After Pangu passed away, his body became the Dragon-Bird Tree. The tree's companions were the Ancestor Dragon Clan and the Ancestor Bird Clan. The two clans embodied yin and yang and lived together in symbiosis. But the dragons were violent by nature, while the birds were deceitful. Their temperaments clashed, and conflict broke out repeatedly. One day, a full-scale war erupted. The Ancestor Bird Clan was nearly wiped out, and one unhatched egg tumbled down Mount Kunlun, preserving their bloodline.
With the Ancestor Bird Clan, the yin half, destroyed, the divine tree fell out of balance. The Ancestor Dragon Clan, living on Mount Kunlun, had no water to nourish them. Their scales bristled, and their flesh and blood ran raw. The dragons smeared blood on their scales day and night, but this was no lasting solution. Xun, the younger brother of the dragon clan's leader, stepped forward and sought a way to obtain water.
Below Mount Kunlun, all was shrouded in chaos. Nothing possessed a mind or spirit. Xun bestowed the Divine Art of All Spirits, ushering the primordial mainland out of ignorance and into an age of awareness. Xun led the Beastmasters and the Chen Clan in carrying water up Mount Kunlun, forming Mirror Lake to nourish the Ancestor Dragon Clan. A thousand years passed. Xun's descendants each occupied a province and had long forgotten their duty to transport water. The dragons were discussing an ascent to Mount Kunlun, unaware that the egg of the Ancestor Bird had survived and hatched. Driven by inherited hatred, its offspring had plotted for a thousand years. On the day the dragons marched up Mount Kunlun, he seized his chance to take control of the Dragon-Bird Tree...
With yin but no yang, the Dragon-Bird Tree's branches began to wither... The war over water continued to rage. The various clans rose and grew amid the currents of time. Over ten thousand years, the last divine art transformed into the Hetu and Luoshu, while the once-dominant Ancestor Dragon Clan became Yinglong and survived in the abyss...
