Chapter Summaries

Hao Shuai defeated Master Roshi to win the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament, then asked Goku to collect the Dragon Balls for him. Goku agreed and began a new journey with the Dragon Radar and Flying Nimbus.

• Hao Shuai survived Master Roshi’s Kamehameha, and Master Roshi forfeited after recognizing he could not win.
• The host declared Hao Shuai the tournament champion, and Hao Shuai celebrated with Bulma, Goku, and the others over a feast.
• Master Roshi and Krillin declined Hao Shuai’s invitation to visit West City, while Goku decided to search for his grandfather’s four-star Dragon Ball.
• Hao Shuai asked Goku to collect the Dragon Balls so he could use them, and Goku agreed to let him have them first.
• Hao Shuai suggested Goku treat the search as training, and Goku set off on the Flying Nimbus with the Dragon Radar.

Hao Shuai hunted Kiran in the Dragon Ball world, brought the meat back to Linjiang Palace, and held a lavish banquet for his wives and ministers. After reviewing the state of his southern territories, he ended the chapter enjoying palace life and joking that he had forgotten Shu.

• Hao Shuai gave Master Roshi a laptop of martial arts study materials before returning to West City with Bulma.
• Hao Shuai followed a paper crane to a Kiran lake, found the species' nesting grounds, and killed half the adult males while sparing the young.
• Hao Shuai returned to Linjiang Palace with dozens of Kiran carcasses and ordered the kitchens to prepare a banquet for his wives and Yangzhou officials.
• Hao Shuai reviewed memorials and learned that his forces still controlled the lands south of the Yangtze River as they suppressed enemies and restored the region.
• Hao Shuai welcomed his wives and ministers to a Kiran feast in the imperial garden and remarked that palace life made him forget Shu.

Hao Shuai secured a Dragon Ball and a vast pirate treasure from an underwater cave, then returned to Turtle House and offered Master Roshi and Launch a share. Master Roshi accepted a few valuables as tuition for helping Hao Shuai with his training questions.

• Hao Shuai took Bulma’s Dragon Radar and flew to Master Roshi’s Turtle House, where he met Launch and said he would return shortly.
• Hao Shuai piloted a submarine to the pirates’ underwater base, crushed its patrol robot with telekinesis, and navigated to the treasure cave.
• Hao Shuai smashed the Thousand-Armed Buddha statue, uncovered a hidden chamber full of treasure, and collected the riches and Dragon Ball from the well.
• Hao Shuai searched the pirate base for anything else valuable, then teleported back to Turtle House with the treasure.
• Hao Shuai offered Master Roshi and Launch valuables from the treasure chest, and Master Roshi accepted some gold bars and jewels as tuition.

Hao Shuai visited Bulma and discovered that she and her father had already made Transformium and were studying the AllSpark. He shared more technologies with Bulma and gave her pills that could extend her parents’ lives to five thousand years.

• Hao Shuai thanked Launch with a necklace, then asked Master Roshi about cultivation before leaving Turtle House after dinner.
• Hao Shuai gave Bulma a huge diamond and learned that she and her father had finished making Transformium and were studying the AllSpark.
• Hao Shuai offered Bulma several technologies from other worlds and examined the Shrink Bracelet she had developed.
• Hao Shuai explained why Bulma and her father’s inventions were more valuable to him than Dr. Gero’s androids.
• Hao Shuai gave Bulma two pills that could let her parents live for five thousand years.

Hao Shuai visited Bora and Upa before climbing Korin Tower to ask Senzu Bean why he could not cultivate ki. Senzu Bean explained that Hao Shuai’s multiple kinds of energy were the reason.

• Hao Shuai gave Bulma an Elixir of Immortality for her parents and decided to head to Korin Tower while Goku dealt with the Red Ribbon Army.
• Hao Shuai arrived at Bora and Upa’s camp, shared a meal with them, and sparred with Bora.
• Hao Shuai was shocked that Bora had reached the Dan Jin stage after a year of training, then gave him advice before heading up Korin Tower.
• Hao Shuai offered Senzu Bean fresh fish and asked why he had never been able to cultivate ki.
• Senzu Bean said Hao Shuai could not cultivate ki because he had multiple kinds of energy inside him.

Hao Shuai asked Senzu Bean to seal his true essence and magical power so he could learn to sense and cultivate ki. After receiving the seal, he began climbing Korin Tower in a weighted uniform, determined to keep training despite exhaustion.

• Hao Shuai realized his true essence and magical power absorbed ki into his meridians and sea of consciousness instead of letting it enter his cells.
• Hao Shuai asked Senzu Bean to seal his power, and Senzu Bean tapped his dantians after Hao Shuai restrained the energy within them.
• Hao Shuai adjusted to his weakened state, then decided to begin again with basic physical training by climbing Korin Tower.
• Hao Shuai gave Senzu Bean fresh fish and returned to the Paradise Space World before starting his training.
• Hao Shuai climbed down Korin Tower wearing a fifty-kilogram uniform, resisting the urge to use Teleportation or a Senzu Bean when exhaustion set in.

Hao Shuai built up his ki through repeated climbs of Korin Tower, then intensified his training in the Gravity Room. After half a month, a volcanic eruption at Mount Kanai interrupted his training with Bora and Upa.

• Hao Shuai rested for eleven or twelve hours after climbing down Korin Tower, then climbed back up and discovered he had begun generating ki.
• Senzu Bean explained how ki worked and taught Hao Shuai to control and release it as he continued training on the tower.
• Hao Shuai used Senzu Beans to recover and kept training until climbing Korin Tower stopped improving his abilities, then switched to the Gravity Room.
• After half a month of intense Gravity Room training, Hao Shuai taught Bora and Upa National Martial Arts when Mount Kanai erupted.
• Bora called the eruption an ill omen, and Hao Shuai corrected him that it was a volcanic eruption.

Hao Shuai found the Four-Star Dragon Ball after a volcanic eruption and helped Bora defeat the Red Ribbon Army. Goku arrived with three Dragon Balls, and Hao Shuai sent him to seek the remaining ones while revealing that Master Mutaito had once climbed Korin Tower.

• Hao Shuai used a telekinetic barrier to protect Bora and Upa from the volcanic eruption, then picked up the Four-Star Dragon Ball.
• Hao Shuai warned Bora that the Red Ribbon Army had arrived, and Bora swiftly wiped out their helicopters and soldiers.
• Hao Shuai and Bora prepared roast tiger and grilled fish before Goku arrived with three Dragon Balls.
• Hao Shuai lent Goku the Four-Star Dragon Ball and suggested he find the sixth Dragon Ball before asking Master Mutaito about the last one.
• Bora explained Korin Tower to Goku, and Hao Shuai revealed that Master Mutaito had climbed it three hundred years earlier and received the Flying Nimbus.

Mercenary Tao arrived to take Goku’s Dragon Balls, but Hao Shuai intervened after Goku was outmatched. Hao Shuai defeated Mercenary Tao and dragged him into the woods, while Goku climbed Korin Tower to seek the Super Holy Water.

• Mercenary Tao arrived at Korin Tower and announced that he had come for Goku, prompting Goku to challenge him.
• Mercenary Tao tricked Goku with a distraction and beat him in their ensuing fight, shrugging off Goku’s Kamehameha.
• Hao Shuai stepped in and sent Goku to climb Korin Tower and drink the Super Holy Water.
• Hao Shuai powered up and overwhelmed Mercenary Tao with ki-enhanced martial arts techniques.
• Hao Shuai told Bora and Upa to wait, then dragged the battered Mercenary Tao into the woods.

Hao Shuai forced Mercenary Tao to reveal the Crane School’s techniques, then kept him tied up while Goku trained at Korin Tower. After Goku defeated Mercenary Tao, Tao pretended to surrender, then attacked him with a grenade and fled.

• Hao Shuai threatened Mercenary Tao into teaching him the Crane School’s techniques, then used Psychic Power to uncover the techniques Tao had concealed, including Solar Flare and Flight Technique.
• Hao Shuai tied Mercenary Tao to a tree near Korin Tower and waited three days while he trained in the Gravity Room.
• Goku returned from Korin Tower and defeated Mercenary Tao in their rematch.
• Mercenary Tao begged Goku for mercy, then seized his chance to throw a high-explosive grenade at Goku and escape.

Hao Shuai joined Goku on the way to the Red Ribbon Army headquarters, then entered its research lab and recruited Dr. Gero by offering funding and freedom. Dr. Gero agreed to work for Hao Shuai, leaving his future research in new hands.

• Goku kicked Mercenary Tao’s grenade back at him, apparently blowing him apart, though Hao Shuai sensed that he had survived and fled.
• After eating, Goku agreed to let Hao Shuai accompany him to the Red Ribbon Army headquarters, where they flew past its missile defenses.
• Hao Shuai dropped Goku off to fight the soldiers, learned the location of the secret research lab from an officer, and entered it alone.
• Hao Shuai found Dr. Gero working in an isolated lab and offered him a position, explaining that the Red Ribbon Army had been wiped out.
• Dr. Gero asked for ample funding and freedom to pursue his research, and Hao Shuai persuaded him to accept the offer by mentioning Bulma’s wealth.

Hao Shuai recruited Dr. Gero and asked him to upgrade the Governor while arranging to take the Red Ribbon Army’s researchers. As Goku attacked the command center, Hao Shuai encountered Colonel Violet trying to escape with its treasure and claimed it for himself.

• Hao Shuai promised Dr. Gero funding and research freedom, then asked him to improve the Governor’s combat ability while preserving his control system and outer skin.
• Dr. Gero examined the Governor and began working on the upgrade, while Hao Shuai arranged for Bulma to send a plane for the Red Ribbon Army’s researchers.
• Hao Shuai sensed Goku heading toward the top floor of the command center and followed his route to the third floor.
• Hao Shuai found Colonel Violet loading cash, gold, and jewelry into an aircraft and declared the treasure his.
• Colonel Violet shot at Hao Shuai, but he caught the bullet between two fingers, and she pleaded to take some of the money.

Hao Shuai helped wrap up the Red Ribbon Army’s defeat, recruited its researchers for the Hoi-Poi Capsule Company, and met Goku again after he found the seventh Dragon Ball. He summoned Shenlong in a remote forest, where the dragon recognized him and demanded a reasonable wish.

• Hao Shuai let Violet escape with the aircraft’s money and took the Red Ribbon Army’s remaining treasure.
• After Goku destroyed the giant mech, Hao Shuai offered the Red Ribbon Army’s researchers jobs at the Hoi-Poi Capsule Company and tested Dr. Gero’s upgraded Governor robot.
• Hao Shuai told Goku to ask Master Mutaito at Turtle House about the last Dragon Ball, then returned to West City.
• Goku brought Hao Shuai the seventh Dragon Ball, and Hao Shuai fed him before taking all seven balls to a remote forest.
• Hao Shuai summoned Shenlong and asked for Aladdin’s Lamp, but Shenlong recognized him and insisted he make a reasonable wish.

Hao Shuai summoned Shenlong and asked him to resurrect Bi Xiuxin, but Shenlong could not find her soul because she was from another world. After returning Shi Qingxuan and Shi Zhixuan to the Great Tang, Hao Shuai used his remaining wish to gain the ability to conceal his energy and captured the Dragon Balls before they could scatter.

• Hao Shuai brought Shi Qingxuan and Shi Zhixuan to Shenlong and asked him to resurrect Bi Xiuxin.
• Shenlong said he could not resurrect Bi Xiuxin because her soul was not in the Dragon Ball World.
• Hao Shuai comforted Shi Qingxuan and returned her and Shi Zhixuan to the Great Tang.
• Hao Shuai wished for the ability to hide his energy from anyone who was not far more powerful than him, and Shenlong granted it.
• Hao Shuai trapped the seven Dragon Balls with his telekinetic power and stored them away.

Hao Shuai trained Goku in National Martial Arts before setting out on a weighted training journey across the Dragon Ball world. He reached a village preparing for a banquet, where he learned that Gold Horn and Silver Horn were approaching and threatening the villagers.

• Hao Shuai tested his ability to seal his energy and confirmed that his ki, true essence, and magic power had vanished while sealed.
• Hao Shuai offered to train Goku, then taught him National Martial Arts for half a month while Goku improved his strength and coordination.
• Hao Shuai sent Goku away with food capsules and began a training journey after Bulma agreed to let him travel.
• Hao Shuai arrived at a village and asked to join its banquet, but an old man warned him to leave because Gold Horn and Silver Horn were coming.
• Hao Shuai recognized the names Gold Horn and Silver Horn from Journey to the West and asked the old man who they were.

Hao Shuai learned that Gold Horn and Silver Horn were terrorizing a village, then confronted the bandits when they tried to rob him. After he caught Silver Horn’s bullets barehanded and broke Gold Horn’s sword with his body, the two bandits realized they faced a powerful opponent.

• An old villager told Hao Shuai that Gold Horn and Silver Horn plundered the villages and used a gourd to turn people into wine.
• Gold Horn and Silver Horn arrived on a sidecar motorcycle and demanded the villagers’ tribute.
• Silver Horn asked Hao Shuai for his name, then demanded his money and Hoi-Poi Capsules when he gave the alias Hao Jian.
• Silver Horn fired his machine gun at Hao Shuai, who caught every bullet with his bare hand.
• Hao Shuai demanded Gold Horn and Silver Horn hand over their valuables, claiming he needed medical expenses for a nonexistent injury.
• Gold Horn attacked Hao Shuai with a greatsword, but the blade shattered against Hao Shuai’s unharmed body.

Hao Shuai captured Gold Horn and Silver Horn with the Treasure Gourd, then discovered that the wine it produced strengthened the drinker according to the captured person's power. He returned to the Dragon Ball World eager to use the gourd to help Zhao Min and the others grow stronger, and set out to capture more targets.

• Gold Horn tried to suck Hao Shuai into the Treasure Gourd by calling an alias, but Hao Shuai revealed that the name was fake and took the gourd from him.
• Hao Shuai tricked Gold Horn and Silver Horn into answering their names incorrectly and sucked them into the Treasure Gourd.
• Hao Shuai accepted a meal from the villagers, continued his journey, and later drank wine made from Gold Horn and Silver Horn, finding that it slightly strengthened his body.
• Hao Shuai tested wine made from prisoners of different cultivation levels in the Great Tang World and confirmed that stronger captives produced wine with greater effects.
• Hao Shuai failed to find a way to refine the Treasure Gourd, then returned to the Dragon Ball World and set out to capture its talking monsters.

After Hao Shuai’s ki growth stalled, he summoned Shenlong and wished for his cells to hold unlimited energy, then trained for another year until the Gravity Room became his next obstacle. He decided to visit Kami at the Lookout for guidance in cultivating his mind instead of summoning Shenlong again.

• Hao Shuai realized his ki had reached the limit of what his body could hold and considered asking Shenlong for help rather than seeking the Grand Elder’s potential unlock.
• Hao Shuai hesitated over wishing for Saiyan blood because he feared it might prevent cultivation and worsen his temperament.
• Hao Shuai wished for the restrictions on his cells to be removed so they could hold unlimited energy, and Shenlong granted the wish.
• Hao Shuai trained for another year, then found that the Gravity Room’s fifty-times setting could no longer challenge him.
• Hao Shuai decided to go to the Lookout and ask Kami to guide him in cultivating his mind.

Hao Shuai borrowed Goku’s Power Pole, made a wish for a giant Flying Nimbus, and obtained Senzu Bean’s token to visit the Temple. As he rode the Power Pole upward, he entered a storm of dark clouds and was struck at by a bolt of golden lightning.

• Hao Shuai found Goku eating in a distant village, borrowed his Power Pole, and gave him a box of Hoi-Poi Capsules filled with food.
• Hao Shuai summoned Shenlong and wished for Flying Nimbus clouds, but received only one cloud three times the usual size before releasing the stone Dragon Balls.
• Hao Shuai visited Senzu Bean at Korin Tower, impressed him with his speed, and asked for help reaching Kami at the Temple.
• Senzu Bean gave Hao Shuai his bell, and Hao Shuai used the Power Pole to ride upward from Korin Tower.
• Hao Shuai entered dark storm clouds, where a golden bolt of lightning shot toward him as he protected himself with a telekinetic barrier.

Hao Shuai endured golden lightning to temper his body, then reached Kami’s temple and asked to learn cultivation. Kami agreed to let Po Po train him, and Hao Shuai began Po Po’s silent-bell challenge.

• Hao Shuai removed his telekinetic barrier and endured repeated lightning strikes, using his Invincible Golden Body and healing abilities to recover and strengthen his physique.
• Hao Shuai flew to the floating temple and introduced himself to Po Po, showing him Korin’s bell as proof of Korin’s approval.
• Po Po brought Hao Shuai before Kami, and Kami agreed to teach him by having Po Po train him.
• Po Po tied a bell to Hao Shuai and challenged him to take the bell from his hand without making it sound, while keeping his own bell silent.