Chapter Summaries

At Son Gohan and Videl’s wedding, Vegeta challenged Son Goku to a long-awaited battle, confident that his training had made him stronger. They fought evenly in the Cloud Marsh Bete Highlands, where Kusu and Selyne judged Vegeta’s realm superior as Son Gohan wondered whether Vegeta had surpassed his father.

• Videl and Son Gohan celebrated their wedding with their friends and family, while Chaya congratulated them and teased them about starting a family.
• Vegeta challenged Son Goku to a match, and Piccolo suggested they fight at the sparsely populated Cloud Marsh Bete Highlands.
• Kusu transported the group to the highlands, where the guests speculated about who would win.
• Son Goku transformed into Super Saiyan 3, while Vegeta entered a distinctive Super Saiyan 2 state infused with his understanding of realms.
• Son Goku and Vegeta launched into a fierce, evenly matched battle, and Kusu and Selyne said Vegeta was superior in terms of realm.
• Son Gohan asked whether Vegeta was stronger than his dad.

Vegeta and Son Goku fought through an exhausting battle, with Chaya believing Vegeta had the edge because he could conserve his strength better. They unleashed their finishing attacks, and Kusu shielded Earth as the blasts collided.

• Chaya told Grandpa Gohan that Vegeta and Son Goku were evenly matched but thought Vegeta was more likely to win through greater endurance.
• Vegeta pressed his advantage as both fighters grew exhausted, while Kusu used divine power to help the spectators withstand the battle's pressure.
• Chaya and Kusu sensed that the fight was nearing its end as Vegeta and Son Goku prepared their strongest attacks.
• Vegeta fired a Final Flash, and Son Goku answered with a Kamehameha, causing their energy waves to collide.
• Kusu struck the void with her divine staff and shielded Earth from the destructive collision.

Son Goku and Vegeta ended their devastating battle with Vegeta victorious, and Kusu restored the Cloud Marsh Bete Highlands. Afterward, their friends celebrated at a banquet, where Caulifla got drunk and clung to Xia Qing.

• Krillin and the others searched the devastated highlands for Son Goku and Vegeta while Chaya asked Kusu to restore the land.
• Krillin and the others found an exhausted Son Goku and Vegeta, and Vegeta declared that he had won.
• Bulma gave Son Goku a Senzu Bean, and he congratulated Vegeta on defeating him with Super Saiyan 2.
• Son Goku and Vegeta returned to Mount Paozu to rest before the evening banquet, where Grandpa Gohan and Videl received their guests' congratulations.
• Caulifla got drunk at the banquet, so Chaya told Xia Qing to take her home.
• Caulifla clung to Xia Qing in bed and bit his arm while mumbling about catching a dinosaur.

After Caulifla discovered that she and Xia Qing had slept together, Xia Qing agreed to take responsibility for her, and Caulifla insisted that Kale be included. Back on Red Mountain Star, their family accepted the arrangement and began planning a wedding while deciding that Kale would train with Mephia.

• Caulifla woke beside Xia Qing, learned what had happened the previous night, and blushed when she realized they had slept together.
• Kale saw Caulifla and Xia Qing together, became upset, and awakened the power of a Legendary Super Saiyan before Caulifla calmed her.
• Xia Qing promised to take care of Caulifla, and Caulifla agreed while insisting that Kale stay with them too.
• Xia Qing told Chaya and the others what had happened after returning to Red Mountain Star, and Chaya agreed to hold a wedding for them.
• Selyne suggested teaching Caulifla household duties, but Chaya arranged for Kale to train with Mephia instead, and Mephia eagerly tried to get Kale to transform.

After marrying Caulifla, Xia Qing traveled with her and Kale to Universe 6 to visit her family on Planet Sadala. They reunited with Cabba, learned that Renso had retired because of a foot ailment, and set off to find him.

• Xia Qing, Caulifla, and Kale traveled to Universe 6 with Kusu's help, then flew by spaceship toward Planet Sadala.
• Caulifla and Kale arrived on Planet Sadala and were recognized by Cabba, who had once been Caulifla's classmate.
• Caulifla introduced Xia Qing as her husband, surprising Cabba and prompting him to ask about their relationship.
• Caulifla grabbed Cabba when he revealed that Renso had left the Rase Defense Force, then learned that Renso had retired because of a foot ailment.
• Cabba told them Renso lived in a northern canyon, and Caulifla, Kale, and Xia Qing flew off to find him.

Chaya cultivated near the sun on Red Mountain Star and transformed into a fourth-level Divine Realm Time God, reaching power equivalent to an angel. After examining the deeper nature of his Extinction ability, he resumed training to refine Annihilation.

• Chaya absorbed solar energy as his dark golden energy origin and body transformed with purple-gold radiance.
• Chaya allowed the Time Realm’s unifying rule to transform him, becoming unique across all heavens and reaching the fourth level of the Divine Realm.
• Chaya discovered that his Extinction ability could erase an enemy along with their past and considered it a path toward greater power.
• Chaya judged Destroyer God energy less advanced than Extinction and returned to refining his Annihilation technique.

After nearly thirty years of cultivation, Selyne and Myers broke into the Realm of Gods and tested their new Super Saiyan God forms against Android 18. When Chaya returned, he congratulated them and urged them to deepen their realms rather than rush for strength.

• Selyne and Myers broke through to the Realm of Gods on Red Mountain Star, surpassing ordinary Super Saiyan Gods in their first-level power.
• Selyne and Myers fought Android 18 in space, where her tireless body helped her withstand their attacks and defeat them both.
• Android 18 taught Selyne and Myers the knowledge King of Universe had left her, and the three trained together in the void for more than two months.
• Chaya returned and learned that Selyne and Myers had become Super Saiyan Gods, while Myers showed him her new form.
• Chaya cautioned Selyne and Myers to cultivate their realms patiently, and Selyne assured him they would study Android 18's knowledge before pursuing further breakthroughs.

After returning to Red Mountain Star, Chaya and his companions rested and traveled until Kusu returned from Universe 6 and told him about a rumored mortal stronger than a God of Destruction. Chaya checked on Universe 10’s trainees, then began selecting planets to destroy as part of his duties, while Wopuni continued training on Creation Star.

• Chaya and his companions toured Meshan Star and other planets across the Milky Way while taking a break from training.
• Kusu praised Chaya for reaching the fourth level of the Divine Realm and told him rumors of a mortal warrior stronger than a God of Destruction.
• Kusu reported that Wopuni had raised his battle power from 5.5 billion to 17 billion, while Rubalt had reached 3.4 billion.
• Chaya asked Kusu to identify planets in Universe 10 that needed to be destroyed, and she found 135 planets breeding negative energy.
• Wopuni trained alone in the freezing landscape on the 287th level of Creation Star.

Wopuni reached the 288th level of Creation Star, where Chaya praised his progress and granted him leave to visit his family. Chaya then joined Kusu to carry out their next duty on Sandmist Planet, where dark mages had disrupted the universe's order.

• After training on Creation Star for more than six years, Wopuni entered the 288th level and endured its scorching desert trial.
• Chaya met Wopuni, commended his growth, and granted him leave to reunite with his family.
• Chaya instructed Kusu to take Wopuni back to his home planet, then visited the other warriors training on Creation Star.
• Chaya told Kusu to give the trainees appropriate leave and to treat their cultivation as a long-term effort.
• Kusu selected Sandmist Planet as their next target because its dark mages had defied the universe's rules and disrupted the order between yin and yang.
• Chaya and Kusu departed Creation Star to carry out their God of Destruction duties on Sandmist Planet.

Chaya and Kusu confronted the dark mage Dadas, whose soul-devouring rule had spread across more than a dozen star regions. After Chaya effortlessly nullified Dadas’s attack, he declared that Dadas’s actions threatened universal order and granted him destruction.

• Dadas inspected life-bearing planets given to him by wealthy elites and agreed to continue receiving selected souls through their slave trade.
• Kusu told Chaya that Dadas had originated in the Blood River of Other World, devoured souls, killed a King Kai, and expanded his reach across Sandmist Planet’s surrounding regions.
• Chaya and Kusu blasted open Dadas’s castle gates and entered, provoking the mage with Chaya’s dismissive judgment of his strength.
• Dadas attacked Chaya, but Chaya blew the destructive magic away with a gentle breath, frightening Dadas and the wealthy elites.
• Kusu identified Chaya as the God of Destruction, and Chaya raised his palm to destroy Dadas for threatening the universe’s order.

Chaya erased Dadas and destroyed Sandmist Planet, then traveled with Kusu to destroy other planets designated for destruction. After destroying 135 planets, he returned to the God of Destruction Realm and began refining his Annihilation technique.

• Chaya used God of Destruction energy to erase Dadas and learned from Kusu that fleeing merchants would not escape.
• Chaya split Sandmist Planet apart, watched its inhabitants perish in the lava, and erased the planet from existence.
• Chaya and Kusu traveled to Tudesko Planet and destroyed it, then continued erasing planets selected by Kusu.
• Chaya completed his mission after destroying 135 planets and returned to the God of Destruction Realm.
• Chaya spent three days reflecting by the lake, then began cultivating and incorporated God of Destruction energy into his Annihilation technique.

After waking from a seven-year sleep, Beerus learned about Chaya’s rise and the Dark Angels’ defeat, then went to Red Mountain Star to search for the Super Saiyan God from the Oracle Fish’s prophecy. Beerus and Whis headed for North Kai Planet to find Kakarot, while Selyne and Myers considered following them to Earth.

• Whis woke Beerus and reminded him of the prophecy that he would meet a formidable rival called the Super Saiyan God.
• Whis told Beerus that Chaya had become Universe 10’s God of Destruction, received a full portion of God of Destruction energy, and humiliated Quitela.
• Beerus and Whis traveled to Red Mountain Star, where Selyne said Kakarot and Vegeta were powerful Saiyans but still far from the divine realm.
• Whis located Kakarot on North Kai Planet and Vegeta on Earth, prompting Beerus to head for Kakarot and then Earth.
• After Beerus and Whis departed, Selyne suggested that she and Myers go to Earth because the Oracle Fish’s prophecy might come true.

Chaya returned from Universe 10 and explained how the Super Saiyan God transformation could be achieved, prompting Selyne and the others to travel to Earth and observe. Meanwhile, Beerus headed for North Kai Planet, where North Kai recognized the approaching God of Destruction and panicked.

• Chaya returned with Kusu and told Selyne and the others that six Super Saiyans could create a Super Saiyan God by combining their power.
• Selyne, Myers, Android 18, and Launch set off for Earth with Kusu to see whether Kakarot and the others would transform.
• Son Goku trained on North Kai Planet, then prepared to leave early to attend Bulma's birthday.
• North Kai sensed someone approaching his planet and saw that it was God of Destruction Beerus.
• North Kai panicked at Beerus's arrival and wondered why the God of Destruction had come to the North Galaxy again.

Beerus and Whis arrived on North Kai Planet seeking Kakarot, whom Beerus hoped would be the Super Saiyan God. After Son Goku fought Beerus in Super Saiyan 3 and was easily defeated, Beerus left for Earth to seek out the Saiyans there.

• North Kai warned Son Goku to show respect when Beerus arrived with Whis.
• Whis explained that Beerus had come looking for Kakarot, and Son Goku greeted them.
• Beerus demanded that Son Goku reveal his strongest transformation, so Son Goku turned Super Saiyan 3 and challenged him.
• Beerus effortlessly deflected Son Goku's attacks, struck him down, and declared the fight boring because Son Goku was not a Super Saiyan God.
• Beerus and Whis departed for Earth, while North Kai helped the injured Son Goku up.

After Beerus easily defeated Son Goku, Goku learned that the God of Destruction was heading to Earth in search of Vegeta and hurried back to Bulma’s birthday party to warn everyone. Beerus and Whis arrived above the cruise ship, where Beerus threatened to destroy Earth if he could not find the Super Saiyan God.

• North Kai warned Son Goku that Beerus was a terrifying, capricious God of Destruction, and Goku told him that the Supreme Kai had once called Chaya a God of Destruction too.
• Son Goku used Instant Transmission to leave North Kai Planet and return to Bulma’s birthday party on a cruise ship.
• Son Goku told Bulma and Vegeta that Beerus had defeated him in two moves and was coming to Earth to find Vegeta and the Super Saiyan God.
• Vegeta wondered whether the Super Saiyan God was a state of the Realm of Gods and considered what Beerus and Whis’s identities might mean.
• Beerus and Whis arrived above the cruise ship, and Beerus said he would destroy Earth if he could not find the Super Saiyan God.

Beerus arrived with Whis and threatened to destroy Earth when no one could identify a Super Saiyan God. Chaya stopped Beerus’s attack and confronted him as another God of Destruction, leaving their two groups facing off amid a clash of divine power.

• Vegeta recognized Beerus as the God of Destruction who had humiliated him and his father thirty-nine years earlier.
• Beerus demanded to see a Super Saiyan God and threatened to erase Earth when Vegeta and the others could not tell him what one was.
• Beerus launched his Erasure at Earth, but an unseen silver-white energy neutralized it before it reached the sea.
• Chaya arrived with Kusu and explained that Kusu was the angel of Universe 10.
• Chaya and Beerus faced each other as equals while Kusu and Whis took positions behind them, and their divine auras stirred a planet-wide storm.

Chaya and Beerus acknowledged Chaya’s rise to the fourth level of the Realm of Gods, and Selyne explained how Saiyans could attain Super Saiyan God power through fusion. Son Goku chose the shortcut and transformed, while Vegeta committed to pursuing the God-Refinement Path.

• Beerus recognized that Chaya had reached the fourth level of the Realm of Gods and asked him to spar, while agreeing to spare Earth.
• Selyne transformed into a Super Saiyan God and explained that six Saiyans or six Super Saiyans could combine their power to create god forms.
• Chaya warned Vegeta that a Super Saiyan God created through fusion would have less-pure power and could make future cultivation harder.
• Son Goku gathered the other Saiyans to use the fusion method, while Vegeta decided to continue along the God-Refinement Path.
• Vegeta contributed energy, and Son Goku transformed into a crimson-haired Super Saiyan God as Chaya watched without interfering.

Son Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan God and challenged Beerus, but Beerus overwhelmed him until Goku’s power revived and he returned to the fight. The battle resumed in space as Beerus began to think Goku might become the rival foretold in his prophecy.

• Vegeta realized Chaya’s red hair and silver eyes signified a realm beyond Son Goku’s Super Saiyan God state, and he resolved to keep training toward that level.
• Son Goku challenged Beerus, who tested him while holding back, and Chaya judged that Goku possessed a godly body but had not truly reached the first level of the God Realm.
• Son Goku’s Super Saiyan God power ran low, and Beerus struck him back into his normal form, leaving him falling from the sky.
• After Beerus dismissed Goku as a disappointing rival, Goku’s hair flared with renewed radiance, and he stopped falling and challenged Beerus again.
• Beerus became intrigued by Goku’s renewed strength, and the two resumed their battle in the vast universe.

Son Goku reached the divine realm during his battle with Beerus, though Beerus still defeated him and revealed how far he stood from the universe’s strongest fighters. After Bulma’s birthday party, Vegeta and Son Goku received permission to train in the God of Destruction Realm.

• Selyne, Myers, and Chaya recognized that Son Goku had entered the divine realm, while Chaya saw that Vegeta remained committed to his own path.
• Son Goku and Beerus fought in space until their battle ended in a fierce collision, with Beerus victorious and impressed by Son Goku’s fighting spirit.
• Beerus explained that powerful beings across the twelve universes surpassed Son Goku, naming Selyne, Myers, and Lazuli as stronger fighters in Universe 7.
• Son Goku, Beerus, Whis, and the others descended to Bulma’s cruise ship, where the birthday party began and Beerus and Whis eagerly ate Earth’s food.
• Vegeta asked Kusu to guide his training, then approached Whis; Chaya told Selyne that Vegeta would follow a different path and discussed the others’ progress toward the second level of the divine realm.
• After Bulma’s party ended, Whis agreed to let Vegeta train in the God of Destruction Realm, and Beerus gave Son Goku the same permission.

Beerus challenged Chaya to gauge the gap between them, while Whis and Kusu explained that Chaya had reached the fourth level of the God Realm and Beerus was at the third. As the two prepared to fight, Son Goku and Vegeta learned about the divine power gap and resolved to keep improving.

• Whis brought Son Goku and Vegeta to the God of Destruction Realm and subjected them to divine pressure as training.
• Beerus challenged Chaya, insisting that he wanted to test their strength and would train seriously afterward.
• Whis and Kusu warned that Chaya was far stronger than Beerus, who was at the third level of the God Realm while Chaya was at the fourth.
• Chaya and Beerus rose into the sky to face off as Son Goku and Vegeta watched.
• Whis explained the levels of the God Realm, and Vegeta responded to the gap by kindling his determination to catch up.