Describes over fifty ancient rock art sites in the American Southwest and includes driving directions, photographs, side trips, and insight into the cultures that created the artworks.
Joco receives a surprise when he visits friends who are on a different team in the Shaman Fight, while Hao's team waits for the perfect chance to attack Yoh and his friends.
Miguel and Ramon are sent to Abuelita Rosa in northern Arizona to help her and to learn responsibility after their grades drop; but, when the old woman has to go to the hospital, the boys have to find some way to get back to Miguel's parents in New Mexico.
Yoh and his crew have fifteen hours to defeat a snake spirit, a spider spirit, and an owl spirit, but each one is more difficult to battle than the one before.
Yoh and Lyserg try to advance in the Shaman Fight during a battle against Luchist and worry about how they will defeat Hao, whose victory seems inevitable.
Dr. Munzer is at odds with Anna over what to do with the Golem, who has run out of energy; and meanwhile Little Opacho announces that if Yoh does not return to the Shaman Fight, Hao will destroy the Golem and the children.
Hao attempts to consume the Golem, with Salerm still inside, to obtain its mana, and Yoh tries to save her by fighting the Golem and the ghost of Ludsev's father while hoping for assistance from friends such as Joco.
