroyed with punches that created new space.
• Limes witnessed the attack and recognized the chaotic matter as a manifestation of the Source of the World.
• Goku, Beerus, Vegeta, Jiren, Tian Huang, Dao Yan, and other experts arrived to watch Lu Li resist the tribulation.
• Tian Huang and Dao Yan recognized that Lu Li was forcing his way toward the Ninth Order without a trial, and Dao Yan considered the breakthrough a historic event.

Lu Li withstood the World Savior’s tribulation and entered the ninth-tier domain, though he considered his breakthrough imperfect. The failed time-space seal then allowed hundreds of Grand Priests and Zenos from other timelines to descend, and they recognized Lu Li as the human who had killed their future selves.

• Aizen told Dao Yan that the World Savior’s attack had drained power from all timelines, making the Time-Space Sealing Device impossible to repair.
• The World Savior created a chaotic copy of Lu Li, but Lu Li destroyed it and withstood the stronger attacks that followed.
• Lu Li broke through into the ninth-tier domain with 281 points in his normal state, though he regretted not facing a more demanding tribulation.
• Hundreds of time-space fissures opened, and Grand Priests and Zenos from other timelines emerged into the Thirteenth Universe.
• The Grand Priests realized Lu Li was an anomalous being who had killed their future selves, and one Grand Priest from a nearby timeline confronted him about his rebellion.

Lu Li confronted the Grand Priests and Zenos gathered in the Thirteenth Universe and proved he could resist Zeno’s erasure and strike back through its Root law. He left Zeno badly injured and terrified while the Grand Priests’ attacks converged on him.

• The Grand Priest gathered the arriving Grand Priests and Zenos to kill Lu Li, but Zeno’s first attempt to erase him had no effect.
• Lu Li used Prison Demon to trace Zeno’s erasure back to his body and slash him, shocking the Grand Priests and Goku.
• Dao Yan stopped Tian Huang from rushing into the fight, and Limes called them over to protect them.
• Lu Li severed Zeno’s arms, while the Grand Priest healed his body and Zeno grew afraid of Lu Li.
• Lu Li evaded the Grand Priest’s attack and struck through the attackers’ combined assault, cutting Zeno in half as he asked whether it hurt.

Lu Li overwhelmed the Grand Priests and Zenos, using superior combat skill to evade their attacks and wound them. As he killed the first Grand Priest, the Zenos turned on one another, while Dao Yan concluded that Lu Li had reached Great Dao-Grade combat specialization.

• Lu Li repeatedly cut apart the wounded Zeno, leaving him terrified and unable to fight back.
• Lu Li countered the Grand Priests’ attacks, exploiting their movements to make them strike one another.
• Dao Yan explained that the Grand Priest’s Ultra Instinct had not weakened and that Lu Li had surpassed him in combat skill.
• Lu Li killed a Grand Priest after first splitting him with his blade, shocking the others.
• The Zenos became unsettled when their erasure power failed against Lu Li, and several erased the wounded Zeno themselves.
• Dao Yan recognized that several of Lu Li’s close-combat specializations had reached Great Dao-Grade.

Lu Li slaughtered the Grand Priests and Zenos while Dao Yan and the others realized that endless versions of his enemies could keep appearing through time. The Grand Priests finally overcame their hesitation and coordinated their assault, leaving Lu Li under mounting pressure.

• Lu Li used his Great Dao-Grade combat specialization and Prison Demon Blade to kill Grand Priests and cut down Zenos, whose erasure power could not reach him.
• Dao Yan, Gohan, and Aizen explained that temporal rifts could bring in more Grand Priests and Zenos from countless points in time, making the fight potentially endless.
• Lu Li pointed out that the Grand Priests' numbers failed to overwhelm him because they fought bare-handed and none wanted to risk acting as a decoy for the others.
• After Zeno ordered the Grand Priests to restrain Lu Li, they hesitated until one Grand Priest urged them to unite for the survival of every version of themselves.
• The Grand Priests coordinated with the Zenos and began forcing Lu Li onto the defensive as Goku and the others watched anxiously.

Lu Li overwhelmed the Grand Priests and Zenos while using Soul Intent to isolate the battlefield’s spacetime from the greater world. After revealing that he had mastered the power of origin and had delayed his full attack to protect the universes, he entered Demonization and prepared to test how far his attacks could spread.

• Lu Li transformed and raised his attributes to 284, then cut down hundreds of Grand Priests and killed Zenos as their numbers continued to gather.
• A Zeno failed to erase the isolated universes, and Lu Li explained that he had separated their spacetime from the greater world using Soul Intent.
• Lu Li used the power of origin to spread his blade’s damage among Zenos and Grand Priests, killing thousands before the transmission weakened.
• The Grand Priests realized Lu Li had held back to protect the spacetime while he completed its separation, and they resolved to risk their lives against him.
• Lu Li entered Demonization, activated his techniques and equipment, and prepared to test the limits of damage transmission once spacetime stabilized.