Chapter Summaries

Beerus faced the other Gods of Destruction in the arena as they considered attacking him together. He assessed their strength and challenged them to come at him, but the standoff remained unresolved.

• Beerus landed in the arena and accused the other Gods of Destruction of planning to gang up on him.
• Belmod urged the Gods of Destruction to cripple Beerus first and questioned whether Champa would join them.
• Champa said he had never backed down from fighting Beerus, provoking Beerus into accepting the challenge.
• The eleven Gods of Destruction surrounded Beerus, but none dared to make the first move as their auras shook the Void Realm.
• Beerus recalled the Gods of Destruction’s past strengths and judged that Quitela had weakened while Champa and Rumsshi were their strongest opponents.
• Beerus beckoned to the group and challenged them to attack him together.

Beerus faced the other Gods of Destruction and revealed that he had mastered Ninth Tier Destruction Rule, far surpassing Quitela. The battle escalated as the Angels recognized Beerus’s extraordinary strength and the Grand Minister considered Universe 7’s power.

• The eleven Gods of Destruction surrounded Beerus, but Champa suddenly attacked Sidra, Iwan, and Arack, then joined Beerus and pledged that Universes 6 and 7 would fight together.
• Quitela unleashed Eighth Tier Destruction Rule, drawing praise from the Gods of Destruction and Angels.
• Beerus revealed his Ninth Tier Destruction Rule, overwhelming Quitela’s power and shocking everyone present.
• Sidra, Iwan, and Arack escaped Champa’s attack, and Quitela called on the other Gods of Destruction to attack Beerus together.
• The Gods of Destruction resumed their assault as their Rule Power began to tear apart the arena.
• Kusu said Beerus’s Ninth Tier mastery could qualify him to reach Angel Level, and the Grand Minister agreed while regarding Beerus with increased interest.

Beerus and Champa overwhelmed the ten opposing Gods of Destruction, and Beerus revealed that his power had reached Divine Realm Seventh Tier Peak. After the Grand Minister noticed the arena had been completely destroyed, Beerus caught up to Quitela and prepared to cripple him.

• Beerus and Champa drove back Quitela, Belmod, Rumsshi, Heles, Liger, Gin, Mosco, Arack, Sidra, and Iwan, while Champa chased after Sidra and the others.
• Beerus activated Perfect Self-Ultra Instinct, and Quitela and the other Gods of Destruction realized his raw power had reached Divine Realm Seventh Tier Peak.
• Martinu, Marcarita, and Mojito said Beerus might become a Half-step Angel-level powerhouse, while Whis felt pleased and Vados envied his progress.
• The Grand Minister noticed the arena had been completely destroyed, startling the Angels.
• Beerus caught up to Quitela and threatened to cripple him for having someone ambush his candidate.

Beerus attacked Quitela to avenge Gran, then fought seven Gods of Destruction while Champa battled three. Beerus overwhelmed his opponents, and Kusu asked the Grand Minister to stop the fighting as Beerus seemed intent on killing Quitela.

• Beerus struck Quitela with full force, breaking his bones and forcing him to enter Ultra Ego and retreat.
• Quitela urged the other Gods of Destruction to join the fight, and seven of them charged Beerus while Champa faced three.
• Beerus injured all seven Gods of Destruction surrounding him, while Champa knocked Dwarf Sidra unconscious.
• The Angels remarked on Beerus's strength and Champa's ability to hold his own against three opponents.
• Kusu saw that Beerus seemed determined to kill Quitela and asked the Grand Minister to intervene.

Beerus broke free from the Destroyer Gods’ coordinated attack and overwhelmed them with his power. He confronted Quitela over the attack on Universe 7, declaring that he had never forgiven him.

• The Grand Minister vanished without reacting to the Angels’ questions.
• Fox Liger urged Rumsshi to use his Sonic Roar, which briefly stunned Beerus and gave the Destroyer Gods a chance to attack.
• The Destroyer Gods unleashed their signature attacks, while Rumsshi and Mosco worked together to restrain Beerus.
• Beerus broke Mosco’s iron arms, escaped, and left Mosco barely alive after the others’ attacks struck him.
• Beerus gravely injured the Destroyer Gods with punches and Ninth Tier Destruction Rule Power.
• Beerus confronted Quitela about sending people into Universe 7 and said he had never forgiven him.

Beerus defeated Quitela and the other Gods of Destruction, but the Grand Minister stopped him before he could finish torturing Quitela. Beerus then discovered the arena had vanished, and the chapter ended with the Grand Minister ordering the Angels to save the badly injured Gods of Destruction.

• Beerus grabbed Quitela, beat him severely, and prepared to cut him apart with Destruction Rule power.
• The Grand Minister appeared with the Angels and ordered Beerus to stop.
• Beerus noticed the arena was gone and mistakenly suggested the Grand Minister had built it poorly.
• The Grand Minister pressed down on Beerus's shoulder until Beerus admitted he was wrong, then released him.
• Champa arrived after defeating Arack, Iwan, and Sidra, and the Grand Minister praised the Beerus brothers' talent.
• The Grand Minister pointed out that the injured Gods of Destruction were close to death and asked why the Angels had not saved them.

After the Beerus brothers defeated the other Gods of Destruction, the Angels healed the injured while the Grand Minister addressed the damaged arena. Beerus was ordered to rebuild it, and the Grand Minister warned the Gods of Destruction to prepare for the approaching Candidate God of Destruction Battle Royale.

• The Angels healed the injured Gods of Destruction, though Cognac could not heal the damage Quitela had suffered from King of All's punishment.
• The Grand Minister reminded the Gods of Destruction that he had summoned them to test his arena, and they realized it had disappeared.
• The Grand Minister blamed Beerus for destroying the arena and ordered him to rebuild it, which Beerus reluctantly agreed to do.
• The Grand Minister criticized the defeated Gods of Destruction for making little progress and warned them to take care of themselves before the coming Candidate God of Destruction Battle Royale.

After Beerus defeated the other Gods of Destruction, he warned them that his candidate Gran would take revenge for Quitela’s ambush. As the Gods of Destruction discussed their candidates, the King of All and the Grand Minister looked forward to the Candidate God of Destruction tournament in five years.

• Beerus and Champa taunted the defeated Gods of Destruction, while Quitela and Fox Liger insisted Beerus could no longer attack them without the Grand Minister’s permission.
• Belmod warned Beerus that Universe 11’s candidate had greater pure power than a God of Destruction, but Beerus claimed Gran would defeat him.
• Beerus threatened Quitela over the ambush on Gran, and the Gods of Destruction fled the Void Realm.
• Quitela revealed that his Divine Realm Third Tier attacker had died at Gran’s hands, while Kusu told Rumsshi that Gran had comprehended Ultra Instinct at age nine.
• The Grand Minister showed the King of All the battle, and the King of All said he looked forward to the Candidate God of Destruction tournament in five years.

A month after the God of Destruction Melee, Beerus, Champa, Whis, Vados, and Little Broly rebuilt the Void Realm arena. Beerus then took Champa and Vados to Universe 7 to see Gran, while Champa revealed that Universe 6's candidate could use time.

• The Gods of Destruction trained more intensely after witnessing Beerus's strength, hoping to challenge him in the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament five years later.
• Beerus and Champa finished rebuilding the Void Realm arena as Whis and Vados restored its landscapes.
• Beerus explained that Gran had left the Time Chamber after cultivating there for more than three hundred additional years.
• Beerus, Champa, and Vados agreed to return to Universe 7 and see how strong Gran had become.
• During their trip, Champa told Beerus that Universe 6's candidate could use time, shocking Beerus.

After returning from the Void Realm, Beerus and the others found Old Kai using Potential Unleashing on Gran, whose strength even the Angels could not discern. Whis assured Champa that the process had no side effects, leaving him wondering how powerful Gran would become.

• Shin estimated that Universe 7's Mortal Level Index could rise from 3.20 to around 4.0 in ten years.
• Beerus, Champa, Vados, Whis, and the others returned from the Void Realm, and Shin greeted them.
• Beerus and the others noticed Gran meditating while Old Kai used Potential Unleashing on him.
• Vados and Whis said they could not see through Gran, prompting Beerus and Champa to celebrate his apparent God of Destruction-level strength.
• Whis told Champa that Old Kai's Potential Unleashing had no side effects, and Champa wondered how strong Gran would become.

While Old Kai began a five-year ritual to unleash Gran’s potential, Gran used the time to seek a way to maintain Ultra Instinct like Whis. As the years passed, Beerus and Champa stayed on Earth, unaware that Universe 7’s mortal level was rising, while Gran remained in the God Realm without finding an answer.

• Old Kai told Beerus that unleashing Gran’s potential would take five years, and Gran kept his strength a secret from Beerus.
• Champa and Vados chose to stay in Universe 7 until the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament, and Beerus took them, Whis, Little Broly, and Shin to Earth for food.
• Gran entered his Meditation World and began pondering how to cultivate Ultra Instinct to Whis’s level without relying on Whis for guidance.
• A year later, Little Broly came of age and stayed on Earth while Kid Goku trained with Popo in the Heavenly Realm; Gran continued meditating in the God Realm.
• At the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, Champa and Vados recognized Goku’s potential, and Goku became engaged to Chi-Chi after meeting her.
• Universe 7’s Mortal Level Index rose above 3.29 and neared 3.3 while Beerus’s group enjoyed Earth; Gran’s potential ritual and meditation continued.

In Age 757, Gran remained under Old Kai’s Potential Unleashing while Beerus and the others waited for him to awaken before the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament. Inside his Meditation World, Gran realized that maintaining Ultra Instinct in his normal state required a third, Angel-level state of mind, and he began studying Angel-level martial arts.

• In Age 757, Goku and Chi-Chi’s son Gohan was born while Beerus and the other deities were back in the Realm of the Gods.
• At the great tree, Old Kai continued unlocking Gran’s potential as Beerus, Champa, Whis, Vados, Shin, and Broly waited nearby.
• Shin gave Old Kai a bundle of books, which Old Kai eagerly hid in his lap despite protesting about the gift.
• Gran’s consciousness concluded that Body Instinct was not enough to maintain Ultra Instinct in his normal state, and that his state of mind was the problem.
• Gran inferred that the two known states of mind belonged to the God of Destruction level and that an Angel-level third state could let him remain in Ultra Instinct.
• Gran began studying Angel-level martial arts inside his Meditation World.

With one month until the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament, Jiren awakened at Divine Realm Fifth Tier Initial Stage and agreed to fight Universe 7’s candidate after Belmod invoked the murder of Jiren’s master. In Universe 4, Quitela planned to use the murderous Lite in the tournament despite Cognac warning that the creature had reached the criteria for destruction.

• Jiren awakened after a thousand years in the Time Chamber and shattered Universe 11’s God of Destruction Realm with his power.
• Marcarita restored the realm and explained that Jiren had reached Divine Realm Fifth Tier Initial Stage, while further breakthroughs were unlikely.
• Belmod asked Jiren to kill Beerus’s candidate, but Jiren refused because it went against his justice.
• Belmod brought up Jiren’s murdered master, and Jiren agreed to brutally torture Universe 7’s candidate without killing him.
• Cognac showed Quitela Lite massacring mortals across Universe 4 and warned that Lite had reached the criteria for destruction.
• Quitela insisted on using Lite in the tournament before destroying him afterward, despite Cognac’s objections.

As the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament approached, Old Kai discovered that Gran’s Sea of Potential was immeasurably vast and could not be fully unlocked. He released a small portion of Gran’s potential, revealing power that astonished the Gods and Angels.

• Beerus and Champa worried that Gran had remained unconscious through nearly five years of Old Kai’s potential-unlocking ritual.
• Old Kai entered Gran’s Sea of Potential and realized that Gran possessed Transcendent Potential far beyond anything he could fully unlock.
• Old Kai withdrew to a small stream of Gran’s potential and began drawing it out.
• Silver lightning surrounded Gran as his power surged, and Beerus recognized that Gran’s base power had reached the Divine Realm Fifth Tier.
• Whis and the others speculated that Gran’s full potential, combined with Divine Dimension and Ultra Instinct, might take him to the Divine Realm Seventh Tier.

Gran completed Old Kai’s five-year Potential Unleashed technique and broke through to the Divine Realm Seventh Tier Initial Stage. After his power destroyed Universe 7, Whis and Vados restored it, and Gran and Old Kai returned to the waiting Gods.

• Gran realized Old Kai’s potential-unlocking process was nearly complete and withdrew his consciousness from the Meditation World.
• Gran’s power surged through the Divine Realm Fifth Tier as Whis protected Old Kai from the destruction caused by the rising energy.
• Old Kai finished the Potential Unleashed technique, and Gran used the newly drawn-out power to break through his bottleneck.
• Gran’s strongest state raised him to the Divine Realm Seventh Tier Initial Stage, and his power destroyed Universe 7.
• Whis and Vados concealed Gran’s power from the other universes and rewound time to restore Universe 7.
• Gran and Old Kai walked back toward the Gods beneath the great tree.

Gran revealed that his Potential Unleashed form had brought him to Divine Realm Seventh Tier, astonishing Universe 7 and prompting Beerus and Champa to want to spar. With only a month before the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament, Gran instead led the group toward Universe 6, while the Grand Minister declined to add Gods of Destruction to the tournament and let events proceed.

• Gran stopped Beerus from punishing Old Kai, then reassured Shin and reunited with Broly, who explained that he had been pretending to be a Candidate God of Destruction.
• Gran confirmed that Potential Unleashed was his strongest state, with Divine Realm Seventh Tier Initial Stage power and Peak Deity Dimension, while Beerus acknowledged that Gran was nearing his level.
• Beerus and Champa asked Gran to spar, but Gran pointed out that the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament was only a month away and proposed traveling to Universe 6 to collect Hit before heading to the Void Realm.
• The Grand Minister suggested sending Gods of Destruction to surround Gran so he could be challenged, but King of All refused and told him to let Gran have his fun.
• On the way to Universe 6, Vados assessed Gran's Ultra Instinct as complete and discovered that he had mastered the First Stage Destruction Rule.

Vados explained that Gran’s long training in the Time Chamber had left his Destruction Rule at the First Stage, while Champa had reached the Sixth Tier and still held the advantage in a fight. Whis said Gran’s chances could rise from thirty percent to seventy percent once he fought again and loosened up.

• Vados explained that Gran’s Destruction Rule had stalled because the Time Chamber offered nothing for him to destroy, and Beerus described the difficulty of advancing a Destruction Rule.
• Vados listed Gran’s current martial arts attainments and said Beerus would defeat him in every aspect.
• Gran asked how he compared with Champa, and Vados estimated Gran had a thirty percent chance of winning.
• Beerus clarified that Champa had a seventy percent chance, then revealed Champa’s raw power was at the Sixth Tier Peak.
• Champa said his Destruction Rule had reached the Sixth Tier and was nearing the Seventh Tier, leaving Gran dejected.
• Whis told Gran that his chances would rise to seventy percent after his body loosened up and he readjusted to battle.

Gran and the others arrived in Universe 6, where Gran declared he wanted Universe 7 to rank first among all universes. They discovered Universe 7’s Mortal Level Index had already risen to 3.50, while Shin privately anticipated it would exceed 4.0 by Age 765.

• Whis explained that Gran’s Seventh Tier strength and Ultra Instinct made him a serious threat to Champa, and Vados recognized that Gran had shown the rudimentary form of Angel Level martial arts.
• The Travel Cube entered Universe 6, and Beerus told Gran its Mortal Level Index was 3.8.
• Gran told Champa he wanted Universe 7 to surpass every universe and take first place.
• Vados and Whis checked the Crystal Ball and found that Universe 7’s Mortal Level Index had risen to 3.50 by Age 759.
• Old Kai celebrated the increase, while Shin recalled estimating that Universe 7 would exceed 4.0 by Age 765.

Gran and the Universe 7 group arrived in Universe 6, where Champa introduced them to his Candidate Gods of Destruction ahead of the tournament. After Gran demonstrated his divine power, Vados returned from the palace with Hit, Universe 6’s intended champion.

• Gran, Beerus, and the others traveled through Universe 6 and reached Champa’s God of Destruction Realm.
• Champa introduced the nineteen Universe 6 Candidate Gods of Destruction, including the Saiyan Rose, to the visitors from Universe 7.
• Rose questioned why he and the other candidates had to pay respects to Gran, and Champa ordered them to bow because Gran was stronger and would help their universes win the tournament.
• Gran used his aura to make all nineteen candidates straighten up and recognized Rose’s talent, while Vados clarified that Hit was stronger than Rose.
• Champa sent Vados to fetch Hit, and she returned from the palace with him.

Hit arrived at the God of Destruction Palace to join Universe 6’s team for the Candidate God of Destruction Tournament, and Gran agreed to face him in a test of strength. When Rose and the other candidates also asked to challenge Gran, he claimed he could defeat them all in two minutes.

• Hit emerged from the God of Destruction Palace, and Whis assessed his power as roughly Divine Realm Fourth Tier Initial Stage with Body Instinct at Third Stage Initial Stage.
• Champa introduced Hit to Gran, who revealed that he was already a Deity.
• Hit recalled Champa’s warning about Gran and asked to challenge him, and Gran accepted so he could test Hit’s control over time.
• Rose stepped forward to challenge Gran, and the other Candidate Gods of Destruction showed interest in fighting him too.
• Champa tried to hurry everyone toward the tournament, but Gran said he could defeat the candidates with a wave of his hand and asked for two minutes.