Chapter Summaries

Chaya investigated why Bardock had failed to become a Saiyan God and tested the transformation across Red Mountain Star’s Special Combat Team. The experiment produced ninety Saiyan Gods, and Bardock finally transformed when Adri’s team supplied him with power.

• Chaya suspected that Saiyan Gods required balanced power from their providers and had Bardock and others repeat the failed experiment.
• At Myers’s suggestion, Chaya summoned the Special Combat Team and organized its members into groups to attempt the transformation.
• Eight warriors successfully became Saiyan Gods, prompting Chaya to order the transformation kept secret while he investigated its requirements.
• After the remaining warriors returned, all ninety members of the Special Combat Team and Adri’s group took turns becoming Saiyan Gods, though only fifteen could exist at once.
• Chaya asked Adri’s team to transmit its power to Bardock, and Bardock successfully transformed into a Saiyan God.

Chaya explained the requirements and limits of the Saiyan God transformation after Adri and Bardock fought to a draw. The chapter ended with Nappa and Raditz waiting for Vegeta in Abo and Kado’s territory, where Nappa turned his irritation on Raditz.

• Chaya said Saiyan God transformations required strong assisting Saiyans, and Bardock’s new form gave him a combat power of 4.2 billion.
• Adri and Bardock fought at full strength for nearly half an hour before ending the battle in their normal states.
• Chaya reported that Saiyans needed at least 50,000 combat power to transform and estimated Red Mountain Star could eventually have about 200 Saiyan Gods, with around 30 active at once.
• More than ten days later, Nappa and Raditz waited on a planet in Abo and Kado’s territory and wondered where Vegeta had gone.
• Nappa grew irritated with Raditz and accused him of speaking disrespectfully to Lord Nappa.

Vegeta told Nappa and Raditz that Frieza had destroyed Planet Vegeta and revealed that Frieza’s normal battle power was 530,000, prompting him to halt missions and begin intense training. On Red Mountain Star, Chaya also trained hard as he pursued Super Saiyan 3 and wondered what power might await him beyond it.

• Nappa mocked Raditz and blasted the forest while they waited for Vegeta to return from his trip.
• Vegeta arrived, criticized Nappa and Raditz for failing to improve, and ordered them to train instead of taking missions.
• Vegeta told Nappa and Raditz to switch off their Scouters and revealed that Frieza had destroyed Planet Vegeta and killed the Saiyans.
• Vegeta warned that Frieza’s normal battle power was 530,000, said revenge would have to wait, and began training while Nappa and Raditz followed.
• Chaya trained with Selyne and the others on Red Mountain Star, aiming to reach Super Saiyan 3 and wondering what transformation might follow.

Over two years, Red Mountain Star’s Saiyan population and strength grew, while Chaya refined his Super Saiyan 2 power and sparred with Mei Ling. On Earth, Yajirobe met Mr. Satan on the way to Korin Tower and learned that Mr. Satan was climbing it to fulfill his late master’s expectations.

• Red Mountain Star’s Saiyan population rose to 35,400, and its growing strength, alongside Chaya’s hidden Saiyan Gods, made it powerful across the Milky Way.
• Chaya explained that he was using his realm to steady his Super Saiyan 2 form, then agreed to spar with Mei Ling in space.
• Yajirobe found the exhausted Mr. Satan on the mountain path, helped him recover with food and water, and introduced himself.
• Yajirobe demonstrated his sword technique by shaving off half of Mr. Satan’s afro and said he wanted to test Korin’s strength.
• Mr. Satan revealed that his master had been killed after offending Tao Pai Pai and said Tights’s novel inspired him to challenge Korin Tower in his master’s memory.

Mr. Satan followed Yajirobe to Korin Tower, hoping to learn martial arts, while Korin watched their climb and gave Chi-Chi Senzu Beans for her mission to the Demon Realm. The chapter left Chi-Chi preparing to face Ashura as Korin asked what tasks the other trainees had received.

• Yajirobe outran Mr. Satan on the way to Korin Tower, and Mr. Satan realized his competition fighting skills were no match for true martial arts.
• Mr. Satan begged Yajirobe to teach him, but Yajirobe refused and suggested he seek guidance from Karin after climbing the tower.
• Mr. Satan began climbing Korin Tower with a rope, and Yajirobe soon overtook him and carried him upward past the other challengers.
• Korin watched Yajirobe and Mr. Satan approach and told Chi-Chi that Yajirobe had promising self-taught talent but seemed lazy.
• Chi-Chi told Korin that Kami had tasked her with finding the entrance to the Demon Realm and defeating Ashura, so Korin gave her Senzu Beans.
• Korin asked Chi-Chi what tasks Kami had assigned to the other trainees.

Chi-Chi, Krillin, Yamcha, and Son Goku pursued the assignments Kami gave them as Korin explained the danger of Five Elements Mountain. Meanwhile, Bulma resumed her Dragon Ball search, setting out to find Goku.

• Chi-Chi told Korin that Krillin had to find a people-swallowing gourd, Yamcha had to retrieve a diamond-set crown, and Son Goku had to extinguish the Earth's core flames at Five Elements Mountain.
• Korin explained that an ancient deity guarded Five Elements Mountain, and Chi-Chi chose to head toward the Demon Realm instead.
• Krillin heard gunshots while searching the mountains for the gourd and followed the sound toward several villages.
• Yamcha overcame his doubts about comparing himself to Son Goku, braved the lightning, and reached for the crown at the stone shrine.
• Son Goku arrived at Five Elements Mountain and searched for a way to extinguish the Earth's core flames.
• Bulma left home to search for the Dragon Balls and decided to find Son Goku after seeing that the remaining ones were moving.

Bulma encountered Bardock, who looked like an older Son Goku, and learned that he was Goku’s father and that Saiyans and Frieza were real. Bardock agreed to take her to Goku at Five Elements Mountain, while hiding his identity from his son.

• Bulma followed a flying figure across the wasteland and discovered he looked like an older Son Goku.
• Bardock realized Bulma knew Kakarot, and she recognized him as Goku’s father after seeing his tail.
• Bardock sensed Goku’s location and told Bulma he would train him to face future enemies.
• Bulma recalled details connecting her sister’s novels to real Saiyans and asked Bardock about Frieza and Planet Vegeta.
• Bardock asked whether Bulma liked Kakarot, and she began reconsidering her feelings for Goku.
• Bardock disguised himself and flew with Bulma in her jet plane toward Five Elements Mountain, telling her not to reveal who he was.

Son Goku repaired the Eight-Trigrams Furnace before Bardock arrived at Five Elements Mountain and defeated him, then offered to train him. Chaya learned that a Demon Realm presence had created a Fragment World on Earth and set out to investigate.

• Son Goku repaired the Eight-Trigrams Furnace while Grandpa Gohan and the Supreme Old Lord praised his strength.
• Bardock and Bulma entered Five Elements Mountain, and Bulma reunited with Son Goku.
• Bardock tested Son Goku, defeated him almost instantly, and offered to train him.
• Chaya sensed Bardock's arrival and reflected on how his training might affect Son Goku's future.
• Chronoa contacted Chaya about a Fragment World on Earth and asked him to investigate its source in Earth Demon Realm.

Chaya entered the Demon Realm to find the source of the Fragment World, rescuing Chi-Chi along the way and guiding her to Ashura's territory. He eventually discovered a red crystal absorbing energy amid a vast field of corpses, which Chronoa identified as the source.

• Chaya discussed the Fragment World with Chronoa, then left Earth for the Demon Realm while Selyne and Myers stayed behind.
• Chaya entered the Demon Realm and rescued Chi-Chi from demons after she wandered into the Greater Demon Realm by mistake.
• Chaya escorted Chi-Chi to Ashura's territory so she could carry out Kami's challenge, then returned to search for the Fragment World's source.
• Chaya sensed a fading spatial fluctuation and followed it to a wasteland filled with corpses and a red crystal absorbing energy.
• Chronoa told Chaya that the red crystal was the source that created the Fragment World.

Chaya destroyed a crystal made from time-and-space power that could create Fragment Worlds, then entered the newly formed world at Chronoa’s coordinates. He discovered that its Earth was in an ancient era, with Orin Temple only just being founded.

• Chaya cracked the crimson crystal, contained its unstable power as a Super Saiyan 2, and destroyed it.
• Chronoa identified the crystal’s materials and warned that the Demon Realm might mass-produce devices capable of creating Fragment Worlds.
• Chaya followed the coordinates Chronoa sent and entered a tiny Fragment World containing only the Solar System.
• Chaya landed on Earth, found it technologically primitive, and listened for clues about the era in a tavern.
• Chaya heard that Master Nanlin had climbed Korin Tower and was establishing Orin Temple, concluding that the story’s beginning was still centuries away.

Chaya searched Korin Tower and the Sacred Temple for the force behind the Fragment World and suspected Garlic Jr. was involved. Garlic Jr. appeared at the Sacred Temple as Garlic was rejected for Kami, and his arrival shook the temple.

• Chaya questioned Korin about strange Ki and learned that Mutaito was training at Korin Tower and two successors were competing to become Kami.
• Chaya suspected Garlic Jr. had created the Fragment World and went to the Sacred Temple to watch Garlic, his father.
• Chaya waited three days as the human Kami chose the young Namekian over Garlic for the position of Kami.
• Garlic threatened to return and left the Sacred Temple, but Garlic Jr. arrived, declaring that he would claim the position for his father.

Chaya confronted Garlic Jr., who revealed that he had come from a small world he created three hundred years in the future and was Garlic’s son. Chaya killed Garlic Jr. and Garlic, then urged the human Kami to protect Earth without relying on blind mercy.

• Garlic Jr. revealed to Garlic that he was his son from three hundred years in the future and that he had created the world around them.
• Chaya demanded to know how Garlic Jr. made the fragment world, then revealed that he had come to hunt him down and identified Towa as the source of the Time-Space Crystal.
• Chaya struck Garlic Jr., who transformed and attacked, but Chaya tore off his arm and destroyed him by collapsing space around him.
• Chaya killed Garlic with an energy beam before Garlic could escape the Sacred Temple.
• Chaya told the human Kami to train the young Namekian and explained that a Kami did not need to be blindly merciful; the human Kami accepted his advice.

After Garlic Jr.’s death, Chaya prepared to leave the Fragment World, but Chronoa warned him that Towa was approaching. Towa appeared, threatened Chaya, and vanished, leaving Chronoa alarmed that the red crystal could make creating Fragment Worlds easy.

• Chaya bid Kami and Mr. Popo farewell, then asked Chronoa to check for other abnormalities in the world.
• Chronoa warned Chaya that Towa was heading toward the Fragment World and explained her plan with Mira to revive Demigra.
• Chaya sensed Towa and opened a spatial rift, through which Towa emerged.
• Towa called Chaya Chronoa’s helper, threatened to kill him, and vanished using an obscure ability.
• Chronoa told Chaya that Towa was the Psionic Sorceress and had created Mira, an Android who wielded time-space power.
• Chronoa feared that Towa could use the red crystal to create more Fragment Worlds and help Demigra revive.

Chaya returned from Earth's Demon Realm, while Selyne and Myers lured the reborn Piccolo into witnessing their overwhelming power. Piccolo found a pouch containing a power-boosting fruit and beans, and believed he could now defeat Son Goku.

• Chaya used the Time Ring to return to Earth's Demon Realm, then left for his seaside home after passing through the stone gate.
• Selyne and Myers staged a fierce battle over the Cloud Marsh Bete Highlands to draw out King Piccolo.
• Piccolo watched their fight and realized their power was far beyond his own, weakening his confidence in ruling the world.
• After Selyne and Myers left, Piccolo found a pouch containing a red fruit and shriveled green beans.
• Piccolo ate the fruit, gained several times his strength, and declared that he could now defeat Son Goku.

Chaya discussed Towa’s interest in him with Selyne and Myers, while Mr. Satan and Yajirobe continued training under Korin. After a year, Yajirobe earned passage to the Sacred Temple, and Bardock prepared to leave Son Goku and Bulma before the World Martial Arts Tournament.

• Chaya told Selyne and Myers about encountering Towa in a Fragment World, and Selyne advised him to be careful.
• Korin gave up teaching Mr. Satan after a year, but awarded Yajirobe bells that qualified him to train at the Sacred Temple.
• Bardock told Son Goku that he would leave and reminded him that his battle power of 1,600 was still too low.
• Bardock urged Son Goku to do well in the upcoming World Martial Arts Tournament, and Son Goku vowed to win the championship.
• Bardock asked Bulma to look after Son Goku, leaving her embarrassed and prompting Son Goku to wonder if she was sick.

Son Goku and Bulma grew closer and agreed to live together, then arrived at the twenty-third World Martial Arts Tournament, where their relationship and Goku’s grown-up appearance surprised Master Roshi and the others. Bulma became confused when Chaya and his companions called Goku “Kakarot.”

• Bulma asked Son Goku to live with her in West City, and he agreed before promising to win the tournament.
• Krillin, Yamcha, and Chi-Chi completed three years of training at the Sacred Temple, while Blonde Launch decided not to compete.
• Chaya told Launch that Son Goku, Krillin, Yamcha, and Chi-Chi had grown stronger, and that King Piccolo would enter the tournament.
• At the rainy tournament venue, Master Roshi and Hao Siqi waited for the others until Oolong and Puar arrived, followed by Bulma and Son Goku.
• Son Goku revealed himself to Master Roshi and the others, and Bulma announced that he was her boyfriend and that they planned to marry.
• Chaya congratulated Son Goku and Bulma while calling Son Goku “Kakarot,” leaving Bulma wondering why Chaya and his companions knew his Saiyan name.

Son Goku and his friends gathered in time to register for the World Martial Arts Tournament, which was set to begin the next morning. As the group settled in for the night, Piccolo saved pedestrians from falling debris and left.

• Son Goku told Myers that Kami had removed his tail, then chatted with Master Roshi about his training under Kami and Mr. Popo.
• With registration about to close, Son Goku sensed Krillin, Yamcha, and Chi-Chi approaching, and the three arrived just in time to register.
• Yamcha challenged Son Goku to a match at the tournament, while Chi-Chi thanked Chaya for helping her in the Demon Realm.
• The group arranged rooms at an inn, and Chaya spent the night with Selyne and Myers as a storm raged outside.
• Piccolo destroyed falling clock-tower debris with a Ki blast, saving pedestrians before walking away.

The World Martial Arts Tournament preliminaries ended with Son Goku, Piccolo, Krillin, Yamcha, Chi-Chi, Tianxing, Yajirobe, and Mechanical Tao Pai Pai advancing to the top eight. Piccolo defeated Krillin and recognized Selyne and Myers in the stands, leaving him shaken by memories of their past encounter.

• Son Goku warned his friends that the cloaked Piccolo was the reborn King Piccolo and far stronger than the original.
• Son Goku defeated King Chappa with one chop, while Chi-Chi easily won her preliminary match.
• The top eight drew their afternoon matchups, and Piccolo defeated Krillin before Yamcha beat Tianxing.
• Piccolo spotted Selyne and Myers in the stands and reacted with shock as memories of them returned.

Piccolo worried that Chaya, Selyne, and Myers could interfere with his plans, while Bulma remained confident that Son Goku would defeat him. Chi-Chi defeated Yajirobe in the tournament, and the old Kami became convinced she was the right successor to Kami.

• Piccolo saw Chaya, Selyne, and Myers and feared their presence could thwart his plans, though he vowed inwardly to surpass them.
• Bulma recognized King Piccolo but said she was not afraid because Son Goku would defeat him again.
• Yamcha defeated the old Kami, and the tournament announced Chi-Chi's match against Yajirobe.
• Krillin and Yamcha recognized that Yajirobe's strength and sharp Ki came from his skill as a swordsman.
• Chi-Chi entered a serene state of mind and fought Yajirobe, whose strength was restricted by the tournament rules.
• Yajirobe admitted defeat and left the stage, while the old Kami decided Chi-Chi was the best choice to succeed him.

Son Goku defeated Mechanical Tao Pai Pai and advanced through the tournament to face Piccolo in the final. Their clash began with such speed and power that the audience could barely follow the fight.

• Son Goku knocked Mechanical Tao Pai Pai unconscious after Tao Pai Pai used weapons, and the host declared Son Goku the winner.
• Piccolo defeated Yamcha in the semifinal without killing him, while Son Goku defeated Chi-Chi in the other semifinal.
• Son Goku and Piccolo faced each other in the final, and Piccolo vowed to kill Goku and announce King Piccolo's return.
• Son Goku and Piccolo unleashed their full power and fought at a speed that spectators could barely see.
• The host ordered the camera crew to record the fight, while spectators compared the combat to scenes from Galactic Record.