Dream of the Dragon Pool - A Daoist Quest is a multifaceted novel woven around the historical fact of the death-sentence exile of China's best-loved poet-adventurer, Li Bo (also known as Li Bai, 701-762 A.D.). This is an adventure story of magic and myth that involves the occult powers of an ancient Chinese shape-shifting vampire written in traditional Chinese-style wuxia (heroic) novel form.