Hao and his group sit by a fire. Ashil, the boy who is looking to kill Yoh, complains that he is bored. Shouldn’t they wait until they reach Patch Village before they relax? Hao isn’t ready to hurry. Ashil seems jealous that Hao is paying so much attention to Yoh over him. He believes that he is the stronger of the two. Hao smiles and asks for a favor. The reason Yoh is so relaxed is because he is among friends. If Ashil was to kill a few of them, he’d be a bit more worried. Ashil is up to the challenge and ready to kill Yoh if necessary. Rakist, Hao’s strange priest friend, requires that his large, monster creature go with him. At first Ashil refuses, but Hao asks that he go along and Ashil willingly accepts. Rakist asks Ashil to call Yoh “Yoh-sama”. He confides to Hao that he doesn’t think Ashil understands his master plan.
Anna travels to the northeastern part of the Asakura territory where the demon’s gate of Ushi*ora (Cow Tiger) is found. The gate is a place where ghosts and spirits enter and return, a place that would be ideal to seal something away with a spell. At the gate, Yohmei explains the true purpose of the Asakura family throughout the last thousand years of their history. Behind the doors lies the legend of Superior Onmyouji, Hao Asakura. (Onmyouji is a common name for Buddhist monks responsible for exorcising evil spirits and for fortune telling). Hao Asakura is an enemy that the Asakura family terminated with all their powers a long time ago. He’s not dead.
As Ren and Horo Horo bicker about a bus stop in the middle of nowhere, Ashil shows up to cause Yoh problems. As Ashil attacks Yoh’s friends, the monster Rakist sent sets up a protection ring so that no harm will come upon Yoh. They wonder why Yoh is getting the special treatment until Ashil reveals that Yoh is a descendant of Hao.
Back at the gate, Yohmeil explains that the star placed there isn’t just any Onmyou symbol. When the five points of the star are connected, they indicate five karma, which possess the knowledge of the workings of Nature and the universe. In other words, those who master the pentacle have control over Nature itself. Such a person can control demons. Only a god should obtain this power, but Hao was the shaman to obtain this. The Asakura family prospered greatly with Hao’s new found power, but suddenly, Hao announced that he wanted to eliminate humankind and create a world of Shamans. The Asakura family did all they could to eliminate Hao, but they were too late, for Hao had already mastered the pentacle enough to control his own life. Hao did die a thousand years ago, but through his ambition to become the Shaman King, he transmigrated his soul into “Hao” to participate in the Shaman Fight. Manta overhears the conversation and confesses that he has heard of Hao. They wonder why - possibly to recruit Yoh to that side? Yohmei explains that Yoh’s true purpose is to erase Hao. To help, Anna must send THAT - a book Hao used that lists everything about Onmyoudoum, “Chou Senji Ryakketsu” - to Yoh. It’s been sealed away in the gate for a long time.
Back to the Shaman battle with Ashil, which isn’t going as well as they’d like. Yoh tries to break the protection circle to escape, but cannot. Lyserg is having doubts that Yoh is Hao’s descendent. It doesn’t matter to Ren. In the meantime, Yoh breaks the protection “Steel Curtain” and attacks Ashil. Soon, everyone is attacking Ashil. However, his Oversoul is in the ground, so as long as the ground is there, he can still Oversoul. As Ashil charges to attack, a beam of light kills him and a white angel appears. Beside the angel, a group of men appear and declare that evil will be destroyed by the light of justice. They are the X-Laws, the messengers of justice who will terminate the evil Hao. They offer their friendship to Yoh. Yoh asks whether they killed Ashil. They reply that they did not kill him, they executed him. They pass judgment upon Hao and his followers. By fighting with them, his sins will be forgiven. It doesn’t matter to them that Yoh is Hao’s descendent
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