Strings and Zither

On the shores of the Western Sea stands a tree a thousand feet tall, its splendor shining for a hundred miles. Its branches and leaves grow thick and lush, its crown broad as a canopy. At every dawn, it gives off a dazzling, multicolored radiance, streaming like ribbons, as though it had absorbed and drawn in the colors of the rising sun. From afar, it looks like a giant pillar supporting the sky, reaching high into the clouds. This tree is called Qiong Sang. In prehistoric times, before Shao Hao, the Western Heavenly Emperor, ascended the throne, he traveled through the lands of the west, seeking the cause of his mother's death... But in the kingdom of Qiong Sang, on the shores of the Western Sea, he was drawn into a tangled web of grudges and grievances...