Chapter Summaries

Frieza attacked Goku, Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, and Yamcha under Beerus’s orders, but Piccolo survived a devastating blow and countered with an explosive attack. He-El calmly stood by his disciples as Beerus’s confidence in Frieza faltered.

• Beerus ordered Frieza to prove He-El’s judgment wrong, and He-El told Frieza to deal with Goku, Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, and Yamcha.
• Frieza attacked the four warriors at overwhelming speed while Yamcha gathered Ki to increase his power.
• Frieza struck Piccolo and blew apart half his body, prompting Beerus to taunt He-El about his disciples.
• Piccolo regenerated using the Everlasting Life Technique and detonated his scattered flesh around Frieza.
• Frieza shielded himself and forced Piccolo’s blood out of his body before it could explode inside him, and He-El asked Beerus how his disciples had done.

Yamcha unleashed the immense Ki he had gathered in Spirit Manipulation God Mode while Goku, Piccolo, and Tien Shinhan tried to restrain Frieza. Frieza escaped the attack and retaliated, leaving Yamcha unconscious and the fighters unable to continue, so Goku stepped forward to face him.

• Yamcha reached his limit in Spirit Manipulation God Mode and called on Goku, Piccolo, and Tien Shinhan to hold Frieza down while he fired.
• Goku, Piccolo, and Tien Shinhan restrained Frieza, but Frieza countered Yamcha’s Ki wave with a Planet Destruction Bomb and escaped its path.
• Frieza launched a Supernova at Yamcha, and Tien Shinhan used Sky-Cleaving Light to pierce Frieza’s left waist and destroy the incoming attack.
• The Supernova exploded, blasting the fighters away, destroying Frieza’s spaceship, and knocking Yamcha out of Spirit Manipulation God Mode.
• Piccolo formed an infant-sized body and used Ki to keep Yamcha alive, while Goku declared that he would take over the fight.

Goku prepared to unleash even more of his power against the wounded Frieza after Tien Shinhan, Piccolo, and Yamcha were forced out of the fight. Meanwhile, Beerus declared that He-El's disciples had lost, but He-El remained confident in Goku and challenged Beerus's expectations.

• Bulma learned through the Mental Network that Piccolo and Tien Shinhan were badly weakened and Yamcha was unconscious and near death.
• Piccolo found Yamcha, and Tien Shinhan explained that his Light That Cleaves the Firmament had pierced Frieza's left waist but missed a vital spot.
• Goku told Piccolo and Tien Shinhan to bring Yamcha to Bulma's group while he faced Frieza alone and prepared his ultimate move.
• Puar transformed into a healing pod to treat Yamcha as Piccolo and Tien Shinhan reached Bulma's group.
• Beerus claimed victory over He-El's disciples, but He-El called Beerus “Kitten” and insisted the battle's outcome would match their own future fight.
• Frieza vowed to kill Goku and the others, while Goku began activating more S Cells to power up.

Goku deactivated his Burst and S Cell progress before awakening a legendary transformation. He became a Super Saiyan, leaving Frieza and the others stunned as the battle continued.

• Goku raised his power to 42.68 million with his S Cells, then returned to his base power level of 284,561.
• Frieza laughed at Goku’s apparent loss of power, while Vegeta sensed that a hidden Saiyan power was about to emerge.
• Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, Krillin, and Bulma watched anxiously as they realized Goku was preparing for a stronger transformation.
• Beerus recognized the possibility that Goku was a Super warrior like the legendary Yamoshi.
• Goku roared and transformed, turning his hair and eyebrows gold as golden Ki blazed around him.
• Goku became a Super Saiyan.

Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan and revealed power nearly twice Frieza’s, astonishing Frieza, Beerus, and Whis. Frieza, overwhelmed by fear and rage, attacked Goku with a rain of Death Energy Bullets.

• Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan after cultivating his S Cells under He-El’s guidance, and Piccolo sensed that Goku had surpassed Frieza.
• Goku’s unified Super Saiyan state raised his battle power to nearly 300 million, while Frieza’s was 120 million.
• Beerus admitted defeat, and Whis recognized that Goku’s transformation reflected a martial art beyond Ultra Instinct and asked He-El if he had taught Goku.
• He-El said he had only guided Goku, whose strength came from his own hard work.
• Frieza roared that he was the strongest and fired a rain of planet-destroying Death Energy Bullets at Goku.

Goku overwhelmed Frieza in their battle and killed him with a powerful Kamehameha. After withdrawing the attack, Goku flew toward Beerus, who stood beside He-El.

• Frieza trapped Goku in a Prison Ball, but Goku broke free and struck him across the face.
• Goku blocked Frieza's relentless attacks and sent him flying with a powerful blow to the chest.
• Frieza charged again in a desperate rage, and Goku gathered energy for a Kamehameha as the others watched.
• Frieza launched a massive energy wave, but Goku's Kamehameha blasted through it and killed him.
• Goku withdrew his Kamehameha and flew toward Beerus beside He-El.

Goku defeated Frieza and showed He-El that he could transform into a Super Saiyan without relying on extreme rage. He-El told him his training path had only just begun, while Beerus judged Goku far too weak to fight him yet.

• Bulma, Krillin, Vegeta, Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, and the others celebrated Goku's defeat of Frieza.
• Goku flew to He-El and asked what he thought of his training results, and He-El praised his Super Saiyan transformation.
• He-El told Goku that defeating Frieza marked only the beginning of his training, inspiring Goku to train harder.
• Goku asked to fight alongside He-El and challenged Beerus, but Beerus said Goku might be able to fight him in the future, not now.
• Whis warned Beerus not to underestimate Goku's unusual transformation, and Beerus said Goku's teacher might be able to give him a worthwhile fight.
• He-El told Goku that Beerus could defeat him with one hand, leaving Goku shocked but still eager to challenge Beerus.

He-El challenged Beerus to teach Goku the gulf between their strength, and Goku launched his strongest attack against the God of Destruction. Beerus effortlessly shattered Goku’s attack and left him gravely injured, setting the stage for He-El to fight.

• He-El asked Beerus to guide Goku and calmly warned that he would kill Beerus if Beerus killed his disciple.
• He-El told Goku to attack with his strongest power, and Goku charged Beerus in his Super Saiyan form.
• Beerus met Goku’s punch with one hand, shattering his bones and knocking him unconscious with the force of the collision.
• Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, Vegeta, and the others combined their Ki to catch Goku, but the impact and shockwave badly injured them too.
• Krillin treated Goku, who insisted on watching He-El fight, while Beerus compressed the fireball into a small sphere and challenged He-El.

He-El began fighting Beerus after Whis healed Yamcha and explained why they had come. He-El released 30% of his accumulated physical potential, raising his battle power to 1.095 billion, but Beerus dismissed that strength as inadequate and threatened to kill him.

• Whis left Beerus and He-El to fight, healed Yamcha, and introduced himself to Bulma and the others as a servant of a god.
• Whis told the group that He-El had caused abnormalities in the universe and made Beerus unhappy.
• Beerus hurled his compressed fireball at He-El, who sliced it apart with a thin thread of Ki.
• He-El released 30% of his physical potential inside the explosion, multiplying his battle power to 1.095 billion.
• He-El blocked Beerus's elbow strike, but Beerus called his strength too weak and said He-El would die if that was all he had.

He-El fought Beerus and demonstrated a martial art that struck Beerus despite his inability to perceive its attack. Whis recognized the technique’s strange power as a result that was already certain, while the others watched through a magnified view Whis created.

• Beerus unleashed a relentless barrage on He-El, who blocked the attacks with ease as their impacts shook the universe.
• He-El criticized Beerus for relying on brute force and attacked with Double-Slit Palm.
• Beerus tried to counter the attack, but it passed through his fist and then struck his chest when he stopped observing it, sending him flying and making him bleed.
• Whis realized that Double-Slit Palm made its result—the target being hit—certain, regardless of observation or perception.
• Whis created a magnified, mirror-like view of He-El and Beerus so the distant spectators could watch their fight.

He-El fought Beerus in the Dark Universe, countering his techniques and powerful energy attacks while remaining largely unharmed. As Beerus grew more excited, Whis recognized that He-El was turning the fight into a guided spar despite having far less battle power, and grew wary of him.

• Beerus was blasted away by He-El's Double-Slit Palm, then charged back, believing he had figured out how to counter it.
• He-El stopped using the Double-Slit Palm and struck Beerus with a miniature star, but Beerus intensified his attacks and still could not break He-El's defense.
• Beerus hurled a blazing energy projectile at He-El, who created an identical one; their collision unleashed a white explosion that Whis shielded everyone from.
• Beerus and He-El continued fighting amid the cosmic shockwaves, with He-El blocking or dispersing nearly all of Beerus's attacks while saying his 1.09 billion battle power was enough.
• Whis compared the battle to his former training bouts with Beerus and realized that He-El was guiding the fight despite being far weaker, leaving Whis afraid of him.

Beerus struggled to overcome He-El’s superior technique and unleashed a powerful compressed energy blast, but He-El countered it by creating an expanding black hole. With the black hole threatening everyone nearby, Beerus entered the Divine Technique: Destruction state, which Whis explained could erase its target completely.

• Beerus increased his power and attacked relentlessly, but He-El adapted to his strength and blocked or countered his moves.
• Beerus fired a compressed energy blast, and He-El answered with a black hole that distorted the blast and expanded rapidly.
• Bulma realized the black hole would soon engulf the onlookers, while the others cheered for He-El without understanding the danger.
• Beerus detonated his compressed energy blast to stop the black hole, but it absorbed the blast’s remaining energy and continued to grow.
• Beerus entered the Divine Technique: Destruction state, and Whis explained to Goku and the others that it could erase a target’s existence.

Beerus turned their spar into an attempt to erase He-El with the God of Destruction’s power, which He-El could not yet fully understand. He-El raised his potential to 50% and prepared to face Beerus’s destruction attack.

• Whis explained that Beerus’s destruction could erase someone from existence, and Bulma and the others feared for He-El.
• He-El examined Beerus’s purple flames and deduced that destruction could erase its target through the universe’s underlying logic.
• Beerus dismissed He-El’s attempt to talk and decided to kill him, fearing He-El’s extraordinary strength and techniques.
• He-El raised his potential from 30% to 50%, increasing his battle power to 1.825 billion, and said he would fight back.
• Beerus sent a beam of destruction directly at He-El.

Beerus’s Destruction erased He-El’s body, existence, and everyone’s memories of him while He-El used his remaining power to study the technique. As he was about to vanish, He-El placed the World Tree in his left eye and saw the underlying logic of Destruction.

• Beerus’s Destruction began erasing He-El, and He-El used his 1.825 billion battle power and remaining potential to reverse-engineer the technique instead of resisting it.
• Bulma, Goku, and the others gradually forgot He-El as his existence and evidence of his life disappeared from the world.
• People across the world and beyond, including Master Roshi, Korin, Kami, King Yemma, and King Kai, experienced gaps in their memories of He-El.
• Beerus remarked that He-El had been a fine opponent as half of He-El’s body vanished into purple particles.
• He-El gathered his consciousness and Ki into his left eye, revealed the World Tree, and used it to perceive the essential logic of Destruction.

As Beerus’s destruction reduced He-El to a single eye, He-El fused the World Tree with it and used its power to reverse the erasure. He-El’s existence and everyone’s memories of him returned, leaving Beerus and Whis stunned that destruction had failed.

• Beerus and Whis realized the World Tree, rather than He-El, was the anomaly, but Beerus could not stop He-El from pressing it into his left eye.
• He-El fused the World Tree with his eye and observed the underlying logic of the universe while Beerus’s destruction consumed his body.
• With only his left eye remaining, He-El said, “Reverse,” and caused causality, existence, and memory to flow backward.
• Bulma, Goku, Piccolo, Nail, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, Puar, Master Roshi, King Yemma, and King Kai remembered He-El and welcomed his return.
• Whis realized that Beerus’s destruction was losing its power to erase existence, while Beerus stared in shock at He-El’s surviving eye.

He-El used Reversal to restore himself after Beerus erased him, then used Constancy to merge his soul, will, and spirit with his body. He left Beerus and Whis stunned, declaring that he could create Divine Techniques because Beerus was too weak.

• Beerus was baffled when his destruction appeared ineffective, while He-El explained that he had recovered information about himself from the Dragon Ball Universe’s underlying logic.
• He-El used Reversal to regenerate his body, leaving Beerus horrified and Whis fearing that disaster had begun.
• He-El assessed his restored body and noticed that it was not fully integrated with his soul, will, and spirit.
• He-El used Constancy to make his body constant and merge it deeply with his soul, will, and spirit.
• Beerus questioned how He-El had mastered two Divine Techniques, and He-El said he could create them because Beerus was too weak.

He-El used his understanding of the universe’s underlying logic to counter Beerus’s full-power destruction and overwhelm him with vastly superior Ki control. Beerus continued attacking, but He-El explained why neither destruction nor Beerus’s immense combat power could break through his defenses.

• Beerus enraged by He-El’s claim that he was too weak and attacked with full-power destruction.
• He-El blocked Beerus’s attacks, explaining that Constancy refreshed his state whenever destruction took effect.
• Beerus questioned how He-El could withstand him despite their stated combat-power difference.
• He-El revealed that his Complete Ki Control let him block Beerus’s attacks using Ki equivalent to only 97,821 combat-power points.
• Beerus’s power exceeded one trillion, but He-El’s refined Ki control left Beerus with no hope of breaking through.

Beerus exhausted himself attacking He-El but could not break through his defenses, then admitted defeat. He-El trapped and overwhelmed Beerus with a black-hole-like force, leaving him bloodied and powerless as he realized it had never been a battle.

• Whis, Bulma, Goku, and Piccolo watched as Beerus attacked He-El without landing a meaningful blow.
• Beerus admitted He-El had won and said he would train to become stronger, then tried to leave.
• He-El stopped Beerus and dismissed his confidence that He-El could not hurt him.
• He-El dragged Beerus toward him with an immense pulling force and clamped his jaw.
• He-El shook Beerus, dispersing his Ki and leaving him bleeding and unable to struggle.
• Beerus looked at He-El and said, "This was never a battle."

He-El defeated Beerus and rejected Whis’s plea to spare him, reminding Beerus that he had refused the same chance to make peace. Beerus accepted his death as He-El began erasing him with destruction.

• Beerus realized He-El had baited him throughout their one-sided fight and that he could not resist He-El’s grip.
• Whis arrived and begged He-El to spare Beerus, but He-El said the universe could appoint a new God of Destruction.
• He-El reminded Beerus that he had offered a chance to make peace before Beerus unleashed his Divine Technique.
• Beerus asked whether they could make peace, and He-El replied with Beerus’s own earlier words.
• He-El ignited purple Ki flames around Beerus, who accepted his death as his body began turning into particles.

He-El continued dissolving Beerus with Superficial Destruction after Beerus had tried to erase him, while Whis pleaded for Beerus’s life. Whis realized He-El had shown mercy by leaving Beerus in everyone’s memories, and Beerus accepted his death before Whis departed to sleep.

• Beerus’s body dissolved into purple particles as Whis mourned and recalled how Beerus had recklessly challenged He-El.
• Whis asked He-El to spare Beerus, but He-El said Beerus had chosen his fate and that he had already shown mercy.
• Whis realized Beerus remained in the memories of those who knew him, unlike He-El after Beerus’s earlier use of Destruction.
• Beerus heard their exchange, stopped resenting He-El, and accepted his death.
• Beerus vanished completely, and Whis transformed into a streak of light and flew into the depths of the universe to sleep.