The competition is paramount for Yoh Asakura when he enters a tournament held once every five hundred years, and knowing that first prize would allow him the title of Shaman King, Yoh faces the best shamans from around the world.
Yoh Asakura, a shaman who can channel spirits, seems to have squandered his chance to become Shaman King as Ren liesunconscious, with only Lady Jeanne to save him, if she holds up her end of the bargain.
Manta, still in shock over the death of Niles, fears for Yoh's safety as he and Team Funbari square off against the formidable Icemen in the continuing quest to win the title of Shaman King.
Yoh and his friends have been dropped in the middle of nowhere and must now find their way through the desert of the American Southwest to Patch Village for the Shaman Fight, but run afoul of a Native American shaman who says the Patch are evil and he will kill anyone who helps fulfill their plans.
Traveling through a mountain range on their way to Patch Village, the site of the Shaman Fight's main competition, Horohoro's spirit ally, Kororo, runs away, and Yoh and his gang find themselves battling Hao's evil minions.
Yoh and his band of Shaman King contenders have reached Mesa Verdede, the most likely location of the hidden Patch village; however, they must first face Boris Dracula, one of Hao's most dangerous allies.
"Future events that led to the creation of Ultimo and Vice turn out to be part of the tragic "past" that haunts Musashi, a mysterious police officer from the 30th century. Back in the present, a funeral service is about to begin, but it seems the deceased went to the grave possessing a cosmic secret that may have given Ultimo the edge and tilted the battle in favor of good..."--Back cover.
When Vice and his cohorts congregate to plot the attack on Ultimo, Dunstan announces that he has planned the Hundred Machine Funeral, an epic battle in which both good and evil fighters must try to convince the other side to switch allegiances. Meanwhile, Sayama discovers that she was also part of Yamato's past life.
