Look at him: a thousand strands of auspicious haze parting from the Jade Portals, ten thousand shafts of blessed cloud descending to the world of dust.

降世塵: here 降 = jiàng ("to descend"), not the xiáng of "subduing." A set descriptive couplet embedded in the prose.

In an instant he was down through the Southern Heaven Gate, back to the eastern prospect, and soon saw the sun-star rising.

須臾間: 間 = jiān. Deictic 那太陽星: 那 = nà. 東觀 = the eastern quarter of the sky.

He pressed down his cloud-head and came straight to the gate of Precious-Grove Monastery, where he could still hear Eight Rules weeping.

只聽得: resultative 得 = de. 還哭: 還 = hái ("still").

Coming up close, he called out: "Master."

忽近前叫聲 = "stepping up, he called out."

Tripitaka said gladly: "Wukong's back — do you have the elixir?"

三藏: 藏 = zàng. 丹藥 = "the elixir-medicine."

Pilgrim said: "I have."

A one-word reply — 有, "there is."

Eight Rules said: "How could there be none?

怎麼得沒有: 得 = dé ("come to have"); 沒 = méi.

Even if by stealing, he'd have gone and filched some from somebody."

偷人家些來 = "pilfered a bit from someone." Bajie needling, as ever.

Pilgrim laughed: "Brother, you may go now — I've no use for you.

用不著你: resultative 著 = zháo ("of no use"). Because 著 is fixed to the 2nd tone, the preceding 不 reverts to bù (a sandhi override). Final 罷 = particle ba.

Wipe your tears and go weep elsewhere."

揩揩眼淚 = "wipe the tears." 別處: 處 = chù.

He bade Sha the monk: "Fetch some water for me to use."

教沙和尚: causative 教 = jiào ("to bid").

Sha Monk hurried to the well at the back, where there was a handy draw-bucket, and at once brought half an alms-bowl of water and handed it to Pilgrim.

即將半缽盂水: coverb 將 = jiāng. 方便吊桶 = "a convenient draw-bucket."

Pilgrim took the water, spat out the elixir from his mouth, and set it within the emperor's lips.

口中: 中 = zhōng. Deictic 那皇帝: 那 = nà.

With both hands he pried open the teeth, and with a mouthful of clear water washed the golden elixir down into the belly.

扳開牙齒: 扳 = bān ("to pry"). 沖灌下肚 = "to flush it down."

After half an hour, he heard only a gurgling and churning within the belly, but the body still could not stir.

呼呼的亂響 = "a gurgling clamour." 身體不能轉移 = "the body could not move"; 轉 = zhuǎn.

Pilgrim said: "Master, if my golden elixir can't even bring him back to life, aren't you just badgering old Sun to death?"

掯殺 (kèn) = "to press, to corner." 也不能救活 = "cannot even revive him."

Tripitaka said: "How could there be no reviving him?

三藏: 藏 = zàng. 豈有不活之理 = "where is the principle of his not living?"

For a corpse so long dead as this, how could it swallow water down?

似這般: 似 = sì ("like"). 吞得水下: complement 得 = de.

This is the immortal power of the golden elixir.

金丹之仙力 = "the transcendent force of the gold elixir."

Once the golden elixir enters the belly, at once the bowels sound; the sounding of the bowels is the blood and pulse stirring into harmony — but the breath is cut off and cannot yet run its course.

腸鳴 = "the bowels sounding"; 腸 = cháng. 血脈和動 = "blood and vessels stir in accord." 迴伸 = "to circulate and extend."

Never mind that the man was steeped three years in the well — even wrought iron would have rusted over.

浸了三年 = "soaked three years." 生鐵也上鏽 = "even raw iron would rust."

Only, his primal breath is utterly spent; get someone to convey a mouthful of breath into him, and it will do."

元氣盡絕: 盡 = jìn ("exhausted"). 得個人: 得 = dé. 度他一口氣: 度 = dù ("to convey").

That Eight Rules stepped up meaning to convey the breath, but Tripitaka caught him fast: "That won't do — better have Wukong come."

Deictic 那八戒: 那 = nà; 三藏 = zàng. 使不得: 得 = de. 還教悟空: 還 = hái.

That master had good reason: Zhu Eight Rules, since childhood, had killed and sinned and eaten men — his was a single breath of turbid air.

Deictic 那師父: 那 = nà. 甚有主張: 甚 = shèn ("very much"). 自幼兒: suffix 兒 = er. 濁氣 = "turbid breath."

Only Pilgrim, cultivating from his youth, gnawing pine and chewing cypress, living on peaches and fruit, had a single breath of clear air.

吃桃果為生: 為 = wéi ("to make [one's living]"). 咬松嚼柏 = "gnawing pine, chewing cypress."

This Great Sage stepped up, put his thunder-god's snout to the emperor's lips, and blew a mouthful of breath with a puff down into the throat — down through the Double Storey, round the Bright Hall, straight to the Cinnabar Field, and up from the Bubbling Spring back to the Mud-Wall Palace.

噙著: durative 著 = zhe; deictic 那皇帝 = nà. 重樓: 重 = chóng (the windpipe, Daoist inner-body term). 倒返泥垣宮: 倒 = dào. 重樓／明堂／丹田／湧泉／泥垣 are stations of the inner-alchemical body.

With a resounding puff, that sovereign's breath gathered and his spirit returned; he turned over, threw out his fists and flexed his feet, and cried out: "Master."

Deictic 那君王: 那 = nà. 氣聚神歸 = "breath gathers, spirit returns." 掄拳曲足 = "flinging fists, bending feet."

Kneeling both knees in the dust he said: "Last night I remember doing homage as a ghost — who'd have known that this morning at daybreak my yang-spirit would return?"

記得: 得 = dé ("to recall"). 今朝: 朝 = zhāo ("this morning"). 返陽神 = "the yang-soul returns."

Tripitaka hastily helped him up: "Your Majesty, this is no doing of mine — you should thank my disciple."

三藏: 藏 = zàng. 攙起 (chān) = "to help up." 不干我事 = "none of my doing."

Pilgrim laughed: "Master, what a thing to say — as the old saw goes, 'A household has no two masters.'

說那裡話: rhetorical 那裡 = nǎ ("what talk is that"). 常言: 常 = cháng.

You'll take no harm from receiving a bow from him."

一拜兒: suffix 兒 = er. 不虧 = "suffers no loss."