Chapter Summaries

Hao Shuai explained why he would skip the Twenty-Second World Martial Arts Tournament and revealed that his ki was around ninety thousand to one hundred thousand. At the registration area, he reunited with Master Mutaito, Krillin, and Yamcha, then asked whether Goku had arrived yet.

• Bulma asked Hao Shuai whether he would enter the tournament, and he said winning once had been enough because he was now too strong for the other competitors.
• Hao Shuai estimated his ki at around ninety thousand to one hundred thousand and described how he had grown stronger through intense gravity training, Senzu Beans, and nourishing food.
• Hao Shuai spotted Master Mutaito with Krillin and Yamcha, and he and Bulma went over to greet them.
• Master Mutaito confirmed that the tournament no longer meant anything to Hao Shuai, then scolded Krillin and Yamcha for seeming relieved that Hao Shuai would not compete.
• Hao Shuai defended Krillin and Yamcha as young martial artists before asking Master Mutaito where Goku was.

Hao Shuai and the others reunited with Goku in time for the World Martial Arts Tournament, then gathered at the venue as the preliminaries began. While Hao Shuai went to buy ice cream, a lecherous old man approached Bulma and Launch.

• Master Roshi encountered the Crane Hermit, who left with his disciples Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu after exchanging insults.
• Hao Shuai identified the Crane Hermit and his disciples for Krillin and Yamcha, who responded with fighting spirit.
• Goku arrived just before registration closed, and Hao Shuai gave him his Power Pole before treating everyone to a feast.
• The next day, Goku and Krillin entered the preliminary rounds while Hao Shuai, Bulma, Launch, Puar, Oolong, and the Sea Turtle waited in the lounge.
• Hao Shuai returned from buying ice cream and spotted a lecherous old man staring at Bulma and Launch.

Hao Shuai stopped the Crane Hermit from harassing the women and let him go after Bulma objected to killing him in public. At the World Martial Arts Tournament, Hao Shuai revealed that Jackie Chun was Master Roshi in disguise, then encouraged Bulma to judge the opening finalists herself.

• Blond Launch fired a submachine gun at the Crane Hermit, who caught every bullet and threatened to tell Master Roshi to prepare for his disciple's funeral.
• Hao Shuai grabbed the Crane Hermit by the neck and nearly killed him, but Bulma asked him to let the man go, so Hao Shuai tossed him into a trash can and ordered him to leave.
• Bulma suggested going to a carnival, while Hao Shuai stayed behind; after lunch, the eight tournament finalists were announced as Yamcha, Goku, Krillin, Jackie Chun, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Man-Wolf, and Puar.
• When Bulma and the others wondered where Master Roshi was, Hao Shuai revealed that Jackie Chun was Master Roshi in disguise and explained that he had entered to keep Goku and the others striving to improve.
• Hao Shuai used telekinesis to clear a path through the packed stands, and Bulma asked him who would win the match between Yamcha and Tien Shinhan.
• Hao Shuai told Bulma to assess Yamcha and Tien Shinhan herself, noting that her inner energy had reached the grandmaster level despite her limited combat training.

The Twenty-Second World Martial Arts Tournament ended with Tien Shinhan defeating Goku after Goku fell onto a car outside the arena. Tien Shinhan shared the prize money with Goku and joined Hao Shuai's group for a feast, while Hao Shuai prepared to deal with Crane Hermit.

• Hao Shuai secretly stopped Tien Shinhan from injuring the unconscious Yamcha, and Tien Shinhan was declared the winner of their match.
• Jackie Chun defeated Man-Wolf in a comedic bout, then forfeited his semifinal match against Tien Shinhan to help awaken Tien Shinhan's goodness.
• Goku and Tien Shinhan fought in the final, and after Tien Shinhan's Kikoho destroyed the ring, both fighters fell outside the arena, where Goku landed on a car and lost.
• Tien Shinhan offered Goku half the prize money and admitted Goku was stronger, then accepted Hao Shuai's invitation to join the group for a feast.
• Hao Shuai sent Bulma ahead with the others and stayed behind, intending to eliminate Crane Hermit.

Hao Shuai shared restorative wine with the others before they discovered that King Piccolo’s attack had killed Krillin and stolen a Dragon Ball and the tournament roster. As Goku flew off to pursue the killer, Hao Shuai reassured the group that he could face King Piccolo and considered taking everyone to meet him.

• Hao Shuai served the group wine made from the Crane Hermit, which restored stamina and strengthened their bodies.
• Goku sensed Krillin’s ki disappear, and he and Hao Shuai found Krillin dead and the announcer injured in the tournament waiting room.
• The announcer explained that Krillin had tried to stop the attacker from stealing a Dragon Ball and the Martial Arts Tournament roster, and the group identified King Piccolo’s mark at the scene.
• Hao Shuai gave Goku a Senzu Bean and the Dragon Radar, and Goku flew away on Flying Nimbus to pursue the killer.
• Hao Shuai comforted the grieving group by reminding them that the Dragon Balls could revive Krillin and said King Piccolo was no match for him.

Hao Shuai joined Goku, Tien Shinhan, and Master Roshi to prepare for King Piccolo, learning the Evil Containment Wave and its sealing talisman. When King Piccolo arrived, Tien Shinhan volunteered to fight him first.

• Hao Shuai took Tien Shinhan and Master Roshi to find Goku, leaving Bulma, Launch, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu behind.
• Goku defeated Tambourine, and Hao Shuai captured the unconscious demon in the Treasure Gourd.
• Hao Shuai waited for King Piccolo and asked Master Roshi to teach him the Evil Containment Wave.
• Master Roshi taught Hao Shuai, Goku, and Tien Shinhan the technique and explained how to draw the sealing talisman.
• Hao Shuai sensed King Piccolo approaching, and Tien Shinhan stepped forward to fight him first.

Hao Shuai rescued Tien Shinhan, Master Roshi, and Goku from King Piccolo, then gave the Demon King the Dragon Ball and Dragon Radar so he could restore his youth. He sent Goku and Tien Shinhan to seek the dangerous Super Divine Water, hoping they could grow strong enough to defeat King Piccolo.

• Tien Shinhan attacked King Piccolo but was soon defeated, and Hao Shuai blocked the Demon King's killing blow with a Dodompa.
• Master Roshi fought King Piccolo next, and Hao Shuai intervened when Roshi was knocked down.
• Goku took Roshi's place and fought King Piccolo until a blow to the temple left him dazed; Hao Shuai then ended the fight.
• Hao Shuai gave King Piccolo the Four-Star Ball and Dragon Radar, telling him to restore his youth and warning him not to kill innocent people.
• On Korin Tower, Hao Shuai explained that Goku and Tien Shinhan needed the Super Divine Water, and Senzu Bean described its dangers and location.
• Goku and Tien Shinhan insisted on going, and Senzu Bean used the jars to send them to the northernmost edge of the world.

Hao Shuai watched King Piccolo gather the Dragon Balls and wish for his youth, while Goku and Tien Shinhan returned after drinking the Super Divine Water. With their strength increased, they set off to confront King Piccolo before he could seize the kingdom’s capital.

• Hao Shuai used Korin Tower’s present jar to watch King Piccolo gather the Dragon Balls and summon Shenlong.
• King Piccolo wished to regain his youth, then destroyed Shenlong after the wish was granted.
• Senzu Bean brought Goku and Tien Shinhan back, and they told Hao Shuai that the Super Divine Water had increased their strength.
• Tien Shinhan gave Hao Shuai the remaining Super Divine Water, which Hao Shuai decided to take back for scientific study instead of drinking.
• Goku and Tien Shinhan prepared to confront King Piccolo, and Hao Shuai warned them that the Demon King had grown stronger.
• Goku flew on the Flying Nimbus while Tien Shinhan used the Flight Technique to head for the Capital of the Kingdom of Keruskin.

Hao Shuai watched Goku defeat King Piccolo, then brought the injured fighters back to Turtle House and promised to take Goku and Tien Shinhan to Kami so Shenlong could be restored. Goku eagerly agreed to train at Kami’s place.

• Tien Shinhan fought King Piccolo but was defeated, and Goku took over the battle.
• Goku and King Piccolo fought to exhaustion until Goku pierced the Demon King with his final attack.
• King Piccolo spat out an egg before his body exploded, and Hao Shuai filmed the moment.
• Hao Shuai gave Goku and Tien Shinhan Senzu Beans and teleported them to Turtle House.
• Hao Shuai told everyone he would take Goku and Tien Shinhan to Kami to restore Shenlong, and Goku asked to train there.

Hao Shuai left the Dragon Ball World with Bulma, Dr. Gero, and the Banana Leaf Fan, then returned to the Dual Dragons of the Great Tang World as his allies prepared to crown him emperor. He considered how to break the northern aristocratic clans’ influence over his new realm.

• Hao Shuai took Goku and Tien Shinhan to Kami's Lookout, then brought Bulma with him to search for Master Roshi's discarded Banana Leaf Fan.
• Hao Shuai paid Fortune Teller Baba to locate the fan, found it being used as a dustpan by Octagon Baba, and took it.
• Hao Shuai and Bulma said goodbye to Master Roshi and the others before Hao Shuai left the Dragon Ball World with Bulma and Dr. Gero.
• Hao Shuai returned to Chang'an, where ministers debated his coronation after Dongfang Bai, Zhao Min, and the others had unified China during his absence.
• Hao Shuai considered how to govern the north and decided his military and financial power could let him eliminate the influential aristocratic clans.

Hao Shuai founded the Great Wu Empire and launched sweeping reforms to weaken powerful clans and expand education and martial arts. After more than a year of rapid growth, his opponents turned to sabotage and rebellion, and Hao Shuai answered with brutal force.

• Hao Shuai ordered Shi Zhixuan and Song Que to arrange his coronation and prepare rewards and appointments.
• Hao Shuai held his coronation in Chang'an, named his dynasty the Great Wu Empire, and dismissed officials who protested his choice.
• Hao Shuai launched the Universal Martial Arts Plan alongside economic, cultural, and educational reforms.
• Hao Shuai and his ministers used the Great Wu army to overcome local resistance as the reforms spread across the empire.
• Local power brokers, powerful clans, martial arts factions, and jianghu heroes sabotaged the reforms through unrest, assassinations, and rebellions.
• Hao Shuai deployed the Embroidered Uniform Guard and robot armies to destroy the resisting factions and clans.

Hao Shuai arrived on Bouvet Island in 2004 to obtain Predator technology and an Alien Queen, then waited for Weyland's expedition to begin. After a cloaked Predator ship cut a passage through the ice, Weyland's team found the hole and descended toward the underground pyramid.

• Hao Shuai and Red Queen landed on Bouvet Island and confirmed the Whaling Station was abandoned, so the story had not yet begun.
• Hao Shuai planned to acquire the Predators' technology and ship, along with an Alien Queen, and left to wait for Weyland's expedition.
• A cloaked spaceship near Earth fired a laser that melted a passage through the ice above the pyramid.
• Weyland's expedition arrived at the Whaling Station and discovered the newly formed hole leading underground.
• At Weyland's instruction, the expedition members secured their equipment and began descending into the hole.

Hao Shuai secretly followed Woods's expedition to the Antarctic pyramid, then waited in the cavern to ambush the three young Predators. After testing their strength in a fight, he found that facing all three at once without using his other abilities was difficult.

• Hao Shuai shrank himself, hid in Woods's backpack, and scanned the pyramid with his Divine Sense before waiting outside for the young Predators.
• The three young Predators slaughtered the security guards at the whaling station, then descended into the cavern.
• Hao Shuai surprised the young Predators with kicks, dodged their weapons, and prepared to fight them using National Martial Arts.
• Hao Shuai grappled the first Predator and sent him back into a crater, but struggled to withstand all three attackers without using his other abilities.

Hao Shuai defeated and brainwashed the three young Predators, then fought his way through the pyramid to the Alien Queen. He killed the expedition team’s remaining survivors, destroyed the unhatched Xenomorph eggs, and reached the Queen as Xenomorphs corroded the chains holding her.

• Hao Shuai knocked out the three young Predators, prevented them from detonating their wrist bombs, and brainwashed them into loyal followers.
• Hao Shuai led the Predators through the shifting pyramid, smashing through walls until they reached a sacrificial chamber containing human corpses and broken Xenomorph eggs.
• Hao Shuai found Woods, Weyland, and Sebastian on the pyramid’s lowest level as Xenomorphs began hatching inside them, then killed all three and the creatures within them.
• Hao Shuai retrieved the hidden shoulder cannon from a backpack and destroyed every unhatched Xenomorph egg in the chamber.
• Hao Shuai and the three young Predators reached the Alien Queen, who was bound in chains that Xenomorphs were corroding with their acidic blood.

Hao Shuai fought off the Alien Queen after she broke free from her chains, then subdued her with the Beast Taming Technique. As the pyramid began to collapse, he prepared to leave with the Alien Queen as his new pet.

• The Alien Queen ordered her Xenomorphs to attack the three young Predators, who killed several before fighting them at close range.
• A Xenomorph attacked Hao Shuai, and he crushed it before testing its corrosive blood on his Invincible Golden Body and bare skin.
• The Alien Queen used her corrosive blood to dissolve her chains and free herself, but Hao Shuai kicked her into a wall and pinned her to the floor.
• Hao Shuai dodged the Alien Queen's tail, grabbed it, and slammed her into the walls and floor until she was badly injured and unable to rise.
• With the damaged pyramid beginning to collapse, Hao Shuai used the Beast Taming Technique four or five times to subdue the Alien Queen and take her with him.

Hao Shuai infiltrated the Predator Star Carrier, subdued its elder, and took control of the enormous ship. After Red Queen began hacking its systems, he learned that this world's Aliens had no connection to the Engineers and wondered what to do with the Predators aboard.

• Hao Shuai planted a miniature nuclear bomb beneath the pyramid, hid on one of the young Predators, and had them pretend their trial had gone as expected.
• The young Predators returned to the Whaling Station, and the elder accepted their account of the battle before taking them back to the Star Carrier.
• Hao Shuai entered the elder's quarters, revealed himself, and subdued him with Psychic Power, gaining control of the Star Carrier.
• Hao Shuai released Red Queen to infiltrate the ship's control system and decode its technical data.
• Hao Shuai learned from the elder's memories that the Predators had bred the Aliens themselves and that the world had no Engineers.
• Hao Shuai considered whether to keep the nearly thousand Predators as pets or make them his underlings, but found neither option appealing.

Unable to store the mothership in his spatial storage, Hao Shuai followed Red Queen’s advice to exile most of the Predators and planned to use Hank Pym’s Pym Particles to shrink the ship. In 1991 San Francisco, he and Red Queen disguised themselves and prepared to take the particles, while Hao Shuai anticipated conflict with Hank Pym and S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Hao Shuai exiled the Predators to a habitable planet, leaving twenty of the strongest aboard the mothership to host Predator Xenomorphs.
• Red Queen proposed using Pym Particles to shrink the mothership after Hao Shuai failed to store it in his spatial storage.
• Hao Shuai visited 1991 San Francisco with Red Queen, reflecting on his ties to Howard Stark and Tony Stark.
• Hao Shuai disguised himself and Red Queen before targeting Hank Pym’s Pym Particles, wary of drawing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attention.
• Hao Shuai told Red Queen they would take the particles if Hank Pym refused to lend them, and said the culprit would be John Stark rather than Hao Shuai.

Hao Shuai visited Hank Pym to trade technology for Pym Particles, but Hank refused, so Hao knocked him unconscious and sent him into a dream of Janet in the Quantum Realm. Hank woke believing Janet had sent him a message and resumed his research to rescue her.

• Hao Shuai found Hank Pym's villa and asked to partner with him in exchange for Pym Particle technology.
• Hank refused to discuss a deal, so Hao tricked him by mentioning Janet and knocked him out with a punch.
• Hank dreamed that he met Janet in the Quantum Realm, where she told him to leave and return when he could truly enter it.
• Hank woke in his lab, concluded the vivid dream was a message from Janet, and threw himself back into his research.

Hao Shuai reviewed the technology he had stolen from Hank Pym and brought Red Queen to Wakanda, where he planned to quietly obtain vibranium. He reached the country’s hidden border and noticed that its protective shield distorted the surrounding landscape.

• Hao Shuai admitted he could not understand Hank Pym’s formulas and decided to take Red Queen to Bulma for help studying them.
• Hao Shuai and Red Queen discussed how to enter Wakanda, and he chose a quiet approach to avoid attracting attention.
• Hao Shuai left Red Queen behind and traveled alone to scout Wakanda’s outskirts.
• Hao Shuai used his Divine Sense to detect distortions in the rainforest caused by Wakanda’s shield.

Hao Shuai explored Wakanda in 1991 and secretly began mining its vibranium vein. He found that the deposit was protected by extraordinarily hard rock that his ordinary mining equipment could not cut.

• Hao Shuai used Instant Transmission to bypass Wakanda's force field and explored the Border Tribe's settlement under optical camouflage.
• Hao Shuai flew to Birnin Zana, found it less advanced than he had expected, and continued to the mountain where Wakanda mined vibranium.
• Red Queen scanned the mountain and confirmed that a vibranium vein stretched for several kilometers.
• Hao Shuai chose a secluded valley and sent NS-5s to dig a passage toward the deposit.
• The NS-5s reached vibranium but stopped when their mining equipment broke against the unusually hard surrounding rock.