Lily Five’s first match is against Hao’s team. Manta suggests they should just withdraw if they don’t want to die. Lily Five is stubborn, though, and refuses to leave the tournament without a fight. The group stages a pep rally where Lily Five tries to convince themselves they might have a chance at defeating Hao.
Yoh ventures out by himself looking for Hao. He asks why he killed the shamans he was fighting. Hao explains that he will kill shamans who are not beneficial to him along with the humans. He then asks Yoh to become stronger and then declares that he will kill Lily Five.
Yoh meets Lily Five and challenges them. He tells them that Hao’s furyoku is much greater than his and if they can’t beat him, they don’t have a chance of beating Hao.
Meanwhile, Mikihisa keeps insisting that the Ren team abandon their current training and find their grain of rice. Ren refuses and challenges Mikihisa to train him. Mikihisa takes up the offer and knocks Ren around. Try as he might, Ren just can’t hit him with anything he throws. Eventually, Ren is able to focused and eventually gets a hit in.
Meanwhile, Yoh challenges the girls to hit him. Sally tries and misses. The rest of Lily Five OverSouls but are nothing compared to Yoh. He asks them once again to withdraw. They refuse to go back to that day when everyone kicked them out of their lives for seeing spirits. Together they combine their five point concentration hit at Yoh. He blocks four, but one slips by and hits him. He gives up at their determination, but luckily, Anna is able to convince them that they should withdraw - they’d only have 3 of the 5 in the actual match. Lily Five senses the severity of the circumstances and do withdraw. They decide to settle for becoming legendary - the girls that displeased Hao during the tournament.
Realizing that they both still have a long ways to go, Yoh and Ren resume their search for their grain of rice. In a flash, both cut at the sand to each find a grain… unfortunately neither is theirs.