Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot tells Vegeta about Broly, the legendary Super Saiyan. In his timeline, Broly has reached Super Saiyan 9, leaving Vegeta third in strength and Broly second. Vegeta vows to surpass Kakarot; Goku is unconcerned.
• The next day, Scumbag Kakarot takes Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, and Piccolo into a pocket dimension where one year passes for every hour outside. He restores the Saiyans’ tails and equips the fighters with Gravity Suits capable of extreme gravity.
• He teaches them to cultivate divine power. The Saiyans are to prioritize their bloodline, using divine power as a secondary path to extend their lifespans; Piccolo is encouraged to focus on divine power.
• Scumbag Kakarot summons Piccolo from Universe 3 to train this timeline’s Piccolo. The two Piccolos trade barbs, but Universe 3’s Piccolo takes on the role of mentor.
• Goku and Vegeta train in base form under increasing gravity. After a year, both reach Super Saiyan 2; Gohan follows half a month later, while Trunks reaches Super Saiyan 1.
• Ten years later inside the dimension, Goku and Vegeta have pushed Super Saiyan 3 to its limit but cannot advance further. Scumbag Kakarot tells them that Super Saiyan 4 requires awakening their Saiyan bloodline power—and that their restored tails will matter.

Character developments and interactions

• Vegeta reacts angrily to learning he is surpassed by both Goku and Broly, renewing his determination to become stronger.
• Goku and Vegeta grow through intense training, reach Super Saiyan 2 together, and maintain a competitive but cooperative partnership.
• Gohan and Trunks make earlier breakthroughs of their own, though they begin at lower gravity levels than the older Saiyans.
• Piccolo bristles at being called weak by his Universe 3 counterpart, but follows him to train. Their exchange establishes the other Piccolo as both blunt and willing to help.
• Scumbag Kakarot acts as trainer and guide, tailoring the fighters’ instruction to their abilities and long-term potential.

Significant themes

• Rivalry and ambition: Vegeta’s pride drives his resolve to catch up with Goku and surpass his rivals.
• Training and gradual progress: Extreme gravity and sustained effort produce major gains over years.
• Different paths to power: Saiyan bloodline development and divine-power cultivation offer complementary routes, with Piccolo following a distinct path.
• Long-term growth and transformation: Reaching higher forms requires more than raw strength; the next stage depends on awakening latent Saiyan potential.

Key events

• Scumbag Kakarot explains that Super Saiyan 4 requires a tail: a Saiyan transforms into a Great Ape, then a Golden Great Ape, and compresses that form’s energy back into a human-sized body.
• Vegeta creates an Artificial Moon and becomes the first to reach Super Saiyan 4. Goku follows, with Scumbag Kakarot helping him regain control as a Golden Great Ape. Gohan and Trunks also achieve the form.
• Scumbag Kakarot teaches them about forms beyond Super Saiyan 4, then leaves. Two days later, he returns to find Goku and Vegeta have advanced to the limits of Super Saiyan 5 and are training for Super Saiyan 6.
• Scumbag Kakarot tells them that Cell has arrived from another timeline. He assigns Trunks to kill Cell, both for revenge and combat experience.
• Trunks confronts Cell after Cell absorbs a city’s population. Trunks overpowers him and destroys him with a Masenko, speaking only four lines before finishing the fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Vegeta eagerly embraces Super Saiyan 4 and is thrilled by the power it brings, though Scumbag Kakarot checks his arrogance by reminding him how much his fortunes have changed.
• Goku is initially hesitant to transform, but Scumbag Kakarot’s encouragement helps him regain control and succeed.
• Gohan and Trunks prove capable of reaching Super Saiyan 4 as well. Trunks later shows confidence and decisiveness in battle.
• Trunks’s mother is astonished that he has grown from a child into an adult during the short time he was away.
• After Cell’s death, Scumbag Kakarot praises Trunks for acting without hesitation and urges him not to imitate Goku or Vegeta’s tendency to prolong fights.

Significant themes

• Transformation and growth: New forms represent a deeper evolution of Saiyan power and identity.
• Decisive justice: Trunks believes Cell’s mass murder makes immediate punishment necessary; the chapter endorses finishing dangerous enemies rather than giving them time to threaten others.
• Mentorship and accountability: Scumbag Kakarot guides the group, challenges Vegeta’s pride, and reinforces Trunks’s commitment to decisive action.

Key plot points and events

• After returning from the Room of Spirit and Time, Trunks and the others continue training. In a future sequence, Goku and Vegeta reach Super Saiyan 7, Gohan and Trunks follow, and Piccolo attains his diamond form.
• The chapter briefly recounts later events: Trunks defeats both versions of Zamasu, Universe 7 dominates the Tournament of Power, and Beerus eventually trains for twenty years to avenge an earlier defeat by Vegeta.
• The focus shifts to Scumbag Kakarot, who arrives with Chi-Chi, Bulma, and Lazuli in a timeline where Goku is fighting Kid Buu on the Sacred World of the Kai. Earth has already been destroyed.
• Vegeta recognizes that the visitor is a version of Kakarot from another timeline. Enraged to learn that this Goku is married to Bulma, Vegeta attacks, but Scumbag Kakarot effortlessly knocks him out.
• Scumbag Kakarot takes Vegeta to Old Kai, then intervenes in Goku and Kid Buu’s fight. He stops both fighters, shrugs off Buu’s attack, immobilizes Buu, and restores Goku’s tail.
• He tells Goku that he has eliminated Super Saiyan 3’s energy loss. Goku transforms, confirms the improvement, and fights Kid Buu. He repeatedly gains the advantage and blasts Buu apart, but Buu regenerates each time.
• Scumbag Kakarot watches the battle with Old Kai and the others. Meanwhile, Android 18 beats up the unconscious Vegeta.

Character developments and interactions

• Scumbag Kakarot displays overwhelming power and control, treating the fight as an opportunity to help this timeline’s Goku rather than defeat Buu himself. His marriage to Bulma provokes Vegeta’s fury.
• Goku is given a major advantage: Super Saiyan 3 no longer drains his energy, allowing him to fight at full strength for longer.
• Vegeta reacts possessively and angrily to the news about Bulma, but is effortlessly defeated and later assaulted by Android 18.
• Kid Buu remains ferocious and resilient, repeatedly regenerating after Goku destroys his body.
• Old Kai is curious about the time-traveling visitor but waits to ask questions, while Bulma, Chi-Chi, and Lazuli are left to explain.

Significant themes

• Power and mastery: Scumbag Kakarot’s effortless feats contrast with Goku’s hard-fought battle and show how much stronger the visitor is.
• Removing limits: Fixing Super Saiyan 3’s energy leakage transforms the form from a costly burst of power into a more sustainable fighting tool.
• Alternate timelines and relationships: The crossover highlights how different lives—and especially Goku and Bulma’s marriage—can reshape familiar rivalries.
• Persistence against regeneration: Goku can overpower Buu, but Buu’s ability to recover makes victory far from certain.

Plot and events

• Super Saiyan 3 Goku battles Kid Buu for half an hour, blasting him apart eight times, but Buu repeatedly regenerates. Goku’s stamina fades, and he begins to lose ground.
• Scumbag Kakarot arrives and effortlessly destroys Kid Buu with a breath, exposing the vast difference in their power.
• Scumbag Kakarot reunites with Lazuli, Bulma, and Chi-Chi, whom he identifies as his wives. He also defeats Vegeta’s challenge by revealing that he is far stronger than the Goku and Vegeta they know.
• He restores Earth and revives those killed by Buu, including Old Kai. He then creates a Space-Time Secret Realm and trains Earth’s fighters. In ten days, Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan reach Super Saiyan 7; Goten and Trunks reach Super Saiyan 6; and Piccolo develops Diamond Form.
• Scumbag Kakarot and the three women travel to another timeline, where they find Zamasu in Goku’s body trying to kill Chi-Chi. Kakarot recognizes him, removes Zamasu’s soul, and crushes it. He restores Goku’s soul to his body, and Goku awakens.

Character developments and interactions

• Goku proves persistent against Buu but cannot overcome its regeneration or the stamina cost of Super Saiyan 3. He is stunned by Scumbag Kakarot’s strength.
• Vegeta, after being beaten by Lazuli, restrains his usual outbursts and acknowledges that the mysterious Kakarot is unlike the Goku he knows.
• Scumbag Kakarot remains supremely confident and dismissive of opponents, but also acts as a rescuer and trainer, reviving Earth’s population and preparing its fighters for future threats.
• The restored Goku reacts angrily to Zamasu’s body theft. Scumbag Kakarot rebukes him for assuming that Zamasu’s status as a divine candidate made him trustworthy.
• Chi-Chi helps explain the situation to her counterpart in the new timeline, while Kakarot confronts and destroys Zamasu directly.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Goku’s effort and transformations are insufficient against Buu’s regeneration, while Scumbag Kakarot’s strength makes the same threats trivial.
• Preparation and growth: Intensive training transforms the Earth warriors into defenders capable of facing future dangers.
• Identity and trust: Zamasu’s theft of Goku’s body highlights the difference between appearance or title and true character.
• Responsibility and intervention: Scumbag Kakarot uses his power to undo devastation, train others, and stop threats across timelines.

Plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot tells Goku that, without his intervention, Zamasu—using Goku’s body—would have killed Chi-Chi, Gohan, Goten, Vegeta, Bulma, Trunks, Piccolo, Krillin, and the others. Goku takes the warning seriously and agrees to hear him out.
• At Goku’s impoverished home, Scumbag Kakarot brings Chi-Chi a huge diamond mountain, apparently recognizing the hardship behind her temper. He then explains his background and agrees to fight Goku and Vegeta after visiting Vegeta.
• Vegeta learns who Scumbag Kakarot is and approves of the nickname. After a meal, he and Goku challenge their visitor. Scumbag Kakarot stops Vegeta’s punch with one finger, then has a duplicate knock both Saiyans out with effortless forehead flicks.
• Scumbag Kakarot wakes them and urges them to recognize how much stronger others can be. He creates a space-time training realm and teaches them a Saiyan evolution path.
• After ten days outside the realm—equivalent to 240 years of training—Goku and Vegeta emerge at Super Saiyan 7. Vegeta immediately challenges Scumbag Kakarot again.
• They return to the Sacred World of the Kai, where Vegeta transforms. The immense aura alerts Beerus and Whis, who head there to investigate. Scumbag Kakarot praises Vegeta’s progress, and the chapter ends as their rematch is about to begin.

Character developments and interactions

• Goku moves from stunned defensiveness to accepting Scumbag Kakarot’s warning and learning from his defeat. He remains eager to test himself.
• Vegeta is initially shocked by the power gap, but turns that humiliation into focused training and renewed confidence. His challenge reflects his pride and competitiveness.
• Scumbag Kakarot acts as a blunt mentor: he protects Goku’s friends, supports Chi-Chi materially, demonstrates the Saiyans’ weakness, and gives them a path to improve.
• Chi-Chi welcomes the diamond mountain, suggesting that Scumbag Kakarot’s gesture addresses the family’s financial strain.
• Old Kai objects to the repeated fights but is easily placated when Goku gives him a magazine.
• Beerus and Whis become curious and alarmed by Vegeta’s sudden, extraordinary growth.

Significant themes

• Humility and perspective: Goku and Vegeta must confront the limits of their strength.
• Growth through discipline: Decades of training in the realm transform their abilities.
• Mentorship and challenge: Scumbag Kakarot’s harsh lessons motivate rather than simply defeat them.
• Power and responsibility: His reminder that Zamasu threatened everyone close to Goku frames strength as protection for others.

Key plot points and events

• Super Saiyan 7 Vegeta attacks Scumbag Kakarot, but his blows barely affect him. Kakarot’s body is extraordinarily durable, and he uses a headbutt to daze Vegeta.
• Kakarot reveals that he is using Ultra Instinct, then ends the fight by using time manipulation to appear behind Vegeta and knock him out with one slap.
• Goku explains to Beerus and Whis that he and Vegeta trained for more than 240 years in a time-altered realm, reaching their current power. Whis notes that Vegeta’s strength is now comparable to his own.
• Kakarot confirms he trained Goku and Vegeta and says he is visiting this timeline on vacation. To reassure Beerus about his unauthorized time travel, he shows a token connecting him to both Zenos; their approval leaves Beerus too intimidated to object.
• The group returns to Vegeta’s home for a feast. Kakarot answers Whis’s questions, and Beerus jokes that Whis may have to consider Kakarot his brother-in-law.
• At Goku’s request, Kakarot prepares to demonstrate Super Saiyan 10. He promises to contain its aura so it will not damage Vegeta’s house, then begins transforming in a burst of nine-colored light.

Character developments

• Scumbag Kakarot is established as overwhelmingly powerful, relaxed, and playful. His command of Ultra Instinct and time manipulation lets him defeat Vegeta effortlessly, while his ties to the Zenos give him unusual authority.
• Vegeta displays impressive power and persistence, but realizes he is outmatched. Despite being knocked unconscious, he remains hospitable and welcomes the group to his home.
• Goku is proud of the strength he and Vegeta gained through prolonged training and treats Beerus’s irritation casually.
• Beerus and Whis are surprised by the Saiyans’ growth and Kakarot’s strength. Beerus shifts from threatening him over time travel to accepting his presence once the Zenos’ support is revealed.

Significant themes

• Power and humility: Vegeta’s formidable strength is eclipsed by Kakarot’s, while Beerus is forced to confront how much others have surpassed him.
• Training and transformation: Years of training in a time-dilated realm explain Goku and Vegeta’s rapid advancement.
• Authority and consequence: Kakarot’s relationship with the Zenos overrides Beerus’s objections about time travel.
• Playfulness amid conflict: Taunts, jokes, and a shared meal soften the tension between rivals and cosmic authorities.

Character interactions

• Kakarot and Vegeta clash in a one-sided battle marked by Vegeta’s determined attacks and Kakarot’s teasing confidence.
• Goku explains the fighters’ identities and training to Beerus and Whis, while Beerus trades insults with Goku.
• Kakarot confronts Beerus’s objections with proof of the Zenos’ approval, prompting Beerus to back down.
• The group shares a meal at Vegeta’s home, where Whis questions Kakarot and Beerus jokes about his connection to Whis; Goku then asks Kakarot to show his next transformation.

Plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot reveals Super Saiyan 10, whose restrained power feels comparable to Zeno’s or the Grand Priest’s. He tells Goku and Vegeta that reaching that level is unlikely for them, though both vow to keep training.
• Three days later, Scumbag Kakarot, Bulma, Chi-Chi, and Lazuli spot a figure crossing the river of time and follow him into another timeline. The stranger is Yamoshi, the ancient Saiyan ancestor and legendary Super Saiyan God.
• Yamoshi recounts that an evil demon corrupted many Saiyans, leading to the destruction of Planet Sadala. He became a Super Saiyan God by drawing on the righteous hearts of five Saiyans, later helped capture the demon Isaiah, and had been guarding him until Demigra and Mechikabura freed him.
• Scumbag Kakarot explains that he has already defeated the villains, including the Omni-Demon formed from five powerful beings. To prove his strength, he transforms into Super Saiyan 9, convincing Yamoshi.
• With no immediate purpose left, Yamoshi accepts Scumbag Kakarot’s invitation to visit his timeline and see the later Saiyans.
• Chronoa arrives with several Gokus and Vegetas to announce that the Time-Space Martial Arts Tournament is ready. Number Six Goku asks to spar with Yamoshi, who agrees. Scumbag Kakarot takes them all to the Dimensional Space so they can fight without damaging anything.

Character developments and interactions

• Goku and Vegeta remain determined despite Scumbag Kakarot’s warning that even Super Saiyan 8 may be beyond their reach.
• Yamoshi shifts from seeking the Grand Priest’s help to exploring the future of the Saiyan people. He is impressed by Scumbag Kakarot and welcomes a spar with his descendant.
• Number Six Goku’s familiar enthusiasm for fighting strong opponents resurfaces; Scumbag Kakarot teases him about it.
• Number Five Vegeta is surprised to meet Yamoshi and learns that accounts of the ancestor vary across timelines.

Significant themes

• Legacy and history: Yamoshi’s story shows how Saiyan history changes across timelines, while his meeting with later descendants links past and future.
• Perseverance and limits: Goku and Vegeta accept that their goals may be distant but refuse to stop training.
• Strength and responsibility: Scumbag Kakarot’s overwhelming power is presented alongside his care for others and his choice of a safe arena for the fight.

Plot points and events

• Yamoshi transforms into his White God first-stage form, while Number Six Goku reveals Super Saiyan 6. They begin sparring in Scumbag Kakarot’s Dimensional Space, which is sturdy enough to contain their attacks.
• Yamoshi initially dominates, using a Wolf Fang Fist combination, a hammer blow, and energy blasts. Goku takes the beating and calls it a warm-up.
• Goku then catches Yamoshi off guard and returns the favor with the same combination of attacks. The two laugh off the rough exchange and continue fighting more evenly.
• Goku creates three Divine Avatars and combines their attacks with his own. Yamoshi blocks the four beams with an Energy Shield, expands it to dispel the avatars, then lands several powerful blows.
• Finding Super Saiyan 6 insufficient, Goku transforms into Super Saiyan 7, greatly increasing his strength. Yamoshi answers by advancing to White God second stage.
• Yamoshi explains that his form follows the path of cultivating godly power, which appears to peak at the third stage. Despite hundreds of millions of years passing, he has not grown stronger.

Character developments and interactions

• Goku and Yamoshi show mutual respect and excitement, treating the fight as a test rather than a grudge. Their teasing—especially Yamoshi’s complaint about Goku’s “sneak attack”—keeps the rivalry playful.
• Goku demonstrates resilience, tactical creativity, and a willingness to escalate when outmatched. His explanations introduce the Saiyan bloodline-evolution path and its increasingly dramatic power gains.
• Yamoshi displays formidable skill and endurance, but his admission that his own path has stalled suggests frustration with its limits and curiosity about Saiyan evolution.
• Chronoa briefly checks whether the fighting will damage the space; Scumbag Kakarot reassures her that it can withstand the battle.

Significant themes

• Growth and limits: Saiyan transformations offer ever-larger leaps in power, while Yamoshi’s godly path seems to have a fixed ceiling.
• Respect through combat: The characters test one another fiercely but remain friendly and admiring.
• Different paths to power: The chapter contrasts Saiyan bloodline evolution with the cultivation of godly power, leaving open whether Yamoshi can progress by adopting a new approach.

Key plot points and events

• Number Six Goku and his ancestor Yamoshi compare the merits of Saiyan evolution and divine transformation, then resume their sparring match.
• Yamoshi’s Omni-God Second Stage and Ultra Instinct initially let him evade Goku’s attacks, but Goku’s Super Saiyan 7 eventually overwhelms him.
• Yamoshi powers up to Omni-God Third Stage, while Goku reveals Super Saiyan 7 Limit. Their final battle is evenly matched: neither can gain an advantage through close combat or energy attacks.
• As their Kamehameha and Justice Flash clash threatens to injure them, Scumbag Kakarot steps between the blasts and stops the fight. He judges both fighters to be above Angels but below Divine Attendants.
• The group then heads through Chronoa’s Time Tunnel to the Time-Space Martial Arts Tournament, where the Lord Zenos are waiting.

Character developments and interactions

• Number Six Goku shows confidence in his Super Saiyan 7 power, but recognizes Yamoshi’s skill and agrees that their strengths are roughly equal.
• Yamoshi moves from testing his Second Stage to revealing his full strength, Omni-God Third Stage. Though initially outmatched, he rises to meet Goku in a balanced final contest.
• Scumbag Kakarot acts as the responsible mediator, ending the dangerous spar before it becomes a fight to the death.
• Chronoa praises Yamoshi’s historic achievement and later scolds both fighters for taking a spar too far.
• Number Five Vegeta proudly credits Saiyans’ warrior nature for Yamoshi’s strength, with the group agreeing.

Significant themes

• Talent and power: Both Saiyan evolution and divine transformation have advantages, but individual talent ultimately determines how far a fighter can progress.
• Rivalry and mutual respect: Goku and Yamoshi push each other to their limits, then accept their equal standing.
• Restraint and responsibility: Kakarot’s intervention underscores that proving strength is not worth risking needless harm.
• Saiyan legacy: Yamoshi’s power connects ancient Saiyan history to the present generation.

Plot points and events

• The first Time-Space Martial Arts Tournament begins, bringing fighters from twelve timelines together for a last-one-standing contest and a chance to use Super Shenron.
• Scumbag Kakarot and Chronoa watch from Universe 3’s stand. Their timeline has no entrants: its strongest fighters are training, while Jiren declines to compete.
• Shafuri—a permanent fusion of Frieza and Cell, created with Dr. Gero’s potion—challenges Son Goku 2. He boasts that he slaughtered the Saiyans and Earth’s warriors in his own timeline and intends to kill them across all timelines.
• Enraged by Shafuri’s confession, Goku 2 pummels him and drags him onto the arena, repeatedly smashing him against the floor.
• Shafuri powers up into Black Gold Form, but Goku 2 dismisses the transformation as unimpressive and reveals Super Saiyan 5. When Shafuri demands more, Goku 2 begins transforming again; the chapter ends before the result of their fight is shown.

Character developments and interactions

• Goku 2 shifts from questioning Shafuri to furious retaliation once he learns of the slaughter in Shafuri’s timeline. His confident taunts suggest he is holding back even after reaching Super Saiyan 5.
• Shafuri is arrogant and genocidal, provoking Goku 2 and underestimating him. His Black Gold transformation fails to intimidate his opponent.
• Scumbag Kakarot and Chronoa observe the tournament and approve of Goku 2’s harsh response.
• Beerus 3 explains why their timeline has no competitors and notes that fighters coached by Scumbag Kakarot are closely matched.

Significant themes

• Consequences of cruelty: Shafuri’s past violence makes him a target of Goku 2’s justified rage.
• Boasting versus real strength: Shafuri’s grand claims are undercut by Goku 2’s ease and confidence.
• Competition across timelines: The tournament gathers parallel-world fighters, while shared training creates unusually even matchups among some of them.

Plot points and events

• Son Goku 2 transforms into Super Saiyan 6 and effortlessly kills Shafuri, terrifying the villains gathered in the Arena.
• The remaining villains mistakenly attack Son Gokus from other timelines and are swiftly defeated. The surviving heroes test their strength, then all leave the Arena; Trunks from Timeline 2 is declared the winner and makes a modest wish with Super Shenron.
• Scumbag Kakarot returns to his timeline and spends centuries in peaceful retirement while his family trains in the Space-Time Secret Realm.
• After immense training, his children and descendants reach powerful new forms, mostly Super Saiyan 8 or equivalent godly forms. Broly and Kale have two more daughters, who attain Super Saiyan 7.
• Vegeta later reaches full-power Super Saiyan 9, while Trunks reaches the limit of Super Saiyan 8. Vegeta and Tights have another daughter, Bels; Trunks marries Mai, and they have a son, Rest.
• After a thousand years of peace, Scumbag Kakarot hosts a farewell banquet. He announces that he, Vegeta, and Broly are leaving on a journey that may keep them away indefinitely—or forever. They depart amid the gratitude and sadness of their friends and family.

Character development and interactions

• Son Goku 2 demonstrates overwhelming confidence and strength, while the villains’ fear of him leads them to make disastrous choices.
• The family’s long training period brings major growth: the younger generations reach extraordinary power, while Vegeta finally achieves Super Saiyan 9 and earns a place on Kakarot’s journey. Vegeta also focuses on family life, and Trunks builds a family with Mai.
• Scumbag Kakarot’s legacy is emphasized through his care for friends and family: he extends the lifespans of loved ones and helps several human companions attain godlike longevity. At the farewell, Krillin and others openly thank him for changing their lives.

Significant themes

• The cost and rewards of perseverance: centuries of training lead to unprecedented strength.
• Family, friendship, and gratitude: Kakarot’s influence sustains generations and deepens the bonds among the group.
• Peace before change: a long era of ordinary life ends with the heroes choosing a new, uncertain adventure.
• Mortality and departure: the farewell recognizes that the travelers may never return, making their shared history especially meaningful.

Key plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot, Vegeta, Broly, and the Dragon God enter a vast, mist-shrouded realm. Kakarot becomes separated from the others and discovers a new world.
• He arrives in the Journey to the West world, meeting the newly awakened stone monkey in Water Curtain Cave.
• Kakarot names the monkey Son Goku. The Heavenly Dao senses an anomaly but cannot detect Kakarot.
• The two become sworn brothers: the monkey is “Brother Monkey,” while Kakarot uses the alias Wutian, or “Brother Tian.” At the monkeys’ request, Kakarot becomes their first king, with Son Goku as the second.
• A monkey secretly leaves to report the unusual newcomer to the Buddha; she is revealed to be Guanyin.
• Kakarot gives Son Goku the Universe Tree to prevent the gods and Buddhas from divining his movements. He then shows him visions of his destined life, including his ordeals under the Jade Emperor and Buddha.
• Enraged by this future, Son Goku asks Kakarot for help. Kakarot promises to back him and begins teaching him both the Great Sage Celestial Art and techniques from his own world.

Character developments

• Son Goku shifts from a curious, nameless monkey to an ambitious student who is furious at the injustices awaiting him. He welcomes strength but initially has no interest in immortality.
• Kakarot becomes Son Goku’s brother, protector, and teacher. He reveals that “Wutian” is an alias and that his real name is also Son Goku, or Kakarot.
• Guanyin acts covertly, disguising herself as a monkey to investigate Kakarot and report his presence.

Character interactions

• Kakarot and Son Goku quickly bond through naming, shared laughter, and sworn brotherhood.
• Kakarot gives Son Goku both practical protection and knowledge of his future, turning their relationship into one of trust and mentorship.
• The monkeys welcome Kakarot as their king, while Guanyin watches from within their group before leaving to alert the Buddha.

Significant themes

• Destiny and resistance: Learning about his foreordained hardships makes Son Goku determined to challenge the celestial powers.
• Power and protection: Kakarot’s gifts offer Son Goku ways to evade divine surveillance and grow stronger.
• Disruption of the established order: Kakarot’s arrival—and his willingness to aid Son Goku—threatens the expected course of the Journey to the West story.

Plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot fuses Saiyan blood into Son Goku, awakening his Chaos Demon Ape bloodline, then trains him in the Great Sage Celestial Art inside a time-accelerated secret realm.
• After 43,200 years of inner training—only a night outside—Goku masters the art, reaches Super Saiyan 6 and Great Golden Immortal strength, and blossoms twelve flowers. Kakarot hides his power so he still appears untrained.
• Tathagata cannot divine Kakarot’s intentions because the tribulation clouds Heaven’s secrets, so he sends Guanyin to investigate.
• Goku asks Kakarot to help his monkey subjects cultivate. Kakarot creates a secret realm where groups of monkeys train in secret and receive Saiyan bloodlines. The first hundred emerge at Super Saiyan 4 or higher; over the next nights, hundreds more grow stronger, and Goku advances to Super Saiyan 7, rivaling a late-stage Great Golden Immortal with his immortal arts.
• Guanyin summons Kakarot to Mount Luojia, her own sanctuary. He arrives immediately but is challenged by Mu Zha, whom he effortlessly immobilizes. While exploring, he catches and kills Guanyin’s pond goldfish—the future Great King Linggan—and roasts and eats it.

Character developments and interactions

• Goku evolves from a novice into a formidable immortal and becomes increasingly focused on strengthening and protecting his monkey subjects. He trusts Kakarot’s guidance and continues training while Kakarot meets Guanyin.
• Kakarot acts as Goku’s mentor and quietly builds the monkeys’ strength, while concealing Goku’s progress from watching deities. His casual treatment of Mu Zha and the goldfish reveals his confidence and disregard for others’ authority.
• Guanyin and Tathagata respond cautiously to Kakarot as a possible threat, but Guanyin’s attempt to meet him is complicated by his arrival at her sanctuary before she does.
• Mu Zha mistakes Kakarot for an intruder and is quickly overpowered, leaving him afraid and uncertain about Kakarot’s true strength.

Significant themes

• Rapid advancement through unconventional means: Time manipulation and Saiyan transformations compress ages of cultivation into days.
• Power and concealment: Kakarot hides Goku’s strength to avoid drawing attention, while the monkey army grows in secret.
• Cross-world power systems: The chapter equates stages of cultivation with Saiyan transformation levels.
• Humor and irreverence: Kakarot treats divine protocol—and even a sacred sanctuary’s goldfish—with startling nonchalance.

Key plot points and events

• Bodhisattva Guanyin arrives after Scumbag Kakarot kills a goldfish in her Lotus Pond. He argues that the creature would eventually escape and cause harm during the coming Journey to the West calamity.
• Kakarot reveals that he knows the journey’s events, claims power beyond Rahu’s, and invites Guanyin to test him. Her Buddha-hand attack, Willow Branch, and immensely heavy-water projectile all vanish before reaching him.
• Recognizing that she cannot defeat him, Guanyin invites Kakarot into her hall to talk. Dragon Girl serves tea and questions his unexplained tail; Kakarot says he comes from one of the countless worlds.
• Guanyin asks whether he plans to obstruct Buddhism’s rise to prominence. Kakarot instead challenges Buddhist teachings, questioning how claims that all beings are equal fit with religious and celestial hierarchies, and whether “lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha” is a promise or a misleading figure of speech.
• He also criticizes Buddhism for sheltering wicked people in the name of ending vengeance, asking whether the same mercy would apply to someone who killed a Buddhist. Unable to answer, Guanyin is left speechless. Kakarot declares that Buddhism will not rise to prominence if it spreads teachings he considers contradictory and unjust.

Character developments and interactions

• Kakarot is presented as immensely confident and apparently immune to Guanyin’s arts. He shifts from discussing the goldfish and demonstrating his strength to directly challenging Buddhism’s moral and logical consistency.
• Guanyin moves from suspicion to testing Kakarot, then accepts his superiority and engages him diplomatically. Her confidence falters as his questions expose tensions she cannot readily resolve.
• Dragon Girl is curious about Kakarot’s tail and recognizes that his hidden form suggests great power. Guanyin sends her away before the serious discussion begins.
• Kakarot and Guanyin’s exchange balances courtesy with confrontation: she offers hospitality, while he casually asks for a large quantity of tea and then presses her with pointed questions.

Significant themes

• Equality versus hierarchy: The chapter challenges the gap between Buddhism’s claim that all beings are equal and its ranks, as well as the social and celestial hierarchies it tolerates.
• Mercy, repentance, and justice: Kakarot questions whether repentance should erase serious wrongdoing and whether forgiveness is applied consistently.
• Faith and scrutiny: Buddhist doctrines are treated as claims open to logical and ethical examination, not simply accepted as sacred.
• Power and authority: Guanyin’s failed attacks establish Kakarot’s overwhelming strength, giving his challenge to Buddhism’s authority added weight.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot, calling himself Wutian, tells Guanyin he intends to prevent Buddhism from flourishing. Guanyin warns that the Buddhist order has powerful backing, including two Sages and the Heavenly Dao, but Wutian dismisses them as threats.
• Guanyin and Wutian part on respectful but opposing terms. She gives him a pouch of immortal tea and leaves to report their meeting to Tathagata Buddha.
• Wutian travels to Five Villages Abbey, where Zhenyuanzi, the ancestor of Earth Immortals, senses his arrival and prepares a formal welcome with Ginseng Fruits.
• Unable to detect Wutian’s strength, Zhenyuanzi concludes that he must be an exceptionally powerful being, perhaps a Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal. The two exchange courtesies and share food.
• Wutian gives Zhenyuanzi Guanyin’s tea and explains that the Journey to the West Calamity is supposed to bring about Buddhism’s rise—but claims his arrival will prevent that outcome.
• After Zhenyuanzi’s attendant Qingfeng mutters that Wutian is boastful, Zhenyuanzi reprimands him. Wutian excuses the young attendant and effortlessly lifts him back to his feet.
• Zhenyuanzi cautions Wutian about Buddhism’s support. Wutian claims he could even tear apart the Heavenly Dao, then transports them to an unfamiliar space to demonstrate his power.
• Zhenyuanzi attacks with Universe in the Sleeve, repeatedly trying to capture Wutian, but cannot move him.

Character developments

• Wutian presents himself as confident, courteous, and overwhelmingly powerful. He respects select Buddhist figures, yet remains set on disrupting Buddhism’s destined rise.
• Guanyin recognizes Wutian as a serious danger but maintains her composure and respect for him, despite their opposing aims.
• Zhenyuanzi begins cautiously assessing Wutian, then increasingly accepts that his strength exceeds his own after witnessing his control of space and resistance to the sleeve technique.
• Qingfeng briefly challenges Wutian’s boast, then quickly regrets it when Zhenyuanzi reprimands him.

Significant themes

• Destiny versus disruption: Buddhism’s rise is presented as ordained by the Heavenly Dao, but Wutian claims he can overturn that course.
• Power and uncertainty: Even great immortals cannot readily measure Wutian’s abilities, making his true limits unclear.
• Respect amid conflict: Guanyin and Wutian disagree profoundly but part with mutual regard; Wutian also responds leniently to Qingfeng’s disrespect.
• Hospitality and status: Zhenyuanzi’s formal welcome and the rare Ginseng Fruits establish the importance of the guest and the encounter.

Character interactions

• Guanyin warns Wutian and gives him tea despite their incompatible goals.
• Zhenyuanzi welcomes Wutian as an honored guest, shares Ginseng Fruits, and questions his intentions.
• Wutian treats Qingfeng’s insult lightly, while Zhenyuanzi insists the attendant apologize.
• Zhenyuanzi tests Wutian in combat, but Wutian’s immovability confirms that his claims are backed by formidable power.

Key plot points and events

• Zhenyuanzi attacks Scumbag Kakarot with his fly-whisk, but the weapon disintegrates before reaching him. Zhenyuanzi recognizes that Kakarot’s power is far beyond his own and ends their spar.
• Kakarot reveals that he is roughly equal to the Great Dao, then demonstrates his control of time and space by rapidly ripening the Ginseng Fruit Tree. It produces ninety fruits, but the process drains the abbey’s spiritual energy, so Kakarot stops.
• The two become sworn brothers. Zhenyuanzi gives Kakarot the ninety fruits; Kakarot returns the gift with a pouch of one hundred Senzu Beans, which can instantly heal anyone who is still alive.
• Zhenyuanzi explains that he has reached the peak of the quasi-saint realm but sees no path to becoming a Saint or advancing further. Kakarot tells him he can instead cultivate laws and pursue the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm, beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control.
• Kakarot creates a Space-Time Secret Realm where time moves vastly faster and the Heavenly Dao cannot observe Zhenyuanzi. Zhenyuanzi begins cultivating the law of earth.
• Kakarot returns to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where Son Goku asks what Guanyin wanted. Kakarot says she was sent by Tathagata to learn his position on the Journey to the West karmic kalpa.

Character developments

• Zhenyuanzi moves from wary opponent to admiring ally and sworn younger brother. With Kakarot’s guidance, he gains a new path toward greater power and freedom.
• Scumbag Kakarot demonstrates overwhelming strength, generosity, and a desire to help others escape the Heavenly Dao’s limits. He also begins to reveal the larger political context surrounding the Journey to the West.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus control: The Heavenly Dao restricts advancement, while cultivating laws offers a path beyond its authority.
• Power and generosity: Kakarot uses his exceptional abilities not merely to win but to aid and protect an ally.
• Brotherhood and mutual exchange: The two characters’ gifts and sworn bond turn a display of power into a lasting alliance.

Character interactions

• Kakarot and Zhenyuanzi begin with a brief contest, then build mutual respect through Kakarot’s demonstrations and Zhenyuanzi’s admiration.
• Their exchange of Ginseng Fruits and Senzu Beans seals their brotherhood.
• Kakarot encourages Zhenyuanzi’s cultivation and provides the secret realm needed to pursue it safely.
• Back at Flower-Fruit Mountain, Kakarot answers Son Goku’s question about Guanyin, linking the episode to Tathagata’s efforts to gauge Kakarot’s stance.

Plot points

• Son Goku decides to turn the Journey to the West into revenge against the gods and Buddhas who manipulated him. He plans to make Havoc in Heaven real and subject Tathagata and Guanyin to the punishments they once imposed on him.
• Scumbag Kakarot agrees to help from behind the scenes. He accelerates time in the Space-Time Secret Realm so that one outside day equals twenty-four cosmic cycles inside, giving Goku more time to cultivate.
• Kakarot gives Goku Ginseng Fruits obtained through his mastery of time. He later dilutes the remaining fruit into juice for the monkeys of Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Goku begins training, aiming to reach the quasi-sage realm—or even become a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal—before the Journey to the West begins. Kakarot, meanwhile, studies the law of earth.
• Guanyin reports to Tathagata that Kakarot mastered the laws of time, space, and destruction and was powerful enough to defeat her without moving. She suspects he may have saint-level strength.
• Concerned that Kakarot could disrupt the Buddhist Order’s destined rise, Tathagata seeks guidance from Zhunti and Jieyin. Unable to divine Kakarot’s identity, the two saints suspect he may be Tongtian and decide to visit the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, despite the rule against saints entering the world.

Character developments and interactions

• Son Goku shifts from a potential participant in the pilgrimage to a determined challenger of the Buddhist powers, while committing himself to intense cultivation.
• Scumbag Kakarot acts as Goku’s ally and strategist, using his temporal abilities to support Goku and benefit their monkey community.
• Guanyin recognizes that Kakarot is beyond her strength and warns Tathagata of the danger he poses.
• Tathagata remains confident in the Buddhist Order’s destiny and its saintly backing, but Guanyin’s report prompts him to consult the saints.
• Zhunti and Jieyin interpret their inability to divine Kakarot as evidence that a powerful figure—possibly Tongtian—is involved. They agree to investigate but intend not to intervene directly.

Significant themes

• Revenge and role reversal: Goku plans to turn the old story’s punishments back on those who controlled him.
• Fate versus agency: Though the Journey to the West is described as ordained, Goku and Kakarot aim to alter its course; Kakarot also notes that the future depends on present choices.
• Power and uncertainty: Kakarot’s abilities unsettle even established religious powers, while the saints’ failed divination leaves his identity unknown.
• Preparation and cultivation: Time manipulation gives Goku a chance to grow strong enough to challenge the forces behind the pilgrimage.

Key plot points and events

• Scumbag Kakarot senses the Western Sages, Zhunti and Jieyin, descending to Flower-Fruit Mountain. Their dramatic arrival alarms powerful figures throughout the Three Realms, since the Dao Ancestor had forbidden Sages from appearing without a major calamity.
• The Sages confront Kakarot over his plan to disrupt the Journey to the West and prevent Buddhism’s prophesied rise. He argues that the Heavenly Dao’s plan forces all living beings to repay Hongjun’s karmic debt from his ancient battle with Rahu.
• Kakarot offers to negotiate, demanding Zhunti’s Blessed Vajra Scepter and Green Lotus Treasure Flag, and Jieyin’s Six-Pure Bamboo. He reveals that he is a Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal and challenges them to fight in Chaos.
• After Kakarot demonstrates advanced mastery of the law of space, the Sages realize he is exceptionally formidable and follow him to Chaos.
• There, Hongjun appears. The Heavenly Dao’s warnings and Hongjun’s inability to sense Kakarot’s power convince him that Kakarot may be stronger than both himself and the Heavenly Dao. Rather than provoke him, Hongjun allows him to do as he pleases, after Kakarot assures him he will not destroy the world.

Character developments and interactions

• Kakarot presents himself as both a challenger to the cosmic order and an advocate for ordinary beings. He mocks the Sages’ hypocrisy, bargains from a position of strength, and remains playful and confident even when meeting Hongjun.
• Zhunti and Jieyin initially invoke destiny and Buddhist doctrine to defend their plans, but their contempt for mortals—and their reliance on mortals’ faith—exposes their hypocrisy. Once they recognize Kakarot’s strength, they become cautious and seek a way to preserve their standing.
• Hongjun shifts from considering a test of Kakarot’s strength to cautious restraint after realizing the danger of provoking him.
• The other major heavenly figures, including the Great Heavenly Venerable, Taishang Laojun, Nuwa, Daode Tianzun, and Primordial Heavenly Worthy, react with suspicion and outrage at the Sages’ violation of the prohibition.

Significant themes

• Defying unjust fate: Kakarot rejects the claim that heavenly decree makes the Journey to the West righteous.
• Power and moral responsibility: The Sages call mortals “ants” while exploiting their faith, contrasting sharply with Kakarot’s concern for living beings.
• Hypocrisy and authority: The chapter questions the legitimacy of rulers and religious figures who demand obedience while disregarding their own rules.
• Cosmic uncertainty: Kakarot’s unexplained origins and overwhelming power unsettle even Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.

Plot points

• Hongjun arrives as Zhunti and Jieyin prepare to face Scumbag Kakarot, and tells them to honor their agreement. Kakarot invites both sages to attack together.
• Zhunti and Jieyin use their signature treasures and techniques, but Kakarot effortlessly stops and claims Zhunti’s Blessed Vajra Scepter, destroys its soul imprint, and shrugs off the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.
• Jieyin’s Golden Body Dharma Form is shattered. His Dream-Entering Great Art also fails: Kakarot lets Jieyin’s soul enter his mind, then crushes it with his vastly larger soul.
• Kakarot evades Zhunti’s close-range assault and punches him in both eyes. Jieyin concedes on their behalf.
• Kakarot takes Jieyin’s Green Lotus Treasure Flag and Six-Pure Bamboo, but promises not to interfere with the Journey to the West, then vanishes.
• Hongjun tells the sages to continue their plans but warns them not to descend on the Earth Immortal Realm again unless a great tribulation is underway. He suspects Kakarot is Yang Mei, the Space Demon God. The Heavenly Dao says he is not—and that his mastery of space exceeds mere full mastery.

Character developments and interactions

• Kakarot demonstrates overwhelming physical and spiritual strength, treats the sages’ attacks as tests, and keeps his promise after winning their treasures.
• Zhunti begins by challenging Kakarot’s confidence, but is humbled by his failed attacks and injury.
• Jieyin is more cautious, restrains Zhunti at first, then recognizes defeat and negotiates their concession.
• Hongjun manages the encounter and disciplines the sages, while confidently offering an explanation of Kakarot’s identity that the Heavenly Dao later contradicts.
• The sages accept Hongjun’s account that Kakarot is Yang Mei, but the Heavenly Dao’s final statement leaves Kakarot’s true identity unresolved.

Significant themes

• Power and humility: The sages’ status and formidable arts are no match for Kakarot’s brute strength.
• Deception and misjudgment: Kakarot turns Jieyin’s soul attack into a trap, while Hongjun’s confident theory about his identity proves unreliable.
• Promises and restraint: Despite taking the sages’ treasures, Kakarot honors his agreement not to disrupt the Journey to the West.

Plot points and events

• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao discuss the threat posed by Scumbag Kakarot, who has mastered the Great Dao of Space. The Heavenly Dao insists that Hongjun keep the Journey to the West Calamity on course, since its own completion depends on it.
• Back at Flower-Fruit Mountain, Scumbag Kakarot discovers that Son Goku has advanced rapidly in both magical and physical cultivation. He gives Goku three treasures—the Blessed Vajra Scepter, Six-Pure Bamboo, and Green Lotus Treasure Flag—originally provided by the Western Sages to keep Kakarot from interfering in the calamity. Goku eagerly accepts them and vows to reach the mixed yuan realm soon.
• Kakarot then secretly visits Tongtian in Zixiao Palace. He removes the deathly energy binding Tongtian and condenses it into a Sage-Destroying Pill, proving that he can undo Hongjun’s restrictions.
• Kakarot asks Tongtian to disrupt Buddhism’s rise during the Journey to the West Calamity. Tongtian agrees, eager to take revenge for the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Kakarot urges Tongtian to renounce his Heavenly Dao-granted sagehood and pursue the freer path of a hunyuan daluo golden immortal. Tongtian swears an oath before the Great Dao. The Great Dao accepts, removes his primordial violet qi, and restores the source energy he had left within the Heavenly Dao.
• The other sages react with disbelief or disapproval. Hongjun, angered, resolves to appoint a replacement and considers Kunpeng for the vacant sagehood.

Character developments and interactions

• Scumbag Kakarot shifts from covertly preparing Goku to directly recruiting powerful allies against the planned calamity. He presents himself to Tongtian as an outsider capable of breaking Hongjun’s control.
• Son Goku shows exceptional growth and enthusiasm, accepting the three treasures and promising to advance further.
• Tongtian moves from suspicion to alliance with Kakarot. He rejects his constrained status as a Heavenly Dao sage and willingly gives it up, motivated by a desire for freedom and revenge against Buddhism.
• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao remain mutually dependent but antagonistic: each needs the Journey to the West plan to succeed, while Hongjun reacts angrily to Tongtian’s defiance.
• The other sages—Daode Tianzun, Primordial Heavenly Worthy, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin—mostly interpret Tongtian’s choice as foolish or futile.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus control: Tongtian’s renunciation challenges the Heavenly Dao’s authority and the idea that sagehood is worth its restrictions.
• Destiny and interference: Kakarot’s actions threaten the Heavenly Dao’s carefully arranged Journey to the West Calamity.
• Power and allegiance: Magical treasures and restored cultivation become tools for recruiting allies and shaping the coming conflict.
• Revenge and resistance: Tongtian’s willingness to oppose Buddhism is fueled by old grievances from the earlier calamity.