Recaps

Lin Chen and his allies fought Zamasu and the Goku Blacks across timelines after uncovering their plans and their stolen power. Lin Chen destroyed the Sacred World of the Kai, but Towa’s intervention left the Zamasus powerless, and Zeno arrived to hear Lin Chen accuse them of its destruction.

• Goku Black arrived in Trunks’s world, but Lin Chen killed him and took his Time Ring after he tried to escape through a temporal rift.
• Chronoa proved that Zamasu had become Goku Black in another timeline, and she and Lin Chen discovered that dark magic had helped Zamasu cross timelines.
• Zamasu attempted to take Lin Chen’s body, but Lin Chen rewound time, found Super Shenron, and had him mark Zamasus across the timelines.
• Lin Chen and Chronoa joined Son Goku’s group in Timeline 16, where several Zamasus and Goku Blacks fused into immortal Fused Zamasus.
• Lin Chen used the Light of Annihilation to destroy several Fused Zamasus, while Chronoa summoned reinforcements and the remaining fighters fused to battle the growing enemy forces.
• The remaining Fused Zamasus merged into God Zamasu, who injured Trunks and overwhelmed the fighters before Lin Chen faced him alone.
• Lin Chen transformed into Super Saiyan 4 Full Power and defeated God Zamasu, but Zamasu’s essence spread across and transformed the Sacred World of the Kai.
• Lin Chen destroyed the Sacred World of the Kai with the Light of Annihilation, then Towa reclaimed Zamasu’s power of miracles and dark magic as Zeno arrived and Lin Chen accused the Zamasus.

Lin Chen saved Trunks’s timeline, learned more about Mr. Popo and Earth’s secrets, then traveled to a future where Son Goku’s violent nature emerged. As Son Goku revealed Super Saiyan 4, Lin Chen prepared to fight seriously.

• Lin Chen brought Zeno 16 to Universe 7, then traveled with Vegeta and Trunks to Trunks’s devastated timeline and helped restore its people with newly made Dragon Balls.
• Lin Chen questioned Mr. Popo, who revealed that he had been created by Zeno and that Earth was central to every timeline because Dragon God Zalama was sealed there.
• Lin Chen found Dende and brought him to Earth to become its new Kami, then returned to his own timeline and learned that Space-Time 141 might hold a clue beyond Super Saiyan 4.
• Lin Chen watched Uub awaken Majin Buu’s power and strike Goku, after which an evil aura emerged and Goku began identifying himself as Kakarot.
• Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan, and the others fought to stop Kakarot, but Shenron explained that only someone who could overpower him with righteous energy could call back Goku’s heart, naming Lin Chen.
• Kakarot fought Lin Chen, escaped to Earth, and drained life energy from its people to form an Evil Spirit Bomb, which Lin Chen redirected into space.
• Kakarot transformed into Super Saiyan 4 after revealing that he had merged with versions of himself from other space-times, then blasted Lin Chen into space with a Kamehameha.
• Lin Chen reappeared unharmed and told Kakarot that he would get serious.

Lin Chen pursued the power of Super Saiyan 5 while the Zenos announced the Tournament of Power, where defeated universes would be erased. After thwarting an ambush and reaching Golden Great Ape 2, Lin Chen agreed to compete alone and opened the tournament by challenging all eighty fighters.

• Lin Chen restored Son Goku’s original consciousness, learned about Super Saiyan 5, and left to train in isolation between Universe 6 and Universe 7.
• The Zenos announced the Tournament of Power, and Universe 7 defeated Universe 9 in three exhibition matches before Lin Chen beat Toppo twice.
• Lin Chen persuaded the Zenos to delay the tournament for half a month and chose himself, Son Goku, Vegeta, Broly, Lin Luo, Taro, Son Gohan, Piccolo, Frieza, and Fat Buu for Universe 7.
• Jiren agreed to enter the tournament and confront Lin Chen, while Lin Chen tried to advance his Golden Great Ape form and lost control after Quitela and Sidra attacked him.
• Quitela, Sidra, and fighters from Universes 4 and 9 ambushed Lin Chen, but his Golden Great Ape form defeated the attackers and drove the two Gods of Destruction away.
• Beerus and Whis found Lin Chen exhausted after his uncontrolled transformation, and Lin Chen vowed to target Universes 4 and 9 when the tournament began.
• At the tournament, Champa and other Gods of Destruction tried to exclude Lin Chen, but the Zenos supported Belmod’s proposal to have him compete alone, and Lin Chen accepted, and Lazuli filled Universe 7’s vacant spot.
• As all eighty fighters surrounded Lin Chen, he challenged them, knocked back their opening attacks, and created an Artificial Moon to transform into a Golden Great Ape.

Lin Chen eliminated several universes and fought off wave after wave of powerful opponents, including Jiren and Son Goku. With his divine power nearly depleted, he battled Son Goku to exhaustion as Universe 11 began targeting the remaining fighters.

• Lin Chen eliminated Universe 9 and Universe 4, and the Zenos erased both universes.
• Kahseral organized the remaining fighters into groups, but Lin Chen defeated their successive attacks, including the combined assaults of Lin Luo, Son Gohan, Buu, Frost, Vegeta, and Frieza.
• Lazuli fused with Android 18 as Super Lazuli and joined Vegeta and Frieza against Lin Chen before separating from Android 18 and leaving the fight.
• Lin Chen eliminated Ribrianne and Universe 2, then transformed into Super Saiyan 4 Silver-Gray to repel a coordinated assault led by Jiren.
• Lin Chen defeated Hit, Kefla, Toppo, Broly, Anilaza, and Obni, leading to the erasure of Universes 10 and 3.
• Jiren awakened Ultra Instinct, and Son Goku revealed that he had mastered Ultra Instinct Sign before joining the fight against Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen pressured Son Goku with spatial attacks, but both Son Goku and Broly reverted to base forms from exhaustion after Broly caught Goku near the Ring’s edge.
• Kahseral ordered Dyspo to eliminate fighters from the other universes, and Belmod declared that Universe 11 considered every other universe an enemy.