Chapter Summaries

Bulma revealed that she had hidden aboard He-El’s spaceship and insisted on joining his journey through space. After confessing her love, she persuaded He-El to accept her despite his four wives in another universe, and they embraced.

• He-El detected Bulma aboard the spaceship despite her device hiding her Ki and image.
• Bulma confronted He-El for leaving her behind and used her control of the spaceship to prevent him from sending her back to Earth.
• Bulma confessed that she loved He-El and wanted to be with him, regardless of his four wives in another universe.
• He-El accepted Bulma, and she joyfully threw herself into his arms.

Bulma traveled with He-El toward Planet Namek, where he planned to seek knowledge from its Shenron, and learned about King Kai and the worlds He-El would help along the way. After seeing Bulma’s enthusiasm for invention but reluctance to train hard, He-El decided to create a martial art suited to her intellect and technology.

• Bulma asked He-El where he was taking their spaceship, and he explained that they were heading toward Planet Namek after he helped King Kai with planets beset by wars and unrest.
• King Kai contacted Bulma telepathically, chatted with her, and offered to relay messages to her family on Earth.
• King Kai asked He-El for help classifying his martial arts and improving Snake Way’s trials, and He-El sent him a breakdown and revised the challenges.
• He-El encouraged Bulma to learn self-defense, but she said she disliked intense training and preferred inventing technological devices.
• He-El decided to create a martial art that would support Bulma’s intelligence, inventions, and active thinking without requiring training as strenuous as Goku’s.

He-El and Bulma landed on a war-torn planet to find those responsible for its destruction, but the local Aishu Tribe mistook their spacecraft for an attack. After He-El proved he had come to help, the tribe celebrated, then realized they did not know where the Frozen Soil Evil Lord and Molten Lava Evil Lord were.

• He-El warned Bulma to stay focused and prepared her to use the mental martial arts he had taught her as they approached the planet.
• Bulma landed the Sky-Blue Star near the planet’s green equatorial belt, where the Aishu Tribe attacked, believing the ship belonged to their enemies.
• He-El flew out and destroyed the tribe’s incoming arrow and shells with an Air-Shock Domain.
• He-El explained that he wanted to stop the war and asked who had killed the planet’s Kami.
• The Aishu Tribe identified the Frozen Soil Evil Lord and Molten Lava Evil Lord as the war’s instigators and asked He-El to punish them.
• The tribe tried to find a guide to the two evil lords but admitted that they did not know where either one was.

He-El learned that the Ice Palace's Frozen Soil King and the Molten Lava Evil Lord had killed Kami and started the planet's war, so he defeated them and dismantled their armies. He left the elder and former patriarch with King Yemma for training to become the planet's future Kami, then explored the planet with Bulma before departing.

• The green-skinned people's patriarch sacrificed his strength to awaken the elder, but their people repeatedly changed patriarchs as they fought over the elder's coveted place merging with the Great Tree.
• He-El brought the elder and Bulma to the Ice Palace, where the elder identified the Frozen Soil King and the Molten Lava Evil Lord as Kami's killers and the war's instigators.
• He-El destroyed the Frozen Soil King and the Ice Palace, then disbanded the king's army.
• He-El killed the Molten Lava Evil Lord, disbanded his army, and sent the elder and former patriarch to King Yemma for training to become future Kami.
• He-El crushed the remaining forces that threatened the planet, traveled around it with Bulma, and left aboard their spaceship.

He-El and Bulma reached Ocean Planet, where deep-sea creatures were fleeing a nonintelligent monster that threatened the planet. After learning little from a merfolk, He-El prepared to investigate the deep sea himself.

• He-El and Bulma arrived at Ocean Planet and found deep-sea creatures crowding the surface in fear.
• King Kai explained that a Devouring Monster was eating creatures in the deep sea and warned He-El that it could destroy the planet.
• He-El rescued a merfolk from a six-eyed flying fish and questioned it about the Sea God, but its answers revealed little.
• He-El told Bulma to stay above the water and monitor the pressure, then descended into the deep sea to investigate.

He-El explored Ocean Planet’s deep sea and discovered that an invasive seaweed ecosystem was consuming the native marine life, though he concluded the planet should be left to evolve naturally. He and Bulma then hunted and stored seafood for three days before continuing toward Planet Namek.

• He-El descended into Ocean Planet’s dark depths and found vast seaweed beds that attacked him and absorbed the remains of shredded seaweed.
• He-El discovered the seaweed ecosystem had nearly wiped out the native deep-sea animals, and he told Bulma and King Kai that the ecosystems might compete, merge, or give rise to seaweed people.
• King Kai agreed not to interfere and marked Ocean Planet as a possible future home for a Kami.
• Bulma used her Ingredient Radar to locate prized seafood, and He-El helped her catch it with his Ki.
• He-El and Bulma spent three days hunting and processing seafood, filled their Hoi-Poi Capsules, and departed for Planet Namek.

He-El and Bulma helped King Kai resolve crises on two planets before reaching Planet Namek. As Bulma scanned Namek and He-El studied its environment, he recalled the catastrophe that had once devastated the planet and left only the Grand Elder alive.

• He-El established a strength-based contest for planetary guardian on a war-torn martial-arts planet, replacing large-scale conflict with individual competition.
• He-El and Bulma left a planet shattered by its inhabitants’ ultimate weapon after concluding that saving it would require ten thousand years of work.
• Bulma detected Planet Namek and analyzed its size, atmosphere, orbit, and other environmental conditions as He-El guided the ship toward it.
• He-El recalled how Namek’s resource exploitation and stellar flares had damaged its atmosphere, triggering a catastrophe that nearly wiped out the Namekians.

Bulma piloted Bulma's Azure Star toward a Namekian village after He-El sensed it, while he explained Namekian society, history, and abilities. He-El concluded that Namekians would make ideal subordinates, leaving their ship headed for the village.

• He-El sensed a village to the west and directed Bulma to fly there.
• Bulma asked whether all Namekians were like Kami, and He-El described them as kind, united, intelligent, and peaceful.
• He-El recounted how ancient Namekians' technological overreach nearly destroyed their planet and how survivors restored its vegetation.
• He-El explained Namekians' physiology, reproduction, special abilities, and capacity to fuse with one another.
• He-El decided that Namekians were exceptionally suited to serve under him.

He-El and Bulma arrived at a small Namekian village and explained that they had come from Earth to borrow Shenron and help prevent a future crisis on Planet Namek. The village elder agreed to send them to the Grand Elder, then asked what disaster He-El had come to warn them about.

• He-El and Bulma landed in the western village, where children gathered around them curiously.
• Yug greeted the visitors, heard He-El explain their purpose, and brought them to meet the village elder.
• He-El told the elder that Earth's Kami was a Namekian named Katas's son, sent to Earth to escape Planet Namek's past disaster.
• The village elder arranged for Yug to take He-El and Bulma to the Grand Elder's village so they could share Kami's whereabouts.
• The village elder asked whether the future crisis He-El mentioned meant another climate disaster that could destroy the Namekians.

He-El told the village elder and Yug that a powerful being would destroy future Planet Namek while seeking its Dragon Balls, and explained that Kami had sent him to help. The elder agreed to take He-El to the Grand Elder after trials, leaving Yug to lead He-El outside for a strength test while Bulma prepared to compete with the elder in wisdom.

• He-El said he had seen fragments of the future and explained that Kami had asked him to prevent Planet Namek's coming crisis.
• The village elder and Yug believed He-El had no malicious intent, and the elder said he would report the warning to the Grand Elder.
• The village elder explained that visitors had to pass a trial to obtain a Dragon Ball, but promised to help secure the other elders' Dragon Balls if He-El's warning proved true.
• Bulma volunteered to compete with the village elder in wisdom, while Yug asked to test He-El's strength.
• He-El accepted the trial, and Yug led him outside to spar and assess his power against the threat to Planet Namek.

He-El demonstrated his overwhelming strength to Yug in a spar, convincing the Dragon Clan Namekian that he could help Planet Namek. Yug asked He-El to save the planet, and He-El confirmed that was why he had come.

• Yug led He-El away from the village so their spar would not endanger the children.
• Yug unleashed his Ki and attacked He-El, who blocked hundreds of punches with one hand without injury.
• Yug fired an energy beam, but He-El caught it barehanded, pushed it back, and extinguished it without harming Yug.
• Yug admitted He-El was far beyond him, bowed, and pleaded for him to save Planet Namek.
• He-El told Yug that saving Planet Namek was exactly why he had come.

He-El, Bulma, and Yug left the Fifth Elder’s village for the Grand Elder’s village, and He-El began teaching Yug the Everlasting Life Technique. Yug asked whether he could teach it to other Namekians, and He-El allowed it as long as they did not use it for evil.

• Yug said goodbye to the village elder and agreed to follow He-El’s guidance.
• The Fifth Elder gave Bulma the Five-Star Dragon Ball, which reminded He-El and Bulma of how they first met on Earth.
• He-El, Bulma, and Yug boarded the spaceship and headed toward the Grand Elder’s village.
• He-El taught Yug the Everlasting Life Technique, and Yug was moved by how perfectly it suited Namekians.
• Yug asked to share the technique with other Namekians, and He-El agreed on the condition that they did not use it for evil.

He-El and Yug traveled to the Grand Elder’s village, where Nail stopped their spaceship and questioned their arrival. After He-El explained that they had come at Piccolo’s request to save Namek, Nail recognized Katas’s name and escorted them to the village.

• Yug told He-El about the Grand Elder’s role in restoring Namek and creating the Dragon Balls, while He-El considered but rejected having his potential unlocked.
• Nail intercepted the approaching spaceship and guided it to land outside the village.
• Yug and Nail greeted each other, and Nail asked why Yug had brought outsiders there.
• Yug explained that the visitors had been sent by Namekians who fled during the last climate disaster.
• He-El said Piccolo had asked them to save Namek and identified Piccolo as Katas’s son, prompting Nail to lead them toward the village.

He-El told the Grand Elder that he had foreseen an alien invasion of Planet Namek in six years and asked to use the Dragon Balls to gain the universe’s knowledge. The Grand Elder trusted him and asked whether he could stop the invaders, while He-El weighed his chances against Frieza’s overwhelming power.

• Nail led He-El, Bulma, and Yug to the Grand Elder’s home in the Namekian village.
• He-El explained Piccolo and Katas’s histories to the Grand Elder, then said he had seen a future invasion that would devastate Planet Namek.
• The Grand Elder chose to believe He-El despite Nail’s doubts and asked what wish he wanted from the Dragon Balls.
• He-El said he wanted all the knowledge in the universe, though he knew the Dragon Balls might only provide the knowledge they could perceive.
• The Grand Elder asked whether He-El could defeat the invaders, and He-El considered Frieza’s forms and his own limits against Frieza’s 120 million battle power.

He-El reassured the Namekians that he could grow strong enough to face the future alien who threatened Planet Namek. The Grand Elder offered to unlock He-El’s potential, but He-El refused and the Grand Elder instead offered Nail’s help in gathering the Dragon Balls.

• He-El explained that his precise Ki control let him unleash power far beyond his apparent power level and that he expected to grow stronger over the next six years.
• He-El told the Grand Elder, Nail, and Yug that the future alien was powerful enough to destroy Planet Namek.
• The Grand Elder thanked He-El for helping Planet Namek and asked whether he was confident he could defeat the alien.
• The Grand Elder offered to unlock He-El’s vast potential, but He-El declined because he valued the foundation he had built through cultivation.
• The Grand Elder accepted He-El’s decision and offered Nail’s help in gathering the Dragon Balls and granting He-El’s wish.

Nail questioned whether He-El could protect Planet Namek from the aliens in the future and asked to test his strength. He-El defeated Nail with one finger, leaving Nail badly injured and amazed.

• Nail told He-El that he still doubted his ability to protect Planet Namek, though he trusted the Grand Elder's judgment.
• He-El agreed to spar with Nail and said he would use one finger; Bulma protested that the Namekians kept challenging someone who had come to help them.
• He-El and Nail flew to an open area while Yug and Bulma waited outside the village.
• He-El returned less than two minutes later carrying the severely injured Nail, whom he had defeated with a single finger strike.

After Nail recovered from He-El’s strike and learned the Everlasting Life Technique, his suspicion turned to admiration and respect. Nail agreed to help gather the remaining Dragon Balls and offered to have the Namekians upgrade He-El and Bulma’s spaceship.

• Nail woke and admitted that He-El had defeated him without giving him any chance to fight back.
• He-El told Nail to reflect on how his power had disrupted Nail’s Ki, and Yug asked permission to teach Nail the Everlasting Life Technique.
• He-El agreed, and Yug transmitted the technique to Nail, who quickly recovered and bowed to thank He-El for helping the Namekians.
• Nail offered to lead He-El, Bulma, and Yug to the other villages to gather the Dragon Balls.
• Bulma launched her spaceship from a Hoi-Poi Capsule, and Nail offered to have the Namekians upgrade it with their unused technology.
• He-El requested a larger ship with entertainment facilities and meditation rooms, and Nail agreed to arrange the modifications.

He-El and his companions gathered all seven Dragon Balls on Planet Namek and summoned Porunga. He-El wished for Porunga’s knowledge, causing his battle power to surge as the knowledge flooded into him.

• He-El, Bulma, Nail, and Yug collected the final Dragon Ball and returned to the Grand Elder’s village.
• He-El suggested that Bulma use the second wish to gain the ability to breathe in space while remaining human, and she agreed.
• Nail summoned Porunga in the wilderness, and the dragon offered to grant three wishes.
• He-El wished to receive Porunga’s knowledge and all knowledge he could gather through his abilities.
• Porunga poured knowledge into He-El, whose battle power climbed from 210,000 to 360,000.

He-El used Porunga Shenron’s knowledge to transform his body and raise his battle power to 390,000, gaining extraordinary potential within the Dragon Ball Universe. After suppressing his aura, he asked Bulma to make the second wish, with two wishes still remaining.

• Nail, Yug, and Bulma recoiled from the pressure He-El released while receiving Porunga Shenron’s knowledge.
• He-El’s battle power rose from 360,000 to 390,000 as Porunga transmitted the knowledge he could gather into him.
• He-El adapted to his transformed body, whose potential surpassed the universe’s greatest bloodlines and could eventually let him claim divine authority.
• Porunga Shenron acknowledged He-El’s extraordinary body and sensed that wishes concerning him might be beyond his power to fulfill.
• He-El withdrew his aura and asked Bulma to make the second wish.

Whis sensed an unknown presence in Universe 7 that his staff could not detect, and the Oracle Fish prophesied that someone capable of transcending the universe had appeared. Whis woke Beerus to investigate the possible threat.

• Whis tried to use his staff to locate the source of his unease, but its orb showed only darkness.
• Whis decided to awaken Beerus and investigate what was troubling him.
• The Oracle Fish arrived sleep-deprived and prophesied that someone had appeared who could break through the universe’s bounds and become a universe.
• Whis understood the prophecy as a warning about a being who might gain control over the universe, then woke Beerus.