Chapter Summaries

Son Wu ended his battle with Frieza after testing their martial arts and assigned Frieza to hunt Destruction Beasts. Frieza delegated the task to Captain Zora and Ino while vowing to get back at Son Wu.

• Frieza and Son Wu traded blows, and Son Wu used his technique to redirect Frieza into his own Energy Spheres before grabbing him and hurling him into the ground.
• Frieza survived Son Wu's barrage and rose from the crater, while Son Wu stopped attacking and returned to his normal form.
• Son Wu healed himself with a Senzu Bean, then gave another to Frieza and explained that he was too busy to keep fighting.
• Son Wu assigned Frieza to clear Destruction Beasts from the region and gave him a detector before leaving in the Enforcement Team's spaceship.
• Frieza handed the detector to Captain Zora and ordered Ino to supervise him, then flew back to his palace cursing Son Wu.

Son Gohan investigated the strange changes to Earth’s Shenron and learned from the ailing Grand Minister that the sinister-looking dragon might be an avatar of Dragon God Zalama, creator of the Super Dragon Balls. The chapter ended with Gohan asking whether Zalama might be outside Zeno’s universes.

• Son Gohan watched the crimson dragon flee and recalled that Mr. Popo had denied the existence of Shadow Dragons and any hidden Dragon Balls.
• Son Gohan visited Zeno’s Palace, where a guard told him Zeno could not be awakened until he woke on his own.
• Son Gohan met Merus in the Grand Minister’s chambers and found the Grand Minister still ill despite trying to heal himself with the power of the laws.
• Son Gohan showed the Grand Minister images of Shenron’s transformation, and the Grand Minister identified the dragon as possibly an avatar of Dragon God Zalama.
• The Grand Minister explained that Zalama created the Super Dragon Balls and had vanished long ago, prompting Son Gohan to ask whether he had left Zeno’s universes.

Son Gohan learned that Dragon God Zalama might have appeared on Earth, then discovered that Beerus and Merus were suffering from strange abnormalities like the Grand Minister. Concerned that the condition was spreading, he used the Grand Minister’s staff to contact all the Angels across the eighteen universes.

• The Grand Minister agreed that Dragon God Zalama might have left Zeno’s universes for the Dark Demon Realm or another world, and Son Gohan left to return to Earth with Merus.
• Merus asked Son Gohan to introduce him to Whis, and Son Gohan brought him to Whis and Beerus.
• Beerus told Son Gohan that his divine power and thinking had become sluggish, and Son Gohan confirmed during their fight that Beerus’s strength had declined.
• Son Gohan learned that Merus had similar abnormalities while Whis had none, and he warned that the condition might be spreading.
• Son Gohan used the Grand Minister’s staff to send his voice across the eighteen universes and reach all the Angels.

Son Gohan coordinated the Guide Angels’ reports on Destruction Beasts and discovered that several high-ranking deities, including the Grand Minister, had developed physical abnormalities. After returning to Earth and failing to find Punk Shenron, he entered his Inner Universe to continue developing his law cultivation.

• Son Gohan ordered the Guide Angels to eliminate Destruction Beasts and report any physical abnormalities among high-ranking deities.
• The Angels reported that Quitela, Iru, Kusu, and Sade were affected, joining Beerus and Merus; the Grand Minister’s condition was the most severe.
• Son Gohan told the Angels to monitor the affected deities, asked Beerus to report any changes, and returned to Earth after Merus declined a lift.
• Son Gohan searched Earth for Punk Shenron but found no trace of him and wondered whether Zalama had recalled his clone.
• Son Gohan entered his Inner Universe, where a clone used Yardrat’s Afterimage Technique to cultivate spiritual laws on the World Tree.

Son Gohan learned that Destruction Beasts had grown unchecked in Trunks's timeline and arrived after Trunks shattered his Communication Orb. He healed Trunks and promised to bring Mai back, leaving them to face a monster responsible for her death.

• Son Gohan watched his inner universe develop while Pan recruited Parami to help protect Earth.
• Son Gohan told Dende that Punk Shenron might be Dragon God Zalama, then spent the night at home with Videl.
• Son Gohan sensed that Trunks's Communication Orb had shattered and used his divine power to travel to Trunks's timeline.
• Son Gohan healed the wounded Trunks, who explained that a powerful monster had defeated him and killed Mai.
• Son Gohan recognized that Destruction Beasts had grown unchecked in Trunks's timeline and comforted him by promising to revive Mai with Shenron.

Trunks fought the evolved Destruction Beast but was badly injured before Son Gohan erased it with a single glare. Son Gohan took Trunks to Kami's Lookout and entered the Hyperbolic Time Chamber with him for special training.

• Trunks transformed into Super Saiyan 2 and charged the Destruction Beast while Son Gohan watched.
• The Destruction Beast shrugged off Trunks's punch and wounded him with black flames.
• Son Gohan healed Trunks, then destroyed the Destruction Beast with a glare.
• Son Gohan restored Trunks's clothes and broken sword, then took him to Kami's Lookout for special training.
• Mr. Popo opened the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and Son Gohan and Trunks went inside.

Inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Son Gohan showed Trunks several Saiyan transformations and offered to teach him to grow stronger. Trunks chose the Super Saiyan 4 path, then learned how vast Gohan's power and transformations had become as their training began.

• Trunks and Son Gohan put on battle suits and discussed Trunks's potential and the possibility of learning god ki.
• Son Gohan explained that Trunks could pursue Super Saiyan Blue by learning to sense god ki, while his counterpart in another timeline had chosen Super Saiyan 4.
• Son Gohan demonstrated Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2, Super Saiyan 3, Super Saiyan 4, Super Saiyan 4 Limit Breakthrough, and Super Saiyan 5.
• Trunks chose to learn Super Saiyan 4, and Son Gohan explained that his base form could wield the power of his transformations.
• Son Gohan showed Trunks his Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Blue, and Beast forms, leaving Trunks overwhelmed before their training began.

Son Gohan helped Trunks regrow his tail and taught him to control his Great Ape power, enabling him to transform into Super Saiyan 4. After a week of training, Trunks mastered the form, and he and Son Gohan left the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

• Son Gohan used restorative power to regrow Trunks's purple tail and warned him to train it so it would not become a weakness.
• Son Gohan created an Artificial Moon, causing Trunks to transform into a Great Ape, then guided him in controlling the form and becoming Super Saiyan 4.
• Trunks successfully transformed into Super Saiyan 4 and sparred with Son Gohan to grow accustomed to his new power.
• Trunks mastered Super Saiyan 4 during a week of training, and he and Son Gohan returned to Kami's Lookout.
• Mr. Popo asked why they had left the Hyperbolic Time Chamber so soon, and Trunks explained that they had already achieved their goal.

After learning that all humans on Earth had died, Trunks chose to join Son Gohan in hunting the Destruction Beasts rather than revive humanity immediately. Trunks began his mission as a member of the Universe Enforcement Team, while Son Gohan went to find King Kai and discovered that he had become confused and despondent.

• Son Gohan told Trunks that Earth’s humans were all dead and explained that Destruction Beasts had appeared in other universes as well.
• Trunks chose to travel with Son Gohan and fight the Destruction Beasts before reviving humanity.
• Son Gohan made Trunks the ninth member of the Universe Enforcement Team, gave him its knowledge and equipment, and instructed him to gain experience while hunting the beasts.
• Trunks used the team’s spaceship and Scouter to locate a Destruction Beast and set off into space to fight it.
• Son Gohan visited King Kai’s Planet and found King Kai repeating that the universe was finished, unable to remember who Son Gohan was.

Son Gohan found King Kai suffering from severe memory loss and discovered that Other World and the Supreme Kai and God of Destruction planets were abandoned. At the edge of Universe 7, he found an endless, corrosive black mist that seemed linked to the Destruction Beasts, then returned to Beerus's planet and found Beerus lying in his bed despite having died long ago.

• Son Gohan found King Kai unable to remember him or Goku and mistaking him for a car thief.
• Son Gohan searched Other World for the dead Z Fighters and King Yemma but found it empty, then vented his frustration by killing over a hundred Destruction Beasts.
• Son Gohan found boundless black mist surrounding Universe 7, but his energy attacks, purification attempt, and barrier could not affect or stop it.
• Son Gohan watched the mist darken and weaken his Ki, saw Destruction Beasts appear and evolve within it, then left to seek the Grand Minister.
• Son Gohan found the Supreme Kai Planet deserted and learned that Shin, Old Kai, and Beerus had died, while Whis was nowhere to be found.
• Son Gohan entered Beerus's sleeping quarters and found Beerus lying on his bed, triggering an intense warning of danger.

Son Gohan discovered that black mist had infested Beerus's preserved corpse and suspected it was destroying Zeno's Universe. Unable to consult the sleeping Zeno, he headed to the Grand Minister's bedchamber, where the Grand Minister called him inside.

• Son Gohan found Beerus's lifeless body preserved by black mist and saw the mist repel his attempt to touch it.
• Son Gohan concluded that the black mist was using Beerus's corpse as a host and decided not to destroy it for fear of worsening the damage.
• Son Gohan suspected the black mist was destroying Zeno's Universe and left to seek the Grand Minister's advice.
• Son Gohan arrived at Zeno's Palace and learned from the guard captains that Zeno was asleep.
• Son Gohan went to the Grand Minister's bedchamber, where the Grand Minister invited him inside.

Son Gohan told the Grand Minister about the black mist and the abnormalities he found across other timelines, learning that the Grand Minister was using his magical power to resist the universe’s laws. The Grand Minister warned him to watch over King Yemma, while Beerus’s corpse raised the possibility that the mist could revive him as an evil entity.

• Son Gohan met the same Grand Minister he had encountered in another timeline, who explained that space-time had overlapped and that he served several Zenos.
• Son Gohan reported the black mist beyond the universe, and the Grand Minister said no one could explore beyond it except perhaps someone as powerful as Zalama.
• Son Gohan described King Kai’s confusion, and the Grand Minister revealed that the universe’s laws were affecting them and that he was spending his magical power to resist them.
• Son Gohan reported that King Yemma had disappeared from another timeline, and the Grand Minister advised him to watch over his own world’s King Yemma.
• Son Gohan described Beerus’s intact corpse, which was being consumed by the black mist, and wondered whether it could revive him; the Grand Minister warned that such a being would no longer be Beerus.

Son Gohan learned the Purification Technique from the Grand Minister and discovered it could remove the black mist, though not quickly enough to cleanse the universe. He then purified the corruption from Beerus's remains, causing the body to scatter away.

• The Grand Minister taught Son Gohan the Purification Technique, which briefly eased his suffering but risked worsening his condition if used repeatedly.
• Son Gohan traveled to the universe's edge and used the technique to clear a vast area of black mist, but the mist quickly surged back.
• Son Gohan reported his findings to the Grand Minister and returned to the God of Destruction Planet.
• Son Gohan purified the black mist clinging to Beerus's remains, and Beerus's body scattered on the wind.

Son Gohan absorbed the abandoned Supreme Kai Planet into his Inner Universe to test whether an outside world could integrate with it. The planet merged smoothly, and he planned to monitor its ecosystem before moving in living creatures.

• Son Gohan traveled to the deserted Sacred World of the Kai to claim the Supreme Kai Planet for his Inner Universe.
• He used his Inner Universe’s source power to overcome Universe 7’s laws and absorb the planet.
• Son Gohan placed the Supreme Kai Planet beside the world tree at the center of his Inner Universe.
• He stepped onto the planet and found that its land and vital energy were adapting smoothly to his world.
• Son Gohan decided to monitor the planet’s vegetation, water, and soil before bringing in outside creatures.

Son Gohan’s inner universe evolved after the Supreme Kai Planet merged with it and was renamed the Ancestral Planet. In Universe 15, the black mist corrupted Sade, who rejected Son Gohan’s authority and began opening a passage to the Dark Demon Realm.

• Son Gohan’s inner universe absorbed the Supreme Kai Planet, whose divine heritage strengthened the world and enabled it to sustain gods and nurture races.
• Son Gohan renamed the Supreme Kai Planet the Ancestral Planet and recognized his evolved inner universe as a new sanctuary.
• In Universe 15, Onyx noticed that his teacher Sade had become increasingly corrupted by the black mist and had stopped reporting his symptoms.
• Sade denounced Zeno, the Grand Minister, and Son Gohan, claiming that the old universal order had collapsed.
• Sade announced that he would tear open a passage to the Dark Demon Realm and raised his hand to do so.

Sade tried to tear open a passage between Universe 15 and the Dark Demon Realm, but Son Gohan arrived and stopped him with Divine Realm enforcement authority. Son Gohan restrained the corrupted Angel and declared that he would purify him, strip him of his divine power, and force him to retire.

• Sade attacked the Spatial Barrier in Universe 15, spreading cracks and alerting the Angels across the other universes.
• Son Gohan arrived and halted the passage, while Sade dismissed his warnings and vowed to kill him before reshaping the 18 Universes.
• Whis, Vados, Marcarita, Konison, and Koren arrived and urged Sade to stop, but he rejected their pleas.
• Sade charged Son Gohan, who invoked the first article of Divine Realm law and used golden enforcement laws to nullify his attack and restrain his corrupted power.
• Son Gohan declared that Sade had forfeited his divine office and would be purified, stripped of his power, and forced to retire.

Son Gohan purified Sade of the black mist, then defeated and sealed him after Sade insisted on a rematch. Gohan spared Sade’s life, left his further punishment to the Grand Minister, and departed for Zeno’s Palace with the Angels, while the disturbance had already reached the Dark Demon Realm.

• Son Gohan used the Purification Technique to remove the black mist from Sade, who regained his senses and regretted his actions.
• Sade challenged Son Gohan again, but Gohan overwhelmed him in close combat and with the power of laws.
• Son Gohan struck Sade, sealed him, and stripped away his angel god ki, then left further punishment to the Grand Minister.
• Son Gohan spared Onyx for the time being and ordered him to clean up the crisis and protect Universe 15.
• Son Gohan took Sade to Zeno’s Palace as Whis, Vados, and the other Angels followed.
• The disturbance from Sade tearing open the two realms barrier reached the Dark Demon Realm.

The Demon Lord learned that Zeno's Universe had fallen into chaos and began preparing the Dark Demon Realm to invade the eighteen universes. Son Gohan returned Sade to the Grand Minister for judgment, leaving Sade on his knees as his father rebuked him.

• The Demon Lord ordered the Grand Angel to investigate a spatial disturbance and learned that black mist had greatly strengthened the Dark Demon Realm.
• Demonic scouts reported that Zeno was asleep, the Grand Minister was gravely ill, and the eighteen universes had been overrun by black mist and chaos.
• The Demon Lord ordered her forces to infiltrate the universes, recruit resentful fighters, and prepare the army for war.
• The Demon Lord and the Grand Angel plotted to win over the Enforcer by sending the Demon Realm's most alluring demoness to him.
• Son Gohan brought Sade to the Grand Minister, who rebuked his son for causing another crisis, and Sade admitted he was wrong.

After Sade was stripped of his Angel powers, Merus was appointed Universe 15’s new Guide Angel. Son Gohan then warned Merus and the others to guard against the Dark Demon Realm, before visiting Quitela to investigate his supposed illness.

• The Grand Minister stripped Sade of his Angel powers and ordered him to retire, then approved Merus as Universe 15’s Guide Angel after Son Gohan confirmed Merus could work normally.
• Merus handed over his Galactic Patrol duties and accepted his appointment from the Grand Minister, who warned Son Gohan that the black mist had empowered the Demon Race and might prompt an invasion.
• Son Gohan brought Merus to Universe 15, introduced him to Onyx, and instructed them to guard the passages to the Demon Realm and watch Sade’s spatial rift.
• Son Gohan traveled to Universe 4 to check on Quitela, who appeared energetic and had been playing a video game despite reportedly feeling unwell.

Son Gohan confronted Quitela for neglecting his duties to play video games, then warned him and Konjac that the Dark Demon Realm might invade Zeno's Universe. The chapter left Quitela chastened as several threats to the universe loomed.

• Son Gohan found Quitela playing video games and challenged him to a real fight.
• Son Gohan overwhelmed Quitela, who surrendered before Son Gohan healed his injuries.
• Son Gohan told Quitela to train properly, and Quitela ordered Konjac to destroy his game consoles.
• Son Gohan stopped Konjac and warned him and Quitela that the Dark Demon Realm might be preparing to invade Zeno's Universe.
• Son Gohan described the Destruction Beasts and black mists threatening the universe alongside the possible invasion, leaving Quitela speechless.