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Then he set his empire in order, and appointed the four baboons field-marshals; and the seven beast-spirits, the ox-spirit, the dragon-spirit, the bird-spirit, the lion-spirit and the rest also joined him. One day he took a nap after dinner. Before he did so he had let the bar shrink, and had stuck it in his ear.
The Snorter in turn was slain in this fight by Marshal Chin Ta-shêng, 'Golden Big Pint, who was an ox-spirit and endowed with the mysterious power of producing in his entrails the celebrated niu huang, ox-yellow, or bezoar. Facing the Snorter, he spat in his face, with a noise like thunder, a piece of bezoar as large as a rice-bowl. It struck him on the nose and split his nostrils.
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