冷水攻心 Cold Water and the Failing Heart
這大聖一身煙火，炮燥難禁，徑投於澗水內救火。怎知被冷水一逼，弄得火氣攻心，三魂出舍。可憐氣塞胸堂喉舌冷，魂飛魄散喪殘生。慌得那四海龍王在半空裡收了雨澤，高聲大叫：「天蓬元帥、捲簾將軍，休在林中藏隱，且尋你師兄出來。」这大圣一身烟火，炮燥难禁，径投于涧水内救火。怎知被冷水一逼，弄得火气攻心，三魂出舍。可怜气塞胸堂喉舌冷，魂飞魄散丧残生。慌得那四海龙王在半空里收了雨泽，高声大叫：「天蓬元帅、卷帘将军，休在林中藏隐，且寻你师兄出来。」
逐句解 Line by line
This Great Sage, his whole body smoke and fire, could not bear the scorching heat, and plunged straight into the torrent to quench it.
一身煙火 (一 before 身 t1 → yì). 炮燥難禁 ‘the burning heat unbearable’: 炮 read pào (the ‘scorch, burning-hot’ sense of 炮烙, distinct from the páo ‘refine’ of 炮丹 in blk9); 難 nán (‘hard’); 禁 read jīn (‘to endure/withstand’, 難禁 ‘unbearable’, not jìn). 徑投 ‘plunged straight’. Wukong's own remedy — cold water on his fire-body — proves the disaster.
Little did he know that, forced back by the cold water, the fire-vapour was driven inward to assail his heart, and his three souls departed their dwelling.
被冷水一逼 (一 before 逼 t1 → yì). 弄得火氣攻心 ‘made the fire-qi assail the heart’: 得 de (complement). 三魂出舍 ‘the three souls left their dwelling (舍)’ — internal-alchemy physiology: the cold water traps the fire within.
Pitiful! — his breath stopped in the breast, throat and tongue gone cold; soul fled and spirit scattered, his remnant life all but lost.
A verse-form couplet (可憐氣塞…) carrying no ':' marker in the source, so kept as inline prose per the ':'-scan rule (cf. ch40 blk28). 氣塞胸堂 ‘breath obstructed in the chest’: 塞 read sè (literary ‘obstruct/block’, not the colloquial sāi). 魂飛魄散 ‘soul flies, spirit scatters’: 散 sàn. 喪殘生 ‘loses his remnant life’: 喪 sàng.
So alarmed were the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas that they withdrew their rain in mid-air and cried aloud: ‘Marshal Tianpeng! General Curtain-Roller! Hide no longer in the wood, but go and seek out your elder brother!’
慌得那四海龍王 ‘so alarmed that the four Dragon Kings…’: 得 de (complement); 那 nà (deictic); 了 le. 天蓬元帥 ‘Marshal Tianpeng’ (Bajie's celestial title): 帥 shuài. 捲簾將軍 ‘Curtain-Rolling General’ (Sha's celestial title): 將 jiāng (將軍 ‘general’). 休在林中 中 zhōng; 藏隱 ‘hide’: 藏 cáng. The dragons summon the disciples to the rescue.
Wukong's near-death is a piece of internal-alchemy physiology as much as narrative. Driven from the field by the demon's smoke, his body still full of fire, he does the natural thing — plunges into the torrent — and it nearly kills him: the cold water seals the fire within (火氣攻心), his three souls depart, his breath stops. The Great Sage who could not be burned is undone by cold water on an over-heated frame.
The couplet 可憐氣塞胸堂… reads as verse but is left inline (no ':' marker in the source). The Dragon Kings' cry — summoning Bajie and Sha by their old celestial titles, Marshal Tianpeng and the Curtain-Rolling General — turns the scene from Wukong's collapse to the disciples' rescue.