Chapter Summaries

After the tournament, the Supreme Kais arranged for the participants to return to their universes and allowed a month of inter-universe exchange. Pan and the others traveled to Universe 18, where Goku and Vegito planned to train together while Meluria agreed to train Emma.

• Grand Supreme Kai ended the Super Dimensional Tournament, arranged for everyone to return home, and promised to revive those who could not be brought back with ordinary Dragon Balls.
• Pan asked to visit Universe 18, and the Supreme Kais granted everyone one month to interact across universes.
• Pan of Universe 16 reunited with her counterpart in Universe 18, while Goku and Vegito agreed to explore Super Saiyan 4 together.
• Sephiria agreed to train Emma so she could control the power she had gained by devouring others, and Meluria offered to guide her instead.
• Meluria and the others boarded the Varga spaceship with the Universe 18 group and set off for Universe 18.

Roland visited the Supreme Kai World to find a powerful opponent and learned that a mysterious red-tailed Saiyan had already defeated Majin Buu. The Saiyan was now on Planet Plant, leaving Roland astonished by the discovery.

• Roland found the Z-Sword and tried to pull it from the rock before Kibito confronted him.
• Roland overwhelmed Kibito with his power, and East Supreme Kai arrived to calm the situation.
• Roland asked East Supreme Kai about the universe's strongest fighter and learned Majin Buu had been defeated decades earlier.
• East Supreme Kai said a red-tailed Saiyan had defeated Majin Buu and returned to Planet Plant.
• Roland was shocked to learn the Saiyan lived on Planet Plant, which he had believed held no powerful life-forms.

Roland returned to Planet Plant to find the powerful Saiyan in seclusion and discovered that he was Bardock, Goku’s father, who had survived and traveled to the past. After their clash, Roland revealed that he came from the era when Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta.

• Roland sensed that the Plantians were fragile and released his power to draw out the Saiyan hiding on Planet Plant.
• Bardock appeared and attacked Roland, forcing him back with a powerful blow.
• Roland recognized Bardock and recalled the events of Episode of Bardock, realizing this world followed that story’s alternate history.
• Bardock recognized Roland as a Saiyan and asked whether he was a survivor from Planet Sadala and whether the Saiyans planned to settle on Planet Plant.
• Roland told Bardock that he was from Planet Sadala but not Bardock’s era, and that he came from the time when Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta.

Roland visited Bardock and told him about the future of Universe 18, then asked him to reveal the advanced form he had achieved. Bardock transformed into Super Saiyan 4, and Roland activated his God-Level Saiyan mode beside him as their powers clashed.

• Roland told Bardock he came from a parallel world and described Universe 18’s future, including Goku defeating Frieza and later threats.
• Bardock said his prophetic ability had faded as his strength grew and learned that Roland had integrated Super Saiyan power into his base form.
• Bardock revealed that he had progressed beyond Super Saiyan 3, and Roland asked to see his Super Saiyan 4 transformation.
• Bardock transformed through Super Saiyan 1, 2, and 3 before reaching Super Saiyan 4, shaking Planet Plant with his power.
• Roland activated his God-Level Saiyan mode beside Bardock, and their auras collided as Bardock compared their battle forms.

Roland sparred with Bardock to assess the latter’s Super Saiyan 4 power, but Bardock’s attacks overwhelmed him. Roland began channeling his God-Level Saiyan strength as the fight intensified.

• Roland compared his god-level state with Super Saiyan 4 and agreed to spar with Bardock.
• Bardock transformed into Super Saiyan 4, and Roland judged that Bardock’s strength surpassed his own.
• Bardock attacked Roland at tremendous speed, and their collision devastated the surrounding landscape.
• Bardock’s power rose toward the peak of the Second-Level Sequence, and his strike forced Roland back.
• Roland realized Ultra Instinct Sign could not let him evade Bardock, so he drew on Shenron’s energy and unleashed his God-Level Saiyan power.

Roland fought Bardock’s Super Saiyan 4 and conceded after his strongest attack failed to overcome Bardock’s power. Afterward, Roland reflected on how to grow stronger and suspected that attaining a godly realm might be the key to defeating Bardock.

• Roland and Bardock battled on Planet Plant while holding back to avoid destroying the future Planet Vegeta.
• Bardock overcame Roland’s attacks, but Roland struck him with Heavenly Strike and made him feel threatened.
• Roland admitted defeat, and Bardock praised his attack while explaining that he had trained in his Super Saiyan 4 state for decades.
• Roland returned to his capsule house, reviewed the battle, and wondered whether Bardock might soon reach the Third-Level Sequence.
• Roland concluded that becoming a Super Saiyan God might let him reach a divine realm and defeat Bardock.

Roland mastered God-Level Base Form after two months of training on Planet Plant, strengthening his foundation while still unable to break through to Realm God. After breakfast, Bardock revealed that a mysterious object had helped him grow stronger and used a locator to show Roland that it had drifted to West Galaxy.

• Roland failed to find the opportunity to break through to Realm God, so he continued training and eventually advanced Perfect Base Form into God-Level Base Form.
• Roland joined Bardock for breakfast, and they discussed Roland's growth from a mid-level warrior and Bardock's sons Raditz and Kakarot.
• Bardock told Roland that a mysterious object had helped him grow stronger and promised to show it to him.
• Bardock used a locator to find the object in West Galaxy, and Roland agreed they should go investigate.

Roland and Bardock reached the mysterious Floating Island, where Roland discovered a Celestial Maiden statue inside its blue water sphere. Contact with the statue sent Roland unconscious and alerted the real woman, who noticed that someone had found her statue in the Zeno Multiverse.

• Roland used Instant Transmission to take Bardock from Planet Plant to the Floating Island in the West Galaxy.
• Roland found that he could pass the water sphere's mysterious barrier, while Bardock could not approach it beyond twenty meters.
• Roland entered the water sphere and discovered a miniature palace containing a lifelike statue of a blue-haired woman labeled “Celestial Maiden.”
• The characters above the palace overwhelmed Roland, causing his Dragon God energy to surge and his consciousness to fade.
• In a distant illusory space-time, the real woman opened her eyes and sensed that someone had found her statue.

Feng Lixi noticed Roland and secretly strengthened him, while Great Celestial Maiden Hong Yu warned her about interfering in the lower realm. They discovered that Roland’s situation involved the God of Abundance and learned that the Assembly of Gods would address rising tensions between the King God and the Azure God, while excluding the Zeno Multiverse.

• Feng Lixi watched Roland’s history and sent ice-blue power into his body, where it spread through his cells alongside his Dragon God power.
• Great Celestial Maiden Hong Yu confronted Feng Lixi for meddling in the lower realm and helped cover up her interference.
• Hong Yu and Feng Lixi saw that Roland’s situation involved the God of Abundance, so Hong Yu advised Feng Lixi to report it to the Goddess of Law Enforcement.
• Hong Yu informed Feng Lixi that the 126th Assembly of Gods would address friction between the King God and the Azure God.
• Feng Lixi objected that the Assembly’s participant list excluded the Zeno Multiverse and its Grand Priest, and Hong Yu said Archangel Nos-Ailis had initiated the meeting.
• After Hong Yu left, Feng Lixi vowed that she could defeat the Archangels if they tried to seize territory at the Zeno Multiverse’s edge.

After discovering a mysterious woman’s statue inside the water sphere, Roland stayed on the Floating Island to cultivate with Bardock. One year later, Roland had grown strong enough to surpass Bardock and unleashed a powerful attack during their sparring match.

• Roland emerged from the water sphere after passing out and told Bardock about the miniature palace and the statue whose gaze had knocked him unconscious.
• Roland estimated the being enshrined in the palace was at least Fifth-Level Sequence, but decided the two could keep cultivating on the island if they stayed away from the palace.
• Roland and Bardock set up huts on the Floating Island and began cultivating and sparring together.
• Roland entered the palace to cultivate with his eyes shut, finding that his power grew faster near the statue.
• Over the next year, Roland steadily improved until Bardock was no longer his match.
• During a space sparring match, Roland warned Bardock before firing his Starry Sky Cannon.

Roland and Bardock's sparring escalated until their power threatened the universe, forcing East Supreme Kai and Kibito to intervene. After Bardock conceded, Roland wondered whether beating him had completed the first part of the Dragon God Trial.

• Bardock challenged Roland with an Ultimate Destruction Blast, and the two traded attacks powerful enough to send tremors across the universe.
• East Supreme Kai and Kibito watched the battle from the Supreme Kai World and discussed whether gods such as the God of Destruction or higher beings existed.
• As the fight's aftershocks shook the Supreme Kai World and disrupted Otherworld, Other World, and Hell, East Supreme Kai and Kibito went to stop the fighters.
• Roland and Bardock ended their sparring when East Supreme Kai and Kibito arrived, since the lower realm could not withstand their power.
• Bardock left his Super Saiyan 4 form and admitted Roland had beaten him, while Roland reflected on his rapid growth and his progress toward Super Saiyan God.
• Roland wondered whether Bardock's defeat meant he had completed the first part of the Dragon God Trial.

Roland and Bardock prepared to punch through the universe’s barrier after East Supreme Kai explained how the universe would repair the damage. East Supreme Kai and Kibito brought them to the boundary, where Roland and Bardock began gathering power for the attempt.

• Roland asked East Supreme Kai what would happen if he and Bardock punched a hole in the universe, and the Supreme Kai said its rules would repair the damage.
• Roland invited Bardock to try breaking the universe with him, and Bardock agreed.
• Kibito transported the group to the universe’s outer boundary, where East Supreme Kai explained that the universe had boundaries but no reachable edge.
• East Supreme Kai pointed out the barrier’s location and warned Roland and Bardock to avoid striking the galaxies of the Living World.
• Bardock transformed into Super Saiyan 4 as he and Roland unleashed their power, forcing East Supreme Kai and Kibito to retreat hundreds of thousands of meters.

Roland and Bardock tested the universe’s boundary, then opened a much larger breach to prepare to leave for the Zeno Outer Realm. As Roland glimpsed countless universes beyond the barrier, a dragon’s cry sounded from outside.

• Roland and Bardock combined their strongest attacks to open a small hole in the universe, which quickly repaired itself.
• Roland asked East Supreme Kai for divine power, observed it bring life to a barren planet, and received a small amount to study.
• Roland and Bardock trained as the Floating Island drifted through the universe’s boundary and vanished into another universe.
• Roland and Bardock attacked the boundary together again and tore open a breach more than a hundred meters wide.
• Roland saw an azure expanse filled with countless universe-sized bubbles, then heard a dragon’s cry from beyond the universe.

Roland and Bardock passed the Dragon God selection and traveled with trainee Dragon God Gabu into the Zeno Outer Realm. They arrived at God Star 13, while East Supreme Kai and Kibito began investigating the higher gods they had witnessed.

• Trainee Dragon God Gabu emerged from the universe, confirmed Roland and Bardock had passed the selection, and carried them beyond the universe.
• East Supreme Kai and Kibito watched the universe repair itself, then decided to visit Planet Namek to learn more about Shenron and the Dragon Gods.
• Gabu told Roland that the Zeno Outer Realm had thirty-six regions and was managed by Zalama, while Zeno and the Grand Priest governed the Inner Realm.
• Roland explained Zeno's power to Bardock, and Gabu revealed that he was a Level 4 Sequence Dragon God and described the Outer Realm's past struggles.
• Gabu carried Roland and Bardock through the barriers to God Star 13, a vast planet at the center of an azure space.

Roland and Bardock arrived at God Star 13, where they encountered immense divine pressure and learned about the Dragon Clan and the Dragon God hierarchy. Gabu brought them to Lord Yiran’s Dragon Domain and explained that the Outer Realm often fought wars against outside forces.

• Trainee Dragon God Gabu guided Roland and Bardock through God Star 13 toward the continent managed by Lord Yiran.
• Roland sensed thousands of powerful life-forms nearby, then withdrew his mental power after Gabu warned that probing others could be taken as provocation.
• Roland and Bardock landed in the Dragon Domain and struggled against the god star’s intense pressure, while Bardock transformed into a Super Saiyan to adapt.
• Gabu changed into a human woman and explained how Dragon markings and Zalama’s blessing marked Dragon Clan elites and qualified candidates.
• Gabu told Roland that the Outer Realm favored the Dragon Clan and frequently waged wars against outside forces.

Roland and Bardock registered at the Southern Continent’s Dragon God Platform, where Roland learned that uniqueness across parallel space-times was required for advancement to a high-level divine sequence. Roland had no parallel individuals, while Bardock had several, including some in the Inner Realm, but he did not care about suppressing them.

• Gabu led Roland and Bardock into Dragon City and explained that the Outer Realm’s forces helped keep large-scale wars away from the Inner Realm.
• At the Dragon God Platform, Tajiya registered Roland as a Saiyan recommended by Dragon God Yiran and recorded his soul through a Dragon Ball.
• The Dragon Ball revealed that Roland had no parallel individuals, and Gabu explained how Zalama’s power suppressed duplicates and how spatial uniqueness affected advancement.
• Roland realized that uniqueness was required for a high-level divine sequence and wondered why the Inner Realm could split despite Zeno’s power.
• Tajiya registered Bardock and found several parallel individuals of him, including some in the Inner Realm, but Bardock said he did not need them suppressed.

Roland and Bardock registered with the Dragon God Palace, received identity cards, and learned how the God Star's points and Dragon God ranks worked. After Gabu left, they explored Dragon City and looked forward to testing themselves against its many powerful residents.

• Tajiya recorded Roland and Bardock's information, and Roland learned that Gaskako had likely not yet passed the Dragon God Trial.
• Gabu gave Roland and Bardock identity cards and explained how they could earn and use points, the ranks of Dragon Gods, and the martial arts arenas on God Star.
• Gabu warned Roland to attend the blessing when notified and not to probe others with his Ki, then departed for the Southern Dragon Domain.
• Roland and Bardock explored Dragon City, where Roland explained that people without Ki were generally Realm Gods.
• Roland and Bardock resolved to challenge the many powerful fighters on the God Star and grow through battle.

Roland trained on God Star and fought Realm God Jeraf to better understand divine combat, bringing him closer to becoming a Super Saiyan God. He received notice that his Dragon God blessing had been approved and that he must claim it within seven days.

• Roland toured Dragon City with Bardock, sparred with local experts, and meditated as his bottleneck began to loosen.
• At a Martial Arts Dojo, Roland fought Jeraf, a First-Level Sequence Realm God, and struggled against his aura-less attacks.
• Roland gradually grasped Jeraf's Concept State and used Ultra Instinct Sign to keep pace with him.
• Jeraf introduced himself as a member of the Atorak Dragon Clan, and Roland identified himself as a Saiyan before they continued fighting.
• After returning to his cabin, Roland received Tajiya's message that his information had been approved and he must claim his blessing at the Southern Continent branch within seven days.

Roland hurried to Central Dragon City to receive the Dragon God's blessing and entered the palace's blessing chamber. Inside, he discovered that the chamber contained an immense universe and a colossal Dragon Ball with Super Shenron embedded within it.

• After receiving Tajiya's message, Roland left for Central Dragon City without delay.
• Roland reached the ancient floating city and presented his identity card at the Dragon God Palace branch.
• Aris verified Roland's Dragon God power, learned it likely originated with Zalama, and explained how the blessing would refine it.
• Roland entered the blessing chamber and found himself facing a Dragon Ball larger than a star.
• Roland recognized Super Shenron within the Dragon Ball and was overwhelmed by its immense pressure.

Roland received Dragon God Zalama’s power, awakened his Dragon Mark, and broke through to Super Saiyan God, reaching the Second-Level Sequence. Zalama appointed him an Apprentice Dragon God and explained that the mysterious Celestial Maiden power inside him was a form of judgment power aimed at gods.

• Dragon God Zalama spoke to Roland through Super Shenron and sent divine power into him to form his Dragon Mark.
• Roland’s silver-gray inner dragon absorbed the refined power, while Zalama noticed icy-blue Celestial Maiden power within Roland and chose not to interfere with it.
• The combined powers released Roland’s suppressed Great Ape strength, allowing him to break through into the Super Saiyan God realm.
• Roland’s power transformed into Divine Power, his hair and eyes turned red, and he became a Second-Level Sequence Realm God.
• Zalama appointed Roland an Apprentice Dragon God and told him that Celestial Maiden power was also known as Judgment Power.
• Roland suspected the mysterious statue he had cultivated beside was the source of the Celestial Maiden power and asked Zalama what a Celestial Maiden was.