Chapter Summaries

Jing Yang, Gohan, Trunks, and Bulma examined S-Cell readings and speculated about their connection to Super Saiyan transformations and Son Goku's heart disease. Son Goku then contacted them from the Other World to describe meeting Akira of the Crane School.

• Jing Yang wondered whether Piccolo could defeat the future Androids, while Gohan insisted Piccolo would win.
• Gohan used Bulma's S Watch and transformed into a Super Saiyan as his rage level climbed, then steadied it to maintain control.
• Trunks tested his S Watch but had only 24% S-Cells, and Bulma suggested he needed to multiply them before anger could trigger a transformation.
• Jing Yang proposed that S-Cells might be mutated cardiac muscle cells, prompting Gohan to wonder whether they were connected to Son Goku's heart disease.
• Gohan speculated that higher S-Cell levels might enable stronger transformations, and Son Goku contacted them to report meeting Akira of the Crane School on Grand Kai's Planet.

After the crisis, Gohan and Trunks entered the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to train, while Jing Yang reflected on his Nen training and talked with Bulma about their world being a manga. The chapter left Jing Yang recounting the manga’s original story to Bulma, beginning just before he appeared.

• North Kai urged Son Goku to end the call, and Gohan invited Trunks to train in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
• Jing Yang possessed Gohan with his consent and entered the chamber with Trunks, but logged out after seeing its vast, harsh landscape.
• Jing Yang pondered how Manipulator training could expand his Nen abilities and whether he might sense his marks across different times and spaces.
• Bulma asked Jing Yang about Piccolo and the Androids, then learned that he came from a world where their lives were depicted in a manga.
• Bulma challenged Jing Yang to consider whether a higher world might exist above his own, and he affirmed that he was still himself.
• Jing Yang began telling Bulma the Dragon Ball manga’s original plot, starting before he had appeared.

Jing Yang recounted Dragon Ball’s later events and criticized Dragon Ball Super, while Bulma speculated that the future manga might only be a distorted projection of their world. Curious about Piccolo’s battle, Jing Yang took Bulma to Korin Tower, where they saw Piccolo gravely wounded in a water jar.

• Jing Yang told Bulma the events from Namek’s destruction through the end of the Dragon Ball manga, then vented about how Dragon Ball Super portrayed Goku and Vegeta.
• Bulma suggested that the sequel’s events might reflect a changed future or a distorted projection, and said she would not worry about it.
• Jing Yang and Bulma joked about his old hopes that Bulma and Goku would become a couple, then he considered whether Dragon Ball manga existed in their worlds.
• Jing Yang took Bulma to Korin Tower to use the white cat’s water jar to watch Piccolo’s fight.
• Jing Yang and Bulma saw Piccolo’s body severed at the waist, with his upper half lying apart from his lower half.

Jing Yang, Bulma, and Korin watched Piccolo battle Android 17 and Android 18 through the water in the vat. Piccolo crippled both Androids and killed Android 18, but the image vanished when he looked toward the watchers.

• Piccolo regrew his upper body without a head, seized Android 18, and distracted Android 17 long enough to fire a Makankosappo at him while self-destructing.
• The explosion destroyed Piccolo’s headless body and badly injured Android 18, while Piccolo’s blast shattered Android 17’s left arm.
• Android 17 attacked Piccolo with energy blasts, then fled, leaving Android 18 behind.
• Piccolo regenerated his lower body, caught his breath, and pierced Android 18’s heart with a Special Beam Cannon.
• Piccolo looked toward Jing Yang and Bulma, and the image in the water vanished.

Jing Yang used Nine Yang True Aura to grow more than five hundred Senzu Beans, then brought some to The Lookout, where Piccolo continued searching for Android 17. The chapter ended with Piccolo returning without finding him as Gohan and another figure emerged from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

• Jing Yang discovered that Korin's Senzu Bean seeds were floating in Underworld Water and used Nine Yang True Aura to ripen the entire jar into more than five hundred beans.
• Korin offered Jing Yang fifty Senzu Beans, while Bulma stored three hundred in a Capsule; Jing Yang took one to test whether it could travel with them.
• Jing Yang and Bulma returned to The Lookout, where Bulma gave Piccolo a Senzu Bean that restored him to peak condition.
• Piccolo resumed his search for Android 17 while Bulma set up an apartment, and Jing Yang stayed at The Lookout to await Gohan's return from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
• After a night of searching, Piccolo returned without finding Android 17, and two figures emerged from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Gohan and Trunks emerged from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber after a year of training, with Gohan having reached a calm, perfected Super Saiyan 2. Gohan located Android 17 and Cell in Dr. Gero’s secret laboratory and destroyed them both before returning to The Lookout.

• Gohan and Trunks returned from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber as Super Saiyans, and Gohan revealed his S-Cell count was 91%.
• Gohan explained that Android 17 had taken Android 18’s body and hidden in Dr. Gero’s secret laboratory, where Cell was waiting to absorb him.
• Gohan discovered that Cell had already absorbed Android 18 and was about to absorb Android 17.
• Gohan vanished from The Lookout and quickly destroyed Android 17 and Cell in the north.
• Gohan returned to The Lookout with traces of the battle on his clothes, while Trunks said the Androids had been no match for him.

After Gohan defeated the androids and Cell, Dende summoned the Dragon God to restore those killed by the android disasters. Jing Yang and Q Xiao Fen departed after he suggested a way to bring Son Goku back, leaving Gohan and Bulma to rebuild their world.

• Dende revealed that the new Dragon God was ready, and Gohan asked it to resurrect everyone who could still be brought back from the android disasters.
• The Dragon God resurrected Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and others, while Vegeta flew away after learning Gohan had defeated the androids.
• The Dragon God explained that Bulma's parents had reincarnated together, while Chi-Chi and the Ox King did not appear, leaving Gohan grieving their absence.
• Jing Yang suggested that Gohan wish for Son Goku's body first and then restore his soul to it, and Gohan was stunned by the idea.
• Bulma thanked Jing Yang and promised to prevent another apocalyptic world, then Q Xiao Fen used her Nen Abilities to take herself and Jing Yang away.

Xiao Fen’s Nen Ability took her and Jing Yang into a Dragon Ball world for what felt like thirty hours, though less than a second passed at home. After Jing Yang’s Nen beast made a talisman revealing the ability’s rules, Jing Yang crushed it to test the power himself.

• Xiao Fen’s black energy sphere became a butterfly mark on her forehead, and she explained that she and Jing Yang had spent hours in another world while Shizuku observed them pause for less than a second.
• Xiao Fen Conjured a real Flying Nimbus, which Leorio could not ride, and Jing Yang asked his Nen beast to make a talisman documenting her ability.
• The Butterfly Talisman showed that Xiao Fen could enter worlds in Jing Yang’s eyes, gain a random ability suited to a new Nen type, and return to Specialist when she used the power again.
• Xiao Fen’s Water Divination changed from Specialist to Conjurer, and she Conjured golden clouds.
• Jing Yang crushed the Butterfly Talisman to test whether he could use Xiao Fen’s ability himself.

Five months later, Jing Yang used Star Mark-bearing birds to monitor NGL and infiltrated its underground drug factory, destroying its equipment and killing the controlled soldiers. While preparing for the possible arrival of the Chimera Ant Queen, he encountered Netero on the coast and asked whether merfolk existed among humanoid demihuman races.

• A Star Mark-bearing bird watched children in an NGL village as part of Jing Yang’s surveillance of the region.
• Jing Yang sent a Rock Sparrow into NGL’s underground drug factory, where it marked guards and spread his control among the soldiers.
• Jing Yang’s controlled soldiers killed the factory manager, destroyed the drug-making equipment, and shot one another.
• Jing Yang stationed an oystercatcher on the coast to watch for the Chimera Ant Queen’s possible early arrival.
• Netero emerged from the sea near Jing Yang, who asked him whether merfolk existed among humanoid demihuman races.

Jing Yang challenged Netero to a sparring match with a hunting target as the stakes and managed to knock him out of the circle using a vacuum and a concealed punch. Exhausted, Jing Yang asked what he had won, and Netero offered two possible things for him to hunt.

• Netero explained that Jing Yang could ask the Phantom Beast Hunters about mermaids, then invited him to spar.
• Netero offered to find Jing Yang something to hunt if Jing Yang could force him out of a circle.
• Jing Yang attacked Netero with boosted strikes and a Finger Flick Divine Art, but Netero countered with the Hundred-Type Guanyin and advised him on Aura control.
• Jing Yang removed the air around them and struck Netero with a concealed punch through a Nen vortex, knocking him out of the circle.
• Jing Yang collapsed from exhaustion, and Netero said he knew of one possible target and would ask an old friend about the other.

Jing Yang chose to pursue Netero’s lead about a dangerous person outside Meteor City and waited for more information, while learning Shizuku was hunting an ancient-artifact thief. He encountered Pariston watching Komugi’s Gungi tournament, and the chapter ended when Pariston received a call from an unknown number.

• Jing Yang chose Netero’s other lead instead of the person in Meteor City, and Netero warned that Biscuit had never seen the person who broke her arm.
• Jing Yang checked the Ring of Jia and spoke with Shizuku, who said she was hunting an A-Class bounty criminal to win Ichikashi’s help making software.
• Jing Yang found Pariston watching coverage of Komugi’s Gungi final and learned that Pariston had deduced Jing Yang organized the tournament and its Green Card prize.
• Pariston received a phone call from an unknown number after Jing Yang left.

Jing Yang and his companions met Komugi after her Gungi tournament victory, and he observed the unusual Nen-like awareness she displayed while playing. He offered to teach her to develop her talent further and secretly attached a Flying Star Bubble to her neck.

• Xiao Zi captured a wanted criminal who tried to escape, and police arrived to take him into custody.
• Jing Yang led Shizuku, Xiao Fen, and Xiao Zi to meet Komugi in the tournament lounge.
• Komugi explained that she worried about moving abroad because she might have no one to play Gungi with, though her family welcomed the reward.
• Jing Yang played Komugi and noticed her Aura gathered around her head as she sensed the board without sight.
• Komugi described how she had learned to remember and mentally replay games, and Jing Yang and Shizuku suspected she had an En-like ability limited to the board.
• Jing Yang offered to help Komugi develop her Gungi talent and secretly attached a Flying Star Bubble to her neck.

Jing Yang arranged for Komugi to train against strong Gungi opponents, including the online Hacker Hunter Pe, who lost to her and agreed to create a Gungi AI. Pe arrived in a doll body for another game, while Jing Yang received an address from Netero.

• Jing Yang told Komugi he would teach her and arrange daily games against strong opponents, then Shizuku played her and lost.
• Shizuku connected Komugi to Pe, who played through her and conceded after a long match.
• Pe agreed to make a Gungi AI and revealed that she was Ichikashi, a woman and one of Greed Island's founders.
• Shizuku said she had agreed to join the online world only if she could no longer continue in the real one.
• A package arrived containing a Pe doll, which activated and sat down to challenge Komugi to another game.
• Jing Yang received a text from Netero containing an address.

Jing Yang and his companions investigated Netero’s cryptic address while Ichikashi faced Komugi in Gungi and discussed digital life. Ichikashi stayed with Komugi as Jing Yang, Shizuku, Xiao Fen, and Xiao Zi set out for Mt. Freur.

• Jing Yang explained that Netero had sent only the address Mt. Freur as a clue to the prize he had lost.
• Shizuku asked Ichikashi to look up Mt. Freur, and Ichikashi sent the information to their email while her puppet played Komugi at Gungi.
• Komugi quickly defeated Ichikashi’s support AI, and Ichikashi inferred that Komugi’s extraordinary skill came from a life-staking Nen vow.
• Jing Yang questioned Ichikashi about becoming digital, and Ichikashi described life in the online world as “Eternal Death.”
• Jing Yang arranged lodging for Komugi and left her with Ichikashi, then set off with Shizuku, Xiao Fen, and Xiao Zi for Mt. Freur.

Pariston arranged for Fourth Prince Tserriednich to use a Chimera Ant Queen to breed soldiers for the succession war. The Queen accepted his offer of human food in exchange for producing soldiers, while Jing Yang’s group traveled toward Mt. Freur.

• Pariston showed Tserriednich the captive Ant Queen and footage of how it had been created.
• Pariston recalled that Beyond had urged him to accelerate his plan and connect with Tserriednich, who needed Nen-using subordinates.
• Pariston explained that the Queen could produce specialized ants and that a device translated its brainwaves.
• Tserriednich offered the Queen an unlimited supply of humans if it produced soldiers according to his requirements.
• Tserriednich fed the Queen a prisoner’s severed arms, and the Queen agreed to eat twenty humans each day.
• Jing Yang’s group traveled by airship toward Mt. Freur.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, Xiao Fen, and Xiao Zi ventured into Mt. Freur’s desert to investigate the mountain, where they encountered Corpse Wolves and quicksand that seemed to move under its own power. They escaped the first attack on Xiao Zi, but a larger swarm of Corpse Wolves ambushed them, leaving the group airborne on an expanding Golden Cloud.

• Jing Yang and Shizuku studied reports about Mt. Freur before the group landed near its southern foothills and set out across the desert.
• Xiao Zi slipped toward a quicksand vortex, but Xiao Fen rescued her on the Golden Cloud, and Shizuku scattered an attacking Corpse Wolf with her Chainsaw.
• The group traveled more than ten kilometers beyond the tourism warning line, where a huge wave of sand rushed at Jing Yang and Shizuku and the ground opened into a quicksand vortex.
• Jing Yang used his Aura to lift himself and Shizuku above the quicksand as Corpse Wolves emerged and attacked them.
• Xiao Zi pulled Jing Yang and Shizuku onto the Golden Cloud, and Jing Yang fed his Nen through the Nen-Drinking Sword into Xiao Fen to enlarge the cloud.

Jing Yang and his companions crossed the quicksand desert toward Mt. Freur, where he suspected the mountain itself might be alive. As they camped in a shifting forest near its foot, Jing Yang sensed trees changing positions within his En.

• Jing Yang split a Corpse Giant Wolf in two, healed it with a Star Mark, and drove off the attacking Corpse Wolves with Spiral Rising Sun.
• Jing Yang and his companions wondered whether Mt. Freur was alive or controlled by a powerful Nen ability as a Corpse Giant Wolf followed their Golden Cloud inland.
• Jing Yang used his eighty-meter En to search the barren mountain terrain while Shizuku and the others examined the bone wolf.
• The group traveled toward the volcanic summit, paused for a picnic, and Xiao Zi asked to join Jing Yang's organization.
• Jing Yang called for them to camp for the night after realizing they had not gotten closer to the summit, and he sensed trees shifting within his En.

Jing Yang and his companions discovered that a hidden rabbit-eared figure was changing the mountain to keep them from reaching its summit. After they charged through its defenses, Jing Yang and the others used Dragon Fist to pursue it, while it begged them not to hit it.

• The Taoist Nun investigated the moving trees but found that her Nen-Drinking Sword could draw no aura from them.
• Xiao Zi and Xiao Fen killed a Corpse Wolf, and the group continued toward the mountain summit the next morning.
• The group realized the mountain path was shifting, and a rabbit-eared figure emerged from the rock to protest when they reached the summit.
• Jing Yang gave Dragon Fist talismans to Shizuku and Xiao Fen, then Xiao Fen rode the Golden Cloud through the terrain’s attempts to block their ascent.
• Jing Yang struck the rabbit-eared figure with a Dragon Fist talisman and discovered that the ability could teleport him to it.
• Shizuku, Xiao Zi, and Xiao Fen followed Jing Yang with Dragon Fist, and the rabbit-eared figure pleaded with them not to hit it.

Jing Yang and his companions caught A Luo after she attacked them and tried to escape, then questioned her about her ability to merge with the natural environment. A Luo revealed that others were with her and that the place rejected all outsiders, and Jing Yang asked whether she knew Netero.

• A Luo warned Jing Yang not to hit her, but he marked her ear with Dragon Fist after she tried to flee.
• A Luo vanished into the rocky floor, and Jing Yang used the mark to reveal and control her.
• Jing Yang introduced himself and his companions, then asked A Luo why she had driven them away and how her ability worked.
• A Luo said the place did not welcome humans or anyone else, and explained that she could not describe how her ability worked.
• A Luo began to reveal that others were with her before Jing Yang asked whether she had heard of Netero.

Jing Yang and his companions followed A Luo to meet Gourmet Hunter Linne, who lived atop a colossal skull submerged in a volcanic crater. Linne agreed to leave with them the next morning, while Jing Yang remained uncertain about the hunt Netero had sent them to undertake.

• A Luo told Jing Yang that her Grandma was Netero’s old friend, then the Star Mark compelled her to lead the group through the mountains.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, Xiao Fen, and Xiao Zi discovered Linne standing on the skull of a gigantic beast in a lava-filled crater.
• Linne’s overwhelming aura nearly incapacitated Xiao Zi and Xiao Fen, so Jing Yang and Shizuku went ahead to meet her.
• Jing Yang asked whether the skull came from the Dark Continent, and Linne described her long-standing curiosity about how to turn enormous creatures into food.
• Linne told Jing Yang and Shizuku to rest and leave with her the next morning; that night, the Moon Mark in Jing Yang’s Ring of Jia sensed a telepathic communication request from a member.