Old Kai's original appearance moments before permanently fusing with the old witch. Later, with the birth of the Evil Dragons, especially Syn Shen Long, the Z Warriors are able to understand what Old Kaioshin had feared. His face is very wrinkled, showing his age. The ritual begins with him slowly pacing around the participant for five hours making brief shouts. While this sacred ritual normally takes 5 hours of Old Kai dancing around the person … They eventually ended up with Gohan and had him remove the Z-Sword from its stone encasement. This caused him to become an old wrinkly being with a personality befitting of the new form, as well as new magical powers. Old Kai is capable of unlocking Gohan's inner latent potential called the "Mystic Powers" but he refuses to. Urgent to find a way out, several chains appear through a tiny hole of light and latch on to the three as well as an unconscious Towa. Goku eventually showed up, and started to help Gohan train.

Fortunately, Super Saiyan God Xeno Trunks and Chronoa arrive just in time to save both Old Kai and Tokitoki. Dragon Ball Wiki is a FANDOM Anime Community. Old Kai is a bystander and so he sits with the other gods. When Kid Buu had been brought out, he went to Namek with Dende and Kibito Kai, where he and the others used the Namekian Dragon Balls to help Goku and Vegeta defeat Kid Buu. During that time the participant has to stand patiently. Elder Kai notes they really cleaned house while Krillin senses ki signatures he recognizes.

Since he does not provide an explanation, Goku and others assume that he is simply being prudish, and proceed to use the balls without heeding his warning. In the Shadow Dragon Saga, he and Kibito Kai explain to the Z Warriors how the Shadow Dragons were born from the negative energy that was stored in the Dragon Balls, after years of overusing the balls to grant wishes. Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods While this sacred ritual normally takes 5 hours of Old Kai dancing around the person and another 20 hours afterward sitting with the person in a meditative pose, Gohan's exceptionally immense dormant capacities required several more hours. Main articles: Majin Buu Saga, Fusion Saga, and Kid Buu Saga. He is the second Kai to experience death during the series, after King Kai (at least on-screen, because the other Supreme Kai's were killed off by Buu long before). He also implies that his wisdom and powerful magical abilities were what got him sealed up in the first place. Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission!! This was seen from Beerus' concern only for Shin as a life-link to him. Elder Kai contacts them and says their job is not to take Zarbon down, as it is helping Krillin and Gohan to escape.

It is shown during the Majin Buu Saga when Goku bribed him of those to find out a power that he was boasting about, but says he can use his vision to see girls play beach volleyball (in the original manga, he simply states he can watch them strip if he needs to). Elder Kai states that the history they mended was once saved by the hero who corrected a previous history change in Age 761 as their first mission. He is now dead because he gave his life to Goku. Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission!! After having being pulled into Mechikabura's dark void, Xeno Trunks, Chronoa and Old Kai awaken to see images of their former battles from other timelines. He also states his disapproval of the use of the Namekian Dragon Balls during the Battle on Planet Namek despite knowing full well is an established part of history. During one of these meetings, held roughly 75 Million Before Age, they got into an argument over some trifling thing and a certain short-tempered Beerus sealed Old Kai away inside the Z Sword as it would not have been proper for him to destroy the Sacred World of the Kai itself. Also, in the Kid Buu Saga, he didn't suggest the transformation as a means to beat Buu.
Dragon Ball Wiki is a FANDOM Anime Community. He goes on to reveal that Elder Kai admires their persistence and the way they keep finishing mission after mission. He was sealed inside the Z Sword due to the enemy fearing his ability to raise a person's power gained from fusing with the witch.

However, at other times he is shown flipping the pages forwards. To test the blade, Shin generated a cube of the strongest metal in the universe, Katchin, and gave it to Goku to throw. He then explains that he and his partner have been using the scrolls to perform special missions but there have been so many changes lately that they are a bit shorthanded, which is why he's had to ask for help from them and Elder Kai. When powering up Gohan, Old Kai reads a comic book. In Xenoverse 2, by working in conjunction with a fellow Supreme Kai like Chronoa, Old Kai can erect an self-sustaining invisible barrier large and powerful enough to protect both Conton City and the Time Nest from direct attack by even beings as powerful as Towa and Mira (as the Time Breakers never tried to attack the city or Time Nest directly), forcing Towa to find a more subtle way to bypass it. Old Kaioshin's personality and demeanor are very perverted and self-centered, much like Muten Roshi's, but with the capability to make a sacrifice at the right time if the need arises, another similarity. There is a scene where the crystal ball malfunctions and Old Kai says "They don't make crystal balls like they used to." Old Kai was the one who made the crystal ball, not Kibito Kai/Supreme Kai.
This was gained from fusing with the Old Witch. However the elderly Supreme Kai refuses as doing so would result in the end of the world. Dragon Ball: Yo!

Old Kai is sometimes referred to as Elder Kai in the anime. Despite being dead, Old Kai was able to leave Other World and travel to the physical plain without the help of Fortuneteller Baba. In episode 258, he states that he has trouble digesting Mexican foods, though like the countries mentioned in Movie 7, it does not exist in the Dragon World. When they decided to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to restore Earth and revive everyone, Old Kai refused to use them, as he claims that they would disrupt the balance of nature. Old Kai runs the Patroller Academy in Conton City. Old Kai explains to Kibito Kai that these shock waves are like a tidal wave after an earthquake and gradually get stronger the further out that they travel. Main article: Prison Planet Saga After waiting for well over an entire day, Old Kaioshin had finally unleashed Gohan's hidden potential. They eventually ended up with Gohan and had him remove the Z Sword from its stone encasement. In Dragon Ball Super, Future Shin used this ritual to unlock Future Trunks' dormant power and make him a Supreme Kai apprentice. Elder Kai is at first hostile towards her interruption until she explains her reason for doing so, and welcomes her to do so, seeing it as perfect timing for the Future Warrior to learn what they can from her and tells them to come pay him a visit once they've learned all there is to know about being a Time Patroller from Chronoa, as he'll have their first mission waiting for them. In the past, Old Kai visited Zeno three times. However, he is quick to point out his own role in unlocking Gohan's potential during the battle with Super Buu (which causes Chronoa to note he can't resist boosting when it comes to his own actions) and warns Trunks: Xeno he shouldn't underestimate the revived Frieza and explains that Frieza is a prodigy who never trained a day in his life until this point and that it will take more than a swing of a sword to defeat him this time. However, his fear was understandable as the Time Vault contains the universe's recorded history and any damage to it could lead to the destruction of the Universe. Watch Queue Queue Due to the massive size and sheer scale of these rifts they are not as easy to deal with these require more investigation to determine the cause. The Last Chance From Beerus-sama?!") The brothers are challenged by Goten and Trunks but they fail in defeating them. — "Out from the Broken Sword".