Shan Ts’ai, inconsolable, prayed Heaven and earth to save his protectress. Miao Shan said to him: “You should not have risked your life by throwing yourself over the precipice, I have not yet transformed you. But you did a brave thing, and I know that you have a good heart. Now, look down there. ” “Oh,” said he, “if I mistake not, that is a corpse.

” “Yes,” she replied, “that is your former body. Now you are transformed you can rise at will and fly in the air. ” Shan Ts’ai bowed low to thank his benefactress, who said to him: “Henceforth you must say your prayers by my side, and not leave me for a single day.