His face, tail, and legs became the colour of the earth except where his paws touched his master's body.Here his paws remained the white of purity. The junior priests were emboldened and the bandits dismayed by this miracle, and soon the priests drove out the bandits. For the next seven days Sinh refused all food and water, finally dying and taking his master's soul to paradise. When the priests came to choose Mun-ha's successor, the temple's hundred cats came into the holy chamber, but they were no longer white. They had all undergone the same miraculous transformation as Sinh. They encircled a young priest, Lioa, thereby choosing him as the new head priest.