Chapter Summaries

After teaching Caulifla, Son Gohan visited Beerus and Whis and revealed a powerful new transformation during a full-strength spar with Beerus. The two fought evenly, leaving both battered as their battle continued under Whis’s protection.

• Son Gohan spent the day teaching Caulifla, who felt that his guidance had given her a clear direction.
• Son Gohan visited Beerus and Whis, brought them food, and told them he had developed a new transformation.
• After eating and resting, Son Gohan and Beerus prepared to spar, and Son Gohan warned Beerus to use his full power.
• Son Gohan transformed, his hair turning silver as his god ki surged, and Beerus sensed that he was facing an opponent on his level.
• Son Gohan and Beerus exchanged blows at full power, fought evenly, and battered each other while Whis shielded the planet from their energy.

After fighting Beerus to a standstill, Son Gohan named his new transformation Beast Full Power Release and reflected on Whis’s advice to eventually rely on his true strength without transformations. Their conversation was interrupted when the Grand Minister arrived on the God of Destruction Planet and greeted Son Gohan.

• Son Gohan and Beerus ended their exhausting fight, and Whis healed them both.
• Whis advised Son Gohan to master his natural strength and suggested the names Beast Full Power Release and Beast God Form for his transformation.
• Son Gohan chose the name Beast Full Power Release and joked that Beast God Form sounded ridiculous.
• Beerus wondered how powerful Son Gohan might become and briefly speculated that he could have come from the Dark Demon Realm.
• The Grand Minister arrived on the God of Destruction Planet, startling Beerus and prompting greetings from Whis and Son Gohan.

The Grand Minister brought Son Gohan, Whis, and Beerus to Zeno’s Palace after Zeno requested to see Gohan. Zeno welcomed Gohan as a friend and enjoyed the cakes he brought, while the Grand Minister prepared to explain the real reason for the summons.

• The Grand Minister told Son Gohan that Zeno wanted to see him and took him, Whis, and Beerus to Zeno’s Palace.
• Beerus warned Gohan to obey Zeno, then nervously knelt before him, but Zeno told him to rise and said Gohan was his friend.
• Son Gohan offered Zeno several cakes, and Zeno eagerly chose one decorated with Doraemon and tasted it.
• Zeno praised the cake and thanked Gohan, then asked the Grand Minister to explain why he had summoned Gohan.

The Grand Minister told Son Gohan that Super Shenron’s wish had restored six ancient universes and their Gods of Destruction, who had fled to the Dark Demon Realm after secretly plotting against Zeno. Son Gohan accepted a ten-year mission to deal with them, with Beerus volunteering to help; after they left, Zeno questioned whether Gohan could succeed and whether replacements had been chosen for the six universes.

• The Grand Minister explained that Super Shenron’s wish had restored the six universes Zeno had erased long ago, along with their Gods of Destruction.
• The Grand Minister said the six Gods of Destruction had fled to the Dark Demon Realm after plotting against Zeno, and Zeno asked Son Gohan to deal with them.
• The Grand Minister described Torres as the strongest, on par with Beerus, and said Rebus was close behind while the other four matched Champa and Belmod.
• Son Gohan asked for help and information, and Beerus volunteered to join him; the Grand Minister gave him ten years to complete the mission and promised a reward from Zeno.
• Whis took Son Gohan and Beerus from Zeno’s Palace, and Zeno asked the Grand Minister whether Gohan could succeed and whether candidates had been found for the six universes.

After learning that the Dark Demon Realm lay beyond Zeno’s Universe and that its monsters threatened Universe 11, Son Gohan traveled there with Beerus and Whis to question Belmod and Marcarita. The visit ended with Beerus and Belmod trading insults while Son Gohan watched their odd, comfortable banter.

• Whis told Son Gohan and Beerus that the Dark Demon Realm was a world beyond Zeno’s Universe, and Beerus explained that monsters from it sometimes entered Universe 11.
• Beerus said Jiren’s teacher, Gicchin, had been killed by one of those monsters, and Son Gohan wondered whether the Pride Troopers fought them.
• Son Gohan decided to visit Universe 11, and Whis took him and Beerus there.
• Belmod was lounging with two maids when Son Gohan, Beerus, and Whis arrived, startling him.
• Whis greeted Marcarita, while Beerus insulted Belmod and Son Gohan exchanged polite greetings with the pair.
• Marcarita praised Son Gohan’s looks, Belmod admitted he looked decent, and Beerus demanded to know why Son Gohan was staring at him.

Son Gohan questioned Belmod about the Dark Demon Realm and persuaded him that Zeno was angry over six fallen Gods of Destruction escaping there. Belmod described the realm’s hierarchy and warned that the fugitives could upset the balance between the two realms, leaving Beerus annoyed at Son Gohan for suggesting disaster was imminent.

• Belmod offered Beerus a massage, but Beerus rejected the maids and sat down with Son Gohan.
• Son Gohan told Belmod about the six fallen Gods of Destruction escaping to the Dark Demon Realm and suggested they might have used Universe 11’s passage.
• Son Gohan claimed Zeno was angry and had put him in charge of hunting down and killing the fugitives, alarming Belmod.
• Belmod confirmed that Universe 11 had a guarded passage and explained the Dark Demon Realm’s ten universes, rulers, and Dark Angels.
• Belmod said the six fugitives could raise the Dark Demon Realm’s strength to sixteen Gods of Destruction and disrupt the longstanding balance.
• Beerus threw a piece of fruit at Belmod and told him to stop jinxing them.

Son Gohan traveled with Marcarita to meet Toppo and ask about demons from the Dark Demon Realm and the passage they guarded. Toppo explained that demons varied in strength and was asked to take them to the mysterious Space-Time Passage.

• Belmod answered Son Gohan's questions and offered to call Toppo, but Son Gohan chose to go to him instead.
• Marcarita took Son Gohan to Toppo while Beerus and Belmod stayed behind to bicker.
• Marcarita and Son Gohan chatted about marriage, age, and their strength during the journey.
• On a hot, crimson planet, Toppo defeated a giant crab-like monster with an Energy Blast and greeted Son Gohan and Marcarita.
• Toppo said the monster was ordinary, explained that demons from the Dark Demon Realm ranged from weak to powerful, and heard Son Gohan ask to see the Space-Time Passage.

Son Gohan inspected the spatial rift to the Dark Demon Realm with Marcarita and Toppo, learning that the Pride Troopers had kept it guarded and that no one had passed through. He also learned that Jiren was training to defeat him and still wanted to find the demon who killed Gicchin, so Son Gohan asked Marcarita to take him to Jiren.

• Toppo stored the defeated monster, then Marcarita took him and Son Gohan to the spatial rift.
• Dyspo told Son Gohan that the Pride Troopers guarded the passage in pairs and had stopped demons from escaping, though none had entered the Dark Demon Realm.
• A winged serpent demon poked its head through the rift, saw Son Gohan, and quickly withdrew.
• Toppo said Jiren had been training to defeat Son Gohan without fusion, while Gicchin remained dead and the demon who killed him had disappeared.
• Son Gohan asked Marcarita to take him to see Jiren.

Son Gohan visited Universe 11 and fought Jiren, who revealed that he had mastered Ultra Ego. Son Gohan held back to keep the battle from ending immediately, while Jiren continued attacking despite the overwhelming gap between them.

• Son Gohan met Jiren on a barren planet and challenged him to a fight while Marcarita and Toppo watched.
• Son Gohan transformed into Beast Form, and Jiren answered by unleashing Ultra Ego.
• Jiren charged at Son Gohan, but Son Gohan blocked his punch and struck him hard enough to send him through several mountains.
• Jiren recovered and attacked with Energy Blasts, but Son Gohan destroyed his Energy Sphere with Destruction.
• Son Gohan reduced his strength during their exchange of punches, leaving Jiren furious that he could only withstand the attacks because Son Gohan was holding back.

Son Gohan defeated Jiren while claiming he had used seventy percent of his power, then learned more about the Dark Demon Realm and the six fallen Gods of Destruction. He considered the dangers of entering the realm and hunting them, and realized he needed to prepare.

• Son Gohan overpowered Jiren, stopped a ki blade at his neck, and accepted Jiren's surrender.
• Son Gohan told Jiren he had used about seventy percent of his power, and Jiren vowed to grow stronger and challenge him again.
• Toppo told Jiren about the six fallen Gods of Destruction and Son Gohan's investigation of the spatial rift; Jiren said he would go to the Dark Demon Realm if Son Gohan went.
• Son Gohan returned to Universe 7 with Whis, who later told him the Grand Minister had sent information about the Dark Demon Realm.
• Son Gohan reviewed the realm's factions, map, and dangerous inhabitants, and concluded he needed to prepare before attempting to hunt the six fallen Gods of Destruction.

Son Gohan traveled to Planet Cooler to recruit Cooler for training in the Dark Demon Realm, but Cooler refused to train with him. The chapter ended with Son Gohan provoking an enraged Cooler into a fight.

• Son Gohan recalled how difficult it would be to kill the fallen Gods of Destruction and resolved to become much stronger.
• Son Gohan used Super Instant Transmission to reach Planet Cooler and found that Cooler was not on the planet's surface.
• Captain Salza recognized Son Gohan, dismissed the soldiers surrounding him, and led him to Cooler's training chamber.
• Son Gohan entered the chamber, deflected Cooler's Energy Sphere, and asked Cooler to train with him.
• Cooler refused, so Son Gohan taunted him and challenged him to attack.

Son Gohan and Cooler trained and fought for fifteen years in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, reaching new transformations before Son Gohan returned to Earth and challenged Beerus. After visiting his family and allies, Son Gohan headed back to train with Cooler before taking on the six Fallen Gods of Destruction.

• Son Gohan repeatedly defeated Cooler in battle, while the two exchanged techniques and trained together over the years.
• Cooler developed a new evolutionary path, and Son Gohan eventually broke through his Super Saiyan 4 bottleneck to become Super Saiyan 5; Cooler evolved into Diamond Cooler.
• Son Gohan shattered the Hyperbolic Time Barrier and returned to Earth, where he learned Broly and Kale might become a couple and Caulifla had reached Super Saiyan 3.
• Son Gohan told Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, and the others about the Fallen Gods of Destruction and urged them to train harder.
• Son Gohan dominated Beerus in a fight, then spent two days with his family before returning to the Southern Galaxy to train with Cooler.

Son Gohan revealed his full power to Cooler after recruiting him to help hunt Gods of Destruction in the Dark Demon Realm. Cooler realized the danger ahead could make him little more than cannon fodder.

• Son Gohan invited Cooler to join him in the Dark Demon Realm, and Cooler agreed after hearing he could challenge Gods of Destruction.
• Cooler asked to see Son Gohan's full power, so Son Gohan transformed into a form stronger than the ones Cooler had seen before.
• Son Gohan overwhelmed Cooler, stopped his punch with one finger, and struck him hard enough to send him flying out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
• Son Gohan healed Cooler and explained that the Dark Demon Realm held six fallen Gods of Destruction and ten Dark Demon Gods who might join forces against him.
• Cooler worried that Son Gohan had recruited him as cannon fodder.

Son Gohan went to the Supreme Kai Planet to borrow the Potara Earrings for his upcoming mission to the Dark Demon Realm. Supreme Kai Shin and Kibito accidentally fused while trying the earrings, leaving them as Kibito Kai with no way to separate.

• Son Gohan told Cooler to train in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for five days before joining him on the trip to the Dark Demon Realm.
• Son Gohan visited the Supreme Kai Planet and found Shin practicing Creation of Life among the planet’s growing wildlife.
• Son Gohan explained his mission and asked Shin to lend him the Potara Earrings.
• Son Gohan explained that the earrings allowed two people to fuse, and Shin and Kibito immediately tried them on.
• Shin and Kibito fused into Kibito Kai, who discovered that the fusion greatly increased their power.
• Old Kai told Kibito Kai that he and Shin could not change back.

Kibito Kai learned that Potara fusion with a god could be permanent, though Shenron might eventually separate him and Old Kai dismissed relying on the Dragon Balls. Son Gohan prepared to travel to the Dark Demon Realm and discovered that the links between its six escaped Gods of Destruction and their Supreme Kais had been severed, raising fears that a powerful enemy was provoking war between the realms.

• Old Kai explained that the Potara fusion between him and the Witch had never been undone, and Son Gohan suggested Shenron might separate Kibito Kai.
• Son Gohan left the Supreme Kai Planet and told Beerus he would travel to the Dark Demon Realm in five days; Beerus agreed to go with him.
• Son Gohan asked Whis about the life link between a God of Destruction and a Supreme Kai, and Whis confirmed that the Grand Minister had established the rule.
• Whis revealed that the links between the six escaped Gods of Destruction and their Supreme Kais had been severed, though the cause was unknown.
• Son Gohan and Whis feared that someone in the Dark Demon Realm powerful enough to challenge the Grand Minister had broken the links to provoke war between the realms.

After preparing for his mission to the Dark Demon Realm, Son Gohan traveled there with Beerus, Cooler, and Jiren. The spatial passage separated them, leaving Son Gohan alone on a planet beneath a blood moon, unable to sense his companions.

• The Grand Minister told Zeno that Son Gohan and Beerus were the best choices to investigate the Dark Demon Realm, and Zeno began considering Gohan’s reward.
• Son Gohan spent five days with his family, then picked up Beerus and Cooler before heading to the spatial passage in Universe 11.
• Jiren asked to join the mission so he could search for the Demon Beast that killed Gicchin, and Son Gohan agreed on the condition that Jiren follow his orders.
• Son Gohan, Beerus, Cooler, and Jiren entered the passage holding on to one another, but it separated them during transit.
• Son Gohan emerged alone beneath a blood moon, found no Demon Race members guarding the passage, and could not sense his three companions.

After being separated from Beerus and the others, Son Gohan arrived on a remote planet and discovered succubi keeping male demons as livestock. He hid from them and watched one exhausted captive be taken away, leaving him disgusted by the planet’s depravity.

• Son Gohan realized Beerus and the others had been teleported elsewhere and flew toward the life energy he sensed on the planet.
• A group of succubi spotted Son Gohan and searched for him after he vanished and concealed his Ki.
• Son Gohan hid on a rooftop and discovered the succubi were raising captive male babies to become livestock.
• Son Gohan saw adult male demons collared and starved, and watched a succubus declare one too exhausted to keep working.
• Two low-ranking demons carried the struggling captive away to the fertilizer factory as Son Gohan silently condemned the succubi.

Son Gohan wiped out a succubus nest after freeing its prisoners, then traveled to Nightmare Star, where he discovered a demon race that fed on fear harvested from dreams. He learned their Dream Entry ability was innate and asked whether they could choose whose dreams to enter.

• Son Gohan killed the succubi who attacked him and freed the imprisoned male demons, but the freed demons cursed him for interfering, so he killed them too.
• Son Gohan left the now lifeless planet and traveled across several more planets over two days.
• Son Gohan arrived on Nightmare Star, where the planet’s demons were asleep and the environment made him drowsy.
• Son Gohan woke a Demon Beast and learned that Nightmare Star’s Demon Race entered dreams to create and consume fear.
• Son Gohan asked whether the demons could choose whose dreams they entered and whether their Dream Entry ability could be learned.

Son Gohan tried to explore dreams but instead experienced a series of connected nightmares in which he died as different Dragon Ball characters. He glimpsed a terrifying being in a blood-red dream world, then woke unable to dream again and remained stranded on Nightmare Star, searching for his missing companions.

• Son Gohan verified a demon's memories, sent him back to bed, and then fell asleep himself.
• Son Gohan dreamed of dying as himself, Frieza, Goku, and Android 17 in connected visions, waking in terror after each death.
• Son Gohan became himself in a blood-red world and saw a dark figure looming over more than a dozen universes before he woke in fear.
• Son Gohan tried to resume the dream but slept through the night without dreaming, then washed and ate beside a river.
• Son Gohan searched unsuccessfully for Beerus, Cooler, and Jiren, then meditated while the rest of Nightmare Star's inhabitants dreamed.

Son Gohan left Nightmare Star without learning to enter dreams and tracked two powerful energy signatures to the Dark Demon Realm. He confronted Ramon and Yego on the Dark Demon God Star, identifying himself as a Divine Realm Enforcer and accusing Ramon of crimes.

• After four days without dreams, Son Gohan marked Nightmare Star’s location and left to pursue his other goals.
• Five days later, Son Gohan sensed Ramon’s and a Dark Demon God’s energy and teleported to them.
• On the Dark Demon God Star, Yego persuaded Ramon to swear allegiance to the Demon Lord in exchange for protection and the possibility of ruling a new universe.
• Hedora, Yego, and Ramon noticed Son Gohan’s sudden arrival as he approached them.
• Son Gohan claimed to be Zeno’s Universe’s chief Divine Realm Enforcer and accused Ramon of destroying more than half of Universe 18 before fleeing justice.