Chapter Summaries

Bardock initially overwhelmed Frieza in his crimson form, but Frieza transformed into Golden Frieza and revealed power greater than Bardock’s. The two clashed in a fierce, evenly matched fight, ending with Frieza forced back and furious that Bardock could stand against him.

• Bardock battered Frieza with a barrage of punches, driving him through the grassland and into a boulder.
• Frieza escaped Bardock’s close-range assault and transformed into Golden Frieza, shaking New Namek with his power.
• Krillin’s System Panel assessed Golden Frieza’s battle power as 7-dimensional, higher than Bardock’s Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form.
• Goku watched without joining the fight, while Krillin considered how each fighter’s strengths and weaknesses might decide the battle.
• Frieza and Bardock exchanged rapid attacks, countering each other’s punches, knees, elbows, and tail strikes.
• Bardock met Frieza’s punch head-on and forced him back half a step, leaving Frieza humiliated and enraged.

Golden Frieza brutally overwhelmed Bardock and taunted him over the Saiyans’ destruction, while Goku and the others watched without intervening. Frieza gave Bardock one more chance to stand, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Frieza battered Bardock across the battlefield, breaking his left shoulder and wrenching his right wrist until both arms were useless.
• Frieza pinned Bardock face-down in the dirt and ordered him to stay on his knees, while Gine and Raditz watched helplessly.
• Goku asked Krillin to let him join the fight, but Krillin refused because Bardock wanted to win on his own.
• Vegeta told Goku to respect Bardock as a warrior and not interfere.
• Frieza lifted his foot from Bardock’s back and challenged him to stand up again.

Bardock awakened a nascent Super Saiyan Blue form on New Namek, healing his injuries and confronting Frieza with newly overwhelming power. The chapter ended with Bardock landing a punch that made Golden Frieza cough up blood.

• Bardock forced himself to stand despite his shattered body and remembered Gine, Kakarot, and the destruction of Planet Vegeta.
• Bardock compressed his crimson divine flames until icy-blue energy emerged and deflected Frieza's Death Beam.
• Goku, Gine, Vegeta, Raditz, Broly, Gohan, and Krillin reacted as Bardock's aura awakened across New Namek.
• Krillin's System Panel identified Bardock as a nascent Super Saiyan Blue at the seventh dimension.
• Bardock's blue light healed his injuries and transformed his hair and eyes, prompting Frieza to retreat half a step.
• Bardock vanished and struck Frieza in the abdomen, making Golden Frieza cough up purple blood.

Bardock fought Frieza in his newly awakened Super Blue form, using brutal tactics and enough power to withstand Frieza’s attacks. As the battle continued, Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin, Raditz, and Broly watched, while Krillin warned that Bardock’s body might soon reach its limit.

• Bardock struck Frieza with a series of ruthless attacks, exploiting his opponent’s blind spots and injuring him.
• Frieza unleashed a huge sphere of golden energy, but Bardock resisted it and tore it apart from within.
• Frieza dropped his contempt and recognized that Bardock’s battle power had caught up to his own.
• Goku praised his father’s strength, while Vegeta analyzed Bardock’s form and felt his own ambition stir.
• Gohan and Krillin assessed Bardock’s energy control, and Krillin warned that the strain of Super Blue could soon overwhelm him.
• Raditz marveled at Bardock’s strength, while Broly watched with growing intensity.

Bardock and Frieza continued their battle on New Namek as Frieza’s Golden Frieza form began to falter, but both fighters pushed themselves toward their limits. After Frieza’s golden energy blast swallowed Bardock, Krillin urged Goku to believe in him.

• Bardock noticed Frieza’s slowing movements and struck him, while Frieza countered and both fighters were badly injured in their next clash.
• Frieza acknowledged Bardock as a warrior worth taking seriously, and Bardock refused to yield as Gine silently urged him to win.
• Frieza’s Golden Frieza form continued to weaken, but he attacked Bardock with lethal force while Bardock fought on despite his worsening injuries.
• Frieza formed a gigantic golden Energy Ball and fired a pillar of light that shattered Bardock’s barrier and swallowed him in dust.
• Goku began to move toward the battlefield, but Krillin stopped him and told him to believe in Bardock.

Bardock exhausted his blue transformation to land a decisive punch on Golden Frieza, and Krillin stopped the fight and treated Bardock while restraining Frieza. After Frieza accepted that he had been used as Bardock’s test, Krillin laid out the conditions for Frieza’s freedom, including a ban on rebuilding the Frieza Force.

• Frieza fired a Death Beam that pierced Bardock’s shoulder, but Bardock used his remaining strength to punch Frieza and knock him down as his blue aura faded.
• Krillin healed Bardock and pinned Frieza with an invisible force, ending the fight despite both warriors insisting they could continue.
• Goku supported Bardock, and Gine joined them as Bardock recovered from the battle.
• Frieza accused Krillin of arranging the fight to use him as a whetstone, and Krillin pointed out that Frieza had regained his body, grown taller, and tested his Golden Frieza form.
• Krillin told Frieza he could move and train freely and challenge the Saiyans, but forbade him from massacring people, destroying civilizations or inhabited planets, and rebuilding the Frieza Force.

Krillin forced Frieza to obey his rules by threatening to undo the wish that had made him taller, then healed him and Bardock. After Frieza left, Goku asked Bardock to teach him Super Blue, and Krillin outlined the next plans, including finding Broly a girlfriend.

• Krillin warned Frieza that he would send him back to Hell and undo the second wish if he broke the rules, and Frieza reluctantly agreed to behave.
• Krillin healed Bardock and Frieza, and Frieza walked away across New Namek.
• Goku asked Bardock to teach him the blue form, and Bardock said they would talk about it later.
• Vegeta and Gohan pointed out that Bardock needed steadier control of divine ki to master Super Blue.
• Krillin said the group would discuss Super Space-Time Training on Earth and announced he would find Broly a girlfriend.

After bringing Bardock, Gine, and Broly to Earth, Krillin arranged their stay at Mount Paozu and prepared a team to travel to Universe 12 for advanced technology. The group crossed a spatial rift and entered the universe, leaving their research mission about to begin.

• Krillin returned to Earth with Bardock, Gine, and Broly, and Bulma gave them key cards and arranged supplies.
• Krillin set up houses and chef robots at Mount Paozu, where Broly explored the grass and clear night sky.
• Krillin teleported Broly, Paragus, and Goku's family to Mount Paozu, while Raditz remained withdrawn at Capsule Corporation.
• Krillin told Bulma, Vomi, Ailins, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha that they needed Universe 12's technology to upgrade the Purple-Gold Martial God Core and other systems.
• After the group packed their equipment, Krillin opened a spatial rift and led them into Universe 12.

Krillin’s group visited Universe 12’s Orbital Academy of Sciences for a technical exchange, where Bulma and Vomi exposed flaws in its Dimensional Engine and Ailins introduced demon realm laws into its scientific model. The researchers were left scrambling to reassess their work as Krillin and Yamcha watched.

• Taks greeted the visitors from Universe 7 and accepted Krillin’s Zeno’s Palace Direct Access Pass, then led them to the academy after Bulma pressed him for technical details.
• Researchers at the Orbital Academy of Sciences made disparaging remarks about Universe 7’s technology, prompting Yamcha to object while Tien Shinhan restrained him.
• Valg welcomed the visitors but warned that the technological gap would make an exchange difficult.
• Bulma identified phase, cooling, and energy-input problems in the Dimensional Engine, and the academy’s monitoring panel confirmed her diagnosis.
• Vomi presented an Adaptive Neural Interface prototype with lower signal delay than the engine’s hard-coded control system.
• Ailins added demon realm laws to the academy’s model, causing the star map to recalculate and reveal high-energy activity in regions labeled energy dead zones.

Bulma, Vomi, and Ailins demonstrated how their knowledge surpassed Universe 12’s established science, earning the Earth team access to the Orbital Academy of Sciences’ restricted archives. As the three women headed there, Tien Shinhan set his sights on the Higher-Dimensional Simulation Battlefield.

• Valg verified Bulma’s three criticisms of the dimensional engine and began the technical exchange with cautious respect.
• Bulma demonstrated Universal Capsule technology and improved Universe 12’s Space Fold algorithm by challenging its outdated safety factor.
• Vomi explained how ki could work alongside machinery and had Tien Shinhan release enough ki to overwhelm the laboratory’s instruments.
• Ailins used a Demon Realm rune to explain anomalous energy-model data, resolving a flaw that had troubled Universe 12 researchers for three hundred years.
• The Supreme Committee granted the Earth team full access to restricted archives, and Valg secured an exchange of knowledge in return.
• As Bulma, Vomi, and Ailins left for the restricted area, Tien Shinhan decided to enter the Higher-Dimensional Simulation Battlefield.

Tien Shinhan tested his Kamehameha in the Universe 12 Academy of Sciences’ simulation battlefield and discovered that most of his energy was wasted in transmission. Quinn advised him to refine the attack into a concentrated penetrating ray, and Tien prepared to try the new approach.

• Tien Shinhan entered the simulation battlefield alone and destroyed a shielded target with a Kamehameha, but the system measured only 31% energy utilization.
• After twelve attempts at adjusting his output, Tien Shinhan raised utilization to 47% before reaching a bottleneck.
• Quinn scanned Tien Shinhan’s energy pathways and explained that energy was being lost as it passed through too many points in his body.
• Tien Shinhan said that firing the Kamehameha through his third eye had nearly shattered his skull, but Quinn argued that the problem was his reliance on compression.
• Quinn showed Tien Shinhan the thin, penetrating beam he had used to destroy Naturon Shenron and proposed purifying the energy into a concentrated ray.
• Quinn recommended that Tien Shinhan test the idea against progressively stronger defensive shields in the simulation battlefield.

Tien Shinhan refined his energy into the Divine Eye Kamehameha and pierced a simulated divine shield at the Universe 12 Orbital Academy of Sciences. After God of Destruction Jin learned the Grand Priest had ordered him to remain polite to Universe 7’s leader, Jin reconsidered confronting the visitors.

• Tien Shinhan repeatedly adjusted his third-eye beam until he purified it enough to pierce the target sphere and its simulated S-class divine shield.
• Tien Shinhan named the technique the Divine Eye Kamehameha and left the simulated battlefield, where Krillin and Chiaotzu awaited him.
• The academy’s internal network reported the shield penetration, triggering an alert that reached God of Destruction Jin.
• Jin prepared to visit the Universe 7 guests, but angel Martinu relayed the Grand Priest’s order to treat their leader politely.
• Jin sat back down, concluding that Universe 7’s leader must be a great figure who could rival Zeno.

Chiaotzu pushed past repeated mental overload in the Simulated Battlefield and used the Purple-Gold Core to control a trillion particles of stardust, awakening a Psychic Power Field with a Spatial Stasis effect. He named it the Golden Psychic Realm and left with Tien Shinhan, newly confident that he could fight head-on.

• Tien Shinhan found that Chiaotzu had entered the Simulated Battlefield and waited outside after reading his request to train alone.
• Chiaotzu repeatedly failed to control the Quantum Stardust Array, suffering mental overload and nosebleeds as he tried to expand his psychic power.
• Chiaotzu condensed his power into a Psychic Power Field, then used the Purple-Gold Core to flood it with energy and cover the simulated space.
• Chiaotzu controlled all one trillion particles and awakened a Spatial Stasis effect that slowed objects and beings with a lower mental dimension.
• Chiaotzu named the field the Golden Psychic Realm and told Tien Shinhan he could fight head-on, while Tien Shinhan wiped the blood from his face.
• Chiaotzu and Tien Shinhan left the Simulated Battlefield and heard Yamcha argue with a researcher about adding soy sauce to a fermented fungus drink, making Chiaotzu laugh.

Yamcha faced simulations of his greatest defeats and used the trials to awaken a space-rending form of the Wolf Fang Fist. He left the battlefield with a new technique and renewed confidence in his place among Earth's fighters.

• Yamcha entered the Psychological Simulation Battlefield and was repeatedly defeated by simulations of Cell, Krillin, Vegeta, Super Android 13, and Syn Shenron.
• Yamcha rejected the system's attempts to break him and drew on lessons from Master Mutaito and Master Roshi to find weaknesses while keeping his body and mind relaxed.
• Yamcha developed the Wolf God Space-Rending Fist, a close-quarters technique that opened a spatial rift and destroyed the phantoms.
• The system assessed Yamcha's new technique as lower Divine Realm, and he left the simulation battlefield to greet Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu.
• Yamcha declared that three Earthlings would now be enough as Tien Shinhan smiled and Chiaotzu celebrated.

Krillin met Gin, the God of Destruction of Universe 12, who treated him with fear and respect because of the Grand Priest’s decree. Krillin requested ancient records on Saiyan divinity fusion, then prepared to focus on Vegeta’s training.

• Yamcha bragged about the breakthroughs he, Tien Shinhan, and Chiaotzu had demonstrated at the academy.
• Gin arrived with Martinu and bowed formally to Krillin after sensing that he was beyond comprehension.
• Krillin told Gin he had brought his family for a technical exchange and asked for records on Saiyan divinity fusion.
• Martinu arranged access to the academy’s divine-tier database and estimated that compiling the records would take half a day.
• After Gin and Martinu left, Krillin decided to prepare for Vegeta’s training.

Krillin searched Universe 12’s divine records and discovered evidence of a fourth Saiyan evolution path, Ego, tied to the royal bloodline. He concluded that Vegeta alone could follow it, then Bulma called him over to see what she had found.

• Martinu delivered a crystal containing encrypted ancient Saiyan records, and Krillin connected to the divine database.
• Krillin reviewed the known Saiyan evolutionary paths and found a top-secret report about royal bloodline mutations.
• The report explained that Saiyan royalty could retain reason as Great Apes and possessed a distinct S Cell variant driven by domination.
• Krillin learned that the first Saiyan king, Vega, founded the dynasty and that the royal bloodline’s ultimate evolution was called Ego.
• Krillin concluded that Vegeta was the only Saiyan who could pursue the path of absolute self-command.
• Bulma called to Krillin from the corridor and urged him to come see what she had found.

Bulma, Vomi, and Ailins returned from the cross-universe research exchange with valuable scientific discoveries, and Krillin brought the group back to Earth. After sensing Vegeta struggling in the Gravity Room, Krillin went to check on him.

• Bulma, Vomi, and Ailins presented the research and energy models they had acquired, and Bulma asked to return to the lab immediately.
• Krillin led the group through a rift back to Universe 7 after Valg and Gin thanked them for the exchange.
• Bulma and Vomi hurried to West City to begin their work, while Ailins departed and Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha prepared to go home.
• Krillin sensed Vegeta’s agitated ki and reflected on how Vegeta’s royal pride shaped his potential.
• Krillin told the others to rest and flew down from Kami’s Lookout to check on Vegeta.

Vegeta pushed himself through three days of training but could not break past Super Saiyan 4 Mid-Level. Krillin told him he needed a path of his own and took him to another universe to face a powerful monster.

• Vegeta damaged Capsule Corporation's Gravity Room while training and brooded over how Goku, Gohan, and Broly had surpassed him.
• Krillin visited Vegeta and explained that he had enough power but lacked a personal driving force.
• Vegeta admitted he did not know what his path was, and Krillin offered to take him to meet a monster feared even by a God of Destruction.
• Vegeta shut down the Gravity Room and agreed to go with Krillin.
• Krillin transported Vegeta to another universe, where they arrived in a dark purple void near a giant red-glowing planet.

Krillin brought Vegeta to an abandoned planet in Universe 11 to face Jiren in a fight that could push him past his limits. Jiren judged Vegeta too weak, leaving the Saiyan Prince eager to prove himself.

• Vegeta arrived with Krillin on a ruined, high-gravity planet in Universe 11 and asked what it was.
• Krillin explained that the planet had once supported a civilization before someone destroyed it.
• Jiren approached, and his overwhelming presence made Vegeta's Super Saiyan 4 aura contract as the planet trembled.
• Krillin told Jiren that Vegeta needed a life-or-death fight to break through his bottleneck.
• Vegeta's aura erupted, but Jiren looked him over and said he was too weak.

Jiren effortlessly stopped Vegeta’s strongest attack, defeated him with a finger, and nearly killed him before Krillin intervened. As Vegeta lay helpless, Krillin gave him more time to discover what he truly wanted, and Vegeta began searching his memories for why he kept falling behind.

• Vegeta unleashed his full Super Saiyan 4 Mid-Level power, but Jiren stopped his punch with one finger and dismissed his strength.
• Vegeta attacked Jiren with punches, kicks, and Energy Balls, but Jiren casually deflected every attack and tapped Vegeta in the chest, sending him crashing into a mountain.
• Jiren called Vegeta boring, then prepared a destructive energy sphere while Vegeta lay near death in the crater.
• Krillin asked Jiren to give Vegeta more time to figure out what he wanted, and Jiren lowered his hand and let the sphere dissipate.
• Vegeta reflected on his ambition to become the strongest and remembered how Frieza, Gohan, Broly, Bardock, and Jiren had surpassed or crushed him.
• Vegeta wondered why others could break through their limits while he remained stuck, and resolved that he had to find the answer.