Chapter Summaries

Mu Yang had Milif demonstrate Super Saiyan forms and explain how S Cells enabled the transformation. He brought Bardock to Planet Sala to learn the method, where tests showed Bardock’s S Cells were nearing the transformation threshold, then returned to Earth alone.

• Mu Yang summoned Milif, who demonstrated Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan 2 and explained that activating S Cells enabled Saiyan transformations.
• April began researching Saiyan S Cells and genetic similarities, while Vien started trying to transform.
• Mu Yang visited Bardock and offered to teach him the Super Saiyan method.
• Bardock left his army’s affairs to his deputy and traveled with Mu Yang to Planet Sala.
• Bardock trained with Milif, and April’s examinations showed his S Cells were approaching the critical level for transformation.
• Mu Yang returned to Earth alone after several days on Planet Sala.

The World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament narrowed its competitors to eight, where Launch defeated Tien Shinhan and joined Son Goku, Chi-Chi, Yamcha, and the others in the quarterfinals. Afterward, Launch reunited with Son Goku and Chi-Chi, leaving Krillin intimidated by her strength and rough manner.

• Son Goku, Chi-Chi, Krillin, and the other fighters advanced through the tournament rounds, but Tien Shinhan eliminated Krillin in the round of sixteen.
• Yamcha defeated Chiaotzu, Son Goku narrowly beat King Kappah, and Yajirobe defeated Chi-Chi in the quarterfinals.
• Launch defeated Tien Shinhan, who recalled Korin's warning about a powerful opponent and resolved to take his future opponents seriously.
• Krillin asked Son Goku how he knew Launch, and Son Goku explained that he and Broly had followed her when they were children.
• Launch teased Son Goku, bullied him playfully, and ordered Krillin out of her way before going over to Chi-Chi.

Son Goku defeated Yamcha in the first semifinal of the martial arts tournament and advanced to the finals. Yamcha accepted the loss and vowed to train until he could beat Son Goku.

• Yamcha and Son Goku began the semifinal, with Yamcha declaring he had trained for a year to defeat him.
• Yamcha attacked with Wolf Fang Fist and Spirit Ball, but Son Goku countered with his speed and a Ki Blast.
• Chi-Chi and Launch observed that Son Goku had a clear advantage as Yamcha grew tired.
• Yamcha unleashed his strongest attack, but Son Goku struck him and kicked him out of the ring.
• Yamcha congratulated Son Goku and promised to challenge him again, while the Blonde Host announced Son Goku's advance to the finals.
• Bulma celebrated Son Goku's win, and Master Roshi proudly claimed credit for his training.

Launch defeated Yajirobe and then faced Son Goku in the tournament final, revealing the huge gap between their strength. Mu Yang appeared among the spectators and identified himself as the God of Martial Arts, leaving Krillin stunned.

• Master Roshi judged that Yajirobe and Launch were both powerful, while Bulma said Launch was Kanarita's disciple.
• Launch easily defeated Yajirobe and advanced to the final against Son Goku.
• Launch told Son Goku she planned to beat him up to help him grow stronger, then fought him in a fast, destructive exchange.
• Tien Shinhan and the others recognized Launch's extraordinary strength, while Mu Yang explained that her Battle Power far exceeded Son Goku's.
• Mu Yang revealed that he was the God of Martial Arts and invited Yajirobe to train at the Sacred Temple after the tournament.

Mu Yang watched Son Goku and Launch’s tournament fight while meeting his adopted son Broly and encouraging the young martial artists to sense ki. As Son Goku prepared a powerful final technique against Launch, Master Roshi suspected Gohan had taught it to him.

• Mu Yang told Krillin and the other young fighters to watch the match and practice sensing ki, and Krillin struggled to follow the fighters’ movements.
• Mu Yang reunited with Amiya and greeted Broly, praising his Battle Power of 240,000 and urging him to keep training.
• Tien Shinhan and Yamcha felt overwhelmed by Broly’s aura, while Yamcha resolved to climb the Sacred Temple and seek the Guardian’s guidance.
• Son Goku challenged Launch with a final move, and Master Roshi recognized that it was not the Kamehameha and wondered whether Gohan had taught it to him.

Son Goku used the Kikoho to nearly defeat Launch, but she survived the attack and won the 21st World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament. After the tournament, the organizers announced the next event and Launch celebrated her prize money at dinner.

• Son Goku unleashed a fully charged Kikoho, destroying the martial arts stage as Launch defended herself with a barrier.
• Son Goku admitted defeat after exhausting his strength, and Launch was declared the tournament champion.
• The Blonde Host announced that the tournament would take place every three years, with the next one on Papaya Island.
• Launch counted her prize money at the post-tournament dinner while Mu Yang and Broly discussed her personality.

Mu Yang advised Tien Shinhan and the others on their next stages of martial arts training, then arranged for Cypriel to collect Launch’s blood in both of her states. He hoped April’s research would reveal whether Earthlings were related to the Saiyans of Planet Sala.

• Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Yajirobe asked Mu Yang for training advice, and he recommended that they train at the Sacred Temple after Karin Tower.
• Mu Yang told Krillin that he could challenge Karin Tower with Chi-Chi when the time came.
• Mu Yang asked Launch for blood so April could investigate her unusual transformations and possible Saiyan connection, and Launch agreed.
• Mu Yang knocked Launch unconscious when she panicked at the sight of the syringe, and Broly carried her to the bed.
• Cypriel drew blood from blond Launch, then Mu Yang made her sneeze so she transformed before Cypriel collected another sample.

Mu Yang collected Launch’s blood for April’s research, then took the children to enjoy the tournament night market and agreed that Lazuli and Lapis would train at the Da Qingshan Mountains. After the tournament, the martial artists separated to pursue their own training, and Son Goku left for Five Elements Mountain while Mu Yang and his family returned to Da Qingshan.

• Mu Yang had Cypriel draw blue-haired Launch’s blood, healed her with a Senzu Bean, and sent the samples to April.
• Broly took Launch to the night market, while Mu Yang took Mu Qiu, Amiya, Lazuli, and Lapis around the tournament grounds.
• Cypriel and Nick proposed sending Lazuli and Lapis to train at the Da Qingshan Mountains, and Mu Yang agreed.
• Yamcha declared that he would defeat Son Goku in three years, while Master Roshi planned for Chi-Chi and Krillin to train at Karin Tower.
• Son Goku said goodbye to Chi-Chi and Bulma, then flew to Five Elements Mountain; Mu Yang took his family to the Da Qingshan Mountains.

Three years after the previous tournament, Son Goku and the other martial artists continued training as Earth prepared for the 22nd World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament. King Piccolo learned about the Dragon Balls and sent Tambourine to kill the world’s martial artists, especially Son Goku, beginning with the tournament on Papaya Island.

• Krillin and Chi-Chi completed Korin's training, passed Popo's test, and joined Tien Shinhan and Yajirobe in training at the Sacred Temple.
• Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, and the others learned Kamioken and raised their Battle Power through training with Popo and Kanarita.
• Son Goku finished training at the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and Bulma agreed to travel with him to the tournament on Papaya Island.
• King Piccolo ordered Pilaf, Ashu, and Shu to gather the Dragon Balls and promised them rewards.
• King Piccolo sent Tambourine to kill martial artists and find the Dragon Balls, directing him to target Son Goku at the tournament.

After winning the 22nd Martial Arts Tournament, Son Goku planned to train at the Sacred Temple and travel to other planets, while Bulma and Chi-Chi asked to join him. The celebration ended when Tambourine burst into the restaurant and confronted Son Goku.

• Tambourine flew toward Papaya Island, planning to kill Son Goku and use the tournament’s contestant list to hunt down martial artists.
• Son Goku defeated Tien Shinhan, Yajirobe, and the other contestants to win the tournament.
• Son Goku agreed to take Chi-Chi and a shrunken Bulma with him to the Sacred Temple, and the martial artists discussed training on other planets.
• Bulma explained that her older sister Tais wrote authentic accounts of powerful figures and places across the universe.
• Tambourine smashed into the restaurant, found Son Goku, and declared that he had finally found him.

Tambourine arrived on King Piccolo’s orders to kill Son Goku and the martial artists, but Goku killed him with one punch. Master Roshi recalled King Piccolo’s past rampage and planned to face him alone, until Chi-Chi’s comparison to an earlier Demon Clan crisis made the others question the threat; Goku and Tien Shinhan could not sense King Piccolo’s ki.

• Tambourine announced that King Piccolo had sent him to kill Son Goku and the martial artists, but Son Goku killed him with a single punch.
• Master Roshi identified King Piccolo as the Demon King who had nearly destroyed the world and said he would go alone to seal him again.
• Master Roshi recounted how Master Mutaito had used the Mafuba to seal King Piccolo, dying from exhaustion afterward.
• Chi-Chi pointed out that the Demon Clan disaster over forty years earlier had overwhelmed Old Kami, making Master Roshi reconsider how dangerous King Piccolo was.
• Krillin urged the group to hunt King Piccolo, and Son Goku and Tien Shinhan searched for his ki but could not sense it.

Son Goku, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, and Bulma set out for the Sacred Temple to ask the Guardian to locate King Piccolo. After Tambourine and Doram were killed, King Piccolo ordered the Dragon Ball search accelerated and considered splitting off an offspring as insurance, while the group reached Karin Tower on their way to the Temple.

• Chi-Chi suggested asking Sister Kanarita to locate King Piccolo, and Son Goku, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, and Bulma flew toward the Sacred Temple.
• Master Roshi stayed behind with Oolong and Puar, reflected on Tambourine’s death, and discarded the paper marked with the character “Demon.”
• King Piccolo learned that Tambourine had been killed, sent Doram to investigate and kill martial artists, and demanded that Pilaf find the remaining Dragon Balls by the next day.
• King Piccolo felt his mental connection with Doram break and, fearing powerful fighters on Earth, decided he needed to restore his youth and consider creating an offspring.
• Son Goku and the others arrived at Karin Tower and flew upward toward the Sacred Temple.

Son Goku and the others learned King Piccolo's location from Kanarita and flew to stop him from summoning Shenron. They cornered him on an Arctic island just before he could finish calling the dragon.

• Son Goku, Bulma, and their companions arrived at the Sacred Temple, where Kanarita gave them King Piccolo's location and warned that he was collecting the Dragon Balls.
• Son Goku, Chi-Chi, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Yajirobe flew to confront King Piccolo, while Kanarita kept Bulma at the Sacred Temple.
• Pilaf, Ashu, and Shu gave King Piccolo the seventh Dragon Ball, and he prepared to summon Shenron and regain his youth.
• The seven fighters attacked King Piccolo before he could finish summoning Shenron and surrounded him.
• King Piccolo demanded to know who the fighters were.

Son Goku and the others confronted King Piccolo on the polar ice field and discovered they vastly outmatched him. Son Goku killed King Piccolo before he could reach the Dragon Balls, but the villain’s final explosion buried Pilaf and his companions beneath ice and snow.

• King Piccolo recognized that Tien Shinhan and the others had come from Kami and threatened to kill them, but the group revealed auras far stronger than his own.
• Realizing the fighters were stronger than he had been at his peak, King Piccolo attacked Yajirobe, who cut a deep wound across his chest.
• King Piccolo rushed toward the Dragon Balls to restore his strength, but Son Goku intercepted him and punched a hole through his chest.
• King Piccolo died in a massive explosion, and the blast buried Pilaf and his companions beneath shattered ice and snow.
• Afterward, Krillin questioned how King Piccolo had once threatened Earth, and Tien Shinhan explained that Earth’s martial artists had grown much stronger since his time.

After King Piccolo’s defeat, Krillin used the Dragon Balls to learn where his future wife was and traveled north to find her. He met Suno in a village near Muscle Tower, realizing she was the girl Shenron had led him to.

• Son Goku, Chi-Chi, Krillin, and the others returned to the Sacred Temple, where Son Goku began training and Bulma explored its unusual facilities.
• Krillin gathered the seven Dragon Balls, summoned Shenron, and learned that his future wife was somewhere in the far north.
• Krillin flew toward Muscle Tower and reached a snowy village troubled by the Red Ribbon Army.
• Suno approached Krillin while carrying firewood and asked why he was dressed so lightly in the cold.
• Krillin introduced himself to Suno as a disciple of the Kame Style.

Krillin visited Suno’s family and promised to destroy the Red Ribbon Army at Muscle Tower. Elsewhere, April discovered that Launch had S Cells, suggesting that a small branch of Earthlings shared a connection with Saiyans.

• Krillin accepted Suno’s invitation to her home and learned that the Red Ribbon Army had been harassing nearby villages.
• Krillin showed Suno’s family his martial artist identification and promised to wipe out the Red Ribbon Army at Muscle Tower.
• Mu Qiu and Amiya fought on a primitive planet, demonstrating Battle Power nearing 10,000 as Meliya, Melis, and April watched.
• April told Meliya that Launch had S Cells, which were especially advantageous in her blonde state but suppressed by a mysterious force.
• April concluded that only a small group of Earthlings carried S Cells and that Launch was exceptionally powerful among them.

April speculated that Earthlings descended from a powerful ancient race and asked Meliya to provide Saiyan blood for her research. Meanwhile, Mu Yang rethought his martial arts realms and began merging their power into his physical body, leaving his Battle Power steadily rising.

• April theorized that Earthlings had inherited their potential from an ancient powerful race and asked Meliya to arrange blood samples from Vien and Bardock for her Super Saiyan research.
• Melis ended Mu Qiu and Amiya's argument by declaring their fight a draw, then teleported them to Planet Sala for a feast.
• Meliya and April teleported to Broly and Launch, while April went on to find Mu Yang.
• Mu Yang concluded that a true realm should have no separate state and sought to merge Autonomous Intent and Ultimate Intent into his normal body.
• As the realm's power began transferring into his body, Mu Yang's apparent Battle Power rose to twelve billion.

Mu Yang tested the strength he gained by breaking through another limit, then returned to Planet Sala with April and his family. Meanwhile, King Piccolo’s egg hatched, and the newborn Piccolo learned how his father had died and vowed to grow strong enough to defeat Son Goku and rule the world.

• Mu Yang punched through the void, disrupting a planetary system, then used Acceleration World to restore the displaced satellites and asteroids.
• April told Mu Yang about her research, and he urged her to accelerate her work on S Cells before ordering Bardock to return to the Shepherd God Faction.
• Mu Yang and April teleported to Planet Sala, where Vien hosted a banquet and the Super Saiyans gathered around Meliya and Melis to ask about their transformations.
• King Piccolo’s egg cracked in a forest on Earth, and the newborn Piccolo emerged as Cymbal bowed and pledged his service.
• Piccolo questioned Cymbal about his father’s death, learned that Son Goku had killed King Piccolo, and vowed to become powerful enough to defeat Goku and rule the world.

Piccolo trained in the Yunzebit Highlands to surpass his father, while Son Goku and the others arrived on Central Star and began training and exploring. The chapter ended with a mysterious pink figure emerging into the universe and wondering which timeline it had reached.

• Piccolo traveled to the Yunzebit Highlands and endured its harsh conditions to grow stronger, eventually surpassing King Piccolo's strength.
• Son Goku, Bulma, Chi-Chi, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Yajirobe arrived on Central Star with Kanarita's permission and split up to train and explore.
• Son Goku reunited with Gine, who arranged experts to train him, a laboratory for Bulma, and a training ground for Chi-Chi.
• A pink figure emerged from a distorted void, realized it had entered an entire universe, and resolved to avoid attracting attention.

Majin 21 arrived in Universe 7 and began hunting its powerful inhabitants, drawing Whis's attention as an outside threat. North King Kai discovered the danger spreading through his territory and called Grand King Kai for help.

• Majin 21 arrived in the North Galaxy, planned to find Son Goku, and began turning powerful inhabitants into sweets to eat.
• Whis saw Majin 21 hunting planets through his Divine Staff and set off for the mortal realm to stop the foreign threat.
• North King Kai sensed a terrifying presence and watched Majin 21 devour powerful lifeforms across his territory.
• North King Kai failed to locate Mu Yang and contacted Grand King Kai, pleading for help to save the North Galaxy.