Chapter Summaries

Son Goku fought Vegeta while Piccolo and the others battled Raditz, and Vegeta initially dominated Goku despite his fivefold Kaioken. Goku then revealed his eightfold Kaioken and gained the upper hand, but Vegeta’s full-power Galick Gun began overpowering Goku’s Kamehameha.

• Piccolo, Krillin, Chiaotzu, Tien Shinhan, and Yamcha attacked Raditz while Son Goku faced Vegeta alone.
• Vegeta outmatched Son Goku’s fivefold Kaioken, repeatedly knocking him down and taunting him.
• Piccolo transformed into his Giant Form and temporarily surpassed Raditz in power, but Raditz exploited his size-related weaknesses and held him off.
• Son Goku activated eightfold Kaioken, struck Vegeta with a series of attacks, and fired a Kamehameha at him.
• Vegeta countered with his Galick Gun, and his full-power blast gradually pushed Goku’s Kamehameha back.

Goku used Kaioken times ten to overpower Vegeta’s Galick Gun, but Vegeta survived and prepared to unleash the Saiyans’ most powerful technique before Bardock arrived. Goku and Piccolo stayed to face him while the others retreated.

• Goku activated Kaioken times ten and drove Vegeta’s Galick Gun into space, but Vegeta survived the attack.
• Vegeta descended, furious at Goku for wounding him, while Raditz feared Vegeta intended to kill him.
• Bardock contacted Raditz and ordered him and Vegeta to stop fighting until he reached Earth.
• Vegeta refused to accept his defeat and decided to use the Saiyans’ most powerful technique before Bardock arrived.
• Goku urged Krillin and the others to retreat, while Piccolo stayed beside him as Vegeta prepared to fight.

Vegeta created an Artificial Moon and transformed into a Great Ape, overwhelming Son Goku and the others. Piccolo and Goku exploited the Great Ape’s weakness and cut off Vegeta’s tail, leaving him back in human form.

• Vegeta formed an Artificial Moon, transformed into a Great Ape, and revealed that his battle power had risen to nearly seven million.
• Son Goku, Krillin, Piccolo, and the others attacked Vegeta, but his power broke their assaults and knocked them down.
• Son Goku told Piccolo that cutting off Vegeta’s tail would end the transformation, and Piccolo agreed to distract him.
• Piccolo grappled with Vegeta, regenerated his severed arms, and blinded him with Solar Flare.
• Son Goku used Krillin’s Destructo Disc to cut off Vegeta’s tail, causing Vegeta to shrink back to human form.

After Son Goku asked Bardock to spare Vegeta, Bardock allowed Vegeta to live but ordered him to return to Planet Vegeta for King Linx to judge. When news of the King Cold Force’s activity forced Bardock to leave Earth, Vegeta chose to stay and train so he could surpass Son Goku.

• Vegeta knocked Krillin away and prepared to attack Son Goku, but Bardock appeared and stopped him.
• Bardock confronted Vegeta for trying to kill Son Goku, and Son Goku explained that he had lost the fight and pleaded for Vegeta to be spared.
• Bardock agreed to let Vegeta go for now and ordered Vegeta and Raditz to return to Planet Vegeta with him for King Linx’s judgment.
• Bardock gathered everyone, rescued Bulma and Son Gohan from the cave, and returned with them to West City.
• Bardock received Gine’s report that the King Cold Force had begun making major moves and decided he had to return to Planet Vegeta.
• Vegeta refused to leave Earth, declaring that he would train there and surpass Son Goku.

Bardock arranged for Piccolo to train Gohan and returned to Planet Vegeta, while Lin Chen’s search for the seventh Super Dragon Ball in Universe 6 stalled. Vados rewound time to stop Lin Chen from leaving, then revealed herself and assured him she would not prevent him from taking the Dragon Balls.

• Bardock left Vegeta on Earth under Raditz’s watch and convinced Chi-Chi to let Gohan train with Piccolo for six months.
• Lin Chen, Tights, and Hanasia failed to find the seventh Dragon Ball in Universe 6, so Lin Chen decided to return to Universe 7 and ask Zuno where it was.
• After Lin Chen used Instant Transmission to leave, time reversed and returned him and the others to their ship in Universe 6.
• Lin Chen sensed the temporal anomaly, took Tights and Hanasia into space, and called on Vados to reveal herself.
• Vados confirmed she had turned back time, learned Lin Chen was from Universe 7, and said she had only wanted to meet him and would not stop him from taking Universe 6’s Dragon Balls.

Vados told Lin Chen that the missing seventh Super Dragon Ball had fallen through a temporal black hole into another timeline, then accepted his gift of delicacies for Champa. After Lin Chen returned to Universe 7 with Tights and Hanasia, Whis appeared and asked Lin Chen if he would become a candidate for God of Destruction.

• Vados revealed that the seventh Super Dragon Ball had likely ended up in another timeline after passing through a temporal black hole.
• Lin Chen gave Vados a Hoi-Poi Capsule filled with delicacies for her and Champa, then used Instant Transmission to leave with Tights and Hanasia.
• Tights asked Lin Chen about Vados, and he explained that she was the Angel of Universe 6 and that Whis was her younger brother.
• Whis appeared before Lin Chen, Tights, and Hanasia, saying Vados had told him about Lin Chen’s abilities.
• Whis asked Lin Chen if he was interested in becoming a candidate for God of Destruction.

Lin Chen rejected Whis’s offer to become a God of Destruction candidate and chose to forge his own path to godhood as the deity of the Saiyans. After Whis gave him a way to make contact, Lin Chen returned to Planet Vegeta and asked Bardock, King Vegeta, and Paragus about events during his absence.

• Whis invited Lin Chen to become a God of Destruction candidate, triggering a special choice that offered three paths to godhood.
• Lin Chen chose to pursue godhood on his own and received a Divine Realm Experience Card, which could draw the attention of powerful deities when used.
• Lin Chen declined Whis’s invitation, and Whis gave him a button to contact him for training before departing.
• Hanasia and Tights embraced Lin Chen after he reassured them that he would not leave them if he became a god.
• Lin Chen, Hanasia, and Tights returned to Planet Vegeta, where Saiyans welcomed their king and notified Bardock, King Vegeta, and Paragus.
• Lin Chen met with Bardock, King Vegeta, and Paragus in the Conference Room to hear what had happened on Planet Vegeta while he was away.

Lin Chen learned that King Cold and Cooler might be mobilizing, but dismissed them as threats. After discovering Vegeta and Raditz had fought the Z Fighters on Earth, he let them stay there and later learned from Zuno that the final Super Dragon Ball had landed in Timeline 228; the system confirmed he could travel there.

• King Vegeta and Bardock warned Lin Chen that King Cold's army was mobilizing and Cooler's forces had entered North Galaxy, but Lin Chen said they were no threat.
• Paragus explained that Vegeta and Raditz had gone to Earth and fought Goku and the Z Fighters, and Lin Chen told Bardock to let them remain there.
• Lin Chen visited Earth and found Vegeta living at Bulma's house and Raditz staying with Son Goku and Chi-Chi.
• Lin Chen asked Zuno for the location of the final Super Dragon Ball, and Zuno said the One-Star Ball had landed in parallel Timeline 228.
• Lin Chen asked the system whether he could travel to Timeline 228, and it confirmed that the timeline could be locked onto.

Lin Chen prepared to search another timeline for the Super Dragon Balls and used five Justice Hearts to help Tarble become a Super Saiyan God. The transformation succeeded, leaving Tarble with red hair and eyes, an apparently vanished aura, and a divine presence.

• Lin Chen told Tights, Hanasia, Bardock, and the others that he planned to travel alone to another world, then reassured them he had a solution to the Frost Demons threat.
• Lin Chen explained the Super Saiyan God legend and gave five Justice Hearts to Bardock, King Vegeta, and three other Saiyans, while reserving Hanasia as a possible candidate for a righteous heart.
• Lin Chen selected kindhearted Tarble as the sixth Saiyan, strengthened him with the Potential Unleashing Technique and a Tree of Might, and brought his power level to about fifty thousand.
• Bardock and the other four Saiyans joined hands with Tarble and focused their hearts, channeling their power into him until golden lightning and light appeared.
• Tarble rose into the air and transformed into a Super Saiyan God, with red hair and eyes, a vanished aura, and a divine presence that made those around him want to bow.

Tarble successfully transformed into a Super Saiyan God, revealing immense strength as he fought Lin Chen. After the transformation ended, Lin Chen tried the same ritual, but it appeared to have no effect on him.

• Lin Chen used his system to confirm that Tarble’s Super Saiyan God battle power had risen to 25,000,000 and explained that mortals could not sense divine ki.
• Tarble instinctively repelled Lin Chen’s Kaioken-powered charge, so King Vegeta urged him to spar while Lin Chen attacked again.
• Lin Chen and Tarble fought across the sky and ground as Lin Chen matched Tarble’s strength to test the transformation.
• Tarble reverted from Super Saiyan God with a battle power above 100,000, and Lin Chen explained that the form multiplied his power five hundredfold but had a time limit.
• Lin Chen underwent the ritual himself, but the light around the other participants faded without changing him.

Lin Chen discovered that his Legendary Super Saiyan Bloodline prevented him from becoming a Super Saiyan God through the ritual, then traveled through the Time-Space Gate to timeline 228. After he left, Shin, Kibito, and the Supreme Kai of Time investigated the space-time disturbance he had caused.

• Lin Chen learned from the system that his demonic bloodline kept him from qualifying for the Super Saiyan God ritual, though he could still become one through training.
• Lin Chen ordered Bardock, King Vegeta, and Paragus to search Planet Vegeta for Saiyans with righteous hearts who could become Super Saiyan Gods.
• After preparing for the journey, Lin Chen used two time points to open a Time-Space Gate to timeline 228 and entered it.
• Shin and Kibito arrived at the black hole to investigate a space-time anomaly, and the Supreme Kai of Time appeared and questioned them about it.
• The Supreme Kai of Time sensed that someone had used the power of space-time, then departed, leaving Shin and Kibito puzzled.

Lin Chen arrived in an apocalyptic version of Earth and rescued a mortally wounded Trunks from one of Bojack’s men. Trunks explained that Cell had killed Gohan and the other Z Fighters, leaving Earth in ruin.

• Lin Chen sensed an unfamiliar Super Saiyan Ki and used Instant Transmission to find Trunks fighting a swordsman in the ruins.
• The swordsman wounded Trunks and threatened Lin Chen, who knocked him away and carried Trunks to safety.
• Lin Chen fed Trunks a Senzu Bean, and Trunks recovered enough to explain that his father and the other warriors were dead.
• Trunks told Lin Chen that Cell had defeated Super Saiyan 2 Gohan during the Cell Games, then killed the remaining Z Fighters.

After Cell killed Son Gohan and the Z Fighters, Trunks recounted how Cell devastated Earth before leaving and how Bojack later conquered it. Lin Chen revealed that he came from another timeline, and Trunks begged him to help save their world.

• Cell overpowered the injured Son Gohan with their Kamehamehas, killing him, and then killed the Z Fighters who tried to defeat him.
• Trunks told Lin Chen that Cell had killed nearly three-quarters of Earth's population before leaving, and that Bojack later enslaved the survivors and ruled Earth.
• Trunks explained that he and his mother Bulma joined the resistance, and that Gokua had nearly killed him before Lin Chen intervened.
• Lin Chen told Trunks that he was a Saiyan from a parallel timeline where Cell had never appeared and Trunks had not yet been born.
• Trunks realized Lin Chen might be powerful enough to help and pleaded with him to save their world.

Lin Chen chose to train Trunks to defeat Bojack and his gang, then reunited Trunks with Bulma and promised to protect humanity. He left the group convinced that Trunks could become strong enough to win with proper guidance.

• Lin Chen chose the mission to train Trunks and received a reward of Side-Effect-Free 2x Kaioken upon completion.
• Master Roshi and Videl sensed Trunks's ki return and hurried to the research institute, where Bulma embraced her son and met Lin Chen.
• Trunks introduced Lin Chen as the Saiyan who had saved him, and Lin Chen explained that a Time Machine could only travel between parallel timelines.
• Bulma admitted she hoped to change the Cell Games' outcome, but Lin Chen said he would stop Bojack and his gang and that Trunks could defeat them after training.
• Trunks doubted his potential, but Lin Chen reassured him that his Saiyan-Earthling heritage gave him tremendous potential and that he needed proper guidance.

Lin Chen learned about the resistance Bulma had built on the island and the losses its survivors had suffered under Cell and Bojack. Trunks introduced him to their powerful protector, Android 18, who had just returned with a ship full of supplies.

• Lin Chen shared food from another world with Bulma, Trunks, Chi-Chi, and the island's residents.
• Bulma and Master Roshi explained how the resistance had formed and revealed that Tights had been killed by Cell while Mr. Satan acted as a spy inside Bojack's group.
• Lin Chen saw the island's fighters and questioned how they could defeat Bojack, while Trunks told him that another warrior had once protected the resistance.
• Trunks welcomed the returning warrior, who carried a supply ship to the island while fending off giant sharks.
• Lin Chen recognized the warrior as Android 18, and Trunks introduced her as Lazuli, the resistance's former protector.

Lin Chen learned how Android 18 had joined the resistance and agreed to test her suspicions about him. After demonstrating his overwhelming strength, he convinced her that Trunks needed to become strong enough to protect Earth himself.

• Trunks told Lin Chen that Android 18 had survived Cell's attack, rescued Videl, and become the resistance's leader.
• Lin Chen told Trunks he wanted him to defeat Bojack's gang, and promised he could do so after two days of training.
• Android 18 confronted Lin Chen at night and challenged him to prove he was trustworthy.
• Lin Chen used Instant Transmission to take Android 18 to a desolate planet, where they began fighting.
• Lin Chen overwhelmed Android 18 with his Super Saiyan power and showed her how easily he could devastate the planet.
• Android 18 accepted that Trunks should learn to protect Earth, and Lin Chen brought her back with him.

Lin Chen brought Trunks to train at Kami's Lookout, believing its Hyperbolic Time Chamber might still exist despite Bulma and Master Roshi saying Cell had destroyed the place. He found the Lookout intact and encountered the supposedly dead Mr. Popo, who matched his strength and did not recognize him.

• Lazuli thanked Lin Chen for lending her clothes, asked him to call her by her real name, and left.
• Lin Chen told Bulma and Lazuli he planned to train Trunks at Kami's Lookout, where the Hyperbolic Time Chamber could let them train for a year in a day.
• Bulma and Master Roshi explained that Cell had destroyed the Lookout and killed Dende, but Lin Chen went to investigate anyway.
• Lin Chen found Kami's Lookout still standing and spotted a figure inside it.
• Mr. Popo blocked Lin Chen's attacks with ease, and Lin Chen asked who he was; Mr. Popo said he knew Lin Chen did not know him.

Lin Chen secured access to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and brought Trunks there to train for the fight against Bojack and his men. He began by planning to strengthen Trunks’s base power, while also hoping to use the chamber’s isolation to activate his Divine Realm Experience Card.

• Lin Chen explained that he came from another timeline and asked Mr. Popo to use the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and Mr. Popo agreed.
• Lin Chen returned to the resistance base and told Master Roshi, Bulma, and Trunks that Mr. Popo had survived and repaired the Lookout; Lazuli stayed behind to protect the base.
• Lin Chen brought Master Roshi, Bulma, and Trunks to the Lookout, where Mr. Popo greeted them and led Lin Chen and Trunks to the chamber.
• Mr. Popo explained that each person could spend only two years inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and Lin Chen learned that training in another world would not count against this limit.
• Lin Chen entered the chamber with Trunks and told him they would build his base-form strength from the ground up before facing Bojack and his men.

Lin Chen unlocked Trunks’s potential and began correcting his fundamentals in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber before using the Divine Realm Experience Card. He mastered the powers of destruction, creation, time, and space, then became a Super Saiyan God but found the form weaker than the divine mastery he sought.

• Lin Chen used Planet Namek’s Potential Unleashing Technique on Trunks, raising his battle power from about 600,000 to 1.5 million, then increased it further with a Tree of Might.
• Lin Chen trained Trunks’s fundamentals, and Trunks independently achieved the second-grade Super Saiyan 1 form.
• Lin Chen traveled away from Trunks and activated the Divine Realm Experience Card, gaining the powers of destruction, creation, time, and space.
• Lin Chen transformed into a Super Saiyan God, whose aura Trunks could no longer sense.
• Lin Chen judged that the Super Saiyan God form lacked the mastery he wanted and said it was not the god he sought to become.

Lin Chen transformed his Legendary Super Saiyan 2 power by infusing four divine powers into his tail, creating a new Tier 3 divine form he named Black God. He tested its overwhelming strength by tearing through the Hyperbolic Time Chamber’s dimensional barrier.

• Lin Chen released his Super Saiyan God form, transformed into Legendary Super Saiyan 2, and began experimenting with a divine transformation of his own.
• Lin Chen infused the powers of destruction, time, space, and creation into his tail, gaining black hair and an aura that Trunks could not sense.
• Lin Chen checked his status and learned that his new form had 8.1 billion battle power and a Tier 3 divine realm, higher than Vados’s Tier 2.
• Lin Chen named the form Black God and declared that he would pursue pure power as a Saiyan demon god.
• Lin Chen punched the sky, tearing apart the Hyperbolic Time Chamber’s dimensional barrier and sending his power into the outside world.