King Mu dreamed of being an immortal god. He was determined to visit the Western heavenly paradise of Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West on the Kunlun Mountain and taste her peaches of immortality. A brave charioteer named Zao Fu carried the king and seven worthy companions by chariot to Xi Wangmu whom he feasts at Blue-gem pool in Chapter 3 with a banquet, wine, gifts, and decorous exchange of poems with some sense of his being subsequently rejuvenated or at least blessed with posterity.