The chapter's supernatural business is settled with a formal recovery: Mañjuśrī chants the lion back to its true shape — "Beast, will you not return to the right?" — pins it under his lotus-seat, mounts its back, and rides off on his auspicious light. The gesture completes the pattern the staying of Wukong's cudgel began: the mount-demon is neither killed nor punished but simply reclaimed by its owner and restored to its proper place in the celestial order, its term of sanctioned mischief served out.

The closing couplet — introduced by the narrator's 咦 and set as a four-chip showcase — sends the Bodhisattva "straight back up to Mount Wutai" (五臺山, Mañjuśrī's holy mountain) to sit "beneath the precious lotus-throne" and hear the scriptures. It is a serene, closing image, tuning the chapter's last note from combat to contemplation. Only the pilgrims' own departure from Wūjī remains, and that the narrator holds over — the true king restored, the debt discharged, and the road west still waiting.