As Wang Li-ch'i (8.202n.) points out, the place normally called Hsi-ling is located in modern Hupei near Yi-ch'ang 宜昌, about 170 miles south of Tan-shui.

He suddenly exploded into about three seconds of maniacal laughter and stopped again.

[…]I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence ’gainst the merchant there.

And even the destroyed lampshades had pieces unblocking off of a fallen lampshaded being, the head maybe dead, but all its limbs, its poles, its blocks, went flipping and adding to other lampshaded beings, adding to them, making them larger, bulkier and able to stretch taller.